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This article is built on sand. First off, Summers doesn't provide any evidence that his linear trend is a valid predictor. Coupled with his history of predictions, that should be a red flag to anyone reading this. If you're interested, you should read about his suggestion that California deregulate its energy market during the rolling blackouts caused by Enron's manipulation of the energy supply. Similarly, he supported the rapid privatization of former Soviet bloc countries in the 1990s without considering that former party members would consolidate resources and wealth among themselves. Lo and behold, Russia is now ruled by an oligarchy.

Second, not even the links he provides support his points. The one to the BLS shows the number of cashiers is expected to grow by 2%, not decline as he states.

Third, "to the extent that non-work is contagious, it is likely to grow exponentially rather than at a linear rate." No citation given. Nothing to substantiate this claim. Again, given Larry's history, I'd advise against taking him at his word. He also cites falling marriage rates as contributors, but only links to evidence of the rates falling, NOT to evidence of a causal effect of declining marriage rates on employment.

Finally, seeing as this [1] was posted on HN today, Larry seems to be living in a world where he doesn't read the news. Companies still need workers.

It's drivel like this written by people like Larry that erode my trust in the media.

[1]U.S. Companies Turn to German Vocational Training Model to Fill Jobs Gap: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12584606
"\n" (that is, ASCII character "\", followed by ASCII character "n", producing escape sequence "\n" for newline) is not prohibited inside a string literal in that model. Only actual newlines (that is, ASCII characters 10 and 13) are prohibited, and that is already a part of JSON spec.

Like I said, the only place where JSON permits actual newlines is as part of insignificant whitespace. But because it's insignificant, newlines can be replaced with any other whitespace character, and the resulting JSON will have the same exact meaning.

And why would grep lose "order of magnitudes in speed"? If you were actually using grep, it'd work exactly the same as it does for any text file. The only thing that JSON does is add some structure to the contents, so that it can be easily converted to some tabular format that's more convenient for structured queries, aggregation etc. But you can still treat it as plain text for all purposes.
Hang on... so ~20% of the hires ended up being asian. Doesn't the same thing happen at other firms aiming for ~diversity~ where the % accepted deviates from the % applied?
So a VM can reach the Internet (and vice versa) using NAT66 at the load balancer. VM-to-VM communication is not possible.

Seems inelegant, but better than ENETUNREACH.
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I'm too lazy to do that. I used to have 3, then uninstalled Fasten. Now I have both Lyft and Uber and am considering uninstalling Lyft because I never use it.

Why should I waste time tapping on a different app, waiting for it to load, tapping through the destination, etc.? The estimated wait times aren't accurate to the minute, so +/- the error they are almost always equivalent. Enough so that checking the other app feels like a waste of time. In the time it took to load the other app, I could have been waiting for the car to arrive. It's not worth the mental energy to choose.

Further, Uber has a prepay promotion. I pay an amount at the beginning of the month to avoid surge charges and get a discount through the rest of the month. I'm basically locked-in for any month that I prepay.
Do you mean modular Tiny Houses where two or more Tiny Houses are attached together?

Not yet, but I have been intrigued by the thought lately. That is because it may very well be cheaper to acquire two trailers instead of one long trailer, which would mean less of a weight restriction and much easier Tiny House moving management.

I think you could have a clever design where you used vaccum insulated panels and some kind of seal at an intersection, I'm certain this has been solved by engineers before. We have to remember NASA was building Tiny Houses in orbit long before this became a terrestrial trend. I'm already using a material invented by them called aerogel (thin strips!) to thermally isolate the studs to prevent thermal bridging, it'll cost me just 1300 to raise the R (insulation) value by a min of 10% - 20%.
That is staggeringly presumptuous of you to claim, lacking a shred of evidence (or, for that matter, empathy).
Is this just like the complaints about elite universities discriminating against Asians/Indians to maintain the diversity? Perhaps people who know about Palantir's diversity ratio can comment.

I have seen some companies preferring certain race of applicants to maintain diversity in teams even though there are plenty of qualified applicants.
In what way does it hold up?

It's saying that a 20-year old conservative is necessarily heartless, and a 50-year old liberal is necessarily stupid. I don't see how either of these follows; I know plenty of young conservatives who care deeply about other people, and old liberals who are very smart.

It's just a lazy meme.
What about after 1939?
> If zoning laws become such that it is possible for anyone to just build 50,000$ per unit homes, no questions asked, then the market would solve the problem.

Until you ran out of space to build such homes, in which case scarcity would again be a factor. Of course, if you succeeded in making the area undesirable enough through willy-nilly construction, that might not bring the price up much -- but that's hardly a victory, either.
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Agreed, in fact a well defined and documented DSL could make it easier than user-defined functions and large chunks of code.
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Funny thing, I was having this discussion with my friends at a dinner party to do something on our own (a non-tech business idea). No cigar...

