skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd feel different if your job were eliminated by automation (not least because such jobs are correlated with lower educational achievement).
Economics is not scientific enough, but your statement is purely ignorant and makes ti clear you've never cracked open an economics textbook.
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That would be fantastic! It doesn't seem unreasonable to create an open source project that adheres to the Dropbox API. Then it would just be a matter of getting clients to include a "file sync URL" field in the settings of their apps.
For comparison:

I got theverge.com in ~3 seconds from first click Using Chrome on a 40MB FIOS connection i7 2500k @ 3.6ghz w SSD & 16GB RAM on windows 7 without add-block or no script.

My PC is over a year old so it's probably the internet connection and then again the CPU is also 2-3+x as fast.
Why would new industries and job roles always spring up to replace ones which have become obsolete? I agree that historically this has happened but I see no reason that it should be a necessary consequence. We have to consider the possibility that a segment of the population will have no realistic options for producing marginal value.
I would say look up consumer-plastics, like high-quality cups and pens. I'm not talking about the use once and toss away stuff: think Tervis-style items or things made with tritan. It gets considerably more complex if you only target items that are eco-friendly, then add in imprinting and the world gets exceptionally complicated.

Another issue is mold-creation, which is separated from manufacturing in many cases and also very expensive. The piece-counts are usually tolerable. The fact is that China can do custom molding much cheaper and many US companies refuse to do it at all.

I've also discovered that many companies will straight-up lie to you about USA-made items as well. The company I worked for recently caught one person lying about this stuff, so there's that element as well.
Ask HN: Recommend software to record browser screen and produce video?
use git-svn.
We've been using it a few months and really like it.

Now we're looking to integrate it with Phrabricator (http://www.phabricator.com/) which is a bit of a do-everything-goliath of systems but we hope will enable us to do some formalization of code reviews, security audits, and thus our deployment/release processes. (Ideally we want these cryptographically signed off on.)

Has anyone had good experience integrating GitLab with Phabricator or other external tools? Recommendations? Gotchas?
The github error page is an angry unicorn. Similar to ars technica's moonshark, or twitter's failwhale.
Experimenting with Your Privacy, Facebook Begins Selling Access to Your Inbox
I did, that was what moved me to post.
BigCorp is rarely a rational actor. When someone inside wants to buy you, they may justify it this way to sell it to decision-makers, but this is not how companies really approach the market in my (admittedly limited and non-US centric) experience.

I would strongly advise against anyone launching a company if a successful outcome is contingent on a potential purchaser knowing what is best for them....
My view: sed does not need to be "extended" nor should it require much maintenance. At least, the BSD sed's I use have not needed much work. I recall Brian Kernighan mentioning how little maintenance awk has required over the years. As such, I fail to see why changing maintainers is newsworthy. Perhaps someone was looking for an excuse to state their opinions on other matters?

I'll be honest I could not understand what Mr Bonzini is trying to say anymore than I could understand Mr Stallman's antics in the recent YouTube clip. With all due respect, what are these people on about? What is the problem? Clearly and succinctly, please.
Samsung is backing the development of the EFL libraries behind E17 for the Tizen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen) initiative. Possibly a hedge against Android.

Also note that E17/EFL is supporting Wayland (http://wayland.freedesktop.org/toolkits.html) - forward looking indeed.

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And when the day comes that available labor far outstrips the demand for labor? Your skill may be in demand, but how many will be willing to do the job at subsistence rates? Will the day come when 10s of millions (billion even?) of people be made redundant by technology? What will they do to eat? How will nations and societies deal with this? Grind the unemployed in to Soylent Green?, grand social welfare programs?, war?

I always liked this fictional story about it.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Thanks czbond.

Yes it is for my company which is basically meant to be a niche website whose access based on monthly subscription (i.e. users from all over the US pay every month for access). My "office" is in WA.

I was looking for how to make a single-member LLC that would offer me the most personal protection, for lawsuits both by users (though right now I don't see why that would happen) and potentially from similar companies for some kind of infringement. I would of course separate the entity records/transactions from my personal ones. mchannon's perspective seems to be that even if I do everything by the book I still look like an appealing target as a SMLLC which could cost me time and money even if it holds.

From most of the replies above it seems like there are issues with the SMLLC as a choice - what are your thoughts on this?
Me neither, chrome 18 android
Dropped packets are directly related to "page weight" and get worse depending on latency.

400 round trips * 500ms latency is 3 min 20 seconds. This took 20 minutes to load 1 megabyte.
Ask HN: Do Bangaloreans really make $6k-18k/year?
I'm in Bangalore right now, having been out of the country (an NRI) for the longest time. I'm going to be looking for jobs here soon.

The wages here sound absolutely horrible - or even ridiculous, to say the least.

