skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm new here! Don't kill me!

Sorry :). I'll leave that to Skynet ;).

> The point is that even when automation "almost completely eliminated" the first type, unemployment did not skyrocket.

Yeah, the labor pool moved to the service / cognitive jobs. With automation taking big bites off services and mental work, where should the labor pool move next? Now, I know there's a lot of place in marketing and all kind of bullshit jobs, but it surely has its limits, if not economical then those of mental health - bullshit jobs aren't exactly good for one's self-esteem.

That lots of humans are required to work the land, or that the horses are important for logistics and transporting people were both well-documented and established facts for many thousand years. Until at some point, they stopped being true.
You're going to have to explain your reasoning to me.
Sounds like what you really need is engaging work in a nice environment. ;)
Do you know why that is?
Khushwant Singh, MJ Akbar?
I mean sure. It's just when I look at my heroes, Feynman, Polya, Dirac, etc. They all went to places like princeton.

And near as I can tell, that seems to be important. The only person I can think of who blew the door open was faraday, a spooky good experimentalist.

Granted it's rediculous to compare oneself to people like this. I'm worried I'm half depressed.

Worrying about specialization seems, to me, misleading. At least in math. People regularly use their entire experience on problems. The specialty just reflects your values and talents. I dunno, maybe I am wrong, I appreciate your thoughts.

My goal with my original post was to explain a strong desire to be "right" about things one cares about. I think this emotion is destructive, and unproductive, but I see it in myself. I think others might cope by not fighting it, pretending to know, then moving on with their life. Then some scientist comes along, tells then they don't, and they get defensive.
I have to keep trying to open those mapbox vector tiles. Zipped protocol buffers in a sqlite file. If you want to handle a lot of geo data, you can't keep using text. Although I wonder if protocol buffer+sqlite is really a good idea.
I was using SimpleNote for free, I wasn't aware of a paid plan and couldn't find one one the website.
Think bigger.

I truly feel that we won't be considered truly civilized as a species until some child has to ask their mother, "Mommy, what was pooping?". The child would then slowly grow more and more horrified as their mother explains what people had to do in their daily lives in the past. "Mommy, that's disgusting! How did people live like that?"

We still have a very long way to go.
> To be a little pedantic that is a misrepresentation as code isn't the law, "law is law",

Which is already an overloaded term though. Personally I'm giving gravity precedence here as a law, and CFAA only second points...

In that sense, law is a precise and reliable description of what will happen. At that, the code is law. It diagrams (though obviously not clearly) the allowed states for the system.

But, that's just semantics. We know what they meant.

> "This standard DAO framework is simple, decentralized and 100% secure."

Rofl, 0 out of 3 isn't that good... But the issue is if those are actionable. Decentralized is the only objective claim there and it's trivially wrong. The rest have no standard in law that I know of.

Anyways though, they were totally and hilariously wrong, but I don't think they misrepresented the nature of the deal.

> However, why even mention 100% secure, when really what they meant was what ever happens to your funds (invested, taken without being invested, etc...) you consented to contractually.

Well, because most of these things (human endevours) have been destroyed by theft and fraud. We've got thousands of years of being suckered into trusting people and we're still screwing that up so there isn't much hope down that path. Being screwed by a smart contract is a pleasant change. :D
From a policy prospective, a government service provider will stifle competition. Since the government can lose money and use taxes to survive, while a private company must be efficient enough to show a profit, the government service provider is less efficient. And, since government can operate below cost (using tax subsidies) , private companies are priced out of the market, lowering competition.

In terms of politics, cable providers have lobbied to carve out a legal monopoly for themselves, and so, in effect we see the same effect from the private company.

The answer, in my opinion, is to have the municipalities run empty conduit to every home, and allow any private company to lay their cable there. This would allow more competition for electricity, cable, and potentially other utilities.
I recommend 'Physics on the Fringe' for anyone interested in this topic

http://physicsonthefringe.com/page/about-book
Yup, sorry, just misspoke/typed. Will edit.
I watched the demo video here to really understand it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUmF6_4WhSg
and in that demo they sort files by matching strings in a MIME_TYPE. What kind of normal person has any idea what a MIME type is?
I think the marketing targeting this at people who know no programming is a bit off -- or they should change the marketing and target developers -- we could probably use this too!
>Code academy graduate do not come out from their 6 week crash course with grasp on even basic mathematical principles and tools that are used for programming

I wouldn't say that there are any such tools, not the kind that the average programmer has to have explicit knowledge of. In fact, that's one of the misconceptions I have to steer people away from, the idea that programming requires lots of math. Obviously there are applications of programming that require a lot of math - AI, proof assistants, 3D graphics, image processing, etc - but if you're just working on business apps then you don't need to know any math at all.

