skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First fluid knots created in the lab
The whole issue is the difference between the human definition of "meaningful" and the economic definition. The former can easily create work in a downright post-scarcity situation: a new Act of Creation, a new playground or painting or programming language, will always be meaningful as long as one person other than its creator invests meaning in it. It's the economic definition that decrees "Work is meaningful if it generates Economic Value equivalent to the costs of housing, food, health insurance, and profit margins for the providers of each."
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I'm talking about neutralization effect, which is caused by anti-nutrients. sugar compounds, based on its form is digested differently and have different effects.

Like a famous case is fibre in food, disallows the benefits of zinc.

You might want to check this: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/571880/sugar

Additionally, how you can also see this is, the difference in sugar concentration, means that though the amount is large, it is still not the same. sugar is a very broad term, as you may find from the above article.

If this is a genuine school project, that it is good for that general age.
Maybe in areas with high density of self-driving cars, the police/traffic enforcement should have some special system for giving them extra input in accident/construction/etc. zones. Everything else seems like it could be solved, but at some level you might even have verbal instructions from a parking attendant or traffic policeman, and if Google can solve that, they've solved general AI probably.
>the choice is usually between

Or doing your own thing on your own on your own terms following the rules you make up. Hey, stop waiting for people to tell you what to do and create your own opportunity!

My alternate future where robots do everything absolutely no one wants to do (I wouldn't believe for a second that there are absolutely no people who love their job picking up trash) is more likely to become reality than your future where it's impossible to make money making games because too many people are making too many amazing games so no one wants to pay for them.

>I would discourage somebody from fixating on a programming career if they were only interested in programming because they wanted to work at facebook for example.

Yeah, same with wanting to work for a random AAA game company. Unfortunately most people don't appreciate wisdom until they have already failed (reality check when someone is doing work they hate at their "dream job" - if they hate it then they made a mistake), and some people never learn from their mistakes.
None of the pages on your site appear to be scrollable on the desktop? It looks like you have an overflow:hidden attached to body, which will prevent anyone from being able to scroll down if their browser is not tall enough.
fyi, ReadItLater is now called [Pocket](http://getpocket.com/blog/2012/04/introducing-the-all-new-re...).

Also, any chance of an alternate ui like [Skim HN](http://www.skimhn.com)
Awesome.
Feel free to hit me up at well when you're in NYC!
Stumbling into doing what you really love is .... magical.
Consulting is a lot of work, make sure you have your work pipelined far ahead of time yet avoid overloading yourself!

Sounds like you've had a benignly interesting year and learned a lot. What more could someone want?
Trust me - as a design student, seeing talented people not care about design can be very refreshing. Keep on keeping on my friend.
The other side of that same problem is that people who fall into lower levels of income have a very hard time proving they deserve access to the meager welfare programs that keep the permanently destitute from burning down society in a fit of lumpenproletarian rage.
I think most professions are reasonably happy to educate people when given the opportunity.

Sure, more programmers might lead to labour saturation but the bigger risk is that an emerging market country sees the opportunity and captures the demand first which will cause first world programmers to have to compete with hordes of lower priced competitors rather than a smaller number of domestic ones.
It's a simple "fix", but this is actually the (silly) default behaviour for Mac apps. After closing the window you can bring it back from the Window menu item > Main Window.
That doesn't sound right. What browser are you on? I've tested here on Chrome, Safari and Firefox (but not IE). I think it looks a bit wonky on iOS but I'm working on that.

EDIT: Found it. Thanks for the report - should be working better now.
I would argue that a 1.1 percent rise is also insignificant. Smoking is involved in 80% of lung cancer deaths, a far easier statistic to believe.
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What do you usually do with these fail2ban notifications?
We do something similar, though we have a script that sets up the box. We use linode as well, so the script deploys a new box with a complex root password and my id_dsa.pub file. It also sets up /etc/skel and the profile files so that useradd uses them later.

We don't use a single deploy user though, instead, each user with deploy perms is in the sudo group.
Thanks taylorhou. We're done with post production, though your startup looks pretty neat.
I think you should probably consider the lifestyle differences more than the academic ones, since they're probably going to mean more to you in the long run.

