skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that automation will only get cheaper as time goes on. Therefor in order to compete with automation the lower skilled will have to reduce their wage further over time in order to compete.

This begins to lead to an unsustainable situation in which the workers wage is no longer enough to sustain their own life in the economy.

Then you end up with three basic options.

1) Simply let people starve or rely on begging/charity/crime.

2) Support people via welfare or minimum income guarantee schemes, leading to a more socialist economy where there is no expectation to work. This increases power of government significantly because people are now dependant on these handouts for their livelihood.

3) Reduce expectations of quality of life. Stop building suburban homes and start building large "workers dorm" type accommodation. Feed people more effectively from shared canteens rather than individuals cooking for themselves etc. Hope that income from the spending of the wealthy and exports can keep the economy up when general consumer spending starts to drop.
Skewing the data! ;)
Hey! What a treat to see this here. Don't know if it'll survive long, but I'd say the takeaway from this guy is

1) He's practical to a fault -- he doesn't delude himself or others

2) He's extremely generous with his knowledge.

Anybody from any profession can take a lesson from his life.

RIP Sheldon Brown.
This, plus a spam filter that is Gmail quality or better. This was the biggest problem I had with Y!Mail back in the day.
You're both correct. It's been in the docs for io.Copy for a long time, and was only recently added to the http docs.
"allows us to go on to do more productive tasks"
The idea only works as long as there are sufficient number of jobs in "more productive tasks". If jobs are destroyed but there is no place to deploy the resources gained by the productivity increase, then there is not much value, and there are many negative side effects.
>> "But Nexus 4 is not an iPhone. No trolling."

> "Complete straw man."

Not at all. As I said, Apple does have a non-flagship device. Still, this doesn't mean they are participating in the race to the bottom. The same profit maximizing strategy still in full force, flagship or not. Good luck trying to make the same strategy work for Samsung. Or Nokia. Or SE.

(side note: do not confuse profit maximizing strategy with having models at all price bands. That's what the CE and personal computer industry did for the past 20 years. How's that working for Sony, Dell, HP, Nokia...?)

Yes, $400-800 is a steep price to pay upfront, in any country. That's why it works in heavy subsidized markets (like the US).

On the flip side, this doesn't work well in markets that 1) don't have a large middle/upper class population with high disposable income (to afford the outrageously expensive data plans), AND 2) don't have a strong culture of carrier subsidy.

That's exactly Apple's problem in Russia. Or India. And - just to stay with BRIC markets - the situation is slightly better in Brazil only because the heavy culture of subsidy and the recent growth of middle class, but import tax is what is/was killing them. (solution? Just open a fraking factory there [1]).

> ...the majority of smartphone consumers don't buy from the top 3 categories that Apple participates in.

And who said that volume is the goal? If your ultimate objective is profit - and why wouldn't it be? That's always your ultimate obligation with shareholders - volume alone is pointless [2].

Unless, of course, your very long-term profit maximizing strategy is to dominate market at the bottom, and then jack up prices so you can finally make some profit to compensate years of eating sand. There are very few industries (like retail, with Walmart and Amazon) where this can be done. Mobile manufacturing is likely not one of them (case in point: Huawei and ZTE eating Samsung's bottom).

The only threat for Apple is a global movement towards ending carrier subsidy, so consumers would have to finally pay full price for their devices.

But that seems unlikely. Consumers still don't know how to do math.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044416580457800...

[2] http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/03/the-phone-market-in-2012-a-...
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It would be cool if you were more reserved with your usage of "squatted" to describe domain names. Amateurs commonly use it to mean "he has something I want," but in domainer lingo, a squatted domain is used specifically for trademark infringement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Pro... .

I think it's an important distinction to make when describing domain name disputes.
I saw this interesting overview of the history of aspect ratios the other day. There's a lot more variety than you'd think.

http://vimeo.com/68830569
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I bought my first bike from his shop, and built my second and third from his tutorials. A very great dude. RIP.
I somehow still have to deal with region restrictions today, because technology.

Actually, it's because licensing.
My suggestion would be to seek out a generic tld other than .com (unless you have a lot of money to burn). Here's Google's list of what they consider to be a generic tld:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en

I recently picked up a useful .fm three letter domain for a new service. It perfectly matched the service, and I think the negatives of alternative generic tld's can be overcome very well these days.
I don't have any real insight. If any user at all could ban or unban anyone else then it might be chaos. The autocratic nature of it comes from the fact that someone and not everyone controls the code and the server. How could you have true equality on a social site without giving users a dangerous level of privilege?
I realize this is subjective, but I personally love the tabbed inbox.

Having all the "promotional" emails I get sent moved to a separate tab where I only have to look at them when I want to has completely tamed my inbox. My primary tab now only has messages that I care about.

