skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty good theory but it lies on certain implicit assumptions that are becoming untrue. One is that there is abundance of energy and resources to exploit, so there is always more to be done (demand for labor) to transform it. But with automatization, we are coming to a state where limitation of economic activity is not labor, but resource consumption (mainly energy).

Also, what is the definition of job? But what the people worrying about automation are saying, there will not be more jobs that satisfy both of these conditions:

(1) Economic efficiency - the job is required to sustain the same level of production.

(2) Sustenance - the job must be capable to give person doing it enough money so he can live on it and participate in society.

For instance, we can always create jobs that break the condition (1), because we can always have more people being security guards or checking expense reports. Or we can always create jobs that break the condition (2), you know, you can always be a personal servant to somebody for really miserable pay.

I would actually argue that we are well past the point where (1) is true. But since our societies are so obsessed with jobs, we cannot really openly admit it.
You got it wrong. I was never told what to do or how to change it so that my users would still recognize it. Also changing its name in this way was suggested (and accepted) for the Safari extension by the Safari Gallery Team.

If I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I can't fix it. This is not about TM infringement, but the total lack of communication by Google.
Yes, he sure is controversial. He does not acknowledge the existence of irrational numbers for example. In his lectures he avoids the use of any transcendental functions for the same reason, so no square roots, sine, or cosine.

I'm no mathematician, so I'm not qualified to comment on this either. Would love to hear other opinions on this too.

My personal opinion on this is that his rational approach does produce beautiful math, in the sense that it is really simple and intuitive.
I guess since F* is similar to F# or ML you could have a pretty cohesive solver to production toolchain. Having OCaml as an output option is great too.

I was looking at Idris with the C backend as a way of formalizing my programming for production programming. This makes another set to evaluate before deciding. I realize they are quite different, but I am just experimenting at this moment.
Snowden handed over those documents to journalists back when he was in Hong Kong. Ever since he has no direct control over what gets published (or when).
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If my last name was Dong, I don't think I would have been able to pass the opportunity to change my first name to Maximus.
They have total access to a lot of industrial equipment to create proper parts replacements in case they need it.
An Interview with Jesse James Garrett
Mozilla was literally made from the original Netscape source code. I think you need to learn your history

Also Netscape never had "100% marketshare". According to http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/survey-04-1996/gra... (sourced from Wikipedia) they had roughly 89%. Still significant, but not complete control
More successful by my standards (and yours, I guess), but not by the standards silicon valley uses. I assume lots of objectively stupid businesses are run by people who are capable of doing something profitable, but profitable isn't the goal.
Gordon Murray comments in the article that iStream was an inspiration and lessons learned from that project were applied to the OX.

And the concept is taken much further too, the idea of iStream was to replace hard-to-manufacture precision moulded and welded panels used in consturcting the chassis with much simpler tubular construction (while using modern designs to get the rigidity and durability). The entire OX chassis is built with flat panels (from "engineered plywood", I think that's a wood + aluminium composite) and straight tubes, making it really simple to manufacture and assemble but rigid and strong.

This is also where the race car designer background comes into play. Back when he got started, it was all tubular frame construction for the lower end and riveted aluminium monocoques for the top end. Of course his best known works are from the early carbon fiber composite era (mid 1980s) but his background in chassis rigidity must really help.
>I had a boss once that thought programmers just typed away for hours, how hard could it be

Just look at the movies. "Hackers" always manage to break in to remote systems by typing lots into a terminal very fast. The more difficult the system, the faster they need to type. (Mr Robot has been a refreshing change to that stereotype).
It doesn't take mental gymnastics at all. One could easily make the argument that market intelligence improves the allocation of capital and makes the world more productive. One could also argue that creating web apps for wealthy westerners is even less useful to society. One could note that being a subsistence farmer doesn't really contribute to anything or leave much of a mark for the future at all, and be ok with that too. All of these are just ways of surviving, and none of them seem particularly indefensible morally. You gotta do something to get by.

As for your link to Quora, that's a completely incomprehensible rant, just FYI.
I guess it's the type of PDFs one views. I find pdf.js quite adequate for my needs. It's even rendered brochure-type PDFs quite well -- e.g. this 32 page brochure that was a top hit for [filetype:pdf brochure]: https://www.mbusa.com/vcm/MB/DigitalAssets/pdfmb/brochures/M...
The parent wrote "And we are paying customers."
It looks like that anecdote is starting to lose some of its luster.
The Uber Engineering Summer Intern Experience
>Most 16 year olds are just using their phones to send silly snaps to their friends and watch porn.

