skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How exactly they "won't stand"?

For instance, they won't allow automation of this kind on their ground. As Ned Ludd would have it, they will keep the machines out and the humans in.

Suddenly their production is much costlier that what the robot-running neighbors produce. They can't export it (nobody would buy), but they can still locally consume it. But for that they need to limit the imports of the same thing to keep the prices up.

As the list of robot-produced goods grows, more and more import restrictions are added, and things cheaply available abroad become dear and inaccessible in the country.

I don't think a democratic government with a policy like that will last too long.

It looks more interesting to think how to distribute the ownership, a share in a huge robotic factory so that it is not easily falls under control of a single person or a small group. It might be an interesting game-theoretic problem.
Tesla Vision Demonstration (Autopilot Full Self-Driving Hardware)
1) Moving from C/Java to a scripting language can reduce typing enough to alleviate RSI.

2) Also changing from an editor that requires alt keys to vi.
I used to think this, but I no longer do. If we get mass automation, I think we're going to get one of these outcomes:

1) Individuals have their own robots. For example, everybody gets their own automated hydroponic garden, enough to provide them with sufficient calories.

2) A dictatorship seizes control of the automation and lets the people starve.

I think it's very unlikely that we'll have a welfare-capitalist society where major corporations own mass automation, where the government taxes the corporation so highly that government can pay for everyone else to survive.

Taxing mass automation to pay for basic income is just too fragile. If the people themselves aren't providing wealth through productive labor, then at some point, somebody will try to starve them instead of feeding them, and they'll succeed.
For anyone curious...

Game.ClickCookie(null, 100);

Gives you 100 cookies.

There is no limit to the number you can input.
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To clarify; mathematics talks about objects with increasing amounts of density; as you proceed up the abstraction stack into increasingly abstract topics, you need to be able to efficiently compress the topics you're already supposed to have mastered.

Mathematics is for experts that have mastered the lower levels of the abstraction layer. You cannot study any subfield of math without having understood the basic definitions of the field. No amount of syntax rewriting is going to change that; those definitions are not going anywhere.
Permutations of the integers 1 to N, yes.

You can look at each permutation as a (unique, one-to-one and onto) function from the set [1,2,3,...N] to positions labeled also [1,2,3,...N]. For it to be a permutation, each position needs to contain a single value, and each value needs to be at one single location. Since the domain and range of the function have the same (finite) number of elements, either of these properties implies the other.
What algorithms and data structures should any software engineer know
They should have showed more info from the request headers, like the subject's type of computer and location based on IP.
This post is a joke. Seriously, it amazes me that the entire industry seems fixated on a handful of techniques, just like they were with random forests 10 years ago, just like they were on SVMs ten years before that, just like they were base neural networks before that. There's a simpler way, nature almost requires it.
That's the biggest reason that I like Rust more than C++, even more than lifetime/safety. I've been working on a C++14 application, and "std::move" shows up a lot more than implicit copies, which not only makes the code more verbose, but analyzing performance more difficult. (I so wish I could be using Rust, but, unfortunately, the only FOSS DNP3 implementation is in C++.)
If they get the kinks out of automated trucks, automated forklifts will be pretty easy. In a warehouse you have much more control over the environment.
The west is going to loose millions of jobs, and you're talking about replacing them with thousands.

The mainstay of developed countries are the service industries, but already we've lost bank tellers, checkout operators, petrol station concierges, etc. to automation. Next in line will be couriers, truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc. Eventually most jobs will be lost. As a developer, if I'm lucky enough to have a job in the future, it will be writing specifications for code that will be automatically generated.

We aren't going to replace all of those jobs with hand crafted jewelry.
When faced with these symptomatically classified issues without a case-specific identified root cause, it still is nice to have a stable of simple (and medically believable) options to try.

Even the methods that didn't work for the author might be more applicable to others, if they have different root causes. In a situation where there's typically no precise clarity as to the root cause, shotgunning solutions is reasonable self-experimentation.

In fact, that's often how doctors prescribe treatments; shotgunning starting from suspecting the most common root cause and working down, testing to see if that's the root cause by seeing if the treatment for said root cause happens to be working.
> rotoscoping is very, very time consuming

I feel like there is a cool machine learning project in here.
Haven't gifted these yet but both Chaos Monkeys and Sprint should see action next month.
The last Code Less Code is appropriate here: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/234
Most people probably assumed the posters are male. More programmer dads out there than programmer moms. You seem to be a little defensive?
Jasper Johns once expressed this sentiment this way: "Artists are the elite of the servant class."
It's pretty close to being fact for youtube.
Trump's pick for CIA calls Snowden a traitor who should be executed
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That's interesting - I thought our tourism board advertised our beaches, huge rainforests in the north and big wine regions down south pretty widely.