Source: started as an autodidact, got a 4 year CS degree, am a professional programmer now.
Fabric (YC S16) Is a Home for All Your Memories
Similar library, Yuppy:

https://github.com/kuujo/yuppy
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Somewhat of a shameless plug (work at Google). While AWS has shown willingness to lower prices, they seem to have forfeited price leadership to Google Cloud.

Examples:

1. http://fortune.com/2016/01/08/google-amazon-cloud-price-war/

2. https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/09/google-cloud-platforms-pre...

3. Google's Sustained Use Discounts vs AWS RIs
> Google sells phones with unlocked boot loaders

They also sell carrier editions with locked boot loaders just like everyone else. Locking boot loaders is usually a carrier requirement imposed on manufacturers, not something OEMs arbitrarily decide to do, unless you're TP-Link.

> have similar "Developer Mode" support for Chromebooks.

CoreBoot on Chromebooks is just as locked down as UEFI Secure Boot if not more so. The RW Firmware isn't loaded unless the RO Firmware permits it and you can't modify or replace the RO Firmware by software. It requires hardware modification. Enabling Developer Mode on a Chromebook is analogous to disabling Secure Boot in UEFI.

> Samsung and Apple to the best of my knowledge do not sell unlocked phones but do sell unlocked laptops).

Samsung UEFI laptops have been known to brick if you try to boot Linux, not fail to boot but BRICK. Apple's laptops are absolutely locked down using EFI, you can't install any other OS unless Bootcamp allows it.

> Microsoft requires, on x86, that trust of the MS key be preinstalled and that it be possible to turn off UEFI

Secure boot is a security feature that validates code prior to execution via PKI in a signature database. The PK, is created and owned by the OEM and it can add KEKs from vendors (or distros) to allow them to sign their code. This database is owned, controlled and populated by the OEM, not Microsoft. Microsoft has no control over it beyond making their software refuse to function on not compliant systems. However the purpose of the feature is the inverse of that. That being said, there are several Linux Distros that support Secure Boot and offer PKIs for vendors.

Starting with Windows 8.1, Microsoft requires that new systems support Secure Boot have it enabled with Microsoft's PKI. That doesn't stop you from disabling it to use another OS. It doesn't inherently lock anyone out using whatever software they want, that decision is made by the vendor. The whole point of the system is to protect users from a compromised system, if someone tampers with Windows or it's drivers then the UEFI will refuse to boot it. It has absolutely nothing to do with locking people out.

Now on their RT/Mobile devices you can't disable UEFI Secure Boot. That's akin to locked ROMs and it's a requirement from Microsoft. There's no expressed reason for this but it's obviously because Microsoft gives OEMs subsidies to make Windows RT/Mobile devices so the hardware is often less expensive than comparable Android hardware. The last thing MS wants is for people to replace Windows on the devices with CyanogenMOD.

> They've started with restricting kernel drivers in the "anniversary edition".

Your implication is that this is a user hostile action when it's really a security measure to prevent naive users from installing hostile drivers. You can disable the feature by turning on developer mode. Now that's ok for Google's Chromebooks but not Windows?

You're attacking Microsoft for things you're giving everyone else a pass on.
Please send an update to email subscribers when this is available. Thanks. :)
Feature: When prompted, it should be able to describe (in machine readable format: JSON, S-expressions, whatever) its knowledge base (or some specified subset of it) via message. This will enable other bots like it to learn from it.
Does anyone know if it (finally) supports sticky websocket sessions?
There is more detailed advice in https://github.com/rdp/open-source-how-to-popularize-your-pr...

I totally agree that if you want your project to be well know you should cover the basics: a good readme that includes a description and referable a website.
You can something similar to mortgage or credit in UAE as well, but being late on the payment has devastating consequences.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2194633/Luxury-high-...

It has consequence for enormous part of a life. For example, I was traveling using metro in Dubai. I had 5 dirham on my travel card and the trip I wanted to take costs 3 dirham. I couldn't enter the train, because the maximum charge is 8 dirham, so I could have negative balance.
The level of items being blocked always depends on how the AdBlock is set up. As I wrote in my previous reply, it's just a warning, you can have AdBlock enabled but you might expect issues with social modules (like facebook, twitter and others).

Anyway, have you seen content of the files you mention? The first one is https://trackjs.com (tool for tracking client-side errors), second one serves just to detect AdBlock and show you the warning.

Patrik, Integromat team
Nope, just relaying what the documentation says.
I use a custom authorizer with Auth0 and it works fine. I guess some systems still use Basic Auth though.
Its also likely that there will come a time when this data will be used to help price your car if you sell it or trade it in.

That, at least, is potentially defensible. How the car is treated & how/where it was driven do have a big impact on long term reliability.

In fact, if you are a gentle driver who lives in a good location and operates the vehicle under optimal conditions, you could expect to get more for your vehicle- today, because the buyer cannot easily tell, they pay you somewhere in the middle.

