skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Would you say that undoing net neutrality, then Comcast dropping all packets associated with anything expressing an anti-Comcast opinion is good and savory behavior? Would complaining about that be self righteous, moralizing nonsense?"

That is the perfect analogy for this situation.

Furthermore, I'd say a group of moderators who resort to discussing the future of their subreddit in a democratic and mature fashion; ensuring the integrity of their future, is far from comparable to what the CEO of Reddit has done.
My biggest frustration at work is the colleagues - most of whom are software engineers - that are inconvenienced when being asked to consider work outside of normal business hours. I don't really care if they are happy; that's what overpaying them is for. What I care about is getting one of them to answer the phone at 5:05pm on a tuesday and not getting a return call until 9:03 on a Wednesday.
Not this time. Automation really will replace people on massive scales because this time it's all of possible, cheap, and better. Pro drivers are first, 10m in the US. Fast food and retail are next. Imagine McD's and Walmart as drive-up vending machines.
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>Did you ever own such a car?

I did. It did't require "regular tuneups". You pour petrol and plain tap water for coolant in the radiator and the thing just goes...When it get stuck, you open the hood and take a peek, pull some wires, adjust some plugs and it goes again...

I don't recall any really expensive repair work in the 15 years that we owned that car.
Hmm, I wonder why the post-war era was generally less trusting of institutions?

Besides the non-sequitur section about individuals acting stupidly for plot reasons in horror movies, this shift also fits another pattern. One of people being more educated and more able to communicate and discarding some of the ideology of: those who rule us must be our honourable betters.

I personally feel the evidence is more on my side than Brin's. Especially the ethical behaviour of humans when layers of abstraction are added in between their choices and the consequences.

Perhaps he can write another piece about how modern propaganda has implanted the ridiculous cliche in our heads that Kings don't actually rule by divine right and that time spent as a serf who always submits to authority won't be repaid in the next world. That cliche is even more widespread!
Also those jobs wont be around that long. Every year we have quite a bit of progress on Self-Driving Cars.
This is very cool. For me I needed to know why it works not what it does.

I worked it out here for 2d transformations http://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-2d-matrices... and then expanded it to 3d, perspective, and cameras.
The box is empty, right? Two out-of-phase 120V circuits are a 240V circuit.
Yep we run Go for some infrastructure and ops kind of things, but the main app you hit when you visit any Shopify store is 100% Rails
No, it's not just about whatever you happen to feel like doing to live a better life. There's also what society will collectively do to you if you violate its ethical standards - the consequences of which are very much real.
Solution to that is easy, just pay them less, and they'll leave, so you wont have to work with them during normal business hours!
What's the point? Why not do it the other way around and put everything in /bin? It almost feels like /usr is the new root.
There's this: http://redd.it/4ze7gm

Disregard the title as it's not a "botnet." It's a user script that adds functionality to RES: automatically upvote everything in The_Donald, automatically downvote everything in other subreddits, and allows importing lists of specific users to up/downvote.
How do you know Anker doesn't commingle? I don't think FBA vendors have any control over it.

edit: here is some discussion. FBA vendors appear to have control:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hel...

But I still don't think the amazon customer can see if an fba vendor allows commingling.
Over 100k. Law school wasn't cheap.
What history book did you read that didn't include 600-700 years of ottoman domination?
“Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it.” – Jared Spool
>Not this time

How do you know? You don't know the needs of tomorrow.

All this free time will create demand for new jobs: coaches, therapist, teachers, etc. Also think about micro factories and bespoke production on demand. This will need people.
This is the correct answer. Opt-out is a jerk move - used by those who value themselves more than their users/customers/fellow humans.
Most of the complaints in this thread are from people that had a bad experience interviewing with Google. There are very few people talking here that are Google employees that were through the process and/or had a positive experience. Google rejects far more people than it hires. So there are going to be way more voices on the rejected side of the discussion.

Bad hiring experiences suck and I know it's something many of the interviewers at Google try to avoid. But sometimes it happens, especially when you get the number of applicants that Google gets.
if you made that proposition to a fast food worker that he could do meaningful work instead of smelling like fried stuff all the time and always be worried about working enough hours for a crappy boss and no future, or to a janitor that he could help someone instead of cleaning pee all day, maybe they would do that instead

Are you saying that making food for people is meaningless? That cleaning doesn't help anyone?

Humans are always going to regard someone as being "at the bottom", just because that's how we think.
It's not as extreme, but I used to live in this building: https://goo.gl/maps/wqrAnDrxZjs

If you look down, you'll see there's a lively market in the street - clothes and household stuff on one side, food on the other, including live poultry when I was there. If you look a little further down, you'll see the tram tracks running down the middle of the street. Unfortunately, the Street View cars didn't catch a tram, but they do run down that street pretty regularly...
"In short, it lets us say: enough already. Fuck work."

