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>In fact

Yes, absolutely, and so many people lack willpower to do greater things. That's not because they are not good enough people forever unable to summon the willpower to do it, but simply because they don't know the knowledge necessary. So many people believe so many absurd things which hold them back from what is possible.

>You can't have an economy

Sure you can. How long before the majority of all manual labor, all service jobs are done by computers and robots? Jobs which humans can do, but don't have to do. All of that uninspiring, boring drudge work which doesn't require any creativity or real problem solving. When those jobs are left we trend toward more of a gift economy where the value you have is what you do for others, what you inspire in them, what you delight them with. Some people already do things which do these things, others collect the trash. People are not forced to pick up your trash, and everyone could decide to refuse to take up that job, and yet people choose to still. Eventually it won't be a choice to put anyone's trash because it will all be automated.
Is Infochimps running from the Data Market business?
Hn has an API?
Bug report: when you close the window of the app and then click the dock icon, the window never re-appears (you have to quit / re-open).
How to get along for 500 days alone together
The way you put issues in quotes and use the word 'spoiled' implies that even though you call it a "better class" of problem, you still look down on it and wouldn't want it.
Atmospheres help but only somewhat. The radiation exposure on Mars' surface is still much, much higher than on the surface of Earth, enough to warrant taking extra precautions to lessen exposure (such as placing regolith filled sand bags on top of habitats).

Also, to be precise people aren't hit by primary cosmic rays on Earth but by secondary cosmic rays, the particle debris from high energy protons and nuclei colliding with atoms in the upper atmosphere.
URL shortener for music links that then redirects to user's preferred music service (saved for future) anyone?
Thanks mate. Working on getting a update out that fixes that :)

EDIT: Just rolled out a fix. You can check for Updates in the Application menu.
I have not been to India, but I live in Israel. It used to have a inefficient, bureaucratic, and stifled economy that could actually be called somewhat socialist (many worker-owned cooperative enterprises) before it privatized many things. Now it has an inefficient, bureaucratic, and stifled economy with private capitalists making all the money. Big difference!

Socialism is worker control of the means of production. There can be state-socialist economies, and there can be stateless ones. However, not all state intervention in the economy is socialist.

Austrian economics (which matterhorn did not identify in his small para) and so you cannot say it will not work since you obviously never tried it, and you never gave a reason for it to not work.

The problem is that Austrian economics literally does not have a proposal other than "completely destroy all government programs, convert your currency to a gold standard, and the Free Market will solve everything." Every single economic problem is then blamed on state intervention in the economy, starting at central banks controlling interest rates on capital and extending all the way down to unemployment insurance and bread subsidies.

Thus, just as a completely state-socialist economy is a Bad Idea, so is a completely stateless-capitalist economy.

I have many measures in mind for people to try, and they are mostly not actually Keynesian. I think Keynesianism mostly patches the problems without solving them, and I predicted moral hazard when governments started bailing out their banks.
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The problem they have is that high-energy particles can hit random bits in the memory, and possibly change them. As such they have a large amount of radiation shielding, but some things can get through given enough time. They have a second computer that can "take command" in the case of any failure.

The second computer is the same so the same programs can be used (obviously). The thing about Curiosity is that it left Earth with a very minimal program, and bits were sent to it on the journey. When it landed, it used a different program then it does now. Remote programming allows it to carry out a large amount tasks, with a minimal amount of hardware.

The last thing is that everything is double, and triple checked. If something goes wrong, then it goes very wrong, so they ensure that everything is working fine. While the B computer is being used, they'll probably do a full bit-by-bit wipe of the A computer, then load software back on it.
Thank you! Working on making the window come back when the dock icon is clicked now :)
You're using examples that are fundamentally flawed, as the high end jobs you named tend to be folks more likely to be partners or principals in their own businesses.

For a good part of the 20th century, white-collar, salaried jobs were 40 hour jobs. Blue collar or non-exempt jobs were 40 hour jobs with overtime. Today, we declare almost everyone to be an exempt employee, work them ragged, and run as lean as possible. We do this because unlike in the 1960's, companies bear no cost -- those burnt out 45 year olds don't get disability pensions or insurance anymore. Those costs are borne by the public at large via social safety net programs.

If you mandated that most workers work only 40 hours per week, you would provide companies with a powerful incentive to deal with the high fixed costs associated with hiring an employee. It doesn't make "economic sense" to hire people because the law has been changed to make that the case. Now it makes sense to hire freelancers, contractors, etc who are easier to abuse.
This image is being shared a lot lately, don't know its origin, but I want to note, that before people jump to assumptions, please be careful to remember, that sugar is not always, in its natural form, most of the times, it is in complex compound forms, forming with other ingredients.(see the article on coke for 2 days ago that made it to HN frontpage)

also, a just way of reading this, is that if you start counting how many carbons and hydrogen atoms are inside human body, it would sound silly. The same thing goes for sugar here.
What new jobs "will be replacing them"?

