skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with you from a standpoint of accuracy, Kelvin is still really useful. It also happens to map pretty nicely to how we perceive color.

The N-step MacAdam ellipse on a 2D CCx/CCy plane is what gets used when you dig into tint, but people love to reduce complex systems to a single number. And if you want a single number, temperature is the best we have.

I'm curious what your suggestion might look like in practice because it would be even more complex than the MacAdam ellipse.
Gregory Clark's work on tracking English class mobility in the 1700s-1900 (The Son Also Rises & A Farewell to Alms) indicates that this isn't the first time this has happened (ie, the obsolescence of a large portion of the labor force), and that it's possible to manage the transition with a fairly minimal amount of law enforcement resources.
There is also Making of Prince of Persia book, which is great read as well.
Especially non auto-biographies will not even be written for the non-survivors.
And to carry the analogy further, AI agents are now better than radiologists at analyzing images. But the AI agent works for/under the direction of the radiologist.
Has anybody, ever, in the history of this type of surveillance, provided concrete proof of the effectiveness thereof against the supposed threats that are used to justify it?
I have a Philips sunrise alarm clock that looks like a lamp.

I recommend that. It is a great lamp colour temperature and way to wake up.
Citation needed. Over the last couple decades processed foodstuffs have been constant in price, but the portions have decreased to cut costs. You can play Russian dolls with old cereal boxes, fitting the newer ones inside the old ones.
Ask italians and russinans. Their swears are awesome!
They said that they were going to work on swapping things out. When I talked to the PR rep about it last, he didn't have much of a clue whether they did or didn't swap anything out. They also mentioned a bug bounty, but that didn't go through either.
Point based moderation generates toxicity, hacker news gets toxic too. Stack Overflow went all in on moderation before they understood the social consequences of it. There's an opportunity here for a social network with a moderation system that cares about how it makes people feel and how feelings impact user generated content.
You're all over this thread (with good contributions) but this is the best. For me, I build up this fiction of how an event will be. How it will be awkward, how I will wish I was somewhere else doing something else.

But it's just a fiction, and the truth is you never know until you try. Going in with an open mind or even trying to have fun instead of prejudging the event has a real effect on if I have a good time.

Different people need different things, for me just a little optimism can do wonders.
While I understand your position, the particular line you quote is not protected as 'free speech' because it's advertising to sell a criminal act for money ... I could be wrong.
That's perfectly in keeping with my second sentence. Someone who felt stifled would not choose to face the potential backfire.
What most people fail to understand (but was explained very well by Joel in some talks) is that SO is primarily optimized for Google & read-only users just looking for the answer to a common issue. By that metric they are extremely successful.

Many things people complain about are deliberate design choices that actually made SO popular in the first place.
Borrowing from a friend is not cheating. For centuries coffee shops have had chess boards and the like.

The bigger problem is that we don't have similar conventions in the virtual world.
You and me are thinking similar thoughts. Something else I want to do, you see how people build public libraries and community libraries? I want to build public and community laboratories. Chemistry, physics, biology labs that any random kid or adult can walk into and do science stuff for free or for as close as possible to free. With smallish libraries that have all the books related to that stuff.
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Is that the guy with the fake crime scene?
not really. THere are are a handful of domains I've been wanting TO USE for years now that squatters got to first, or someone else is using. if these ever expire i want them to use. not to resell for profit. Unfortunately this service doesn't let me just plug in whatever domain i want and check for it
> This is off the cuff, but it comes down to circadian rhythms being influenced by the color of light. Before artficial light, the sunrise and sunset have a softer light with a lot more red wavelength in it.

That is right, which is why I have a nice project to use a heliostat with optical fibre to use as daylighting for a house interior.

The colour temperature shall have a nice warm glow in early morning and evening, which shall aid sleep preparation. I'll publish a log if I believe the project is successful.

Set it and forget it is the best smart house technology.
> he parent isn't necessarily arguing against password stores in general.

Yeah, reliazed that, my post was just my "logical" progression.
I made my comment because the very concept of made me skeptical of that. "The very concept" is a different meaning than "the legal concept".
I don't know that "the complete mess" is just about bullying and vile content, but more the horrible issues of signal to noise and the inability to filter out irrelevant responses. Forums, email lists, and Google Groups still have so many ill-informed and irrelevant non-sequitur responses crowding out the few pearls of wisdom.
Or just special-casing the #. trash from Medium. For popular articles you can see half a dozen duplicate submissions that differ just by the tracking IDs.