There is a lot of desert but that's pretty much all in the middle of the country where almost nobody lives.
Two points are relevant.

One, against what alternatives was a turpentine enema competing. A man was dying. What are you going to do, if you don't know what to do?

Two, this was still the turmoil of technological advances created by the Industrial Revolution being applied to medicine. One could say the Enlightenment (18th century) was the catalyst, but it took time for those changes to wash over all fields, particularly with reference to an ever increasing technological state of the art.

The Nick is an interesting show, albeit set a bit later at the dawn of the 20th century, that grapples with the same themes. 'If the best training we have suggests one course of action, but technology enables another that seems it would be better, which do I choose?'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knick
"The affected database contained records for all faculty, staff and students who were employed by the university between 1970 and Nov. 13, and all students who attended the university between 1991 and 2016."

I bristle a little at "handled this well". All they've done so far is disclose the basics. Great. But the breach covers just about every employee (student employees included) for the past 46 years plus all students since 1991. I'll defer judgement on how well they handle it. Mean time, credit monitoring; oh joy.
Why do you keep replying to questions not directed at you? It's plainly clear that you're located in SF.
We got here by creating a social saftey net (even if a very minimal one).
Yet another election issue that never was. Let's hope everyone promised manufacturing jobs doesn't get upset when they find out the truth
Great. I will let you know once there is something.

Here is how we are trying to work it in http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/assets/uploads/GN-green.png
Next one? There are already tons of alternatives, but I do fear that Spotify, Tidal, Apple, and Amazon will eat much of the demand for this in the future.
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As someone who helped mentor this team from the FB-side over the weekend, I'm consistently impressed with the traction they have been able to get. Kudos to you all for a job well done and open sourcing your work.
I like to think about the smart phone. It must have been a very difficult time to be in the feature phone business.

Finland's economy looks to be about a decade behind. I wonder what it'll be like when things change quickly.
This simple criteria above perfectly explains how mainstream media came up with 90% probability of Clinton's win. Otherwise please provide your own explanation.
I'm surprised to see so many downvotes on HN for a post that advocates for allowing democratic story selection. I suspect some of the readers here may be confused. What do you think HN is? If you truly believe the platform should have ultimate control over what the audience sees, why are not reading WIRED right now?
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12989357
The design is clean and free of clutter. Please keep it this way.

Sadly, though not your fault, the rate of cumulative quantity of garbage output from news companies, and the general public is becoming a cesspool and the good stuff is getting harder to find.

Herr Einstein once said, “Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors [...] is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”

Some really great essays and articles are not necessarily contemporary but are random citations and footnotes on Wiikiquote and GoodReads that I found out incidentally.

Some examples:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Poincare_Intu...

http://www.bartleby.com/130/1.html

Some of these articles are "heavy reading" but the kind of material that HN people might read as a bedtime story. :)

Hopefully, the premise here is to create a garbage filter for news and reading material. We need news but curating lesser known but significant writings is also imporant IMHO. We seriously need to apply ourselves to this problem so good luck.
Exactly. The shift is already on. So I guess that means the democracy is done. Given the election that might be true.
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Huffington Post: 80% Of Central American Women, Girls Are Raped Crossing Into The U.S.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/central-america-mig...
Wrong. Trump did not even call all illegal immigrants rapists. He simply said that some of the illegal immigrants are rapists - one of the many groups of people coming over. We know this is true because they have been caught commiting rape here in America, and their home nations have shared their criminal records with us!

It is highly questionable to call trump bigoted for simply bringing up the obvious problems of unvetted immigration. And certainly the lies these fake news sites like CNN write about about Trump do not suddenly become true because of your social justice warrior conspiracy theory about trump's 'racist ulterior motives' for wanting to keep americans safe.
It's interesting and a little scary, we're going to have to drastically rethink the way our economies operate and what our lifestyles will be like in the future, and fast.

The problem is we've seen that people struggle to let go of old ideals, for instance climate change deniers, because they're reluctant to let go of their lifestyle despite all evidence that it's not sustainable. Unfortunately, the more you fight it the harder the fall will be.

This also makes Trumps promise to bring manufacturing back to the US quite interesting, because the labor cost is too expensive in places like China and they are loosing the manufacturing jobs themselves, just to automation.

The only way to reverse the tide would be for large subsidies on US based manufacturing, and tariffs on imports, i.e. a protected economy, which has never worked in the past.

