skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That would then create job for automation creators

That would be significant for labor market only if creating next level of automation required more human labor of roughly same skill level than was freed by implementing previous level of automation. Which is possible but unlikely since most automation tools can be used in development of next version of automation. Robots are building robots and new software helps create newer software.

> The point is - more productivity creates value, not destroys it.

I agree. But value is not jobs. We will have more and more wealth altogether but less opportunities to get employed.

Don't get me wrong. I think it's awesome. People work way too much. I'm just saying we'll have to do with abundance of automation in more mature way than we currently do.
Depending on what the RAM/IO requirements are, that could be done with as little as $1400 worth of GA144 cores (70*144 = 10080).
What you say is true but bitcoin is specifically designed to require massive amounts of computing power, which specifically equates to massive electric power consumption.

In other words its purposely designed to be excessively taxing on resources.

The other activities you mention have resource consumption as a side effect and not necessarily exhaustive.
By the same token, it's more efficient to hire one worker for 16 hours than two workers for 8 hours. Why do employers do that?

(Also, the fixed-costs of hiring workers can be somewhat decreased through various means. For example, if you're in the United States, the American employer-sponsored insurance system is so appallingly inefficient that it's obvious low-hanging fruit for reduction of fixed costs. Get rid of it and go universal!)
Go to settings, advanced, privacy, untick all boxes, don't sign in to a Google account. Or Facebook, for that matter. Heck, there's even a version of Gostery for Chrome iirc.
Do you still stand by your claim about stricter gun laws not making people safer though? Clearly the gun laws in Chicago are irrelevant to the point. This is the problem with so many arguments we see from the gun lobby, they technically can claim to have some highly legalistic version of the truth, but with little bearing on actual reality. This does not need to be the case.

I do believe a large majority of Americans would be fine with high gun ownership levels, if only there was a safe, healthy, well informed and responsible gun ownership culture to go with it. Many gun owners do meet that description, but far too many don't and any attempts to rectify that or even provide evidence based advice are blocked at every turn.
Results of the 2013 /r/Linux Distro Survey
Tangentially relevant, I wouldn't go near IE10 on the desktop, my Bowser of choice is Firefox there, but for touch IE10 is amazing. Swiping left or right brings you back or forward, being chrome-less and swiping down or up to bring up the chrome works wonderfully, I find myself trying to swipe left or right on my Android phone and feeling aggravated at the inconvenience of lack of gesture control.
Advanced bionic hand lets man tie shoelaces (and, more importantly, drink beer)
"For God's sake, no NDAs please."

amen brother!
Love the idea! For some reason I totally missed the sign-up button, I was just blind to it. You might wanna look at making it more obvious somehow.
Noone has "taken a chance on me". I've had plenty of interviews, applications, resumes: you name it. Even went through the unemployment interview and resume courses. No real reason why. I can't even get a helpdesk position.

I've went back to school. I hope something pans out soon.
Windows 8’s Flash whitelist goes black [1], turns on [2] Flash almost everywhere

[1] did they just blacklist all Flash?

[2] another way of saying betrayed, attacked, etc
Let’s go faster while preserving what works best
Expanding beyond 3D printed guns, DEFCAD is officially the anti-MakerBot
>By the same token, it's more efficient to hire one worker for 16 hours than two workers for 8 hours.

Not necessarily. Being tired reduces efficiency.
They don't have to do powered descent from orbit for this to be worthwhile. Just doing powered descent for the recovery of the first stage would be a huge win.
Whoa, hold on, In a technical or scientific discussion, you don't want to rely on a dictionary. Dictionaries, contrary to common belief, do not define words -- instead, they dispassionately describe how people choose to use words. If a word use makes no sense, that doesn't matter as long as the use is widespread. This is why "literally" and "figuratively" are ... wait for it ... synonyms.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

1. : in a literal sense or manner : actually <took the remark literally> <was literally insane>

2. : in effect : virtually <will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice — Norman Cousins>

Read more here: http://arachnoid.com/wrong/index.html#Dictionary

> ... as I said, thought it was clear from context.