I feel like that's pretty clear.

You're right though, it does contradict my "ideology". I'm willing to be enlightened though but there were no rational arguments in this article to sway me.
That's a bit extreme. A compiler sending your codebase has potential IP implications. Sending your brew commands back to brew is much different.

What commands do you run in brew that isn't specific to brew? Whereas, compiling code is a very specific-to-you scenario. If brew fails, it's likely to be caused by brew itself or a package that is part of the repository. If you your compiler runs into an issue, it's not inherent to the compiler necessarily. I'm not a fan of brew at all, and I can't really find the malice here. Either opt out, stop using brew, or accept it. Why are you on OSX if you care that much about your package manager anyways? Ive worked at many companies, and any that let you choose a MacBook will let you opt for a Linux laptop instead (YMMV I guess).
There are lots of unintended consequences that are not intuitively apparent. Here is a list of some in the news - http://snuc-list.blogspot.in/

Until the tech sector deals with them as issues, as in, treats them the same way they treat software bugs its really upto the govts of the world to step in and over regulate.

Zuckerberg, Dorsey et al have slowly started recognizing publicly they have to do more. And while they work out the fixes, their platforms can't be allowed to wreck social havoc, of which there is a mounting body of evidence.
"Please stop harassing me with evidence."
So, I'm of two minds on this:

On one hand, I'd go farther. I like apt, but I wish that distros would use the same packaging system and same package format. There is little value to them being different between distros, it just causes more work for repackaging/deployment/config. Even distros that build everything could all do that the same way, so any distro and its apps could be fully built from source, if the source is available.

On the other hand, this isn't great. Having variety in paths, although it's basically security via obscurity like using non-standard ports, is still an additional level of security. And think of all of the existing config/repackaging scripts/etc. that will fail.

But, I'm not an admin nor in devops, so I'll defer to those that actually are impacted...
I've had bad reviews rejected because they mentioned things unrelated to the product. If I do a negative 1 star review on the product, never had the review rejected.
Making a sandwich or cleaning a toilet is certainly not an easy thing to do. Getting a robot that can understand a scene, any scene and plan motions within it has been very difficult to do. Far more difficult than playing Go at a superhuman level for example. This is known by various names, with one common being the Moravec Paradox. The problem of energy storage further multiplies this difficulty.
Amazon will happily continue selling Aukey chargers with fake ETL (UL Labs competitor) marks, even after I notified them of this! You just can't trust amazon for electronics.

Link to my original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12832605
According to the Flatpak site, you have to install the Flatpak base first, which is only officially available for Fedora, Arch, and Ubuntu, with unofficial/testing/backported ports for a couple other distros. There is no source download I could find on the site, which is necessary to build it for unlisted distros like Slackware (though I suspect its strict reliance on systemd would cause issues there anyway).

This all flies in the face of their marketing statement "The days of chasing multiple Linux distributions are over"; you can't claim a one-size-fits-all system if it only fits six out of hundreds of distros.

Edit: To the downvoters, please reply instead, and tell me why you disagree with what I wrote. If I'm wrong I'll own it.
I hope so, because nvidia's cudnn is an awful black box of brokenness and we only use it because there's no reasonable alternative.
What do you mean by decades? The US has been borrowing money but that hardly translates to printing it. I can definitely see how quantitative easing essentially translates to printing a couple of trillion to buy outstanding debt but that has already stopped.

By unavoidable I meant that if you hold currency, you are subject to it. Especially if you are holding assets that are appreciating at a slower rate than inflation. Essentially I don't think the wealthy get to loophole or lawyer their way out of inflation the same way they can with taxes.

I meant labor scarcity not in the exonomic sense but in the sense of literally running out of people to allocate. I think it's clear that if businesses have to compete for a dwindling pool of workers prices will inevitably rise.
Where we are now is similar to the era where nuclear weapons were theoretically possible, but the practical implementation was still elusive until ww2 provided the impetus.

Similarly, at this juncture self-production needs more effort at the technology and engineering side, not more op-eds by economists.

/r/reprap was started as a movement to enable self-production, but sadly, these days people buy 3D printers enabled by the movement but don't subscribe to their philosophy.
Popular because people are clumping in areas that have jobs...
This just happened last month in one of the more famous areas in Thailand: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/life/2016/10/03/sukhumvit-stre...