I only wish it was implemented in a way that all clients could utilize it. I personally don't use the Gmail iOS client because I have several work inboxes that I want unified with my personal email.
Are you kidding me? At the very least, wearable computing as a form factor is going to be huge. And Google has the resources and flagship product to pull a big win. It's a convenient, hands free device with display. I suspect this is one of the main reasons their stock has been doing so well lately.
If someone had stolen ID _and_ checkbook, it might not have been the person you thought you were dealing with. I don't know if you looked into the winery / called it or whatever, but I'd have wanted some way to establish with fair certainty who I was dealing with beforehand. ( and probably would have accepted a check like you did given the amount. )

A surprising number of people don't know a check can be pulled back out of your account weeks after the deposit.
Paypal or credit cards aren't much better. So far as I know using escrow, wire transfer or bank draft are the only "sure" ways payment can't be revoked
I agree with you about Oculus Rift having real viability in the proximal future. Glass and "GlassUp" (what a rip of a name) need to be released to developers and the general public to thrive and produce an ecosystem of developer tools as well as new ways to use the hardware. I find Glass and GlassUp to be akin to the iPhone. The first iPhone touched the brim of what a truly responsive and performant touch-device could do, when GPS/Bluetooth/Wifi/Gyroscope/ and other sensors were equipped. Years later, and there's thousands of unique ways the iPhone is being used because of its advanced framework and hardware. I think we all know even the first production versions of these devices are going to be poorly able to be used, perhaps clumsy and too zealot-specific but they are necessary step for the truly visionary platform to evolve from.
As a paperboy I carried a portable fog horn. I was good with dogs, and only had to use it once in my 6 years of delivering papers (5-11 grades). But it stopped the dog - quick - and he never bothered me gain in the next 2 years which I delivered in that neighborhood.
Go developer here. I posted this on the blog too.

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This is a mistake, plain and simple. It was pointed out on the Go developer mailing list a few days before your post, and you can see my reply there.

NewRequest should take an io.ReadCloser. Unfortunately, due to backwards compatibility, a long standing semantic mistake like this is not something we can just fix, but we've at least documented it.

The tweet you quoted is wrong, and I want to explain why. If an interface value v is passed to a function f, then what does happen from time to time is that f will look for custom methods on v that are at least logically equivalent to the static interface type f is declared to expect. For example, io.Copy takes an io.Reader and an io.Writer and does the obvious thing, Reading into a buffer and then passing that buffer to Write. Of course, it would be nice to bypass the buffer when possible, and so there is a standard WriterTo interface that an io.Reader can also implement that, in contrast to Read, which copies into a buffer, says "read the data out of yourself and directly into this Writer". If io.Copy finds that method, it will use it, but the operation - reading - is the same. There is an analogous case for the Writer too. If you pass a value v to json.Marshal, Marshal will check to see if v implements json.Marshaler, meaning v knows how to marshal itself as JSON, in which case v is given that opportunity. Again, same operation you requested.

In contrast, if you have an io.Reader, while it might be okay to look for other Read-like methods, it is certainly not okay to look for Close. That's a very different operation, it's surprising, and it shouldn't be there. FWIW, I'm not aware of any other instances of this kind of semantic mixup in the standard library. But again, unfortunately, we can't change it until Go 2. All we can do for now is document it and move on.
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There's no reason to deliver video in a 16:9 box if the aspect ratio of the content isn't 16:9, so nobody should be wasting macroblocks on black bars. Which isn't to say that someone won't jam it down your throat.
It depends a lot on how you expect people to come to your site and the cost of losing them versus the cost of the better domain. If you run a TV ad for example.co , you can expect an order of magnitude more people to visit example.com instead.
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Because some directors or DPs want to present in widescreen?
I think the link is socioeconomic status and crime. If there was a connection between skin color and crime in the US why would this genetic predisposition stop at the border?
Would you mind linking to the thread where you were banned?
The Entertainment Software Association outspends the NRA on lobbying politicians
For what it's worth, Outlook.com now offers free mail hosting for your domain, up to I think 150 addresses.
For client performance, I've daydreamed about an addon to Jasmine that could record the execution time of tests or functions and log them over time.
Misunderstanding Twitter
Does anyone know if Amazon streaming does the same?
Because 16:9 wouldn't exist except for the existing theater ratio of 2.39:1. 16:9 is a compromise between existing movies and academy ratio[1]. 21:9 would have been a better ratio, but we got the compromise just like the resolution is 1920 x 1080 instead of something that jived better with computers.

If you shoot a movie in 16:9 it will look cropped when viewed in a theater.

