skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for companies not named FaceBook, you probably have about 0 chance of hiring him away from Google where engineers who are really good at building jits are prized ($$$). I am an acquaintance of a very senior, very very good jvm engineer who was offered a ludicrous salary by G.
Overview of Microsoft's Bletchley blockchain architecture
So how about sources then?
I would argue that we're already at the point where the law industry has begun shedding paralegals and clerks because of technology, and that we'll see this rapidly accelerate, followed by AI beginning to take over the work of lawyers as such, with only a few humans overseeing the AI teams. The medical industry is likewise on the cusp of beginning to have AI assisted diagnosis, which will put a dent in the number of doctors needed for routine check-ups and supervising patient care, eg, overseeing a course of chemo (in that a single doctor will be able to oversee more cases with AI doing the heavy lifting and the human merely verifying its conclusions).

The problem with AI isn't that it's going to get rid of all the people in any industry -- it's that it's going to get rid of 90% of them, skewed towards the lower skilled and entry level positions. If this happens across enough industries at the same time, it's a question of what the less talented and younger will do to be part of the economy.
I don't really disagree. Some of it is attitude. That and what the book the Millionaire Next Door referred to as Economic Outpatient Care.

It is just that in the past the standard of living also was raised, and the market had to bear higher costs to motivate people to work.

If you examine the pay of our grandparents and parents you see they experienced very considerable wage growth in their lifetimes while the standard of living was rising, like by a factor of 10. Roofing contractors were paid a dollar a day in 1900!

That impetus is missing from the labour market today. It is partly that some of the people mentioned in the study feel like they have better things to do, but a lot of it has to do with the trajectory and speed of wage growth.

When you feel like your prospects are 'capped', you're bound to be less motivated.

I've heard employers whining they can't find the right people in the WSJ and NYT for some time now (subtext: at subpar rates of pay) and I think this should be treated with the same reverence given to lazy bones on the coach there. None.
We are already there, no? It is hugely undesirable to work in the service industry because there is no potential upward movement and you are disposable. Nobody wants to work at McDonalds, yet we have a crisis of over-certification for service jobs because people going to college get useless degrees.

If there were jobs within their capabilities that were not undesirable they would be doing them, so what that does mean is that for a huge portion of the economy, people are doing undesirable jobs because they don't have the skills to do desirable ones.

HN is in kind of its own reality sphere, since everyone likes coding and startups and thinks the work is great, when if you drive 100 miles in any direction from whatever tech hub bubble you are living in you will find entire counties in decline as the only work is at Walmart and there is no industry left to aspire towards for the residents. The main street of town is half condemned, there are old abandoned shoe and plastics factories and half the farmland is either abandoned or corporate owned and manned by a skeleton crew of a few dozen people farming the entire region.
For some reason the URL doesn't work unless I remove the '-1' at the end.
Do we value art? It seems to be hard to make a life that way unless you find some corporate niche.

I think automated/algorithmic music and art will happen quite quickly, if it hasn't already.
Stackoverflow has at least a semblance of a bozo filter, that forces people asking questions to put in a tiny bit of effort describing their problem.

Compare with the complete shitshow you can still see on some of the survivors of the old era, like tomshardware, Msdn, and others.
If you don't know already the OpenPGP implementation used in the new Yubykeys is no longer[1] open source.
Not that it really matters, since you couldn't verify the running code anyway, but this doesn't make me feel I should trust them.

[1]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160515/02094934446/bad-n...
It's not like apartments are particularly affordable either; the Bay Area is ridiculously overpriced.
I have asked 0 questions, given 0 answers, and reached 0 people, giving an overall Reputation of 101 (the 100 bonus coming from activity on MathOverflow).

That being said, I probably hit StackOverflow at least once a month for my job, and if I'm working on a personal side project it's probably more like once an hour.
You could buy an island villa in Greece for next to nothing. No work there, though. Not sure exactly point you're making.
Old times, with space saucers. Watched too.
To me this reads as if the author is not asking questions in a way consistent with Stack Overflow's guidelines [1]. They make these guidelines really explicit and clear in the FAQ.

> How do I ask a good question?

> Search, and research

> Write a title that summarizes the specific problem

> Introduce the problem before you post any code

> Help others reproduce the problem

> Include all relevant tags

> Proof-read before posting!

> Post the question and respond to feedback

> Look for help asking for help

However, writing questions in this way where you provide a MCVE, explain everything you've tried, and relate it to existing questions to help reviewers is time consuming. It shifts part of the time burden of a good question onto the asker vs reviewers or early answerers.