(But maybe that'd be too invasive now that Medium posts are served from so many domains).
Doesn't get old.

SO is so amazingly useful that I'd like to upvote discuss it weekly if it would result in either SO getting fixed or someone making a better one.
I think what people are overlooking is that this device has stereo cameras by default. That means every snap likely has reasonably quality depth for each snap. With the scale of users they will likely have the largest consumer based depth capture platform in the market. That's actually a big deal for building infrastructure needed for the AR ecosystem.
I find it to be a great resource if someone has already answered your question, especially if I find it via Google. As for asking questions, it's a bit off-putting to be immediately downvoted without explanation, and to not get a single answer.

Point is, it's good resource to free-ride but not actively participate.
> "There are lots of things that will likely never be cost effective to automate or are impossible to automate."

What did you have in mind?
I always wanted this kind of "science stuff" as a kid but never did much with it when I got it. Usually it was kinda boring. One exothermic reaction or pond-water-under-a-microscope or whatever is pretty much like any other. In the case of microscopes, thats doubly true now that you can see better images of just about anything you'd care to on the Internet. None of the equipment seemed to be in service of any goal, and I didn't find it interesting in itself. Just going out and watching animals or bugs do animal or bug stuff required little or no equipment and was more fun.

OTOH I got really into collecting fossils, so what do I know about what is and isn't fun?
I'm worried that the jobs that will be left to us at some point in the future will either be outside the capabilities of most people, or wholly undesirable.
One interesting issue with the duplicate answers is that if you notice later a typo in your answer and edit it you get pushed to the bottom of the answer stack, despite having the first answer. This seems like an issue SO could solve to help contributors. I doubt many abuse the system to completely rewrite an answer and stay on top.
You can edit the top answer or post a new answer, I have got 50 odd votes from adding asp.net's encryption/decryption methods that were added in 3.5 to old .net encryption questions.

I've done it on a few other answers too, if the top answer seems clunky or inelegant, I tend to dig a bit deeper to see if there's a better way.

Also, scrolling down a bit in the answers you usually find new ways of doing something as answer 3 or 4. Just upvote it. Or edit the answer into the top answer.
For backing up your keys, they can be encrypted to a device with full disk encryption, or to a mountable disk image that's encrypted, and then push that file off site.

As for access if you lose a key, unless you somehow run a VPS that also uses full-disk encryption (and requires a passphrase on boot), then your hosting provider has access to your VPS.

For instance, with DO or Linode, you can log in to the admin console and reset the root password of a server. Once done, you can use the terminal built into the admin panel to access to the server even if SSH is disabled.

Presumably, someone could work with the provider, prove you are dead, and that they should gain access to your servers. At that point it would come down to the policy of the hosting provider.
Agreed. I usually use 'site:stackoverflow.com [[query]]' in Google with search terms limiting pages that have been updated in the last year or so. Filters a lot of the very old answers out which often can send you on a totally wrong direction because the ecosystem has changed so much.

Perhaps SO will end up getting overtaken by a new similar site, not because it is intrinsically better, just because they reset the corpus of answers so the SNR is higher for a while? I imagine SO will become increasingly less useful as their Q&A gets older and older.
I'm not too sure about this. I know quite a few artists biographies, here things often involve being broke in NYC* and some drug abuse. This is the other extreme, but shows how wrong things could be.

If you know include the costs of the positive examples you quoted one should give it a second thought: Hard work and degrees do cost time, effort and in the worst case they trade in happiness. These choices might also cause broken hearts for those who did everything right and still blame themselves for not having their dream career. Or even worse: having the dream career and only than realizing they missed the youth of their kids or something.

* something that's also totally different today, I think there is not much room (especially literally) for the poor in NYC (at least that's what I've been told, never lived there)
I don't comprehend the thinking behind not listening to voicemails. Why have a voicemail box, then? You're just making anybody who does leave a voicemail think you're ignoring them on purpose. Is it people who didn't purposefully purchase and setup the voicemail feature, but it was automatically enabled?
> I suspect that the Depo Provera injections at about age 20 is what turned my friend into a drug addict

Have you considered that post hoc is not necessarily proper hoc.
this guy has found the secret recepy for making money: make a service for something where users direcly earn money or spend money. Then automate it in order to scale.
Calling the SEC
Ask HN: Is the world really short of software developers?
No,SO is not declining. All the common questions have already been answered.

