skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's first differentiate robotics versus automation. A conveyor belt is a form of automation. So are the 'robots' that pick up auto parts and place them into position so other 'robots' can weld them. These devices are specifically designed to perform repetitive movements, handling a payload or stamping a label, or folding a box. They operate with a defined set of repeating actions. They constitute automation, not robotics.

Robots are devices that respond to input from unstructured events in an open environment. They must have some amount of interpretive logic that takes input from a variety of sensors and chooses a response. The state of the input may not have a matching defined response in the robot's control software, but the robot needs to make a guess or perhaps learn with repeated trials over time.

Automation in manufacturing has been with us for a century or so and its effects have made more and more sophisticated material possessions available to larger and larger markets. More part content, more sophisticated parts, lower and lower cost, more features and therefore, more value to the buyer. Or, in another vein, more food available to more people, better sorted, safer, more consistent quality and attributes. Automation does reduce the human labor content in the goods we purchase, but at the same time, it reduces the cost of those goods so that more units are sold and more people can afford them. Less human labor per item, but many more items.

Robots and robotics are still decades away from actually supplanting humans as free-roaming servants that could make workers obsolete. True AI is still very expensive to produce. The variability of an open environment and the myriad events that can occur make the response options too numerous for software to efficiently handle. Researchers remain encouraged, but they have been so for 50 years. Our brains still outperform AI by a wide margin and that margin has to be substantially reduced before any of us are replaced.

Automation does displace work. But it also makes more sophisticated goods available to more people. So the conversation should be about how to manage the job displacement and transition workers from one vocation to another within a nation or region. Select a broad enough region and you'll find the jobs created roughly equate to the jobs lost. Manufacturing jobs in the rust belt become customer service centers in the plains States or software development jobs in The Valley. The net of the two is the unemployment rate.

My theory, entirely borne of intuition, is that in a capitalist economy, innovation resolves unemployment.
I am closely following the development of self driving cars specially at google and i can assure everyone of its sophistication that it's the best driver you can get for your car. I know you all would be aware of the fact but i want to take this opportunity to state that is has covered thousands of miles without a single accident isn't that an extraordinary achievement for a car without a driver(but a computer instead) I will start to use the car the first it launches if it fits my budget but i must say these are one of the best developments of 21st century.
That new company is probably entitled to limited liability. So you can sue it, but all the patent holder can get is whatever assets that company has (which, if end users are paying a very cheap price for the patented technology, may not be very much). In contrast, you would personally face essentially unlimited liability if the patent holder could sue you directly.
One of the related studies I like comes from Richard Wiseman. Basically, lucky is somewhere between an attitude and a skill:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-lucky-its-a...

I agree with pkulak that a lot of self-empowerment stuff is bullshit. And some of it is dangerous bullshit. But a lot of it is effective bullshit because it works to counter the ineffective bullshit that lives in our heads.

It's crazy. But, then, we're made out of meat. The whole thing's crazy.
Artificial Intelligence is like that too - it can't produce "intelligence" because as soon as scientists figure out a way to do stuff that looks like intelligent behavior - say, speech recognition or winning at Jeopardy - that immediately stops being considered an example of AI.

Chess was considered "an AI problem" - and quite a hard one - back when nobody knew how to write a program that could play a good game. Now chess is beneath consideration because (a) programs can play it, (b) we actually understand how those programs work.
PHP.net Compromised, Caught Potentially Spreading Malware
Reminds me of one of my favourite reads, "Are Black Hole Starships Possible", http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803
That's a great point and great feedback. I'll adjust the questions in the next interview I do.
I'm curious as to what system would work best if given the chance to succeed (that is, not actively sabotaged by current stakeholders).

The Department of Game Theory should get on top of this....
I recommend 2.2. AFAIR subsequent versions were released after the company got bought and I lost all faith.
Or do it on your own server with a DSL instead of JSON.

gem install state_machine
All of the links off google.com (including organic ones!) actually redirect you through a google server to:

1. track which one you clicked

2. remove the referer (sic.) field so that the target website doesn't know what search terms you used

Also, you should consider using the Chrome App Launcher for Windows and Mac OS X.
The question is should you be trying this in the first place?

Here's how I'd approach this scenario:

Did you know its actually more likely you will survive a plane crash than have a successful startup exit?

First, I'm not actually convinced that this is true at all, but let's go with it for the sake of argument...

Now, would you still hop in a plane you know its going to crash?

Since we're working with analogies here, I'll say "yes". Why? Because continuing to work a routine, corporate 9-5 job, is such a mind-numbing, soul-sucking, draining life of desperation, that - by analogy - it's about equivalent to "remaining in the burning building, on the 99th floor, surrounded by flames, falling beams, and smoke" versus "get on the airplane that might rescue you, but will probably just crash".