I heard from one source the range for recent graduates is Rs. 30k-50k/month, which is $7k-$11k.

That's quite horrible, considering the work you do (as a software developer) isn't in any way substantially different from what you'd do elsewhere.

Does anyone have more data on this?

I would consider myself quite a computer geek -- been tinkering with computers since age 8, started off with BASIC, learned C when I was 15, and so on...
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Africa is a big place. There is also latency in the trans continental hubs.
I also think that fear of parentheses will remain mainstream.
I worked with a manufacturer back in 2005-2007, and kept in touch some with the next dev on their development efforts. The company spent a lot of time and money dicking around with developing some custom ecommerce stuff, tieing in an ordering system to their customer service dept, etc.

Then they'd show it, have meetings, make changes, etc. Did this for multiple years. And made a handful of sales. Why? Because they never promoted it (either under their own name or another). Why not? Because they didn't want to 'upset' their current channel partners. But they'd investigated direct sales for a few years because the channel wasn't delivering.

Absolutely ridiculous, and it would not surprise me one bit if I could call China and order the exact versions of what they made and have them shipped to my house faster than ordering from this company in Chicago.

I'm not suggesting all companies are like this by a long shot, but I've seen inside more than enough to understand just how inefficient many companies are, and this idea of 'protecting' the supply chain will be a pretty moot point as it becomes easier and easier to order direct from alibaba vendors and have things shipped over in days vs waiting for the appropriate field-sales-marketing-division-exec-vp-manager to fire up their outlook and hunt-and-peck a typo-laden form letter complete with out-of-date brochure/price-list.
Thanks for posting. As a self-trained hacker, it's nice sometimes to get read up on broadly-applicable theories in computer science from a current university pedagogy perspective.
> Companies spend millions of dollars and often decades testing drugs; every drug must outperform placebos if it is to be marketed. “If we can identify people who have a low predisposition for placebo response, drug companies can preselect for them,” says Winkler. “This could seriously reduce the size, cost, and duration of clinical trials…bringing cheaper drugs to the market years earlier than before.”

Wat? Is that a typo? Shouldn't it be "preselect against them"? .. or better still, include predisposition to placebo response as a variable?
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Because the labor and resources freed up from automation and increased productivity allow us to pursue new things. There's always more to improve upon.

Why would this segment of the population not have realistic options for producing marginal value? Everyone is capable of learning new things.
It is never easy when people you know pass away, especially those younger than you. However, I'd argue it is more difficult when the situation happens at a much younger age for the realisation that the deceased were given less time alive than we will receive no matter how abrupt our lives end.

Dr. Crandall was fortunate to have a daughter and time to achieve so many things, more than I can say about some of my peers who left the stage before their twenties. For some of us, the bittersweet position has already arrived.
Check out the "drop ship" model of business. It's a good way to do physical products without a lot of hassle.

Other good resources:

http://lifestylebusinesspodcast.com

http://www.buildmyonlinestore.com/

http://fourhourworkweek.com
> will be to use a standard self-hosting API

What about rsync? It's an open protocol that can be used to synchronize data across multiple devices.
As one should have.
If you haven't already, checkout http://www.university.firstround.com.
I have a friend who is a ticketed carpenter. He found the construction industry boring, corrupt and decided to change careers into computers. My first training session went well, but there was only so much I could teach him in the time alotted.

We both came to the realization that he needed formal edication for both learning the concepts and gaining credibility. He just finished his first semester and is loving it!

Instead of being the teacher, point your friends to people that are trained to educate. If the person is serious about changing their life, school is the first place they should go.
Workflowy is amazing, and with a couple of small additions (like being able to copy and paste properly) it would be just about perfect.
An interesting article but nothing revelatory.

Incidentally I am currently mid-way through 'The Mapmakers' (http://www.amazon.com/Mapmakers-Revised-John-Noble-Wilford/d...), love maps, collect maps, donate maps to UT Austin's great online Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/), and generally find geography fascinating. Martin Dodge's http://cybergeography.org/ is also a great resource.

In terms of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) theory, humans have the greatest 'bandwidth' in perceiving spatially (visually). This means that as we grow to deal with ever larger quantities of information, in ever more complex systems, we will find ourselves more often utilizing spatial reasoning ... whether we like it or not. The history of mapmaking and maps in general is a fascinating area of human endeavour that can inform us moving forward.
Why would those new things necessarily be labor intensive? Lately most new profitable things require capital.
Because that makes it emotional. You are absolutely correct that job loss due to automation is really people figuring out how to do something less expensively with a tool than without one. This process of elimination is ongoing.