On Texas:

University of Texas is where blue-staters go. Austin is full of progressive-minded folks and all the cultural tidbits that come with it (organic food, bike-friendly, dog parks, indie coffee, etc). The IT set is very strong here, as is the CS program (#8 according to USNews), and there's no shortage of discussion on Austin as a rising startup hub. Edsger Dijkstra was on the faculty from 1984 until 1999, and undoubtedly contributed a great deal to the shape of the department. Austin has some of the friendliest people you'll ever meet, if you like striking up random conversation with strangers. Also, Live Music Capital of the World, if you're into that kind of thing.

Texas A&M is where red-staters go (I am a former student). Very cheap to live in B/CS but can be culturally homogeneous at times (this has changed a on campus a great deal in recent decades). A&M's undergraduate CS program didn't seem too special, at least while I was there. Being a very large state university, they have plenty of resources, but the CS dept is not in the top echelon of "significant" programs there. Probably a pretty decent place for kids, being a sort of values-oriented community. Also, Johnny Freaking Football, if you're into that kind of thing (and you will be if you go there).

I know nothing about the others but the weather's probably a bit nicer in Gainesville and San Diego. You might want to visit each city and get a feel for them if you intend to stay there for a full 4 years.
Glad to see someone repping van Parijs on HN... while we're at it, I feel like I should recommend his longer and more systematic treatment of the subject, "Real Freedom For All" ( http://www.amazon.com/Real-Freedom-All-capitalism-Political/... ). Parts of it are sort of obtusely written (he spends a lot of time responding to other thinkers, e.g. Marx and Rawls, along the way), but there are good arguments scattered throughout.
I read almost all the notes in the Github page and it lasted for months. There are different sides shown.

BTW, I think travelling cost and need so much money. I wonder what are Egor's source of income. Don't know him that much so I just assumed consulting (Sakurity) is just his source of income. Also, if Egor is in South East Asia at the moment, he should visit the Philippines!
Great! I'd like to have a better interface to read —much like ReadKit or Reeder.
Breaking into the server warehouse and stealing data drives seems far, far, far more of a security threat.
The target market for that cabinet is not the same as the majority of people that would download a ROM of one of those games.
Chinese... you're drunk go home.

(On a more serious note that's pretty cool.)
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I agree, and I think you get at a key concept: literacy vs. mastery.

Relatively few people will become professional software developers, but everyone will live a life impacted by technology. Learning the basics of coding empowers you to live in the modern world. e.g. Your phone is no longer magic, it's just very impressive.

Even then, there's a wide spectrum of "professional coders." There are many expert data analysts who write scripts all day (in R or Python... perhaps Stata, SPSS, etc). They're not kernel hackers, but they know why vectorization is important, and it makes them better.

There are a million office workers who tweak VBA macros, and do it better because they took the time to learn why variable types are. They're not Microsoft-certified anythings, but code empowers them to be better.

So, I think there's a strong argument for code literacy as an educational objective. Just like math literacy or actual literacy, it's an empowering foundation of knowledge.
Why hello my old friend, the Lump of Labor Fallacy![1] I get why people think this in theory. But they never seem to notice that we have been living in an age of untold abundance for quite a while.

From the perspective of anybody who grew up in a subsistence agriculture economy (which is the perspective of most people in human history), we developed-nations types live better than kings. And all the agriculture jobs are gone! From that viewpoint, none of us should need to work.

But we still mostly have jobs. Why? My take is that, as the Buddha said, desires are numberless. People find new things to want, and other people find ways to satisfy those needs. This will always happen.

Sure, it's possible that this time machines will actually eliminate all the jobs, and we'll live like the lillies of the field. But that has been failing to happen for the two centuries since the Industrial Revolution began. And people have been fearing machine-induced joblessness since the beginning. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labor_fallacy
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
In other words, the post scarcity world will be just like high school forever? Ugh.
Check the wiki link, it has the characters instead of the pinyin. To answer your question yes the characters are very different.
The 2nd amendment doesn't say anything about guns

In Heller v DC, the Supreme Court said:

"United States v. Miller, 307 U. S. 174, does not limit the right to keep and bear arms to militia purposes, but rather limits the type of weapon to which the right applies to those used by the militia, i.e., those in common use for lawful purposes."

If the Supreme Court ever has to decide whether tanks fit this definition, my guess is they'll say tanks do not. The existence of laws against civilian-owned tanks does not tell us anything about how the 2nd Amendment applies to ordinary guns.
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Nitpicking: the thing should be called Zöpfli (note the umlaut). The diminutive in Swiss German often also affects vocals in addition to adding the li suffix.

