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> In 200 years, people will only have hobby because that will be all they have to do and most of their needs have been automated.

This has not been the trend. Interconnectivity and ease of travel were supposed to relax the amount of work we do, but instead people put in more hours than ever. The efficiency gains have created winners and losers, but both are working at least as hard as before.
Very cool. I would like to be able to send 'stats' (or whatever) and get back all graphs in a single email. In case I forget what I'm tracking.
Worthy try,but given the Node developer community is small, it would take good amount of time to hit mainstream traction,case in example : Spreecommerce built on RoR
>~$50,000 USD per year in dividends

How much is your invested capital?

EDIT: I think I got my answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7749253
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Yes, I understand this, but Digia went back to GPL and back to selling GPL exceptions like Trolltech did originally?
> A very pregnant photographer is lying on the floor underneath the table, shooting Lori as she plays. The flash is right in her face.

Wow, that sounds sub-optimal.
Well, there are practical experience of new jobs created despite automation since at least the luddites.
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Yes, we support that.
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YAGO looks interesting -- and it seems to encapsulate both Freebase and Wikipedia. Does this mean you're using YAGO to get to Freebase/Wikipedia?
>> This is not a technological consequence; rather, it’s a political choice.

> Not quite sure how it is reassuring.

I don't find it reassuring and I also think it's wrong. Politicians won't even see it coming. Political decisions tend to be consequences of technology, not the other way around.
>>> The judges involved decided that citizens had the right to have links to "irrelevant" and outdated data erased from search engine results.

I wonder, are Google doing this to make the 'forgotten' content "relevant" again, because of recent news articles covering the move. Then they can start linking to it again?
I didn't sue Experian, but I did sue a collection agency that was reporting an account that wasn't mine- their lawyer called and agreed to have everything removed. I didn't hire a lawyer myself, I filed Small Claims. While it was a pain, it didn't take long after filing the suit to get the record cleared up. If it happens again, I'm going to file suit much faster.
Mine is an Acer C720 (I got that because it's what most of the schools were using). It's fast enough for anything I've used it for (web browsing, web conferencing + ssh client). Takes literally 6 seconds to boot up (or 1 second to wake from sleep). It seems a lot less sluggish than my 2-year old MacBook Pro - I think the SSD helps a lot.
Depends on the country. In the Netherlands we are definitely working less :)

"In the mid-2000s, the Netherlands was the first country in the industrialized world where the overall average working week dropped to less than 30 hours."

Nice tables: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/studies/tn0803046s/nl080...
Don't drink it directly out of the container...
The private offices were one of the best parts of working at Microsoft. Open plans suck and I blame facebook/google for perpetuating this fad ;)
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It's not necessarily a step forwards.

If you want to look good in a suit you can go get a $200 suit at any menswear store and if you want to look really good in a suit go spend $1500 for a tailored suit.

You can do either of these and get something acceptable without knowing anything about fashion.

If you want to look like a cultivated hipster, however, you have to work hard at it.
Companies don't automate to reduce potential profits, though, but to reduce the cost and inefficiency of human labor. Presumably, even with a fully automated infrastructure, there would still be a human-run corporation at the top, otherwise why would they bother creating the system at all?

But then I may simply not have gone far enough down the rabbithole in my conception of 'techno-utopia.' If the automation is truly self-sustaining and self-contained, in essence, a complete AI economy in and of itself, then perhaps the "cost" comes in the burden of including humans at all?
Well I understood that Seth was saying that politicians can decide to stop job automation or let it happen. I believe that they can't; they have far too little influence to stop a force this strong.
You're right. DMC is really just an experiment. I don't mean to disparage Arrow, it does improve the interfaces around datetime, I was just disappointed it didn't attempt to prevent these common timezone related bugs.

I bring up dmc for discussion, because I started it right after finding arrow. Building a full wrapper like this hadn't occurred to me until I saw arrow do it.
Bikesharing is designed to encourage short trips within its service zone— even if you want a longer trip, you can just dock/undock a bike to avoid a fee (aka docksurfing). The escalating hourly fee is designed to keep the bikes in circulation, not as a charge you pay during ordinary usage— I've been a member of Citibike in NYC for over a year, and have never paid a fee beyond the membership.

With Zipcar, you first pay a membership nearly as expensive as bikesharing, then pay at least $10/hr.
He didn't say so explicitly, but the horse-count is typically used in relation to this point:

What happens when the value of your work falls below the cost of subsistence? In the case of the horses, once feeding them was no longer worthwhile, the answer was simple: They didn't.