The main problem is people don't research their problem for more then a minute before asking a question.
I'm a bit divided about Stack Overflow. On one hand side it's simply one, if not the best, resource for programmers. On the other hand it's become somewhat toxic and counterproductive. The better you become as a programmer the less value you derive from it. The true niche experts are less and less to be found (ie Product/Project -owners and Microsoft/Google/Apple etc -employees) and the other replies will often be exasperating mixture of trying to give answers they've googled or complain about some meta-aspect of the question.

Any community that reaches a certain size will face unique problems and I think Stack Overflow has some of the same problem as reddit does: you have to be very careful on how you give power to users. Power corrupts and becomes a goal/game in itself. Karma/power is a great incentive in the beginning of a community, but can become destructive in the long run. That some programmers have a certain type of personality is probably not helping either.

There seems to be many småpåvar on Stack Overflow that loves to wield the small amount of power they've accrued without actually contributing that much. On the other hand you have to enforce rules and curation to keep quality up.

It's a very fine balance and hard to get right. It's mostly about human psychology and incentives. I think there's some tweaks they could do to improve things but I also understand that from their perspective why change something that works?

The danger is that the true experts stop helping/answering questions on Stack Overflow because they find the community becoming too toxic. Might turn into a downwards spiral until there's mostly trolls and newbies left.
The article is probably right about some factors that explain the "77% of users only ask one question".
But IMOHO it miss an important one:
Most of the user find answer to their question only by searching.

In fact once you get rejected (by a troll or not) for asking a question that you would have been able to find on SO, you became more careful before posting.

Also don't forget that a huge majority of the net user are ghost / read only :)
It's especially irritating when these elitist types clearly don't know as much as they think they do.
Yeah, I know I've engendered some unjust vitriol with SO questions (got referred to Hackers - same thing), where the question was non-nonchalantly labeled as polling - and I knew it wasn't because I'd spent hours going through Google Scholar and the ACM databases. But my elaboration only angered someone with a 10K ref who could downvote me all day long.
The SO is in decline. And decline is caused by its own success.

- The SO was great because answers for noob questions where hard to find. At this point of time (thanks to SO and their knowledge database) there are so many other resources to get these noob questions answered or they are already answered. And some of these other resources are updated to reflect the most recent technology changes while SO answers are static.

- Now people start asking hard stuff - but engineers (I intentionally do not say developers) who know answers on these questions are not interested in answering.

- People who got reputation and they are moderator (they made SO successful) do not know what they do not know.
It's the best resource by a mile, but the site is filled with grumpy people!
All you have to do is look around and see how much stuff people have. People have enormous amounts of stuff compared to even 20 or 30 years ago. Bigger houses. More cars. TVs. Computers. Smart Phones. And it's all, relatively speaking, dirt cheap. It's so cheap that storage units are a booming business because people don't have room to store all their stuff in their homes. It's so cheap that burglaries aren't even a thing anymore really because stuff is so cheap it isn't even worth stealing. It's so cheap that Marie Kondo has a best selling book about the challenges of getting rid of your stuff because you simply have too much of it.

Healthcare is expensive. Education is expensive. Land (in some places) is expensive. But man stuff. Stuff is cheap.
I disagree it is more probable that, "ballooning law enforcement costs due to significant fraction of population becoming unemployable and resorting to crime, and almost endless, Japan-style economic stagnation in all developed countries."

Generally, crime is on the decline, even as we see technology and economies evolve to include more automation and less human labor:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/what-cau...
http://www.citylab.com/crime/2015/09/violent-crime-rates-sti...
https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/americas-faulty-perceptio...

The most probable outcome is that societies adjust, and that is likely to include implementations of a basic income. In the US I doubt it will be sweeping in any manner. Rather certain "life-necessities," and "lifestyle standards" will be implemented piece-meal over long periods of time.
If you've ever been to NYC, this is pretty much the tour bus ticket salesmen. Some will follow you from behind with their arms outstretched in front of your face, flashing tour bus tickets.

After a particularly stressful day, one guy decides to take it upon himself to follow me like that for the better part of a city block. Ignoring him wasn't working, so I (honestly quite gently) brushed his hand out of my face, and the guy goes off, threatening to call the police and pulling in bystanders, asking if they just witnessed the terrible assault I've committed.

I guess the moral of the story is, don't work near Times Square.
What we need instead of SO is a wiki similar to the Arch wiki, but for all IT related troubleshooting problems.

Instead of removing "duplicate questions" we can just refine the details of that section of the wiki with more information.
AFAIK SO was wildly popular before the current behaviour.
"Take an IPhone - you find a variety of technologies - each one was created by some government grant... The collective production of wealth, which is then privately appropriated.. it's very easy to start thinking of basic income as a dividend that goes to the collective that was responsible for collectively producting the wealth."