Insurers will demand this data in before giving you a quote.

Same goes here, once it becomes commonplace, insurers will be able to reliability identify "golden goose" customers who, based on driving patterns, are exceptionally unlikely to get in an accident. They will fight eachother tooth and nail for these drivers.

I think its inevitable that manufacturers are going to use all this data to stop you claiming under your warranty. "Oh dear you slammed your door too hard one day, I'm afraid that invalidates your warranty".

Thankfully we have Magnuson-Moss, so while bad apples might give you the occasional runaround, the law is on your side.
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And plenty need to serve non-UTF8 data, such as images, or documents with a content encoding (like the GP was trying to). Sure, "JSON toys" is a bit hyperbolic, but "HTTP service that can transfer media" describes some double-digit percentage of all web services. API Gateway may fully support many use cases, but in my mind it's a toy until it supports this major one.

(Note that it's not like API Gateway claims up front "JSON only!" or some such. Outbound binary data just silently gets garbled and the only mention of this limitation is buried in various threads on the forums.)
Curious, why would you combine this with Phoenix?
Feature: it should be open source and it should be strong copyleft.
I've found vultr.com to have solid IPv6. They give you a true /64 that can (with NDP proxying) be fully routed back into your VPS. It just works.

Does DO really not give you a /64? I see prefixlen 64 on my eth0 on one of my 'droplets'.
If you like the company you are at and do good work, perhaps you can negotiated some unpaid time off.
I've done a fair sum of game streaming. Latency really, really, really matters for interactivity. It's not like 10ms off we're talking here. Streams can drift really far out of realtime, I've seen 20+ seconds and that's on top of pre-designated stream delays.

Beam also is a lot more friendly to high quality video streamers.
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What is that ?
As a (former) physicist I have to say that there is plenty of eye-rolling about how physics is portrayed in the news. However, in any branch of modern physics it is accepted that no news article aimed at the general public could ever possibly convey the science with complete accuracy. Simply because it requires years of study and specialization to really understand it.

I did my graduate research at the LHC and I was there when the Higgs boson was discovered. I can't tell you how many people (non physicists) came to me with questions about it that were completely misguided because of it's misrepresentation in the news ("God particle" - holy mother of terrible catch phrases). But at the same time how can anyone expect to convey the full scope of the Standard Model in a news article?

The problem isn't that simplifying science with nice metaphors and analogies is wrong, it's that people who read the articles don't understand that what they're reading is just that: a nice metaphor or analogy. People think that because the science is dumbed down for a general audience that it must be simple enough for a general audience to understand. Unfortunately, that has not been the case in physics (and most other fields) for over a hundred years and never will be again.
> Can I host my own Simperium service?

> You can mirror all your data to your own backend, but it's not yet possible to host Simperium yourself. We're open sourcing our client libraries, protocol, and a reference service implementation that will allow you to host your own service in the future.

https://simperium.com/pricing/
I'd suggest the Intel Edison. Take a look here, note that there's a battery block: https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/272

(Of course, it can also do WiFi, but I imagine BTLE will be thriftier on power.)
It's worse than you think. Even if all politicians agreed on what they wanted for UBI today, there is no reason to believe it would remain that way for long. There are any number of reasons people would want to tinker with it in the future, and some of them will be valid and will deserve to be considered -- for example, should disabled people receive more money under UBI, because they have a higher cost of living due to the necessity of wheelchair purchases, a wheelchair lift for their vehicle, or other kinds of equipment? Should UBI payments be made to people who are incarcerated?

There is no country in the world I am aware of that has passed a law that implements a simple, elegant concept, such as the ideal form of UBI, and resisted the urge to tinker with it over the years.

Furthermore, our current welfare systems are the way they are for powerful reasons. WIC, SNAP, the EITC, food stamps, unemployment insurance, etc. all exist the way they do for a reason, and those reasons won't go away if UBI is implemented. It's very likely that UBI will end up being a re-implementation of the same ideas behind WIC, SNAP, the EITC, and other programs, for the same reasons those programs existed in the first place. We will end up turning UBI into something similar to the welfare system we have now. Tyler Cowen has been very perceptive on this point: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/wha...
Despite this malicious use-case, it's entirely possible that the underlying proof-of-work technique (using the target server's TLS signatures for validation) can inspire some noble applications or smart contracts :)

As a somewhat contrived example, instead of blindly trusting that a certain monitoring system like "Uptime Robot" is checking your servers (or going through an expensive access_log based verification), you could verify their proof-of-connection.
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Modern slang has no class. I'm pleased that I didn't know the term until I clicked the link.
I have implemented most of the Simperium server protocol in the `node-simperium` library (https://github.com/Simperium/node-simperium/pull/22).

It's definitely a very rough work in progress but I have used it successfully to deploy my own simplenote server that works with all the clients.

