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I'd add that there are a fair number of jobs that are pretty routine--until they're not. (At least today, pilots are a good example.)
ColdFusion/CFML. All day, every day. Although a heavy dose of the newer hotness and the eventual migration of everything I work with off of it is in the works. Still enjoy working with it though. Very productive.
Also wouldn't the economics of that be pretty sticky? They'd be competing with local farmers.
That is not a complete Electrical system, just the panels which are only cheaper in area's with ideal solar output. Go north where there is less sun, and more clouds and the cost starts to rise fast, further Electrical Storage is a major concern since solar only works at most 12 hours a day, you have to something about the other 12.

So no Solar is not cheaper when looked at in total cost to supply useable power to people 24/7

Further the cost of Coal is higher today largely because of artificial fees places on it in the form of Carbon Taxes, EPA regulations, etc. While I agree many of these are needed and benifitial to the long term it is this has to be factored in to the statement that Solar is "cheaper"

if the government adds all kinds of fees to everything but solar of course solar will be cheaper, but that is an Artificial Result created by government intervention in the market place not technology. The draw back of this is that increases the price of power for everyone and that hits poor people the hardest when their power bills double because of some new EPA Regulations
I think Apple's general idea with this was to recruit extension developers into Apple platform development in some capacity, since paying that $100 also gets you access to the iOS and Mac app stores. It's probably not that unreasonable of a thought; any developer capable of creating a browser extension could also probably whip together some kind of electron/touchgap web app and publish it on iOS and/or macOS.

Conversely, they may want existing iOS and Mac devs to be the ones creating Safari extensions rather than the current crop of multi-browser extension developers. This may be their way of trying to recreate the Mac's propensity to be a host to unique, platform-exclusive apps — in other words, they want Safari to have several prominent exclusives instead of just the same stuff you see everywhere else.

Regardless of the motive I think it's safe to say that it isn't working out as they've planned.
Not everyone has the luxury or desire for a "gradual process", but may have at least a sensible starting fund and the motivation to make it work. Sometimes the window of opportunity is small, and diving in fast is important (say, realize you have to grow your own food and spring is progressing - if you don't plant ASAP you're not getting to harvest).

I've long considered a similar "in a [shipping container] box" for fast-start retail establishments. Have access to retail space? have just days/hours to put up a fast-food shop? won't be perfect, but the box contains what you need to get a functioning restaurant delivered & running in hours. Likewise I can appreciate an "in a box" for a farm; get some cheap land and get what you need to reach harvest before snowfall.
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In case you or the farmer post about the experience can you share a placeholder link now ?

Regardless, I am always amazed by the HN community. You aren't even the original poster and yet have a direct connection to this random non-tech story. It is so humbling.
"Why not solve both problems by simply eliminating income tax on lower income brackets instead? This is cheaper, easier to implement and less politically contentious"

That doesn't work. It is already essentially done in the US and hasn't solved the significant poverty problems in the US. Quite the contrary it has likely made the situation worse. Studies show that when the poor don't pay taxes they end up being vilified by the middle class and viewed as leeches. "Why do we pay for free stuff for them", would be the rebuttal. This excepting the poor of taxes erodes the support for welfare programs, and tax cuts on a low salary can't make up for cuts to programs such as public education, subsidized health care etc.

Studies show the best way to reduce poverty is through broad non-means tested programs everybody gets whether they are rich or poor, because that allows the whole population to keep its support behind these programs as everybody benefits from them. It also allows resourceful people to demand quality and improvements. Examples of this is e.g. public education. Whenever education is segregated into public education for the poor and private for the well off, then public education is almost always shitty quality. When the middle class and rich also send their kids to public school, it tends to be of high quality as the powerful will pressure government to keep quality high.

There are some great examples of this from when black and white schools got desegregated. As soon as white kids got sent to black schools, those schools saw dramatic quality improvement as there became much stronger political pressure from resourceful people to improve those schools.

"I suspect many people support basic income because they fundamentally believe in a world where you shouldn't have to work to make a living"

I suspect that is what people against basic income usually suspect about advocates. You engage in a rather human logical fallacy. Assuming people supporting something primarily do it for their own benefit. I support legalized prostitution and drugs. Yet I am not a prostitute, john or drug addict. Wow how can I hold that position then? Hint I care about practical solutions to real problems in society.

I don't really believe in universal basic income but not for the reasons you state. I don't think the problem is that people wouldn't work, but rather that it could never be high enough to replace all the things a welfare system now takes care of.
No kidding. Undisturbed (by historical populations anyway) site discovered by LIDAR alone and... nothing but text? Come on...

