skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
47 percent of U.S. jobs are “at risk” of being automated in the next 20 years.

The other way to look at this, of course, is:

47 percent of our labor force will be freed from their menial tasks.

Our societies will collectively be able to produce and accomplish almost double what we currently can.
Hi, everyone. A dependency management is tedious task.

What're your best practices for keeping a eye on the dependencies and a valid versions?

What do you think is missing at the moment?
That is true. And is clearly true in the tablet space too (as well as PCs). It's just a lot more nuanced in both directions.

Android can have higher unit share and 'inferior' products while Apple can have higher profit share and the 'best' (single inflexible) product, almost indefinitely because they are satisfying different needs.

Which raises the question: where is there actual competition?

Clearly Samsung and Apple are competing for some of the same customers, but the overlap is small compared to the overall market.
Definitely - contact me at the email in my profile and I can tell you more about my specific approach for Mandarin. (Don't want to sidetrack the thread too much.)
The first 1TB is free, the next 1TB is 1RMB. At least from the comments, that's what I got.
Allow people to see how it works without forcing them to register.
So apparently through age 50 each person is supposed to give the health insurance corporations nearly a quarter million dollars.

I consider myself progressive and this is the most asinine solution I've ever seen.

Instead of fixing health care costs we are going to make more billionaire CEOs.
I Am The Guy Getting Screwed By The Affordable Care Act
I recommend creating your own cards, they just feel more weighty. I did jump start my sentence deck with the 500 card starter deck from AllJapaneseAllTheTime (http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/my-first-sentence-...). Yet those cards feel different. If I were to redo things I would start from zero and build cards as you go.

My process is to add 4 cards everyday. These sentences come from posts in my RSS feed. Over the years I found websites that interest me. Take for instance http://blog.esuteru.com/ which has a very 2ch style of news, not safe for work but often interesting. Or I'll stumble upon people's blogs. For example "KEN's": http://qoqpop.blog123.fc2.com/ He is a phone "otaku" who often travels to china and Mexico for business trips. I found his blog in a N900 related search. The open source community also has plenty of japanese bloggers. For instance http://d.hatena.ne.jp/naruoga/ is the blog of a Debian translator and a journalist who I found through the OpenPrinting working group.
Then you should've not offered the $ reward. This motivates wrong kind of people and sure as hell it does not do much to motivate a "hacker with some design skills".
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PHP is only meant to do that one thing. It's not really fair to gripe about it not serving a purpose it was never meant to serve.
Just wanted to reply to you so you'll see it: I mentioned my card creation algo in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6462709
Do you mean self checkout (manual checkout)? I've never heard of automated checkout, but that would be amazing!
Most people don't willingly give the information to Google or Facebook. They give it unwittingly.

Also, by your logic, it's not your information anymore - you have given it to Google and Facebook, which makes it their information to give to the government.
When talking about painkillers I think we should also think about how many have that pain. If it's too little, then that painkiller can be a distraction. So while I fully agree with you that a distraction is not a painkiller, the opposite is not always true.

Plus I think painkillers could definitely be just showstoppers.

Once again, I find this subcategorization working great as a refinement applied to the @coffeemug's model. The only point is not to start with it directly.
>The Ripple network works a lot like the Bitcoin network

It doesn't work like the Bitcoin network at all. Except that its computer software for handling transactions.

Bitcoin is based on a primarily zero trust model, where every node validates all the data completely and cannot be tricked— except for transaction ordering which (due to relativity) can't be evaluated like that, and so Bitcoin uses a computational lottery to establish ordering.

Ripple has a small number of server nodes which can freely set all balances, no validation at all. Its an entirely different model. The servers believe according to a majority of configured trusted peers.

It doesn't even appear if the ripple model can be stable even absent attackers if the peering are not centrally controlled.

See this thread for more discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=144471.0 (esp the later posts with the network topology diagrams)
No, just robots. CEOs/politicians who control the robots, and people who do what the robots say and are provided with everything in return.
The other things that's funny is that she could have had a Nexus 7 tablet with a better screen, a faster processor, and more memory for quite a lot less money. But of course, it wouldn't say "Apple". This is a big part of the reason that Android is catching up or better. It's not just the low end of the market, it's also setting the bar at the high end for features and performance , and at a better price.
This is what I think will happen: 1% of uninsured will jump through all the hoops and apply for a subsidy (which is more complicated and more expensive than just picking up the phone and calling BCBS for a high-deductible plan.) 9% of uninsured will finally get insurance to avoid the $500 IRS fine. 90% will do nothing and get a $500 fine from the IRS. 5% of those people will pay the $500 fine which is cheaper than buying insurance. 45% of them will throw the bill in the trash, assuming the IRS knows where they live/work. The other 50% will raise hell they are not paying $500 to the IRS, Obama will feel like a bully and Obamacare will be history.