"We need to create a system whereby society stakes a claim to the returns to aggregate capital, and this claim becomes an income stream that goes to everyone. I don't see why my children and your children have a right to a trust fund [or] why Paris Hilton has a right to a trust fund, when nobody else does, or very few people do.

Think of basic income as a trust fund for all our children - to be financed by dividends from our aggregate capital, which was after all, created collectively."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1eOVU61mZE&feature=youtu.be...

- Varoufakis
It was really stupid. There were these LED 2-digit panels (something like this: http://bit.ly/2d9fa3a) that my job was to screw into the case.

Anyway, the connector cables were manually soldered to them at a nearby station, and the ladies who did the soldering used to just pile the LED panels in a box, and as a result some of them would get scratches on the visible part and had to be thrown away. At the same time, the speakers I would also screw-in, came in these grid-like trays, where each speaker was placed in a small rectangular cell.

My brilliant idea was to recycle these cardboard trays and have the solderers place the finished circuits in them, so they'd never damage each other. It saved 10-20 defected panels a month IIRC. Not enough to get me bonus, but enough to get me a cheap FM radio and a certificate.

A guy who worked there at the time optimized some circuit board printing procedure and saved the company IIRC like $100K a year (or was it a month?), and got a very big bonus.
Ok, maybe the second paragraph is kinda bunk, but there's still good stuff in the third paragraph.

I mean, the question is 'diversity in the workplace' in western nations pretty much comes down to asking the questions of 'why should your workplace not roughly reflect your hiring pool' and 'why should your hiring pool not roughly reflect your demographics'. There can be good reasons for why either may not the case for specific instances, but unless you can give a good reason, then you're either actively screwing people over, or participating in some sort of systemic activity that's screwing people over.
I think the accepted answer causes a lot of problems, I personally think that after 3-6 months it should no longer pin it as the top answer, votes should.

Not sure if it's ever been discussed on meta, I don't understand why they haven't done it already, seems a reasonable solution.
I find some topics are much better than others on SO. It's pretty useful for Python and SQL, from my experience.
What are the possible downsides to using uvloop?
Why did you assume he meant "it has a name so it must be common" when he actually said "it's so common it has a name" and provided evidence that it's common?

He didn't make the statement you are claiming he made.
Aren't crime rates very low in Japan?
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What else can they do? With the new wave of AI and automation there will be no jobs left for people with below average intelligence. You will need more and more researchers and programmers but not everyone can do those jobs.
What evidence do you have that SO is in decline?
Issue #1 has a pretty solid write up by the author for why not dgraph or cayley[0]. In this post the author also mentions it's a rewrite from Java (which is quite obvious if you look at the code). I hope the project becomes more idiomatic Go as the author learns the language. In scenarios like this where a project for the author's learning and not necessarily production use, I wish GitHub had a better way to distinguish this from stable software looking for adoption.

[0]: https://github.com/krotik/eliasdb/issues/1#issuecomment-2494...
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Guaranteed income is not a solution. Sure housing and food are the most 2 important things but people need to feel they are needed in the society.
I'm treating the "Basic Income" topic on the Internet as a spam/cult type thing nowadays. Probably there is some type of browser addon that can hide it from clogging up everywhere I look.
How could one design economically productive outputs from a video game like playing experience?

Thinking something like Ender's game meets Uber drivers...
Synchronous voice communication is much higher bandwidth than text. Probably by an order of magnitude. And it allows nuance (tone, inflection, emotion) that is not possible with pure text (kind of like how emoji adds a dimension to text that isn't really possible in its absence). Surely you can imagine topics that could benefit from this increased bandwidth, no?
A quick goog of blue+light+retina+study brings up quite a few legit sites. The one I am going to read for my edification on the subject:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144654/
> “When I play a game, I know if I have a few hours I will be rewarded,” he said. “With a job, it’s always been up in the air with the amount of work I put in and the reward.”

This is stunning to me. I know that among the world, we in the US sometimes have a different work ethic. But video games coming up in this discussion of rewards per time invested is mind-boggling.

> Happiness has gone up for this group, despite employment percentages having fallen, and the percentage living with parents going up

I've tried to summon some outrage here, but if they're really happier maybe it's not a bad thing. I'm surprised it doesn't cause more strife in their relationships with family. That's only hinted at in the article.
Sounds very much like the wikepedia problem: a bunch of long-term members working as mods don't have patience for new people and are hostile to people who aren't already in the club.
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