skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say you have a bit of an idealistic/warped view of the world, and the inhabitants within it. Not everyone has the luxury of being so generous, or non-ambitious enough to not be competitive. You're arguing against a natural set of rules, and the effects that emerge from them.

If someone invents something that eliminates a task/work/something, then they won't pass on all those costs to the general public. Not unless it suits them to undercut competitors. And that's just one example. On the other hand, you also have business owners that regularly pass on savings to their customers, even when not necessary.

If they can manage to do that, good for them. But let's not impose our unrealistic ideals on free-thinking individuals "just because it's good".
Secret Internet Experiments Reveal Horrible Truth About Human Beings
Wonder forever
Sorry, but the sound quality is really poor.
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> My status quo options are: (1) don't cook salmon, (2) cook salmon and most likely screw it up—hardly the best way to start an evening together, or (3) take cooking classes.

If you have even basic cooking skills outside of salmon, you've missed several options, like "look up recipes/directions for preparing and cooking salmon" (going to cooking classes is more extreme than is necessary.)

And an appliance isn't going to make you not have to do that, because while the actual application of heat is an important part of turning salmon (or anything else) into quality food (ignoring raw preparations), so is preparation, and the appliance isn't going to do that for you. And if you can look up and follow prep instructions, you can probably look up instructions that include both prep and cooking, as most recipes do.
Why? Because people can do something more meaningful with their lives if they are are currently doing something that can replaced by a robot. (There will be other jobs that are created to fill the replaced jobs). Arguing that we should not innovate and progress as a society because it will take away jobs is like arguing that we shouldn't have toilets because it will create less jobs for sanitation workers.

I don't think your notion of transferring wealth from workers to the owners of capital holds much weight in the context of a sharing economy either. It seems to me that a sharing economy is simply a more decentralized way of doing business, in which individuals are leasing their property or providing their services more directly to consumers than before. A centralized economy still provides wealth from workers to the owners of capital (rental car companies, hotels, taxi medallions, etc), perhaps more so than a sharing economy does.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/08/travel/alaska-airlines-win...
How anybody give some good comparison with Halcyon?
I'm just going to stuff it full of Soylent and see what it makes of that.
Simply holding a ruler up to the graph you cited reveals your conclusion to be complete bullshit. If the straight-line trend that obtained up the early 1970s had continued then the indexed compensation would be closer to 130 than the 110 it currently is. What sort of idiots do you take us for?

Don't even get me started on all the rent-seeking and tax acrobatics surrounding non-wage compensation. I would much rather just get paid cash and pay a somewhat higher rate of income tax than waste time trying to optimize some endless menu of benefit packages that require the skills of a CPA to analyze properly.
Seveneves: Five Thousand Years Later
I want to be able to send someone a link to a specific button.
You can angle the sail to be close to your retrograde vector, which will allow you to decrease your orbital altitude around the sun. You could use this to move closer to the sun or to the inner planets (or to return from a distant mission).
Right, but can people actually do anything more meaningful? I work in software not because I like it but because the things I actually like to do, like playing music, writing, or cooking, will never enable me to have a financial safety net. I would be no more "able" to do these things if my job disappeared tomorrow than I am today. What people are more able to "do something more meaningful" because their jobs no longer exist thanks to automation?

I basically agree with you, that automation could be profoundly empowering. But right now it isn't, unless you happen to control the automation technology.
" a lot of us are “entrepreneurial” as we swing from one grapevine to the next as freelancers, but very few of us are building equity in a real business. "

Indeed many of the people participating in the gig economy are essentially in the same position as a day laborer. Across time and space this class of people has always been the most vulnerable to socio-economic tumult.

The image of rural landless laborers in India and Ethiopia comes to mind. They were always the first to die in a famine.
As an example, I don't kill insects (or any living beings, for that matter). I once asked a Buddhist monk "I own rental properties, but sometimes they need to be treated for termites. Isn't that killing?"

He said "If you apply that reasoning everywhere, then almost nothing would be allowable."

The intention is not to disempower, but to make wealth for himself and his family. To buy and enjoy material things. (I wouldn't know, as I don't want kids and my tastes are spartan, but these are reasonable desires.) He's not trying to take advantage of anyone.
That one-liner won't work (for me), it's missing a slash in the awk command. I have this aliased as `docker-rmi-junk` since it's so common.

docker rmi -f $(docker images | grep "^<none>" | awk "{print \$3}")

I agree with everything else you're saying completely. Although messaging a value prop is hard when you have so many use cases. We faced the same issue and ended up trying to segment users as quickly and high up in the funnel as possible so we could speak directly to their needs.
Even Napster was used for non-music stuff towards the end, by renaming archives as mp3.