Periodically people put forward the notion that there is some community 'good' to be achieved by not taking advantage of this progress. Ned Ludd is probably the most well known example but lots of folks have made similar suggestions over the years. In every example, without exception, that path has lead to stagnation and death of the community that supported it. This truth however does not stop people being displaced by automation to suggest it however, that death will come later to community they are no longer a part of so they don't really care, they only care about the here and now.

Talk to former factory workers of car companies that no longer exist but they successfully kept automation out of those factories. They protected their own jobs, at the expense of killing the company and all future jobs it might create, and ultimately their own pensions took a hit when those companies died.

As a journalist though it is a great way to generate rage views with the dispossessed and the fearful.
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I think it's clear that the producers consent to P2P distribution, given they knowingly made it available.

I don't plan on watching it — so I won't pay for it — but I will seed it because I'd like to encourage others to see it and pay for it. I think that's what the producers want.
Interesting: Github Pages is still up (got a blog on there and it doesn't appear to have experienced any outages). Static site generators for the win.
I would imagine it's much easier to get a business to pay for use of their content than getting a free app consumer to crack open their wallet.
Put The Gadgets Down: Finding Time To Leave Technology Behind
They will need to learn skills that are in demand. I don't owe you anything simply because you exist.
Yeah, I remember getting a massively awesome desktop in 1999 with Gnome underneath. And even though it had that 90's jaggy feel to it, it was my mp3 encoder desktop and I favored it above anything. I'd actually love to have it back. I wish I had screenshots to go along with yours. Your's brought back a great sense of nostalgia. Thanks!
I will take a few minutes to relay my experience:

I used to be a partner in a company that shipped 1000+ packages a day with fedex. I ran the websites that sold those products, and I made sure to take about 30 minutes a day in the warehouse to help load the truck. They didn't need me down there, but it was a very measurable output of my work.

I might have to disagree with the other comment here about Amazon Fulfillment. It may relieve you of a lot of the logistics, but it will also greatly affect how you resolve issues -- bad batches of products, customer service, wrong/missing parts...

At the end of the day what matters in physical goods e-commerce is amazing customer service, and you cannot do that unless you have access to the warehouse. You have to have physical access to the product. You have to have a good relationship with the fedex/ups drivers and account managers. You have to work fedex and ups against each other when the time comes to renegotiate your rates.

When you outsource too many parts of your business you end up too dependent on too many variables you cannot control. Your business continuity becomes more opaque.

Another story: same company in 2005, South Florida-- post hurricane Katrina and Wilma. Because we controlled a lot of the variables and relationships (logistics, internet, warehousing) we were able to do the following:

* Redirect the 800 number to a vonage
line and send our customer service
staff up to an Orlando hotel room to
keep answering phones.

* Because of our good relationship with
fedex we were able to get them to send
an empty truck down from Atlanta to
pickup in Boca Raton.

* We processes printing labels and tickets
over a 2G wifi connection.

That is duct-tape business continuity. All said -- it would have been better to just move the company to a location that is not prone to Hurricanes. We did that in 2007.

OK, this got a little long. I'm happy to share more of my experience if anyone cares.
Plight of teen prompts education debate, protest in China
I don't think this is a very strong piece.

The essay proceeds in three broad sections. In the first, he unpacks the "I've got nothing to hide" argument into its strongest form, and does a fine job of it. In the second, he talks about privacy as a concept, notes that it's difficult to define, and instead enumerates a list of privacy-related problems. In the final section, he tries to explain why the "I've got nothing to hide" argument is flawed.

Except that I didn't come out of that last section feeling I'd encountered a strong argument. It seemed like the author was waving his hands and saying, "There's a strong argument over this way -- it's Kafkaesque, not Orwellian!" But I never did encounter it.

That's a shame. I was sort of hoping he'd go through his list of potential problems, and talk about how each could become an actual problem.

The best argument I saw was that the accumulation of information represents power over the individual. I might put it like this: The more information the government has about you, the greater the chance you and an ill-considered law or policy will have an unfortunate encounter in the future.

I still think that deserves a bit more unpacking, though.
The iPhone equivalent of Todo.txt for me is the Notes app. Ironically the reason Todo.txt behavior exists is because all the other Todo apps try to be Todo apps, including this one.

Sometimes I just want a blank sheet with no Todo magic. That is why I use Notepad and the Notes app.
I wish there was a Wikipedia-like that allowed this sort of information
Whether or not a machine can replace me, I will still work. I enjoy work, I get great satisfaction from doing work and completing a project I set out to do. It may be an open-source project, it may be in my garden, but I will still work because I do it for me. I personally can't wait until I have a robot to do the heavy digging in the garden. I enjoy the planning part, and the smelling of the roses more than the digging part.

