skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Way too expensive compared to laucnhrock and lauchnrock-likes.
For 99$ per month, I have a full featured BaaS... not a homepage only.
There's a difference between "replace everyone with robots" and "replace everyone with robots now". We can't really say what the limits are to what kind of jobs can some day be done by robots, so we all have to live with the knowledge that our jobs might be automated before we're ready to retire.
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The other thing is that they build RVs with insulation that can handle the winter.
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The primary reason they dig those holes is because tall buildings need solid foundations. It's not as if they can just build the building at ground level if only it weren't for those darn cars.

Foundation depths vary based on too many factors, but a ballpark number for a midsize apartment building is probably in the 15-30% range. So if you have 16 floors, you could reasonably expect to have 2-4 stories below grade. What else would you put there?

Even if you only needed 2 stories of foundation depth, digging an additional 2 for parking is relatively cheap compared to the first two, since the equipment is already out there.
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You could easily afford same vacation time - work only half a year, consume at the level of medieval peasant (no TV, no internet, no modern medicine, no car, no fancy foods or clothes, one clothes change a decade, no electricity, no running water, no sanitation/WC) - and you'll have plenty of money left to live the dream second half of the year. I'm sure if you forgo the modern civilization, you can get through pretty cheap. In fact, if you qualify for welfare, you could probably give up working altogether and still live better than medieval peasant (they had no free healthcare, free housing, no foodstamps and no free cell phones). So if you wanted, you could live much better that medieval peasant with 100% "vacation" time. Most people, however, want to live even better, so they work to make this "better" happen. Modern civilization doesn't fall from the sky, you know - people make it.
Then White was the one smiling. “See?” he said. “Wouldn't that be perfect if she could actually pursue her hobby?”

I don't understand how this person could be the CEO of uservoice. How can she pursue her hobby if she loses her job?
To be clear, we are agreeing with each other. I think that is an incorrect assumption, too. We consider each case very carefully, and often don't cut the salary (it has happened more that we didn't cut salary).

That said, it is very easy here in the comments to argue how bad it is to cut the salary when someone moves to a cheaper location. However, the flip-side of the same coin is what about when someone moves to a more expensive location? Should we then say "this is the fixed salary and you choose where to live, and if you move somewhere more expensive that is your choice"? I don't think that is fair. So the other side of the coin of "salary goes down if you move somewhere less expensive" is that we increase salary if you move somewhere more expensive. We've done this for people and it is highly appreciated.

Our overall philosophy is that we want to help people to be wherever in the world they can be happiest and most productive. We encourage traveling and we have set ourselves up as a distributed team based around this value.
YouTube have been quite deliberately breaking their experience to the point where I go and find one of those shitty downloader sites every time my daughter likes a video because those spammy sites, 3/4 of which don't even work, are the best way to enjoy YouTube now.
people aren't "meant to" live in cities, use wheel, spend life in front of computer screens... but we're not hunters-gatherers any more, which suggests that what we are is far more determined by current form of society than innate "human nature". living a TaskRabbit life in the techno-capitalist dystopia is no more "natural" than some hypothetical form of democratic socialism - not to mention far less desirable for the majority.
They did no such thing, unless "decent" means living like an animal. Next thing, you'll be telling me that living in stacked chicken wire cages, the some people do in Hong Kong, counts as innovation.
creates incentives for the makers to optimize their revenue generation

The quote in my other post up there says community pension is fueled by taxing corporations who generate income from virtually zero (or highly leveraged toward automation) human labor. So, yes, optimizing their revenue will increase the payments to the community pension fund which will help it grow larger.

Post-scarcaity will come right after everybody is automated out of a job, so we'll have zero employment and massive corporations. I see your point about backwards third world places being run by money warlords, but I'm not sure that's a rational outcome for modern society. Once you have empowered populations, those go away quickly.
The shortest clearest argument for basic income I've read http://books.google.com/books/about/What_s_Wrong_with_a_Free...
Parking minimums are subsidy towards car owners from non-car owners. Why do you believe you should receive that subsidy, instead of the developers being able to choose what to build based on demand? If you want a parking spot, you should pay market price for it and developers will happily sell it to you. In other words, no one is telling you not to have a car; they're telling you that you need to pay for the space it takes up.

If you want lots of cheap parking, you move to Texas.

