skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
y, if they are at a lower salary you would have to keep the price lower . . . maybe try an introductory price for those already interested at $9/mo and increase that to $19/mo after 30 days . . . and see if signups keep coming in. Or maybe you're on the mark and charge $9/speech therapist, not sure if they typically work one on one with a group of patients or if they work for a clinic where you'd have 10 therapists under one main speech therapist. maybe do individual plans at $9 and then office plans for up to 15 at $99 or up to 25 at $199/mo contact us for larger plans.
> Because if significant amounts of the workforce are replaced there's an implicit assumption that a significant amount of things would be cheaper to provider

That's a wild assumption. I would predict that it's more likely all that additional value will be captured by already-rich business owners and shareholders, not consumers.
They might simply be afraid. SoundCloud has all the small artists and all the remixes and DJ sets that are missing in spotify and are already on good terms with labels and artists. SC are planning their own streaming service and once they additionally have the same label based library spotify has they would be a direct competitor.
Surely we're better off if statisticians and software engineers work together. That we're worse off when the two groups come together doesn't seem probable ...
I had more questions about the specific parameters they were using, so I followed the link (http://carboncounter.com/) in the article and checked out the "Customize" tab. Pretty sweet.
As a person who isn't familiar with Qubes, I wanted to find a nice quick summary. The homepage didn't give me that. I clicked the Tour tab and was greeted with this:

"Are you completely new to Qubes OS? We suggest watching the full 33 minute video"

They really could intrigue more people like me if they would update their site to be a bit more clear what they do. :)
Yes, I have a mental filter to just not click any links to forbes.com. If there were more people who feel the same way, may be we can avoid posting them to HN on account of convenience. (I have nothing against forbes. If they choose to not cater to people with ad blockers, it is their choice. But, I think it's HN community's choice to avoid them.)
The day that the C64 will break, they have to migrate to a “modern” solution that requires 10 Ghz CPUs with 1024 cores, 20 TB of RAM, that will be running on NodeJS that will have have a MongoDB database for transaction and that will communicate with a VBA script running on the same host in a virtual machine with Windows 2016 through Redis running in a container thanks to Kubernetes.
First, Detroit isn't a closed system. Yes, those jobs are gone in Detroit-but people moved elsewhere.

Almost every major manufacturing industry is now automated, we don't have to go to the future to see the effects of automation.

These assembly line workers had to have gone somewhere, because if they haven't, we'd be experiencing extreme unemployment now-let alone the future.
> the local entrepreneurial culture (which is MASSIVE for such a small country)

> (the local VPS shops have little incentive to upgrade)

> Do we have to beg for Amazon to come here?!

I'm surprised nobody has stepped in and built out their own cloud offering.
> Most folks here are within the tech industry and I have seen threads where people have been discussing $400k salaries like it is no big deal.

I would still argue this comprises the minority in HN.
>* ... there is a vast untapped market for highly affordable degrees from prestigious colleges. The technology needed to build those programs exists today. But most prestigious colleges are currently sticking with the model that lets them offer degrees for $57,000 instead of the roughly $7,000 that it costs at Georgia Tech.
Curious how long it might be until the technical article is shared.
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Mercedes-Benz Generation EQ concept revealed at Paris motor show
>but new jobs and new industries will rise up.

At some point you have to admit that there is a limit to the potential jobs that a society can support. You can hope these hypothetical new jobs get created, but I don't know how you can prepare for them.

I sincerely believe there is no way to invent enough jobs, by convenience or necessity, to replace the amount of jobs that will be destroyed by automation.
Isn't Flowers for Algernon required 7th-grade reading anymore? This isn't going to end well, people.
I would echo the NYTimes review of Milanovic's book. It is an outstanding read.
Hah. yes fixed.
It looks like the lower left corner of the standard gasoline cars are both (1) cheap little subcompacts (Ford Fiesta, Honda Fit, Nissan Versa), and (2) pretty close to the 2030 target. That seems like the sweet spot for the budget car buyer who can't afford a hybrid.

If you haven't noticed the hover-able version of the chart where you can see what each dot is, it's here: http://carboncounter.com/
> You are uninformed if you believe these jobs are staying. There is no way, mark my words, that our economy doesn't experience a net negative in jobs during this next revolution.

People were saying the exact same thing when sophisticated machines were introduced in automotive industry manufacturing. Sure, some people could not convert and lost jobs, but everyone else moved on to be productive in other areas.