A Zöpfli is a small Zopf which is the bread the algorithm is named after. To make matters worse: in the process of being diminished, the word even changes gender from masculine to neutral at least in the dialect I use. Pro tip: never waste your time learning Swiss German unless you know it by growing up with it :p

I can't really add a lot from the technical perspective aside if the fact that its really cool to be able to invest more time into compressing such that decompression still uses the unaltered old decodes, requires no more time (to uncompress) and still produces significantly smaller compressed data.
I didn't realise they had renamed so thanks for pointing it out. Could you tell me a few things you like about Skim HN?
The IMF just announced that they have concluded that decidedly anti-Keynesian austerity policies in Europe of the past 5 years were a mistake:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-04/imf-officials-we-we...

The IMF isn't a pack of socialists, they were the main cheerleaders for austerity in the first place.
I think the analogy is actually pretty weak. The film industry enjoys a strong monopoly over distribution and talent. The Internet offers startups a much more level playing field. That's a really good thing. SV isn't Hollywood and startups aren't like creating a film and we shouldn't restrict ourselves to such simplistic comparisons.
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"Hey there, coding is actually pretty hard, and while there are some really great perks to knowing it, you'll probably fail at getting there, and even if you don't fail, you might not end up at the place that has all of the awesome perks, just some of them, so you basically shouldn't even try."

"You basically shouldn't even try" doesn't necessarily follow because we don't know if the person we're talking to is one of the people that will fail. Otherwise, I'd say that quote is exactly what most people should hear.
>Jobs were the secret sauce that made capitalism work

Based on what I have read and seen, I would say that a scarcity of workers was what made capitalism work so well for so many in the US up through the 70s. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-KqeU8nzn4
just add a 'transform' under the '-webkit-transform' and it works on ff
Some small usability suggestions for your roadmap:

- When resizing the window, make the left pane width fixed.

- Limit the resizing of the split panel so neither panel ends up with zero width.

- Use the share symbol that mountain lion uses instead of the word share.

- Restore the window dimensions and position after reopening the app.

- Highlight the current story selection in the list.
> Due to the amount of CPU time required — 2 to 3 orders of magnitude more than zlib at maximum quality — Zopfli is best suited for applications where data is compressed once and sent over a network many times, for example, static content for the web.

So it's not a magic bullet, and only results in 3-8 percent shrink compared the zlib at maximum compression. It is interesting that it is able to be decompressed by existing algorithms, which means it can be rolled out immediately instead of waiting for it to be adopted by enough browsers to make the compression time investment useful.

Google's blog post is here: http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/compress-dat...
Chicago and most cities have had their GIS data available to the public for years, so this seems like a nice progression
You're neurosurgeon scenario is interesting because healthcare is the one industry where there are proven models where we can deskill jobs and by this create many good jobs for people with less training.

One example is that of minute clinics where nurses + computers are doing the job of a physician.It's cheaper , it's a good job and the nurses can afford more time per patient , so this creates more jobs. And the u.s. don't steal doctors from the this world this way , which is nice.

There is/could be plenty of stuff like that in healthcare.
Especially given that I've given the original companies thousands of dollars and I'm sure they are buried in storage somewhere.
PSP. The best GameBoy, I've ever had.
Which is relevant if you're one to actually look at your login attempt logs.
agreed, definitely swap those two pages. your personal projects are much more important than your own assessment of your skills
Perhaps not your target market I guess, because it doesn't work for me either.
I really REALLY care about design. I think it matters a lot. But so far don't have much spare time / money to get something decent. too busy these days :/
There's no such thing as a smart person. Only people who are more well informed. What you do is what you become. When I say smart I mean a willingness to do what it takes based on informed decisions.

Creativity is only the body of material you have to draw from. Your visual or intellectual library of things you have already made a part of yourself through direct exposure. No invention or creation is made independently, it's all made with a clear path from one to another. Anyone can invent or create great things. Anyone can be great. All it takes is choice.