Hopefully we won't do anything similar for humans. It would be the most horrendous eugenics program of all time.
That's a hefty price tag for such a simple application
Chromebooks have hard disks (or more usually SSDs) so they can cache that data.

Also, would it not make more sense to automatically download parts of that 10GB of game data if/when you actually need it, rather than leaving it sitting on your hard disk? With today's broadband speeds that shouldn't be a problem.
I live in Russia, and rural towns look pretty much as you just described. Of course, there's a lot of broken asphalt on the roads, and houses don't look as good as in the photos.
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I don't know. Assuming that he scored the original record because he was an avid player, he probably spent a lot of time naturally honing his skills afterwards, and with no one else to beat it for a while, he didn't have any reason to defend it.
The issue here seems to be two different definitions of time. There's "physical" time, i.e. a continuous line and there's human/calendar time which is different and is most definitely tied to a location. For an example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_30#Swedish_calendar . (No wonder that time zones complicate things enormously.)
Tetris DX must be somehow more forgiving than the original Tetris.
A population with a basic income (guarenteed income).
>In 200 years, people will only have hobby because that will be all they have to do and most of their needs have been automated.

How will their living expenses be paid, then?
Not too weird. That's just how high the score counter goes. You can keep playing after that, but the number stops going up. (source: I've gotten that score myself. (although I paused every hour or so when my arms fell asleep, so that disqualifies me from submission))
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This is fair. Thanks a lot for your suggestion. I'd definitely make sure that we have a CRUD layer for reliable & secure communication.

Regards
Ritesh
The feasibility and cost of "emulated humans" is not settled; it may well be physically impossible.
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It's a neat site, but can you explain why I would use it over https://www.ssllabs.com/?
Because the entities that control the machines and give their products away will be outcompeted by entities that keep the products to fuel their own growth. Over time, the former kind of entities will die out. This is a general argument, the "entities" could be rich people, companies, governments, AIs, etc.
Fair point but ($2499 * 1.2) == ~2250 Euros
For what it's worth I think we're largely having an agreement. Ensuring our planet remains reasonably habitable should be the highest priority. That part of me which desires to see humanity survive even if we fail in this endeavor would like to see a backup planet (presumably Mars) at the species' disposal.
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
That is the maximum score. You can play on, but the score is capped there.
Actually, with html5, emscripten and webgl I don't think it will be long before the web is the primary platform for games.
with the government their motivation will always (in theory, of course) be finding the best cure

Well, that ignores all of public choice theory. Under this model, the entities of government (the politicians, the regulators, the regulatory agencies) only have the incentive to ensure their own outcomes. That overlaps to a certain extent with finding the best cure, but it's far from synonymous.
Better still is "The Ecstasy of Order," a Tetris documentary. I'd hate to spoil it but the conclusion really is unbelievable. I bought the download on Amazon for like 4 bucks or something. Definitely worth checking out.
Honestly, I think their concerns are legitimate. They want to make sure the components and software they use won't spy on them. Welcome to 2014 and beyond.
"you should never feel tired after eating."

this is why I stopped eating as much meat and switched to mainly beans / rice.
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UK buses may be cheap for long-distance travel, but outside of London they're pretty expensive for short distances, often more expensive than sharing a taxi with even one other person.
I disagree; I think, at the time, functional programmers were primarily using OCaml and various lisps. This is purely anecdotal, mind you, and haskell was definitely on the FP radar big time.
That sounds like a tenuous thing related to wireshark, not Qt, which is a little odd. You can build command line tools with Qt (surprise!) that are light and focused, but have the benefit of a number of frankly excellent standard library replacements.
The arc processor line from Synopsys does this commercially, I believe. Risc-v seems to be trying to support this sort of thing; there is reserved opcode space for implementation specific extensions
I think I'm going to have to stop clicking on these ones.

The future according to HN can be summed up as 30 years or so of Basic Income, after which we will be turned into paperclips by an unfriendly AI.

Maybe it's inevitable, but then there's not much point worrying about it. It's just another kind of death.
This is the pretty much the stated goal of "austerity" benefits cuts. It's already starting to have the effect in the UK of disabled people starving or freezing to death due to not being able to afford to carry on living. So far in small numbers ...
i think its a bit different b/c ethereum is supposedly useful as the 'fuel that allows apps to utilize the concept of a blockchain' in apps.

i suppose the idea is that it 'burns' ethereum to run an app on top of it, so I can see a scenario where ethereum becomes too expensive and businesses that use decide to move to a different fork that is less expensive.

