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So many great memories. I used to play video games a lot from 7 to 15. First C64 and then Amiga. And then started the PC era and I totally lost interest. I didn't find the games and the platform as enjoyable. What kind of games do kids like to play nowadays? is there the same diversity of games as there used to be?

Recently, I was at a museum in New Zealand (I think it was in Dunedin) and they had a C64 there. I was pleased to see a bunch of young kids enjoying playing it! They didn't seem to think it was outdated.
it is collections api which has always been very well documented, as opposed to some scary "functional features". Nothing too advanced and absolutely no hacks
There is actually a healthy body of professional research literature on this, such as Self-Determination Theory. You don't need to rely too much on the popular presentation in books like ZATAOMM.

Here's a post touching on this topic [0], and the underlying data summary post that it was based on [1].

This is exactly the sort of thing I am referring to. We have useful structures to understand human health at work (such as heteronomous vs. autonomous goals), but since we use bureaucracy as the primary means of structuring work, it shields wealthy elites from ever having to care about these aspects of the human beings who provide them with labor.

I think to crack this issue, we have to devise ways to make capital deployers have no choice but to prioritize these types of human aspects of labor providers. I don't care how we do that: through heavily enforced laws and employee unionization, or through market incentives that make it more worthwhile to care about worker cognitive health than to paper over it, or any other options.

But without intervention, there doesn't seem to be any natural property of market economics that enables human flourishing in this way.

[0] < http://suitdummy.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-hire-underemployme... >

[1] < http://lesswrong.com/lw/bq0/be_happier/#work >
GCHQ wizards kept Harry Potter’s secret
We are witnessing Elon Musk’s slow-motion disruption of the global auto industry
Juicero Wi-Fi connected smart juicer is ridiculous
The headline overstates the story as written in the body - GCHQ called the publisher when they happened across a purported leaked draft online. That doesn't seem out of order; they weren't looking at secured information, and weren't tasked to protect the IP.
Your characterization of travellers seems a bit off to me. Along those dimensions, there'd be at least two or three other categories of travellers. Not sure how to respond to that.

As for monetization: we don't plan to rush this. Once we have our recommendation engine built out and fleshed out, we will build business around it. But to optimize for revenue in the short term would probably be to diminish our chances in the long term. We want to prioritize consumer experience over everything else. And then only once we have that ramped up to a good scale, we could leverage the customer relationship to move down the funnel, closer and closer to the transaction itself.

Having said that, we're exploring multiple paths to monetization. For example, we think that Wanderlust will have an interesting advertising opportunity, with 1) high ARPU, 2) high purchase-intent, and 3) a user still open to suggestions (a bit like Pinterest's opportunity). One other stream we're thinking about is offering hotels an annual/monthly flat-fee to be featured on our platform.
Sounds really interesting, though isn't Google's core mandate to make money? Why would Brillo also exist? I hope to see it public soon!
You may be taking too much, and too late. Shoot for 0.3mg, three hours before 'bedtime'.

You may need to break up the pill yourself.

EDIT: That was supposed to be 0.3mg
I avoided burn out becoming a freelance developer. So it is true that there are still difficulties but it really changed my work-life: always something new to learn, new challenges and the possibility to say "no, i won't do this job": obviously you will lose some job opportunities so you have to balance "No" and lost incomes but it is really better then burn out or hate a job that i truly love.
> This is the textbook used for the introductory CS course (CS61A) at Berkeley. The course material is available at http://cs61a.org (The course uses Python 3, Scheme, and SQL). There are some neat projects (students are working on building a Scheme interpreter now)

I'm a seasoned programmer, who after years in the industry really enjoyed SICP once I discovered it. I found it very nicely put together in the sense that it managed to teach a simple LISP and handle programming in a deeper and more academical/sciency way, and not just the regular "here's how you make a blog with whateverDB".

I'm currently looking into expanding my very basic Python knowledge, and are looking for books/courses on the subject.

Would you say this course here is good for learning Python, or would you rather recommend something else to experienced programmers?
Aren't the flight data and plane registrations public information?

Wouldn't it be dangerous to fly a plane "in-secret"?
Although I love mechanical watches, I caved in and got an Apple Watch just for the purposes of seeing my next meeting time and getting alerts. So far it's been good, although I miss the elegance of the mechanical watch that doesn't need to be charged every night.
vanadium.github.com

It's open source. Not everything Google does is directly for money.

Update: didn't see your brillo comment. First I've heard of it actually. Looks like Brillo is an OS and meant for embedded devices -- Vanadium is Go code that works on iOS, Android, your desktop, your server, your raspberry pi, etc.
>Every Apple product in the last 15 years or so has been two things: desirable and useful.

iPod HiFi? Ping? G4 Cube? Xserve?

