skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"While we’re on the road to our Star Trek future, but before we finally get there, the rich are going to get richer—because they own the robots—and the rest of us are going to get poorer because we’ll be out of jobs. Unless we figure out what we’re going to do about that, the misery of workers over the next few decades will be far worse than anything the Industrial Revolution produced."

It was interesting reading some of the comments on the Paradise Papers yesterday. Lots of people commenting they feel helpless and frustrated in this and situations like this. The rich have the ability to break the law seemingly at will and never get punished. The rest can spend 18 months in prison for smoking pot, or being black and in the wrong place. I don't pay taxes, I'm in trouble. The rich can afford to just not pay them. etc. etc.

But it was also pointed out that no one is likely to do anything about it, because any outrage will blow over as soon as the press start on the next set of scandalous headlines, and unless your life is (/all our lives are) disrupted in a big enough way that you feel the need to rock the boat - you won't rock the boat.

Which makes me ask, will the robot revolution be the thing that rocks the boat? Distrust of government (corporations / power) and quiet dissatisfaction seems to grow by the day. And yet - no one reacts, because the status quo is just enough. But if you start to remove jobs without having a social state in place to cope with it, and every day you're looking at the perfectly curated Instagram lives of those who have everything - what's going to happen? Do we hit breaking point?

I don't really know. Interesting and somewhat scary times, though.
Leading AMD must be emotionally exhausting. Can you image leading a company that for so long is fighting for survival?
As a very late Generation X "babybust" (i.e. born in 1979) from Europe, that sounds crazy..

And that isn't because of financials (i.e. going bust)?
Not a detail at all: the author seems to confuse "the whole Google cloud system works as expected - approximately in line with the 80/20 adage" for "the phone in my pocket is independently capable of intelligent, contextful, humanlike reasoning."

Google just needs to see where the previous million people went after asking this particular question - odds are good that the million-and-first person will also want that particular answer. It's a clever trick all right, and a marvel of engineering, but no robots: this is mostly human behavior: collected, averaged, and parrotted back. (Yes, there is machine search at the base of it; unlike Altavista before, the relevance of the results is shaped by its human users though)
There has to be profit to give dividends, there's such a thing as non-voting shares, and bankruptcy liquidations tend to pay out nothing to shareholders.
Tell us more about your ideal society where everything is harmless.
Did you relative notify the company that they wanted to cancel their return flight? I don't think the airline could have complained in that case.
It’s true, the oligarchs were all created by the rapid privatization of Russian state assets which were sold incredibly cheaply. US advisors played a big role in this. See eg https://www.thenation.com/article/harvard-boys-do-russia/

I’m not surprised that US politicians are still involved with the oligarchs, and that seems to be on both sides of the political spectrum.
> they can profit share with dividends

Can, but not all of them do it

> enable you the right to vote in corporate matters

Can, but not all shares allow you to do that

> If the company were to go bankrupt you also get money from the liquidation.

https://i.imgur.com/seh6p.gif

> What does your ICO give you?

Where did I mention ICO?
Reddit covers almost all of those and has as wide a range as Usenet did. In terms of the broader web, there's a tension between wanting customizability and wanting consistency; realistically the only thing most people do with any given content is read it, and so the web focused on that use case and things that helped with that at the expense of offering consistent structure.
UK's National Health Service Offers Smartphone GP Appointments
Have you ever tried to contribute to or use a Microsoft backed open source project before? I have. I've also worked as a partner, SQL certified DBA for the best part of 20 years of my life. Considering we can't even get anything fixed when we're paying for partner support, you're SOL most of the time. I had an issue open for 8 years that we paid to get fixed and all they did was ship a lousy registry fix from first line support. So we have to deploy that fix to about 2000 people because two teams won't take ownership internally. Nice job.

It's not about fan boy cards, it's about the fact that MSFT visibly doesn't give a fuck about contributors or clients and will quite happily steamroll over everything whilst their marketing department fanfares repeatedly about how they're embracing open source and they love Linux.

You'll find that Open Source to Microsoft means business as usual, just on github, with added marketing fluff.
OpenMined: AI and Blockchain - Open Source Project
Broadcom offers to acquire Qualcomm for $70 per share
I laughed out loud at this.

I do wonder how robots will deal with our fickle human ways. How will they help a person who can't even express themselves in words or speech because they're near illiterate? This isn't a facile question - this is a large percentage of the people I've written software for.
Depends how long
And full employment too
Atleast, modern car design is stable enough that you could be motivated to learn it and have lasting , statisfying, longterm knowledge.
form follow function :) Start by answering those 4 questions, in this order:
- WHY are you doing the website?
- For WHO are you building it?
- WHAT will be the content? (that define the pages layout) You can use the Moscow technique
- HOW you will design/build it.

