skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For convenience, a little more infomation from that page:

"According to our estimate, 47 percent of total US employment is in the high risk category, meaning that associated occupations are potentially automatable over some unspeciﬁed number of years, perhaps a decade or two."

Here are the categories they list:

Management, Business, and Financial
Computer, Engineering, and Science
Education, Legal, Community Service, Arts, and Media
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical
Service
Sales and Related
Office and Administrative Support
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry
Construction and Extraction
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair
Production
Transportation and Material Moving

The ones most susceptible to computerisation (probability > 0.7) seem to be

Sales and Related
Service
Office and Administration Support
Production
Transporation and Material Moving

"Our ﬁndings thus imply that as technology races ahead, low-skill workers will reallocate to tasks that are non-susceptible to computerisation – i.e., tasks requiring creative and social intelligence. For workers to win the race, however, they will have to acquire creative and social skills."

I'm having a hard time thinking of the millions of job openings of this kind.
maybe you should just give the Mac version a try. You might be surprised. Actually, you will be surprised
He is talking out of his rear-end.
>> For workers to win the race, however, they will have to acquire creative and social skills.

What?? I have to acquire social skills or a robot will take my job? I'm pretty sure I have more social skills than a machine...
What about the claims and prior art ?
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This is wicked cool. Congratulations!
Personally I think that psychedelics, particularly the very famous ergot derivative, are very good at inducing a false sense of the profound.

>>All power is within ourselves
>>Spending the rest of one's life devoted to seeking reality...

And these are exactly the sorts of meaningless profundities I was talking about!
Nintendo is and has always been an outlier when it comes to clamping down on "their" IP. This is the company that tried to sue Blockbuster for renting games (the fallout from this suit is why rental games didn't come with the official manual). They also tried to sue Game Genie out of existence. If you were bothered by the Super Mario JavaScript thing or Nintendo leading the charge on this YouTube drama, it's nothing new.
I have bank code on my (encrypted) laptop (and the code itself is in an encrypted container), I'd like to see them demand I give up the passwords, then have the US involved in a big corporate espionage lawsuit vs one of the world's largest banks.

Actually nvm, I don't, I wiped my hard drive before bringing it in for repairs.
It's funny how once you are inside a certain ethical paradigm, you automatically take it for granted. For example - Samurai in Edo Japan were forbidden from working, and if you didn't have a master to defend, the honorable thing to do was either starve to death, or find another master who would give you permission to kill yourself.
This is next level. I've been doing this type of stuff manually for years I don't know why it never occurred to me to build out the general solution.
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I walk a lot to and from work (choose further stations if neccessary) and I carry a backpack that has a laptop and one or two heavy books so that my body muscles have some balancing work to do. It works. I only had back pain once when I rented a furnished apartment with soft comfy furniture. Once I realized that the furniture was bad, I added some pillows to give lumbar support, and spent a few days standing to watch TV.

Of course I sleep on a thin futon and mostly sit on wooden chairs or directors chairs. But I do think the walking is essential to building up muscle strength to begin with. Unless you want to lift free weights...
If we get to the point where machines are so good they replace all human labor, everything we require to live will be incredibly cheap. Which means becoming an entrepreneur will be much easier than it is now, in much the same way that being a web app developer is much easier now than it was a decade ago.

But what if a large number of people can only do the work they are doing today? There's no reason they can't keep producing what they currently do and trade their products and services with each other.

The Amish are doing exactly that and their standard of living is still probably better than it was when being Amish was first invented.

So I don't think it would be a disaster.

But I don't think replacing all human labor is going to happen before we also invent technologies that will radically improve how fast we can learn new skills and change limiting mental patterns.

Either way, such a society will be incredibly wealthy and able to do things like remove all the mercury from the oceans and cover every structure with solar cells.

We'll be able to deal with the issues.
hey wiresurfer!

Thanks for your input, it's much appreciated. I am very interested in getting this part of tyto working. Do you think personally that dropbox is the best option for this feature? or do you think maybe offering skydrive, google drive and dropbox would be better? I also need to think about how this would be tackled from a UI perspective too to be honest so any opinion you may have on that would be much appreciated too.

Thanks again for the input! feedback has been great!
I do similar work so I guess I can chime in with my experience here.

I went from a 2011 13" MBA to an early-2013 15" rMBP and found the difference to be massive. The main benefits being the incredible display and a pretty decent cpu/gpu/ram upgrade. After using the retina for a couple of weeks I opened my MBA (which was gathering dust on a shelf) and couldn't believe how bad the screen looked in comparison.

