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You really just described me. I've to do such a show-case project to complete my MSc Thesis for a minimum pay. And make all the proofs, so that the C-Suite guys can use during their presentations to sell what I made for a lots of money. (Even unaware if they'll charge their customers in the hundred thausands or millions range).

However, I'm really glad to find out about SnappyData.io, that's gonna save me a lot of time waiting. It would truly be my perfect dream, if they allowed running any programming language inside an environment like Jupyter.org or BeakerNotebook.com, but with Pandoc.org Markdown. So that I can essentially work fulltime programming, while I can also document it and also be able to export my documentation to a good looking latex thesis.

Summing up the perspectives on AI and Automation in 13 years in just 2:39:18 of qualitatively worthwile (my opinion) mealpieces of TED-Talks in the playlist below. If you find an equaly rich source of views and shapes on the same topic please comment below, I'd love to read and learn more about it.

Getting back to business: I am to blame, because I'll automate away at least 40 Jobs until June 2017 in just one site (at the begining) of a large multinational company using Deep-Leearning. Kind of feel bad, but I'm not the evil and I certainly don't destroy jobs. Whoever is using the word destroy in topics related to AI is strongly trying to polarize. I really enjoy critical thinking, arguments that make you think, but most often these kinds of discussions sadly end in fear-mongering or finger-pointing akin low quality results. That's with the people who have the strongest opinion about these topics, those are also usually the only ones who bring up these topics, so that's a dilema.

How do you argue against and with people who are mad about you, beceause they think you destroy jobs?

I know it's not universally true, but try to replace the word destroy with augment: Economists Say Newest AI Technology Augments More Jobs Than It Creates (2014)

And the whole thing becomes a new meaning. Now take a look back at how the common consensus about AI and Automation and the accompanied fears have changed and formed over the years using following TED playlist, I've compiled for your pleasure.

• David Autor: Will automation take away all our jobs? [1]

TEDxCambridge · 18:37 · Filmed Sep 2016

• Olivier Scalabre: The next manufacturing revolution is here [2]

TED@BCG Paris · 12:26 · Filmed May 2016

• Anthony Goldbloom: The jobs we'll lose to machines — and the ones we won't [3]

TED2016 · 4:36 · Filmed Feb 2016

• Jeremy Howard: The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn [4]

TEDxBrussels · 19:45 · Filmed Dec 2014

• Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like? [5]

TED2013 · 14:15 · Filmed Feb 2013

• Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines [6]

TED2013 · 11:56 · Filmed Feb 2013

• Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market [7]

TEDSalon London Fall 2012 · 12:20 · Filmed Nov 2012

• Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs? [8]

TEDxBoston 2012 · 14:07 · Filmed Jun 2012

• Mick Mountz: What happens inside those massive warehouses? [9]

TEDxBoston 2011 · 12:06 · Filmed Jun 2011

• Tim Jackson: An economic reality check [10]

TEDGlobal 2010 · 20:23 · Filmed Jul 2010

• Rodney Brooks: Robots will invade our lives [11]

TED2003 · 18:47 · Filmed Feb 2003

— [1] https://www.ted.com/talks/david_autor_why_are_there_still_so...

— [2] http://www.ted.com/talks/olivier_scalabre_the_next_manufactu...

— [3] https://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_goldbloom_the_jobs_we_ll_l...

— [4] https://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_howard_the_wonderful_and_te...

— [5] https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_what_will_future_job...

— [6] https://www.ted.com/talks/erik_brynjolfsson_the_key_to_growt...

— [7] https://www.ted.com/talks/wingham_rowan_a_new_kind_of_job_ma...

— [8] https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_ou...

— [9] https://www.ted.com/talks/mick_mountz_the_hidden_world_of_bo...

— [10] http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_jackson_s_economic_reality_chec...

