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> I'd be shocked if this happens in the next 100 years.

100 years ago it was 1915. How much has technologically progressed since then? Do you have a sense we have leveled-off (besides single-core frequencies)? Is technology like air travel where we will reach max capability soon after creation and just have to give up improving? Of course not.

We're still in exponential growth phases of technology. Don't discount how quickly everything can change out from under us.

> can program without human input.

Much of programming is just trying all possible endpoints then seeing what works. How much of programming today is just asking Google, finding examples, then tweaking them? Most programmer jobs these days could be completely automated away given current technology if someone built it.
Just for the record: Arch does have testing and staging repositories for testing new versions of packages that may cause major breakage if they have bugs or packaging problems.

AFAIK new versions of glibc, other major libraries, systemd, Linux kernels, etc. are always kept in one of these testing repositories for a while to catch serious problems.

To help make Arch better, consider running one or more systems on [testing] (a chroot or VM will do) and reporting any problems you find.
Their patent is on the mechanical design, not the electrical design.
“The” video of robots falling on their butts
I've called TempleOS the "I Whipped Spider-Man's Ass" of operating systems in the past. The comparisons to Wesley Willis are tempting: a schizophrenic man plying a craft (code, music) as a release for the suffering his condition inflicts upon him, and who enjoys a certain amount of good will because of his unbridled creativity. Though he also merits comparison to Ulillillia, the severely autistic kid with an overactive imagination and penchant for 2D coding and number puzzles who appeared in the early 2000s.
As someone who does a lot of hiring for a startup, I will say I'm agnostic with regards to languages and frameworks. We've hired folks with all sorts of disparate backgrounds including embedded C (we mostly use Java and JavaScript).

I think you should sell yourself as an experienced technologist who's looking to learn. You should also demonstrate a willingness and ability to learn new things; maybe by making something and putting it up on github.
Your premise is flawed as you are assuming only rational actors are playing the lottery. By definition those playing the lottery are usually not rational actors and thus cannot fall into the framework you propose.
A pulled muscle will heal up in a couple weeks. We're talking about chronic pain lasting many months or years.
The only time I've "won" anything in a casino is when I hit the "drink service" button to get a free drink...
I thought this was going to be about actual ideas not bla bla terrorists cyber dude fear mongering. Shame.
Can someone please summarize what the hell this is supposed to be? Sure, DDOS attacks, hacking, etc are bad. What else, exactly, am I supposed to pull away from this horribly designed site?
> 1 hour a day for 3 days a week will get you to "pick up 400 pounds off the floor with relative ease" within a year.

Do you have a link to a particular regimen that worked for you?
This looks great. Do you have any benchmarks that compare transfer speeds compared to SSH ?

What is the canonical replacement to `tar czf - /some/folder | ssh user@host "tar xvf -C /some/folder -"` ?

Key management could use a bit of doc, how do you generate all these keys ? It would be nice to have a ssf-keygen tool.

Looking forward to see this gaining more traction.
I think he's absolutely right about life being long.
‘Game of Thrones’: Escape provides a legit cheer-at-the-television moment
Tasks in Boot cache their own products, so while the watcher task fires the rest of the pipeline whenever a source file of any kind changes, each task is smart enough to use its own cached compiled files. This is because only the tasks themselves can ever really know the relationship between source files and the compiled artifacts they produce.

So in practice things are only recompiled when they need to be recompiled. Even though the watcher task is firing, no real work is done unless it needs to be done.
> what makes a mathematical assumption "natural" is how elegant or inelegant its consequences are

So now we start to argue about concepts that are not well defined in the context, introducing new terms, even?

Art for art's sake is just one aspect of science and craft. You might argue that mathematical knowledge as it is incorporated in the material world, e.g. in brains, books and soundwaves, has become a real matter which entails all the complexity that makes it so difficult to grasp.
> I have come to believe it because I have come to realize that it is the only notion of "nice" that has real utility.

Utility means that something produces (directly or indirectly) satisfaction for the person making the decision. Doing what society judges as nice has instrumental utility, in that it can help you get better responses from society, which either can produce utility for you directly or help get others to do things which produce utility for you.

Doing what pleases yourself -- including aesthetically as in favoring what "looks nice" to you -- has direct and immediate utility, however.

