skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there is no real work? If there was a pet webshop like the one described in the article, these people could go there and work there. There isn't though, else they'd be working. Simple economics, really. As for working for the government, that depends on whether the government has any jobs that suit these people.

If you're suggesting they could work for their unemployment benefits... that's a legal problem, because then they'd technically not be unemployed anymore and would cost the government / tax payer more money. Although they'd be tax payers themselves again via income tax. It gets very confusing really.

TL;DR: One does not simply create jobs.
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How they had it wrong. Instead of robotics liberating mankind from bullshit jobs, we create imaginary bullshit jobs for those who aren't suffering from one. Amazing. Pretty soon people will pay for these oppportunities.
I love postman, but how do they make money from it?
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Terminator, the humble beginnings - looks and feels like rats!
If you paid out the profit of the corporation as a dividend, and you have owned the corporation for a long time* so those are “qualified dividends” in the US, and your ordinary income tax rate is 30%, then you only pay 15% tax on those dividends. That leaves you with $68k, or only slightly less than the other scenario.

(The required holding period is 60 days during the 121-day period that begins 60 days before the ex-dividend date.)
The windows crypto APIs can encrypt secrets secured by the windows account. This would protect against attacks by other users on the system who don't have permissions to impersonate the user who encrypted it, as well as protect against offline reading of the files.

It doesn't stop every attack, but it's not useless.
Well, Steam seems to be growing pretty nicely... Also, for most users a good Browser is all they need. Which is why I love Chromebooks as an option for most people.
Or ToffeeScript has been available for years and has a better syntax..
Surely it would be to Google's advantage to scan as much as they can in the background for targeting ads, even if they actual search is activated on demand.
Yesterday I had the option of buying an SSD same-day. I'm in Philadelphia.
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> Pay careful attention to her reaction:
> https://i.imgur.com/avVTybvh.jpg

Note: This jpg is actually a gif (?)
I have found PyPy wins if the wall time is over about 1.5 seconds, making it my goto Python environment for 1GB+ ETLs.

Everything you say is true, but under the systems I use/write I am able to test for correctness pretty quickly. The nice thing about switching from CPython to PyPy is that everything get faster. I have also found that using PyPy has removed lots of cases where I would want to drop down to native code.

Changing platforms can make one's designs simpler and more robust. When it comes to structured storage, I'll start with sqlite, then when it starts to get slow I'll switch to PostgreSQL. It takes almost no work to port from one to the other.

You really should give PyPy another shot. It supports more of numpy every day and the startup time is excellent. Maybe give jitpy a try if you are not likely to move off of CPython.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sysapps/2015Apr/...

For typical webapps it wouldn't help because of the difficulty traversing firewalls. This seems to be about standardizing facilities for browser-based OSes like FXOS and ChromeOS to make things like IRC clients
`.bind(this)` or an ES6 fat arrow solves the `this` problem in your jQuery example.

As to why... well, it makes more sense with jQuery's event listeners (`$(this)` being much shorter than `$(event.currentTarget)` and usually being what you actually want), and thus I guess in the name of consistency it's good to have all callbacks behave the same way. Why it's not a jQuery object... pass. More often than not that would be what you want, and if it's not, `.get(0)` or `[0]` is hardly a great stretch. Historical reasons, perhaps.

If I'm iterating over collections of elements and I have access to Underscore, I'll just use `_.each($("..."))`, which has the benefits of a more suitable `this` and the callback arguments in a sensible order (element then index).
They took down the link. Appears to be a cheap publicity stunt indeed.
Why can't the decryption key be derived from a password?
Maybe we can start nursing bootcamps. And teach kids how to become a nurse. and increase the h1b cap for nurses.

I guess the nursing lobby is not as powerful as the tech one.
There was a case last year in England where a religious school removed questions on evolution from exam papers: "The examinations body, OCR, says it was satisfied that the girls did not have an unfair advantage. It now plans to allow the practice" [0].

[0] "Jewish school redacts exam to remove evolution questions" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26437882
Huh, homebrew non-free license. I wonder if the intention was even to make it non-free. It does not allow commercial use, which is forbidden by default.

Oh well, at least homebrew licenses are getting rarer and rarer these days.
Perhaps, but using a separate hostname github.io vs github.com is also a security mechanism. Project owners can supply rich content (read: HTML + JavaScript) on these .io pages. If these pages were on GitHub.com or subdomains of GitHub.com, this user supplied content can interact with and hijack the github.com cookies like session ids.