If I have it totally wrong, don't just downvote, please explain why. I really don't know if the IRS fine will be $500, that's just a number I heard thrown around last year. A $500 fine is less than half the cost a cheap insurance plan for one person, and much cheaper if you have a family. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, a possible $500 fine (that's not even a reality yet) is much less pain than buying insurance right now. My percentage estimates are off the top of my head (not scientific) but I heard 1/3 Americans don't file tax returns so that figured into my estimates. And remember we're talking about uninsured people, I'm thinking a large percentage of them are just getting by.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/11/19/facebook-https-t-...

Worth pointing out that Facebook only had opt in https as of 2011 and default https came a long time after that.
So what you're saying is... the language that's holding about 80% of the web together isn't worth taking seriously... because it isn't Erlang? Remind me how many sites are built in Erlang again? Why would lists and tuples be critical in generating html files?
That's funny because you can write a deck to help you learn concepts of critical thinking. Necessity, Sufficiency, Contributory Causes; Propositional Logic, Predicate/First-Order, Modal... the deck won't TEACH you critical thinking, but it will make it much easier for you to learn it.
Agreed, he raises no convincing point. And yes, if you are in a very traumatic accident the helmet is only going to do so much...and like you said the one thing it does is the one thing you cannot live without.

You can go on living without a leg/arm/spleen but a brain injury...
Qatar World Cup construction 'will leave 4,000 migrant workers dead'
I honestly don't remember. I was so green at the time, guh.
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On Windows Phone, every app has the ability to offer a free "trial" version. So you can make a paid app, but still let the user try it (with less features, or ads). I think this mechanism is ideal.
It's possible with RFID. Just not cheap enough yet.
The only way that automation works is through creating a highly controlled environment where production can proceed in a predictable fashion.

The only way to have a completely automated restaurant is have a big box that spits out meals. The alternative is no automation or a lot of little boxes that are used for pieces.

The thing is that a restaurant would still needs counter-help and clean-up help so further. Let's assume the box reduces the cost of prep-labor by 50%. That reduces the labor past of your costs by 25% and your total costs by 12.5% assuming labor is 50% of costs. So it's a good savings but not an astronomical savings. But the counter-weight you have sell people on buying the food that comes out of the box. A few places compete on price alone but that's hard. Just consider that restaurants are already competing with microwave dinners in the frozen section that quite possibly are already spat out of a better, cleverer box at a central factory. It would seem restaurants compete on ambiance and human relations and a 12.5% prices savings might not compensate.

Another thing about "food out of a box" restaurant is that the box might not have the flexibility of a human preparer. If you need to change your menu, you might find you have to do expensive retooling on your box rather than a quick retraining of your employees. If you have to close a given restaurant, you may find no one wants your box. You may find yourself more dependent on your small number of box-technicians than you were previously on a large number of easily replaced unskilled cooks and so-forth.

The thing is that humans are a fabulous deal once you remove the price differential. Human comes with amazing skills, often train themselves with more, supervise and trouble-shoot each other, require little capital investment and manufacture themselves. This kind of thing is a good deal for nearly everything except production at a large scale (and the most important items, cars and iphones, are going to that large scale). The only unfortunate thing from the buyers perspective is that humans have a nasty habit of expect a share of the output instead of just a bare wage. But the solution to that problem is visible all around us ... humans.
You're right, it is much more interesting. A few of my cards are a single word and I've found those hard to remember.

Instead sentences also let me remember context. Some cards might be speculation on a video game long since released. Others topical news reports long since over. Others might be internet slang which you would not want to memorize without the context to avoid confusion. I think this is vital since Japanese is so context sensitive.
Could you provide some data on the number of farmers that have been bankrupted by the death of microscopic ecosystems as a result of "efficient farming"?
SF Open Data Mashup: Your Favorite Restaurants Are Filthy
Combining Department of Public Health open data records with Yelp restaurant review scores paints a revealing picture of dining our in San Francisco.
> Using flashcards to learn mathematics, computer programming, physics, or anything requiring more creative or analytical thought is not so useful.

I thought you were wrong for a second, since there are a lot of definitions and theorems that are probably good to know on the fly. But then I thought about learning about the meaning of greek letters; okay, but in what context...
The deductible is sort of smeared into the out of pocket maximum and actuarial value (but for lots of people it would amount to quite some more than $500).
The only business models I want to work on any more have some mass-market component that is absolutely free, and a niche companion product that makes money off of the exhaust fumes of the mass-market component.

The last two businesses I started are Stack Overflow, which is free, where the careers business on the side makes money on the small fraction of Stack Overflow users who are looking to get better jobs, and Trello, which is free, but the business of providing administrative tools to large organizations using Trello can sustain the whole business.