Both are "real" utility. Which is greater utility will vary considerably.
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I had the same reaction, but I'm a biologist that cuts code writing server code for a living. I'm rather good at it, and have many graduates, engineers, and a few masters work under my lead. I also know medical doctors that prescribe antibiotics for virus, and PHD's in the sciences that don't understand the basics of evolution or the basics of formal logic.
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Along the lines of a Snowden conspiracy theory, Dave Emory has done a fair amount of research and constructs quite a complex theory (see the "For a The Record" series on spitfirelist). He presents some interesting arguments that serve as counter point to the pervasive (libertarian) rhetoric that hails Snowden as a champion of freedom.
When I started working at the startup I'm at, we were using Zenefits and Expensify. For some inexplicable reason, in the last few months everything got switched to ADP and Concur, both of which offer a worse experience than what we were using.
I was on that site for 5 minutes and I still have no idea what it's actually trying to do. Looks like they spent so much time on all the fancy crap that makes the page load take forever that they forgot they had a message they were trying to get out.

or maybe their intent was to bore me off their site because I'm not a journalist. In that case they did well!
And when I try to help!

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Ask HN: What stack do you use to track realtime events at scale?
We're about to embark on building our own realtime web events platform to track events on 20 large properties (~100k+ events/s). If you've done similar projects, what stack have you used? We're thinking of some combination of Logstash (piping logs in), Kinesis (organizing stream), and Storm (processing and aggregation), but need ideas :).
This is confusing and I'm not entirely sure what the message is. What am I missing?

Edit: okay so I think I get it; they outline a product then you can click through and apply to use that product. Not very descriptive though.
Pretty much agree with this. It worked for me. 10 minutes a week, high intensity, for a couple years, pain was gone in about 2 months and never came back. Just machines, due to getting injured with free weights early, no cardio, no other exercise. Leg press, lumbar, seated row, weighted pull-up, chest press, the occasional bench. Getting stronger is easy and worth it.
How Europe’s climate policies led to more U.S. trees being cut down
And then I might respond (like many others did) that an "approximate" table is not a "real" table at all, i.e. we're back to step one of the problem.

The way I like to look at it is that Aristotle's logic principles and all that followed (including the concept of "continuity") is a very nice and especially very usefull Domain Specific Language which helped us, humans, fly rockets to the moon and build iPhones (we wouldn't have computers with NAND gates which would not respect Aristotle's logic principles). But if we go back and re-read Heraclitus, the guy against whom Aristotle fiercely battled, then the concept of "continuity" and "one vs many" concepts become a lot more blurry. But I digress, again, this was supposed to be about computer type theory.
I have found it is much easier to switch to a new stack within your existing employer than it is to get hired for a stack for which you have no professional experience.

Here are the steps:

a. find employment at a company that requires your niche skillset but also has projects in your desired tech stack (hopefully this is your current employer)

b. learn enough of the desired tech stack on your own to be a useful contributor

c. ask to switch over to a project using your new stack, or volunteer to write tests or help in some other way to get your foot in the door (this may require some persistence and relationship-building)

d. once you have some experience you are ready to add it to your resume and seek your dream job
Hah, I gave myself that experience after leaving graduate school, but I chose infantry.

I am about to be admin separated from the reserves, but I will say that the experience has been an overall huge positive. You learn how to quickly identify all of the ways leadership is poor in the tech industry, and then get it all fixed. You also don't lack for motivation since you know what it's like to be hounded by a DI or NCO :) .
A key point in United States of Secrets is that they discuss Google just as much as they discuss the NSA in part 2. Government and corporations work under different sets of restrictions; by working together, it becomes easy to work around many of theses restrictions.

The recent theater about section 215 is a new step in this relationship: the government gets to look like they re making changes while Google (el al) get their letter of marque, excusing their continued mass data collection.

If you found part 2 of United States of Secrets to be interesting, I strongly recommend Aral Balkan's recent talk on the same subject ( https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html... ). If you found Frontline's description of Google in part 2 to be a bit frightening or disturbing, then Balkan's talk might terrify you.
the live demo ( ~23:40 ) is cool and insightful of what enaml provides
Like that glitch effect on the text and images, tried something similar with CSS clipping masks before. This canvas implementation is rather slick.
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It's not like the machines are just /learning/ how to do low level stuff. People are doing deliberate research, modifying them, and testing them to make that happen.

Low-level optimizations are the least automated process I can think of.
Thanks! Those hydraulics are unreal.
I had also taken a 10-day course about two years ago. It definitely has had a lasting impact on the way I think about things, in similar ways as mentioned above. I developed a deeper ability to see all of the conveniences of modern life as, well, conveniences. I think more than anything, that has stuck with me.

Also, the meditation itself can be used to calm and focus me during stressful times, but like any exercise, it must be practiced. I haven't probably given it the necessary diligence.

I'd like to emphasize more than anything that the teaching truly does its best to be a force above creed and philosophy. I was very skeptical about it going in. Much of the instruction does not expect you to take anything on blind faith, and all its asking is for you to become a more compassionate individual. There's no proselytizing, or expectation of money in any way. All donations which run the facilities are done in private, and it was maybe mentioned once.

