skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a lot of what they spent their time on when they weren't doing fieldwork was still work, e.g. tending their own gardens, making implements and furniture, working on their houses.

It's certainly true that by and large we benefit from an industrial economy where we hire out ourselves for specialized labor and hire others to do things for us. It'd be something of a challenge to be able to furnish a modern household with a full-complement of typical goods without anything pre-made, and since goods are a lot easier to come by, both in variety and cost, people can afford to be selective about what kinds of self-crafting they'd prefer to engage in (or none at all).

On the other hand, tending your own garden, tooling around in the shop, making furniture, and working on home improvement projects are all activities apparently recreational enough that many seem to do them for fun even when it's easier to pop over to Ikea or otherwise hire it out.

I hear some people even seem to like build their own software for fun. :)

The labor you get to personally enjoy the fruits of -- that you can do to your own standards of need and satisfaction -- is a very different experience than work you're obligated to do as a cog in a institutional production arrangement.

And until most people have the option to pick how many days / hours out of the year they'd like to work as an employee, I don't think it's a settled question that the conventional balance we've got right now is optimal or necessarily superior to all past arrangements.
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devkits and proto boards do have bugs, especially during the early iterations. There are many occasions that I (firmware engineer) need to sit down with FPGA/Hardware engineers to figure out why the system is not performing as designed, sometimes it is firmware issue, sometimes it is hardware, and it was the combination of firmware/hardware and ambient temperature!! It is way more ineffective to perform this kind of debugging with someone in a remote site.
Puzzling enough to spend 5 minutes checking out what I was talking about first?

edit: grammar
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There is no such thing as a "bad company."

Either a company is providing a good or service that people want enough to pay for, or it's not and it goes out of business. That's the market.
In this interview, is there a relationship between a TV pilot and a lean startup MVP where Spacey is against such a pursuit preferring more visionary endeavours that take longer to get feedback?
lol... I've always felt that way about Java
In Guns Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond, I don't recall the exact quote but it is stated that the advent of agriculture with its seasonal work gave those in command a labor pool to use for fighting armies during the low-agriculture work seasons.
Well, yes, you don't need to work unless you want to. But is urban living a basic need?

I can't tell if you're agreeing with me or not...
The goal of creating an open sourced version of Windows has always intrigued me. But I can't help but wonder if the time would be better spent working on WINE itself which at least works a whole lot better but needs more resources than trying to build a new operating system mimicking Windows.

I believe this project has been around since 1998/1999 and I admire their determination. But if you want Windows, just use Windows. What I and many other Linux users have been wanting for years is a way to run basic Windows applications within Linux.

Wine bridges this gap somewhat and for many apps it works well. My dream is to see Adobe CS6 running on Linux flawlessly to the point people can ditch Windows completely.
Stories like this always assume that the benefits of things like automation are equally shared. As if because business A saves X amount of money doing Y, they will divide that money up by the whole of society and just cut us a check. However, as we've seen, automating BART would now be done by a private company who would pocket all the profits. Pretending that this theoretical world where LaNesse does her hobbies is great seems to miss the point that she will join the ever growing ranks of Americans living in poverty. I don't even understand how statements like that are taken seriously.
I'm hoping for a not-that-far future ... Jokes apart, does Rust perform as well as C++?
> My one point of disagreement is where you dismiss sum types because they clutter your program ...

> There's still room for improvement on working with sum types in Haskell (e.g. nested sum types can be annoying)

What I dismissed is requiring sum types to be nominal. For instance, imagine that Haskell used the Scheme/Java representation of objects (ie everything is basically a member of one sum type, discriminated on a machine word in the header). We could then do things like:

type Foo = Bar | Baz
type Foo2 = Bar | Baz

Where Bar and Baz could be any type. Now both Foo and Foo2 are just different names for exact same thing, and in fact the names Foo/Foo2 are irrelevant when pattern matching the result of a function that's been declared to return (Bar | Baz). This philosophy is a bit different from Haskell in that it assumes that "everything is an object" (rather than the zero-overhead structs of Haskell), and it implies that every sum type defined this way can only contain one branch for each included type (without names, there's no way to differentiate them), but a merging of the semantics could definitely be hammered out.