Once you've got rid of "cleaning" as an entire class of job, using new non-stick surfaces, roombas with steam cleaning attachments and so on, you don't just invent a new thing that needs manual cleaning, a good-enough universal cleaner will clean anything a person can.

Same with self-driving vehicles - once you solve that class of problems, nothing needs hand delivering again.

Same with automating any kind of fast food, manufacturing, warehouse loading and moving.

What are you going to invent in this future which needs to employ millions of people but doesn't involve then making or moving anything, typing or calculating, translating or pattern recognising?
Growing a Language meets Strunk and White
This is fantastic, I like it. Though, I'd love the option to configure the stories selected in the left pane to open to comments first rather than the story. I usually browse HN in this way. It allows me to get peoples' opinion of the piece before hopping in and investing a bunch of time reading what might end up as blogspam, etc.
Uses the Sharing Service APIs that were introduced in ML. Ill work on some way to roll out a different version for =< 10.7 users.
Excellent. Thank you for the links.
The best choice for a hub is someplace that large numbers of people would use as their destination. Chicago fits the bill much better than anywhere else in the middle of the country. There's a reason O'Hare is one of the busiest airports in the nation.
mui ne is not so cheap because of tons of russian tourists coming. I used to spend $2k/month here.
but my apart is in the middle of it and it was winter (high season). Internet is pretty decent too!
Abercrombie isn't going to buy a robot greeter to a replace a human employee, they are just going to close more stores and get rid of the greeter, the folder, the cashier, the manager, the janitor, and the driver.

http://investorplace.com/2013/02/abercrombie-fitch-to-close-...

Think about how many human hands would be displaced if when I ordered an Abercrombie shirt online, it was shipped to my house directly from a factory in China. That may not be happening yet, but there is still that potential level of disruption ahead. You'll probably still need your barrista though!
The world isn't full of Dell Computers. This year's tomatoes are grown based on last year's demand or this year's demand for out-of-season import tomatoes. There's a time delay and someone gets stuck with the risk, belly-up if demand collapses.

If automation beyond a point actually decreases demand for the outputs, then its self-limiting.

Yes, but it will grow and then self-limit into an equilibrium state where humanity has a much lower real standard of living because it can't "earn" the output it's easily capable of producing.
>> The boss was negotiating, so negotiation skills are what's needed

All right. Now I'm genuinely curious. What would you have said under those similar circumstances? :-)
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I agree about responsible disclosure but that problem had many facets, and I was rather trying to point out rails problem, sadly, using github hole.
I think he means that as soon as you think about wanting something BAM... you have it. All provided by physicallyimpossibleinstantdelivery.com.
I posted this because it was one of these odd moments of beauty that I've seen that I can't imagine taking place without the internet. It was truly a moving thing to witness, and yet I have never even heard the voice of any of the participants.
I never had a fancy tech job, or really any fancy job. I've had jobs. I moved industrial pipe for a few years in my teens. Not my favorite thing, but it was a choice. I worked for Sears for a few years up until I was 18. Worst years of my life. Also a choice. I've been making games since I was 11 and I'm just about 25. When I was 18 I decided to take it seriously and now here I am. I choose to do this. I can do programming, but I like art more, and I work with people who are just as passionate as I am. I love programming when I do it. I have a game on Steam, games on iOS and Android. I am dead set on doing great things not just with games but with culture and the future of humanity.

>The fun part (gameplay, game balance, story-telling, level creation) all happen near the end.

Then you are doing it wrong. There are so many tools available which allow you to skip so much of the technical parts and get to the parts you like. You can choose to use them, or you can choose to build your own.

>You don't make a game, you make a series of tools

That's a choice, and a huge thing newbies to game development are cautioned against. Don't make tools - make games! The tools are already made, don't reinvent the wheel. Yet so many insist on doing just that, and I have no sympathy for them.
Why Mozilla's Firefox OS is important to the mobile industry
That sounds easy enough to implement. I wanted to enforce Stories first because a lot of people on HN don't read the full story before they comment.

Did you try the CMD+1/CMD+2 shortcuts for switching between the Story and Comments?
So how do we sign our gems ?
> Can the 95% not working force the 5% to work long hours because there is a desperate need for their skills and talents which are not easily replaceable?