— [11] https://www.ted.com/talks/rodney_brooks_on_robots

My uncle is building prototypes for a large company that produces parts for most german cars (I can't disclose where or at which company, sorry). And he worked there half his life, so he knows a thing or two. I asked him the same question and he laughed at me, saying that it's a dumb question. I was flabbergasted at his answer. He continued, by saying how it's against the interest of any car manufacturer to undermine their own business with such "flsah-sale" like hot product. It would create "unwanted dynamics" (I think he meant competition, but I'm not sure). Also he asked why would you buy a cheap supercar? I said, because it looks good and brings me from a to b. He then asked, what happens if everbody drives the same cheap supercar? I said it's not bugging me, but it would bug others probably. He alluded that it may be different now, but we won't do that. All of my friends at the management level know about this and we don't focus on this problem anymore.

I've summed up (hopefully correctly) some of the most compelling arguments here and tried to bring counter arguments. Which I'll elaborate below the list.

• Tolerances can be solved by optimization (CAD + Solver / +EA-Algorithm / +ML) @giarc

• Goal Oriented Design and Years of Experience don't hinder a great looking body and frame @heavymark @markbnj

• Outer body and frame have no such limiting influence on the interior design @dagw

• 3rd party party reliance is a thing, but you could overcome most of these price drags by using alternatives, 3d printing or self-fabrication @byoung2 anyway that's a good argument @DeBraid I agree, but altough it answers the question it doesn't feel satifying for our curiousity

• Yes, the industry's car design tools don't help with parameter complexity @garyfirestorm you are right there, sir. We need better integrated tooling and part optimizers/solvers.

• Status and Image is important, thus such gravitas have some, but it's not the deal-breaking argument @tyingq You can do it like Asus and create Apple'esque hardware at the fraction of a cost and thrive due to the price gap.

• "Because it's dishonest. You also get all the discomfort and impracticality of a supercar with none of the benefits. You just project some status until people discover what car you're actually driving." @gaze I don't understand what you mean here to be honest, can you elaborate?

Arguing with tolerances just means that the design process isn't automated or not integrated into the production process properly. Otherwisee there would be a user friendly solver and optimization tool for CAD that uses Evolutionary-Algorithms, a Contraint-Solver and/or Machine-Learning.

Simply put you can use an existing battle tested car and just change the body with a supercar alike one. This usually means also you have better and not worse aerodynamics (given that you don't blindly ignore aerodynamics just for a better looks).

And who (in his right mind) drives 300Km/h at all on American Streets? That's just unneccsary and arriving 1-5min earlier is no compelling reason for driving at such risky speeds. It's not even allowed from what I know, except in Germany (where I live), but even here we don't usually go significantly over 220Km/h for short periods of time. Thus a big enging and huge horsepower isn't even the selling point of a SuperCar per se, but it's looks and exclusivity.

Tl;Dr Answer: One conclusion I derive is that the Car Design Process and Car Production Process, altough almost fully automated, are really not well integrated and appear to lack essential, albeit usually complex to use tools like Machine-Learning/EAs and Contraint-Solvers. The Industry needs a change urgently in this area, but it's already been explored from what I know :)

No idea about credibility of the sources used, but I stumbled over this: http://revolution-news.com/us-government-funds-favorite-nsa-...

edit: atm. 111 points and I love that. Wish pg could fix my karma, I really like even numbers and I feel that the karma crave is addictive..

btw. I agree with you. It's clever and the tools intelligence services have created for these purposes are fascinating

I am sorry, sir. What is DRM? I only have Digital Rights Management flashing in into my memory, but I have no idea what you could mean with DRM. Apparently I've been able to ignore and live behind the moon, not knowing what DRM is, while using Linux mainly since 2003-2004.

I'm sad that there is no alternative to X that works with `legacy` graphic cards like mine (Radeon HD 4500). But to be honest I'm personally just concerned due to already mentioned security problems with Xorg.

Cheers for the efforts, but that's a poor DSL or an atempt to create an Aspect-oriented version of Hack. You've gorgeous tools at facebook like for example 'pfff' [0] to play with ASTs, these could be used to build wonderful things given enough time. I suppose the ultimative goal is to allow business people to design workflows and let the tool generate the required code automatically. (I guess that's what Flow Based Programming is trying to achieve.) Kinda possibly with high-level specifications defined in languages better suited to the task like Racket, Rebol/Red, Xtend/Scala etc.