This is more than just "freemium" or "advertising-supported." Freemium and Ad-supported business models are special cases of this general model. The real insight is that the free product has a chance to reach an enormous audience which provides distribution/advertising/marketing making it trivial to go to market with your paid product.

What Marco is reporting here is that the old-fashioned "make something and get people to pay for it" business is much harder to pull off and likely to always be left in the dust by someone making the same thing for free, getting 100x the user base, and getting 1% of them to pay for some value added feature.
sounds exactly like apple touch pad, where you can either tab or click to register a mouse event. I hated having to click the touch pad so all I use is tab. but steam controller uses thumb so I think I should feel ok since thumb is stronger than forefinger.
Don't talk to the police, because it strips away your 5th amendment protection against self-incrimination. [1]

Under the NSA's universal surveillance regime, you are always talking to the police.

So, not only does PRISM, etc violate the 1st and 4th amendments, but it makes the 5th amendment all but useless. I mean, I guess I'm okay with shredding the constitution if that's what the majority of american's want, but something tells me they don't want that.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
It is interesting that the subsidies are based on your Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI). A nice example of tax code naming conventions: it is both Modified and Adjusted! One of the items you deduct from your income to get your MAGI is self employed insurance premiums.

I am curious how this will work in practice for the self employed...it seems a bit recursive. My premiums paid will be influenced by how big of a subsidy I get, and the subsidy calculation depends on MAGI which is influenced by the total of my health insurance premium payments.

Is there a class of the donut hole problem where you forecast that you will pay enough in premiums to get your MAGI down to qualify for a subsidy, but that subsidy reduces your actual paid premiums and now you no longer have a MAGI low enough to get the subsidy? Maybe I need to spreadsheet this and it isn't such a trap, or maybe the MAGI deduction is based on the gross premium with the subsidy being a separate credit. Also bear in mind that the whole thing gets trued up when you file your 2014 taxes with your actual (rather than projected) MAGI.
> And they managed to make a distributed kernel that worked.

So it was great the same way Smalltalk and ITS were great: It was wonderful, but most of us couldn't use it, so it was worthless. Technical acumen doesn't matter if the result isn't out in a usable form.
Non-organic food is also far better for the environment as a whole, since it uses land more productively.
Please do sidetrack the thread!
Good grief. What an awful placement for a Flash ad. The 'x' button is inaccessible, presumably because it got accidentally layered behind the masthead.
IOS7 translucent effect in pure CSS
Well done, amazed that it can be accomplished automatically
>- Nowhere in my post did I say a module system was dependency injection

Let me remind you then:

"Do ES6 modules have all the dependency injection stuff the Angular developers wanted?"

>Explaining in further detail: a feature of some module systems is dependency injection

An orthogonal, non relevant feature, that has nothing to do with the core role of a module system.

That some module systems have this frankensteinian stuff included doesn't mean much.
That sort of outlook implies a government and populace that's willing to embrace something resembling a functioning socialist state, rather than merely letting the "freed" labor force live in abject poverty. Based on the current political climate in the U.S., I'm highly skeptical such a thing would happen.
For me, I downloaded a chinese deck from the shared Anki deck website. There's a series of ten of them. I also wanted to learn the strokes and how to say them and draw them, so I downloaded the "eStroke" app for my iPhone, and practiced drawing them in the air. Wasn't motivated enough to get ink and paper. :-) I also figured out how to do pinyin on my computer, and input strokes on the phone for character recognition. So, I dunno - I would do a few cards a day, but my retention was poor. I realized I was more interested in learning how to learn Chinese, rather than learning Chinese itself. And, doing the cards 10 minutes a day isn't enough - you have to be doing some sort of other activity with it simultaneously. I deleted the deck eventually. :)
Thanks for digging this up. I find the 2 models being almost identical. And as one can read in that thread there can be subcategories that one might consider.

My preference is still with the formulation Slava came up with:

1. it's slightly easier to think only about 3 buckets
2. category names are more descriptive
3. their explanation in the post makes them more approachable/easier to grasp than formulation in the Wikipedia page

I haven't read the book, nor did I know about Kano's model until today, so thanks again.
Aphyr Puts ZooKeeper, NuuDB, Kafka, & Cassandra To The Test [video]
Zapd Acquired; Services Discontinued October 7th
It's not that conventional farming is more productive than organic farming, but rather that large-scale commercial farming (which can include using organic methods) is more productive than small-scale farms.
Thanks for the link, did not know about the non-existent nutritional value difference. Was basing my views on some earlier paper that spelled out which food was worth buying organic and which not.