1) there is a YouTube video that explains it. I think it made HN a while ago.
This is overwhelmingly true, and even documented for .co unfortunately. I'm hoping over the next year as new tlds come on board, tld awareness/education goes up. Don't get me wrong, I don't think any will make a dent in .com in any reasonable timeframe as far as value and familiarity go, but at least help erode the 'all websites end in .com' mantra that so many hold.
Secondarily, it'd be nice to watch domain squatters 'fortunes' dwindle to nothing. I wish icann did more to enforce rules against it, yet i'm not sure what such a solution could be.
I'm not exactly an insider, but I took it to just mean early and small. The idea being that you needed an 'angel' just to get started.
Target="_blank"
I am new around here and I was wondering if anyone has ever suggested setting the links to target="_blank". I realize it is easy to open links in another tab, I just wanted to know why the news section would want to be navigated away from.
No, I think "destroy" carries a clearly negative connotation.

The people cited in the article talk about jobs becoming obsolete. The author talks about jobs being destroyed.
If anyone can do it, it might be Google. It's going to take a ton of internal development to further Google Glass from their last prototypes. With smartphones setting the expectation, the general public and even techies are going to want something slim, streamlined, and performant. The TI GPU processor that Google Glass comes with isn't exactly performant enough to do the crazy VR stuff we want.
There's plenty of sexist garbage over on reddit, as well. It's definitely showcasing a problem the programming community has.
You're obviously correct that tablets are CPU-bound compared to desktop which is why the more exciting stuff is native on the ipad rather than being a port. Traktor is a good example - the ipad version is very different and stripped down yet more powerful in a number of ways. When you talk about 'hardcore creation', remember that Brian Eno is a big fan of the ipad. Now you can get Reactable for ipad and even an emulation of the Tenori-on - you won't find anything remotely like those capabilities (or e.g. Samplr or Impaktor) on desktop.

And the controller market is much larger for desktop than tablet - the tablet is a very popular controller for the desktop (especially Ableton as it happens). Consider that for a long time Lemur has been a high end pro choice precisely due to it being a soft controller and they are now working with the ipad.
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I had a similar thing happen, I was the last person on security footage before someone discovered vandalism.

You wouldn't have been guilty of perjury, maybe obstruction of justice. But I think your overall point is good, they will use data against you even though you were innocent and answering questions with good intentions.
Another happy Fastmail user here. I don't use webmail, so I can't speak to that, but their IMAP service has been 100% reliable for me.
Undo send is great. It lets you undo the one time in a hundred that you make a mistake. Your solution would require that everybody click through an additional dialog on every single email sent.

Letting people recover from uncommon mistakes is better than ham-fisted and annoying mechanisms that attempt to prevent the mistake.
> It's all about controlling the perception of common public opinion, while avoiding being seen to do so.

No. It really is much simpler. Some people make intensely but shallowly interesting posts. Some people respond to those posts because intense posts cause that kind of reaction. Other people downvote that kind of post because they recognise its toxic to the community to have that kind of discussion here. Eventually a poster learns to avoid that kind of post, or they get hellbanned.

(But yes, there are false positives and that sucks for those people and the community.)

> I hope you guys realize that free, open and unrestricted public debate

I look forward to visiting the fork of HN that you put up. On your website. At your expense.
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It's arguably true in a certainly commonly-used subset of C++ as well: this type of typecast doesn't work in C++ unless you use dynamic_cast or another RTTI system (like COM). dynamic_cast only works on classes with a vtable.

It's true that RTTI isn't used very much in C++, but I can't think of any non-trivial C++ project that doesn't include some traditional unsafe typecasts. And I have worked on a lot of C++ projects. And then there's the implicit type coercions, and the implicit constructors... ah, the good old days.
Some art is ephemeral. Not all art needs to preserved for all time. Have you ever seen a Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala? The monks spend weeks creating an amazing detailed geometric piece of art, and then carefully destroy it, pouring the sand into a nearby river.

That said, I'm sure that the actual music will be released in a more portable/permanent format at some point.

This really isn't that much different from other album concepts that depend on a particular medium. The Who's Tommy is a rock opera; but more people know just the album. I recall various artists releasing albums on CD-ROM with interactive graphics and animation back in the mid '90s; and of course those were platform specific, for now obsolete platforms (though you may be able to run them in an emulator if you want to try playing them).

Enjoy the art now, in the context it was created for. Maybe it will exist in the future, maybe it won't. Don't worry about it too much.
Like many others, his was one of the very first sites i came upon in my search for great bike nerd info.

In addition to the incredible depth of very practical info, the fact that his site exists is a demonstration of what the pre-commercial web was all about: 1 guy contributing knowledge for the benefit of many others, giving time/effort for the greater good.