Yes, GitHub can use the domain attribute on a cookie to prevent this, but then you have designed a system that will fail open if you mess up. (i.e. potentially malicious user content would always be able to access a cookie, unless GitHub does something).

Better to just stick it on a separate domain entirely, and this is a commonly used practice. For example, Google does this with their googleusercontent.com domain
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Jobs in Berlin! sweet! If you don't mind maybe I'll index you on _my_ meta-search engine https://englishjobs.de/
I remember actually keeping a couple of service accounts on services that served as mirrors for SF for years just because they backed the service (early on, before a lot of the sleazy stuff started).

Unfortunately, short of registering a trademark with the PTO, it'd be difficult to get a lot of this crapware removed from SF.
Wow it's like a whole another world. I really like the idea - much more effective form of training than traditional types. Everyone knows about the scarring effects of long term unemployment (if not http://bit.ly/1Qf8ue3). This is a good way to combat that scarring.
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Well science has to be technically precise so fuzzying definitions doesn't exactly make a point.

I don't think that there are non-physical things, but I'm sure the are lots of non-material things: time, space, a magnetic field, gravity ... many things and I wouldn't discard Consciousness as one of them.
The part of this that is disengenuous and a little silly is that they are just slowly adding in features from CoffeeScript/IcedCoffeeScript and nobody mentions that.

And in order to do it you have to use something like Babel.

Why not just move to CoffeeScript, or IcedCoffeeScript, or ToffeeScript, or even LiveScript?

The only explanation I can see is that people just aren't capable of learning the full new languages and so the standards people are leading you by the hand like you just got off the short bus.

AND, the standards people don't want to admit that individuals did their jobs for them years ago, don't want to use someone else's design for implementing those features and so insist on slowly coming up with their own independent implementations for engines.

This is a microcosm that demonstrates the relationship between technology and society. There is just a huge lag between the newest and best ideas or systems and what the group or individuals or systems can grasp or absorb.

Take this existing many-year gap and multiply by 10X or 100X and you will start to perhaps understand the concept of the technological singularity.
IMO Webpack and browserify are on a pretty even playing ground, with pros and cons in each. I don't get the people who say one has made the other obsolete.
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To have very disappointing returns on an investment. Similar to "get soaked", "get cleaned out", etc.
Depends on how much disposable money you have not the absolute value plus cultural issues are in play eg putting savings into gold as you don't trust the banks
Agree. I haven't learned how to do that yet, but polling for non-expired orders is what I want to add next.
Not enough peace-loving people to vote for a NASA-science-centric government vs the Military-Industrial government we already have.
Is it worth pointing out that both times they were taken to court they won and maintain that no one can buy their way on to their whitelist?
Is the goal here explicitly to mimic animal locomotion? Does this have unique advantages to something that rotates/rolls etc?
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We ate elsewhere, after a round of apologies to all concerned.
Seems to be only SMTP...

The issue with most Unixy mail kits, is it's a collection of software that isn't always well coupled, and bundled together in really haphazard ways...

Many people want a simple interface that gives them administrative control (separate from physical accounts on the machine) that upgrades as a complete set...

With Unixy mail systems, you update dovecot, crap, something else breaks.. you have an older mysql backing it, crap, everything breaks when you upgrade... there's too many disconnected pieces for someone that isn't a full time mail admin to effectively keep up with.

I believe the original request is for something similar to say SmarterMail but open-source and free... something easy to setup, cross platform and packaged in a modern approachable language.... If I didn't have to work, I've often thought about doing something similar with Node.js
And Auto-CAD had a Lisp engine in the '80s ... You could automate almost any function of the drawing system, build "macros" as well as patterns and even alter the DXF generation.
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This looks like its direct ancestor by the same author a couple years earlier! Great work.

http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/kokopelli/
The UK has a nastier version of this: you can be compelled to do unpaid work or lose your unemployment benefit. Some of this is displacing real jobs in the low-paid retail sector. Some of it results in people standing around in hi-viz jackets doing nothing for 35 hours a week. https://welfaretales.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/workfare-force...

The (rather idealised sounding, by the NYT's description) European version is about keeping people engaged with society by giving them things that feel like work so they have colleagues, a familiarity with working practices, and a feeling of usefulness.