Surely there is a paper someone can link to with site diagrams? Obviously work at this stage is going to be rough, but something must be available.
Me too xD
I'm going full Go. I've got it accepted as programming language for some software component I'm in charge of. It's for a scientific research application. For me it's a big change since I was full C++ for the last 15 years. I studied and considered D but there is not enough traction and tool set is lighter.
$50,000 is pretty expensive for "a start". That is the price of a decent farmhand in the Midwest (for a year, maybe two if you don't like him so much) and probably a huge plot of land and a few employees in poor countries.
And even more importantly who will trust these "skills" taught by a probably artificial and minimal re-education program enough to hire them?

This stuff has been and is tried all the time and doesn't typically work out. It needs a major rethink if we're to invest substantially in them.
The article doesn't make the claim in this headline. It makes the claim that NYC could theoretically have 3x fewer cabs. @dang
You assume that blame would be misplaced? Liberals tossed workers and organized labor overboard ~30 years ago: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/11/23/yes-democratic-...
Delphi/Pascal ran the call center telephony system at a company I worked at, and it ran it well. It was very performant and stable, and ran things for around 14 years.

Spent a while writing and modifying Delphi apps there, I really enjoyed it. I'm actually surprised it isn't used more today, it was definitely "rapid development" at the time.

One thing it was great for was making small, dependency free executables. Similar to today's concept of "Microservices" we often wrote small executable services and applications for tasks and it was very straightforward and simple. You could whip something up in a couple hours that accomplished a lot. Push the .exe file somewhere, add it into the process and forget about it.

Not surprised people are still out there using this stuff.
>How is the iPhone an example?

Are you saying you can get the same prices for components as Apple does, regardless of quantity?

Or are you willing to admit that Apple, given its demand for greater quantities of components, is able to obtain better pricing for the components than an average Joe?

And would you further entertain the idea of an airline buying, say, peanuts, is in a similar position to pay less than the average consumer, given they are purchasing in much greater quantities?
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Thank you for your reply.

Personally I despise the currency aspect and 'get-rich-quick' types that plague the space. However, not everyone is into blockchain tech for those reasons. I personally I got into Bitcoin and later Ethereum due to what happened to wikileaks.org A few calls from a senator and the domain was taken away and amazon shutdown their servers. I have been fascinated ever since on how to create an internet in which this sort of censorship is nearly impossible, and while Ethereum is not quite there, it's making progress torwards it, specially the upcoming release of its domain system and decentralized storage.
What's an example of the former?
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Similarly to how they staff support phone numbers, with teams of people trained in domain-specific knowledge (of the product, account management, etc.). Sometimes these teams are in-house, sometimes they are contracted to a third-party (i.e. how most call centers are).

If you don't think they could handle the volume, that's not really an issue in practice. Chat scales better than phone calls (agents can handle multiple chats concurrently), and just as with phone systems, the chat systems support wait queues. If the queue is long, then you will usually be presented with a contact form or the chat button will just be hidden from view in the first place.

Some of these systems do use bots for initial triage, and the "pro-active" ones that look like an agent is asking if they can help are almost always fake (you only get connected to a real agent if you actually reply).
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I fly US-South East Asia a couple times a year. Economy fares are around $1k(or $500-800 the last few months). Business class fares can be had for about $4-5k. Premium economy for around $1,500-2,000. My problem with premium economy is that for 50%-100% more than the economy fare, you're not getting much. Slightly(1-2") larger seat and pitch. Slightly better food. Earlier boarding. I wish they would have something in the $2,000-2,500 price point with those recliners that you find in domestic first class. I'd definitely pay that much for it.
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> In the end everyone wants to make money, but at certain point it starts bordering on unethical, this squeezing of money out of customers.

Is unbundling + keeping the base price constant any more unethical than increasing the bundled price? If so, why?
This is a project I've been working on/off for the last few months. It makes basic slideshow videos with music, subtitles, and TTS narration using the submitted HTML content.

It's running on a single OVH dedicated host with 8 cores/16 threads and puts out 100 videos in about ~30 minutes (target duration for videos is 45 seconds and are rendered using ffmpeg). If it gets any traction, I plan on setting up a rendering cluster, any tips in that department are appreciated.

If you generate a decent video of your content and want it for free, contact hello@vidgen.io with the video's url. I'll enable it to be downloaded. I just ask that you put it on youtube or vimeo and send me the embed link so I can add it to the site's example gallery. (* today only)
It really isn't. For the third party reading this thread only shows that some cryptographers are calling bullshit on semantics of their advertisement, which is more of a nitpick to most people, and some replies from people who say they use it and it's pretty good.
> That's how CA employees end up with million dollar per year pensions.