However I do miss the battery life and boy does this thing get HOT. It's summer here in Brisbane and yesterday (it was around 35c) my CPU got to 106c.. my lap did not enjoy.

But yeah I definitely recommend the retina. Be sure to max out the RAM too.

Edit:

I recently added a 27" haswell iMac to my collection which was another massive improvement. I've been doing maintenance on an old node.js app that has a pretty crazy build process and compared the runtime on each of the machines - The MBA took just over 3 minutes, the rMBP about 1.5 minutes and the iMac did it in under 20 seconds! I still spend most of my time on the MBP though :)
I wonder if they paid for this, and how much it cost.
Hospitality sector is one off the top of my head.
The people who own all the robots shouldn't feel too smug, because robots will not buy their products.
I made a better eBay collection here, which has a lot of Bitcoin stuff: http://www.ebay.com/cln/zengr2/Everything-Bitcoin/6326070701...
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hey all!

just wanted to say to all those that have given feedback, input and insight into tyto and/or have starred, forked or started watching the repo

"THANKS VERY MUCH!"

All of it has been very good and so helpful with taking the project forward. I wasn't sure if people would take their time to show interest or give some insight etc. so once again it is very appreciated and thanks for your time. I will try to get changes implemented and new features and things ironed out as soon as I can and report back.

THANKS AGAIN!

p.s if you know of people that would be interested in getting involved or using tyto please share it with them so it can get better exposure and a wider range of feedback, insight etc.
Few people are in a job where they can't walk around the office every hour or so. Go get some green tea from the coffee room, stand at a window in an empty meeting room and stare into the distance thinking about a better way to solve the problem you are working on. Your physical health will be much better, and your work quality will improve too.

Banging away in long coding sessions is a good way to create tons of subtle bugs that are hard to find because you did too much coding before running all tests and having a code review.
The decision of our faculty to make their papers freely
accessible online will ensure that the global community of
researchers, students, and casual followers of science and
engineering will learn about our work at earlier stages, enabling
them to put it to use for the benefit of society.

I love how they mention "casual followers of science". To me this is a huge deal. I'm not a member of academia, but I really enjoy reading papers from a wide variety of fields (in the spirit of "learn everything about something and something about everything"). I never intend to stop, and I know lots of "laymen" who do the same.

The unavailability of papers, lack of centralized tools, and terrible search interfaces have been incredibly frustrating. I can't wait for a day when we get a centralized, non-profit, publish/subscribe consumer service for all the papers that ever get published by major research universities (with a good search tool). The value of such a service to the public and society would be enormous. As more and more people get educated and used to dealing with science, this could be as big a deal as wikipedia.

We're not quite there yet, but this is a huge step by CalTech in the right direction.
No analysis no matter how biased is going to seriously come to the conclusion that bitcoin having any success is purely as random as a roulette wheel. I challenge you to come up with something even vaguely plausible along these lines, no matter how pessimistic you want to get.
Moving from Google Appengine to NodeJS on Amazon EC2
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It is, unfortunately, fairly uncommon.
In practice though a very large majority of applications are already expected to support a wide range of kernel versions and flavors, and require zero modifications to do so because of Linux's outstanding track record of preserving reverse compatibility.

So deploying an application as a container is a big improvement over shipping it as source or package, because instead of having to support any combination of library versions, distros and kernels, it only needs to worry about the kernel which is the easiest part.
Communist, eh?
That's a great way of putting it with an excellent example. I see so many man-made problems in the world that people just accept as "how things are" as if they were physical laws of reality.
"Again"? Can you substatiate your claim?

Maybe they refer to the fact that Microsoft indeed does share 0-days with NSA[1].

1: http://www.dailydot.com/news/bloomberg-microsoft-zero-day-ex...
We already know: there's no good reason whatsoever for the app to have access to this kind of information.
> I love how they mention "casual followers of science"

Me too. This is quite beautiful. After I left academia, subscribing to all the journals I used to have access to through my university became economically unfeasible, for obvious reasons.
The problem is that a lot of videos are being taken down because of copyright claims on press materials and game footage from trailers, not gameplays. This material is classified under fair use.

They're also attempting to claim copyright on game reviews. Which in short, puts reviewers in a bad position where someone is trying to monetize their opinion and are easily silenced if that opinion is unpopular.

For reviewers its grossly unfair for publishers to make money off their reviews, because while they will reference their game, the opinions expressed are entirely the reviewer's, and writing a critique is certainly nothing at all like showing a dry gameplay video with no commentary or editing.
But, Bit^H^H^Halt-coins!
I have been using NixOS as my primary OS for the best part of half a year now (maybe more). I haven't looked back since :) I do warn people though - it's not as featureful as other distributions, so you have to be willing to help out. I'm approaching my 100th commit on the project, I believe.
Why not use Qt Creator?
I work in healthcare. Basically the stuff I do has a direct impact on funding given to vaccinations initiatives, disease prevention and disease management.