Simperium Server: https://github.com/beaucollins/node-simperium-server

It's in the proof-of-concept stage so it doesn't persist the data on the server.

Protocol for reference: https://github.com/Simperium/simperium-protocol/blob/master/...
Feature: it should be able to verify that a given message is digitally signed (PKI).
There is something fascinating about making Proudhon's "property is theft!" Real.
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Technically, it is entropy sinks that you mean, not energy. Energy is quite recyclable given a sufficient entropy sink.
Arduino is a platform (the boards, the IDE, the language, debugging tools, etc) that allows any sort of user new to programming and/or hardware to get started very quickly. It is a great gateway into raw microcontrollers, as it is based on the Atmel/Microchip ATMega line of chips, which are also fairly easy to program. Most people can easily transition into that and build "production-ready" things.

Also, many 3D printers, laser cutting tools, and CNC routing tools use Arduino as their microcontroller of choice. It represents a huge community and is one of the most basic of tools in any new or seasoned maker's toolbelt.
Cornell seems to like putting out phd theses on this subject:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07871
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01528
https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00381
https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06022

Seems like Cornell is wasting a lot of time researching something that you've already determined is impossible.
The easy solution to this (from the perspective of the criminal) is to just move the money via a cryptocurrency (traded for cash privately) and it seems completely idiotic to me that this hasn't occurred yet, there is basically zero risk of LE compromise.

I'm also rather surprised that I'm the first person to even mention it here, since this is basically a solved problem.
I'm very confuse with sentence:

sideProject.generate(8500, 'dollars').per('month');

Those are not side projects
I am totally serious a good Ruby dev with 4 years experience and really good english 4K/month is very doable. A good Senior Java dev would be 5K-5.5K (I had actually people turning down 5.5K/month for really nice remote positions).
Can't say how tax/work permits work for foreigners but for citizens they operate under Private Entrepreneur thingy and basically pay flat 3% tax.
My general impression of why people like (and are willing to pay out of pocket, often without any kind coverage) for alternative medicine is that they feel like they are being listened to - ironically they are paying by the hour for that, too, but the rates are better.

Traditional Chinese Medicine is an interesting mix, I wouldn't say it's "based entirely on myth and superstition" though it has plenty of that (hence the ghastly use of bear bile, tiger bone, etc. [1], though at least there are some attempts at reform), it also is partly the result of hundreds of years of trial and error experimentation with a wide range of plants on a very large number of people (proto-scientific, at the very least). It seems likely that some of its efficacy comes from placebo effect (but many pharmaceuticals aren't much better).

1: https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/asian-bear-bile-remedie...
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not blameless when viewed in support of a victimless crime and flawed law riddled with conflicts of interest, discriminatory discretion, and self serving ends.

if you want a grand jury to find that the federal officers acted within agency guidelines, then great, you will continue to be able to sleep at night

if you want the supreme court to continue to find those laws constitutional, then great you will continue to sleep at night. Eugenics programs are constitutional and so politically unpopular that all 50 states have laws that nullify the practice.

The rest of us see this perverse practice for what is and would prefer if Congress modifies laws to instruct its agencies to stop the practice and stop funding themselves by taking citizen's money instead of preparing funding pitch decks for representatives which require oversight
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I don't think we actually disagree?

I meant "better number" as in "far more representative than the jobless-and-looking rate". I objected to calling it the "unemployment rate" without caveat, because that term usually refers to jobless-and-looking and therefore threatens to cause confusion.
A bot to keep me engaged outside of work. I need to be kept on task with small stuff around the home, chores, maintenance, finances, etc. Also when I've completed those tasks, I need stuff to do/read when I'm bored. What should I do with my weekend? What should I read on my ride home from work? Lists are fine but what I'm really looking for is a bot.
Reminds me of http://www.music-map.com which is pretty useful to discover new music.
I apologize. I see that I've made wrong assumptions here.

You're right, racial stereotyping of any kind is bad; I was wrong to argue otherwise. I got on my paternalistic white-knighting horse because I made the (racist?) assumption that you were white, and I'm inclined to argue against other white people accusing others of racism. I guess it comes from my own toxic white guilt. But is it a completely wrongheaded impulse, to try to police other white people who are trying to argue that American racism goes equally both ways? That's what the Breitbart article is implying, that Jones was being just as toxic as Milo, isn't it? My argument that anti-white racism is definitionally impossible may be overly radical, but don't you have to somewhere take account of the fact that anti-white racism doesn't have nearly the same material impact on it's targets and isn't really a structural part of political and economic systems in America?
Weird, I'm getting a Firefox not secure connection error. Port 80 forwards to 443, and then 443 in Firefox throws throws the error. Curl just aborts on 443 also.
Interesting - I wonder why that's basically recovered, but labor force participation is still at a 30 year low?
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