skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason automation won't replace a human workforce is because it's far easier to program a person than to program a computer.

There's a cost to automating any task: the time spent designing and testing the system. So if it doesn't make economic sense to automate a task, then employment will occur instead.

People are also conservative by nature, so society tends to shun radical new ideas. That conservatism is why it's usually necessary to start your own company in order to put such ideas into practice: almost no one believes it'll work until it's shown to work, so it's rare for big companies to make huge changes to their established business model.

Most new companies aren't huge successes on the scale of Google because success is distributed according to a power law. There are only a few big winners, and big winners are the only companies that can influence a whole society. Therefore it seems mathematically unlikely that most jobs will disappear to automation because most companies won't automate unless they're economically forced to. So even if some work could theoretically be done by a machine, most companies will choose to employ people right up until competitive pressure forces them to embrace automation or go out of business. And that competitive pressure is necessarily infrequent due to the rate of new and hugely-successful companies being infrequent.
In the article he mentions a new product called "Red Hat Software Collections", isn't this just an official variation of Fedora which has been around for years? If so, I wonder how the Fedora team feels about this new distro...
> [..] tropical islands [..] manipulating the studies results [..]

I did not want to argue with you that there is no dirty business in pharmaceuticals or chemistry. All I am saying is that dirty tricks and evil strategies are found throughout the industry, and not only in the medical sector. It is just in the medical sector that one sees the most dramatic consequences.

Go to car development, pre-emptive war, OS software, taxi drivers, banks, and I am sure you will find some good examples of low humans can fall.
Boenher's refusal to bring the bill to the floor has been frustrating.
Equally frustrating has been Harry Reid's refusal to bring bills to the Senate floor.

Both sides were standing firm by their "ideals". Neither side made any sincere efforts to find an actual solution.
Didn't we just see headlines 3 days ago about crossing over the 2 PH/sec mark? Holy crap.
I'm using the latest Mountain Lion 10.8.5. On second though, I think I know what is going on.

First, linking with the webkit framework is not the problem, using the framework is. I was playing around with preferences and also location. As you say, this is when the Webkit frameworks kicks in, which might explain the memory blowup to 118MB.

Second, I seem to recall that modern OS allocators are reluctant to release memory back to the OS (pool) unless required (when available memory is low) hence the process appears to use more memory than what it actual might be using. When I just restart Flux without fiddling with preferences, memory usage stays at around 45MB. I still think this is way too high if you think about what the program is doing, but given the above, even if Activity Manager reports that Flux is using 45MB, it might not really use 45MB now, only at some point.

I remember I used Xcode's instruments to investigate my program and could then see that the real active memory used by the process was usually much less than what Activity Manager, top, and ps w/friends were reporting. So a large part of the memory the process is currently holding (45MB) might be released back to the OS if needed, I think. If someone has more details on this, please elaborate.

Edit: Flux is also running with 4 threads(!) which of course also adds to the process memory usage. Isn't a thread stack around 4-8 MB?

Also, Flux appears to use 0.1% CPU continuously which is sloppy since CPU usage can be remedied by putting (nano)sleep in the poll cycle to make it use zero CPU.
awesome congrats guys!
Or do we just need fewer people in the world? Once much is automated, you no longer need a lot of people to sustain the luxurious life styles of the rich (with fewer people: of everybody).
I guess he explained it a bit in this post : https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=227560864073797&set=...
What To Look For When Building An App In The Food & Drink Category In iOS
I wouldn't share this with anyone. Ugh. Now I need to move back across the country...
They only get paid if Congress specifically includes language paying them. People are merely assuming congress will do so on what, good faith? Given the nature of this whole bruhaha, I wouldn't discount entirely the possibility of no back-pay.
It would be interesting if companies become willing to give top engineers a higher compensation than management.

That irrationality is why there are so many consultants.
TransferWise shows exponential growth after Thiel investment
As it often happens, when you try too hard to make your point, you get carried away.
So, you're not wrong ... but the table-saw argument is a straw-man.

There's a company that sells a revolutionary table saw with intelligent saw stop precisely because experienced, skilled practitioners regularly cut off their fingers.