In fact manufacturing IS returning to the US, Foxconn has been building US factories as have other large contract manufacturers, it makes sense from a supply chain perspective. But the return of manufacturing does not equate to a return in manufacturing jobs, those jobs are gone and will never return. And many, many more jobs will be lost within the coming years.
Nothing is free. Noth. Thing.
Wow, that's super creepy

This looks like dream tool for stalkers
CNN, NYT, Fox - they don't go around inventing sources.

They don't have to, the sources invent themselves.
Some throwaway thoughts:

Having all production automated will result in falling prices, including the cost to automate something. This should result in a lot of competition, driving prices down even more. In this scenario, it is difficult to imagine someone having a monopoly on production for long, unless they are already a dictator.

Dictators tend to have to keep at least a portion of their population happy, otherwise they lose control. A large portion of the population with nothing to loose (as they are starving) tends to result in revolution. If the cost of production (or cost of imports) is close to 0, what motivation (beyond bond style villany) does a dictator have to make their population starve?

If everyone is out of work, no one has any money to pay for the products of the capital owners. What's the point of that?
3D printers promise better, cheaper and more powerful magnets
http://www.federalwarningsystems.com/sites/default/files/dow...

It's Federal Signals' "Alternate Wail" setting for their outdoor warning products. Multiple overlapping arrays making this sound is (as you can tell) very effective at making people take shelter.
Steve Bannon blasted in letter by 685 Harvard Business School women
I love Payoneer. Others are also exciting.
I don't think they can build a fake news detector, who has the rights to decide which is fact/fake? Do you trust the main stream media? Trust what they said?
Back when real programmers where women. I don't think it is nostalgia to say that we need more programmers like these women. They make an excellent case for a more diverse technology workforce.
Why not? Yes, it is illegal but nobody gives a f. in Germany. The rule of law has long been gone under former secret police agent Angela Merkel (please google "IM Erika").
did not know about this, thanks!
The past 100 to 150 years is definitely no reference point for the next 5 to 10.

AI is different in what it can do and how that scale. Capture the "knowledge" once and it can be reproduced indefinitely. Again, that's very different.
Right. But the new jobs - few that there are - are also being automated. The yet is negative. Which we're already seeing.
Not the parent, but indeed like you said, writing unit tests doesn't show absence of bugs, but can only show their presence.

To be able to state that a piece of software is bug-free and formally correct, we first need a notion of correctness: that the algorithm follows a [formal] specification.

The first step would be to formally specify what the software/algorithm should do. Then, the next step would be to use formal methods and mathematical tools (e.g. set theory and logic) to prove that your algorithm does exactly as the specification says.

TLA+ is a formal method that can be used for writing specifications and model-checking them. While a big step forward from testing, model-checking still doesn't "prove" anything.

For proving, you can use theorem provers like the Z3 [0] SMT solver (or a formal framework that uses theorem provers) to do proof checking.

The Event-B [1] method is one such formal method that uses SMT solvers and allows you to model systems starting with a very abstract and high-level model, state invariants about your system, and prove that those invariants hold as you refine your models and make them more concrete.

Feel free to shoot me an email if you like to talk more about formal methods :)

[0]: https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3

[1]: http://www.event-b.org/
Yeah, the whole beginning and middle of the story were already fascinating, especially with the earlier family legacy. But then to actually be submerged in a naval battle with a pair of wire cutters at age 54 and be the last best hope against the humiliation of the greatest navy the world had ever seen? I mean you couldn't invent a more dramatic story.
> I'm positive Milo is a patriotic Yiannopoulos Supremacist.

Oh, to be sure! All gay men are narcissistic to some degree, and Milo I think more than most. He uses the trait, though, rather than letting it use him, and he's been doing God's work since before it was cool.

> Note the paradox of nationalists working together across borders, classical nationalism is going meta.

Is that so paradoxical? History is replete with examples of nations allying for mutual benefit without dilution of anyone's sovereignty.

As far as in-group determination goes, I'm not sure I see why it can't be made to work on roughly the lines of the classical American model - that is, a privilege earned in exchange for bringing specific and substantial value. A lot of countries do this even today, usually under the rubric of some kind of points system. Such schemes have been slandered in the US under the name of "immigration quotas", but, again, this has occurred as a matter of political expediency - one cannot, after all, import captive voters by the million in the presence of such a system. It worked for us for many years - those of my ancestors who weren't transportees earned their citizenship that way. It works for many countries today. It could very easily be made to work for us again.

> I think the distinction between 'nationalist' and 'supremacist' should be sharply defined.

