skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost certainly yes. If it's not then this person is very unlucky. It's listed on urban dict and used in http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html where it says Linux is a virus (ironically a translation of this was my first information about Linux ever when I was a gullible teen.., I clearly remember the 'LILO' part, since when I was starting to get into it Linux was already using GRUB).
I don't think it'll ever be finished.
Full wireless would be a great thing to have. The wires as it is now are not ready for mass adoption.
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When we discovered electricity, some people thought we could revive the dead with it. When we invented steam engines, some people thought that we could make brains out of steam. When we invented computers, some people were quick to say that computers would replicate human thoughts. Though these technologies did not match the wildest dreams, they had massive impacts on humanity.

While you can certainly criticize the hype around AI, you can't deny the advances made by self driving vehicles. That in itself is a major technological leap, and will revolutionize the transport industry.

I think that robots that perform some more complex tasks - such as filling amazon boxes, picking fruits, cooking stuff, and so on - may not be very far away.

General intelligence/consciousness is not there, clearly, but there are some elements of technology that somehow resemble the way the brain works, and that we can find some useful cases for. That's really all that matters
Does Wizards of the Coast count? :P
Hi, I built this site to show how companies (mostly in tech) got their first users / how they got viral. Hopefully, people will get some new inspirations on how to get new users based on what have been done in the past :).
All kinds of cool inventions never (yet) got past one-offs. Jetpacks, flying cars, exoskeletons (done in the 60's). If the price, safety, usability, etc. aren't all perfect, it can completely fail. Even electric cars got almost nowhere so far.
A real-life example of this is the current commute mess in NY/NJ area. There is free wifi on the streets but subways and train stations are falling apart with no visioning for commuter growth over the last 5 years and the next 5 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/nyregion/report-disputes-c... goes into some of the mess and lack of accountability.
What sort of under water assets are you imagining here?

Some kind of secret base on the abyssal plain?

The cost for such a thing would be astronomical, with no appreciable benefit.
To extremely simplify it, we're effectively making our lightbulbs smaller and expecting the same brightness out of them. We could keep a bulb going for a century, but it's not going to light as well as we expect.
More likely, they'll try to offer less to your replacement, given the opportunity to pay less for the same labor. This is why many employers ask potential hires about their salary expectations and prior wage history.
Re: writing. Lots of the oldest clay tables are rants about how 'our laws are the best' and 'other cities' laws will make you work too hard'. Apparently writing really took off when it got used for PR!
This doesn't use machine translation. Did you look at the link?

It specifies a privacy policy with options using JSON, and then there is a set of (human-written) strings for each language to turn those options into text.
I've also done this with Dokku specifically and it was really cool. The project has probably matured a lot since then (8+ months ago) but...I do have a pretty high level of trust in Heroku that's been hard to erode.

(Waiting for all the comments saying I shouldn't have that trust in t-minus...)
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Those are really optimistic numbers which must include GearVR and its competitors, which are toys that most people do not consider true VR.

Total sales for Rift, PSVR, and Vive are ~1.5 million units combined. All the others (OSVR, chinese clones, et. al.) might add up to 2 million total.
The acquihire fallback plan might work with other areas, but the valuation of a top AI team/startup is now in the high tens or even hundreds of millions. Almost all single contracts would not be sufficient to pay for that.

Moreover, the acquirer must be willing to pay salaries competitive with Google, Facebook, and the likes to keep the team. From what I heard, IBM is not willing to do that. If anyone has information to the contrary, please feel free to correct me.
Meh, the real problem is bloat (in memory and CPU cycles) and integration with the larger ecosystem.

the web has been developed to exist inside a browser, not on the desktop.
I did some mac gaming on it. Not terrible for certain games. I was mainly playing Rocket League multiplayer. There's a bunch of resources/experiences at https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudygamer/
Threadripper 1950X with ECC, 16 instead of 10 cores, 64 instead of 44 PCIe lanes and without a raid dongle which prevents certain raid modes unless you pay for them (like with Intel): $999.