In general "be smarter / do better" is not a reasonable prescription for large numbers of people. Empirically, if people are fucking up, it makes sense to analyze why and to give them automatic solutions to their fuck-ups.
Why The Mobile App Will Die
We often forget that even though this common problem of replacing callbacks is getting more critical and urgent, people already thought about it and gave some solutions. Maybe not in higher level languages (although I think Go does a great job there). In C, I have in mind glibc's ucontext for example.
I'm trying to improve that through rinoo.
So to answer your question, if you look at the wiki section you'll see test results I've done running 20,000 Actors.
Of course, once you handle "actors" correctly (which should definitely be called fiber) you shouldn't use that many Threads (if too many you'll end up spending most CPU cycles scheduling your threads). However, rinoo handles multi-threading as well. I'm currently writing doc about it.
Anyone who owns a house? I just wrote one the other day: after a rainstorm we had a water leak and I paid the water mitigation contractors with a check. So far I haven't seen any contractors carrying Square Readers.
Amazon CloudFront adds support for POST and PUT
Its like the guy who wrote this doesn't know what open source software is.
Congratulations SciEx !
There's no reason to think that Al Jazeera will be a player in the 'adversarial journalism' game. It's a massive media conglomerate just like NBC, CNN, or FoxNews; at best, watching al-Jazeera will just become a way for people to brand themselves as 'independent thinkers'.
Show HN: TrainerMatch
iOS devs, please submit radars to Apple for iOS support without jailbreak. (IDGAF whether it’s native or third-party support for changing the whitepoint, I just don’t want my phone to blind me at night.)
While I think this is really interesting, I do think it's slightly disrespectful of the sport and the Olympic games in general. Good luck getting rocked at the Olympics Paul!
For what it's worth, back pay is apparently part of the package in the Senate today. The House already passed legislation guaranteeing it, but for whatever reason (this article suggests Senate Republicans, but I don't know) it didn't get through the Senate.

http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/10/back-pay-furloug...
The gateway monitoring argument is also pretty feeble since how are they going to extract ID scans or other info from worldwide gateways or p2p sales. Sure bitcoin is risky if using a major exchange in a western country but good luck getting info on a trade from a Russian exchange, or IRC exchanger connected via Tor who lives in Vietnam
Github index page
So, here is how github main page look like without login. Looks weird, huh?
What? No.

Sexual harassment is unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature, no matter how many people are sexually harassed or the gender of the parties involved.

There have been class action sexual harassment lawsuits. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. was the first which represented fifteen women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenson_v._Eveleth_Taconite_Co.

It's a fuzzy ground with say prominent displays of pornographic material in say an office environment. One might argue that it can make the workplace a hostile or overtly sexually charged environment. It is best to err on the side of caution.
I've setup 1m connections to a Netty service we host a couple years back, its kinda a fun exercise. I would avoid something like hazelcast if want to do something that palatalized. We used terracotta and the entire concept of a shared memory in a distributed system becomes a major headache.
Some coworkers and I were talking about this exact same thing. In the last Winter Olympics Jon Montgomery won a gold metal in skeleton. In his interview he admitted that he wanted to be an Olympian, and that skeleton seemed like a way he could accomplish that. It's clever, very clever.
so to be fair, maryland is in the top 15 (for CS, I think it's 14), so it's not really a Cinderella story if you go from thinking about the top 10 to the top 20, now is it...
Ironic that in 2006 Senator Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling for many of the same reasons that the GOP is voicing today.
IMO, the example you're using in your blog should be simplified even more. I've never heard of Passenger before and it's not something I've needed.

But I have needed to ensure that a file exists in a particular folder on the server. An example of ensuring that would be more universal. Then you can explain that this vs a shell script is better because it's error prone/difficult to run the shell script twice, etc.

But I did get a lot of value out of this article because now I know that Ansible exists. Thanks
It's actually one of our cofounders who wrote this, not me, but I'll pass that along. :)
More importantly, shouldn't the contest organizers comment on this?
You're right, I was a rank off. That being said, a Colonel is often still in charge of a couple thousand people.
> The Dems have a pretty good PR department, and are doing a good job of spinning it as though it is a problem with the (Republican led) House

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) -- who has characterized the shutdown as something the Republican-led House (and the House leadership, particularly) did at the prompting of Republican Senator Ted Cruz --- would probably be pretty surprised to find that he was a Democratic PR operative.
Thanks for the report. Fixed, and keys cycled.
I'll cop to being a bit ideological here (mostly in the form of not fully justifying the statements here), but I don't think automation is displacing labor... yet. I think this time that the explanation that we grossly increased regulation, taxation and even more so the fear of future taxation, government spending and benefits, and just in general have significantly raised the both the direct cost of hiring someone, and the reasonable expectations of future cost of hiring someone is a sufficient explanation. I find the idea that raising hiring costs can be done without resulting in lowered hiring to be, shall we say, something that can only be rationalized by a brain in "politics" mode, rather than "rational" mode.

(The test to this theory is that if we elect a regime that tones all of this back, and the economy comes roaring back 1980s-style, then this theory was essentially correct. If we do that, and it does not come roaring back, then my theory here is incorrect. I believe in treating politics scientifically, at least, my personal politics. My highest allegiance is ultimately to what works.)