There is an interesting presentation by ThoughtWorks – Neil Ford: Building DSLs in Static and Dynamic Languages [1]

However I thought you might find this the EPFL / ETH Summer School on DSL Design and Implementation very useful. They not only come with presentations, but also code in Scala, Racket, Haskell et. al. I am currently working in a huge project with about >30 people working on building an MDD (Model Driven Development) platform for visually/declaratively writing things for the systems we use internally. These will be able to create models out of code and even fix API incompatibilities automatically. [2]

Excuse the Unicode, I got bored

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[0] https://github.com/facebook/pfff

[1] http://www.intertech.com/resource/usergroup/Neal_Ford-Buildi...

[2] http://vjovanov.github.io/dsldi-summer-school/program.html

Is this an A/B test?

See for yourself: https://hulbee.com/imprint | https://swisscows.ch/imprint

These sites `appear` to be exactly the same, I wonder what the difference is other than the design, branding and domain.

I've been using https://swisscows.ch for almost 6 months now. and was sharing it with my friends and family. Even made it the default on a lot of devices from friends and family. No negative feedback so far! I also shared it with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628904

So far there are only one two things that make me go back to google.com in rare occassions. On google "<search-term>" strictly gives me results with that term, that's appears not working similarly on hulbee/swisscows. If only I could sort search results by date and `strip results older than x` I would have no more reason to "google". What I really like about swisscows is the image and music search.

One questions bugs me: How does it work? I mean the results have the same and sometimes even higher quality than google. BIG +: No self-/government-/geo-censored results like on google/bing, I can find so called "illegal URLs" (links that don't appear on the big sites like DMCAed links and results for certain stopwords)

#bug: There is a bug on Firefox on Android in the image search. Clicking results opens a modal window with the resulting image below the viewable region. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/KClGfUO.png

I wish I knew why Apple's top quality engineers didn't embed or bundled a USB-C to 60GHz WiGIG Dockinstation. Having only a single USB-C port is absolutely cool, if you have a wireless 7GBps dockingstation.

Is there some reason why Apple doesn't promote WiGIG?

Here's an overview over the technology:

http://ultrabooknews.com/tag/wigig/

http://www.slashgear.com/intel-wigig-docking-station-in-2015...

http://www.cnet.com/news/60ghz-tech-promises-wireless-dockin...

Personally I wish they used Ultrabroadband-Radio (>500MHz Bandwith). There are numerous reasons fellow RF enthusiasts will recognize in UWB radio. But I am happy with whatever technology allows me to have a cable-free desktop 😌 This is the reason I loved the original Ubuntu Phone (with it's powerful specs).

I am also curious if ie. facebook or google ads filter out bots, or if they cash you for those artificial clicks. It would be 'nasty' if they didn't filter this.

I've looked through the source of KeePassX and it doesn't look complicated, but it requires a crypto expert to say something valuable about it's crypto. Would someone qualified mind sparing some time? I found a port of KeePassX 2 from gcrypt to openSSL ›› https://github.com/WhiteDawn/keepassbb10

Personally I didn't like KeePass 2, so I moved back to KeePassX. You can use ›› https://github.com/dvorka/keepass2-to-keepassx

Here's an awesome QML UI for KeePassX made for Jolla OS, I'm not sure how much work is required to get that to work on Android though. https://openrepos.net/content/jobe/ownkeepass

There is a ›› Python module to read KeePass 1.x/KeePassX (v3) and KeePass 2.x (v4) files – https://github.com/phpwutz/libkeepass

EDIT: TRESOR is an algorithm that runs AES Encryption Securely Outside RAM ›› https://www1.cs.fau.de/tresor ›› https://github.com/ischlecken/TresorLibrary

What about KeePassX? That's what I've been using for a long time now. It's not written in C#, but C++

EDIT: source: https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx

Semantically a "Card" looks actually like a <Legend>

I'm currently working a lot with Matlab and seeing a beauty like Escher for Julia is all I could wish for. Great work!!

It reminds me a little about Elm, I'm not sure what's missing in Escher over Elm's features, but that's another story.

One of the truly powerful services, I will really miss. Mrs. Meyer squeezes out things at Y! like a lemon.