Not in any kind of serious discussion, with pretensions of accuracy.
I don't think it is Different This Time. But the thing is, last time the world's response to overproduction and depression was social democracy version 1, also known as the Postwar Consensus. That deliberate rebalancing of society's wealth distribution resulted in the huge boost of consumption, demand, innovation and productivity we saw for 30 years after that.

Then came the oil shocks, which led to a completely different politics: neoliberalism, or, an economy once-again organized around maximizing capital gains rather than net earnings.
I was asleep when this happend, but waking up to check HN, reddit and my mtgox got me up to speed. For some reason, this doesn't worry me a bit. Mostly because of the steady and strong growth I've see recently.
RubyGems 2.0.3 released – No longer deletes stdlib from JRuby
By the universal declaration of human rights, every person has the right to life. I'm sure you can figure out a way that wouldn't entail food.

I'm not sure how nature automatically providing food has anything to do with it. The point of human rights is to provide for ourselves things that are not just facts of nature, but satisfy our ethical beliefs.
While it's not the same scenario you've described, bitcoin forks like litecoin are interesting for similar reasons.
We're spoiled with Flash's mature functionality. HTML5 video and audio are still too early in their life cycles to supplant flash. HTML5 also lacks a good way to package a lot of files together into a single one like .sfw's do. I always imagine what it would be like to try and convert a website thats is made up of almost all flash like Newgrounds over to HTML5. Until there is an easy conversion path, flash will live on.
Wonder if they make money on the other side of the perk as well. Price per lead fee they charge their partners.
This sounds a lot like Flash and AIR:

In order to avoid having to learn Java, you use a third party framework that lets you author code in a more familiar language. In exchange, you have to bundle 16 MB of framework in your app and rewrite the whole Android skin in your new language.

Users hate dependencies. I wrote a game in the AIR for Android beta and half my reviews are people bitching about installing AIR.
Myths About Open Source We Should Put to Rest
Hacker redirects all FSU web visits to meatspin.com
He probably meant Nexus, as in from Google. I've confused that before.
Publishing detailed information about the attack itself doesn't give attackers any knowledge they don't already have.
That's not how markets work.

"if it takes a worker 2 hours to make product X, but then a new technology comes along which makes it only take 1 hour to make product X, then the value of labor has doubled."

Wages are set by the supply and demand of labor, not by how much a product can sell for. The hypothetical new technology leaves the supply of labor unchanged, but the demand for the labor is reduced.

"Then the owner has a choice, he can either double all the salaries of his employees and have the same income for himself, or else fire half his employees and double his profit."

Have you actually pretended to be the owner in this thought experiment? Why would the owner double their salaries?

You owe it to yourself to take an introductory economics course, because your comment flies against everything that such a class would teach.
Harvard Secretly Searched Campus Emails in Internal Investigation
Not really. There are some savings, but they are not super-great. Plus, we do not yet know whether this works and if what the timeline is. This is hard!

What SpaceX is doing is totally awesome but – for the foreseeable future – a risky business.
Brian, who took a young student with no experience and took the chance for me to be a co-op. Securing that position revamped my entire view of what I do and has already opened doors.
Perl 5.16.3 and 5.14.4 just released
Unicorn Apocalypse Is Real And It Sucks
Safer Nuclear Power, at Half the Price
Mike Judge's Silicon Valley show in production
> Canada

umm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellions_of_1837
Student hacks Florida State University WiFi, Redirects users to porn site
I think our concept of basic needs is highly flawed. The moment some of our basic needs get taken care of, the new ones replace them.