I guess the oil analogy works then -- it gets too expensive and alternatives are found. However, its just a matter of forking the codebase and starting another one...kind of like stellar did with ripple.
This isn't in California, but to get around that idea, they made other workers "report" to them. So technically they are the supervisor. But they have no authority other than to enter in time tickets.
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The site is: www.tagcandy.com
>unlike Bitcoin, there is immediate use value for ether within the Ethereum network.

You've clearly not used Counterparty yet. Give it a try, it's easy, offers a great featureset, and works 'today'.
Pretty sure that homeless guy beat you to it.
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While I agree that the "most people are allergic to wheat" thing needs a lot more support, I'd like to make the small note that 95% of articles did a really terrible job of understanding the important takeaway of that study. I think this one did better: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/22/314287321/sensit...
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While I do agree it is horrible, humans are definitely not the only mammals that commit suicide.
>They made huge improvements (Huawei, Meizu, Xiaomi, others)...

Agreed, and we can only expect more improvement as China moves up the value chain.

>and are going to outsell brands like Apple and Samsung

In China, sure. I think Xiaomi is neck-and-neck with Samsung right now. But it will take a bit longer in the rest of the world for those firms to compete elsewhere. I expect an integration of product mix, with China joining the club of developed nations, rather than a takeover of manufacturing by Chinese producers.

Chinese brands are in the position of Japanese brands in the late 70s, trying to shed a reputation for making "cheap knock-offs," even when those knock-offs were better than the originals.

The path to fast growth in Asia seems to be: industrialize, specialize in cheap products, move into massed-produced consumer goods, improve quality by copying foreign competitors, then use your new engineering knowledge earned by cloning competitors' products to leapfrog the competition.

Japan did it to us, Korea did it to Japan, and now China will most likely be next.

And don't think the United States didn't do it ourselves. Heck, we invented the model during the industrial revolution when we leapfrogged Europe using plenty of "borrowed" ideas.

The upshot though is that economic growth is mostly a universal good these days. Certainly both the United States and Japan are better off than they would have been if Japan never caught up with us. We should be celebrating the rise of China's people, not fearing it.

And while their government may be antagonistic and repressive, it is leaps and bounds better than it was a few decades ago. If one were to construct a Maslow's hierarchy of needs for the Four Freedoms, Freedom from Want would be at its base. Further progress seems likely.

The vector is pointed in the right direction for everyone involved. All we have to do is not screw up the course.
Out of interest, why do you think that emulating or uploading a human mind might be physically impossible?

I guess my argument would be - if a relatively small amount of mush in a head can do all that clever stuff - why can't something else?

[NB I think we are a long way (> 100 years) from actually even getting close to mind uploads]
Wouldn't it be nice if all the things that threaten us turned out to be physically impossible?

"At the same time, the parts we do understand, such as that human intelligence is almost certainly running on top of neurons firing, suggest very strongly that human intelligence is not the limit of the possible. Neurons fire at, say, 200 hertz top speed; transmit signals at 150 meters/second top speed; and even in the realm of heat dissipation (where neurons still have transistors beat cold) a synaptic firing still dissipates around a million times as much heat as the thermodynamic limit for a one-bit irreversible operation at 300 Kelvin. So without shrinking the brain, cooling the brain, or invoking things like reversible computing, it ought to be physically possible to build a mind that works at least a million times faster than a human one, at which rate a subjective year would pass for every 31 sidereal seconds, and all the time from Ancient Greece up until now would pass in less than a day. This is talking about hardware because the hardware of the brain is a lot easier to understand, but software is probably a lot more important; and in the area of software, we have no reason to believe that evolution came up with the optimal design for a general intelligence, starting from incremental modification of chimpanzees, on its first try."

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week311.html
A "property right" is an entitlement to government protection for that property. Society is willing to protect Manhattan indefinitely - it only takes a fixed number of police officers to do so. But protecting everyone's unlimited imagination indefinitely is impractical (as time went on the number of historical creative works increases, and people continue to own all the rights to them, so we get an ever-increasing number of lawsuits per new creative work), so we set some time-based cutoff (which is an imperfect approach, but we need some rule).
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And date/time handling... actually, those three you mention are quite easy to me, I just hate working with date/time stuff.
Yes, Tetris DX's maximum speed is pretty permissive. Even at level 30, you still have enough time to orient your piece and place it anywhere on the playing field. This isn't the case for the maximum speed of other Tetris versions.
Fun soliloquy - I guess I'll play along.

> What do you think "government benefits" are?

