skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of them can be shuffled laterally into equally mundane jobs. I do think we're reaching the point where men with a sub-par IQ may struggle to find work even if they have other excellent qualities.
Contactless debit cards are widespread but not ubiquitous in the UK. My bank won't give me a contactless card (they don't say why) but Apple will, so Apple Pay is useful.
Not all jobs are taken by smart algorithms; some are taken by regulations: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/robots_didnt_take_ou...
Y Combinator’s basic income study is result of white unemployment
Hubbard wants FreeBSD to use launchd.
Hubbard is in no position to enforce this if the project doesn't like it.
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> What the poor here really need is financial security, not just some benefits that they lose immediately as soon as they earn too much.

I know right. Why don't poor people just get more money?
Right, except for the millions of people who live in places where the only alternative to subsistence farming or destitution over the past 4 decades was providing human labor to the larger economy and whose economies are not robust enough to provide for them.
Probably best summed up with "Nothing beats Verizon, unfortunately". I primarily use WiFi calling as I live in a gigantic concrete building facing the lake so I get literally zero cellular reception in my apartment.
Well the question is, will we be retired, or sacked?
This would be true only if having a job wasn't a social norm enforced by threat of starvation, homelessness, bad quality of life, and loss of healthcare (in the US). Being unemployed makes you lose social status.
A pepper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_%28cryptography%29
I should just close and burn all my social/bigco accounts and keep only the ones where an RSA token is available and forget to worry about passwords, shouldn't I?
Space Rogue was such an awesome game: it had action, it had (for Commodore64) revolutionary filled 3D vector graphics, but most importantly, it had an involved, mysterious, and compelling story. And it was a challenging game which made one play hard, but it rewarded that with lots of generated Endorphine. Anyone remember getting the neurostabilizer boosters, without the personal shield?

That is a game truly worthy of a remake, as is Battle Tech: the Crescent Hawks' inception. I'd also finally like to find my father with his Phoenix Hawk mech in a sequel to that game...
My dad just died a few weeks ago.

I've been bombarded with Father's Day emails, for obvious reasons, for the last couple of weeks. They hurt.

I can't see getting all bent out of shape over a normal holiday and companies doing their normal holiday thing.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-nsa-rsa-idUSB...
A reply from the man himself! Thanks for the link. I'll have a go.

I do like the look of the dplyr library a lot. Combining functions like select and group_by with the pipe operators creates code that is reminiscent of SQL- very nice for readability.
INSERT INTO `wpu_users` VALUES (2, 'bdavis', [...], 'bdavis', 'bdavis@uniloc.com', '', '2010-08-05 18:06:44', '', 0, 'bdavis');

What the hell? Could this be the lawyer the video talks about?

Apparently not:

> Bradley C. Davis, Brad serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Uniloc USA
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On the clickbait scale from "Bankers destroyed your 401k" to "Robots destroyed your 401k" to "Algorithms destroyed your 401k", the last choice is the least sexy of all.

>This mantra is being repeated over and over: algorithms and automation are taking away the jobs. I'm still skeptical.

My current work involves determining pain points in office "grunt work" and developing automation tools to reduce the need for temporary (and permanent) staff. Those people have been displaced from the workplace. No new jobs were created as a result of this automation. A great number of office workers will be displaced to due automation and the pace at which this will happen is going to leave a lot of people very unhappy and very unemployed.

Undoubtedly, I, or at least, people like me, will continue to have jobs. After all, someone must maintain the code, service the robots, et cetera. But that's a far cry from full employment of the workforce.

>And so I doubt we will run out of work to do. This would mean that somehow we ran out of problems to solve. On the contrary, we appear to be flooded with them: cancer, infectious diseases, global warming, clean energy, access to space...

How do you justify and fund higher education of all the out-of-work 40-, 50-, 60-year old truckers, office managers, office workers, and so on? Or will we just ignore them and wait for them to die?
Much like autonomous cars, feel the focus is on the tech instead of how the tech would impact culture.

Core issue is that flying spreads people out, and given how hyper connected people are, this makes no sense.

Real focus should on condensed living areas, not flying people around, which is a massive waste of energy.
I work around dozens of pilots. Most of them used to own, co-own, share, or lease a plane. Only a few of them actually have a plane they could go fly right now.

Maintenance, upkeep, costs, and regulations are obvious reasons why some would be deterred from owning and using a private plane.