So, get on the airplane (or start the startup) and at least have a chance at living, or keep the corporate job (stay in the burning building) and consciously choose death.

Of course this is all somewhat subjective. Not everybody will agree that the soul-sucking corporate bureaucratic world is analogous to death. But for some people, with certain personality types, biases, whatever, it is.
JavaScript malware compromised two php.net servers
I think most rational people would come to realize that even if the 1/10 of deaths are caused by computer errors then at least the problem can be fixed over time. With human error, there's not much you can do.
> I need redis and elasticsearch installed to run my test suite. Will that run on CircleCI? What kind of browser support for my feature specs do you offer?

Yes. Redis and Elasticsearch are already installed. firefox, chrome, phantomjs, casperjs are already installed.

Build pipelines are coming. I guarantee you they'll look nothing like what is available on Jenkins. They might be more opinionated than you like, but for the people they do work for, they'll save a lot of time.

> Keeping the build green involves my team figuring out what we broke. Faster build times help, is that what you mean here?

That's part of it. The other part is that we are a high-touch CI service. This week, rubygems had tons of SSL problems. Debugging that, and bugging the #rubygems IRC guys was "outsourced" to me. Thousands of developers didn't have to individually debug sporadic rubygems failures because I was doing it for them.

We see common bugs and test failures often enough that we have in-app warning messages that say "hey, it looks like your selenium tests are failing because firefox auto-updated on you. If you upgrade your selenium gem/jar, that will probably help". Those are things that won't get added to Jenkins.
When roads are fully automatic and electric, children will be able to play outside again; roads and cities will become quiet places in which to think and breathe
At least two out of the three enterprise(ish) software companies I've worked at had their own in-house bug trackers, their own in-house build systems, and their own in-house version control systems. (To be fair, the versioning systems were custom front-ends over Rational Clearcase at one and Perforce at the other, but still...) The third had it's own in-house monitoring and logging infrastructure. (One team maintained its own monitoring daemon entirely because they preferred to do that than learn how to use Nagios!)

As you might guess, I was very frustrated by how much time I spent re-learning how to do the most trivial tasks when I switched jobs.

So, yeah, NIH is a real thing.
Ah, indeed, I didn't read closely enough to see that mention.
Apple, Microsoft And Free Software
This can be hard to win in practice though, especially if the infringing party's lawyers do a good job of maintaining the fiction that the corporation is a separate entitiy.
It's more like mastercard, visa, amex, discover line of credit. Not prepaid- a line you can pull from to use.
One of the big advantages of completely self-driving cars will be for the elderly. Thing about it, currently our grandparents and great-grandparents who cannot drive anymore rely on family/ public transport and expensive taxis to get around. Once we reach the age of our grandparents we will be much for fortunate to be able to still travel independently wherever we want. This is a massive plus to look forward to.
foobar2000 has been closed source freeware for a long time and has not resorted to anything like this.
Thanks for the link, interesting to see it in action.

But this is actually the complete opposite of what I want. This system reduces road capacity by almost half. Look at the gap it's leaving. Look at how slow it is to start up from a stop. I think I'd be on the horn if this guy was in front of me.

When you leave that much space in front of you ("to be nice" or to "smooth it out") the empty road where 2 or 3 cars could have been is actually reducing road capacity causing significantly worse traffic behind you.

Most of this video is shot below 25mph. Average follow distance of a competent computer "super cruiser" should be < 10ft, which would make the car essentially "free" from a capacity standpoint. When the speed finally gets up to 50mph, the follow distance is practically too long to count, something like 5 seconds back.

The driver even comments just after t=5:00, "See how big the gap is? I have it set at 75, it's doing about 50." That car has a 300hp engine, why is the computer driving like it's drunk?

"I'll just sit back and relax and get to work when I get to work." No! You probably impose a several thousand dollar "productivity tax" on SoCal commuters by driving like that over the course of a year.
> Definitely Snowden:0 and NSA:1 in this case.

You think this release definitely helps the NSA? If so, then you think Alexander, et al. are definitely happy about this release?
I hate this self empowerment bullshit.

Yeah, same here. I mean, it's absurd to think that we have any control whatsoever over our fate. We clearly don't have agency or free will when you get right down to it. We are just particles in motion, deterministically following a path that was laid down by forces outside of our control, far before we were even born.

It would be the height of hubris to think that we can wrest control of our lives from the unseen, unknowable, mysterious forces of fate, and use conscious choice to drive ourselves towards any sort of "goal" or anything.