I think Rust (being not quite formed yet) could benefit from taking a stab at this, having every sum discriminator be globally unique, and every non-sum type having an associated global tag that only gets prepended when it is promoted to being an anonymous branch of a sum. The immediate use I envision is being able to create ad-hoc type hierarchies that are descriptive rather than prescriptive.
Timesharing: A solution to computer bottlenecks (1963)
That could be quite time inefficient, depending on where you live...
Are all of those needs or wants? And what are the costs compared to urban living?

Gas especially for my first question.
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Facebook is least important for people in your situation (still in school). You can't help but physically interact with most of your social circle, as you sit in the same building as all/most of them on a daily basis.

For those of us who are older and out of school - I don't live in a city with any of my family, many of my best friends are (literally) all over the world. In the past, we'd just (most likely) drift apart / lose contact. Now? We can stay completely up to date on each other's lives, talk/communicate daily, as if we were at the bar carousing late into the night, as we did 10-15 years ago. These people are important to me, but there is literally no way to talk to them in person, without spending $$$$ on plane tickets/etc.
I have a suggestion for people who are very pro unit testing for understanding people who do not test as much: try working in areas that are traditionally light on unit testing. For example, graphics, multimedia, and games. People write stuff in these areas all the time that still work, despite minimal automated testing. There are other paths we might take, Frodo.
Doesn't negate your point, but I checked out of curiosity, and at least with American Airlines, it is easy to buy an airline ticket with cash. http://www.aa.com/i18n/reservations/paymentOptions/cashPayme...
1945: A Japanese fire balloon[1] was responsible for causing "a short circuit in the power lines supplying electricity for the nuclear reactor cooling pumps" at the Hanford Site of the Manhattan Project -- but "backup safety devices restored power almost immediately".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon
Anyone else glad they don't suffer from an inability to have dinner or appreciate food just because they have a smartphone?

I guess it's unsurprising that smartphones get in the way of living life, but it's not that hard to use them in moderation, and I'm really not so sure about a cultural shift away from them. Maybe a cultural shift towards more responsible usage -- and I see that cultural shift occurring already.
Interesting perspective, but I feel like the stress comes from the idea that you can never have enough saved. Even if you schedule a certain percentage of your income to be saved automatically, what if you need that percentage + N in the future? You are ultimately limited by your income, but within those confines, if you squander a $1 now, you won't have that $1 to fall back on in the future.
Anecdotally yes, within a few percent, depending on what you measure. Safe code tends not to perform as well as unsafe code, but this is also true in C++—most applications just tend to err (and I mean err) on the side of performance.
Forget society, she's doing a service to ME. Why? Because if all else failed and her grandmother were dying in the street in front of me, I would feel a moral, ethical, and emotional obligation to assume her care. I would rather pay in to BI, if that worked to remove this scenario from possible things that might happen. That's my personal felling about it, without parsing all the possible socioeconomic ramifications.
Let alone distributing the benefits among mankind. For starters, you'd want the displaced ("obsoleted") workers to get a share of the benefits. You might ask why they deserve a share of the benefits when somebody else designed a system to replace their jobs... These are people who signed up for "risky" jobs, those which could be obsoleted within their working lifetimes. If we refuse to compensate them for that, we would face problems with people running away from any field which is "soon" to be automated, well before the jobs are actually automated. It's like asking them to hold the door open so someone could kick them out. To not compensate them (and hence ensure a smooth transition for everyone) would be tatamount to exploitation. It is interesting to note that a union of sorts will preserve employee interests in such a situation, by giving them bargaiing power.
The idea here is apparently that there are people living in a war-torn country ruled by a murderous dictator who will gas his own people and the only reason they haven't left is because they can't find a good programming job. As if they're sitting there on Monster.com as the bombs rain down, desperately refreshing for a job with benefits.

The degree of disconnection here from the reality of the situation in Syria is so enormous as to be insulting, even though that was not the intent.
I imagine that it would be possible to make lower-cost shows that attract a smaller audience but still earn enough to be worth it.

For example, space sci-fi has not representation on network TV right now despite existing demand for such a product. The problem is the number of people that want to watch such a genre are smaller than those that want to watch reality TV or other genres.

The potential with a distribute model that doesn't have a TV schedule is that it doesn't have to compete with other shows in the same timeslot, thus allowing for a less-expensively produced show to see earn enough money even if the audience is relatively small.