Doing this, in my experience, is easy - find an organisation that does meaningful work and go work for them.
If you just prefer a very lightweight grid system on top of Compass, maybe Susy is for you:
http://susy.oddbird.net/
From my experience crossing the Syrian border many many times, it's resolved with (at most) a 20$ bill(or the equivalent in Syrian pounds).

Same goes for traffic violations or pretty much anything that deals with the police or customs in any way.

I'm guessing that this wouldn't be the case for someone whose name is on a list somewhere or someone actually caught smuggling something(might work but would definitely set you back more). But at least in my(and friends') experience, it's never been a problem specifically because of the corruption. Police and customs people are not robots following orders from on high, they're robots who'll bother you to no end until you pay them and will leave you alone and might invite you over to a cup of coffee once you do.
Funny how you can take an innocuous statement like that and fit it into your fucked up worldview. Says more about you than me.
I don't think that will last. It shouldn't take too long for rights holders to figure out that there are videos and live streams on Twitch that contain music and cut scenes, as well. Might be that Twitch is not receiving as much take-down notices, just yet. Imho that's not going to last. Since there is already people on their making money with their "property".
Even for those of us who knew all about the capabilities in Linux and who used lxc already, it still packages things up nicely and makes lxc easy to use, in particular, easy for a team to use because not everybody needs to become an expert on the system config and lxc config. The expert writes a dockerfile, and everyone else can use it and manage their servers as a collection of capabilities, each one clearly defined in a dockerfile.
This is not strictly on-topic, but let me note that American friends have told me they wish they'd brought more stuff with them when they moved here. The shipping and 110V/240V transformers would have cost less than it did to replace whiteware and the like.
I wanna choke you for bitching (#1) but I want to hug you for complaint (#2). Stop it already!

#1 There's as much art to an effective & supportive game theme music as there is to the mind numbing pop "music" that sells millions.

#2 GOD YES. The sheer amount of anti innovation power these companies hold is offensively revolting.
Vim
Ubuntu
Google Chrome

I use C and Coffeescript.
> Really, claiming that "most videogame music is crap" is just being ignorant.

It just means I have probably higher standards than you have when it comes to appreciating music. I've been playing video games for 30 years+, so I wouldn't consider myself ignorant, I just find most video games music very dull and uninspiring.
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That'd be for the better of 99% of the other living species on Earth.
No, it's saying you have to acquire social skills to get a job that a robot can't take from you.
> I don't know that there's any legal mechanism in their favor (I'm not very familiar with NZ law on this level),

New Zealand law does, in fact, allow this in certain cases, albeit not in the one Customs are claiming (objectionable material, i.e. porn).
The python stack was running on the raspberry pi right? Or did you somehow get that going on the mac plus too?!
Not in the slightest, I'm afraid I'm a plain ol liberal. I also have a great job that I love.

I just think it's interesting how, aside from a few moral rules which are fairly common to all of humanity (don't steal, don't kill, etc), a lot of the rules that we follow and take for granted in our current historical milieu, would be considered completely arbitrary by the rest of humanity.
Sure, yet Nintendo is still widely loved by the same people who seem to complain about their behavior. Talk about Stockholm syndrome :)
Not until Twitch manages to fix their downlink connection problems. I haven't been able to watch a single HD cast without major lags and stuttering in months even though I'm on a very fast connection (granted, not by a major provider so no direct peering).

Twitch has promised to build new data centers here in Europe but I have only noticed it becoming worse. I'm not the only one too, I'm part of the Team Fortress 2 competitive community and get to talk to a lot of other Twitch viewers. Also, don't get me started on VODs on Twitch, they're even worse.
The question isn't about how to get a better service. A better service is one which does not enable surveillance. The question is how to get people to stop handing over the keys to the kingdom. Life went on before Facebook, it can go on after Facebook. But as long as people take this attitude that it is essential to have Facebook, network effects will make surveillance very effective.
So is that sector then facing an acute shortage of millions of workers?
Do they factor in natural evolutionary pressure and change of the virus?

Not at all. Meta population models use some type of stochastic discrete PDEs and agent based models just infection probabilities. This is an over simplification but just so you have an idea. You can get the gritty details in the papers above.
I believe it means that flipping burgers do not require you to have any social skills (besides flipping a bird to your "manager" when he/she doesn't see it). And this position is very likely to be automated really soon [0].