I love competition. Though I would prefer if there was a third competitior in the x86 CPU space and the GPU space.
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thanks for sharing, apparently i missed past submits
You mean, like patio11's Appointment Reminder?
I read it as "everything can be explained with classical physics alone", the same way we can safely assume the Earth is flat for making a small house. We're not going to complicate math by using the curvature the same way we're not worrying about tunneling, spin, entanglement, etc.
I forget where but I've read of this theory before: that what constitutes a true AI is constantly redefined as the level of development that we have not yet achieved, so as to be invisible
Yes. Apple (NeXT at the time) had to make their objective-c frontend for gcc GPL, and they did not like that. that is why apple spent a lot of money making clang good: it allows them to do have patches they don't want to make available why still getting a good compiler. (I don't know if those patches exist, but they have that ability if they want it)

*BSD has in generally hated having anything GPL in their base system. OpenBSD played with creating their own C compiler for a while (the goal was just a compiler with only minimal optimizations - they expected everyone would just use that to build gcc and then build everything with gcc)
You can't downvote people who reply to you on Hacker News, so that scenario isn't possible.
I wonder if the discussion of wages captures everything. Particularly for those we expect to "draw back in" to the labor force. Will a few more dollars an hour change things, or is there something about the nature of the positions that makes them unappealing to people out of the labor force?

Also, companies do have a ceiling on how much they can pay without raising prices, and to the extent you want to pay people fairly, you would have to raise wages for all your employees.
This is the exact kind of mindset that lead to the creation of Java and Go: "The programmer is too dumb. Let's reduce and constrain what programmers can do." Go just takes it to the extreme until you can't read an entire function on a single screen but have to scroll through piles of code and error handling all mucked together.
It's not excluding quantum physics, it's excluding quantum shenanigans.

You'll certainly need chemistry to model the brain; you'll very likely need solid state physics; everything points towards you needing some very low level molecular dynamics.

What you can't use is high temperature long term coherence. Mostly because quantum physics all but forbids it.
Then you're pretty damn confused. The two are not even remotely comparable.
The license for GPLv3 is something to be scared of.
They do hunt, sometimes as a group, but they are not a bird of pray.
This is why I'd never want to do a VR company right now (at least not with my own money and shouldering all the risk). Having my fate depend on hardware vendors who don't necessarily have interests aligned with me is not a situation I want to get into!
i remember making this kind of tool for a major telecommunications firm. it was a good project for me as a junior.
If we automate most of the manufacturing and other low skill jobs then you will be left with part of society that do not have predispositions/are not smart enough for creative/high skill jobs. And this accounts for a LOT of people. Education will not help in that, this are the people that couldn't get through education system in the first place, that's why they don't have any/low education.
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I was trying to setup an api key to access the Google Analytics API for my site so that I could query it from a command line script.

I got it to work, but it was one of the most difficult setups I have ever encountered.

Why does Google make it so hard to setup when other companies make it a piece of cake to setup API access?
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Despite the fact that it's pretty good stuff, shouldn't the title says it's for Android notification ?
Wow! Gotcha! Turns out modern economies are complex. Who knew?

But our economic system is literally grinding to a halt, which means it's not exactly perfect. I for one welcome suggestions, even if they're only slightly less imperfect.
Invisible, indeed. My interest timed out before any such corporation was named. It was kind of interesting watching the layout dynamically rearrange itself over and over.

If this isn't readable on a recent Android phone with a decent net connection then who are these articles for anyway?
A millionaire had way more than someone living in rural america does. Large percentage of the US population does not have 400USD to spare for emergency and again the cost of living is going up while salaries and jobs aren't.
Hello HN,

This is a side-project that I built. Took me around 3 months of evenings/weekends to get it to a decent stage where I could actually put it in front of users.

Happy to answer any questions.

Tech details:

Game is made with the Phaser[0] engine. Phaser has been a slick experience and the game works decently on Android, iOS and desktops. I used a decent TypeScript-Webpack-Phaser template[1] to get started.

Settings page[2] is an SPA, based on Angular 2. That's where the parent/teacher/adult can setup lesson plans by querying for images in Google Image Search and assigning a sentence to the selected image.

Hosting is on Firebase, as a static website.

[0]https://phaser.io/

[1]https://github.com/rroylance/phaser-npm-webpack-typescript-s...

[2]https://seentell.me/settings
Canada's Federal Government payroll division would probably agree with you.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/phoenix-pay-system-psac...
My wife took it as a highly romantic gesture when I sent her the link for our names.

So thanks for the easy points!
Anecdotally, cost was a significant factor for me. I've been looking to purchase a headset ever since I had an opportunity to demo one a year ago, but $600 was a bit too steep for something that I likely wouldn't use for anything other than playing games (unlike a PC, which I use for much more than that). $400 though (the current price thanks to the summer sale) was enough to make me pull the trigger.