It will be difficult to do a good design (the last question) if you dont answer the 3 first questions. Please, dont just buy a theme on themeforest, it will be bloat with features that you wont use, you will have to make sure it's always up to date(which is difficult because the theme creator wont update everytime a plugin has an update) and you will need to modify it to adapt it to your needs...

Here is an example. Let say I want to make a tutorials website about Git.

WHY - Because alot of people feel it's too complicated (GIT) - Because it's an important part of dev and everyone should use it - Because we dont always have access to a GUI version, so we should know the CLI version - Because it's actually easy to use and we should not be scare of it.

WHO - For noob dev - For freelancers that will work with agencies - For students who are looking online for infos about Git

WHAT - A simple interface - A serie of tutorials that explain git in the terminal - Exercises to understand how to use it - Links to other online references - links to books - links to Youtube videos about git - Maybe a Jekyll page?

HOW - Mainly dark to fit with terminal colors - Small and concise paragraphs - Maybe a Jekyll website? - Monospace font for titles to fit with terminal - etc. - etc. - etc.
One simple improvement that would apply both here and on reddit is to move the up/downvote arrows to the end of the comment rather than the start. At the moment it's disproportionately easy to upvote a short comment because you're still at the right place for the arrow.
Does this refrain get repeated every decade?

In the 1980s, "Expert Systems" were shown to outperform human experts (ie: Doctors) at diagnosing patients in certain situations. (ex: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/03787206859..., a 1985 paper on the subject of "Expert Systems"). Or this article, which has links to proven efficacy of Expert Systems in 1987: http://www.openclinical.org/aiinmedicine.html

30ish years later, we still have doctors primarily delivering our diagnosis. The march of progress may look exponential, but the hype is often overstated.

The terminology "expert system" has morphed into new terms over the years, but the problem has remained the same. Creating a system that can diagnose patients given the data that the patient supplies. Its the diagnosis problem plain and simple... but what has been called "Expert System" in the past will now morph into "AI" and "Machine Learning" under today's terms.

As such, I'm wary about graphs like this one: http://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/201710...

The human brain is really, really, really bad at being a computer. It seems like computers are also really, really, really bad at trying to be a human brain.

The typical layman / non-computer programmer simply fails to understand the limitations of a typical computer. They see computers doing human-like tasks (like winning in Jeopardy), but then don't realize the enormous amount of programming effort that was required for that task to happen.
Exactly my thoughts. I posted in a comment below (also responding to mtgx). Essentially, the laptop chips AMD can produce are still slightly better (well, cheaper) - it's just they can't get into the market for a few years until vendors are up again.
it's easy on a new market that doesn't really exist
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
It’s the Internet equivalent of guys who go door to door selling old people driveway treatments and crappy brick façades they don’t need, at obscene markup. Preying on the least able to defend themselves. If you have any friends or relatives who aren’t “good at computers” Google tricks them for money, as a core part of their business model.

And yeah, it’s bottom-feeding scum behavior any time you see it, fit for failed used car salesmen and other low-ability scam artists. That’s the company Google workers keep, ethically speaking. Could be worse, but still bad enough you don’t want them near your kids or grandparents.
For those interested in the patent landscape around mobile, this blog post has a rundown of the biggest patent holders for 5G-related technologies.

The biggest ones are Qualcomm, InterDigital (a NPE), Nokia, Ericsson and Intel.

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2016/03/31/5g-mobile-networks-next...
“We fucking started a hardware business! There’s nothing else to talk about. We shouldn’t have done that.”

What I hear in this quote is "we went into a technological field we know nothing about with the intention of making money. We shouldn't have done that".

Nothing wrong with going into hardware if you have experience end-to-end bringing a hardware product to market. It's just that less people have that than in the software world, and us software people get used to being able to figure out everything JIT.

Probably don't go into chemistry either, or algotrading, or practicing law, thinking "eh, I'll figure it out as I go".
Look at the underline of the words "on github".

The underline doesn't touch the g of github, and furthermore, has a chamfer on it!

Incredible.
There’s a good point here but the clickbait trappings are holding it back, especially since passive listeners aren’t some obscure edge case which only Google needs.
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fyi: the numbered lists only take up half the width of the normal paragraphs, making it look a bit janky and odd, on my chrome on OSX.
I work remotely in NY for a team in Virginia near DC. I make it a point to take Amtrak because of the carryon limits. Of course there's other perks, e.g. no TSA, less people, more seat room.

At the end of the day I'm technically not paying for it (thanks corporate card), so it's a little easier for me to exercise my preferences, but if you book at the right time and trains are a possibility you can get reasonable prices.
Well, Denmark is a very nice place to live...