Because most 16 year olds dont come from a family with such a wealthy (both in money and opportunities) background.
When I used it, the main value was communicating with people who used it. It allowed direct communication with relative celebrities of the sort roughly equivalent to an O'Reilly author of something on an Apache project.

I imagine at that level of 'fame' Twitter offers access to fame level commensurate perks of celebrity. Among those perks is an excuse to engage in behavior appropriate in a cesspool. By which I mean that being an asshole in the manner in which the junior high popular kids would treat the junior high unpopular kids can be written off as just the way Twitter is.

Since I am less a celebrity than the author of an O'Reilly Apache book, the value I got from Twitter when I used it was reaching upward on the popularity ladder. The most intellectually interesting part, aside from the social aspect, was composing literary tweets of exactly 140 characters...a perhaps underappreciated art.

Eventually, I stopped bothering when the negatives outweighted the jokes and chat...i.e. when the logical structure of cesspools began to dominate my experience.

Good luck.
I first heard about a project, at Microsoft, I think, about twenty years ago that used recordings of a specific person's voice as the basis for a synthetic voice. In that work, the person had to record a set of utterances that covered all necessary phonemes. I believe they also got reasonable results from recordings of historic figures, but it's more work. At the time, I speculated that if we ever had AIs on space ships they would sound like Majel Barrett because all of the Star Trek fans would expect that! I'm glad to see that they are actually trying to do this now. I think Mrs. Roddenberry would be amused.
They have adds on Google Search? I swear my mind automatically just remove them subconsciously.

Also you could just use an add block
I can agree with that assessment... they're typically fairly trashy. I've submitted content from them before when it was an AP article (so the text was identical on all sites that carried it) but they had additional relevant, higher resolution images accompanying the text. Got unnecessary flak for it of course.
Fair enough, their 1990-esque site needs HTTPS and a make over.

Anyway, now I am tempted to buy one and reverse engineer it...
Just Japanese things.
People always state things like this to imply "it's not what you know, it's who you know." I think it's quite the opposite - she grew up in a family environment where the fundamentals of business were part of the culture, as much as literacy and education.

If a kid grows up understanding finance, business development, how to pitch an idea to investors etc. they're going to be lightyears ahead of some kid who grew up being taught to 'do well in school so you can earn a good hourly wage'.
I think the point is that as you gain experience you realise how unimportant your local terminal is.

Engineers tend to grow out of it.

Not that many coders 'often' travel on the job, as a proportion. Most are office-bound.
A Technical Primer on Causality
Never used it. Didn't need it. Not sure how I would get anyone else to use it, either, as I think I'm the only one in my family/circle of friends still using Firefox.

Glad to be rid of it.
why not "yin and yang" shapes rather than triangles?
Free vulnerability sweeps for open-source projects
> It's just a wordpress website. You don't need nothing fancy to be successful.

I've observed similar products myself, often ones that are more successful versions of my own creations. I've seen stuff built with spaghetti PHP code, yet it was marketed well and more people were paying money to use it than my own. Yet when I looked at it, the first thing I saw was an SQL injection vulnerability that would allow me to drop the entire database.

It makes me wonder though, if instead of looking at entrepreneurship from the software development side of things, maybe instead I should be trying to build a marketing and advertising agency that builds software. These types of companies seem to make more money than I do.

Yet at the same time, in the marketing companies that come to my mind, the weaknesses in their products tend to be sustainability. I think overtime customers are going to become frustrated with their lack of good support and ability to maintain code and add new features.

Just my thoughts when reflecting on all of this. :)
I think that it was Reliance Communications (Mukesh's brothers company) and not Reliance Jio that facebook hd tied up to deliver free basics. It is not the same company.
Netscape's demise was completely due to the mismanagement of the company, not the particular features they provided. In the middle of the browser war they decided to stop all maintenance and execute a complete rewrite. That would kill any company. They are one of the reasons why Joel Spolsky says "never rewrite from scratch".
The DRM for games is altogether another beast than DRM for movies or audio. Games are interactive so while cracking them should in theory always be possible (unless they are server based), the cracked version represents a possible threat to the users. Did really someone crack the software for the fun of it or is it malware? With movies such concerns are limited to exploiting bugs in movie players, so attack surface is much lower. Also, all one needs to do is capture the output and write it to file. The "hack" is quite trivial with proper equipment.
I believe oneway drones are next so that the van doesn't have to stop moving. Then upgrade to a truck on a highway - just keep launching as the truck is maintaining 55-65 mph. Unit lands in your yard. When you get home, Remove your item, fold up the power unit, recycle the cardboard/plastic components and stick the reusable portion of the unit in your mailbox. Unit is self addressed and postage included to go back to the nearest facility.
This is the same company that Facebook was going to use with Internet.org. It looks like after Facebook's attempt was blocked, he realized he didn't have to be a middleman, and could just offer cheap service on his infrastructure anyway. Still, this comes across as even more damage to Facebook's attempt to be seen as altruistic, even if I expect the profit-seeking is just slightly less obvious in this case.