But most everyone of the pilots said, if you want to go to the beach, in general, the best way to get there is a 6 to 8-hour drive in a minivan. The faster you go in the plane, the faster you burn fuel, and the more likely you'll have to land to refuel. Even if you don't refuel, loading, landing, unpacking, and rental cars are all unpleasant time sucks at a small airport in a small plane which saves you maybe 2 or 3 hours on your commute.
I asked before how could a cracker break into a computer that doesnt run any server, and found out that if i want to be absolutely safe, should keep my documents printed on paper. So i can see the future only is going to get worse, not just cars...
Unfortunately this only helps protect a twitter account. It doesn't protect against the greater concern, where the password has been cracked and the user has reused the password on other sites.
Heh, I guess a page loading faster could be an adverse affect, depending on perspective.
But they can still compete on price. Migrant farm labor does that successfully in the present.
We know very little about intelligence, really. We don't know of any attributes that can reliably predict genial achievement.

We can't even say for certain that what your geniuses of choice has more of, is the same thing we have more of than animals.

It's easy to imagine supergeniuses, but as soon as you try to describe rigorously what they should be capable of, you're immediately on shakier ground.

It's a bit like imagining future computer programs. We're doing a lot of things with our computers today that people couldn't have imagined 40 years ago, or outright rejected (my father's thesis advisor asserted that computers would get a lot more powerful, but would never become powerful enough to compute with images). But there are also a lot of things they thought would be easy, which turned out hard, or even impossible.

In computer science, we have some ideas of the "hard limits", since the field started with Turing and computational complexity theory has progressed steadily. For human-like intelligence, or "general learning", we know very little (except that every hard limit we know from computer science applies to brains too!).
Ohh I like that a lot. Going to explore now to see if I can make it happen. One question, where did you grab that link from? Thanks!
Hacker News does it too.

Narratives and echo chambers everywhere. Welcome to the future.
I've had a smart watch for about 2 months now. I've come to appreciate it the most for one particular reason: notifications.

I silence (no sound or vibrate) my phone and rely on the watch for all notifications. It's really quite peaceful for me and everyone around me.
No internet for Singapore's public service workstations
I'm surprised no one around here talks about AI replacing software programming jobs.
The Housing Trilemma
Whoa! Such an amazing read! Frank Underwood's speaking and negotiation skills are one-of-a-kind which any live chat agent could benefit from.
> The countries that don't have this material are also the ones where you can pirate with impunity.

That isn't true, or at least wasn't true two years ago when I wanted to watch Black Mirror in the US and there was no legal way to obtain it here.
Well, if anything good comes of that is a different question, but with his NextBSD project he looked to trying something with OS X's init system IIRC.
Its an interesting use case the author solved with celery.

I've used celery with a few django and flask projects.
It's nice, but it added a lot of overhead for me.
So I've used http://flower.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ to help handle the monitoring.

For some really small sites and very specific use cases, I actually wrote some small custom helper scripts to just have cron jobs.

If you are using django, I found this library helpful.
https://bitbucket.org/wnielson/django-chronograph/
I was just saying his idea of what differentiates a mock from a fake was right!
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Ask HN: Is Facebook becoming the next Google?
Custom eb_deploy artefacts
The marginal cost of software is close to zero. You can't compete with free.

That's why it's different to the old luddite fallacy. Machinery and robotic factories throughout the ages have cost millions to replace 100's of jobs. Every time you want to build a factory, it costs money.

With software that is not necessarily the case. You write it once and then distribute everywhere at little to no cost.
Elite in LISP, showcasing both serious coding skill and the power of LISP. If LISP can do this, what else would be possible if it could talk to one or more 3D accelerators, and send synthesised, mixed sound to one or more audio devices?

This article finds me in a middle of a dilemma, pondering whether to develop my web application with AWK through cgi-bin (functionally of course), or use ANSI common LISP...
We will never run out of problems to solve. When we have cured cancer and made fully autonomous sex dolls there are still stars to explores and deep problems about nature to solve.

The problem is that a huge part of the population won't have neither the skills or the inclination to work on hard problems.
Informal vacation policies favour the employer. They're a grubby way to go hands off and let internal politics squeeze more hours out for you.

They're in the exact same category of stupidity as combined sick and holiday days. It looks great on paper, until your office perpetually has sick people in it because no one wants to burn a vacation day.
And? Still blatant copyright infringement:

"THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY MICROSOFT 'AS IS'..."

One of the purposes of the BSD license is to give the original authors credit!
My first thought with WWF was wrestling...
Whoa, there! You must be deliberately conflating different things. Social norms isn't important here. The reason we work, if you didn't know that, is that it is a way to provide for oneself, i.e. earning money to buy food, a house, clothes, treatments for illness etc.