Your own link shows that those extreme examples had nothing to do with overtime and duty pay, and everything to do with senior local executives with close relations with local elected officials being granted ludicrously high base salaries by those elected officials.
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> why should we believe him and not believe all the various people who have said the opposite?

because he might actually know? it was his organization that received the documents, after all.

is he lying about it? possibly, but what incentive does he have to lie about it?

was he deceived himself? possibly, but if that's the rabbit hole you're going down than what would establish confidence that _any_ claim on this subject is a truthful one?

because the various people claiming the opposite have a clear political agenda that is consistent with the narrative they have been aggressively promulgating through a complicit media? Assange isn't the one trying to start a new cold war. the Clinton faction of the state department and the CIA on the other hand...
Are there any programs to help get men into nursing and similar professions? That seems like a great idea.
Basic. Specifically BASIS's BBx (Business Basic extended).
I'd like to build up a shop of 50 devs using the golang toolchain and just see how much shit we can get done.
Doing god's work.
I think that's not quite right.

Elixir is a subset (nay, it's a language within it's own right language now, the method chaining syntax is very readable) of Ruby running on the BEAM vm from Erlang.. not Erlang itself

Crystal is a native compilation of Ruby (or a subset at least), not Python btw.
The actual research finds that this is a phenomenon associated with every jobless recovery (there have been 3 in the last 40 years or so): each time there's a recession that ends without restoring pre-recession jobs, the routine manual job market appears to take a permanent hit.

Here's the chart from an earlier paper by the same authors:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/782zelpi8r2nwua/Screenshot%202017-...

So a big question here is about causality. It's possible (maybe probable) that the phenomenon of long term declines in routine manual jobs is in fact the cause of jobless recoveries: it creates a ratcheting effect at each recession.
I think modern C++ features are great and pushed to incorporate many of the features you're talking about as console compilers (slightly behind versions of clang, gcc and msvc) were upgraded to support them.
Try flying with a family of 5, your definition of "cheap" may change a bit.
It is now, but it wasn't when the App Store was introduced.

In any case, malware is best prevented by strong sandboxing. Forcing everyone to go through the store does approximately nothing to fight malware.
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Happy to see this mentioned here! My Nim book[1] is also going to be finally published in 2017. Lots of great things to look forward to in 2017 for Nim :)

1 - https://manning.com/books/nim-in-action?a_aid=niminaction&a_...
The video links seem to be not loading. HN bombardment? The torrent links do work.
CRISPR will be a huge story in 2017
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Well "new" is sort of relative (and thus nebulous) so lets ignore that. This 2017 as my company moves things closer to the data I have been using lots PL/pgSQL.

I may eventually port some of the code over to Rust once I play with postgres-extension.rs [1] to see if it is even possible. Probably not all of it because I believe you can only make extensions right now with Rust and not PL (ie loaded stuff) or maybe you can?

Postgres is no longer just a database... it is a pretty powerful platform.

[1]: https://github.com/thehydroimpulse/postgres-extension.rs
>> The alternative of renting does not maintain value

What if renting is cheaper than buying (example SF bay area)?

More importantly, what if the purchase of house is made with the expectation of growth in value of the house and that expectation turns out to be incorrect after 30 years (as in Detroit)?

Beyond a certain cost of a house, wouldn't it be advisable to plunk money in funds rather than a house (and hoping it builds equity)?
Often times it's not the worker that strangle themselves. I remember reading some years ago (can't remember where) about the struggles that male nurses have. Male patients often refuse male nurses as they don't want another male to see their bodies, and female patients will refuse male nurses out of modesty. And, according to the same source the problem only intensifies as the male nurse gets older.
I'd like to know this too. I experimented with Pythons nltk library, but it's definitely a different world out there than simple programming.
not the White House. the Clinton-aligned faction of the state department and intelligence community.
I agree ... it doesn't make any sense to me that an employer should have anything to do with supplying healthcare to employees. It just makes the system more complicated. I'd be happy with simplifying that out.

But this doesn't seem to be nearly enough to tip the balance in terms of operating a business overall ... I consistently hear from people how much it sucks to operate a small business in Europe. I don't see what's wrong in principle with having worker protections kick in at a certain company size, but that doesn't seem to be popular.
From the article:

result = [x for sublist in nested_list for x in sublist if x % 3 == 0]

This explanation still confuses people initially. I suggest this one:

result = [a for b in c for a in b if a % 3 == 0]

Here it's more obvious that the outer loop arguments are to be reversed in the latter part of the nested comprehension.