Broadly speaking, the transfer of some good from the government to its citizens. Today we talk about it in terms of essentials (food, shelter, etc.) But in a world where most (if not all) tasks are handled by automatons, perhaps that's too reductive.

> Who created them? Are they extracted from a mine? Built by a machine? Contributed by working men?

Today you & I; perhaps tomorrow, not so much!
The fanfiction phenomenon suggests otherwise; plenty of creative people are willing to spend a lot of time and effort on creative work even when they don't and can't own it.
Day comes over to shake her hand. Lori is laughing as Day declares her "the greatest Tetris player in the world," then turns to me to add, "And I must say, she's also the prettiest."

Maybe if gamers didn't think it's ok to casually objectify female gamers there would be more women playing and it wouldn't be such a big deal that this player was a woman.
If we were having economic growth, it wouldn't matter. Robots would replace mundane labor, allowing people to be allocated to more economically beneficial occupations.

The problem is that there is no economic growth to speak of outside a few sectors.

IMHO the concern over automation and tech in general is shifting the blame from where it actually belongs: conservative fiscal policy.
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Buses in the US are cheap, but our government monopoly rail service is even more expensive and even slower— NYC to DC is shorter than Paris to Lyon, but costs for a ticket a week out are higher for the low-speed Northeast Regional than the TGV, and our low-speed high-speed train, the Acela, costs more than twice as much as the TGV.
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Heh, this reads like a William Gibson novel.
That was a great read. Nice job.
It looks like she held the record for just three of those months. A month before Harry Hong took it back, a guy named Neil Gewirtz took it from her with a run of 2349 lines.

http://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?scores=14856
I really like SSLLabs and their report, but it's really too technical to hand to a lot of people.

Further, though this isn't really explained well, is that there are some optional security elements like http->https redirection, HSTS that are just blips on the SSLLabs report that I think should be of more importance.

The Simple report was meant to be a sort of executive summary, not a deep dive.
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Little bit of a, little bit of b. They use some native controls on X11, and I think they hook into the Windows C++ APIs in places as well, but with the shift to QML I think it's back to being heavily custom control based again.
Simpsons did it. http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/6dbqbm/looks-like-homer-p...
Yes, that's very similar. Management had few qualms about abusing employees like that. It was one of many reasons why I left the company.
No. it's still available under the LGPL.
3. Testing. It's really hard to properly test concurrent software and all the different outcomes situations.
You will definitely have a bit of fun with this, then:

http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/solitaire/

Drag the mouse for great victory.
Of course, the reason safrole is more controlled than anisole in the first place is that it can be used to make MDMA, which is both safe and effective as a recreational drug.
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> an emulated human

I don't buy it at all. Where is your evidence that convincing emulation of human emotion and empathy will exist any time in the next 100 years. Based on current technology and the pace of technological advancement that proposition just seems ridiculous.
> I did very little of the work involved in stealing my back yard from Indians, clearing it, leveling it, running electricity, sewer, and water to it, etc.

But you paid people for that, or paid other people who paid people for that, or so on. You don't pay the people who created the culture you participate in (I mean, you might buy a few specific works - but the common cultural language, standard symbolisms, the very notion of the structure of a novel...). How could you fairly pay for those? And if you were charged for every iota of culture you osmosed, how could that possibly be done justly, without making you suddenly liable for charges every time you had a casual conversation, or even walked out your door and looked around?
Are you serious? People work currently, because that's the way _society_ works, currently. We have convinced ourselves that everyone either works or reaps the benefits of having worked (which is why he "justly" owns the means of production).

However, your question is meaningless _if_ everything is produced by robots. Nobody will be able to charge for anything, because the justification for the current way wealth is distributed will be gone: Nobody works, or will have worked or can pretend to have worked: Charging for products will be difficult to justify. Therefore, things will be free and there is no need to "earn a living".

If the powers to be would have it otherwise, there _will_ be a revolution. Or people will move to a country where the robot dividend is fairly distributed.
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This is closer to a preservation than a zoo. A zoo is where animals are caged in foreign habitats for the amusement of guests.

The habitat is the indigenous one. And the there are hardly any guests.
Good to know that when I'm old, I'll be spending my time gaming again :)

APM will be less I guess, but so will that of my opponents.
That's not how I understood it, and not at all how I think he intended it to be read.

His statement is that a question that sets "automation means less jobs which is bad!" against "automation means more and better jobs which is good!" is improper. Automation will change the job landscape - that's an objective statement, and we've been living it so far.

Whether we make it a positive change and end up with Russell's "idle utopia" or a negative change and end up in some horrific dystopia is entirely up to our response.
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