Never met him, but i miss him.
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I agree with that in general. I'd say that if you've got TV money (or similar) to spend, your domain buying options are a lot wider than most startups. And if your service gets to that level of success, you can at least attempt to buy your .com.

We're also probably at the point now, where even if your alt domain service becomes highly successful, there's a good chance the .com won't be available no matter what (short of a million dollar purchase, either due to a serious business owning it, or ransom).
I actually made a Firefox add-on because I wanted to do that. It also does a few other things, but that was the main thing that I wanted.

http://robert.io/alter-hn/
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This is a poor way to promote free market economics. Most people don't want to see a tooth and claw society where low income families are torn apart by hungry capitalists.

It is certainly true that wealth disparities may be the price paid for the benefits of a free market economy but that does not make them unimportant. I think most would agree that an extreme case where a single individual owns 100% of the wealth and nobody else has anything would be a poor society, so the question becomes where does one start to worry?

If somebody can be one million times more productive, and you are one of the million people put out of work and unable to find further employment then you absolutely do lose.
Honestly the truth is that any startup that will pay you with options to compensate for a below market rate (either in salary or combined salary + cash bonus) is a scam and should be treated as such.

Startups are great if you are a founder or if you are paid equally to what you could get in total current comp at a bigger company. If not, stay far, far away!

I made the mistake of joining a startup once thinking I'd be getting rich off the options. Never again will I be so naive. Now the only two things I consider when joining a new company is 1. total current compensation (salary + benefits + bonus) and 2. potential for career growth. Options and startup equity should always be valued at 0 and not weigh at all to any job choice.
Well I think mainly it's about how once we get into routine subconsciously it's really hard to change especially so when the situation is more dynamic hence intrinsically it's a fear for change. They can tell that the situation is perilous but they way they react is to stick to their prior routine.
Wormholes are definitely one of the most interesting parts of EVE. Even if you're a player with powerful ships and allies and money on your side, going in and exploring one comes with the palpable risk of getting stranded inside and having to surrender all your stuff, or suddenly getting ambushed by people you didn't know were there. CCP does a nice job of making it worth the trouble, by putting all sorts of interesting stuff in wormholes that you can't find anywhere else and making the built-in AI residents more dangerous than other enemies. The fact that the connections change all the time means that it remains interesting to pop into a wormhole and explore it. On the flipside, when a wormhole opens up in comparatively 'civilized' 0-security space, sometimes wormhole denizens pop out and wreak havoc, which is fun too.
Why the new Google Play layout is faster on Chrome than Firefox
If you're wondering why all the fuss over eggs it's because chickens don't lay eggs in the winter due fewer hours of light. Once electric lights were put in barns eggs were available year round.

I doubt in the early 1900s if many or any farmers could afford new fangled electric lights.
It's really obvious when a bunch of brand new accounts post comments like "Great Work!" and nothing else.

My own personal opinion (and I have no connection to the site or understanding of the rules) is that good, insightful, comments are welcome. So, people upvoting an article is okay, and those people making good interesting comments is okay. But a ring of people only ever upvoting articles from one site is bad. Again, this is just my opinion.
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How are they cutting corners? The wider aspect ratio would actually use fewer pixel data since about 80-240 vertical pixels (assuming 1920 width) would not be encoded. If anything, those versions would result is slightly lower bandwidth charges than the 16:9 versions.
That's true as long as people need jobs in order to have a decent life. Eventually, the productivity gains from technology should produce enough gain to allow for a guaranteed basic income [1] sufficient to allow displaced workers to effectively retire if they wish. You'll only need to find a job if you want more than the GBI can provide.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee
Thanks. I research more, and seems that TrueCrypt still does not support sparse bundle, so that's still a no go. The only option is to do what you did, sharing a full container.

But if you have a big container (say, 1GB or so), it has the drawback of re-syncing the file back-and-forth. And if you have multiple devices (including mobile, etc), this would easily became a nightmare.

That's a bummer. I love TrueCrypt for local encryption of filesystems and containers, but I wish I could use as a lightweight, on-the-fly, encryption of files. Particularly dropbox and other cloud-based storage.
11g is present, but 11n dual-mode and MIMO will be future
Duplicate. Prior discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6048851
My Dad was part of the Lyme Disease vaccine trials. He ended up receiving the placebo, but was then given the option to get the actual vaccine and he took it. If I remember correctly, it didn't last that long, so it has almost certainly worn off by now.
@titanous Jonathan Rudenberg Are you the only developer on this project currently? Sorry, just found your FAQ is at the bottom of the page and the question I had was on the bottom right corner ;)

Just in case someone is too lazy to look it up himself: He's not alone and teamed up with Jeff Lindsay.
No technical reason, but all of the praise and success of Apple's lack of options certainly makes the case for business reasons.