Consider the class as teaching you how to exercise. Nothing comes easy, any gain you have comes from the effort you put in.
Well, there really isn't anything effective that people can do about it without dire consequences. The only person who "did anything" about mass-surveillance is now exiled to Russia, likely for the rest of his life.
Really? everyone in the anglosphere won't recognize Stairway to Heaven? or even Whole Lotta Love?
Zenefits and ZenPayroll are two completely different companies. Don't let the "Zen" part confuse you. :)
Can't explore more than the landing page in Firefox... Wish I could see more.
Actually, that's one of the things that bothered me for a few months now. I can't see where this is going, yet. And to be honest, it scares me quite a bit.
>Your criticisms of a carbon tax seem to apply directly to cap-and-trade if the incorrect amount is chosen. Later governments can change the cap upwards or accelerate it's downward descent too, and may well need to if the science changes or other governments do nothing.

In fairness, this can be a lot more difficult politically than raising or lowering a tax. Compare:

"Oh jeez, if we don't issue enough taxi medallions, we can just issue more later, or remove the requirement altoghether." (And have people who bought them scream bloody murder.)
You will find quite a few beginner programs that you can make tremendous progress on. Some of the most popular are Starting Strength[1], Strong Lifts 5x5[2], and Ice Cream Fitness (ICF)[3]. Anything with progressive overload/linear programming (adding more weight to the bar almost every workout) will work wonders for you.

[1] http://startingstrength.com/

[2] http://stronglifts.com

[3] https://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/jason-blaha-ice-c...
Show HN: Use millions of songs, artists and metadata with Spotify on Meteor.js
Surprisingly, I think your heuristic may have failed this time! Acupunture is pseudoscience and you would normally be right to disregard it, but in this case what Gokhale does for her day job seems entirely irrelevant. This is an article about real science that happens to have been done by a pseudoscientist. It would be a mistake to let her sketchy profession distract you from her legitimate work.

Gokhale might as well have been a paralegal or an engineer. She is an acupuncturist who had recurring back pain that surgery didn't fix, so she went looking for a different answer in a relatively scientific way. She made observations, formed hypotheses, and tested them. It seems they were informal tests and not clinical trials, and one might argue that more research is needed to justify her conclusions, but at least there's standing to have a conversation. Even bad science is can be productively discussed and criticized -- a low bar that pseudoscience fails to cross. The fact that this science was does by a pseudoscientist shouldn't detract from the actual work.

I'm actually surprised the article isn't more about the acupuncturist who is doing real science than about the particular details of the work. That's the most interesting aspect, and it's not even mentioned explicitly as far as I can tell.
>You were presenting a conspiracy theory.

And what's wrong with that? He didn't present it as if he thought it were fact. Why do people have such a strong reaction to "conspiracy theories"? It's not as though these things never turn out to be truthful, but some people seem to reject all things that resemble conspiracy theories without consideration of any kind. Some even seem to take the existence of a conspiracy theory as evidence of the opposite.

As far as the idea in his post goes, the hypothesis presented is reminiscent of the USSR, where historically multiple internal security and intelligence units competed behind the scenes for power and sometimes undermined each other for the same.
Zenefits was easily one of the worst experiences I've ever had for dealing with switching/canceling health insurance.
Turkish Get-up x 5 (each hand) everyday, cured my shoulder pain.
World's first 'feeling' prosthetic leg revealed
> It depends on so many factors like body type and genetics.

It really doesn't. What it depends on is your training protocol, and whether you're able to avoid injury or not.

Mark Rippletoe's Starting Strength program, administered by a cautious enough trainer, will get most anyone of those characteristics, healthy adult male under 40, there. It's what Mark does for a living. It may be uncomfortable eating several thousand calories a day if you're skinny, but you can't blame the program for your failure to do that.

I did starting Strength for about 4 months before I got injured, I was well on my way to 400 by that time. I'm not any kind of SS zealot, but I have to, like anyone else whose actually gone through it, recognize the simple effectiveness of the plan. It does exactly what it says on the tin.
It seems to be a collection of things to help fight against evil. I couldn't navigate the site (firefox), so I just looked at the source. What I see is:

-a reverse proxy
-service to scrape various business records, helping journalists analyzing records
-anti-phishing tool (browser plugin?) that verifies you're not putting your (Google) password into a wrong site.
Honestly this isn't even close to true. It's can seem that way if all you look at is startups that fail fairly early on but the vast majority of startups that grow beyond the early prototype stage end up rewriting the app using solid engineering principles or they fold under the load. That requires people who really know what they are doing. Is it easier to prototype an app now? Certainly. Is it easier to build a scalable stable app now? No, not really at all. It's not breaking new ground anymore but it certainly requires a great deal of experience and hard earned knowledge to get there.
"there are a lot of AIs and some of them are writing code already?"