It's so ingrained in a lot of people that having a stable corporate job is the best you can get. The whole corporate culture makes you so risk averse that it's hard to venture out to do something on your own. This is despite knowing fully well that their jobs are disposable/replaceable.
When there are a few pipes, surrounded by hundreds of lines of logic, parsing, pretty-printing, error reporting, etc. then it makes sense to use a non-shell language.

The problem is that invoking subprocesses can be quite verbose.

If you do the naive thing and pass strings in/out of each step, it increases verbosity, gives you temporary variables to abstract away and can eat up a lot of memory with temporary data.

If you do the clever thing and set up pipes between the subprocesses, it removes some of the variables, but takes more code and hits deadlocks when the buffers fill up.

If you do the right thing and spawn separate threads to read/write data to the pipeline then it takes even more code, and now you have to worry about multithreading.

Hiding that sort of boilerplate is why I like shells and shell-like libraries. Both are rather unsuited to anything else, but at least with a shell-like library you can fall back to a decent language.
d3v4 is improving the logic around .enter() a bit. See https://medium.com/@mbostock/what-makes-software-good-943557... Search for "Removing the magic of enter.append"
> I'm fairly ignorant of the housing market in general, but from what I understand the problem in SF has more than one layer: the local government won't allow new housing to be built, the NIMBY crowd wants a one-story skyline across the entire bay, etc.

That's not really more than one factor. That's a root cause and a mechanism by which that root cause produces the effect under consideration.
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Quite true
You're an urbanist? Why aren't you a developer yet?
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The Bay Area is so desirable because it where all the tech companies are located and the tech companies are there because it were all the tech workers are. It's an unbreakable cycle.
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To my eye Inkscape was the worst, while Illustrator and Sketch were both OK'ish. Inkscape can create pretty complex transformations on groups that are not necessary. It can also easily screw up integer coordinates and somehow add fractions to them. It's a real shame. On one occasion I rewrote an SVG file generated by Inkscape and made it literally 20 times smaller. Something like from 200k to 10k. Never used the poor thing again.
I can tell you never lived in a poor country.

Often times it's the reverse: international goods are same or significantly higher than USA or first world prices: the west embraced free trade but the rest of the world not so much....

A few things like McDonalds will be lower by 30% but many chain stores will go the opposite direction: luxury pricing premium...reasons vary from local tariff(especially for cars or electronics) or just brand snobbery(Nike is expensive in china for example) or protective laws(Korean electronics and cars are more expensive in Korea than USA, tariffs keep out cheaper foreign competitors).

Often times, poor countries have crazy bad wealth distribution ratios so overcharging to enhance prestige is fairly normal. Going low on price is a bad strategy since 90% of the population can't even afford your goods but the top 5-10% can spend like kings.

Australia getting screwed on pricing is likely due to some goofball middle man system or taxing/tarriff scheme combined with island isolation surcharge(hawaii suffers this too).

I wouldn't be surprised if their is some foreign software tax.
Did you try Kotlin?
I'm sorry, but the horses example is really terrible.

Technological disruption is not new. It's been around forever. If your theory stands true, then how come that overall, the global economy is growing? Doesn't it mean that we've created more jobs that we've destroyed?

What about the other important element no one seems to care about in this conversation: the jobs created - very often - require a higher level of skills and specialization.
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Are you suggesting that US is importing a vast army of truckers from Asia ?
I think it would have to be agi. Otherwise you could stump it with word problems or make up a simple game on the fly and see if it can't learn it.
A couple things that are interesting to me here:

1. Consumer user growth has stagnated, albeit at 50M MAU, but they raised a $45M Series E.

> Beyond those consumer apps, Foursquare has honed in on a business model. Rather than relying on mobile ad revenue like Facebook, Google and Twitter, Foursquare sells services to businesses. Customers include Apple, Uber and Twitter, which integrate Foursquare's location data into its own apps and services.

2. As an Apple user, it seems like all of their POI data has Yelp stamped on it. Does anyone know how they use Foursquare?
I would probably have more side projects if I could get over feeling like every one had to have a "purpose".
The trick to making this work in the US will be breaking the habit of pointing every student in the direction of a 4-year college degree after high school.

It's also something that's not done at the senior year of high school. Students are tracked toward multiple types of schools (basic, vocational, or university) at a much earlier age.

It's a pretty serious decision, and IMO clashes with the mode of American parenting these days.
Hi rainier - but what about my comment above? Austin City Region is 271.8 square miles. SF is 47. My question is, how much of that growth in austin occurred in the regions of Austin, TX that were at or above SF's average density of 18,000 per square mile for the last 75 years. Or even half that?