The British version seems to regard sitting at home while unemployed as an outrageous privilege; drudgery must be imposed on those people otherwise they're better off than the 'hardworking' people who must suffer commuting and not seeing their family. A previous version was declared illegal, so the government enacted "emergency" legislation to retroactively legalise it. http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/03/19/ids-emergency-jobs...
Is it just me or does it seem like the video was altered to make the motion smoother? Maybe it's just a very jittery robot.
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As it should be, in Science class it is only allowed scientific material

It would be a good thing to argument why creationism is an scientific material and should be allowed in an Science class after voting
I interested in building personal, private analytics dashboards to find previously unknown personal correlations between inner moods, feelings, emotions and health states with external factors, such as food/drink intakes, duration of sleep, exercises, travel patterns and other trackable activities.

I also want to visualize long term events such as quality of relationships (gained or lost), occupations and income dependencies from short and long term habits.

This whole project depends on ability to gain access to raw data feeds and then playing with them.
“The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.”
Well they are not talking about developer. They are talking about technology specialist, which India severely lack. One of the reason is where in India would you study enough to become a specialist.
You will have to go to a foreign University and hence India will have to hire people from outside India.
Fake jobs might be necessary but there is a danger of making them half fake jobs that get things done slowly and end up as a cost to society and the people supporting the workers.

An example of that I've observed are construction workers maintaining railway infrastructure. There are probably a few times as many people working there as needed. When walking by you'll see them standing around talking, or maybe one of them is sitting in an excavator and four are staring at him. Meanwhile people have to take the replacement buses for two months. Most of the work only gets done in the first and last week, largely using machines, while everyone relying on the train connection is at risk of delays or has to spend extra time on the journey.
Meh, programs suicide all the time when they access memory locations not in their space.

The contentious nature of consciousness is in the "makes the decision" part of your statement, suicide is pretty mundane as far as decisions go.
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If your defragmenter knows about the hibernation system, it will update the 'pointer' to the hibernation file.

Also, you can only hibernate an OS that knows about hibernation. Such an OS would be foolish if it wouldn't write the current location of the hibernation file whenever it went into hibernation.

So, this only is a problem if you hibernate your system, defragment its disk on another system using a defragmenter that doesn't know about hibernation files, and then try to wake up from hibernation. That might happen to people using an old version of a defragmenter, but I doubt it will happen often.
Since I've learned LambdaCalc and interpreters I've always been curious why modules were such an oddity, statements in most languages, and even in ML it's still a separate entity (even though research has been made to express it as a single core). Seeing newspeak a while back felt refreshing. I don't know if there are caveat doing things this way though.
Yes, it's a distribution problem. I'm glad we wasted so much time before dawn we agreed.
It really does sound like a woodpecker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOMVdOc9UbE
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Brings back memories and completely forgot about the sound! Use to see them pretty much everyday while at primary school (near Northolt Airport).
True, but I was addressing the 'novelty' observation made, not cost and licensing.
I do like the look of it.I just think it has been available, and is not new. Even the tease of Lisp machine when it has python in the background, not Lisp. For free, the now-opensource Solvespace [1] is a cool parametric 3D-modeler with STL check export and you can view some kinematic movement by dragging a constrained link in a linkage.
[1] www.solvespace.com
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They already do: The 3DS and the Wii U.

I suspect we shall not be seeing a Nintendo-approved Mario platformer on iOS or Android anytime soon. Seems like it would just undermine their hardware sales.
Why throw an error for something that isn't needed? This is always something I like about JS... it doesn't throw an error in many situations, where the most likely case would be to suppress it anyway, or when there's no point in throwing one...
Because there is no real work?

Really? I suspect that our eyes are merely blinded to positive things that can be done but that currently nobody is willing to pay for.

In ageing societies, think about services for the elderly. The elderly benefit, and if the job is designed humanely (i.e. not with the aim of extracting as much profit as possible at any cost), it could also benefit the one who does it.

What about making the cities we live in more beautiful by creating new municipal gardens and tending to them?

These are just two examples. Once you look outside the usual economic spheres you can certainly find more. Somehow, I have the feeling that it would be more valuable to society if the people working fake jobs as described in the article actually did something useful instead. That could still provide training as a side effect.
There is something to be said for KISS, but man...
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I wonder if rate of governments barricading SMBs is a good metric for tyranny.
It wouldn't be training anymore, so they'd lose their unemployment benefits.

There should be a gentler ramp-up from unemployment benefits to sustainable business, but there isn't so as of today the practical answer to your question is "no, it's not legal".
They will also have to borrow money to pay for these, and these loans will add up.
>Because there is no real work?

Apart from education, infrastructure maintenance and development, community improvement... and many many more.

There's plenty of work that needs to be done.

>There isn't though, else they'd be working. Simple economics, really.

No, according to "simple economics" these people aren't working because no one can profit off them.