The two major complaints are the weather and the taxes (30 - 55 %, but again healthcare, eduction, maternity leave and lots of other stuff is free and excellent... )
I get waves of nostalgia when I hear that screeching sound.

At work, when the fax machine was still sitting in my office, I deliberately turned the sound on (for those who don't know: the initial handshake part sounds pretty much the same for modems and fax). Then we got a shiny new printer/scanner/fax that now sits in the hallway.

When I had Internet access for the first time (1996), I used a 14.4 modem for about a year, before I could switch to ISDN. To me, sound always signified a window opening to a new, magical world, where the only boundaries were your imagination and available bandwidth.

A friend of mine once dialed the wrong number, and a human picked up. Hearing a human voice from the modem was really strange.

Ah, good times (except for the crappy bandwidth and the fact that the phone company charged by the minute).
Disque is being reimplemented as a redis module rather than a standalone project. It's scheduled for the next redis release.

https://gist.github.com/antirez/a3787d538eec3db381a41654e214...
Apple created it's own 64-bit ARM chip before the specification was ready.
So that you can receive updates if I make some. You don't have to, though, read http://tapoueh.org/blog/2017/11/mastering-postgresql-in-appl... where you will find the full Table of Contents, or just buy the book ;-)
Launched today, and already has the best sellers package.
So if there is a web server running, can we access that somehow?
Also, what a great thing to include in such a release. A humble and encouraging starting point for others to start building with.
[Screencast] Speeding Up Tests
Also BYOD...
Ask HN: Parents, how do you spark curiosity in your children?
I'm just curious in any of your custom made solutions :P
Classic article! I would also like to recommend http://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicopt... - Oona is clearly a talented engineer :-)
I think this very fact may be part of the issue. The slides may serve multiple purposes: (1) Notes for the presenter, (2) visuals, text for the viewer, and (3) a document for the person who found it via Google. They thus end up being a compromise at all of them.

In the ideal world, there would be three separate documents for the above, but PowerPoint is good enough at all of them that we tend to just create a single document that does all three.
PyDev of the Week: Bruce Eckel
Probably https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14933317 (286 points, 93 days ago, 191 comments)

But the science part of the project is totally wrong. Big chimneys don't work like they describe. While the air ascend in a very tall chimney the pressure and the temperature decrease adiabatically. (In small chimney you can ignore this effect, but a 5km chimney is very tall.) If you want to combat global warming use real science.
One of the most popular, not the. Finding precise numbers is hard, but in 2016, IDC reported worldwide PC sales of ca. 65 million units in Q1, and the market has been in decline (the Q1 2016 numbers were at 2007 levels). Meanwhile Android phones alone account for more than that every month, and while Intel does sell some CPUs for tablets etc. and other markets, it's peanuts compared to their PC sales.

So at least Android still ships in more devices.
Regardless of what you might think about Yammer's UI, a repo full of tested React components written in TypeScript is very valuable as a reference.
I think that Linus is too heavy for a very cheap "CPU".
If by Linux you mean "something easy to develop on", then most micro-controllers come nowadays with an Arduino compatible layer.

If you remove the Linux part from your wishlist, you can consider some "NodeMCU" boards on Chinese websites, eg:
https://www.banggood.com/Wemos-NODEMCU-ESP8266-12F-WiFi-1_30...
https://www.banggood.com/Wemos-TTGO-WiFi-Bluetooth-Battery-E...
The economic incentives for replacing people with machines are far greater than that for going to Mars. So, if that's all you have that's not really reassuring.
There is an important distinction between "program these 30 machines such that every 5 someone gets a pay out" and "program this machine such that 1 out of every n pulls is a pay out."
> 'list a' is an expression, is it not

No, it's a type. 'list' is a type constructor. Staging is a different beast from types altogether. Read up on MetaOCaml for how staging works in a typed language.

You're probably confused by the fact that typed languages assign types to expressions, but a value of type "expression" is something different. You're reifying the AST of an expression as a value at runtime, and then you can build further expressions, and then compile them all.
You wanna search by obscure-to-outsiders collection names. “No intro”, “tosec”. That kind of thing. Pretty sure they have n64, in with the rest of a large multi-system collection.
Be wary of any hockey-stick graphs; as a rule of thumb, its producer is trying to sell you something. (Here, it seems the author is peddling a FUD package). You are quite correct, the text is straight out of a fin-de-siecle technooptimist pamphlet - except in the 1890s, the machines were supposed to liberate mankind, where now they're coming to enslave us.
I didn't downvote or upvote you. I had no idea what EOS is until I googled it. I have zero bitcoins (and some token gridcoins from the last month, but in donating CPU time since it started as SETI).