That is the market that I'm looking forward to, removing the time-slot competition and allowing shows to compete on quality.
Aye, and I can't find the relevant statute.
U.S. intelligence agencies spend millions to hunt for insider threats
It took less than two weeks to become fluent (I started writing the annotator tool around that time). Probably, it was the well-developed---if informal---methodology that Annie, the experienced programmer who took me under her wing when I arrived, taught me. She made a little ceremony of it, giving me my copy of the binder that held all of the accumulated knowledge about the reverse-engineered language in its photocopied pages, showing me how she used different coloured highlighter pens to tie together things in a listing, and giving me little example programs to understand. I studied diligently; it was like working crossword puzzles. About two weeks later, I was promoting my first changes to the test environment.

Edited to add: I never got over the white-knuckle feeling of it: everything global, limited supply of working-storage variables that were constantly being re-used, and interactions that could bite from a distance. One of the most useful features of the LIST annotator was that it generated an ordered cross-reference listing that could be directly compared. That feature made choosing safe working-storage variables a much safer activity.
I've been working on a server which you can run easily to facilitate SEO for single page applications. https://github.com/apiengine/seoserver

Based off this article
http://backbonetutorials.com/seo-for-single-page-apps/
The whole reason her job remains is that it is very difficult to have the same usability in a non-human interface, in a manner satisfactory to human users. So, from a practical point of view, such an "if" is kinda pointless. Ask yourself if you prefer IVRS interfaces on the phone, or talking to a human.
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Well, in general Netflix seems interested in providing content that falls into one of two categories. The first is what I think of as "low barrier to entry" tv shows. These are shows that people can turn on while cooking, cleaning, or doing other things around the house to replace pre-programmed tv channels.

"Many of the most-watched series have been off the air for years, like Star Trek and The X-Files." [1]

Personally, I think this kind of content goes a long way to keeping subscribers on Netflix, when they might have otherwise been tempted to turn on a tv channel.

The second kind of content Netflix appears to be interested in is content that pulls in new subscribers, This could be things like movies that were very recently released, or their own original content (mainly to replace the expensive deals to get those new movies).

But the thing about Netflix is that even a new show that might be viewed by other network producers as a flop can end up being a a good call. This is because Netflix isn't constrained by the same limits that cable tv is. The shows Netflix produces don't need to be blockbuster hits, as long as they can help fill the gaps in the "low barrier to entry" tv that keeps subscribers happy over the long run.

A cable channel can only show one thing to all it's viewers at a time, so filling that time slot with something that everyone likes is critical. Netflix can afford a slower burn with content that might not get a million viewers in the first season, but could easily be watched by several million viewers in the next 5 years.

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/netflix-dropped-...
"Legal tender for all debts, public and private".
Interestingly, the most recent books mentioned in the list are from 2007 (e.g. GPU Gems 3)! What are some of the latest books in game programming that are really good, especially for mobile?
Also, Doug McIlroy: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sinclair/doug/
A basic income would hardly be libertarian. Although I also tend to libertarian, I do see a role for government in addressing cases of market failure, or where the market fails to meet certain moral standards. An example would be if somebody working in the best job they can find doesn't earn enough to pay for basic accommodation and food. The government would provide the safety net in this case. However there must still be some incentive for people in this situation to try and find better work (or perhaps move to a better location). Otherwise, you have people simply taking whatever job they find the most enjoyable, living off the government subsidy, and leaving other less desirable jobs unfilled(paying slightly better, so according to the market more important, but leaving the employee no better off due to the government subsidy.)

It's particularly silly with the current system that you can legally work for nothing, be a volunteer or an unpaid intern, but you can't work for $1 per hour. If you make low paid work illegal, you make the low paid unemployed.

Perhaps some day all of this "scarcity economics" will be moot, if we could invent the star-trek style replicator, I suspect "work" would move to a volunteer model.
I've been thinking about this proposal for quite a few years, and wrote a blog post explaining how this kind of negative income tax actually reduces distortion of free markets by separating personal risk from income risk.

I think the reason it keeps coming up here is because the ability to do this is particularly relevant to entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, it didn't get much interest when I posted it here, but hopefully some folks will find it interesting enough to more seriously consider this.

It is not welfare, it is not socialism. It frees people to be rational actors in a capitalist society.

http://neltnerb.tumblr.com/post/58818804903/an-entrepreneurs...
Basic income, rather than welfare, would eliminate that problem.
Exactly. People get so worked up about the technical distinctions, ones that are mostly drawn by the IRS for tax purposes, that they confuse the form for the function.