That's in no way the same as there not being nothing useful for them to do.
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That's completely premature, you didn't even suggested they should talk first so they learn together what they need now and mature their relationship, instead, you suggested that who ask should jump to big guns in a way that can potentially change the path of that startup forever.

I suggest nobody should do bold blind suggestions nor follow them.
What did you expect from MIT? A motorized couch? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn-kn59dFPs
Pretty funny, but if you are a ham (i am) you're not supposed to deliberately interfere with other transmissions, period.

-- KC2ZZQ
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I remember writing basically this CSG-based CAD software at university, and that was 20+ years ago.

(And it was written in Miranda!)
In the late 90s, Sourceforge (and Freshmeat) were really good places to get software. But even in the early 00s, it felt dusty and dated.
If the JS source linked on these sites suddenly changed, could it be used to DDOS a target site or something?
Wasn't aware of that, my bad. In Singapore (where I'm from) it doesn't have any negative connotation.
Yeah! And Saddam Hussain's army threw preemie babies from incubators out in the street.
I hope so, too.

It's funny, I've had no problems staying away from video games for 20 years but I'd jump at the opportunity to play Super Mario Bros 1, 2 & 3 on iOS.
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Mixmax seems to be doing well with a Chrome extension for Gmail. Not sure if they're profitable though.

https://mixmax.com/

(I found out about them because they use Meteor.js and blog about it)
As someone born and raised in India, I find attitudes like this quite annoying. Programmers tend to be passionate and self-learners; you want an university to teach you? Look at what some programmers from Tamil Nadu came up with: http://hasura.io/
This makes me very curious about the culture around the Indian tech industry. Why does there appear to be no encouragement for exploration or experimentation? Further, why does there seem to be a strong emphasis on prestige? For example, I know full well how powerful and prestigious Google is, but that doesn't make me want to work there. I get the sense that that kind of attitude is not common in India.
This is horrible and scary. I could imagine it would be possible to establish such a business without telling the people that it's fake...

Why not simply give the people the money and use the space to help them creating new ideas? Or hell....get another child and raise it properly. Or...I don't know there is a whole universe of better solutions then this. This is the nightmare version of the 60s/70s dream of less work through robots.
This is so incredibly ignorant and judgemental I don't know where to start.

http://www.quora.com/Why-does-it-always-look-like-constructi...
From a cursory look at this, it appears that it indeed is not a thing in most of the world.
It's a free lunch for all is it? Someone pays (if not the descendants yet to be conceived who will be making interest payments on current debts) so it's certainly drudgery on the folk who have to pay for those sitting at home.
This was predicted http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/26/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-h...

Oauth 2.0 is so much of a flexible framework it almost boils down to "roll your own crypto with very complex tools and a lot of moving parts"

I am gonna watch the world burn safely eating my popcorn with my old fashions AAA system (radius, LDAP, ssh..) expecting more vulnerabilities to be uncovered and waiting for employers and architects to require my now valuable knowledge.

Mouhahahahahahha
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Sounds like an interesting simulation. I would suggest they throw in some politically backstabbing co-workers, 20 hours a week of useless meetings and a psychopathic self serving boss to make it more lifelike.
Identifying the great people to hire is the problem.

Note also that the definition of great is a function of (atleast) timing and domain knowledge as well as raw ability.
I think this is a bit extreme on the fake side, but I have found somewhere between that and a real job that works quite well, while not being fake. There are agencies that will make you come in like a 9-5 job, help you write your CV, help you communicate with recruitment agencies and give you interview training, will effectively teach you about the recruitment industry and the sales industry since you will be selling yourself. You will do this with other people in an office who are either looking for work like you are, or who are between temporary or contract jobs, so it also offers an opportunity to network.
I don't know what you mean. What was Al Jazeera's line in running the story?
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It's not the animal locomotion per se that's exciting. It's the balance control.
One unique advantage seems to be that it can jump over obstacles. Something that rotates/rolls (presumably) is more difficult to get over obstacles.
> it's ultimately constrained by the members'/employees' financial resources to contribute capital

I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the UK co-ops can raise investment via loanstock.
When Facebook first launched dedicated apps for groups and messages, I was confused. But now I only have those installed, and not the primary app. I've also bookmarked both the messages page and the groups main page (which actually took some searching). I get a lot of groups, and there are some people I'm only able to talk with via Facebook messages.

Malls are ubiquitous in much of the US, and people use them differently. Some people wander, some people run in to the one store they need and leave. Some people hang out at the food court. I view Facebook the same way - as they continue to build out features, different people will choose to use the bits and pieces that work for them.