Apple has a lot of failures, it would be almost impossible for something to be as successful as the iPhone.
Or you can use Hy (http://hylang.org) and write Python in Lisp syntax.
See also the whitepaper of use-cases 2.0: https://www.ivarjacobson.com/publications/white-papers/use-c...
Are you kidding? No post-ipod Apple device hasn't sold. Even devices with no real market need, like the Apple watch sell in their thousands.
While I have no need of ripping vinyl, just wanted to say that Audacity is one of the best examples of indispensable FOSS (when it comes to working with sound) that I have ever come across in my life.

I remember I was using it well over 7 years ago, and was in awe of how much power it gave me for free, and how capable of a tool it was. Couldn't donate then, but definitely can now. While I know my time/PRs might be more valuable, regular money will have to do.
Thank you for raising the issue
We are at the same stage looking for good sales people

I'd love if the people with more experience will be useful to study

Thanks
Okay that's a much more reasonable thread of thought and I actually do agree that there isn't a viable solution present, especially because current solutions aren't effective at solving the issue. You choice of quotes just made it sound like you were putting all the blame on homeless people who want "handouts" and portraying it as some sort of glamorous lifestyle where they are tended to.
The G4 cube was at least an awesome looking desktop in its day.
you should be vary careful.

never forget that sales people are good at selling things, which includes their own value, whereas traditionally software developers are not.

you may be particularly talented in this area for all i know, but be aware of this.

making reward results based to avoid becoming a victim of their superior ability to convince you they are worth more than they are. commission is a classic approach... its hard to argue with getting paid better if you do good work... but it does incentivise bad work if not done carefully.

... on the other hand, if you get legal advice to draw up paperwork for sharing equity the default position is to make it very difficult to cash in on, so offering equity might be safer... but i'm not sure the recipient will enjoy having to learn the lesson of how difficulty equity can be to turn into cash.

what kind of product is it? do you really need sales? usually its a way to sell more, not sell at all...

all of that said, why not discuss it with them and see what they expect too? that might be an easy way to rule them out or bring them onboard because what they might want might be either completely unrealistic, or undervaluing themselves.
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As a club DJ who selects and plays in a digital format now, I like to leave clicks and pops in when digitizing my "white-labels" or vinyl-exclusive releases (some of the best or most coveted tunes are released on vinyl first in very small runs, months before they are available as downloads). I like to normalize then run the recording through Izotope's Ozone 7 on the "warm and transparent" preset to get it closer in loudness to digital releases I am mixing them with. There is a small community of us who share rips of this type of release from around the world, online, as the best place to pick a lot of this kind of record up is in smaller local genre-specific shops. Black Market soho in London was a Mecca of mine or Rooted Records in Bristol but I live in Cali now and have a hard time keeping up my share ratio but still get a rush when I get a great vinyl rip of a tune earlier than most. It is silly and matters very little to my livelihood but an old tradition in dj'ing that I am glad still survives (having tracks the next Dj doesn't, that is).
I really think Buzzfeed is on to something. It's far more palatable to see an entertainment site foray in to legitimate journalism than to see a respectable news outlet stoop to clickbait headlines.
I don't think it's a matter of immigration, I am living in a country with a relatively recent immigration and a lot of natives are making horrendous mistakes (usual suspects: "there" for "their", "who's" for "whose", "definatly" for "definitely", etc.).

You second point is absolutely correct: English spelling is a nightmare especially if you don't have any alternative phonetic system in which to represent it. My Italian wiring makes "there" and "their" two completely different words (they would be pronounced differently if read phonetically in Italian: "ther-a" and "the-eer") - English speakers don't have the luxury of a discriminating phonetical representation.
By the way, this whole thread is about "grammar pedants" - but in fact we're just talking about spelling. The construction of the sentences is very rarely wrong.
I don't see why it would not work on stationary black holes, but I keep seeing it in reference to rotating black holes. Though, as you say all black holes rotate.
This comes up every time a buzzfeed article shows up on HN, but they have a real journalism arm now. That's what's producing this.
Wow. The lesson here is perhaps to not kill certain doubts with various defense mechanisms except as a short-term strategy for situations that will eventually pass. Instead, facing the doubts and making necessary changes while it's not too late may be better to avoid future regrets.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/13/apple-watch-scooped-up-over...

They still took a ton of market share. Even if it's not a big market.