This prophecy of Doom is happening every 10 years or so.
Not having active cooling in the arid southwest US does not necessarily mean dangerously hot during the day. When night-time temps can hit the 50s and 40s in higher elevations, a house with decent mass can remain comfortably cool throughout the day if you ventilate properly at night.
Lyft line works pretty well for trips inside Brooklyn.
If you were a Congressman, you would call the American version of this phenomena the Voice of America. (The conclusions that it draws are consistently pro-business, anti-labour, pro-Pax Americana, anti-red, etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
The Best [Math Visualization] Homework Ever? [pdf]
And they'll be lucky to get uptime upwards of 80%. And only lose 1% of their customers' data.

Seriously, old software wasn't necessarily better (I well remember the old Mac system bomb dialogues!), but it certainly was leaner and forced not to be so complex.
it is up now, was a few minutes downtime
This is actually a worse deal compared to the existing Uber Pool Pass for people commuting to a 9-5 20/40 times a week — using that service put you at ~$4/ride.

Interesting to see Uber attempting to compete at a slightly-more than public transit price, but it still seems unsustainable when it comes to paying drivers a fair wage.
The real question is, what is 'business value' then?

The business value defined by the engineering department and the business value defined by the business department, can be sometimes very different.
> These isolation features go back a really long time in various OS's, but only in the last few years have they seen mass adoption, which, alas is running a bit ahead of any effort to make it a formal standard or anything even close to that.

Also containers really didn't get very secure until Google started upstreaming various patches and updates to the kernel's cgroups[0].

The way docker runs containers is very different than then the way (I assume) Google does it. In a strange twist a fate Google did a lot of he grunt work to make containers safe and useable but then a another tool came to market and made containers ubiquitous.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/cgroups.t...
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra
I'm enjoying watching the boundaries talk, especially when he converts the serial code the concurrent code using actors.
>Also, a large part (40-50%?) of the population might not be needed, or even desired, e.g. poor and older people that put a strain in the economy, so, they might be delegated to "b class" citizen status, and might end up living in some developing world like wasteland/slums in the next 50 years or so, while another big percentage has service jobs, and a 10-20% of luckier people live in closed communities.

I think this is very possible. And I suspect that the overwhelming majority of the b-citizens will be people not knowing how to write a software.

I say it continually to those I love (close friends, family etc...) : unless very specific career choices, starting in life today and deciding that "having no clue about coding is fine", is at best a dangerous gamble, at worth a suicide.

I think Darwin kind of applies in our modern society but people do not notice it. For example, what led me to doing engineering studies was pure survival instinct.

I have a business profile - and am a business owner today - still heavily writing code, and intending to keep doing it.

Since I'm about 12, I knew that my stuff was starting companies, business strategy, product design, corporate finance and this kind of stuff. That's what I was toying with in my spare time. But a pragmatic analysis of the world led me to quickly realize that I'd be better off being proficient in technology stuff, to avoid being at a big disadvantage since all the stuff I'd be selling and designing were going to be technology-based.

At the time, I said in the way children speak : "I want to be able to build what I will be selling so that I do not have to depend on the good will of anyone". And this was the smartest move I ever made in my life. And this kind of thinking is what continually puts me ahead.

I think it would be interesting to find a way to measure the "survival instinct" of people, and see if there's a correlation with those who do "well" and those who find themselves surprised at every recession and industrial revolution.
How to get your server's emails through Gmail's spam filter with Exim
This is actually a more informative article than the gizmodo blogspam.
And that original story is better, with more details.
It comes down to a price.

These big shipping companies started out good, but with time things slid downhill. You don't start out with the goal of providing mediocre service.

The problem is if you want top employees, you have to pay top dollar. Amazon's shipping service company will probably start out good, but it may windup in a similar place once they start trying to "optimize" their shipping service.

They will cut cost, overwork existing employees, and try to extend the reach of their service. If they don't, you will be over-paying for "Amazon" services and many will look elsewhere when it comes down to paying an extra 5% or more for better service.

On the topic of feedback: You can provide feedback to shipping companies. I called FedEx and reported their driver for dropping 2 packages in a row (and damaging the contents). He came back 2 days later with the 3rd package, apologized, and read me back my report. You just have to be proactive and communicate with them.
Helsinki CompuCafe video from 1995
Yahoo attack not 'state-sponsored,' researchers claim
That sounds wildly successful to me...
I've done quite a bit of research for Node.js debugging and the best and easiest is to use Visual Studio Code's built in debugger. It has breakpoints, local scope inspecting and other goodies.

This is definitely gona rock, if they ship it with the stock Chrome.
It is my opinion that it should definitely be illegal to smoke (anything) on public property. Landlords should be able to choose (via terms in a lease) whether or not it is okay to smoke on their property.
Modern """""""enterprise""""""" solutions in a nutshell.