Just typing this, I realize how stupid I've been all these years, thinking that all this "hard work" and "sacrifice" and "effort" and "action" could actually lead to anything. Thanks for the enlightenment, I'm going to go take a bath with my toaster now...
Since there are a lot of suggestions here, I'd like to add my personal favorite: http://baretorrent.org/

While it does not have all of the features of more heavy torrent clients, it does have a plugin system - although not many plugins exist yet. It's cross-platform, open source, and pretty light. The author has good priorities and is conscious about issues such as privacy, and having good installers that aren't bundled with questionable content.
Anybody have a link/copy without the 'must register' wall?
Someone still has to build them. And buy them.
OS X Server
Thanks for the heads up. Redid some styling recently. Haven't checked mobile yet. Yea, it's real bad haha.
They'll have to fight the insurance companies.

Insurance companies will probably love to be collecting rent on every vehicle while having to cover 90% less accidents.
I'd add in "for your own non-commerical use". If you're in a market where there are only a handful of customers (e.g. the U.S. mobile market) but your invention generates an incredible amount of value for each customer, if those customers make the patented invention for their own use, that could deprive the patent holder out of a significant amount of income.
Also, think of the impact in congested and developing countries: in Beijing, there is nowhere else to build roads, yet the number of cars keeps increasing. Going all self-driving in the entire city would increase road bandwidth substantially. Not to mention the problem of people flaunting traffic rules and etiquette and causing backups as a result.

This is going to be much bigger for the rest of the world than in the roads-a-plenty USA.
What about security vulns
MS has a lot of user inertia, people can't make lateral shifts, they have to make clearly stupendously better shifts, because they don't have time to learn a new mode of doing things.

That's why it kind of surprises me that MS sticks its neck out on UX redesigns like the ribbon or eliminating the desktop, since every change gives the core userbase another excuse to try something new. (Even if there are a few good underlying UX ideas, like larger buttons, more prominent placement of common commands, and saving me a Win key before I just start typing to search...)
> People who believe in being able to buy social status

Trust me, you can buy social status. If you pay enough, you have the status.

> Someone can be butt ugly, poor and stupid, but still have the highest social status and popularity in most social environments.

Most social environments he exposes himself to, yes. Most social environments, no.
To clear this up: This is exactly how gzip actually works. I wrote a version of gunzip from scratch and just inserted some print statements in the middle to get this visualization.
Thank you, Mr. President
As the drama has been unfolding around Obamacare I've been wondering about all those who have been claiming huge increases in their existing rates or worst, cancellations. Part of me ignored this as potential right wing fabricated drama. Too much noise and bilateral bullshit being thrown about these days.

That was until today, when I learned our insurance has both more than DOUBLED in cost and is scheduled to be CANCELLED. Doubled and cancelled. Brilliant!

To say this is shocking is an understatement. Our annual cost will go well past $15K.

Another thing I've been ignoring are the websites getting so much attention. I thought I'd leave it alone until mid-December or so. Well, after the happy news I went online to try and determine what the ACA equivalent to our excellent plan might be. I would soon learn this is nearly impossible.

As someone who follows politics closely, Obama's repeated statements to the effect that we would be able to retain our existing insurance are fresh and vibrant in my memory. He made that assertion ad nauseam during debates and all manner of rallies and television appearances.

Now I know one more thing about this man. He is a verified liar. And YouTube holds all the evidence to support this assertion.

Pelosi said that we'd have to pass it to see what's in it. We did. And it seems to be a stinky, smelly and undesirable pile of manure in both content and execution, not to mention consequences.

This President has lied to us. That is a fact. It is likely he's done it repeatedly and always in support of his political goals. Damn the American people. We don't matter.

I never thought I'd see the day that the US is put on the road to become just like the most corrupt South American regimes.

Thank you, Mr. President
so in all of those thousands of miles no one has rear ended the cars?

Also call me when they get to tens of millions of miles, eg what's driven every day in the US.
Everyone thinks they can drive without risking themselves harm though, otherwise no one would ever get in a car.

Accidents happen to other people... until they don't.
Most people aren't rational when presented with this type of situation.
What comes next? We are seeing the same trend with smartphones where each new device is more powerful then the one before. At some point they will pack so much CPU, memory, storage and gadgets (bluetooth, wifi, sensors of all kinds, etc) that it will be unlikely our apps will need more powerful devices. The industry will move to something else (which I have absolutely no idea what's going to be) and the smartphones makers will be the PC makers of the future.
> ...there is a psychological cost of failure for sure.

I think this is one of the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs. Winston Churchill once said "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." A lot of people, however, can only tolerate so much failure. At some point, failure wears them down and they lose the will to keep trying.
s/decryption/decompression
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

You can have double speed.
Why don't you go back to youtube comments, or better yet the first grade?
>Amazon
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You're kidding me, right?
Just delete the modal from the DOM and you'll have full access to the article.
> The question is whether we can get to a point of no return with self-driving cars before that effect takes hold.

