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I usually wouldn't respond to mean comments, but, this one really throws me off (I'm the OP).

There is a very strong difference between "cannot write" and the need for something to be simple.

I can definitely handle C/C++, and I don't think writing something in a higher-level language changes that.

If something is doing processing with 4000 threads with around 10 years worth of by-the-minute data, it sure as hell will run too slow in Python.

And, the arguments stated after are not crucial to "making you switch to Go", which was not the point of the article anyway.

EDIT: Also, I did not abandon the app, and in fact open sourced the Bayesian filter stuff I wrote right here: https://github.com/Poincare/Bayesian.go
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12 lbs (in the USA), it has to be two separate payload boxes though (so 6 lbs and 6 lbs).

You can launch a lot of equipment with a single weather balloon and a styrofoam box. I've been there done that: http://nearspace.0x58.com/
Even if I was 59, I still think that the comment above is quite misinformed.
To wit: the recession and slow recovery of the last
couple of years are just that, a recession and slow
recovery--they aren't a harbinger to the end of
capitalism or conventional labor or employment.

The recession and slow recovery are what we make of them. The future is not already determined. There may or may not be the end of capitalism, but that doesn't say anything about whether that's a goal we should pursue.

Even though Rushkoff believes that automation is killing jobs, he doesn't believe that the alternative he proposes is inevitable. He just invites us to consider it.
It's not so impossible to believe.

The objection I often hear (and I recall that this is PG's stance as well) is that as old jobs disappear new ones will take their place. For example, as the article mentioned, the former toll booth operator could now repair the automated toll booth system.

So far this general idea has been true. Before computers existed as we know them, "computers" were people who did lengthy computations for a living, often for scientists. Once electronic computers arrived these people seemingly found new jobs and survived.

I'm not sure if this will continue to be the case. We may be reaching a discontinuous point on the economic timeline. If robotic and computer systems are developed that can effectively do the jobs of most humans for less than minimum wage, there won't be enough work for people to make a good living.

The key difference is the following: in the past, technology has only disrupted specific segments of the economy, allowing humans to find work other places where they could still add value. Now, technology has the potential to disrupt the majority of the economy. There won't be any work to do.

There will still be pockets where humans can add value, but there will be so much competition for this work by all the unemployed that the wages will be driven down to nil.

If this situation occurs, the Government will have to find a way to distribute resources directly to the masses lest every sitting politician be voted out of office. In fact, all the rhetoric right now about creating jobs is exactly that. Politicians are promising that they'll find a way to distribute resources to the unemployed.
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I didn't give Lisp 5 minutes; something I still regret (could have learned it so much earlier!)
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…No. The evidence strongly supports this.

It’s a fundamental principle of ecology that an increase in food production causes an increase in population. But what may not be intuitive is that these two increases need not happen in the same place, and often do not.

Contraception is irrelevant. Our population is not growing as quickly in the developed world as it is elsewhere, but it is still assuredly growing. It always will grow, as long as we are human and there is enough food to allow it.

We produce enough food each year to feed every person on the planet. If we were to continue producing exactly as much food each year as we did the last year, then our population would, necessarily, cease to grow.

I am not trying to be “fashionably cynical”, nor cold-hearted. I don’t think we’re “reproducing uncontrollably”. I am advocating that some people must starve to death because it is more humane than the alternative of producing ever more people each generation to starve to death. Surely you can understand why I argue such a seemingly untenable position, even if you aren’t comfortable agreeing.
Specially considering that the average volume/weight/cost by package must have increased tenfold because of e-commerce.
I've used web.go successfully before; its quite nice.
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Haskell also has (pretty) good library support (talking about "batteries included")
I'm male and have many of the same sociological grievances with my tech sector colleagues.
I find it impossible to relate to people whose primary and sole interest is technology, and who have stifling personal traits that seem to correspond to that.
Go has the advantage of being developed by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. It also potentially has the marketing muscle of Google behind it, although the most I've seen so far is free stuffed Gophers at OSCON.

Type safety, easy concurrency, static checking, C-like syntax, fast compilation time, concise syntax, etc. Java is ripe for replacing as the default language for (new) large systems. The replacement could be another language on the JVM, but I think Go has a good shot.
Whoa. Greenhouse on mars as a photo op to get people interested in space again?