If we're going to say SF is uniquely against growth, wouldn't you need to compare it to something comparable? There's a big difference between expanding into "empty" space and tearing down a neighborhood that has had a medium to high stable density for the last 75-100 years.
> Neither does cleaning, since we now expect everything to be cleaner.

Modern vacuums, cleaning products, washer and dryer systems, modern storage containers, the refridgerator, dusting products and filtration air condition systems all have made cleaning your house substantially easier.
> I find it so strange that experts center their goals around how to fit as many people as possible into these cities, rather than figuring out how to scale what makes places like the Bay Area desirable out to other regions...

What makes the Bay Area desirable is climate plus being on a natural river- and sea-based trade nexus.
"The likelihood that this result occurred according to chance is approximately one in a billion," said the lawsuit, which was filed with the department's Office of Administrative Law Judges.

What in the world does that alleged statistic mean?
This is 100% a political move. The number of people hired matches the national average, which is what is usually used to determine "diversity".

Honestly, there is no reason this lawsuit should be pressed. As you pointed out I'm sure there were visa's required for some applicants, and 20% Asian is still good by percentage.
Issue R?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:WoSign_Issues#Issue_R:_Purchase_...

Which links to

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security...
I'm reading it and I'm also surprised.

As far as I understood the whole discrimination and quotas fiasco for minorities always talk about the general population to be compared with.
I wonder how these walking dead heavily funded startups would end, and when.
Over here in Firefox 52.0a1, something is cut off the margin of the slides.. all of them. I can briefly see the cut-off part when flipping to the next slide (vertically or horizontally).
geiser is quite nice. I used it a couple of years ago with racket to work through the first three chapters of SICP, including the part that involves drawing pictures https://i.imgur.com/fwCUUZI.png
Well, the chart at the top of the article suggests that this time, it really is different. Between 1970 and 2016 we really have seen technological unemployment that has yet to be compensated for.

As the Wiki page you linked to says, stopping unemployment depends on "compensation effects ensur[ing] there is never a long term negative impact on jobs". So, by default, technology will put people out of work, and there's no guarantee that some counterbalancing factor will always materialize. The amount of meaningful work that humans can engage in is certainly not infinite.

Of course, it's not a guarantee that technology will continue to improve either, at least not at a faster rate than the counterbalancing factor. As it happens, it's very hard to predict the future. But it's not unreasonable to try. And right now, it looks very much like tech will keep marching forward, and jobs outside of tech will not.
I listen to your show very frequently (as time permits) and it has been a valuable source of knowledge. Thank you for making it. :)
That's exactly the point. People fail when they look at what exists today. Technology opens opportunities people did not imagine before.
I think such discipline is exceptionally rare in software, and it's never sexy. How about NASA? Haven't they only had like 4 software bugs in their control software ever (or some equally absurd figure)?

In design, Apple's core hardware design team is over the top psychotic about the quality of their work. It's a true obsession for them. Many font foundries have similar neuroticism driving their work.

I think Chef's Table (great show!) does us all a disservice by kind of skipping over how unbelievably grueling such an undertaking is. It truly is inhuman. It's unfathomably difficult to create merely a successful restaurant... it takes a perfect storm — in both the positive and negative sense — for someone to create something like a Michelin starred restaurant.

So yes, probably. Is it sexy? Certainly not. It looks insane more than anything outside of the lens of a beautifully crafted documentary.
> "Customers today expect a well-designed, personalized and consistent experience every time they engage with a brand,” said Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO of Adobe, in a statement today.

As a long-time user of Adobe products, I mostly expect "vague disappointment and occasional fierce hatred" when I engage with the Adobe brand. I'll give them the "consistent" part I guess.
> Gett

Must be a different city. I've never heard of that one.

> different from a failed restaurant

Depending on the city, a liquor license can cost hundreds of thousands, much like a taxi medallion. Seems about the same to me.
Really neat. I can't wait to see the video!

The pictures of screen look unusual, as if every second scan line is missing. Is the Alto outputting an interlaced video signal? That would be very interesting and unexpected.
Except when the language itself is statically and strongly typed (a la Haskell).
Will they? Still gotta wait for Google, Microsoft and Apple.

Is there any mechanism to push certificate updates to Android devices in the wild? Otherwise there's going to be a lot of devices that trust WoSign and StartCom, no matter what.
It would be really nice if some of these reporters at least clarified if among those rejected were US Citizens. In the kind of work Palantir is involved in it is quite possible that they are trying to staff a US Citizen only shop to meet government requirements. Just look at the ITAR regs for example and the 'nonpermanent resident' gets waved about quite a lot.
How does the Department of Labor determine the applicants' qualifications?
I am in the process of re-writing the book, and the quality is much higher this time around. http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ getting there! Chapters 8 and 9 should be merged soon.