It is sharply defined. But in a political environment where nuance is anathema, no one pays the distinction much heed. Progressives equate the concepts for reasons of political utility, and their narrative has such hegemonic power that even rejecting this bogus prior for what it is takes some effort of reason and will. To try to convince anyone else on the matter is much harder still. (And ethnic nationalism, or supremacism, or whatever you want to call it, complicates the issue still further by being for the most part a lot of damnfoolishness. What matters is culture, not race. Regarding the latter as metonymous of the former indicates a failure to have fully thought the matter through.)

Well. Their narrative had such hegemonic power, anyway. That's taken quite a blow in the last couple of weeks, and whatever else comes of a Trump presidency, that by itself strikes me as worthwhile. It won't be easy, I think, for anyone to unring that bell. My immediate concern is that we start working to reduce the breaches their quest for power has driven into our polity, rather than crowbarring them still wider. Notwithstanding Schumeresque tantrums about Toronto, we all still have to live with one another. That progressives have so forgotten this is all the more reason for us to bear it firmly in mind. Let us comport ourselves so as to earn the favorable judgment of history, and the rest will attend to itself. Let us do otherwise, and a generation from now our kids will be fighting the same damn war in the same damn trenches.
Freedom from Robots http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm
I had horrible wrist pain working long hours in Silicon Valley, and switched to Dvorak. No major issues since, over a decade later. It's just better.
This is the antithesis of the click-bait title: academic, almost pedestrian sounding title with a mind-blowing story attached.
There does seem to be a plan there. The President elect plans to abolish the federal minimum wage[1]. Not even robots can compete with free.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/05/09/donald-tr...
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This was all in the Seattle office. From the Mountain View office, some of the Borg team had been muttering about "something something Borg as a service", but we really didn't know the first thing about cloud products. When we saw the first demos of what would become Kubernetes, we knew pretty quickly that this was the way. From that point on, the synergy was pretty electric.
I wonder if it's going to be that big a deal where you live, the huge companies now know no borders.

We live in a world of such scale that it's nearly impossible to compete with the companies that are established.

As we loose jobs to multinationals and automation then something has to change in the way we structure our economies, because the income divide will grow as the rich (who earn wealth from owning) will not suffer as much as the middle class and poor (who earn money from working).

At the very least companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. Are going to have to start paying fair taxes in any jurisdiction that they operate in. The fact that technology will be cheaper and more accessible (see the SpaceX internet satellite constellation) and no one will have jobs in the developed or developing world, coupled with the fact that in general poorer countries seem to have more natural resources (that can be automated but still generate wealth for the house country), means that things might actually level between the developed and developing.

Of course the big companies will be based in the US and Europe, but unless you're giving every single person shares the money that they make will go to a few. In this admittedly doomsday scenario the money will actually drop because people won't be working to pay for services or buy products, but the scale will be such that they will still be highly profitable.

Expect revolutions before that day.
They probably saw a spike in searches like "How to migrate from Gmail"
Thanks a lot for this. Was looking for something like this. But I'm a little sad that this will now make me not want to put in the effort to make one myself.
Content farm will find it useful.
Like in The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. You can make anything in the matter compiler for free, so long as you've bought the intellectual property rights for the design.
The problem is every revolution has created jobs, this one looks like it's going to take millions away.
>I'm glad that the award values contributions from creatives whose works and organizations have influenced entire industries and the masses.

I don't disagree with that sentiment, but I do disagree that the award sold to the public as the highest public honor a civilian can receive has been awarded disproportionately to artists, politicians and athletes.

There are more musicians alone who have received the award than all scientists combined. More movie stars than human rights activists, more athletes than any of: philanthropists, doctors, or environmentalists.

The award is also awarded not without political consideration. Aside from very obvious examples of those who should have received it, some won't for purely political reasons. Journalists like Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman deserve the award, as two examples, but their work is by its nature critical of both parties who have been in power, and so neither one would award it to them.
Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon?
You can reply with a throwaway account if you don't want to identify yourself.

I just found that people having less experience than me are making 150k+ in base salary. Worst thing is that, majority of my org is populated with h1bs. I find most of these h1bs are incompetent tbh. They work 8am to 6 pm and then again late night and weekends. I don't log in on weekends,but my boss expects me to work until 11 pm and be in office by 9 am.

How much do you make at amazon and what is your experience?
I find myself doing the same thing now - scribbling down bits of pseudo code when I'm on the go. Trying to get some of the problem solving done, switching back to whatever obligations I have, and hoping that somewhere in the background my mind js still working on the problem.