And the basic protocol was later adopted for more generic sharing systems, never mind the number of clones that came about after Napster was lawyer bombed.

Bittorrent is just the latest in a long string of P2P systems, with the biggest difference being the lack of a central search server.
Why is getting it right on the first try the only acceptable outcome? If you try, fail a few times, and eventually learn it will still be dramatically cheaper than buying any of these machines. And once you learn it will become a transferable skill -- you won't be tied to only being able to prepare your food when you're home with your specialized device.
For a great many people (myself included) benzodiazepines are lifesavers. I would really hate to see these kinds of articles prompt yet another moral panic which has doctors reluctant to prescribe drugs to people who need them.
Well, then you'd have to define what "natural" is, without resorting to "nobility", and "feel-good" terms that are undefinable.

And my argument wasn't that competitiveness is natural. Simply, that individuals are free to do what they want. And you arguing what they should/shouldn't because of some noble ideals that you have and they obviously don't because of their choices, isn't feasible, good, or moral.
Yes. The trick is to pretend that they aren't and to let them feel clever about figuring out for themselves how the adult market will improve success.

For instance, Cisco's fortunes were built in large part on porn, which dominated internet traffic for years, driving sales of their "big iron" routers to the ISPs, but their product looks nothing like porn and has other legitimate uses. A huge portion of the alcohol, fashion, and auto industries are based on the premise of improving your social standing and perceived sexuality.

So one route would be to get them to fund a technology that dramatically improves your service and that happens to have valuable uses outside of the adult industry.

However, you may be better off going to the adult industry for investment. They're actually pretty savvy angel investors, often the very earliest adopters of neat new tech, and their terms are often much less heavy-handed than VC terms.

If looking for leads, feel free to ping me offline.
I don't accept that competitive, winner-take-all behavior is at all "natural", and I don't think that's a sound argument.

I also don't think the systems we're building are a result of "free thinking", I think it has a lot more to do with what's getting funding.
HIPAA. The regulators mean well and the health data security situation is poor but the penalties and overhead it introduces mean you either have an awful locked down system no one wants to use or a "system" that uses fax or paper "tech" so old there are no regulations against it.
Devs are people.

Getting people to use things requires communicating to them what the things is for, and how it is better than other alternatives, and how to use it to realize that benefit.

Therefore, devtool adoption requires messaging related to what the devtool is for, how the devtool is superior to other alternatives in the same space, and how to use the devtool to realize that superiority.

Actually having the tool is a start, but its not the ballgame if no one can understand what its for, why they should use it over other things that serve the same purpose, and how to use it.
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I think part of the thesis of the article is that the concept of a "day job" is also unachievable, meaning a full time job that pays you enough to live on, that is stable and has some benefits.

If all the jobs that you have available are part-time and no benefits, where you have to have a minimum of two to make ends meet, that does not leave you much time to do anything else but hustle for your next gig; not to mention the vulnerability inherent in their no-benefits nature, no healthcare, likely very little sick time or time off etc.

Not having a social life for people in the "gig economy" also seems like a very bad decision, because if your network is not large it will be very difficult for you to find your next part-time gig when one of your current ones ends. As much as a $8 something is a lot of money, if that $8 enables you to meet somebody that knows somebody that can get you a gig it might be a necessary investment unfortunately.

The margin for error nowadays is extremely thin: some years back let's say you made a bad decision and went for an "unmarketable" degree, if you finished it you were still very likely to get a better-than-minimum-wage job, and it would be extremely unlikely that you'd be in any significant debt. This job would also likely have been full-time, and paid enough for you to have a modest lifestyle without having to depend on handouts, couch surfing, subletting etc. etc.

Until not that long ago a lot of people were able to put themselves through college by working summer jobs, that does not seem as realistic nowadays with the costs involved.

Also nowadays once you get out of college what next? entry-level jobs that lead to a full time career are few and far between, factory jobs are a shadow of what they once were, there are a plethora of "gig jobs" but they don't really allow one to consider things like settling down and having kids due to their temporary nature.

As much as the author of the article might have made some mistakes (who doesn't) it still doesn't disprove their thesis of the "gig economy" not fostering a stable and predictable life path, or at least not as stable and as predictable as it used to be one or two generations back.
I am well aware of the potential advantages of solar sails for many things.

I'm just saying they aren't the be-all and end-all. There are many things where they aren't particularly useful (for instance: anything time-constrained. Or anything that requires largeish maneuvers to be done in the outer solar system. And there are certain maneuvers that are... difficult... with a solar sail.)

Also, it's not infinite, nowhere near. Among other things, solar radiation and solar wind will degrade the sail over time. Especially with a lot of the materials they suggest using (mylar, etc.)
Ugh, I hate those drugs.