It is no different than Booz Hamilton "contractors" working on site at NSA and other TLAs. If the money comes from the government and you take direction from the government, even indirectly, you are an agent of the government.
Django-allauth supports Mozilla Persona. (has for a while now)
https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth#persona

Its my preferred Django authentication solution. (much to my dismay when I want a profile app that doesn't bundle its own auth code.

If you haven't had a look. Its worth taking one. :-)
> "Legal tender for all debts, public and private".

Yes, debts being the operative term here. You don't incur a debt until you receive the product. Airline tickets are paid for in advance so the customer never incurs a debt.
Netflix is, more or less, looking to minimize cost per hour. Network TV is looking to maximize advertizing share.

Netflix's cost per hour goes down as long as the content is available on the service.
Just a couple points: Involuntary exchanges also have externalities, both negative and positive. It turns out people prefer voluntary, so the vast majority of externalities occur under capitalism.

Are "slavery, coercion, blackmail, forced options" economic activity?

Not if the game is structured to explicitly benefit one side or the other.

That's not a voluntary exchange, now is it?
"goods will be so cheap that people won't need to work to live."

That sounds like a nice, optimum fixed point. Let's think about how we might get there. It's highly unlikely that things become cheap and then humans lose jobs. It will probably be the other way round. Consider a time slightly before we get to that utopia of yours -- things are not quite cheap enough, but lots of human jobs have been "obsoleted". In such a situation how do the unemployed people survive? How does the system evolve into your utopia, rather than in a direction where the "have-nots" are neglected while the "haves" cater to their own needs? In other words, your utopia looks like a nice fixed point, but it's not a stable or attractive (in the technical sense) fixed point, of this dynamical system.

This is an example which shows that correlation is not enough. It is important to keep in mind what the causes and effects are. You can't have the effect happening first and inducing the cause. The causal order is important.
Not many starve, but many are homeless. And no, not all homeless people are lunatics off of their meds.

Basically, if you don't have a support system and have any of a number of serious events (layoff, dovorce, criminal conviction, medical event, return from military service, etc) take place, you have a high probability of becoming homeless, at least transitionally.

Being poor is often miserable, and misery brings on all sorts of bad behaviors. People need to feel some threshold measure of security and control. You can be poor and fulfilled, but modern urban living makes that difficult for many.

I find this entire article a little ironic. You have some smug CEO of a company (that offers a glorified messageboard intended to allow companies to provide mediocre customer support) lashing out like a child about a labor dispute and jobs he knows nothing about. I wonder how he'll feel when his business gets blown away by some open source project.
I'm read this while out with wife on dinner. Rethinking my habits right now.
I am impressed by the depth of your analysis. Obviously, anybody who says "twaddle" on the internet immediately wins the argument. Congratulations!
From the document:

Protecting the Hemisphere program is a formidable challenge.
We have taken the following steps to try and keep the program
under the radar...

The fact that our government creates and then goes to such great lengths to hide programs that it knows the public (and most likely the courts) will vehemently object to shows the level of contempt that government officials and employees have for the very people they were hired to serve. I don't know that it can be fixed, but it is a very serious problem.
That's not a joke either. Inside of Google you can ask anyone whether a particular API is the version that's deprecated or not ready yet, and they will always know which one it is.

Try it.
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"Reading people" doesn't require interaction. They, as you say, apply cold-reading style techniques (and other techniques, of course) to the selection of evidence and testimony available in the case.

In the end, though, they are similar to the "psychics" and confidence men; they need to quickly discover some key insights into a person's personality from (often VERY) limited data.

Also note: the very best cold-reading grifters/con-men don't have to interact with the suspect ("mark") either, sy least initially. It's part of how the mark is selected in the first place.
The BLS study linked in the article is from 1996. Anyone have a more current source on average vacation time for US workers?
We could absorb the shock of industry of size of the whole insurance industry now disappearing and amount of people roughly equivalent of twice the whole car industry now having to find new jobs. What exactly says we couldn't absorb a bunch of toll booth attendants or cashiers having to look for other job?
I imagine that if they have Darwinites, they can have Perthans.
Older versions work, what is so important in the latest version that you can't use the old? How did you get any work done say, 2 to 3 years ago?