EDIT: Oh no, the plot thickens! Facebook was working through Reliance Communications, a subsidiary of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Reliance Jio is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited. These are two halves of a split business empire; Mukesh Ambani didn't take Facebook's idea, he took the idea Facebook had for his brother!
Ha ha, my thought exactly!
Looking forward to the fireworks.
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So they told me I was infringing 4 years later... when there are numerous apps in the store doing the same. It's also a cleaner that works only of Facebook. Google reviewed it and approved it 4 years ago. The extension is free. There is no advertising. I don't make any profit.

I was never told what to do or how to change it so that my users would still recognize it. Also changing its name in "Cleaner - For Facebook" was suggested (and accepted) for the Safari extension by the Safari Gallery Team.

If I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I can't fix it. This is not about TM infringement, but the total lack of communication by Google.

Thing is that they basically told me I can't do anything if the original complainant gives his go-ahead ... after 3 months of canned responses.

I agree with your second point.

(I'm the author of the post).
Accelerate warming -> more methane released -> accelerate warming -> even more methane released -> ...
Software Secured (www.softwarescured.com) launched the Open-Source Security Project (https://ossp.softwaresecured.com) a project aimed at providing vulnerability sweeps to as many open-source projects as possible. Rules are simple, submit a project, the project with the most votes will be reviewed.
Thingful Pivots. Or, the Evolution of an IoT Startup
Container scheduling and management, focused on operational simplicity
Some of those classic movies were shot on 65mm and 70mm. Others may have simply been upscanned, which will yield a sharper looking image nonetheless.
I don't see why this is "ridiculous". It is the most natural result of not having the cultural and linguistic background. It is the same for English-speakers choosing Chinese names, or any X-speakers choosing Y names, for that matter.

It may sound stupid or funny to the native speakers, but there is nothing wrong with the names per se, after all. With so many languages that are not English, there are bound to be many weird English names. I personally like the "ridiculous" names because they are adding something interesting to long list of boring "proper names".

Also, Eugene is a pretty common name here in Singapore, where English is the official instructional language for schools.
I daresay it's a tautology that having connected parents helps one in life. Thanks for the fuller picture.
Who controls the Internet? Ted Cruz's fantasy vs. the reality
Oh, just one thing. Its apparently missing a desktop client, that isn't a web app.

I could convince more to switch if chat managers like gajim/pidgin etc. would support it out of the box.
This sounds fun lol
No they just force-installed the unremovable add-on, then the next update put the removed button back on the toolbar*.

As it happens I did try Hello, just didn't find it useful for me not understand why that one webrtc tool was given so much precedence by Mozilla.
It matters to the search engines that pay Mozilla for that default search setting plus royalties for referrals. Which in turn funds all of their projects including Firefox.
Before I even read the article I knew the extension was an ad-blocker.

All these people make ad-destroying apps and extensions and then act flabbergasted when big companies relying on ad-revenue don't like that and file complaints to get them taken down.
The Offical Boy Scout Handbook, for inspiration growing up there's nothing better than the actual experience of venturing into the wilderness and figuring stuff out-- this book remains a huge resource> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/554817.Boy_Scout_Handbook...
Doesn't that turn the delivery problem into an exactly mirrored pickup problem? Getting the drones back would be about as much work as getting the package to you.
Ironically by talking about it you are spreading the rumor.
They told me I was infringing 4 years later... when there are numerous apps in the store doing the same. It's also a cleaner that works only of Facebook. Google reviewed it and approved it 4 years ago. The extension is free. There is no advertising. I don't make any profit.

I was never told what to do or how to change it so that my users would still recognize it. Also changing its name in "Cleaner - For Facebook" was suggested (and accepted) for the Safari extension by the Safari Gallery Team.

If I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I can't fix it. This is not about TM infringement, but the total lack of communication by Google.

Thing is that they basically told me I can't do anything if the original complainant gives his go-ahead ... after 3 months of canned responses.

(I'm the author of the post).
Ah, he wasn't a Swedish (government) official but a executive for the Swedish company ABB - the debt collector.

He was sentenced to 3 years in prison and got a 3 year ban on business activity for embezzlement, tax fraud and accounting fraud.
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Definitely with you on the chair!