Indirectly, perhaps via taxation. You can look around (at least here in US/CA) to see what may happen. The unemployable ones will be voting for increasingly larger government to "employ" themselves while simultaneously raising taxes on the working to pay for unemployables' retirement.
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Imagine that you have two companies producing pens, and society currently uses X pens/year. If company A can find a way to automate production, they can sell pens cheaper than B (and/or at a higher profit margin). Because A laid off people, society no longer consumes X pens, but the difference is distributed between both A and B (and other pen companies, and non-pen companies would also see a loss). Assume every company acts in their own best interest.

If company A instead uses their extra money and gives it away to their now unemployed former employees, then society would be back to using X pens/year, and demand is maintained. But that is clearly not in A's best interest, so they do not. Now we have the ability to produce more stuff as a society (not just pens, because the unemployed can be used anywhere). However, all this gets us is people who can no longer afford what they once could.
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Anything you ship to Mars takes the place of something else you could have shipped to Mars, no matter how it gets there, so it needs to have a high utility.

The other complication for an m2 radiation shield is that it would be slightly propulsive, which would slightly complicate planning trajectory planning (though not badly so).
I'm using a little bit of sarcasm in acknowledgement to the fact that one person's existential issue is another person's frivolous rant. We generally look down on teenage existential angst, don't we? Well how are they experiencing anything other than a real look at human life unconstrained by the need to earn your bread (since someone else already buys theirs)?

I think it's easily possible to reorganize society around higher goals than material production (many societies have been so-organized), but that also requires a bunch more effort than just instituting mass leisure and letting everyone figure it out for themselves.

There's also a level of Yiddish sarcasm in the statement: I talk like I look down on something to sarcastically praise it. (I realize this sounds stupid, but you would never just praise something, because that would bring bad luck on it.... is the thought. It's a thing.)
What are you talking about? Glucose and fructose is all you'll find. It might be sucrose, but it is all the same by weight and effect once it hits your stomach.
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Enter the evil of the Nazis.

One of their explicit goals was basically to depopulate the east and settle it with German pioneers.
This is awesome! Great job.
How the Internet Has Changed the World
When I started reading this post (and honestly, I haven't finished reading it), I began to think about jobs, and that ideal human world that's written about. The one where people don't have jobs, robots do all the work; and most of us just play and tinker and all of our lives' necessities are taken care of.

Along the path to that place, I wonder if there was a period where there honestly weren't enough jobs for people to fill. Mass unemployment just because, honestly, there really wasn't a need for those employees. The entire world functioned and provided enough food WITHOUT those workers.

Is it possible that, at least in the first world, we're beginning to approach that place? (Honestly, probably not. I have arguments regarding greed and the 40 hour work week and underpaid employees and managers that don't know how to schedule their workers, and businesses that don't believe everyone in the business deserves a percentage (however small) of the net income of that company, rather than a flat, functionally minimum, wage)

Or, at least, that a rise in unemployment rates and an honest difficult of finding jobs due to robots/etc IS the beginning of that 'fewer jobs, more playtime, fewer NEEDED jobs' world, where humans act more like otters than ants?
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No need; I think the original formulation---as a mnemonic---is just fine. We don't really need a "general rule" here anyway, and to be honest, English orthography and "general rules" don't really go well together.

The only reason I posted at all is because linguistics is an area where a lot of quite intelligent people hold some extremely unexamined (and incorrect) beliefs, and there is furthermore a common tendency to propagate those beliefs as if they were fact. As a result, whenever I see someone articulating anything that is formulated like a general rule about a language (or about language in general), I try to make corrections where I can.
I doubt that we will see the total loss of all manual drudge work within our lifetimes, things change slowly and the our economy will be structured to incentivise doing work that is not enjoyed for quite some time.

It's simply a fact that the most desirable jobs are always the most competitive so you are far more likely to have to a take a job that you would not necessarily choose.

The choice is not between taking out the trash and being a rock star, the choice is usually between taking out the trash, working some other low wage job or being unemployed and unable to support yourself financially.

So, if you decide to train in some particular area, it is worth thinking about the whole spectrum of jobs that might entail. 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.
As Spooky23 pointed out below, their very "unemployability" is also a function of public policies (like employer-linked retirement accounts and health insurance) that continually increase the fixed-costs of each marginal worker, discouraging hiring.
And many who lived extremely fulfilling lives outside of accepting money for work.