It's up to you to get those things, or whatever things you crave. It's not like anything you originally owned has been taken away from you if you don't manage to do that.
This is relevant for things like OpenPGP Card (http://g10code.com/p-card.html) etc. Running free software on practically non-researchable proprietary platform is worrying.
Selfishness Is Learned: We tend to be cooperative unless we think too much
If I'm not mistaken there's still a lot of the original Unix code in the BSD distros, but I haven't studied it enough to be sure of that.
App Store revenue was almost double that of Google Play in Q1 2016
It's actually not the worst UI at all. It's optimized for expert play. After a few days you can quickly do what you need to do in an efficient manner. It's a bit inconsistent but it's very functional. It's sort of like emacs in that at the beginning it seems perversely difficult but later feels very natural and powerful, despite some quirks.
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I develop business systems. I take away jobs every day. You'd be surprised how many people still spend 38 hours per week shuffling numbers between excel sheets and maybe 2 hours doing some actually thinking.
If your site has 1 varnish, if your site has 20 varnishes it would do 20 connections.
It's far from irrelevance, but you can't deny they've lost a lot from where they were. Their dominance over the desktop/laptop OS market is still real, but the market is shrinking in favor of other form factors. In their other markets, they're attacked from every side.
Agreed, I got a post-paid plan for a month while traveling to and around Europe, and it's great being able to just use your phone like normal.
Robots are coming to handle the tedious, manual labor, so that we can focus on more interesting pursuits. Then, the robots will be able to do that, and we can retire.
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The thing that kills Ting for me is the data pricing. At the 1-2GB/month tier, a Ting customer pays 200% more for data than a Fi customer.
Common Lisp can do all of those things, as it has bindings for SDL 2.0 (https://github.com/lispgames/cl-sdl2) and OpenGL (https://github.com/3b/cl-opengl). As a newly converted Lisp programmer, I think that, after you get past the unusual syntax, you'll be much more productive and have much more fun with Lisp than any other language. You should try it!
Design patterns are just that, design patterns. With upsides, downsides, suitable use cases and unsuitable use cases. I was originally going through pointing out all the nonsense that was outright wrong or just ruffled my feathers, but this whole article is punching above it's weight. And boils down to the following:

The author doesn't like using concurrent programing techniques in a single-threaded process.

The author does like a job queue that manages task execution across multiple processes.

This has fuck all to do with the GIL beyond the fact the presence of the GIL might have contributed to the popularity of the former in python and that celery uses multiprocessing over multithreading.

Designing a piece of software is more than cargo-culting the latest fads. Who cares if asyncio exists? Yes, we "really need" it to the extent that people want to design their programs like that. No, you don't "really need" to use it.
Yes, maybe Marx was right all along, just 150 years too early.
> forced to live of the land

Oh, no, living off the land! How could anyone ever do that?!
ghostinspector:
https://ghostinspector.com/docs/test-recorder/
I think a lot of this comes down to cost. A $500+ smartwatch that's mostly useful for notifications and the occasional wrist-based controls seems like overkill to me, personally (but I imagine this depends on your disposable gadget income).

But I picked up a Moto360 maybe a year and a half ago for $150 on sale and while its main uses have also been notifications, the occasional voice/tap command, and playing with making watch faces in Photoshop, I'm mostly OK with that.

$150 for a computer-watch that can change its appearance and layout to match your mood, occasion, or tie is pretty neat. But I don't know that it's $500 neat. Kinda like Travolta's $5 milk shake in Pulp Fiction, the Apple Watch is a pretty cool gadget, but I'm not sure it's something I'd ever pay that much for. But once you get into the $100-200 range, they start to become more appealing.

And once the tech works its way downstream into cheaper products the way basic smartphones have, I think they'll be fairly popular.
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Larry Page has a lot of money, and a reputation for building the future. People will say, "Hey this smartphone is okay, but where's my flying car?"
... cause white lives don't matter?

If you go a few hundred miles west of the east coast in a band following the Appalachian Mountains from Georgia to the Southern Tier of New York you will find a population of whites who have the same "black problems" that Daniel Patrick Moynihan talks about from fractured families to meaningless encounters with the police that have a devastating effect. This same population is often antagonistic to blacks, once more resulting in harmful and meaningless encounters -- such as one relative of mine who got mad because his ex-girlfriend was going out with a black so he got drunk and picked a fight with some blacks and was moaning in pain the next day with two black eyes, an icepack on his face and a fistfull of percocet in him.
Resembles that story about David Parnas a bit (you can read it at the end of the page at https://books.google.ru/books?id=bn7GNq6fiIUC&pg=PT306&lpg=P...)
Tell that to 10 postdocs fighting for 1 tenured position.
Why not just mount your phone up in a visible place, turn off audio nav, and leave it in car mode? If you're unfamiliar with the place, surely the map overview is helpful, especially in nontrivial lane/turn scenarios.