Also, as a small manufacturer I am forced to train the people I have to adapt to the new world order. The article implies that the uneducated worker is to be replaced with the educated worker. I can't just replace my staff with all new people. I would lose the tribal knowledge. I can't avoid automation that my competitors have; it would put me at a big disadvantage. In fact the biggest advantage I can get is to automate a process that we do manually. This is why mcmaster.com will send you a huge catalog (printed) for free. It is because the people that order from the catalog are price insensitive. I certainly am when I have a broken machine. My automatic sand blaster needed $1000 worth of bearings overnighted last month.

To make a big advantage in automation I need the help of the guy who has been doing it manually. So we work on bottlenecks in production one after the other. Every month we figure out what is slowing us down, or causing quality variations, or supplier problems and we try to come up with a way to improve things. The obvious first place to look for solutions is with the person suffering with the problem. The next obvious thing to do is to use some technology to make repetitive tasks easier. So my welder is now learning to use Arduino, and we are working on updating some old machinery with new automation. He might not do the coding, but he will certainly be the guy bolting the hardware together.

So I would say the workers are not at war with the machines. The workers are working with the machines.
Re: Page Weight.

I spend a bit more than a month studying how to build Nuuton in a way that it did not end up being a front-heavy piece of crap. Looked at a lot of differents options. Considered a client side Javascript MVC frameworks. Looked at the CSS side of things. Went as far as thinking about developing our own little app for Nuuton (No browser needed). But at the end, the simplest choice won. I decided to go with flat HTML/CSS. No bootstrap or framework either. Plain old markup and stylesheets. It uses very little Javascript (no Jquery either), just what the simple UI requires (an event listener for the enter key, and an event listener for 4 links). Nothing else. No animations. No fancy scrolling. No caroussels. Nothing like that. Its rendered on the server side (Django), and gets served to you in a very small package. I even went as far as breaking down the stylesheets so that you dont need to download CSS that does not apply to the page you are visiting. And you know what? It works, feels, and looks amazing. Even if the project ends up being a failure, acheiving such little victories are just deliciously fun.

Where did I get the inspiration to go against the current industry trends? HN's simple yet functional html setup. My god, its features a million tables, but the damn thing just works beautifully. By the way, Nuuton also uses tables. :)
That's quite horrible, considering the work you do (as a software developer) isn't in any way substantially different from what you'd do elsewhere.

The cost of living is also substantially lower there:

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country...

Compared to Los Angeles, where I live, it looks like most things are about 1/6 the cost, including meals, rent, and groceries. I could rent an apartment in Bangalore's city center for less than I pay on Cable TV here. So it makes sense that salaries would be much lower in Bangalore than they are here.
The day will come when no human skills are in demand.

That day may not be next week, but it might be in the next couple of centuries. It might even be in your lifetime.

What then?
What does it even mean for an OS to be "complete"? That no further work remains to be done on it? I wouldn't call that "complete"; I'd call it dead. A state that, not coincidentally, a lot of GNU projects have reached over the years-- Hurd among them. And now it looks like GNU sed has arrived there too. It's this attitude that you have to be the only one in charge of everything, the only one doing anything or being creative, that kills projects and communities.

And now we get to the real heart of the matter. Is it about giving companies, users, and communities the freedom to do what they want to do? Even if that thing is proprietary software, or open core models, or sharks with laser on their heads? Or is it about political, social, and technological control? The Apache foundation is about the former, and so is the Linux kernel. But the FSF has always been about the latter. It looks like they have poisoned your thinking too.
Not disagreeing on ridiculous amount of requests, but The Verge (specially) and Kotaku audiences should lean towards high-end users.
They may be periodic and repetitive, but they aren't uniform. For example, there are lots of "01"s and no "02"s.
Fair point. I was using "controlled" as a shorthand for the usual qualities (double blind, randomized, sufficiently many test subjects, etc) you'd associate with good experimental design.
That's like suggesting someone is illiterate because they no longer care to read books written for small children. Of course, if that's all you're capable of reading, those people must seem pretty stupid.
Software patents are the worst idea ever.
OrientDB 1.3 released
In other words the bandwidth really is something like 6.6 kbps instead of the nominal rate.

(Really, did anyone ever get the nominal 56k modem rate back in the day?)
Yet another example of the "all labor is manufacturing" fallacy.

A future where machines displace most of what we currently think of as blue collar workers is a future where most of the things blue collar workers currently produce are much, much, cheaper than they are now. This author worries whether blue collar jobs will pay "subsistence" wages. They will, because the cost of subsistence [and indeed, the cost of a fairly satisfied life] will be lower.

As machines become better at manufacturing and hard labor, unskilled "work" will shift from physical to service industries. That's good! It's been happening for the past century. Unskilled physical labor is hard, especially as you get older and banged up.

A mechanized future is one where physical resources are plentiful. People will figure out a reason to trade them. Humanity will be fine.