In general any thing given away for free, will always be perceived as worthless. That is how it works!
Australian Central Bank Hit by Cyberattack
Perfect example of how JavaScript is not good for app programming. It is great for little tasks, but does not scale well. Please create a standard for a browser VM instead of this JS as ASM workaround that everyone is starting to use.
Flash is not available on Windows Phone.
SXSW Keynote: The Past, Present and Future of the Internet
I think some people see it as a measure of their value as a professional. If you have 500+ connections, then you've obviously been around and know everyone. This impression can increase your commercial value when you're looking for executive or sales positions. Business is fundamentally social, and if you can leverage a large network in favor of your employer, you become much more valuable than a smooth talker with no connections.

It does kind of ruin the "introduce me" featureset when everyone you contact is going to say "Actually, err, I can't introduce you guys because I don't actually know him", though.

LinkedIn should mitigate this by minimizing or not even displaying the "number of connections" on profiles and emphasizing other value measurements that don't cause misaligned incentives.
No.

Gustavo Niemeyer Yesterday 10:51 AM

Probably a wise decision to introduce people to the idea of programming. I doubt CMU would be making such silly overarching claims, though. In fact, it isn't [1]:

_"Our planned 15-214 course on software system construction
will have much more extensive coverage of concurrency, as well as object-oriented abstractions. Both of these are key components of most large-scale, distributed software systems."_

"Although object-oriented programming (in its myriad forms) remains a dominant theme in industrial software development, the use of object oriented languages, such as Java, at the introductory level introduces considerable complexity and distracts from the core goals at the introductory level. It seems preferable to give fuller coverage of OO design and implementation methodology to later in the curriculum to allow more focused concentration on basics at the introductory level."

[1] http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/2010/CMU-CS-10-14...
In Wake of Cyberattacks, China Seeks New Rules
Much love for the work, Lydia, but if you'd just asked me instead we could've saved you $700 :)
If you are familiar with the terminology the title is completely factual and not at all exaggerated or controversial.

A whitelist approach means only sites that have been specifically allowed(whitelisted) will be allowed to use flash, a blacklist approach means all sites will by default be allowed to use flash except those explicitly blocked(blacklisted).
10 Fundamental Firefox Add-Ons for Developers
It's that funny, but oddly pleasant smell when you get outside the office.
Is Android a victim of its own success?
Android's Biggest Security Threat: OS Fragmentation
Geek School: Learning Windows 7 – Managing Applications
/r/linux has a huge archlinux bias (which includes me). So take those results with a grain of salt.
The means of production are privately-owned, operated for-profit, using wage labor. Also, firms' entry and exit to/from the markets is basically unrestricted.

It's capitalism, red in tooth and claw. Doesn't have to be unregulated to be "real" capitalism.
Horror Fiction: A Night with a Serial Killer
Hackers fail to crack Chrome OS
I stand corrected - thanks Brendan!
Foursquare´s future lies in his map, not in his app.
Test Code Comments
I'm done arguing with you, here is another comment for you to down vote. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt that you wanted to have a reasonable discussion instead of being condescending and insulting, I guess I was wrong about that, what a shame.
> why are geographically proximate people of more moral worth?

This seems to be the implicit assumption whenever certain segments of the political class bemoan jobs being "shipped overseas". On a local/national scale, inequality does increase as unskilled workers face international competition. But on a global scale, inequality actually decreases as those living in the world's poorest countries see their incomes go up.

In this case at least, a likely explanation for why geographically proximate workers are deemed more worthy is that they are part of the relevant political constituency and the foreign workers are not.
Ubuntu not just for “elite” users says Canonical founder
Interface First, Program Later
I like where you are going with this. I think the design is good enough for now, once you fix the issues with image caching and button placement.

For these type of sites to work, however, you need some sort of instant gratification. After clicking on thumbs up or down there has to be a small indicator on the next page of what the average score for the previous image is. Once you add that I promise engagement will go up.
US DOJ weighs in favor of right to record police
Not answering to your point, but stating that as almost always in browser history in the last 12 years, this feature was first introduced in Opera.
This nails it: “The United States is concerned that discretionary charges, such as disorderly conduct, loitering, disturbing the peace and resisting arrest, are all too easily used to curtail expressive conduct or retaliate against individuals for exercising their First Amendment rights. … Core First Amendment conduct, such as recording a police officer performing duties on a public street, cannot be the sole basis for such charges,”
An Interview With Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin On The Wild Rise Of Crowdsourcing
You can create a custom AMI with any version of node.js, and use it in your envs.
Useful items on the viva64.com website
I'd like to give you some tips on what useful items you can find on our website www.viva64.com.