[0]: http://gizmodo.com/5962656/this-robo+griller-can-flip-360-bu...
As a programmer... damn I'm doomed in the long run ;)
I hope that is meant as a joke.
Why are you even using a computer?
threads exactly like this:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6170156

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1507695

but you can also tell us what kind of setup you're looking for. vim setup? emacs setup? computer setup?
Most Kiwis are pretty ignorant of exactly how powerful customs are. The legislation they're citing this action as being taken under, the objectionable publications, gives phenominal powers to customs. I have a bit of experience with this because I know comics collecters who had huge collections seized in the 90s and never returned on the strength of their having a copy of Frank Millar's (then illegal in NZ) Hard Boiled.

They had no recourse on this.
> The unavailability of papers, lack of centralized tools, and terrible search interfaces have been incredibly frustrating.

I work at a growing OA Publisher (www.ubiquitypress.com ;) and can completely emphasize - it's one of a bag of problems we're looking at. The search interfaces on individual journals is the standard mixed affair however there are many indexes out there that aggregate articles or just their metadata with decent navigation. Some even specialize in OA: https://www.google.com/search?q=OA+index
E.g. Atom bombs

It's a weapon that has no counter measures. None that I'm aware of, except prohibition.
I was trying to make a joke. I like the idea that the economy should serve the worker, but I think that's essentially what Karl Marx was saying. The Cold War is over, and the future seems to belong to robots.
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You'd always have the job to code the robot which would be able to take your current position :-)
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It's not arbitrary. It is the length available when taking the space the String objects must have in order to be able to handle strings allocated on the heap.

And I could write books about why Rails is such a pain to optimize but this is not it: This is an optimisation over the generic case of allocating the buffer elsewhere. An optimisation you also happens to find in C++ implementations for example.
Nice one! I like the proxy idea, any chance of it showing up on github?

Not as old as this, but I wrote a guide nearly 10 years ago on installing Apache on Apple Unix (OSX is not the first Unix from Apple) on a Quadra[1].

[1] - http://www.snakeoillabs.com/downloads/aux-guide.pdf
Just FYI, I wouldn't put too much faith in safety profiles of related family drugs. The classic med chem example of really unpredictable toxicology is mevastatin vs lovastatin, which have exactly the same structure but for one lowly methyl group. The former molecule was basically an unusably toxic drug candidate that never would have been approved by the FDA, whereas the latter was the first safe and effective statin to go to market.
5kb per serialized tweet? That doesn't sound very efficient.
I've been a programmer since a very young age, having both parents as teachers I never saw it as noble or a job with any ROI. Spending my first year, after 3 years of industry, I realized it's more rewarding than anything I've done before (it's been 12 years now). Everything related to development can still be done, interaction with industry and I also get to see, 2, 3, 5 years down the line how successful companies spawn from inspired students.

Besides teaching I could also recommend contributing back to open source projects and just getting active in your community.
Nicely said, although I'd recommend backing stuff up, just so when you are old you show your kids 'what daddy used to do!'
To me the comment was quite clearly ironic.
Go on, name one government which isn't.

Actually, the UK government isnt being hypocritical, its brazenly up for anything the US instructs it to do. I do wish we would decide if we are a great little country which punches above it size, or a US lapbitch. Feckin' hilarious when you consider the frankly xenophobic hatred we have of the EU compared to the fawning over the US.

As for Germany, didn't you chaps have an election in the middle of the scandal? Didn't various positions change a lot depending on polls, and of course the confirmation that the US spies on it's allies as much as its enemies? Watching some German politicians wriggling about as the Snowden information is revealed must be quite humiliating for the German people.
As an employer we would be furious. As an employee we would be delighted.
This is just a classical definition of Communism by inventor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abil...

I was taught this in school. Socialism, on the other hand, is "to each according to their contribution".
Maybe mom's using it to monitor her baby during a nap through FaceTime!
Obviously, you cannot write portable system code. You can do conditional compilation to target multiple platforms though. And when you do that you realize two things:
1. No compiler is fully compliant with any standard.
2. Every compiler has bugs so even the compliant parts can be unusable.

And then you realize it's not a big deal. Changes between platforms are greater than changes between compilers. When your targets have different endianness or, even better, mixed endianness between different PUs - the standard compliance of your code is the least of your worries.

>It works if you only care about one specific compiler.

Also works if you care about a finite number of specific compilers and architectures.

>On those days the standard was the AT&T UNIX compiler.

There were, probably, hundreds of compilers and C flavors even before the ANSI C. What one thought was "the standard" was very subjective.
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An unusual degree of dry humour for an official pamphlet ;)