I'm not sure if they are back to business as usual or still gone however.
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Random Instagram photos aren't evidence. They're ridiculous speculation, and those who peddle these ludicrous theories should be ashamed of the real damage this is causing to innocent people's livelihoods. The Washington Post called the allegations "absurd on their face and detached from any gossamer thread of fact" [1].

I frankly cannot believe we are even debating this here.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pizzagate-shows-how-...
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What the fuck? What is unclear about the term "non-work" meaning anything other than "they aren't at work"? If it's not during work hours, it's entirely at my discretion whether I'll pick up or not. I usually will, because my employer is good to me, but your comment sounds entitled and of exactly the type of employer I wouldn't pick up the phone for outside work hours.
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Article takes political positions as axioms for the goals of an economy. This makes it hard to say much other than they agree with themselves. Lots of straw men running around.
This may be true but I get the feeling those movies overwhelmingly lean towards luddism rather than the responsible use of technology. For example, in Jurassic Park, the message is essentially "don't mess with nature (because it's impossible to outsmart it no matter how hard you try)", not "be cautious when messing with nature". Maybe nuance just doesn't easily lend itself to exciting stories.
> just maybe you could get performance gains

Not too sure about that -- Erlang/OTP-based web applications have very good performance (and transparent scaling) with a fraction of the code of a hand-rolled C-based web application. I honestly think web applications are a place where everything but assembly is better than C.
Article has many holes in reasoning.

The measurable trends of the past half-century, and the plausible projections for the next half-century, are just too empirically grounded to dismiss as dismal science or ideological hokum

As NN Taleb points out exhaustively: social science puts too much faith in their models. "Measurable" trends? How do we even know what to measure, or that it's a trend? "Plausible" projections? What is the scientific measure of plausibility?

there’s not enough work to go around

There's a limitless amount of work - it just doesn't pay minimum wage. Every time you lower the minimum wage, it makes a new class of activities profitable.

you’ve just met an attractive stranger at a party, or you’re online looking for someone, anyone, but you don’t ask: ‘So, what do you do?’

This ubiquitous question may be asked and answered in the sense of "what are you passionate about" rather than "what is your largest source of income". It would be great if those co-incide, but that's often not the case.
One, or at least I-speaking with a mouth full of leftover turkey and anecdote-would think by this point the "Millennials do %thing%" story trope would be so ridiculously boring by virtue of the sheer amount of evidence mounting that millennials have inherited and are operating in such a drastically different social and economic world than what they (we) were sold that people would stop writing them.

It's an amount so voluminous one has to measure it in "duh"s.

Or at least hope they find a better and more substantive premise.

I was evidently wrong.
If you are constantly having a situation where you need them to answer a question as late as 4:50 on a regular basis, you've already failed.

I seriously mean that. Movies and revisionist history are full of companies that successfully pulled out last minute victories. Real life is full of companies that kept that death march until the end, and blamed the workers for not keeping up.
I'm making a little over 200k right now. It doesn't feel much different from making 115k.

At 115k I had enough money to buy whatever I wanted and save 2-3k/month. Now the numbers in my Vanguard account rise a bit faster than before, but my overall lifestyle is exactly the same.

A 200k salary is comfortable, but it's by no means "fuck you" money. I still worry about the things everybody else worries about: Finding fulfillment, love, a place to call home, and planning out my future retirement.
Uh, jobs are not obsolete. If everyone who didn't have a job practiced massage, we'd all be able to get a rubdown for $10/hour. There's always a way to add value to the market place.
Accountants often have 3 screens. Perfect for doing tax work - the form your working on, the customer's documents, and any relevant instructions/legal presidents for whatever they are doing.

Of course different firms will vary.
I was interested to notice that Steele and Sussman describe Lisp as "an object-oriented language" on page 2 of this 1979 paper: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5731/AIM-514.....

There are other places in the Lambda papers and whatnot where they talk about objects, but I don't recall seeing that exact phrase. Of course, just what they meant by it is another question.
This is my experience as well, both from previous projects and for my long-running self-flaggelation exercise in writing a Ruby compiler.

My parser is a mix between a straight-forward recursive descent parser relying on its own small library, and an operator precedence parser, because I like the elegance of operator precedence parsers... That is, I like the elegance of them in languages that are sufficiently regular.

Ruby quickly turned out to be a frustrating exercise in taking my nice, clean (at the outset) operator precedence parser and mangling it to handle all kinds of exceptions. You can see the reasons for every rule if you squint hard enough - they make it "nicer" to write Ruby most of the time (except when they don't...). But they make the parsing an absolutely awful mess [1].

I fantasise about finding nice abstractions for all of those exceptions one day, but I'm not holding my breath.