I also noticed a huge surge in the level of activity from new Rift owners on the /r/oculus subreddit after the sale started, and many there are reporting that the headset is sold out in a lot of stores, so I'm pretty sure I'm not alone here.
Wait, we were talking about a country? Which one?
The $399 sale was what put me over the edge to finally buy one. Based on comments around the internet that I've read on this sale announcement, there are plenty of people similar to me.
I am in a weird situation with a few friends that we made an appointment scheduling application for a client who tried several others and found nothing they liked and kept reverting to using google calendar. Now we built them this perfect app that they love, but we can't seem to sell it to anyone else. It's looking more and more like we spent six months developing an app for essentially one client (technically we have three, one client has two shops, and one employee that left started his own and uses it).
I currently do not use any, I use to be a paper only person, but I use a kindle now.

I guess I just can scroll through what is on my kindle.

I kind of like how Derek Sivers does it with book notes on his site https://sivers.org/book
That's very clearly untrue. There are plenty of studies showing this is not the case.

Almost all workers are significantly more productive but wages have remained flat for a long time.
What existential issues are you thinking about?

The biggest issue I can think of is oil running out, but we're on a good trajectory to solving that. Other resources seem either abundant or replaceable. The threat of global nuclear war is problematic but not really solvable by throwing more people at the problem. Overpopulation isn't projected to be a problem. Climate change will be a major inconvenience and costly, but unlikely to be an existential issue.

Of course there's lots of injustice, hunger, disease, murder and torture that would be nice to resolve, but it's not an existential issue for humanity.
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I get to use a transmogrified version of Jazz called IBM Control Desk. Literally dog shit.
There are a good number of specialized SEO and marketing firms that just focus on vets, dentists, or other broad medical specialties like dermatologists.

One thing you may not realize is that many small businesses -- vets included -- get spam (charitably called 'outreach') emails from agencies from all over the world on a nearly daily basis. Because of this, most cold calls and cold emails will be met with an even colder reception.

100 people is also a tiny list to cold call. I am not really sure that this was the right strategy for you to get clients. Selling marketing services to medical professionals is also harder than it is for many other kinds of businesses because getting more customers is not their biggest problem: it's often something else that a digital marketing company cannot fix for them as you noted in your article.

For a portfolio, you should just have a mockup website that you can use to swap out their information quickly to show them what you can do. It's also not clear to me that most vets really need a custom website. They would probably be better served by a Wix/Wordpress/Squarespace setup that has cheap customer service and would just need help for content, design, and some customization.

To sum up, you will get more projects much faster if:

* You respond to RFPs or job postings instead of cold calling
* You build a portfolio or mock portfolio that you can show to vets
* You focus your sales pitch on the anticipated results that the vets are going to have rather than just giving them a new website which they might not need all that much
* You look at cheaper off the shelf solutions to provide to buyers who aren't ready to get into custom web development project

Finally, it's much easier to sell to people who already want what you are selling.
Mean productivity has increased while median wages have stayed flat. What people think is a story about wages decoupling from productivity is actually a story about the variation of productivity among workers getting higher.

You can tell this is true because labor's share of income (vs capital's share) has remained fairly constant. It's the distribution of this share between different workers that has changed.
I have the right to access it, copy it, sell it, or rent it out.

If DRM prevents me from doing so, it violates my rights.
> Well, there may be unemployed people, but they're not willing to do those jobs at those rates.

Yep. That is essentially the crux of it and also why there's a big trade off between unemployment vs a small basic income. With unemployment you collect while having free time and then lose that income stream as soon as you take the job, making the decision to take a job significantly less obvious. With a small (survival level) basic income, having a job means you make more money...period.

It's an aspect of the equation that nobody wants to talk about. In low cost of living areas you almost have an incentive to collect unemployment for stretches because of it.
The existing systems could not be defined as self-driving. And the idea that we could have had them in the 90s is ludicrous.
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> The most obvious answer seems to be that the workforce keeps growing relative to the demand for that work.

Interesting, and very plausible as well. Please don't get me wrong, but you happen to have any source that supports that hypothesis? I don't doubt any of what you've said and I do believe you're on to something, but I would like to read more on the subject.
hello Master,

one issue with pitch is that, for doctors who are not versed with web technology, your offer is more of a paid liability, than a solution.

who would maintain the website, when you have sold them?

the vets, probably neither have the time nor the inclination to maintain it, and so far they have been doing without it.

Why dont you offer them, website and with just a marginal yearly cost, free maintenance also, with which they can always keep their website updated, by just sending you text and photographs by email?

this is like a complete peace of mind offer.

in fact, you can make it one offer, website with free maintenance (hosting, domain, updating content etc) at a flat yearly free.

You have a SAAS product in offering now...
It would look remarkably different. I don't thing people are realising that AI isn't going to replace jobs as much as they are going to remove the need for those specific jobs.