Success favors perseverance. Failure is necessary to reach what works. Those who are unwilling to fail never succeed.
Higher level Math is not for everyone either, but schools still teach it.
This was also possible on Pentium 2 233 mhz 15 years ago. The newer games at the time ran badly but classic Nintendo was flawless even then.
RubyGems has a guide: http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/21
Looking through the responses here, I'm hopeful that someone will launch a "Sysacademy" variant for system administration training. There are tutorials scattered around the web, but (at least for those of us who don't know where to look), there doesn't seem to be one place that puts in under one umbrella.
Hey, fuck this author, right? Not even using enterprise level tooling for his deploys (Chef/puppet). Because if someone installed Chef, they wouldn't need to know this stuff!
Heh, first thing I did was head to HN comments ready to skip this article as "link-baity" indeed, after reading your comments I had a read and agree this is a good read after all.
To extend the suggestion to use the share symbol, I would also suggest using icons for the flagging and voting buttons.
Unfortunately, I'm not yet 18, which prevents me from taking part in SoC.
Working from home: a personal perspective
Thanks for the translation. :)
What I'd really like is a file sharing network more in keeping with the original "mojo nation" concept vs. what we have with bittorrent.

Tahoe-LAFS might be the best project right now.
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I got an internship at a company in Redwood City. Its my first time living in California. I need to start looking for housing and I was wondering where I should start looking. The internship is 4 months and I want to live in a relatively nice neighbourhood (I have a housing stipend as well).
>I think many companies lease machines so the need to track those assets didn't exist.

Hm. Well, it's possible I'm imagining my own need here. I mean, all accounting work is a hedge against an audit and the resulting tax debt, and it's possible that it's acceptable to just handwave your small assets.

But yeah. In my experience? small, single owner businesses don't lease, 'cause it is both more expensive and less flexible than ownership. I mean, obviously, if you are a short-term business, leasing is great, as you get the stuff up front, and you only have to pay for it if you don't go out of business meanwhile... but it's generally a bad choice for the long-term slog kind of businesses I'm talking about.

>We were in the middle of working on an iOS app for users to scan stuff around their house and we'd lookup those items to add to our inventory list. When we decided to pivot, we wanted to use that scanning functionality to scan asset tags. Obviously, we didn't pursue it any further but we were heading in that direction.

The problem most of these apps have is that they use the built-in camera... which is way too slow. You need something like 250ms (certainly under 500ms) item scan ->recognition times, which usually the camera barcode decoder app thingie can't do at all. It does better with 2d barcodes; much better, but probably still not good enough.
By inputs do you mean CAPTCHAs or something else?
You're missing something: the people who are currently working don't always want to work as much as they're working.

So yes, you could get low-productivity workers transitioning off their 30-hour barrista workweeks to sit at home drinking their own damn coffee.

However, the threat of workers leaving their jobs for a guaranteed income would also improve the terms of bargaining for highly-skilled professionals. So imagine a computer programming or scientific research profession (to name my own fields) where we stop working 50-to-60-hour weeks all the damn time!

Imagine a software engineer who can actually say to their boss, "Give me comp-time when I go over 40 hours/week, or I'll quit and collect a government stipend while writing open-source code that will advertise me to my next employer, who will treat me rather more nicely!" When you think about it, it's really quite similar to what we have on a very-hot job market right now, with employers at least claiming to offer unlimited vacation or half-time, work-from-home programming jobs (I actually saw one of those advertised just this month on Hacker News) because there's just that much demand for software engineers that employers have to take their licks, at least until the current crop of college kids graduates.

So yes, Basic Income Socialism runs against the human tendency to not want to subsidize lazy other people. However, it also brings the benefit that hard workers get better bargaining terms for reaping the rewards of their/our labor.
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Pretty bad advice imo. History is littered with examples of tech companies that used the wrong programming technology to build their app, then had to rewrite or otherwise go through significant pain when the failings became apparent at scale.

Haskell is a bad choice for business simply because you limit yourself to a very small talent pool. On the other hand, the beauty of a small startup is that you can do whatever the fuck you want. If Sullivan knew a few really good haskell programmers, it may even have been the correct business decision in his case.

But if I were making a web back-end meant to scale, and I know very good java programmers and very good haskell programmers, it makes more sense to go with the tried and true(even though it's not as fun).

I would also take most X language is better than Y with huge grains of salt. It's much like the my phone is better than your phone debate, the people making the noise have spent thousands of hours deeply learning language X and tend to be heavily biased.
Readability style page cleanup would be a good feature.
It isn't that ALL of a fixed number of jobs are going away: that is not what the article is saying. it is saying that the need for good paying manual labor is changing faster than societies' ability to cope with it. Not only that, we are pretty much doing the exact opposite of what we should be doing.
I've been wondering how this compares to straight-up AdvanceComp. I've used that for pre-compressing gzipped files for a while now.
Does it still have all of those root exploits?