As for rent going up as a fact of life, that's silly. Rent goes up because demand increases faster than supply. That's something you can fix by increasingly supply. And since high rent just reduces your income, it doesn't make sense not to.
http://www.moka5.com redirects to https and isn't responding either. You guys seem to be either hard down or misconfigured. Maybe you should be looking to hire/grow DevOps too? ;)
Google Maps Mania posted about a few similar maps last week.

As well as the Netherlands map there is the Portland map, a map of Ljubljana, Slovenia (similar to the Portland map) and the Brooklyn map.

http://www.mapsmaniac.com/2013/08/view-age-of-10-million-glo...
I think a better argument is that 'everyone' has a car, but in old cities, far from 'everyone' had a horse - they were for businesses or the wealthy only.
Non-tech question, but with your background, you could have migrated to any field. Anything stand out as a motivation to move in the direction you did? LabVIEW/MATLAB were my early intros into CS. I haven't really touched MUMPS yet, and I should. Thanks for the recommendations.
His point wasn't that it was funny, it was that the parent was making a poor argument. And he's right. If you spend any time at all around people working low/minimum wage jobs, you'll see that many of them spend money on non-essential things: alcohol, tobacco, lottery tickets, drugs, expensive cell phones, renting stereos and TVs, etc.

My mom spent many years working with low-income families as a social worker. She told me repeatedly that many of these families just lack the basic skills of managing money. If they had $40 a week left after paying all their bills, they see nothing wrong with spending $30 of that on cigarettes and beer.
Honest question. What kind of life does that give you? A decent enough life or a pretty miserable life?

Also, if this is true why are there so many more homeless people in the US than any other Western country I've been to?
You certainly believe some jobs will not exist in 15 years? For instance, I assume you can see the writing on the wall for truck drivers and cabbies? No matter how unpleasant it may be to say to those people, "If you don't make the choice to get a new job in the next 15 years, it's likely you'll be out of a job", not saying is not a service to them and does not make it any less true. What do you propose we do instead?
I completely agree that the user's experience of using a form should be well thought out, and that error messages like "please remove spaces" shouldn't be part of any well thought out form, but suggest that anything is free of trade-offs is absolute nonsense. That `string.replace()`, along with all the others for all the other things your well thought out form does the thought-at-the-time-to-be-right thing with open the door to both bugs and user confusion. It's worth it, but it isn't free.
You don't need a full basement for foundations, large pilings are far cheaper. They can easily support 30 story buildings without a basement in an earthquake just fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_foundation
Thank you very much! Know that other people have been gone through this makes me fell better. I'll (with 100% sure) do or at least try some of the things you said
Funny; mine are r/starcraft and hackernews... I honestly need to regulate my time on them both
Nope, sorry. We're a Caché user who is not in the healthcare industry, unusual as it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_in_the_Soviet_Unio...
I think you are missing the point that people don't usually want to work doing these menial, easily automated jobs. They do it because they have to, to support themselves and their families.

If they could still support themselves or get paid, but not have to spend their day working, wouldn't they be better off?
> I don't think it's disincentive to reemployment in this case, because being unemployed is not a requirement to receive the money, just being below a certain level of income per family member.

Well, I personally know people that refuse to work because they get the benefit, and even a minimum salary would make them ineligible.

Bolsa Familia is fixing several people into poverty.
In Germany and other WW2 theatres, you will commonly find unexploded ordnance. All work will come to a halt as it has to be removed by experts.
Go ahead and make one! Grab the HN clone source code in Arc (google it), and run it on a free EC2 instance.
You do not have to go back in time to find elements of answers. In China peasants live in very poor conditions far from the cities （and I can tell from experience that it is much harsher that what we can imagine before going there） and it is no surprise that they expect to get a better life working at Foxconn or other industries we like to call as sweatshops in the western media. That is the best real life example out there, and it is taking place much faster than in Europe at the time.
Did you turn on showdead and read his comments as you were advised to, or did you just decide to remain willfully ignorant while drawing absurd conclusions?
> to feel just how painful it is, you must understand the topic being discussed.

Of course I do, which is why your comments are so laughable.
Nobody wants to go back to horses.
Though the MRRT isn't overly new we already have a similar tax for the petroleum industry.
Child pornography makes sense though, I can't see any civilised society ever being okay with that because of the permanent harm it brings to those involved. The ban has been in place since before the Internet, and thus it was brought to the Internet too.