However, lest this sound like a raw ideological rant, I do think it is near inevitable that either by the 2020s or the 2030s at the latest, that this automation displacement will be a real problem. We're looking at a world where trucking is gone as a viable job. Where fast-food will probably be rapidly in the throes of total roboticization. Where what farming jobs are still available will be rapidly falling to yet more sophisticated robots that have human-like dexterity and ability to detect ripeness. Taxis, gone, in favor of heavily capital-based self-driving car rent pools. I think this whole automation argument is premature today, but it's going to be a real problem in a relatively small number of election cycles. How is anyone who is not suitable for college and has no useful artistic talent combined with enough work ethic to use it profitably going to make it? I don't know.
This is terrible... it makes it horrible for people in difficult situations.
This sh*t makes me really sad...
Generations and worklife styles (video)
One of Ronald Reagan's most famous quotes was from a propaganda piece against Medicare, about how it would end freedom in the country... but when he became president he expanded it. Being President has a way to change one's perspective.
I would love to see an option to specify a different time zone. It would be useful for when I travel, and I'm lazy.
Boastful Ryse crunch tweet opens quality of life debate
Me too... and I think it's the responsibility of everyone that has a stake in free and democratic society to support such a venture, don't you think?
I think he's looking for people that are fit for the job AND the chat over coffee.
Ola's a super-smart dude and the language is well worth exploring––I learned a lot from playing with Ioke. One of the coolest parts of it is his experiments with translations––in a language with zero keywords and a very small core, creating user translations into (say) Hindi becomes extremely straightforward. There's a rarely-explored opportunity there to bring programming to non-English speakers around the world.
Building a Design Marketplace from scratch
Possible DoS Vulnerability in Action Mailer (CVE-2013-4389)
I've also heard it described as a tactic to ensure the public is grateful for whatever deal is ultimately struck.
This seems to ignore a rather important the a rather important third culture: the free-market capitalist. Why was this not mentioned? It is certainly an important one insofar as western culture is concerned, and has risen to become far more important and influential than the other two.
Wikipedia lists 4 instances where Speaker Boehner has broken the "Hastert Rule".

Really, the "rule" is common sense for the Speaker of the House. If the Speaker wishes to keep his job, he should follow the rule. But as demonstrated in the past, Boehner is willing to break the rule to get some bills passed.

Boehner is subject to two masters: the 8th district of Ohio, and the Republican Caucus. The first keeps him a Representative, and the second keeps him the speaker of the house. Keeping both pleased is necessary if he wants to continue working as Speaker.
Stay tuned for part 2 in February.

Then part 3 later in 2014.

Sadly the elections won't fix this because of gerrymandering which is worse than any amount of money in politics.

The House will always be toxic because of it. Senators cannot play that game which is why they tend to be slightly more sane.
"They teach you how to make points in clear and concise ways while supporting your arguments and tuning them to your audience"

What makes this a business writing class, it sounds exactly like Freshman English. It also sounds exactly like the term paper requirement for my literature credit elective which was sci fi, other than sci fi class additionally required we relate somehow to sci fi. It sounds like every term paper requirement I ever had to write for every class other than not being on topic...

Maybe your anecdotes were not educated the wrong way with the wrong topics, but just simply not very well educated? Half the students have to be below median and half of them will be stuck with the below-median teachers, by definition of median and assuming random distribution, and the result is likely to be some peculiar results from "educated" people. Or at least some weird anecdotes.

Its possible that for-profit business pressures at the school pushed poor teachers into creative writing instead of biz writing which got the good teachers. That may even be a universal cultural phenomena across the country, those pressures exist, math teachers really do seem as a class to be smarter than gym teachers and there are sound business reasons it has to be that way. But blaming the topic for employee results isn't going to change employee results, you'll just have more people signing up for biz writing requiring the village idiots to be reassigned from the now empty creative writing classes into biz writing, leading eventually to mysterious pondering about why biz writing class used to be great and now on average its not so good.

You can hope for an educational curriculum for poli sci but that might be a little abstract for all high school students. I suspect you'd be stuck with trivia or indoctrination, checkmark the year was Marx born, write a short answer about why America is great, who is the mayor of our city at this time, etc. Vocational poli sci would be "how to be an effective campaign manager" which might be interesting. Or just plain old "how to become a politician" class. True, very few grads will become POTUS but quite a few might end up local aldermen, board members, council members, or mayors over their lifetimes.
"Looking at the efforts to compromise TOR, I don't think you can assume that mixers won't be adversaries"

That really depends on how things are being done. Tor involves making a temporary, random choice of relays, and periodically updating that choice. If all your transactions are sent through a randomly chosen chain of mixing services, you might have some kind of anonymity (but this is poorly defined to begin with, since mix-nets are supposed to enable anonymous communications rather than anonymous payments, and so it is not even clear that what applies to one still applies to the other).