Insurance companies can take care of that too. Just charge a huge premium to drivers who want to drive by themselves. You'll see even the most confident macho driver submit to the AI overlords.
Ask HN: Which MacBook Pro model is best for iOS app and web development?
13-inch rMBP is light and very mobile but the 15-inch screen makes it very viable. For some iOS app development and some web development which model of the latest rMBP would fit better?

Memory upgrade to 16GB seem to be a no-brainer. The extra ~ $500 for the 15-inch is something that's worth to consider. Don't wanna spend on something that's not really needed.

Which of the latest model MBP would you recommend for a reasonable iOS and web development?
As a cyclist, I long for the day when all cars (and especially heavy trucks!) are self driving.
If anyone is interested, the part of the source code that produces the visualization is here: https://github.com/jvns/gzip.jl/blob/visualization/gzip.jl#L...
I would be happy to see that done. I'm not making a claim about the cause of the problem except to observe that it doesn't seem to be affecting everyone. What I'd really love to see is an application that allows you to tweak the various group-bys (I'd like to try grouping by cost-of-living-adjusted log income brackets, personally, because my current estimate of that being the most related metric is highest. Or I'd like to see what happens if you take groups of kids with the same ratial and income backgrounds from various countries. Hold some variables constant, basically.).

I am only saying exactly what I said: it doesn't seem that the US educational system, in its entirety, is significantly defective relative to other countries. Some combination of the attributes of certain American populations and/or the system's effect on them is causing those populations to perform much worse than kids in European and Asian countries. This in no way spells doom for our entire country as the article argues.
Samsung Reports 26% Growth In Q3 Operating Profit
Actually I think this will kill insurance companies too. They will see their business fall inline with the cost of accidents.
You are quite right, I am an idiot.
Yes. Most (all?) ESBs support (and indeed encourage) REST.

I'm pretty sure there has never been an ESB that doesn't support HTTP.

My question is if people are actually using them to wire system together (outside corporate environments, where considerations are different).
Slowly takin over ...
Sounds like a pretty superficial happy to me. And it doesn't actually solve any of the problems that make you sad.

Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a really good book about this kind of thing: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002SKDGQ0
Until a smart insurance company comes around and wins away the other insurance companies' customers because the risk is 90% less and they can lower premiums substantially and still make a profit.
I havent upgrade utorrent is years because of how bad BitTorrent Inc. made it.
Yeah my mistake I shouldn't have used "rags to riches" since no country has ever had as a statistical point.

No, what I meant which is what you are talking about is "upward mobility" and that is exactly what is going down in America: the plausibility of reaching a higher economical status than the one you were born in to, not necessarily becoming a millionaire.

That was the American Dream, and right now the average American has the same chances of upward mobility than the average citizen of a third world country.
This will be taken care of by insurance companies. If the data is there to show that automatic cars are involved in a lot less accidents than regular cars, the insurance premium will be prohibitively expensive for non-automatic cars. Only rich folks will be able to drive.
plus one on the digital ocean integration, stood up www.mobileappstack.com in < 1 min . few tweaks for GA and strong ops node perf mon .
Users don't understand rights. This entire application is a misfeature, should be blocked by Apple, and the security holes identified fixed.

My own response is that the sooner I can pull my information from LinkedIn the better. My own legitimate profile is little more than a placeholder, though the social graph itself is more than I'd prefer to leave there, given the attitude the company has increasingly been showing toward personal and private data.
That is good to hear. I have been happy to set this stuff up myself, but it sounds like you have a great, full featured product. The world can always use easier ways to do automated testing.
Looks like a nicer version of aviate.
So the original prophecy was right, it just left out the bit about all the wonderful walled gardens that will help protect us from using the underlying *nix technologies in inappropriate ways.
It's still in the testing phase sir... and i am not sure what you expect when you question no has rear ended the cars??? you want a mile by mile report from google isn't it too much to ask for from a company which is just testing its new product focusing on making it a more safe car to use. you want them to maintain a driving book for this i don't wanna go on with this... let hope they manage to make a really nice and safe car in the end.
They will be a ton cheaper too. Lower fuel costs, maintenance costs, and labor costs. The three most expensive costs associated with operating a taxi will be lowered significantly.
Some scientists acknowledge the role of NSF
Someone will have to sell insurance to car manufacturers for the remaining 10 percent of accidents.
I don't think that's necessarily true - insurance companies make money out of insuring far safer modes of transport than driving (like air travel). The liability merely shifts from the driver to the software developer. Whoever is providing the self-driving cars will need to have large amounts of indemnity insurance to cover potential losses.