There needs to be rules, but they need to be sensible and not limit speech. The other side of that coin though is the laws against copyrighted material, most people don't care and download stuff illegally anyway.

I can't imagine lawmakers backing away from the Internet, and I don't really want them to because before you know it someone would be monetising child porn. No idea how you would even begin to solve the problem of balance though.
A good strategy for getting hired at a big company is to find an internal advocate. It is easy for the Google HR/recruiter to ignore individual candidates, but it is harder for them to ignore you if they get an email from another Google employee asking about the status of your application.

How do you find an internal advocate? Start networking. Find people at Google with common interests or backgrounds as you. Then send me a cold email introducing yourself. It will take a few months to develop a relationship where somebody will happily send that email to HR for you, so start a few months before you are planning to submit job applications.
After hundreds of applications sent out - in a vast variety of fields, considering that degree - and an interview with Red Hat I didn't succeed in ultimately, this was the next best thing. In retrospect, probably better. The employment market for scientists here in Australia is pretty much complete crapness unless you do a PhD, which I didn't go for. Plus, I've had the IT experience and interest and our system is a domain I'm really interested in. And the company is pretty awesome too, especially my coworkers who are all equally enthusiastic about both the product and our customers.

Sorry if I'm not going into that much detail :P
Ember is a framework, jQuery is a library. jQuery doesn't really give you much of anything that you don't have in regular JavaScript, it just makes things a bit more concise and smoothes over some browser inconsistencies. Ember provides you with a structure for your application, two-way binding, a template language (Handlebars), a router, and many other things. It's not better than jQuery, it's a completely different type of thing.
For all these language issues, I generally preface the query with the language name. "Python3 Django", "Haskell Quickcheck", "C++ Boost", etc. It makes things so much easier for the search engine to give me Good Results (tm) when it has that extra bit of context.
I'm not only criticising their price. I'm writing off this whole thing as a 'joke', because honestly, that is what it looks like. Have you looked at the source code? You should take a look at this[1]. If you say "well, that's not so bad - they don't know how to make two classes with different background colours, but who cares about that? Bootstrap is totally justified", you'll love this little gem[2]. That's right, they're including 265 kilobytes of javascript (and violating jQuery's MIT license in the process, but I'll let that slide) for a form validator.

If you want my honest advice: do not go near this thing. It was built by developers who are either playing a very dark joke on HN or do not have a clue about web development.

The 99$/month price tag is what makes me think it is a joke. I have asked a friend of mine who does freelance web development from time to time and "about a hundred bucks" is what he'd charge for developing a single page built with Bootstrap.

[1] http://launchable.io/assets/application-f12be0d179f7589b0d58...
[2] http://launchable.io/assets/application-99f549a279e10ccc7e06...
Hey, nobody said funding can't come from the government, it's just that private companies and individuals seem to do more with less...
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Human ability is not liquid enough. She has already been mistrained/miseducated by the time her skills have become obsolete.

Either she's going to end up jobless, poor, and constantly fighting the change that took her job away, or she's going to educate herself enough to join a new career.

In the former, there's a loss of economic value because she's going to be working against progress while at the same time not contribute economically because she keeps fighting for keeping the things the same old inefficient way.

In the latter, she's being punished for picking the wrong career path that society probably partly encouraged her to pick.
Absolute true. But you will only get sued for a bad reference, it simply isn't worth the corporate risk. The corporation gains literally nothing and exposes itself to legal liability. There are reasons HR have strong policies on this -- it is all liability and downside with no upside.
A PLAN TO CREATE A PRODUCT?

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I can't recommend this python script enough. In addition to youtube, it can download from tons of other online video/audio sites.

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ (`brew install youtube-dl`)
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Ember.Object is the M in the Ember.js MVC framework. Ember Data is a library to synchronize a RESTful API with your models, without ever writing a line of networking or AJAX code.
I'm doing this in Austin currently. Inspired by Tynan, I got a Rialta as well and have been using it as an exercise in minimalism. So far, it's worked out very well, even in the extreme heat.
Optional number 4: Turn them into resources in the for-profit criminal justice system when they eventually turn to using and selling addictive drugs.
I don't know why you think socialism is a "harsh" word - those same leftist parties in Germany and the rest of Europe call themselves Socialist or Social Democratic and are proud of it.