"What I was thinking about instead was the 'linking' property - which leaks so much information - why wasn't that avoided at a system level?"

Like I said elsewhere, there is no specific problem definition for Bitcoin, so why bother to ask such a question? Really if you want a digital cash system without a central authority, you need to first define what that actually means; likewise if you want that hypothetical system to not have this "linking" property, whatever that actually means.
The problem is (an expectation of) fewer bitcoins chasing more goods. Removing bitcoins while adding labor doesn't counteract that dynamic, it adds to it. (It's also not true that that's the only way bitcoins are removed from circulation - some have already been lost/destroyed - but given my previous point that's simply an aside).

It's a problem because of what money is. It's not an asset to be held as store of value, it's a medium of exchange to make trade work better. If everyone is refusing to spend their bitcoins because they expect them to be more valuable tomorrow, bitcoin is not being a currency and people have to use other currencies to get things done or things aren't getting done, either of which is an issue for bitcoin-as-a-currency (and the latter an issue for everyone). Arguably bitcoin could continue to serve as an asset anyway, but I don't understand that to be the vision.

None of this is to say that I am confident this will be sufficiently an issue that things stop working, but I definitely see it as a risk.
Google extends Chrome support for Windows XP until April 2015
Exactly ... and if you're in the US, you really have to think about who you're voting for. I'm not voting for incumbents in November - period! There's no point in having an agenda when NOTHING is working anyway, so we might as well elect individuals (in either party) who might actually do their jobs!
Yes but you're dealing with callbacks then. In the context of the SP, Netty is an example of what they wanted to escape from.
Bitcoin blockchain in redis visualized with d3.js
I can't take credit for this but it is an amazing looking tool from btclook.com for navigating through the history of bitcoin transactions along the blockchain.

NOTE TO MODS: Apologies for previous submission - I did not use a url shortener this time
Science Exchange is leading and pushing ahead with this very important work. They are addressing what the public funders and private industry can't and won't do, but at scale this becomes really powerful. Great stuff.
When I was in a boarding college we had wardrobe doors that were the perfect colour to set off the skin-tone filters.
School is no Place for a Reader
Am I the only one who guessed what this was going to be about when I saw the questions?
There's absolutely nothing wrong with assisting a village of poor Africans by killing an elephant.
Perhaps the "beer" subtext is just more about being exclusive (beer nerds welcome here) versus inclusive. What if instead the same event was going out to a bar, where you can order a whiskey, cosmopolitan or soda?

I think it fits into the greater "culture" of a workplace, and is at most a symptom of the problem and not the answer. If a CTO thinks his ads are appearing "sexist," the problem must go deeper than the keg in the break room (which is just the most obvious sign of immaturity.)
The circle-knowledge analogy is depicted succinctly in Matt Might's Illustrated guide to a Ph.D. ( http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ ).

It's often been said that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was one of the last people to master and contribute to all of the fields of knowledge in existence during his time (eg http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/ ).

Speaking of just mathematics, we're WELL past the point where it's possible to cover the entire interior of the "mathematical circle". As an illustration, MathSciNet (http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/) is a mathematical review database that consists of prettymuch every mathematical book and peer-reviewed article in mathematics since the 1940's (and some well before 1940). As of this writing, there are just under three million publications stored in MathSciNet. And these articles are so specialized that a researcher in one area would have to exert a significant amount of effort to understand articles in a completely different area of research.

So, how do we go from the center of the mathematical circle to the edge? By starting with the basics and moving through a path of what's considered "important" (ie the broad survey provided by undergraduate mathematics courses: the calculus sequence, real analysis, abstract algebra, combinatorics, topology, etc) along the way.
Nice job! The UI reminds me of like hipmunk.
Few observations
On clicking the image thumbnail, nothing happens.
The price slider on left is not returned any rows when I adjusted that to >40K, even after 3mins.

Would you mind sharing what framework you used for scraping?
"The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are."

-- http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/
Republicans didn't know how to compromise here. Allegedly, they want to open the government. All Democrats want to do is open the government.

Apparently, both sides want to open the government. So... why should Democrats cede the Republicans on issues? Compromise is when both sides give up something to meet in the middle. But Republicans haven't "given up" anything in any of their deals.
No rare earth metals in the Model S
So, selling paraphrased tutorials other people have written without peer review?