Just throw in a shitty call-home activation DRM scheme and an authorisation server with 50% uptime too.
A quick search on Apartment Finder for a random city like Albuquerque, NM shows apartments for under $300 per month. She is receiving $672 per month in Social Security. It seems to me she can afford housing.

http://www.apartmentfinder.com/New-Mexico/Albuquerque-Apartm...
That's U6 (or U5) vs. U3.
I think that your view ignores the underlying societal problems that are causing the situation and just exacerbate the persecution that has created the current mess. These people aren't fundamentally worse, I think you have some insight when you are talking about the societal problems but police crackdowns aren't the way to fix those problems long term. It might be necessary short term but without some plans to actually ameliorate the societal problems it will just shoot yourself in the foot.
One important factor to consider is that this won't happen overnight. Once autonomous trucks actually hit the roads, there will be a long period where the drivers will still have to be behind the wheel. And even then, there is a lot of other work a truck driver does other than drive. My father runs a small trucking business, and according to him, the logistics are a way bigger annoyance than the actual driving. You have to time deliveries, you have to unload the cargo without damaging anything, you have to repair the truck (or call a tow / mobile repair) you have to take photos of any potentially damaged products, you have to make sure there are people there to sign off on a successful delivery, you need to find the right people when nobody knows anything about your delivery, etc... The job sounds pretty cut and dry, but in reality, every delivery has some new issue and the driver is usually the one that ends up dealing with it.

I'm not saying that the job won't be automated eventually, but the actual driving is only a part of the job. And even when the automation begins to happen, I think there will be time for them to transition into new roles.
Please can the Postgres team put some major focus on completing logical replication [1]. It's the missing piece to making upgrading across major versions painless and quick on large databases so that we can take advantage of all these nice new features. We're on a Heroku's hosted Postgres service so can't install the pglogical extension.

1. http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/why-logical-replication/
ok, I see it now
> At some point you have to admit that there is a limit to the potential jobs that a society can support

How about the people Google and Facebook and Twitter employ ? That's a huge workforce and these jobs were not predicted by anyone 15 years back.

And I'm not even talking about the network effect, i.e. businesses and freelancers and individuals who were able to build their businesses on top of the services offered by such companies.

And that's just a single industry. Look at how the solar panel industry is growing, or the smartphone industry (it did not exist 10 years ago), and look at all these companies living off it making apps and services around those.

Seriously, opportunities arise by themselves.
Modern wars in the first world are fought more over economic reasons to maintain a population's standard of living rather than for physical defense of the populace. We could have a country with just Congress as the population and we'd declare war against everyone else if 2 billion robots could do the fighting if it ever endangered our American exceptionalism. Similar goes for Russia as well. It is almost more like an exercise of military might is an expression of economic superiority.
For context: The proposed extra copyright for news sites that the Digital Commissioner is defending here seeks to make any web service that reuses even tiniest snippets from news articles pay for licenses for that content:

* Aggregators like Google News

* Social networks like FB, Twitter and anyone else who shows teaser snippets when users share links (e.g. all Embed.ly users)

* Curation services like Pinterest

* Apps that combine multiple news sources like Flipboard or Apple News

* “Read later” services like Instapaper

Source/details: https://juliareda.eu/2016/08/copyright-reform-another-acta/
(Disclaimer: I work for MEP Reda)
That's great feedback. I'll try out this specialization on a simple struct (int32/string) combo later today. We can still get rid of the indirections around slice manipulation (Swap and Len) but obviously stay stuck with the Less.
The big conceptual difference is that with WAL-E, all your backup code and configuration is on your Postgres server, whereas with Barman, it's all (or almost all) on your backup server. WAL-E stores backups in S3 (or S3-alikes), whereas Barman is built around the idea of having a backup server (it can store backups in S3 too, but it's not central to its operation as it is with WAL-E).
Too true
> This would probably get them fired in certain companies with responsible information policies.

Sure, but if people followed the rules, almost no work would get done. (In the UK, "working to rule" is a form of industrial action that's only a little short of a strike.)

> Which is wrong as naive in the first place.

Yeah, more than 1.6 billion people are naive and wrong.

> Facebook stands for social manipulation advertising. Pick your poison.

How does that work, then?

Otherwise, there's an ethical difference between sharing information voluntarily, for their own benefit -- which people do on Facebook -- and Google's clandestine tracking, which is for Google's benefit.
>Sure, some people could not convert and lost jobs, but everyone else moved on to be productive in other areas.

Tell this to the midwest, where the lie of our government's unemployment reporting is most obvious. It's honestly kind of offensive that you said that as I am from Michigan.

And as I have said in other comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12605690), there are factors like the stagnant minimum wage and self-interest at play that have kept jobs in these companies that could be replaced currently let alone in 10 years.