Elon Musk is probably the most amazing entrepreneur of the modern day. Electronic payments. Electric cars (which might prevent the next middle eastern war), and solar power. Space.
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Let us put it this way. As automation increases and there are cheaper and greener ways to harness and use energy. What we are likely to see is change of goals in life.

We may no longer strive for food, clothing and shelter. Many things may come automatically. But we will have to still work to make a living for many things like medicine, travel, vacations etc but the basic stuff may all come at cheaper prices.

There will still be 'rich' and 'poor' people. People will pay for greater things. The poor will no longer strive for basic survival, but they will have to strive for luxury.

The whole point is the definition of poverty and luxury will change. And we are likely to have better standards of living at the lowest levels.
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The baseline was a substantial test corpus that we scaled several orders of magnitude over a series of runs, all meant to simulate typical clip size with typical word frequencies. The 10-100x gains had two contributions that each was in the 3-10x range. We tested it against the standard search which incorrectly performed pagination because of the misorder on sort versus slice. We also tested in on two types of map/reduce jobs that correctly implemented the sort and slice (and had been in production).

Ideally, we would have kept the data around to give a fuller a report. But the truth is we did this over 9 months ago and didn't save the data. After informally sharing the impact with a lot of people, we heard a lot of encouragement to share the techniques.

And you're right, this is not hard core science nor engineering. But it is a good tip, which you can take or leave.
I really wish a reality show would focus on SpaceX and take us along for the ride so to speak. One way to really get kids excited about science again is bring things like this to the forefront-- show everyone it's an adventure, hard work and a ton of risk but ultimately leaving an indelible mark in history.
The problem isn't really the banks, it's our current monetary system which gives tremendous power to the banks. We created this mess ourselves.

First we create a monetary system in which private banks are instrumental in both distributing and creating new currency, making it possible for them to reap huge gains and grow abnormally large. Then we get angry at the banks when they use this power for financial gain. How about not giving them this power in the first place?

I'm reading a very interesting book on monetary systems called "Paper Money Collapse" by a German named Detlev Schlichter who worked in the financial sector for 20 years. We're used to the system working this way, but a thorough explanation of the system - like the one in this book - really shows what a strange and cumbersome system it is we've created. It's as if on the area of the production of goods and services we've come to the conclusion that it's best to let private companies produce these, as the state is simply too inefficient to accomplish anything the market is able to. But in the area of money production we still advocate a state monopoly.
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You were too.
So, since the tablets are clearly gaining 4g... then what?
Yeah was getting into the article until near the end when it started to feel like a not-so-subtle defense of "intellectual property", i.e., "if only we could better monetize our digital creations Utopia would be within reach".

I honestly feel that the way our government is run by lawyers (who seem to actually believe in this silly idea of an IP-based economy) is the reason so much manufacturing has fled the country. Americans today just don't know the value of mining, manufacturing, and agriculture. Germany and Switzerland didn't make this mistake. They love and value manufacturing and look where their economies are.

(And by the way kids, get off my lawn :-)
I almost always avoid commenting on issues like this just because -- as a guy -- there's no upside to saying anything and a lot of potential downside. So even though I think the issue is interesting and important and worth discussing, I generally find myself mildly terrified at the prospect of making any sort commentary (or even really, at asking a question). There's kind of a thing where if you're from a certain group, you can't really talk about this sort of thing without making your "allegiances" super clear. I don't really think that's a healthy intellectual environment. And even then, any thought is met with a lot of wide looking eyes. There are indeed things you can't say.

So, I feel weird whenever I see articles like this on hacker news, not because the subject isn't worth discussing, but because I feel like the only commentary that's "acceptable" is platitudes. There's no real room for exploration or thought experiments. The stakes are too high. It's not really a discussion, it's more of a social game. Not a social game in the farmville sense, but in the Eric Berne "Games People Play" sense. It's often quite ritualized.