The audience of our site is constantly rising. Programmers subscribe to our blog, follow us in twitter, and so on. As a result, many of our readers read new articles but don't know of other useful materials posted earlier. We don't position us as an information portal, so you may miss a lot of useful items of information when visiting our site. However, we find it cruel to refer our readers to the site map. Yes, you can find all the site contents there but it's an impossible task for a guest to choose what to read.

That's why I've decided to arrange a small tour around our website for new visitors. I've picked out the sections which, I suppose, will be most useful and interesting. Enjoy your reading.
The uploader has a decent argument of fair use.

Its uploaded in a nonprofit way, for educational purposes. It is a very small portion of the complete work. The effect of the use upon the potential market is either small or non-existant.

That is three out of the four-factor balancing test regarding fair use. If we guess that this is about 0.3% of the complete work (3MB of a very very large final product), that would be comparable to use 30s clip of a film.
The first stage isn't going at orbital velocity of course, but the second stage is. The SpaceX announcement for Grasshopper refers to both:

http://www.space.com/13140-spacex-private-reusable-rocket-el...

I'm sure they'll start with just the first stage, but you can't just do a powered descent - that would leave it in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It has to be a return-to-launch-site maneuver and landing, which is what you see in the video linked to above. At the point where the vehicle does a 180-degree turn (referred to as a "death swoop" by rlv enthusiasts), it's going Mach 6 and is 1000 miles downrange. That's hard.
BuzzFeed Caught Plagiarizing From Reddit Again
IPhone + glass + flashlight = life-saving microsope in Africa
The Princeton Review ranks the best schools for game design
The life & death of Hugo Chavez* *Twitter Jokes
Ask HN: How do you build your APIs?
With so many frameworks around that let you build rich client side applications on the Web, Mobile & elsewhere there is a need to build a single API framework on the server. What are the best practices for building an API consumed by a Javascript MV Client (Backbone/Ember) and Mobile (Android) while the web server having a web application (Django).
No shit? someone had to do a study to figure out broke people are more depressed than rich people? I should be a journalist.
The Metrics Aren't the Message
Neo Technology hiring cloud engineer
A Cross-Sectional Study Of The Top-Rated Apps
I don't want to start an argument here, but that's not true; the banks' (i.e., shareholders') money depended on the US Economy. The bankers' money (salaries and bonuses) got paid even after the crisis.

The bankers were playing with other people's money, not their own.
You can customize the AMI and do whatever you want with it.
Why not use CloudFlare? It is probably the easiest way to deal with that kind of situation.
Google Research Scientist leads Apple to turn on HTTPS for App Store,..
Agreed. It's better to just get the product out there.
A lot of electricity is used on other forms of security as well, such as SSL or password encryption. Although SSL uses up less resources, it is used by far more servers, which I suspect would exceed the amount of processing power of the Bitcoin network.
I was indeed surprised by those numbers, thanks for explaining.
So I Learned To Code
Whenever the income inequality of the US is discussed, I wonder about the global income distribution. The US is no longer a closed system, so it may not be meaningful to consider the US income distribution on its own. Does anyone here know how income inequality is doing globally?
The Future of Digital Publishing – The Synergy between HTML5 and EPUB 3
Yeah, I was wondering whether he meant to write "I can't agree more".
Ask HN: Possible for an HTML 5 web app to request storage permissions for IDB?
Is there a cross-browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE10) way for an HTML 5 web app to request unlimited/large storage permissions for IndexedDB? e.g. more than a few GB. That is, without requiring the user to go through a proprietary web store, or installing a third-party plugin?
I found Yappi(http://code.google.com/p/yappi/) helpful when i had to profile a multi-threaded application.
OpenShift also does Node + WebSockets now: https://openshift.redhat.com/community/blogs/paas-websockets
But there is no doubt that Arch Linux community is an interesting one. Ubuntu bored me and I had a great time playing with Arch :)

