skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with you, history also shows that unemployment and wealth disparity often do rise high enough to cause massive civil unrest.

Yes, high unemployment isn't permanent or a long-term trend. That isn't really relevant though when you're talking about the prospect of blood in the streets prior to returning to decent levels.

The US seems completely arrogant in the sense that they don't seem to think this can happen to them, or that their military superiority somehow insulates them from civil unrest.
Someone should schedule Mock-A-Cop day on facebook to celebrate satire.
That geolocation data isn't any more granular than city/region, which they have a valid reason to want to know about (network latencies vary with significant physical distance). We're not talking about your street address here.
The author put out a request for contributions, and somehow it ended up in my inbox. I thought, "why not?". I just proposed a topic, and when the offer was accepted, wrote a short bit of text.

I'm curious as to the effect it will have, if any. So far it's resulted in two hits to our web site, neither of which explored any further than the home page.
I just logged into Facebook to check. It's not next to "Relationship Status" any more, at least not in the "Edit Profile" area where you'd actually set it. This doesn't really matter anyway.

The fact that someone can deduce what it means doesn't mean it's not an extremely poor wording. A user shouldn't have to go through your 4 questions to figure it out. There shouldn't be any confused-user results when searching for "facebook 'interested in'" online (and there are).
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There's no way of knowing whether a hiring manager will care a few years from now. Or loan officer, or landlord, or police detective. This is why Facebook gets cheerful pablum from me, while HN gets what's actually weighing on my mind.
Undocumented Apple Core Storage commands in Lion
"Don’t fill potholes. That won’t fix the economy."

I'm not certain of the author's intent, but the one and only way that government can actually create jobs is to improve infrastructure. A better transportation network built today will have payoffs 20 years down the line. Unfortunately, it's hard to build a political career on such long-term goals.

One of my favorite Planet Money episodes deals with this:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/05/135151990/the-tues...
"smiling in disbelief that we all seem to happily pay their ridiculous prices and drink their kool-aid."

There seems to be plenty of competition and economies in printer manufacturing. As opposed to cable companies for example.

If I remember correctly the initial Apple Laserwriter or HP Laserjet cost about $8000 in today's dollars.

As others have mentioned I don't think the prices are outrageous at all. Additionally you can get a great used 65 page per minute HP printer that takes the high volume cartridges on ebay for < $350. (With postscript). (HP 4350
a great volume machine). The ink costs much less per page with the high volume machines and the used ones if properly vetted work great.

This is really ridiculous with respect to the cartridges:

"They do this purely to make money. The fact that they do this is clear evidence that they’re ripping you off."
Trademark applies within a category - they have the right to The Elder Scrolls as it relates to video games. If they made a video game that was called your first name, and they trademarked that, you couldn't make another video game called your first name, but they have no rights over the word in the context of person names, etc.

It's not as insane as it might seem at first glance.
I have always wanted a program that shows a movie in my terminal by converting it to ASCII art in real-time, that would be sweet

For the benefit of the original author, mplayer and xine both have ASCII art output modes (mplayer -quiet -vo aa, aaxine).
Haven't we finally reached the point where all the discoveries of the Industrial Age and Information Age are coming together to enable companies to produce goods as efficiently as humanly possible? And won't advances in AI and robotics enable us to push beyond those human limits?

I'd say that it hasn't in the past because up until 60 years ago, humans were the decision makers doing everything.
Patent lawyer, yes. Programmer, not really, just sort of a tinkerer.

That blog post is of course right that a patent attorney can't really write a patent without the help of the inventor. So if you're against software patents, I think it makes sense to put some responsibility on the inventors who help attorneys write them. But I think this line hits the nail on the head: "It’s the benefit of being a good corporate employee, not being considered a trouble maker, not loosing opportunities for promotion, not bringing negative attention to yourself, not going against the tide."

Most people are not willing to put their careers on the line over principles, and that's not going to change. Maybe a handful of the most vehement will, and maybe they're good enough at their jobs to get away with it... but mostly, no. People just go along with what their bosses tell them to do.

The idea about the anti-patents is interesting, but (with that implementation) probably not particularly useful at preventing bad patents from issuing. Patent examiners don't search wikis for prior art--they mostly search the patent literature, and to some extent scholarly articles, textbooks, and things like that. So while a wiki article might be helpful at invalidating a patent in litigation years down the road (assuming the defendant found it and could prove when it was written), it's tough to imagine the circumstances where it gets on an examiner's desk and helps him do his job.
Love it. Could also imagine an ES5 mode, etc.
(I mean the statement in the blog post is ridiculous)
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Is Meta: let me provide some reasons why this bubble/downturn unlike all previous ones and will last forever.
That said I do believe automation will begin to eat away at jobs when we get to the point where robotics can duplicate the functions performed by low end labor.

I have seen tire factories where the only time a tire is touched by a human is at the end of the line QC inspections. They basically have two types of workers operators who feed raw materials in to the machines and clear minor jams, and mechanics who perform maintenance and repair broken machines. Sure the change over to industrial automation isn't complete but it is much further along than you might suppose.
let's build a better and stronger platform for ... clicking virtual cows!
Interesting. Some more context would be good though: is it part of a certain chapter of some sorts, or does it really stand on itself?
Getting a turist visa shouldn't be that much of a problem.

But yeah, moving to the Valley is kinda like NASA going to Mars: quite a lot talk is going on and you keep getting your hopes up but in the end it just isn't feasible yet.

Chile on the other hand...
In real life you can maintain pseudymity by just never exposing your identity. This happens all the time, much more often than the Internet (e.g. As I type this under a tree by the road of my uni, no one knows who I am and yet my nick here absolutely identifies me).
So what's the big technological difference between this year and, say, four years ago? Why was unemployment below 5% then?
Right now i'm only pulling Strikeforce and UFC. Since the events are updated manually i don't really have the time right now to research and maintain cards for so many promotions. Perhaps with the use of something like mechanical turk it could be made manageable without breaking the bank.

I was trying to avoid scraping sherdog since i'm not sure of the legal ramifications of doing so. Felt a little bit safer using wikipedia.
"Programming is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art"

Nonsense.
There is also OpenDNS which does basically the same.
Well, I know a fair number of people who don't use Facebook, for whatever that's worth.
@civilian this comment made me laugh :)
Code Formatting - when working in a team on a shared code base it'll aid productivity greatly if you establish a set of formatting standards and stick by them. Ideally you can translate this to an IDE template and automate formatting.
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Exactly. How about all the unemployed horseshoe manufacturers (blacksmiths)? Technology doesn't kill jobs, it improves efficiency so capital can be deployed elsewhere. The problem today are the hurtles government places in the way in the form of regulations and taxes that inhibit the efficient deployment of capital.

The divergence is that to form a single job a knowledge worker requires far less capital compared to a manufacturing job. A developer needs 10k in equipment to be productive compared to 100k's for a manufacturing job. When you actually adjust for the US regulatory and tax environment the gap increases even more, making overseas manufacturing a no-brainer.
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What's the chance of also getting optional Type Annotations into CoffeScript core as well?

As this would greatly help the closure compiler do optimisations, and since it is opt-in to add the typed parameter and would only produce a javascript comment above said variable.

For example....

foo <: String = "hey"

/* @type {String} */
var foo = "hey"

I don't think this is deviating from CoffeeScript's aim to keep things pure? Is it?
I absolutely agree - and not only does the article barley scratch what is Unix standard anyways, and the more tricky questions such as piping, exit and error states, or the environment are left out. Kind of disappointing, in my opinion.
If you are concerned about such logging issues, you could use Level 3's servers. They operate 6 DNS servers at 4.2.2.1 through 4.2.2.6. I've heard people claim L3 discourages this, but from my use, that doesn't appear to be the case.
I've noticed this trend, and it's greatly concerning. There are plenty of downsides to wage slavery, but overall there has been a historical improvement to human dignity and quality of life due to people being useful as units of production.

As technology diminishes this and there are fewer roles that need to be fulfilled by actual humans, people will be forced to viciously compete over fewer and fewer jobs to stay out of abject poverty. So-called "knowledge work" isn't safe either, as these jobs gradually get gobbled up by software and specialized AI algorithms.

Maybe the unemployed will be able to invent new jobs for themselves to create more wealth; maybe technology advances will make a welfare state trivially cheap to maintain. But I think the prospects for mass poverty are very real.
Someone works for betable, I see.
That's true - if it sucks, it won't matter what day we launch. <grin> But if it doesn't, we'd like to have the best possible opportunities for success. I appreciate the comment.
Why are you hypothesizing about how the way things currently are might be a problem, when they in fact visibly aren't a problem? What's your point?
>He thought that automation would allow human beings to focus on more interesting and rewarding jobs.

i think he is right. There is a bunch of problems in theoretical physics that somebody need to attend to asap and specifically there are some in gravitational waves theory that i'd like to get into as soon as somebody automate the enterprise software development. In the meantime we can't find people to fill open positions (30%) in our department.
Or maybe it's not wealth disparity that causes civil unrest, but rather the absolute level of poverty on the low end. Here in the US there's no sign of any kind of generalized unrest. Far less than there was in the 70s when, according to the "disparity causes unrest" theory there should have been even less.
Ok, cool, seems like we're thinking along similar lines :-) The problem I see, however, is perhaps different to the one you pose. As distasteful as this sounds, I suggest that perhaps the "average" person is ill equipped to deal with those more interesting and rewarding jobs, given that they're likely to require significant technical or creative skills.

Can we bring "the masses", as it were, up to the levels of talent and expertise we'll require in the future, or is there a limit to how good our education and training can be? Will we reach a point where a small number of people are, effectively, supporting the majority? A mini version of this seems to be happening in some Western countries with people who've lived their entire lives on welfare. Perhaps the future is just one where more of us end up on welfare and the government keeps us going on the spoils of the extremely smart and/or powerful.
I read it more as a metaphorical pothole, like just patching small holes instead of fixing bigger problems.
Doesn't Chrome already store full-text history?
"Anonymously earning income, using banks, and getting health care are much bigger problems"

Because of fraud of course, not because legal names are somehow holy. Did you know for example that passports are a recent invention? Did you know that even names where at some point invented? They are now though widely used and conventional.

Honestly however, throughout all your replies here, I have not to be very honest heard of one reason why the choice of people should be limited by such a gigantic organisation which in many ways defines the internet and for a number of people is the interent.

The excuse that your mother might be apprehensive about commenting because djjd has commented is frankly ridiculous. Firstly, you can simply educate her that this is how the internet works. Anyway, I do not think your mother would comment if that person was using a real name either because that person would probably be a friend or a number or friends or coworkers and frankly, I would rather my mother did not so engage in commenting in such spheres. My mother is some distant figure they get to meet when they come home and she makes them a very nice dinner.

Your second point was basically you like it and therefore I do not care that other people do not like it. You are saying google has the choice to make such policy and you disagreeing with it does not matter at all because if you do not like it you can go somewhere else. That is what those in power say to those that challenge them. Not saying you are in power at all, but when someone criticises something, you can not simply say well you do not like it, then leave. If I am challenging the government because of a policy, my government can not simply say, well leave. Nor indeed is it an excuse that the rich may leave if we tax them.

We are talking about millions of people. Google+ is hardly a niche. When we talk about Facebook, we are talking about billions of people. You see, that is how social networks work. Though you can have a network for those that use nicknames and those that do not, what if these people want to share the same network?

Finally, Facebook has been very vocal about its antagonism against anonymity. Google is very high profile too so they enforcing a real name policy is not a small deal. Soon, they will want us to use real names everywhere. These are not small fish. They are giants, really, in some ways, the governments of the internet. So it is not about G+ or Facebook. I think, it is about a principle. The principle to be anonymous. The principle to not be judged by colour, ethnicity, gender, nationality, orientation, disability, etc. Names convey a lot of information. Indeed they convey all of these informations.

The internet is a level playing field where people are judged based on content, unlike, in many instances, in the real life. The internet is so awesome because in many ways it is not like real life. It is, in many ways, completely different from real life. That is what has made it such a powerful engine of our society and if you wish the power structures in the real world to be transported to this world, then you must be mad.
The sad thing about all of this is that the patent system in our industry is in fact horribly, cynically broken.

What really confuses me about this whole thing is that no one seems to disagree that the patent system is broken. (Well, except maybe Nilay Patel.) So, if you agree with Google that the patent system needs some nontrivial amount of serious reform, why spend your time, influence, bandwidth, and rhetorical capital on disparaging Google about its arguably trivial communications blunders instead of advancing the cause that you yourself purport to advocate?

Google had a terrific opportunity to make that case and shift public opinion in its (and I believe in the long term, everyone’s) favor.

Every tech press outlet has a similar opportunity, though smaller in scope. Why not talk about the part of this that actually matters? The only conclusion I can come to is that you're reflexively anti-Google.

Am I wrong?
The guy's screaming "Dad! Dad! Dad!" ... that breaks my heart.

One bystander wisely asks "How do you resist when they're on top of your back?" and then wonders why they don't just put the cuffs on him and be done with it. That's a common theme I've noticed with these incidents: the assailants keep saying "stop resisting! stop resisting!" But I imagine it's kind of hard to stop struggling and moving around when you're terrified, in excruciating pain, and being crushed with body weight like that.

Wrongful and unwarranted arrest is bad enough, but this sadistic torture and power-play brutality has got to stop.

Oh and get this:

http://www.cityoffullerton.com/civica/press/display.asp?layo...

Would you go forward if you were a witness?
And the past smells like roses?

There is some messed up stuff going on and the potential for more, but that's something to fix and not an excuse for fatalism. Protecting individual freedom and human rights is an ongoing process.
Downvoted because it's not the kind of humor we prefer here. We enjoy well-thought out intellectual debate. You final paragraph here is what you should have posted initially -- it has substance.
Some believe that the police merely are
trying to use the guise of charges to obtain
the suspect's name in order to harass him
outside the courts.

A valid possibility, which speaks strongly in favor of anonymous speech still being important.
Yep, that's why I know so much about the space :)
In what way? seems like a straight forward response to me. Corporations do what corporations do, I personally can't see any difference in Microsofts behavior to Googles. They are both as benevolent and malicious as each other in my book.
I agree with you on both counts. I've used multiprocessing to great effect, and, although it was fantastic for what it did, it was very buggy...

Nowadays, I'd just use Celery instead!
Relearn how to do something "the rails way" when they already know how to do it elegantly in PHP or ruby/sinatra.
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I suppose my argument wouldn't hold if you look at just 4 years, but I think it would if you look over a few centuries, as pg noted.
Thanks, Joe.

I'm making my way through another HN user's recommendation, Code. I've heard good things about The Mythical Man Month (especially from my more technical startup-involved friends), so I think that might be next on my list. As for SICP, I'm a tad intimidated, but it seems approachable enough.

Regarding the other suggestions, they too will be read. Thank you for these.
> Just because they are effective doesn’t mean they are not big.

But just because they're effective doesn't mean they're big either. As far as game development companies go, Mojang is positively tiny. Efficient (or, really, in possession of a very popular IP), but tiny.

> They certainly are one of the smaller developers. What they are not, however, is a small indie developer. They are a huge indie developer.

Right, they're pretty big as far as indies go. But they're still a small gaming company.
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An outline of the different types of tweets, connectsions, and tweeting activities a set of algorithms might account for, if filtering signal from noise in the twitter stream.
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I think a better way of putting would be "technology is killing old jobs, and people aren't stepping into the new jobs fast enough". The author is exactly right that the gov't and mainstream are trying to hold onto the old ways.

I think the mainstream is surprised by this technology shift, because technology is finally replacing non-tech industries that didn't expect to be replaced. Nobody was surprised when blacksmiths were replaced, because they were "old tech" being replaced with "new tech". When brick&mortar retail or law get replaced, there's a lot of gnashing of teeth.
There is a net increase in jobs, but that's mostly in developing countries. Technology (the internet, container shipping) has actually enabled an explosion of job growth in those countries. Unfortunately, these trends destroy jobs in developed countries.

So I think you are correct that there will be a net increase in jobs, but it may take quite a while for developed countries to experience this. In the meantime, they are on the look-out for explanations.
Exactly. If he's saying it shouldn't be a big deal to get back up at another address, then why is he allowing ICE to seize it in the first place, and what's the point of his ruling?
One possibility is that we have reached a point where the barriers to entry in what would be the job creating sectors are being held artificially high by a combination of regulatory capture and a global intellectual property regime that is tilted towards incumbent rights owners and against new entrants. Call it the Deadlock Hypothesis. You see it in medicine, where it's clear that there is a 30 year backlog of potential new technologies that cannot be brought to market because the process for clearing patent rights is too expensive for any organization small enough to be truly innovative (automated pathology labs to pick one example).You see it in the payment industry where it's effectively impossible for new entrants to innovate without the permission of the established players (cf. the story of Square). For all the rhetoric and ideology of free markets our regulatory infrastructure is geared towards incumbents in ways that make it insane to invest in industries that would be creating new jobs now and in the future.
You avoid interference in the same way you avoid it for radio wave communication: multiplexing. It could be time-based (time slots for each sender), frequency-based (different colors) or code-based (look up CDMA).

Plus, you already have 'spatial multiplexing' because light doesn't pass through walls as opposed to RF.
Public works also destroy jobs, since the wealth to fund them has to first be extracted from the public.
hook.io sits on top of Node.js and deals with IO. How on earth does this relate to Nirvana's goal of having something like Node.js for Erlang?
"Public works DO create jobs, it's an empirical fact."

No it's not. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It's never that simple. Along with the obvious broken window fallacy problems, you have to look at how you are paying for that public work. Taxing a net two median-pay jobs out of existence to create a single public works median-pay job is destroying a job, not creating one.
Anyone else disturbed by the weirdly Luddite/anti-Google tone of this piece? Is there some reason not to take Google's statement about the human driver at face value? Is there really anything more to this story than: "A human quite unremarkably crashed a car into another car, as happens millions of times a year"?
> I had not known about Tim Langdell

You've missed out. I recommend browsing the archives of ChaosEdge[0] to get the backstory. It's really quite amazing. In gaming communities, Langdell is the One True Trademark Troll.

[0] http://chaosedge.wordpress.com/
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