It's only on the US where Socialism is such a term of abuse on even the left of the political spectrum.
I don't get it. If nobody wants the 6k job, how is it that nobody is offering more? Are there less people looking for workers?

Let me tell that history again. Yeah, you get that 20k a year. Then your old boss calls, and just offers you 30k for that job you used to do for 23k. You can either join your old friends on their band again, or get a total 50k a year, your choice.

Now, about your old boss, he'll have to pay more, no questions about it. But the total cost of salary is trending down anyway, so the best option is to start with a small basic income, and grow it at the proportion that income concentrate at the top.
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He's thinking a few steps further: she loses her job due to advancing automation (along with a large segment of the population), _and_ guaranteed basic income becomes a reality.
Why, will they not need to be parked anywhere?
The problem is that technology accelerating at a pace far greater than 1811, even though that was in the midst of the industrial revolution. Now, it makes perfect economic sense that automation of jobs on the cheap follows on to improving the economy, globally. However, this progress is associated with period of painful social adaptation.

The fear is not that demand for labor will decrease, but that the speed at which the labor force is upskilled will be outpaced by the progress of technology. So your factory and warehouse workers (who are already in a perilous financial situation) are unemployed, but more than that, their skills are no longer relevant. Increased demand for labor will not readily mesh with the skills of the existing workforce.

In the past, the gap has closed. But what if jobs are shed faster than their workers can transition to new ones? A scary, and not unrealistic prospect.
In less than 7 days Australia will essentially be deciding if it gets a National Fibre-to-premesis Broadband Network.. or if it will continue pushing copper and outdated tech for the next 4 years.

It terrifies me that the entire murdoch empire is pushing for the latter. ( http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/08/rudd-sticks-it-to-bi... )

Edit: More examples - http://i.imgur.com/MyU1MDV.jpg
Fukushima radiation levels 18 times higher than previously thought
... yes, of course we ask EXACTLY those questions. What the hell are you talking about? Those are two of the primary questions I ask everyone I interview (300+ interviews over last 15 years).

I don't know what nightmarish company you are reference, but it isn't the norm for the industry, most programmers get the hire/pass call (or at least veto power) by other programmers.

As for ageism, I really don't see it that much. It is mostly programmers getting annoyed by the "soft cap" around 135k-185k and switching to management to make more in the late 30s and 40s. Luckily, the cap is starting to go away, positions in the 200k+ are becoming far more common.

EDIT: This is only a reflection of experience in the US.
you could go to the dynlang meetings and chat to people there, or signup for the startup digest and see if there's something to get involved with there, or try out hackerspace (something i am planning to do).

http://www.meetup.com/dynlangchile/ https://www.startupdigest.com/digests/chile (email carlos - he's the kind of guy who's always happy to chat to anyone!)
http://stgomakerspace.com/

they're all kind of nerdy, but once you know people you can branch out...

if you're already into something, like climbing or mountain biking, or skiing, i bet there are groups you can join. i went mountain biking a couple of times out east and met people just because we were getting injured together... or how about the local music scene? you could try going to concerts (look in la tercera or el ciudadano or the clinic something). there are courses at cine hoyts la reina (easy to get to on metro) where you go watch films and chat about them (my partner just signed up for one, but she's taken and probably twice your age anyway). the craze last summer (i think, maybe the year before - i am old and out of touch) was doing circus tricks. you could pay to learn. seemed like a way to meet people. or dancing lessons. do you play football? many people here play once a week for fun - try your local sports centre and see if they have a noticeboard.

what nationality / colour are you? if you're white here, getting a date should not be so hard! don't any co-workers have sisters? if you don't speak spanish well, offer english lessons to cute natives (how can that possibly fail? just stick some fliers up... you can even get paid at the same time! this is such a good idea i want to be single again)

oh, and get invited to a barbecue on the 18th. you must work with some chileans? i'd guess someone would be happy to invite you to a barbecue. you can meet people there. everyone will be at a barbecue that day.

or if violence is more your thing, well, a week before...

another idea - get involved with the elections. i bet they're looking for volunteers.
Yeh, did not expect much work detail, but that makes sense. Most of my fellows voice op-eds of frustration, so it's nice to see someone defend it a bit ;-)