But yeah, beyond that, we love helping new people: my sibling commenter already gave you all the good links :)
There are a lot of legacy apps, and third party components that use bits of .Net that aren't in core (or mono), and unlikely to ever be there.
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Here's the actual government complaint, the allegations are listed in sections 10 and 11, https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsrelease...

My concerns,

1) why is the qualified candidate pool, whatever that is, so overwhelmingly Asian, 73-85%? Isn't the candidate selection process biased towards Asians?

2) The complaint is concerned about the use of employee referrals. Studies have shown that building teams from referrals can be a big productivity boost because it enhances team cohesion. While employee referrals can lead to a monoculture it doesn't seem that the federal government should prohibit it.
Switching to fullscreen fixes it...
Corporate personhood is not an American thing. It appeared in the UK in the 1800s and it's now common across the world.
Thanks, it works great now.

I put two fingers down on the screen and then started dragging the fingers in opposite directions. I guess whatever javascript was enabled only looked at one of the touches (a zoom gesture is basically two opposite-moving swipe gestures, so...) :)
Yes, I am the author of oscrypto. Unfortunately one of my unfulfilled interests is longer-form technical writing. Trying to balance open source and family means that for now, that isn't in the cards.

I think one of the biggest benefits of ctypes is that it is part of the stdlib. Not requiring a compiler means it opens up a whole swath of users who aren't Python developers, but have Python installed. Part of the reason I'm interested in this is being heavily involved in the Sublime Text community, where every user has Python and ctypes, but requiring a C compiler and Python headers eliminates probably 99% of users.

Trying to distribute pre-compiled shared libraries was a path I went down, but gave up on. Having to compile 10 versions of the cryptography package every time a new release came around was a disaster. If you chance upon the cryptography-dev IRC channel, you'll see it is a part time job to get the package compiled reliably, and they have dedicated hardware provided by Rackspace to help them.
Totally agree. I think the real issue is that education is not catching up.
This is why some people believe there should be a (nominal) cost to voting. If you have to pay to vote, you'll be much more motivated to research the candidates and issues. It will also be much more expensive for campaigns to "buy" unreliable voting blocs, a.k.a. "get-out-the-vote" targets.
I think they're a very fascinating company! I just don't know what else to comment. I hope they do well.
Planned Obsolence is also beneficial in some cases. Many products are significantly more energy efficient although they function the same(fridge and cars come to mind).

In the software realm, plenty of software that should have been replaced or constantly updated chugs along managing critical infrastructure. Old hardware compatible with such systems get rarer thus raising operating costs and difficulty in servicing.

THe Phoebus Cartel was some major bullshit hence laws against price fixing were passed. These days trade is global so smuggling products from other countries is easy...unlike in 1939 where you only had a few stores/vendors to choose from who sold lightbulbs.

The modern version is vendor lock-in(see microsoft, sony, and apple which love this): hopefully this philosophy dies in the long run.
> I don't buy the math in that article one bit for why they can't build more houses.

Why?
Is this that "El Camino Real" that is the subject of an old CS geek joke, involving "El Camino Bignum"?

[edit]

It's in the Jagon File:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/E/El-Camino-Bignum.html

"When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on ‘real’, he started calling it ‘El Camino Double Precision’ — but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it ‘El Camino Bignum’, and that name has stuck."

That hacker was ESR himself.
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Hey, everybody here! One time I got so bored with the Apple keyboard and those emojis in texting to my friends, so I figure to create something cool. Out born my brainchild - www.Stickey.cc

what I did was to add sticky animation into it. I got some friends to create some animation, and we put app together! We did the apple keyboard extension so you can chat with these sticky animation right from your keyboard.

I also add some prize and gift boxes in the app to make it more fun.

Make sure you don't get addicted!

Enjoy and let me know your thoughts or any input.

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I use flux already and love it. However, it itself is/was not enough to solve headaches--but I use it for more comfortable evening/morning viewing of the screen.
Yes there certainly is. The best way to think about this I think is that the price you are willing to pay is a finite amount close to the maximum you are capable of paying. There might be difference between people in how close to the theoretical maximum they are willing to pay, but the differences are relative small in comparison to the total most are willing to pay.
People are already starting to talk about whiteboxing the branch office by running all the "value" as VMs (VNFs) on a generic x86 box.
I'd really like to have something like this running on hardware I controlled, using open source, because I'd want to load it up with all my personal information with the goal of creating a smart assistant that eventually can be upgraded to full AGI status when the technology becomes available. Unfortunately, what will likely be available in the near future will be a "smart assistant" running in the cloud, using proprietary code, and storing your personal data with truly horrible privacy policies. I'd be willing to pay $$$ for an assistant I can run that will truly protect my privacy.