30% less likely to contain pesticides is a nice positive benefit.
How to bring back Chrome's old New Tab page
Either there's a bug in the calculator or the pricing tier is completely senseless. (sorry for the long link, it has all the parameters included)

http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/#state=nc&zip=...

Two adults living in NC and making $5,000/yr are expected to pay an annual premium of $6,901, which is 138.02% of their annual income! What!?
It is with sadness that I announce the passing of Privacy. A cherished friend; he will be missed by all, and remembered fondly.

I know that we all thought that he would live forever, so news of his parting has been greeted universally with shock and with sorrow in equal measure.

For we who remain, we need to learn afresh how to survive in a world that - without our late companion - is changed beyond recognition; to adapt, and to survive without his comfort and protection.

Survive, of course, we will; and adapt to our loss also. We cannot have any doubt though - we are weaker and more vulnerable as a result of our friend's untimely demise.
It's not In-App purchases, per se that are evil - I've spent around a hundred dollars on new levels (great use of In-App purchase - you reward the developer for creating new content), new tools, new capabilities in the last few years (much less than the the close to a thousand dollars in "up-front" app purchases I've made) - and I think I've gotten real value each time.

What's truly evil, is the cognitive manipulation that "free" games engage in on those who are most vulnerable to those manipulative techniques. The "Candy Crushes" of the world.

You want there to be a virtuous circle, in which developers are rewarded for creating new, and improved apps; not for buying extra boosters so you can clear the jelly without developing the skill required to (or wait long enough for an easier level). How stupid do you feel purchasing "Diesel" for your "Tractor" in a game? Particularly when you consume it and just have to buy more diesel to continue at any reasonable pace.

That's the evil part of In-App purchases - I can show you a dozen places where In-App purchases and/or subscriptions have been very well executed to the benefit of everyone. (LetterPress, Flickr, Whatsapp, Path, evernote, Pioneer Lands, Paper by Fifty-three - just to name a few)
That's exactly what I've been searching for!
Unless the cost of maintaining a 100x userbase outweighs the combined $$ value of the value added feature for the 1%.
Cared enough to comment that you don't care, right?
Mike Hearn on The future (of money)
Why Personalization?
And yet I bet he will get results and they will look good enough, even if you and everyone else who considers themselves a designer laughs at him.

He can actually judge the logos he gets and choose the best one (or potentially non at all). Designs don't have anything close to a monopoly on good(enough) taste.

Evaluating the quality of a code base, on the other hand, requires close to enough skill that you probably could write it your self. It's not analogous.
which likely inspired...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/magazine/dave-eggers-ficti...
Because you would be eligible for Medicaid.
I hold the view that Apple also had no clue what they were doing, recall that the initial phone had no support for 3rd party applications instead the browser was supposed to take over. In my mind the emphasis on a terminal style model of computation (in 2007 web-apps were server side), is inline with the same mode of thinking as at RIM. Half the story of iPhone is the advantages of opening up your platform to developers. The other being the lines I saw outside of the AT&T/Cingular store which I can never explain.
I had a nice pleasant surprise when reading this on a mobile device, I ignored the banner as to download the app, and halfway down the article, I was suddenly taken to a download page with no means of dismissing.

This happened three times.
I general Marco's points seem accurate, except for the first one. I've mentioned to many people that I build iOS apps and never have I had someone assume that I work for Apple. There are certainly various misconceptions about the app business (ie. it's an easy ticket to millions), but assuming I work for Apple is not one of them. These are "regular" people that have no knowledge of the Apple or tech sphere, other than owning a smartphone. Doctors, teachers, retail employees, elderly relatives (who have no idea where I work), all sorts of different people. There is definitely some interesting psychology going on with regard to the amount anyone is willing to pay for an app, but I really don't think believing the developer works for Apple has anything to do with it.
something does seem wrong - up that to 11k and you get 'better' numbers (more intuitive) - they may not have tested with numbers as low as you put in???

Also, fwiw, you only had 1 family member, but 2 enrolling, but that didn't seem to affect the issue.
Yes, and I have no problem with that. I don't wish Apple to fail - I just don't want it to dominate the market alone.
Patience! I keep saying this but it's worth repeating: the US has had a lot of evil policies, even eviler than this one, IMHO, in the past, but they haven't lasted. Indian genocide and slavery were the worst, but there were also Prohibition, MacCarthyism, Jim Crow laws, etc. After doing tremendous damage to people, we eventually moved on. We are moving on from sexual/familial freedom and drug freedoms, and we will certainly move on from this.

Think of 9/11 like a severe blow to the head. It just so happens that some of us (Feinstein, Alexander) have taken longer to come out of the security-daze. And they may never. But they will eventually be out of office, let us hope sooner rather than later.

Personally, I don't believe that any policy is irreversible, unchangeable. Life is change. People change.