I recently had to take two Valium in preparation for a nerve-wracking medical procedure (an injection into my eyeball). I was a senseless zombie the rest of the day, my sleep got all messed up, and I was hung over the next day. Next injection, I'm weaning myself to one, and hopefully zero for the injection after that.

When I was a kid back in the 1970s, I had migraines - had 'em as long as I can remember. Back then, there weren't migraine-specific meds, just painkillers. They didn't want to give me Demerol or other opiates, because those were dangerous and addictive! Instead, they gave me nice, safe phenobarbitol. I'd take one, stumble to the couch, pass out, and wake up 14 hours later uncertain what had happened. I hated it, hated my mind being so lost, but the migraines were worse sometimes.

But ultimately, the problem is that people like to get high on downers, and like to be addicted to them, and the industry will be happy to help.
scraping content off websites, and automating a data entry process are two very different things.
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Big platforms tend to be different things to different people. Might help to have a different "what is docker?" page for the various roles you encounter.

For CIOs: click here
For developers: click here
For sysadmins/devops: click here
For platform providers (e.g. heroku): click here.
Brazil is a democracy, Cuba isn't. Just as North Korea, but much closer to America, Cuba is above all a curiosity, a place semi-frozen in time, where ingenuity is no luxury, if you want to live.
It is truly surprising at how easily Benzos are to get if you don't look like a drug abuser. Even something as mild as bruxism (clenching of the jaw) is enough for a doctor to prescribe it. Most people trust medicines to not be given unless the negative effects are outweighed by the help, but I believe that in Benzos' case, the vast majority of people are better off either taking a different drug or suffering through the pain without them.
Might want to read this:

https://medium.com/@alando46/how-we-spent-500-on-tech-to-shi...

If you knew how most modern warehouse/shipping facilities ran their IT, your head would spin.
I'm really glad to see I'm not the only one that feels the performance drop is painful, nowadays the only thing I do backend are API's, thus a lot of the features (like blade) are superfluous to me. I hope Lumen will kind of fix this, and be the perfect go-to framework for API's done in PHP.

Having said that, looking at the future it would make a lot more sense to switch to a different language altogether, it's a same my current employer only wants to run php backend (because it's 1 command to install, I know bad reason, but they don't want to support other languages).
Why exactly are you looking at Scala or Go? I kind of get Scala (but I'd personally rather opt for Clojure), but why Go? Purely because it's much more performant than php? Doesn't this has to do with the lacking of such a full-featured framework like laravel?
The author explains at README.md:

>Sure, I had some questions "how is this high-frequency" or "not for UHFT" or "this is not front-running". Let's take a closer look at these definitions:

> High-frequency finance: the studying of incoming tick data arriving at high frequencies, say hundreds of ticks per second. High frequency finance aims to derive stylized facts from high frequency signals

>High-frequency trading: the turnover of positions at high frequencies; positions are typically held at most in seconds, which amounts to hundreds of trades per second.
These frameworks arise from huge corporations then get preached to the masses. Problem is, they are only useful at the huge corporation level. Ironic.
Automation may seem unintuitive economically but the alternative is much worse.

Food workers tend to be minimum wage workers. Minimum wage really stands for minimum living wage which is different from place to place and somewhat artificial (e.g rent). If minimum wage workers could be paid less, the "owners of capital" would (because they don't generate that much value)

Example: if you order a 9$ burger and it costs 5$ to "manufacture" a burger (food processing, shipping, preparation etc.) and 4$ to have a minimum wage workers assemble it; by eliminating the minimum wage worker, eventually the price of the burger will go down.

But who will buy burgers? Automation/technology is about turning goods into commodities. Eliminating scarcity.

So, yeah, I would work for the guy killing minimum wage jobs because without him, 10-15 years from now, you'd be paying 25$ a burger and most of it will go to the minimum wage worker making 15$/hr doing a job a machine could do.

I won't bother to argue how mind numbing those jobs are.
Wine warehouse turns into playful Weebly (YC W07) outpost
Android/iOS UI test automation with a clean API
We are all Uber Drivers
Do you actually know what the "true" range is?

The data presented is a sample, the "true" distribution might be different from what is shown, and if you start 'cleaning" the data based on subjective judgements, you might never discover the true range.
Try learning enough Django or Rails to serve up the TwiML you need. Don't worry about the payment stuff just yet.

You can use ngrok or localtunnel to make it possible for twilio to get your TwiML from your laptop.

You'll likely find that the most difficult part of your project will be getting money to the provider fast enough.