I am not here to convince you to change your mind about potential job loss. Understanding the technology, our current economy, and the political atmosphere around jobs should be enough to convince you of this truth.

As others have said, maybe there are imaginary jobs that will be invented to make up for these losses. I'm sure the banks will do their best to make sure that happens.
Technical debt and the making of payments on it (2011)
Anecdotally:
I wanted the cheapest possible new car for commuting around the Bay Area. After some research, I found the Spark EV for only $60/month after rebates. With insurance it's only$5/day. I assumed electric cars were defacto expensive until I actually researched it. No idea why more people don't pick up these cars.

(Probably because it only goes 80 miles)
This will have a problem if you are no longer earning enough to be able to afford to live near to your job.

I still think that Basic Income at a level that will allow you to live somewhere inexpensive will be a better solution.
Programmatic Jenkins jobs using the Job DSL plugin
They basically break your system into different VM's to isolate things from one another. Compromising the Browser VM shouldn't hurt the Business Secrets VM. One could even have two Browser VM's to separate risky sites from trusted ones. There's other advantages to VM's like for software testing, upgrades, backups, trimming the fat, etc.

The main thing Qubes brings to the table is building one on Xen with lots of usability features to make things easy.
Neither of those services are http(s) load balancers and are merely (specialised) DNS managers.
What percentage of 16-year-olds understand that who they marry and when they have children are the greatest predictors of their success? Can we increase that number?

This isn't about getting Tommy to marry Jane. It's about a more general cultural education.
I'm really confused as to what your point is. Just because over-51s now represent their demographic in homeless population as well, doesn't negate the fact that there was a MASSIVE upward trend in over-51s in the homeless population. If the trend continues, wait a few years and they'll be severely over-represented.

Imagine people 50 and under all of a sudden accounted for 70% of Alzheimers diagnoses. Would you say that's not notable, because 70% of the population is 50 or under?
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And it's called Communism. Marx is right in this general sense.

Now we'll see what happens when the consumer base is decimated too. Capitalist might have all of the infrastructure but no one can buy.
Scientists just confirmed a key new source of greenhouse gases
If you get married, and the marriage falls apart, it's because of your personal failings. If you don't get married, and your life falls apart, it's because you didn't get married.

Either way, if you want to be successful, clearly you should get married!
I'd like to use the occasion that I'm really waiting for the video of his talk "Ideology" given at StrangeLoop 2015.
The first two responses are right on the money -- "trusted" modules, locked-down chipsets, can't write or use open firmware. This is why we get so excited when a random ThinkPad model might have a firmware bug that allows us to bypass the TMM.
Become a pet to a robot, have it feed you, rub ur ears etc, and put you to sleep when you are suffering...
The lack of public datasheets makes this useless for individuals and people who want truly open hardware (like the Novena).

Looks like the Freescale i.MX6 from 2011 are still the most powerful ARM SoCs you can buy if you don't want to sign NDAs.
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As the announcement stated, the warnings were only pushed to Stable this month. Less than 30 days does seem like much of a warning.

The initial plan is to execute this intervention when we detect the criteria being met. We started with showing just a warning in the Developer Console in Chrome 53. (Beta was in July 2016. We expect Stable to be available for all users in September 2016.)
I tried to read this article and I couldn't even finish the first sentence. They have a video advertisement with both a pause and a mute button that doesn't work. If you don't want people to ad block, perhaps consider ads that don't drive people away in the first place.
I think you're right. This reminded me of the classic Wild Man Fischer song, "I'm Working for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obn3mb_wQjs
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We've already gotten pretty far along that path with nuclear weapons at the extreme, with ICBMs and air dominance not far behind. Israel is likely to show up relatively quickly on a ranking of most powerful militaries for all of those reasons.
>(Probably because it only goes 80 miles)

Which for the majority of 2 car households is all you need for the second car.
Yes there are huge differences between quality and performance. Apache Lucene (powers Solr and ES) is still the best by far. However if Postgres search works well enough for your use case then great. As others have said, it is one less dependency to manage.
> I would predict that it's more likely all that additional value will be captured by already-rich business owners and shareholders, not consumers.

If you are concerned about that, lobby to create laws that make it easy for consumers to invest their money into this kind of undertaking.
> These learnings are immediately disseminated among the entire existing and unborn driverless car fleet

You can stop reading there. Unfortunately we are not living in an Open Source world. Walled gardens will keep improvements for themselves, knowledge will die with dying companies, version incompatibilities will create a complex situation.

I am very willing to believe in the thesis of the article, but the way the Software industry has been evolving recently does not give me much hope.
No you write it in Rust but cross-compile into Go.
document.write can and should be avoided whenever you're writing new code. So while it'd probably still work, you should really look at a modern/async way to do the same.