EDIT: added OSS & Commercial alternatives

free or commercial:

    [1] http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/
    [2] http://www.feedsapi.com/ 
    [3] https://theenginuity.com/search/
    [4] https://zapier.com/
    [5] http://www.elastic.io/
    [6] https://ifttt.com/

open source:

    [1] https://github.com/olviko/RssPercolator
    [2] https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick/
    [3] https://github.com/cantino/huginn
    [4] https://github.com/fullscale/pypes
    [5] https://github.com/jparkrr/ISyTT
    [6] https://github.com/atask/shifttt
    [7] https://github.com/KLVN/F7_T7_RSSFeed

THAT Sir, is truly awesome!!

Mind posting this to HN?

You have my upvote guaranteed.

The WYSIWYG UI is a good feature, although it's not useful for me it is certainly useful for students from other fields who've been riding Word for way too long. You should advertise more to universities and maybe target the non-IT people much more. :)

I believe a more practical feature is adding roles! I mean Editor,Co-Editor, Publisher, Copywriter, Professor, Examiner, Teacher etc. all of these have different jobs, although very similar they do different things. If you give these poor guys a UI or Workflow, that'd be great I think.

Well, if you need a killer argument to sell your product, you'd have to be able to say:

"You write alone or together, we proofread, suggest media, translate, publish, print or schedule submissions for just n$/mo."

Ok, you'd have to integrate external API from ie. commercial online newspapers, qualitative semantically fitting graphics, smart autocompletions with professional "sentence snippets" and so on. Most important thing is to sell it to universities though imho.

Thank you very much!

How can i learn Ada as a student, when the compiler and IDE tooling is still so expensive? I want to learn it. Seems impossible without joining the army or similar 😠

I really like using https://swisscows.ch their search results are quite good and they respect my privacy.

EDIT: https://swisscows.ch/agreement

Curious, I haven't heard about Overleaf so what's an advantage over Sharelatex (OSS)?

I think it would be worth sharing that on a blog post submitted to HN. Sounds like a lot of work, maybe there are ways to automate that with a shell script or a Haskell program. 400KB is absolutely okay I think.

I start to like Haskell and would enjoy learning to use it for the Web, but look at the size of it:

http://i.imgur.com/kPHl4L7.png

7834KB is way too large for just that, I'm afraid.

I've 120Mbit/s, that's why it still loads fast, but I remember how slow, but fascinating surfing with 56K modem was.

I think given my background I'm a better match for AI, than for mass fabrication. That's what I'd really enjoy working on.

I've previous EE experience, but I study CS. I'm open for project suggestions and would love to do research in self-assembly for mass fabrication and study/develop AI Models.

Initially I was excited, because by coincidence I have to work on the exact same problem. Enhancing the precision, to enable gesture recognition without having to carry a device. My plan was to use WiFi and rebuild this project: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/wi-fi-signals-enab...

We have built an Indoor-Navigation-System with a POI-Editor for OSM and Route-Planning algorithms and more.

The article is disappointing, because it doesn't tell much more than you already know by reading the title. Here's the original article: https://wncg.org/research/briefs/centimeter-accurate-low-pow...

Then there is also an even greater TED Talk by Todd Humphrey: http://www.ted.com/talks/todd_humphreys_how_to_fool_a_gps

You can find more about their plans for the VR-Application here: http://radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu/videos/280-precise-augmente...

I'm very excited about this! Is there any possibility for me to work in a company working on similar stuff? That would make a dream come true for me! I live in Germany and would love to write my masters thesis a related topic!

This is so amazing! Btw. I have found an HP Invent sign in my town, but the security guard didn't answer any questions about it. The only thing he said was that I won't find any address or telephone number for it. That made me curious, because HP is working on a memristor based Computer, but I doubt that they produce it in Germany.

This is cool: http://m.nsa.gov/research/_files/tech_transfers/nsa_technolo...

Btw. the mobile and desktop version of the NSA's webdesign could take a facelift.

I tried replacing == with === and it gave me bool(false) in all cases.

Here's the code: http://3v4l.org/15hr7

related: http://doc.urbit.org/

That's completely new to me, but it looks nice. Thank you. I only knew about stylus, http://learnboost.github.io/stylus/ but that's just a preprocessor.