I get that the vibration is useful to tell you to pay attention, and maybe current map software can't just provide a quick ping sound without screwing up music playback. But I'm not sure why glancing down at your hands is a good idea.
So time for the next program/app, right?
The title is off I agree, it's not like Celery fixes cpython's problematic data structures. I don't think it was a bad article, though.
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Have you even looked at pandas? I get the impression you haven't. Pandas has most of the statistical utility functions that R does, and for those few that it lacks, Python/Pandas also has available an easy-to-use FFI interface to R via rpy2.

Take a look: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/

EDIT: Specified name of interface (rpy2).
IntelliJ IDEA is crazy cheap if you're being paid as a software developer or have developers on your payroll.

I wish there was more software like it that can just instantly make all my developers more effective. The cost is so minuscule compared to what it actually costs to keep a developer's butt in the chair, I'd be a complete idiot to try to save a few bucks on the tools they use.
> tldr: After 150+ years of science there is almost nothing left which can be discovered by a single PhD student

With 150+ years of science lots of new kinds of questions emerged that hardly anyone went deeply into. Just begin working there and make deep contributions. To make a few things clear:

* You probably won't get any academic recognition for this or probably no research funding agency will be willing to fund your research (far too experimental).

* It is quite possible that despite you being really talented your research into this will come to nothing. That is a prize one has to pay for the possibility of doing a deep contribution.

If you are looking for ideas where to start, just look around yourself and from what you see try to create a deep general theory (the more abstract and general the better IMHO) which has lots of predictive power and either allows you to formalize a theory where you can prove theorems about (my personally prefered way, since I'm mathematician) or has strong falsifiable predictions that one can in principle do experiments on.
What is preventing you from using a 64-bit OS?
Anyone to disprove the latter from personal experience, guys? :)
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Beyond REST: GraphQL vs. Falcor
> Social norms isn't important here.

That is a huge generalization, which seems intuitively wrong: why have norms towards conforming if they aren't effective?

I'm talking about the fact that the unemployed will face drastically lower qualities of life, or even life threatening situations. That this is acceptable comes from government policies, which in turn come from social norms. It's seen as okay to harm the unemployed, deny them healthcare, or let them starve. They're lazy, and they should be punished.

I won't speak for others, like you're doing, but conforming socially is the primary reason I work. I've been unemployed before, and I lost social status from it. It was embarrassing to admit to it. It was like losing a central part of my identity.

Social norms are important, but often you won't notice till you deviate from them.
http://www.backerpass.com would work well as it doesn't require backers to signup for an account like Patreon. (disclaimer: i know the guy who created it.)
Using dadada as the Facebook password in the example was clever.
5 devs :)?
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Energy density of jet fuel and gasoline is something like 45-46 MJ/kg. All rechargeable lithium-whatever batteries have less than MJ/kg.

Turboprops are efficient and reliable. They have good power-to-weight ratio. Currently electric motors are good only for things like gliders that need relatively little power.
They probably have some sort of fast / monthly vesting schedule instead of some (what I think is truly bizarre but common) yearly vesting cycle.

If a person wants to leave 18 months into it let them go with 18/(412) percent instead of having them wait around another 6 months to get 50% instead of 25%.

For the 1 day employee that could work out to 1/(4365) * 1.5%. But there should be a cliff as having them jump that early can be disruptive.
Microsoft is distributing a VM image of FreeBSD through their marketplace in binary format, that has been modified to be used on their cloud service. The license they choose to distribute it under is completely harmless, and you're still sure to find the FreeBSD licence details inside the OS itself once it's running.

There's no copyright issue here. Look at how literally any other VM image is distributed, on Amazon, GCS, Digital Ocean...
I think being a Unix is analogous to being a member of the set of axes, rather than any specific unix implementation or install, which would be equivalent to a specific axe.
I worked on this for a few years with some others. A fun experience to make a cl library for games that would work on the three major platforms and several cl implementations. We got bored and abandoned it though.
https://github.com/lispbuilder/lispbuilder/blob/master/READM...
Patreon produces money. Payment information in a README doesn't. They're not comparable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX_pF03vCSU
I once got so frustrated with the horribly arcane syntax of all .NET mocking libraries that I made my own, FakeThat[0]. It's unoptimized and not very full featured, but it's very easy to use.

The idea is that you don't need to learn yet another domain specific language just to do some assertions on mock call history. So I expose it all as plain old C# data, LINQ'able and all that, which means you can just use the assertion library of choice instead of weird mock-library-specific "verify" methods. The API gets you great autocomplete in IDEs because of static typing, so you discover the API just by starting to type.

Intellisense-driven discoverability of APIs is one of the great USPs of C# and Java programming (compared to most other popular languages), and IMO it's a shame that more TDD related libraries don't make good use of it.

It's not under active development but I'd be willing to take it up again if there's interest. Would love some HN feedback!

[0] https://github.com/eteeselink/fakethat
Macintosh SE! The good olde days :-)
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