As someone who's done many reviews on Stack Overflow, I think following these guidelines is the best way to not get downvoted or flagged.

[1]: How do I ask a good question? http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask
405nm is violet. 360nm is UV. Yes, we are sensitive to it. But white LEDs emit none* of either.

*Future generation of LEDs might shift from indigo (445nm) to violet to improve color rendition, but cost will go way up and efficiency will go way down so I doubt it will be common. And some stores are already adding UV LEDs to their lighting in order to make florescents really pop.

Edit: and a reference, the datasheet for the latest and greatest XHP50 LED: http://www.cree.com/~/media/Files/Cree/LED-Components-and-Mo...

Spectral charts are on page 11. Peak emission is at 445nm. Beyond 415nm there is nothing.

Cheaper LEDs will use a longer wavelength of blue, typically around 475nm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgn9fAymS2g
Introduction to Google Data Studio (Your Next Dashboard)
Wouldn't this encourage the government to increase surveillance, so they can always keep all the ones they really care about secret?
There is an air of arrogance in SO that is unpleasant. Help is supposed to be about being open, friendly and relaxed, not arcane rules, criterias and deciding you know best.

If experts are uptight and arrogant the desire to learn quickly vanishes. Being friendly does not preclude being firm.

I have noticed many questions being closed in an arbritrary manner and worse in a mean spirited way. The first may be ok but the second is simple unacceptable. Who are all these people on power trips and why does SO allow it?
"Simple" instead of "simply" was just a typo - writing on mobile and was being a bit careless by not proofreading.

And I trust Apple and OS X/macOS a lot more than Windows, because I can more-or-less understand what my Apple OS is doing and can control it accordingly. With Windows, I can't even turn off telemetry/sharing diagnostics with Windows without a bunch of unwieldy hacks.
My pet peeve is when you're trying to read an existing entry instead opening a new topic and half of the entries have extremely vague titles like "How do I do this?" and "Can someone help with problrm plz?" and I have to make the dreaded decision between reading all of them or risk skipping one that's actually relevant. Even when moderators could fix it, they usually don't. I always fix this in projects I maintain.
I agree with you on the prevalence of envy in human nature (the real "hn" at work here), but using this community to diss the rest of the community is reliably a marker of a bad comment on Hacker News. Picking "humblebragging" and "prove that they're superior" as the points of dissage seems extra ironic.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12576182 and marked it off-topic.
It doesn't work like that:

Once your domain has expired, it will be in Auto-Renew Grace Period (for 0-45 days), followed by a 30-day Redemption Grace Period. At the end of the Redemption Grace Period, you will not be able to renew your domain name. Your domain name will be released for registration by third parties.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/expired-2013-05-03-en

For example, daily.sh will be available on their platform on 2016-09-30, but it actually expired back in 2016-07-01.
> although one wonders how much impact a different path might have had too.

impact? how do you measure that?

I ask the question in the sense of wondering what impact Brian May might have had as a scientist rather than as a musician (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics), or vice versa, whether Richard Feynman would have had greater impact as a drummer than a physicist (http://io9.gizmodo.com/5909408/and-now-richard-feynman-playi...). Wondering counterfactually what other work Joyce might have created had he dedicated himself to it does not take away from the work that he actually chose to create.

since you deride joyce's assumed impact i will defend it

I think you are misreading Wells. I'm sure you are misreading me. Personally, I am very far from deriding Joyce's impact. Joyce has had great impact on me. I originally learned Perl and CGI to do a hypertext Ulysses. I don't normally celebrate Bloomsday, but I'm usually aware of it. I've even attended Joyce conferences. While it may be my fault for not writing clearly, if you read me as deriding Joyce, it should give you pause to consider that you might be misreading Wells too.
O'reilly: The great question of the 21st century – Whose black box do you trust?
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> The whole thing really puts the lie to the myth engineers in the valley are well paid. In the land of million dollar entry level homes, even $200k of income (!!!) means you will struggle to own somewhere to live.

No, they are _very_ well paid. Anywhere else in the country (minus NYC I guess), they're getting half as much. Simply paying Bay Area developers more money isn't going to make housing more affordable -- what do you think will happen to housing prices when even _more_ money is floating around in the local economy?
Never seen this one before, amazing.
...But that's not often how those languages are used.

And most of those "flaws" aren't flaws in C: They were deliberate design decisons. Arguably bad ones, yes, but they were made a reason. By C++, most of those decisions didn't have any reasons, or were actively against C++'s goals, if not C.