That said, I feel like this article is conflating an obvious cultural issue with a gender issue, and I think that's a mistake. The link to me between the culture problem and the gender problem isn't super obvious. I have a lot of the same complaints as her with regard to a lot of startup culture, and I'm a guy. The suggestion seems to be that somehow this particular startup culture is obviously masculine, and I don't see how that's the case. I actually agree with some (not all) of the criticisms of that culture, but I don't think that it really has anything to do with gender. I don't want to suggest that gender never plays a role, because I think that would be naive, but if you're going to make that claim I think it's important you back it up with something solid because making everyone walk on egg shells based on conjecture just makes things uncomfortable for everyone, and that accomplishes nothing.
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I'd like to comment on her point that her co-workers are myopic in their interests: this is irrelevant to her argument as she could just as easily be a male whose interests lie outside of the status quo

I find this sentence key in a number of ways. Tech firms or departments are often filled with individuals with autistic-spectrum traits - among which are poor social skills, an obsession with details, myopic interest and hyper-rationalistic thought. ASD is 4-1 more prevalent in men than women

Her point is not that some of her interests lie outside the status quo, it's that the entirety of her coworkers interests do - they are only interested in or able to connect with each other or her regarding facts and ideas relating to their work, and are seemingly unable to connect that work to any greater meaning or purpose in life
You could possibly pay for a mars (and certainly moon) mission just by doing a bunch of movies, reality shows, etc.

$5b incremental cost to do a moon mission, probably, for SpaceX in a few years. $10-20b to do Mars Direct. That's not incredibly far off from a major video game or movie franchise.
It's true, narrow cultural perspectives are an endemic problem in tech, and it can be noticed as a problem by men and women.

My favorite touchstone story on this was an earnest conversation my wife, an artist, got into with a physics postdoc at an ivy league school. He wanted to tell her his thoughts on Michelangelo's Sixteenth Chapel -- he repeated it clearly several times in the course of making some kind of point about what art should be.

It took some time to understand he meant the Sistine Chapel. Anyone can make a silly mistake. But this one illustrated the combination of "used to being right" self-assurance, with utter cultural ignorance that should disqualify one from offering opinions. ("Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.")

On the other hand, there are a lot of polymaths in tech. Often "thing" stuff -- flying, scuba, rocketry, photography, astronomy, climbing. It can be rewarding to hear about other people's deep understanding of their hobby.

At the close of the article, it sounded like the OP wants a big picture goal or mission for her tech work. You have to find one of these. Sometimes education is a way, or a seeking out a unique opportunity to make a difference.
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One reason I don't think gets mentioned enough for software sucking: developers don't really use the product enough to optimize it (they don't have time). Especially for complex applications. If there isn't an effective feedback loop from users about pain points, and an institutional drive to address them, major problems in software persist version after version.
Apple could replace cable TV (if they chose to. I don't think they will, but it is possible..)
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What's funny though is the Middle East is a sunny place which is perfect for generating power from solar, if electric takes over from oil it may still be in the energy business.

Add to that oil is used for more than just fuel for vehicles so electric power and oil both in the Middle East, but I'm sure other sunny countries will generate their own.
There are non-US companies they can buy. I've heard that was a main driver in MS' purchase of Skype. They didn't want to repatriotize assets, so they just bought a foreign company.
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Looks interesting, but (as so often with node libraries) a little more focus on why people should use this package would be nice. :)
Before this thread descends to saying the 'The Matrix' is inevitable.

If the levels automation rise to crazy levels, and there are cheaper and greener sources to energy to drive them. Then Food, Clothing and Shelter won't be much of a problem. We will get those three things without much effort. In other words, you can survive without doing anything.

But you will still pay for Opera, a concert, you will pay to visit a art gallery. You will still pay for quality entertainment. You will continue to pay for a costly vacation in a foreign country. You will pay to find out the deepest secrets of the universe and traveling to get there. Somebody might invent an organic fruit which might taste nothing like before, and you might have to pay just to taste it. There might be narcotic drugs that take you heaven without killing you, and you might pay for it etc etc. .Our goals as a society will be different. But we will still have to work to meet them.

There will be reasons for humans to exist, but those will be very different reasons.
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Paul is right. Writing is definitely the best way to convey and spread ideas. If you're a good enough writer, you can spark a reformation just by printing up a few copies of your 95 theses and passing them around. I think writing unfortunately took a back seat to speaking for the last 100 years thanks to radio and television, where a small number of charismatic speakers have been able to dominate the public discourse.