I.e. it's not like where you used to have company x doing product y you now have AI. AI is transforming the very idea of constitutes a company.

Digitalization is a winner takes most if not all. And more and more things are becoming digitalized to a point were they make no sense as scarce offerings. The supply will heavily out weight the demand.
Retire without beating inflation? Does this involve saving 30% of your paycheck for 40 years?
I was about to say this was a marketing department dumpster fire, but then I made it to the comments section. FFS AgileBits what happened?
U.S. on verge of ‘stalling out’ in evolving digital economy
I think people with a lot of experience in a different industry can certainly move into tech. Moving into a direct programming role might be hard, but handling project management, specification and requirements gathering, technical documentation, quality assurance, and legal aspects are some great areas that both of those people could contribute to.
Don't know what's wrong with your phone, but it was one of the faster loading sites I've been to in iOS - loaded pretty much instantly with no relayout for me. (iPhone 6s)
I think you should have driven out to them, rather than trying todo everything "efficiently": waiting for emails, calling on the phone. If there were 100 veterinarians in a 200km radius, you could have visited them all.

Yes, it would have been hard work. But that's kind of the reason why nobody else has done it. Easy money is a lottery game. You want success on your schedule you have to pound pavement and do the hard work that other people are too lazy to do.

The value of talking to people in person is that you learn significantly more about their problems and what they want. You can see whether or not they are lying about their interest in the product. You can see their environment and infer new information. It's also a lot harder for people to say no to your face, or to stop a conversation in person. So you're likely to just plain have a longer conversation, which usually means you're getting more information.

Case in point: my wife writes sci-fi novels. We sell them on Amazon, and they do okay there. But we do significantly better at book fairs. At a book fair, if you see a nerdy girl wearing a Dr. Who t-shirt carrying a tote bag that is already half-full of books, you've got a pretty good idea that she'd probably be interested in your time-travel book about a strong female character and you can be pretty sure she's willing to buy. All without any tracking cookies. All without any alignment analysis algorithms. No freely handing over monetizable data to Facebook, et al.

Being in the Amazon bookstore, you have to compete against literally millions of books. At the book fair, it's probably less than 100. You can't catch people's attention as they go by online, but you can call out to people at the fair. And you can't be sure the people you're contacting online are even in the market--they likely are not. But people go to book fairs because they specifically want to browse and buy something new and unique.

Physically put yourself in the places where people are willing to take chances on new products.
That's so you (or someone in your organization) have the human time to undelete. Perhaps an rm -f option would be handy, but like that flag risky ;).
"why isn't China more successful?"

Compared to what? to a contra-factual or to a real country?

Because 500 million people out of extreme poverty sounds pretty successfully to me. Specially if we compare it to any other country following more "open" strategies.
Looks fine to me on a galaxy s8+
Thank you for posting this! I hadn't seen it and have been looking for a simple guide like this one.
Amazon is eating the world
There's a lot of options other than simply offshoring.

Consider externalizing costs, almost no one has a servant pump gasoline for them, I would imagine you have to be very old for "self service gas station" vs "full service gas station" to mean anything to most Americans.

Another option is political corruption, I'll donate $ to your re-election campaign if you create a property tax free zone for my business.
I said myself that implementation wouldn't be practical, so this is more of a thought experiment. But in all these cases, I think the person who profits from the change should also bear the cost it has on others. So if you invent a way to increase productivity, there is no need to pay; but if your employer uses it to make their workers redundant, they should provide for their continued livelihood. Of course this doesn't really work when a different industry is obliterated (which is why this is impractical).

> And how long does this tax last? Forever? Are people still paying taxes for all the farmers we don't have to have anymore?

Assume for a moment that being a farmer were hereditary and they couldn't do anything else anyone would find of value. Then when you replace all of them by machines, you make huge profit, but also leave hundreds of people without income. In such a case, I think it only fair that the farmers and their descendants be provided for indefinitely.

That this tips the scale against automation is not exactly bad: if the farmers have to be provided for anyway, additionally maintaining machines to do work they could do just as well is a further cost that should be weighted against the benefits.

However, in reality most people can learn to do other work, so automation can still end up a net positive, even when the needs of the displaced workers are taken into account.

I guess the problem will solve itself when workers will either employ themselves as revolutionaries and looters, or the beneficiaries of automation pay the equivalent of this tax to prevent this from happening.
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> inflation benefits borrowers

Not really, because lenders factor inflation into their rates.
I don't think it's just location in the string. It couldn't find this one either.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nancy+Reagan+Dr,+Alpharett...