I know you hate C, but blaming C for C++'s problems is like blaming dogs for the monstrous dog demon that someone made with gene editing. C compatability was a bad idea, but you can't blame C for that. Also, it's overly baroque.

But yeah, I think we can all agree that complex TMP is kinda sucky.
Locals usually have a way to get rid of street vendors that is effective, so finding out what that is in your locality is a good idea.

In Mexico, it's Hoy no (Not today) and it works pretty well.
Skype Teams
Absolutely use 2FA, but it's no guarantee.

With large scale hacks in mind and apropos of the Yahoo hack, an attacker has miniscule chances of getting into your account, but 500 million accounts / a 6-digit auth code means with a full compromise (ie, username and plaintext passwords, which the Yahoo compromise was not), the attacker would still get into 5 accounts.

Given how much full email access is "keys to the kingdom" given password resets, thats the (tiniest) bit worrying.
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You might have a point in we lived in a free market where the FED didn't spend $6+ Trillion (with a T) in the last 8 years alone to artificially prop up real estate and equity markets.
Which data science tool should I use?
It has nothing to do with size. The TSA staff in the post communist country where I come from are jerks and they roll their eyes every time someone makes a mistake. But TSA staff at most large international airports is trained to understand that people will make mistakes no matter what and that their role is not to move trays but to help people. SO simply never prioritised helping people over providing them with correct technical answers so it is only natural that some of the mods beehive like knowitall-bully-jerks.
Mirror: http://archive.is/BngRx
> if I'm somewhat blind to all the vile bullying

You certainly never visited c.l.p.m back in the day, or you'd know exactly how bad the alternative could get.

I wonder how many people Abigail alone drove away from perl?
Cool stuff, thanks for the elaboration.
As long as there is more demand than supply, wages will never keep up with housing prices. It's a simple matter of math (the pigeon hole principle, actually).
i'd say the world is, but not silicon valley
Two things.

1) Way below market rates:
It is below market rates, but not that far below. This house is in west San Jose, and according to zillow and CL, they might be able to get 5k for it. Maybe. That's still far below the 7k mortage + property taxes, not to mention the investment income you could be making off the 300k you put up for a down payment.

2) Renter protection laws:
The renter was introduced to them personally, and they were vouched for by a mutual friend. It is extraordinarily difficult to evict people in the bay area, even for non-payment of rent. The rentees are not professional property managers, they don't know the ins and outs of rental law, so they're willing to take a haircut. Having bad tenants in your property will easily wipe out 2k a month for 2 years.

Edit: Of course they could hire a professional property manager, who would know all the laws and deal with bad tenants, but that would come right out of the bottom line. I don't know how much property managers charge, but then the trick is not to find a good tenant, but to find a good property manager. It would be like a non-technical cofounder looking to find a good engineer. Where would you even start?
Businesses don't want to hire people at 20 hours a week if they are willing to work 40. And this isn't black and white - we have been in transition to mental labor automation for the past 50 years. We have just been replacing desirable industry jobs with service jobs that people hate with a passion, as wealth inequality grows and those dropped out of economic potential switch to basically waiting on those that have not yet fallen.

UBI I would argue is much more desirable, if you were going to try to legally force 20 hour work weeks. UBI actually lets you absolve a lot of historical regulation that holds industries and growth back, that was all established as an attempt to protect the poor and uneducated from exploitation. When everyone has an easily accessible minimum standard of living, regulations in the workplace can be retired to enable more innovation since the workers can finally negotiate evenly with the employer rather than being exploited to survive. It also lets those workers with the ethic to do so to spend as much time as they want making as much money as they want, knowing they won't starve or go homeless when they stop.

Either you keep cracking up the extreme regulatory machine currently asphyxiating the American corporate sphere (ever wonder why all the innovation is in software? It isn't just because its new, it is also because relative to almost everything else it is extremely unregulated) or you just use increased taxes on unfettered growth to provide for the masses so that the unleashed potential doesn't destroy lives.
Looks like the 3rd or 4th time this has been posted.
Why does everybody keep saying that diversity is a good thing?

I'm not arguing it's a bad thing.. but why is it a bad thing?

The most notable thing I see in diversity are additional language and cultural barriers that will slow down productivity.
Some developers dropping Oculus support to protest founder’s politics
You can finger my email address (david [at] gloveraoki [dot] net) to read my Twitter.

For no real reason other than I thought it was fun.
SO is an invaluable resource but I don't ask questions because of the hostility there, plus a lot of times in thinking about a question to phrase it properly I end up answering it myself.