However I would advise against any further nesting than this, you will not want to debug that if anything goes wrong with one of the inputs here, especially if you also do any conditional logic here in the comprehension.
Universalize that statement and apply it to X demographic not choosing a STEM degree and you'll find yourself in a struggle session.
> trustless decentralized internet

That is the solution. What is the problem? I understand the problem they want to solve but I don't think that is truly the problem. I drank the kool-aid for over a year before I realized that the theoretical and practical realities are incompatible.

A truly trustless decentralized ledger is for the most part useless since as soon as you need to interact outside of the system (like change real world goods). Registering ownership on Ethereum and being trustless cannot coincide as ownership is a societal construct backed by governments and consensus. If I register stock on ethereum, I still need trust in the societal agreement outside of ethereum. Only transactions are trustlessm, but it is still very very far from clear that trustless transactions actually mean something without trustless assets that can be run on a truly trustless network.

I think this is evidenced by the fact that there are no compelling real world use cases for ethereum. There has been a huge downturn in turnouts at ethereum events and mindshare coinciding with the DAO attack after they shot themselves in the foot by doing the manual rollback which showed you still need trust in the network that runs the "trustless" system thus there is no such thing as a trustless system.

Yes it is still young, but I don't believe the theoretical case of having a trustless system (ethereum) interact with a trustful system (human society) while still being trustless is solved or even possible.

As soon as trust enters into the equation at any level the entire premise of ethereum is worthless moot. Could there be a narrow domain of applications that can use a "minimal trust network"? Yes. But that is different from being truly trustless.

Trust is a feature not a bug. Are there situations where you want less trust? Absolutely. But you are shifting the trust to another agent, not getting rid of it completely. Ethereum can exist, but it won't transform society and replace governements like everyone was hoping to ~9 months ago.
i'd say it's not so much that they aren't retraining versus can't retrain due to constrained resources

it's tough to retrain. now add kids, low savings, and a mortgage. then you re-start at the bottom of the salary ladder. now it's time to retire.

my prediction: trump does nothing to address this problem whatsoever.
Traditional elite jobs such as sales, banking (not trading), and management seem to have also resisted automation for the time being.
Welding machine operators are a drop in the bucket compared with the biggest looming job shift on the horizon: truck drivers. It's the most commonly listed job in 29 states and there are millions of them across the US. And most will be replaced by automated driving systems within the next couple decades. Yes, there will be service jobs within trucking, but that will be a small fraction of the 'routine' jobs that automation will replace.
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C++ has this weird evolution curve where as you start using features things improve up to a point then go downhill, but then go uphill again with new modern features

If you limit yourself to using the STL with C++11 stuff but don't go crazy with inheritance and templating in your classes it can be nice
Not the above poster, but their point appears to be that caring for the elderly doesn't CONTRIBUTE to the economy (i.e. as a transaction it adds to GDP, but in terms of value-creation it's near zilch. So while a blue-collar worker might add value by creating a product, an elder care worker adds only humanitarian benefit. (And unlike a doctor that can help those blue collar workers continue to work, there isn't even much INDIRECT value-addition to elder care).

To continue my devil-advocacy, I'm sure the above poster wouldn't argue AGAINST elder care on humanitarian grounds, but is instead saying this is not where you want to redirect significant portions of your workforce, because you'll tank value-addition and harm everyone (including those elderly patients).

Personally, I find the argument a little repulsive, but also an important argument to refute. So I'm glad it was raised.

My rebuttal would be that with increased automation we're doing fine in value-addition, and the entire point of having positive wealth creation is to improve the overall well-being of a lot of people (I was going to say "as many as possible", but that might not be agreed to by some). If we skip the "reward" of a society's wealth-creation, why are we doing it again?
I have no doubts that if Apple had been more open in terms of publishing apps for iOS, the App Store would closely resemble the current Play Store in terms of malware and junkware. Something as personal and often-used as a smartphone is just too tempting of a target.
I'll continue with JavaScript and C#... they are pretty old (and I'm not joking).
Ask HN: Recommendations for a book on Distributed Systems?
I wanted to ask what people have read and would recommend for a book(s) on Distributed Systems. Both the Coulouris book and the Tanenbaum book seem to be pretty standard but the reviews and ratings on these seem to be underwhelming:

https://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Principles-Paradigms-2nd/dp/0132392275/

https://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Concepts-Design-5th/dp/0132143011