The above being said, it looks like you are in your own EOS bubble.

You should zoom out of it, and I'd suggest further zoom out of the crypto coin hype, look at the digital coins objectively and decide if you want to lose your money, or risk increasing it.

That being said, some starting points for you:

Coins are trying to become money. We have tons of money, in fact we never had more historically.

After the last few crashes, the CBs dumped primes near zero (to avoid Max style of societial developments), and we even have more money around (cheap debts etc).

But, now we are doing fine.

BIS had a report weeks ago, outlining money contractions, salaries going up, cheap workforce from China+India joining the global economy 20 years ago stabilizing, and all that.

Cheap money, on this planet (so , not in the crypto world, or USA, or Luxemburg, but on this planet) will start contracting.

Crypto valuations, TAM and market caps are as high because people have a lot of extra fiat to dump into it (or in real estate, iPhones, high margin cars, etc).

As money becomes less obtainable, take a guess where they'll be drawn out from (well, Canadian real estate, but other stuff too).

So, after all of the above being said; I'm really glad you have a job as a c++ optimization expert in coin attempt number 3 by your CTO, but I suggest you remain sceptical about it success prospects.
As a reader I like the consistency of Medium et al. No need to learn another interface every time you look at a different subject.
Designing the first service patterns for local government
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The level of hate towards someone who is successfully working for himself, making $150k a year, no being beholden to meetings, stand-ups, managers that don't understand how special the posters are while shaking as a leafs in November being afraid that they won't be able to afford the next rent increase in Silly Valley or that as they turn forty is just amazing.
"...if the stats the media are stating is correct, every 6th employee in the industry would also be addicted (using the definition of addiction used from chemical substance abuse). Since there is no measurable difference in addiction levels for employees (who spend 40hrs per week interacting with slots) and players who spend less time, the addiction argument looses its basis.

Your premise is false: The article states the serious addiction rate as 1 in 6 people who play the slots regularly based on Australian govt statistics.

Also, employees paid to interact with slots for work purposes (building, testing, QA, etc) are not equivalent to other people who proactively go to casinos and pay to play for leisure purposes.
What Is the Mainstream? Why things become popular?
If you can convince my wife, I should very much like to live there. :-)
That's a very niche advice. You can use the same reasoning to book hostels vs hotels -- it's ok if a bed and shared bathroom is all you need, but it doesn't always work.
I agree that open source hardware isn't as big of a deal (yet?) as open source software but the open source that we're talking about here is mostly software in the form of Arduino libraries to drive modules and other chips.

I think the major point is that "ease of use, accessibility, community and the tools" are exactly where the open source software model thrives over a walled garden one. It's not impossible to do this with proprietary software but for the open source projects that are successful, they tend to be successful because the freedom they offer encourages each of those points (imo).
Won't millions of people loose employment? I don't know I'm just asking.
I side with Google on this one. IMO we should be breaking JavaScript more often, especially in the name of performance, to make people use less JS and simpler JS on their websites.
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> I fail to see how using dreamweaver and ftp is somehow better then using Wordpress and the cloud, writing your own html as a prerequisite to having a website was never a good idea - now everyone can have their own website.

Everyone being able to make sites is great, but I miss having sites that were deliberately organized rather than purely chronological. I wish the typical wordpress/livejournal had a frontpage similar to, say,
http://www.gwern.net/ . In theory tags provide the same information, but somehow I've never found them useful in the same way.
Yep, same for me, my mum taught me as a kid that you should never aim to come out of a casino with money. Your wager is your investment in the fun of that experience, take £20 in to play an hour on the 1p/line slots.

In the same way I play the lottery, don't expect to win, but for me the cost is worth it for the moments of daydreaming I get from it.
Yes, this is one space where regulation has really helped, even if sometimes you still find that the actual price is a bit different from the one you expected.
You can specify multiple GOPATHs which will be searched in order for packages;

Your GOPATH could be set to "~/libs/go:~/code/work for work/contracting/go:~code/personal:~/code/third-party"

which would put any go-get libaries into ~/libs/go and allow using packages from the other folders. Keep in mind that Go will still use these Gopaths like any other Gopath repository; create a src/pkg/bin folder set for use with the compiler
Extreme refurbishing series: Episode 1 – Commodore 64
IPMI.

IPMI is not integrated into the main CPU, so you don't have direct ability to control the state of the main CPU, but (depending on implementation) you'll be able to access sensor data, operate on the sensor data logs, get a console etc.

With a properly set up system it means you have a standard way to attach, request a reboot and and interact with the system remotely.
When you optimize for profit at any cost as a company, that kind of mindset carries over into you employee/leadership culture.