Everything is a choice. The people who refuse to not be smart about business refuse to take what they need - so they get what they get much like people who only work when a job is offered to them. Money is rarely made by accident. It is more likely to be made when you mix choice with opportunity.
This guy seems like a douche. If anyone dares to complain that their mail app is being discontinued (http://mattgemmell.com/2012/07/21/entitlement-and-acquisitio...) they get criticised, but making copies and circumventing copy protection on Gamecube and Wii disks is fine.
Worth looking at:

http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/02/theres-no-protection-in-hi...
Sprucing up your iOS Apps with simple animations: Part 1
"Even if JavaScript lacked prototypes entirely, it would still be object-oriented as long as you could use this."

"Maybe you’d make a master object containing those methods, for ease of copying."

It's kind of hard to take a blog post about object-oriented style seriously when the author is unfamiliar with the definition of "object-oriented" and doesn't know what a prototype is in prototype-based programming.
I imagine the Internet will be kind and you'll go on to do great things.

We've all done things we regret and deserve apologies. It's not the mistake that defines you but how you respond afterwards.
Once you get past generic dataflow based optimizations that have some notion of optimality[1], yes, you start to write optimizations that target idioms.

For example: Most compilers started doing structure layout and reorg optimizations (transforming structures with arrays into arrays of structures, and vice versa) to tackle specific benchmarks. In some cases, they discovered it also was useful generally.

But whatever the benchmarks are, that's often what gets targeted. You can't optimize in a vacuum, you need to know what you are trying to develop optimization algorithms to do. This usually occurs by taking user complaints/programs/whatever, finding out why they are slow, seeing if there is a common solution, and developing an optimization to do it.

So yeah, if you are targeting certain patterns, and the patterns change, ..

[1] IE You've removed all possible redundant computations, made it so everything is only computed among paths it is actually used, the calculations occur in lifetime optimal fashion, etc.
The most universally effective solution I've seen is Sikuli running in a VM (which is the only sane way to run it, since it hijacks your input devices). Everything else fails in some edge case. What other tool can scrape an interface that uses both HTML and Flash and is only served over HTTPS?

It is brittle, in that it can be broken by cosmetic UI changes, but the maintenance is generally trivial. Also, it's slow as all hell. But sometimes you really need that sledgehammer.
I think Maslow's hierarchy implicitly answers many of your questions. "Keeping your head above water" would be defined in terms of navigating existential nihilism and meaningful self-actualization not unlike we navigate our more fundamental needs.
I actually do this on my personal server because more than one public wifi (and one of my previous jobs, at a public high school) disallowed outbound 22 connections.
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It's a choice to "choose to be smart", you can try to be smart but fail.
Luckily some people's minds are quite resilient to becoming irreparably warped by logical thinking. :) I think you're overestimating how easy it is to fundamentally change the way someone thinks, as are the people who think anyone can get good at programming. There's practically no downside to letting everyone try programming because many will either quit or fail. But the upside is that some people will find out they're good at it.
Don't forget:

netstat -ntap | less
ps aux | less

Also check to see what's enabled to run at boot time via whatever your flavor uses.

Check for unusual daemons, ssh running on other ports (yes, the provider pre-loaded systems with a back-door ssh without disclosing it to us).

This is especially important when you are taking over admin on a server you didn't setup yourself. Other folks have weird ideas on how to admin things. Like webmin for example...

I also like epylog for finding unexpected stuff in the logs.
Good point, I also like his idea at the end, though as a browser extension instead of a twitter client extension.
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Jobs were the secret sauce that made capitalism work. If your neighbor was wildly successful, there would be some modicum of trickle-down that would benefit the community. Now that success and job creation are almost entirely decoupled, the world is looking a lot more like the private enclaves of Snow Crash. I'm not sure how capitalism stays socially progressive in the global banana republic of the future. The post-scarcity crowd talks about the better life everyone will have, but I suspect the reality is that the ultra wealthy will have little to no reason to support others when most jobs are automated. Some claim that they will require someone to buy their products (a la Ford), but really that's only for the economically mobile. The established money will be able to live on their 10,000 acres with enough toys to think they're living life, while the newly urbanized global population fights for a couple dozen square feet to call home. It doesn't seem pretty to me.
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Hi Michael, your website is pretty neat, but I'd suggest you to put the projects on the first page, and your "experience" below that. You might want to check out Google Summer of Code, though I'm not sure of the dates.
No amount of automation is going to prevent an Apple Store from needing a genius or a Gap from needing shirt folders.

Really? You can't imagine a robotic shirt-folding device could ever be invented? Whatever tech news you're paying attention to is about 70 years out of date.

That's not counting that if shirts were on hangers and you could easily get a hanger of "everything that fits me well" then they wouldn't need folding at all.