And this is with a "library" approach rather than a framework/generator.

I'm sure I can, and eventually will, extract out some descently reusable components from it, but those will have a layer of crap piled on top of them when they're used to parse Ruby, and that layer of crap will make up a substantial proportion of the line count...

[1] Here's an example of the kind of fun stuff you find when parsing Ruby:

- If foo is a method, then "foo [1]" is "foo([1])" (calling the method "foo" with an Array with the element "1")

- If foo is a local variable, then "foo [1]" is "foo.[](1)" (calling the method "[]" on the object in "foo" with "1" as the argument. (if foo is a local variable, it will always alias a method with the same name)
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Yes it is, but it is not everywhere, and it completely goes away on consulting. Suddenly companies are a lot less interested in 70 hour weeks when they cost almost twice as much as 40 hour weeks. Older, wiser developers often end up contracting or picking employers that are not that exploitative.

Those good jobs exist, and they don't really pay worse in absolute terms. In fact, they often pay better when you calculate your pay hourly. So just pick the right employer and get out of the awfulness you describe.
If all I can add to a discussion is "Just google it", I just won't respond. For better or for worse, people aren't going to respond by saying 'By golly, you're right! I'm so lazy, but from now on, I will google stuff first instead of asking questions." They're just going to say basically "What an asshole, fuck this guy.

Maybe he wants an answer that is curated and summarized by a human, not a litany of links where you don't know what to focus on. For example, when I asked what dependency injection is, some kind stranger responded "It's a million dollar term for a 5 cent concept. Pass objects as arguments to functions instead of instantiating them inside." Of course, this is a limited definition, but it was put into layman's terms and it answered my question. From that answer, I was able to really learn what it was instead of being stuck on phase 1 of understanding.

When you're online, it's much easier to come off as a dick than it is in person so what I try to do is imagine someone coming up to me earnestly and genuinely asking the same question and respond thusly. Accordingly, when I know I'm asking a simple question, I add self-deprecation to the beginning. Example: "I have the technical and programming acumen of a bag of rocks, so excuse my elementary question, but..."
There is a huge statistical difference in product quality from Chinese brands. Making this more than just random antidotes. Japan and even the US had a relatively brief period of making low cost crap, but China can't seem to move up the manufacturing quality ladder.

If you manufacture in China you find huge legal and social issues with maintaining quality. It's still possible just far from the default.
Drive with clutch disengaged. Use clutch only while you quickly shift into an appropriate gear. The longest I use clutch is when I am starting of from a stop in first gear. Once I have momentum, dip clutch fully and shift and release clutch as soon as gear us shifted. When clutch is half pressed, clutch plate gets highest wearing as plates are half pressed against each other, not enough friction is there to stop clutch disc slipping (as it is while clutch is not engaged) against each other thus causing wear. When clutch is fully pressed, the clutch plates are seperated so they dont rub against each other and wear.

The way I shift is as I approach a downhill I keep driving it in gear rather than coast. If its steep downhill, you can brake ahead to lower your speed to something you are comfortable at. Shift down to the gear for that speed and then back off the gas if you need engine braking. You can use brake in combination with engine braking gear if you needs to slow down more than using engine braking alone. I shift down when speed gets lower than in current gear.
"adj. Employing or exerting compulsion; coercive."

Restless leg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restless_legs_syndrome) runs in my family. It's not the same thing of course, but it lives in the same space of "voluntary but compelled" actions.

I understood what you were saying perfectly.
I'd add The Conversation:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/
This is exactly the kind of moronic bs that I haven't and will not put up with. Executives most of the time are paid, and compensated to be there 24/7. Software engineers are not. While founders and other execs have tendency to forget that - deal with it. I am there between 8am - 4pm, or 6am - 2pm or what ever it says in my contract. No more, no less. You want me to do extra hours, fine, most of the time happy to, you just need to pay me for it. Oh btw -- we have this online service that needs one or more of of the devs to bring it up if it goes down at 3am - well - don't expect me to pick up the phone unless you've set up the appropriate schedule for us devs to be on call, and that we're compensated accordingly.

Bottomline -- you want to call me outside work hours, then you better compensate me accordingly.
> I personally think that Trump is picking his battles.

I think we should all do ourselves a favor and not try to divine what Trump is thinking. The guy is a total wild-card
So I understand that the real solution is to fix the tax system but I doubt that is politically realistic.

I think you are also assuming that returns on all investments would stay the same under increased inflation which I seriously doubt.

More importantly I understand that wealthy people have a smaller portion of their wealth in cash than poor people what I am arguing for is that perhaps inflation is at most no worse than our current taxation scheme.
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