Good luck!
I think majority of what you ask for, in reality, can be achieved by pursuing emotional growth. "Emotional Intelligence", as scholarly might call it.
Also, I recommend checking out the QuantStart project started by Michael Halls-moore. Really handy if you are using the Oanda Api. Plus, there exists some great articles on the quantstart site about the creation of the code.
https://github.com/mhallsmoore/qsforex
I built the standing desk on Mint's design blog: http://www.mintdesignblog.com/2012/08/diy-standing-desk/

Cost me about $60. I polyurethaned a plywood top instead of buying an Ikea top. Plus I stacked some books as monitor stands.
ADPs technology is so far advanced relative to Zenefits it is not even close. Anyone with any know
Edge of these systems knows that.
Great summary, thank you for that.

I simply could not think of a better title.

A more accurate title may be marijuana not linked to lung cancer?

Although there is some research in cell and animal studies that has shown THC, CBD and other cannabinoids to actually kill cancer. http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/cannabis...

I am happy to change the title.
Why did they name it that?

LiveScript was Netscape's original name for JavaScript, before Sun asked them to throw in some Java branding.
Anecdotally, something I've seen work in the B2B space is framing the message `n` different ways for each type (n) of stakeholder. So you'd have a quick view of value props and stories for the CIO, the IT director, etc. Sometimes it's hard to find the general value proposition, and it's much easier to have the different cohorts self-select into the message that means the most to them. And sure, sometimes this doesn't cut it and you have to get on the phone.

The general message could still be there (kitchy and sexy), the focus would still be on the end user (developer), but others wouldn't have a hard time finding the message that resonates with them.

Has anyone else seen this strategy succeed (or fail) for their business?
Thanks for the feedback! Totally on point!
Doesn't really seem that elaborate if this is correct: https://twitter.com/stackshareio/status/578629809242312704
Some inaccuracies here. ClojureScript does not have to be compiled by Google Closure. That pass is an optional one for production builds. There is no "bridging" when using the Closure Compiler with non-Closure compatible code. The issue is that in production mode the Closure Compiler will make aggressive assumptions about what it can rename. So it's not about bridging it's about preventing renaming - again this is only relevant for advanced production builds.

That said for non-Web applications or applications where advanced compilation isn't that useful providing a bootstrapped ClojureScript is desirable. We've been working on that slowly for a long time now. In the coming months you'll see changes such that the ClojureScript compiler can itself be compiled into JavaScript.
What no mention of running Dokku on Digital Ocean.
First commit for lispy - march 5, 2012
First commit for sweet.js - August 1, 2012

im actually pretty shocked they are that close together.
Do you have any examples of this? My dad owns a recording studio and I've joked with him about turning up the "silver knob" which doesn't exist. Kind of an inside joke, but never seen anything like you're talking about. Certainly haven't seen it "often".
Why do we automate things?

I think this is a good question. It really made me think. Why did we invent a steam shovel when it put so many ditch diggers out of work?

I think the answer is because you can build things with a steam shovel that you could never, ever build digging ditches by hand.

It may not be immediately apparent with some forms of automation, but I think that's the driving force behind all technological progress.

What if we want to deliver nutritious, affordable food to every person on the planet? Is that economically feasible with having a part of the supply chain rate-limited to a human capacity? I don't know, but I think probably not.

In the short term, some people might be out of work. In the long term, even poor people today have a higher standard of living than the richest people of a couple hundred years ago could dream of.
How Yelp built a hybrid cloud using Mesos and Docker
Can I set the text via a url or query arg, e.g. http://placebobutton.com/?foo+bar ?
A couple of decades of experience is encoded in CFEngine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFEngine

http://cfengine.com/product/community/
As someone who just switched to Linux from OS X, it is really hard to migrate. I miss the subtleties of the apple ecosystem. Sure Linux is awesome, but I have been battling trackpad support issues, keymapping the super_key to CMD, and just general battling the UX.

tl;dr a more powerful operating system with worse UI, which is the obvious trade. A less powerful system with a fantastic UI.
I have been thinking the same thing. For this price, for a so-called "smart" oven, there is no excuse that it's not a combi or cvap oven. I wouldn't consider purchasing any standalone oven appliance for this price unless it was combi or cvap.

Before any other "smart" features I'd want:

* Precise temperature control between ~100F-450F

* Precise humidity control from 0%-100% relative humidity

* Dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temperature, and an internal temperature probe (preferably up to 2 internal probes).

* High temperature sear/broil

If you want it to be "smart" then forget the camera identification and allow me simply select "roast chicken" and have it cook to an internal temperature of ~155F (165F if you so choose) at 100% humidity before automatically turning the humidity down to 0% and switching to broil to crisp the skin.
Yeah, sorry about that. It was truly one of those days - we had all kinds of problems with the connection and software, I was just pleased to get something out of it at all (note how the sky darkens in the background!). Hopefully the transcript will help you.