That's post-Singularity, and can't be meaningfully discussed.

Since the idea of the singularity has gotten conflated with one particular possible outcome ("rapture of the nerds" is merely one of the better possibilities, not the totality of the idea), let me remind you that the core idea of the singularity is that it is when the future is so different than it is now that our ability to predict it has dropped to zero. There's a certain amount of relativity to it... we're post-singularity for a cave man, for instance. AIs that are smart enough to program themselves will result in a world so radically different that there is no meaningful way to plan for what to do from here in 2015.

In the future before then, which for all we know may well encompass the entire lives of everybody here, and assuming no major civilizational hiccups (which may not be "singularities" but are also fairly difficult to predict around), programming will be one of the few fields that probably will continue to grow more or less indefinitely for the forseeable future. More stuff is going to be programmable, and the advantage for a company to have better programmer better than its competitor will likely also grow.

In fact I think there's a decent chance that demand for programmers, and especially good programmers, is likely to rise beyond the base level of people who are even theoretically capable of becoming that level of programmer. I suspect we have not actually seen peak salary in this field for good programmers.

(Interesting tidbit... programming has the tendency to "eat" other fields, as others have noticed. Even if genetics and biology manage to do everything that they've ever promised... the top level of biological designers are going to look an awful lot like programmers, moreso than biologists, precisely because the only way we'll ever have that level of control over biology is to abstract the issues away until we have a programming language on top. Nobody can work at the raw gene level, at scale. Oh, it won't be C or Haskell or Python, but it'll still be a programming language. Probably declarative.)

I'm not just trying to say good things to make us happy; this has been my assessment of the field's prognosis for a while, even since before the bubble pop, and I've seen nothing to make me change it, even the bubble pop and the 2008 crisis. Even if we are in another bubble now and it pops, it would have to epically pop, like, the entire country, person by person, decides this whole "Internet" thing is a total waste of time forever for all things, for me to change my mind.

The fact that I feel this way about this field and that I work in this field is not a coincidence. Per my comment [1], when in 1996 I mentally did what I suggested in that post and "computer programmer" popped out in my second slot for Jobs I'd Like To Do, I was pretty grateful, and, again, have seen nothing to make me change my mind since.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9667145
Who on the right today has been similarly "silenced"?

Here is a very long list: https://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/bullied-and-bad... Congratulations on getting the last and final scalp.

The right in America has a political and media apparatus that far outstrips that of the left in funding.

The left has 99% of the university system including the entire Ivy league, which in total receives hundreds of billions of dollars in funding. The left also has most major media ranging from PBS and the NYTimes to CNN (although some are only partially under left-wing control, and will play cheerleader for war due to their own profit, not out of any right-wing ideology).

The only way you can define the "right" as being stronger is if you find the left-most country out there as being the true way, and anything less than that as being rightist. A better way to look at strength is to look at who has been winning the battles. If you look at the past 50 years, the left has won most of them. If you look at the past 100 years, overall, the nation has moved way left on virtually every single issue. There has been some back-and-forth on individual issues, but overall, the direction is very clear.

Worry not: hate is no danger of being silenced in this country.

I don't actually have a problem with silencing hateful people. But Curtis was never hateful to minorities. He is a good person trying to make an honest critique based on the evidence as he saw it. When you purge people like that, you only make your own movement and group stupider. And that is a problem, because if you cannot investigate the true causes of a social ill without forcing people to self-censor and avoid crime-think, then you can never fix the problems.
Not op but http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/shortcut-to-size.html

It's a good 4-days workout program. The goal is to gain mass but it does so by improving strength and endurance, setting up a strong foundation for future workout.

A day took me around an hour on average.
Wow. That's....really underwhelming.
I agree wholeheartedly with this and I practice it myself - and have my entire life.

However, if your only goal is to remove (or prevent) back pain, there is an even simpler recipe: walking.

Your body is built to walk. Literally. You are a walking machine. Walking will put your body back into order. Posture, circulation, digestion, metabolism (modestly) ... every function of your body was built to respond to the activity you are built to do: walk.

Nothing to learn, no fees to pay, no equipment to buy. Just walk. Bonus: it's mentally stimulating, interesting, and relaxing. Your mind will respond to it just like your spinal column does.
I believe squats and deadlifts helped knacker my back. Just anecdata, but I thought it was worth adding another data point. I'll be reading this article in depth in the hope that it offers a solution because I really don't fancy being mildly disabled for the second half of my life.
"Enhance your experience by turning on sound"

How about no. Seriously. Google of all companies should know better than to rely on autoplaying any sort of audible multimedia, especially as what I'm guessing to be the preferred source of information (guessing since - at the point where people started talking - I simply closed the tab).