But that is changing again thanks to the internet. Take SOPA for example. SOPA was defeated not by an influential speaker making an impassioned anti-SOPA speech, but by blog posts and forum posts and reddit/hacker news posts on the internet. We're getting closer every day to the world of the novel Ender's Game, where Ender's brother and sister were able to influence international politics solely through their anonymous internet writings (something which I used to think was farfetched and ridiculous).
Except that birth rates are not just not increasing in the developed world but are below the replacement rate for many countries, such as Japan and Russia.
IT itself is susceptible to the danger of shrinking given 2 things:

- The rise of *aaS

- The mindset of maximizing profits and and minimize expense

Some of us have said a few times in the past: building software is expensive.

Some of us have also said a few times in the past that: good programmers are expensive.

Put two together and you get a recipe as to why more companies shy away from custom-development and prefer to build IT based on OOB + small tweaks.

I've been seeing a growing demand of Microsoft Office 365 + Sharepoint Online + Dynamics CRM Online as opposed to in-house installation or using Basecamp.NEXT + Backpack (yes, SP Online is equal to Basecamp.NEXT + Backpack). Some companies don't necessarily put top premium for nice UI or super simple easy and friendly software.

Open Source software is also impacted with the rise of the cloud: in certain area of software, if the cost of the commercial offering is less than installing+maintaining Open Source software, then that particular area of software for Open Source probably will die eventually (e.g.: Open Source bug tracking and project management software => Is it more expensive to install+maintain Trac vs paying GitHub/FogCreek/Atlassian to host everything?)

We might be slowly eating ourselves as well (in the context of IT). Whether we can produce something new, innovative, and exciting, faster than we can eat is yet to be seen.

PS: There are industries with unique requirements and regulations, these industries might pay for expensive custom software until one day a new software will arise and effectively kill customization in the said industry.
It's mainly a bad impression then, that w/ Python every document is to the point and with Java an outsider can't do anything?

I'll try to build my next project on top of github.com/codahale/dropwizard
Yes, we are using less USPS for sending payments and letters. That is only one aspect of USPS. People are shipping way more stuff than they do using USPS. A lot of stuff that is bought in websites like eBay and amazon goes through USPS. eCommerce is growing year over year, which means growth for USPS.

IMHO, USPS is more important now than ever.
Maybe at some point, but this is just updating the kernel itself, not the system Google distributes as Android. That basically means the stuff that the Android developers have created to make Linux run on Android devices is being added to the mainline kernel. In other words, for the first time, you should be able to compile the mainline Linux kernel and boot it on an Android device.

Here's a good overview of the change, why it took a while, and what shape it will take: https://lwn.net/Articles/472984/
Amazon's PE is very misleading. Their revenues are much higher than their profits and can be monetized more in the future. They aren't trying to maximize profits, currently.
Problems:

- power needed

- weather situation can screw things up

- a node needed on the ground. while servers cant be seized, the ground station and local laws still needed.
Well how else are you going to boot your Apple via Wifi from the hospital across the street?
I'm sure someone else picked up on this...

"New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures -- from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete."

I wasn't aware that "Google-controlled self-driving automobiles" was rendering taxicab drivers obsolete any time in the near future... call me a luddite, but we've probably got several decades of legal and social hurdles before that even approaches being a reality.
Guys, look, this is what test pilots are for. They get paid the big bucks, because they occasionally fall out of the sky. The electronic emissions on a 767 are already more complex than any simulation could ever predict. If they were going to fall out of the sky because of emissions, it would have happened already, without a single phone on board.

Now, that's with hundreds of channels running right next to each other in cable bundles. You're talking about tiny emissions from tiny devices, a couple layers of shielding away. There's no way they can anticipate every combination of everything else involved, but I'm pretty sure those cable bundles pose a far greater problem on every flight, every day, than your cell phone ever will. And I'm pretty certain vast numbers of passengers have left their cell phones on during take off and landing, and there's no, zero, zip incidents of a plane falling out of the sky because of it.
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