And those numbers surprise me as well.
> HTML5 also
lacks a good way to package a lot of files
together into a single one like .sfw's do

What? Data URIs, style and script tags.
I almost gave up after a while as it was evident that there was nothing substantial other than marketing for LinkedIn. I think marketing has hit a new low. On a somewhat unrelated note, we have Elon Musk standing up for his product...I'd totally buy it if I were into that kind of stuff.
The censorship-resistance property of Bitcoin is bringing / will bring benefits to society absolutely worth whatever energy is spent mining bitcoins.
When the Cloud Fails ...
Perhaps it will create further competition for HTML5 so it will get up off it's ass and innovate. You could do everything that html5 promises in Flash 8 years ago. Never should it be accepted that a technology should win simply because it is an open standard (whatever that really means).
I'm so glad I got Android and run Linux at home. Flash is nice to have for many websites that otherwise would lack functionality or simply don't work. Not installing it by default is one thing, but banning it is another.
Flat-UI Is Already Being Used for the Good of Humanity
dotCloud has full websockets support. Http://dotcloud.com
Ship it with a Minimum Viable Product http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
brew upgrade node ;)
Does smaller share necessarily mean less money though? Maybe the pie just got bigger.
Swipe 2 - The most accurate touch slider
Indeed, you are correct. I'll probably end up with a Note. My terrible, barely usable smartphone has me fully converted to the Church of the Phablet. And to the Sogou keyboard, which is superior to the stock Android keyboard. Why is the semicolon available in one click but not the apostrophe?
Well, it's lightning fast now. I don't believe I've ever seen it this fast.
Well.. It was the /r/linux survey?

Arch seems to have the Haskell problem: avoiding success at all costs.

Although, many see this as a feature and not a bug.
I see no traces of Erlang in this story.
I think there may be one other relevant detail. This detail explains why this company could be in a fair bit more trouble that other similar enterprises (such as Righthaven):

It appears that Steele, Hansmeier and other principals at Prenda Law set up the entities that held the copyrights that Prenda Law filed suit on behalf of. Various federal and local rules have stipulated that (in certain cases like these) the Plaintiff must be represented by independent counsel. It appears to some that the entities that they have set up are actually under the control of Prenda Law, and thus violates the independent counsel rules. This may constitute a fraud that was perpetrated on the court, which would be very bad for Prenda Law.

Quick legal disclaimer: The above paragraphs are a statement of my opinion that I've drawn based on reading the Ars Technica series, the Popehat series, and the various court filings in the case (12-cv-08333). This disclaimer is probably not necessary but Prenda law has filed several defamation suits that include anonymous John Does commenting on the case(s): http://phillylawblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/prenda-law-joh...
Not a timeline. However, there have been some reports recently that the first Falcon 9 v1.1 flight (currently scheduled for this June) will attempt to flip the first stage around after separation, relight one of its engines, and use it to slow down before landing on the ocean. IF this can be demonstrated successfully, it links up with the Grasshopper work very nicely. So, a more aggressive schedule than I would have expected just a few days ago.

Source: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=30385.msg10... (and generally a good place to look for SpaceX updates...)
Someone once said that Python is the second-best language for everything. I found that to be true.
I don't have numbers at my fingertips. That said:

Less developed countries seem to be growing faster than developed ones. That said, while gratifying huge numbers of people in China, India and smaller countries are moving up in the middle class, they're leaving many of their poorer countrypeople behind.

(Also, beware of any attempt to present the numbers so simply that commodity price swings are allowed to have a major influence.)
Though to be fair, that's like saying something happened in the precambrian age when talking about the average bitcoiner's awareness.