But one of the major problems that I see there are the people who comment solely for the sake of commenting, it seems like they must get paid by the word they comment so much and it's never helpful, always snarky and irrelevant.
one way to do this would be to phase out Proposition 13 and rent control. Of course this would be really unpopular

Yeah, to the point that you should think of a different solution. Prop 13 is the 'electric rail' of California politics.
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It's like Github... It's so good people forgot what it was like before. Seriously, go check out the swamp that is sourceforge...
Or they are in response to internal rising costs; e.g outsource 20 IT positions because health insurance costs for your other 200 employees are increasing 16%.
Without having to toil for survival, people would be much more open to participating in bettering their communities outside just doing whatever can net them the most profit. Easily expect volunteering and charity to dramatically rise under a UBI.
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Why own?

Have access to, well for sure, seems good. But own one? Many 100s of millions of people will then have a piece of kit they use once or twice and then discard - a monumental waste.

Hopefully this is just reporting.

We need to share much much more. Yes, make amazing cheap instruments and educational tools, but share them. There's little utility in owning duplicates of what everyone else owns when you only use your copy once or twice (per time period).

In this instance each school having a class-set and library (or similar local amenity) owning lend-able microscopes would seem more than enough to make them available to everyone.

We bought ourselves a microscope as a family gift one christmas (c.5 years ago, Biolux NV [1]) it cost us less than that). It's had little use, primarily because we don't have enough room to have it set up (it gets dusty and needs cleaning a lot as well when it's out) and the desire to have a look at things that are super-small is often better served by looking it up on the internet. What does the yeast we just experimented with (we're making cider!) look like close up ... we could spend time getting the microscope set up, or take 30s and see it on the web. We do sometimes do it ourselves but usually you see more from looking at web images.

[1] http://amzn.to/2dbFuLm, aff link, wouldn't necessarily recommend it - it's OK, but I wouldn't pay that price, ~£50 is about right IMO. The cross table is a bit wonky and the USB camera relatively poor (works with Cheese on Kubuntu, but takes some getting going).
So your solution to these problems that I raised is to sweep them under the rug.
I'm sympathetic to the arguments presented in the article, so I'm sorry to say that Vue just isn't anywhere near popular enough to displace React.

What's worse is that Vue doesn't offer any reason for the vast majority to switch from React to Vue. What does Vue have that competes with React Native, for example? Why should any of us rewrite our apps again?
Help vampires: people that ask questions which have no value other than themselves. Duplicate questions are not "help vampires" by any means.

This is a good example of that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30721824/near-syntax-erro...

Side note: don't pass judgement on stuff or people you don't know. It's quite insulting.
The complaint is essentially describing how it's turned into Wikipedia, where the author is describing a space where "working the rules" is more important than trying to achieve the goal those rules are meant to enable.
You can. Most people can't. As the site gets aggressive against newcomers and old timers decide they have better things to do, there will be less and less people available edit them.

And don't think those editions are as high quality as the ones that come by the official channel, where literally anybody in the world with the needed knowledge can reply, and there is a robust process for vetting.

Besides, despite any theoretical possibility, people mostly do not edit old SO answers. There are exceptions, but outdated answer mostly stay there.
> People always talk about how SO is so terrible, and yet it's still the best resource by a mile.

For anything involving Linux, the Arch wiki is light-years ahead. It's not even a close competition.
I imagine the better/next one would be build around an AI that learns from users in order to answer to users, all through a chat-like interface. No up/downvote or moderation needed, the AI determines by interacting with the users what is useful and correct, and what is not.
FYI dang censored my comment about how HNers react to these stories with a jealous and insecure attitude:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12576210
Aurelia framework is updated
I had LEDs installed in the streetlight in front of my apartment in Brooklyn a few months ago and my living room is now awash with this light. It's terrible. I noticed my sleep time pushed further and further back and I've resorted to supplementing melatonin regularly so that I can fall asleep earlier than 2 am. I've complained to the city and have considered moving since I don't think NYC will swap ours back.
There will certainly be difficulties to overcome. People like to do stuff and Videogames actually will help with the transition as they provide outlets for that energy that are inexpensive (vs other forms of entertainment) and also build skills among the unemployed in a way that TV and Movies cannot.

One way to make the transition more cleanly is to pair a gradual introduction of basic income, with a commensurate gradual reduction of the minimum wage. The reduced labor costs will spur economic growth and innovation without any paired reduction in consumer spending which would inhibit that growth. A gradual introduction means we have time to notice and address problems as they crop up.

As long as all the work we want to have done is getting done, we are better off having people who enjoy and take satisfaction the work doing it
Heres the English wikipedia link, "Secret files scandal" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal