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How do they do it now?

Because, after all, the robot job holocaust isn't in the future; it's in the past. As someone else pointed out, in the past, even the relatively recent past, the vast bulk of humanity was directly involved in growing food. Now those jobs are gone. So what happened?

Other jobs, including types of jobs never imagined before.

Capital producers, such as programmers, those still involved in mining, etc. aren't going to want to just sit there and hoard their programs, iron, food, etc., and they will find some way to spend it on other goods and services that the robots can't do, or that humans simply won't accept robots doing. The future has a lot more artists in it, I think.

The unemployed will make money when you decide that there is something in your life that you want, be it art, services, or even just robot wrangling itself, and you want that good or service enough that somebody is willing to provide it for you for a price you'll take. Not you in the abstract, you. If you get desperate enough you may well be willing to pay them to learn how to do this thing you want, or at least subsidize their way through it. Things may change a lot, but the fundamental forces of economics don't break down until this set dwindles to zero (presumably because you can just instantiate an AI to do what you want), at which point all bets are off anyhow, and the poor will probably still be mind-blowingly rich by our standards at that point.

Now, that's not to say everything's hunky dory. There is some legitimate concern about the rate of job elimination exceeding the rate at which people can retrain into other skills. I'm pointing this out though to make the observation that we have over a hundred years of historical answer to your question, a continuous cycle of destruction of industry after industry, yet barring a fundamentally finance-and-stupid-policy crisis that we happen to be in now, we're still looking at single-digit unemployment with people working ~40 hours a week, numbers that are very stable across decades (at least in comparison to the horrible pictures people paint of this scenario). It's interesting to discuss what's different about this innovation surge, but "Who will buy the Model Ts?" ceased to be an interesting question decades ago.

(And personally, while the topic may be in the air, it hasn't happened yet. I don't think this unemployment spike has anything to do with robotics. The business cycle suffices to explain it. I don't expect the next wave of roboticization to really start impacting the job market for a good 5 or 10 years minimum. There's still a lot of pieces to put together.)
Makes sense. Starts with a bubble sort now.
I...don't know how I missed them. They're in now.
From what I've read, it's my impression that their games aren't actually fun and they get pretty much all their popularity through manipulative social incentives to play. I want that model to lose.

More generally, I'm not thrilled by things that try to monetize my relationships with friends and family, which includes, to a degree Facebook itself.
What people should do and what they actually do, is two separate entities. Try again.
I bet a lot of companies would pay on behalf of their employees. That would be cheaper than chartering an entire shuttle.
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If they were already public, this would likely cause a huge drop in the stock price. Similar to what happened to Netflix when they guided down on number of subscribers.
So its... unlikely? PROBABILISTIC FALLACY, TRY AGAIN.
1. Requires a bit more work than I have time for right now. I'll keep it in mind.

2. Fantastic idea. This is exactly what I needed when I was struggling to write a quicksort from memory. Its in there now.
I put this implementation in as a prewritten sort. Thanks!
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Added as a prewritten sort. Thanks!
Yes, Mog actually had that a few days before f8 when they announced they are offering free streaming. The only way to sign-up was with Facebook, which is why I didn't sign-up.
SSH proxy might be better, but its still going to be your whole browser connections that are going through the tunnel. Maybe it would be an alternative to come up with a way of spliting an internet connection among different tunnels, e.g. a way of managing different proxies for different ip destinations.
Could be actually be an interesting project to develop there more user friendly/mainstream compatible privacy tools. Wish I had the skills to do that :)
I consider any inequality in tax rates to be socialist, its in Marx's fucking ten point plan. How is that not socialist?
I may be taking a job in the valley, and I'd be willing to pay up to $15 / day, though obviously the cheaper it is, the more attractive it is. Also, having more than one trip each way is important, or it's too easy to get stranded if I miss the one and only return ride.

Anyway, maybe you should collect emails; everybody else, please make sure email is in your profile, and note that you have to put it in the comment area.
And with the inclusion of the taxpayers who made the bailouts possible and who will ultimately pay the highest price.

Yay for corporatism with a socialist twist.
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If Facebook was banking on expectations that they'd see a 30% cut of Zynga's revenue this does not bode well for a Facebook IPO.
I don't see your point. There are no countries that would have only recently developed an interest in hacking such sites and have the capability to do so. Clearly you're trying to imply that some country is behind this, so feel free to just say it out loud instead of being cute about it and wasting everyone's time.
what am I missing?

That it's quite possible that you don't want the guy on the other side of the wire to call those methods on the object. I find I quite frequently want to share a data model between my client and server code, but I certainly wouldn't want to expose all the stuff that the server does to those objects to the client directly.
The certainly did this not just for fun. Would be interesting to know the "incentives" involved...
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As someone who commuted for two+ years from SF to Cupertino to work at Apple, the coach service they introduced was life saving. I didn't have a car, and Caltrain northbound in the evening is pants, so having the bus show up a block from my apartment (I got lucky) meant I could work out, shower, nap, eat a good breakfast, and be at my desk by 8:45am, getting shit done. It made the subsequent two years a lot easier to take. Plus, you'd occasionally sit down next to a VP, which was sort of cool.

If someone makes a go of this, it will make a noticeable impact on employee productivity.
We just launched recently, and we rushed this out to validate our idea. So far, it's going pretty well and love all the feedback we've gotten. We've added those things to our list of things to fix. Thanks for the advice all the advice.
>a trust

Man, I'd love a gun trust.
I ride Caltrain several times a week and think it does the trick. I've got t-mobile tethering pretty much whole way from PA to SF (only 3 spots where signal goes out temporarily).

Also, gadget charging not a problem on caltrain - on the old trains, sit upstairs in 7th seat from front. On newer trains, all tables have plugs.

No way a shuttle can compete with the commute time of a bullet train. But, I would pay about the same price as a caltrain ticket to ride a shuttle. One perk I would happily pay for is good food! It would save me the time of stopping to grab either breakfast or dinner.
I wrote a longer Obj-C & Cocoa getting started guide (about 30 pages) that's free and available here if anyone is interested: http://designthencode.com/scratch/
Initially, I was under the impression that this tool generates an image. Then I realized that it uses Google's Fonts–which makes it infinitely more useful for super fast logo prototypes. I would Make this more obvious. Don't hide the final "copy-and-pastable" CSS behind a link; it's the best feature.

It could also find more varied use if you allowed the user to input more text at smaller sizes in order to generate Google Font based CSS for other elements of a layout (or to preview how a logo would look at a more realistic size).

I would suggest a slight redesign of the controls on the left so that it is clear which elements affect the font and which are purely for the shadow. Similarly, the "submission" of a shadow to the list of shadows needs a more obvious description (both verbally and visually) of how this process functions.

Overall, I think this is an excellent way of getting a (placeholder) logo up and running in 20 seconds and I'd love to see how you expand on its current state.
-You should target employers, not employees.

-Asking how much they would pay is not the same as asking how much would they pay at most. E.g. I would rather pay $3/trip but would pay up to $7.

-You don't describe the service offered: the nicer it is the more someone would pay if they were paying out of pocket (yellow school bus or an air conditioned coach with WiFi, power outlets, tons of leg room, very few stops, a toilet and fold down tables).
Email is in my profile as well. If you have any spares, I'd appreciate one. Thanks!
> Storage isn't expensive, but managing files is a pain. Especially if you have to manage it across multiple devices. I just want to listen to some Nujabes, do I really have to care where it's saved, or whether I'm on my work PC, my laptop, or the media center downstairs? And that's before you get into the pain of syncing stuff onto your phone...

This sounds like a technological problem, and one that could be easily solved if someone put a little elbow grease into it.

> I pay for the convenience of not having to pirate.

Well, Spotify customers are clearly paying for the inconvenience of having Facebook have access to all their data as well. I'll take piracy over Facebook having access to my information any day.

And I don't know why people make piracy sound like such a difficult thing to do. It seems absolutely trivial to me.
Bailing banks out and nationalizing them are virtually equivalent.

Giving a corporation truck loads of money in exchange for next to nothing and absolutely zero equity is virtually equivalent to taking ownership of a corporation?
Thanks for the valuable insight!

Would I be correct in assuming I shall read Eric's first, and then use Steve's book for elaboration or reference on an as-needed basis?
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Have you played a Zynga game? In Zynga games, you cannot complete the core objectives without recruiting other people to play the game or by paying money. Zynga's products are pyramid schemes masquerading as games.
This tutorial is riddled with dangerous errors even though it's pretty basic. To start with, here's his initializer:

- (id) initWithTitle: (NSString *)aTitle{
self = [super init];
if (self) {
title = aTitle;
}
return self;
}

aTitle isn't retained (and no, he's not using ARC). This is such an obvious, basic mistake that I have no faith in the author at this point.

Here's another error:

For example, this is valid code:
NSObject obj = [Book createBookWithTitle:@"A Brave New World"];

That's not true. It's missing the pointer (NSObject *, not NSObject). Furthermore it's otherwise syntactically valid but comes dangerously close to violating Cocoa best practices for memory management. The method (which returns an autoreleased result in their examples) should be named "bookWithTitle:".

Putting "create" in the name doesn't actually violate the memory management rules (in Cocoa, only methods that have alloc, new, copy, or mutableCopy return owning references). But it will cause confusion with the Create Rule from Core Foundation:

Object-creation functions [have] “Create” embedded in the name...
it is your responsibility to relinquish ownership (using CFRelease) when you have finished with it

Sure, Core Foundation is not Cocoa. But since it's often intermixed, sometimes explicitly with toll-free bridging, boy are people going to be confused someday!
Viewing the source on the resumé page reveals a commented-out section

<!--<H4>Objective:</H4>
A large office, good pay, and very little work.
Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus.-->
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So are you effectively saying that a socialist system would not collapse, because people would to survive and that in less extreme cases, people will strive to generate more capital...

But, in a socialist system, whom would hire these people who would be on the brink of survival?

As for the less extreme cases (let's say a mixed economy), whom will pay them for the creation of value, and who will judge the value created, and who will thwart value creation through placing incorrect judgments?

Do you see where I am getting with my questions?
Indeed, this occurred more slowly but just as surely back in the desktop software days. Even if you really loved Windows 3.1 or AmigaDOS 1.3, you didn't have much of a choice about upgrading eventually. The difference is you had control over exactly when it happened, and could usualy delay for years if you were stubborn. Now changes appear suddenly.
Hey lpolovets,
I agree that's not clear yet. We actually provide all of those depending on the document we get. Some of them need more thorough editing, while other documents just need basic proofreading. The good/great/excellent corresponds to how many editors your text will be read by. Someone else suggested that we change it to that to make it clearer. Thanks for the comment.
"The downward wing configuration makes the airframe slightly unstable, until now an undesirable quality in passenger flight but thanks to advances in computer technology Stratoliner can provide a very stable platform whilst being exceptionally manoeuvrable for a jet of its size."

Why is it not better to just not use this kind of design and not rely on the computer to make it work?
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They haven't leaked the most interesting facts: device price and data-plan pricing model. Is it going to be carrier-price based or content subsidized like on Kindle Ice?
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find-grep-dired is fantastic and fast. Granted it works off of a directory as opposed to a project.
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Being really good at one thing almost always involves being pretty good at a few things.
They're working on Agriculture, and as computer vision improves (as it's doing now) the agricultural jobs are going to fall through the floor.

I have to say that am so conflicted by this.

On one hand, I enjoy farming and run my own small farming operation. On the other hand, I love the technology. Lately, I have even been writing computer vision software in my spare time. Seeing my interests come together like this is really amazing, but also concerning towards my ability to continue farming in the future.

Maybe I will eventually find myself in the best of both worlds; developing software for agricultural equipment.
Being a big fan of Blueprint CSS, I've been finding it very useful on that purpose. Give a try.
http://www.blueprintcss.org/

Or keep searching on Quora & Stackoverflow. Here is an example that might be working for what you've been searching.
http://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-web-2-0-UX-UI-development...

Focussing on Javascript UI libraries could also work.
http://speckyboy.com/2010/05/17/15-javascript-web-ui-librari...
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Keep in mind that it wouldn't be particularly difficult for the Kindle tablet to outsell all the other Android tablets put together. If that proves to be the case, why would they have any difficulty attracting apps?
I don't have enough information to make any conclusions here. But let me add to the discussion that more often than not, it is an order of magnitude (or more!) easier to look at someone else's solution and understand it than it is to arrive at the solution in the first place. I am even willing to believe that, perhaps if the problem were very well-defined, you might be able to solve it in an afternoon. But if you were in his situation, how long would it have taken you to characterize the problem so that you could solve it? Have you had successes doing "complicated stuff" for which there wasn't already something existing to key off of?

In computer science, there is the notion of the NP-complete problem, for which there is no known efficient solution. But if a solution is found, it can be verified very quickly. I think the analogy holds here.
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Right, my point was that cortisol is the link between "lifestyle which results in early death" and elevated serum sodium.
Haha, the post title implies that Google has been working on this for 24 centuries.
IANAS, but you may be introducing bias by offering pre-determined choices for cost. Perhaps a Google or Wufoo form with free-form entry would reduce bias.

Sample questions: a) [radio] prefer one-way or round-trip? b) [radio] do you want wifi? c,d) [textfield] how much are you willing to pay for a wifi (one-way trip|roundtrip)? e,f) [textfield] non-wifi (one-way trip|roundtrip)?
The use of polar coordinates is interesting, and it makes the images look a lot more interesting than a simple X/Y. (Probably less mechanical strain too.)
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I'm not sure I get your point, so I may be arguing against something else entirely here.

That said, the point of parallel offerings is not to provide identical representations of a given resource. Even XML+XSLT versus XHTML might have different semantical implications, so the best assumption is that no two ways of representing a given content can ever be identical.

Well, that's a Good Thing. If I'm requesting a given resource and I signal preference for a PDF-encoded response, that implies on some level that I want a print-formatted, print media version of that resource, whereas its HTML counterpart can be hypertext and multimedia.

What you as a server are committing to is that both servings are representations of the same given resource, but without prejudice of putting each format to its best use.

This is also beautiful in that if the HTML stack proves to be a bad idea in the long run, rather than being deprecated, it can fall into disuse slowly alongside the slow rise of its successor(s). In fact, there's absolutely zilch stopping us from having more than one canonical format — any server-side MVC (or MVCish) architecture can probably handle that off the box!

EDIT: to be sure, the question of how expensive it is to develop for two different representation formats is a whole other story.
>I also really want to emphasize that my time at Facebook was incredible [...]

I'm sure you're telling the truth, but the fact that you feel you should mention it speaks volumes about Facebook & the reputations we cultivate.
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Similarly, my game has Managers for entities, collision components, and renderable components. With each one of these, I don't want to try to dump all of the data in one place where the access patterns become strained, I want them to be "managed" from afar, where there's an interface to easily query or update them.
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David Lynch's perspective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0

He's talking about the iPhone, but I suspect his views wouldn't change much if talking about the iPad.
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"Why this time?" Why not this time? Arguing from historical trends is a weak form of argument, especially when we are discussing something as complicated as the human economy (humans are complicated enough, it's hard to say much for certain about their economy).

Anyway there's data suggesting this transformation is already happening:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=median+wages+adjusted+for+infla...

I'm tentatively in favor of this change – I don't see how having efficient, intelligent, cheap means of production can hurt human civilization in the long run, so long as we can work out resource allocation challenges.
Odd, the results of MYCIN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin) were more accurate than doctors, and that was with 70s computer technology. And while not as nearly entertaining to watch as House, MYCIN was probably much easier to get along with.
Ask HN: Do you have a startup idea to share?
I keep hearing and reading all the time that great ideas are everywhere and easy to come by but I find it extremely difficult to come up with a great or at least a good idea for a startup.

I am hoping that this will become a very long thread about new startup ideas and be an inspiration to all.
Netflix had bad publicity surrounding price increases.

Did Zynga do anything to cause the user base to decline?
whoa you're right. this is littered with problems; the section on properties is screwy too
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I'm self-taught. I also wrote the world's then-largest mail system, which eventually handled 4,000 TPS at zero downtime on servers about as powerful as my iPhone. I also don't know algorithms.

E-mail, at the time, didn't need them - there was no search, no deduplication, no anything but "do a bunch of deterministic, bounded operations very quickly." Sure, some hash tables and plenty of linked lists, but that's about it.

Am I just a big fat outlier there, condemned to cram Skiena before every interview for the rest of my life?
If you're into this kind of stuff check out HackerThings (I made it, not for profit):

http://hackerthings.com/

It's for hardware and electronics hackers (and programmers, of course). A good book on things like this is Programming Interactivity at http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9415 (that's the kind of thing you'll find on HT).
Sure it does, Zynga's revenue increased over the same period.
> robotic lawyers will bring cheap legal services to the masses who can't afford lawyers today.

Just what in the world is a robotic lawyer good for?! It's hard to imagine a profession in which a weird corporeal presence might actually be less useful. Yes, databases and expert systems are taking up a lot of the work that fresh law school graduates were doing a few decades ago. So the poor humans these days need to spend more time with badly paid and unexciting activities, like confronting hostile witnesses and persuading juries...
Open two browser windows ;)

Here are a few other concepts we messed around with:

http://fleetinbeing.net/intake/web/rdi.html (stacked bars)

http://fleetinbeing.net/intake/web/groups.html (hover to see vegetable/nutrients)

http://fleetinbeing.net/intake/web/matrix.html (matrix plot)
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Go to anything allows you to go to methods/functions, do a find in file and go to the line in a file. For example, if I know I want the getWidgets method in Widgets_Controller, I can type Widgets Con[stop typing when the right file is at the top]@getWidgets. To find, replace the @ with a #, and to go to a line, replace the @/# with a :.

I don't if TextMate does this or not, to be honest.