The other tools, so long as they're adequate, don't need to be that shiny... IMHO
Oh, didn't you hear? Researchers found that via quantum tunnelling entanglement, each time you download a video from youtube, a number of random artists (not necessarily involved with the media in question) feel an unexplained momentary sharp pain in their back. A similar effect happens when you drunkenly sing the latest pop song - an egregious copyright violation by any measure - in which case several successful artists feel a passing, but deep, existential dread about the quality of their work. Further research into the effect has been postponed due to ethical concerns. The researchers note, however, that shortening copyright terms would drastically reduce its impact.
The overall design is a riff of the Steyr Pinzgauer:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinzgauer_High-Mobility_All-...

The British Army is using them, so Murray has likely been inspired by it.

It was designed for Mountains in Austria, is pretty much unbeatable in tough terrain - just put on chains and gogogo.

Original had petrol engines, not diesel to avoid freezing up in winter conditions.

As a driver in the Austrian Army we basically learned the whole thing front to back, assemble and disassemble like a rifle.

Such a fun ride.
I agree in the main lines but this has limits. I like to take an example with a family living nearby: you hear that the father is spanking his kids, ok, that's none of your business. But if you hear that said father is abusing his kids, you call the cops, and if no cops are available you may group with other peoples to get the kids to safety.

I think Eastern Europe countries were in the "spanking" case, but WW2 Germany and possibly today's North Korea are in the "abuse" case.
I would gladly pay for developer support. I do it for Apple. (I'm the original author).
"exceptions prove the rule" usage is usually misunderstanding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
The Evolution of Careers. Solving the problem of future careers
As an engineer I find it an appalling when you realize that quality engineering means nothing in terms of financial success. I used to think that if you build a quality product the users will pick it up and it will become successful when in fact it couldn't be further away from reality.

Thus, bugs and quality are secondary. Why spend $ on engineering and fixing bugs when you can spend that on marketing for much better ROI.
I almost never actually use wget...I have an alias set in my bash config that translates `wget` to `curl -O`.

I'm not entirely sure why I do that, actually...I think I was trying to impress someone by how few dependencies I had like four years ago and it stuck.
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The problem is that if a human is available to talk to, people will normally tend to that option even if their answer is on the help page.
Not sure how the oddball link above came to be, but the proper link should be this: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/

5.2.1 is LibreOffice Fresh. 5.1.5 is LibreOffice Still (older branch so more stable but without the newer features).
> These things don't pollute as much as a truck

I don't think it's as clear cut as that. Farming and keeping animals consumes a lot of natural resources. Keep in mind that you'd need a lot of time and a lot of oxen or horses to haul two tons of material.
> intended interpretation

The DBMS doesn't read your mind before interpreting relations. It interprets relations according to its own data integrity enforcement rules.

Most programmers are used to expecting language constructs to mean what a human would mean (“I called my class `Customer`, so of course its instances are customers, right?”), but the formal semantics of the language in question seldom, if ever, justifies this. If you want to establish that your code means what you mean, you have to prove it.

For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics_(computer_science)
updated my comment for clarity.

Recycle some of the components, and put the power/brain/battery unit in your mailbox.
Growing tomatoes in Norway is going to become easy very soon.
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I was curious what it looked like flat-packed: http://oxgvt.com/wp-content/uploads/Flat-Packing2.jpg
I got pulled over for speeding once, all I did was lean out the window and say, hey officer, what gives? Everyone else was going the same speed as me? He said yeah you're right, have a good one!

Actually that didn't happen because that's not the way the world works.
I was writing up my comment when you asked this, check it -- tl;dr : This is the same telco which was partnering with Facebook before the regulatory authority shot Free Basics down.
It does, but according to the Wikipedia article the '25 times' figure seems to have taken that into account. Methane has a 25 times (or 34 times according to more recent estimates) larger effect than an equivalent mass of CO2 over 100 years. When measured over the first 20 years this rises to 70~80 times.
Thoughts on innovations/labs/skunkworks teams?
Heeding Clayton Christensen's advice, it seems like it's become standard process for companies (both startups and mega-corporations) to launch siloed innovation / labs / r&d teams.

I am currently a part of one of these teams at a saas startup and have seen a few attempts of these fail miserably. The formula it seems is not exact...

I'm looking to aggregate learnings and successes/failures in this quick form, The Innovator's Survey: https://goo.gl/forms/AP7Gl4ZPkP7vxytM2 I will post/email the results to anyone that’s interested.

What is your experience in "innovation" orgs?
That alone does not get you 200k clients.