Frankly, I don't have any desire to own one, at all, and I use a lot of Apple products. If they could put some effort into bringing Siri to OS X that'd be nice.
So are the drivers actual employees or are they "independent contractors" in the uber sense? In the latter it doesn't seem like there could be any discriminatorial issues since contractors don't have rights at all!
Anyone need help with paid mobile app acquisition/retention via Twitter, FB, etc?
Hey all,

TL;DR - I feel like my paid mobile acquisition/retention skills are better put to work consulting for the little guys (private cos) than being employed by the big guys (public cos).

Not trying to solicit, but just wanted to get an honest gauge for the HN community on what level of interest/need there is for mobile app UA/retention, primarily through use of Twitter and FB properties?

I'm a startuper turned expert Twitter ads account manager. My focus is on Twitter, but FB has many parallels w/ Twitter (and more) at scale. I've managed Twitter's top mobile app accounts (gaming and non-gaming) and have always ranked #1 for account management.

Would really appreciate the community's input on the interest level here! I'm excited to see if I might be able to get back to my startup roots with my new paid acquisition superpowers. :)
> i wonder why anyone thinks open problems in number theory are a sound means of crypto

The short answer is that the numbers are so large that with current state of the art means (which I'm sure you know a lot about), factoring a 2048 bit number takes around 1000 years and 4096 bit keys takes about 2^32 times more years. Even if computers get faster every 10 years, you can see that it won't improve much. That's why we use number factoring for crypto; because it takes so long to break.

However, as you've pointed out, since the problems are open, the calculations are meaningless. And of course all this analysis goes out the window with quantum computers. But the unfortunate truth (the "biggest embarrassment of computer science" as Dan Boneh calls it) is that we don't actually have any proof that security exists. All crypto is built on open problems. So better choose open problems that's been open for a long time.
I wouldn't wear an Apple Watch if it was free. I owned one when it first came out and eventually sold it. A few months ago I decided to give it another try and returned it at the end of the 14 day return period.

The product has many issues but it wasn't those that made me dislike it. It's the fact that to get value from it I should wear it all day (to get accurate health tracking for example). But it made me feel like I was ALWAYS connected. Sure I can disable notifications, put it in airplane mode etc. but it just felt like too much technology. Unless it starts doing really incredible things I cannot do with my phone and cannot live without I don't see myself ever buying one again.

It's a cool product and I think they've done a good job, but wearable technology is a step too far for me.
They are just rationalizing their own behaviour.
From paper,
"Assuming a selling price of $2 per 1,000 solved captchas, our token harvesting attack could accrue $104 - $110
daily, per host (i.e., IP address). By leveraging proxy services and running multiple attacks in parallel, this amount could be significantly higher for a single machine."
My dad was over there, and I've been told that he appears a couple of times in the background of the 'Fires of Kuwait' documentary, although I never could pick him out.

He took this photo, and others that are lost in storage somewhere: http://i.imgur.com/rKlSCcw.jpg

I don't have negatives, or any copies of other pictures, and I've never gotten around to finding a place to do large-format scanning to digitize it properly.
I want a lightweight watch that can open my door at home and work, unlock my car, pay for my groceries, and carry the digital equivalent of membership cards.

If Apple could that, I'd buy one and empty out my overstuffed pockets. But at the moment, I don't see any reason to buy one. Fitness tracking and the grocery list app mentioned in the article sound nice but not nice enough to buy another gadget.

Edit: Someone please, please find a way to make a watch that can replace everything in my pockets. You'll be my hero.
Analysts are overlooking how much AR and VR are about to change our lives
For Russian IP addresses default location is Moscow Kremlin. Why not make it The White House for the USA?
This is the same guy who later said, " I wish I went the management route".
Planes can be registered to companies and the companies contracted by the agency/agencies. Those can be dry leases (without crew), allowing the agency to have operational control without ownership of the plane/registration.

Of course, all of this supposes that it's important enough to be secret. It actually helps secrecy to fly some of these missions openly, meaning it's harder to find the ones that are clandestine.
Seriously, this is rather impressive for BuzzeFeed
“F*ck you” vs. “Thank you”
Why are you still at the same place you've been for 5 years if you are underpaid?

I don't mean that as a dig of any kind, just trying to get an idea of what your motivations are. Maybe you really love it there aside from feeling underpaid, or maybe you don't feel like you have the adequate skills to make a move?
Exactly. But this is coming off a series of rent increases I've encountered, including one for $500 more per month (needless to say I found different housing).
I have never been to Philadelphia, so I have to wonder, is it the case that people are moving out of city into the suburbs to raise kids strictly because of the school system, or is it simply that Philadelphia isn't really all that safe and nice for the kids. I grew up in Kiev, and with all of it's flaws, I never felt unsafe playing in the streets, and my parents (extremely over protective) never felt uncomfortable sending me out to play on the streets for hours at a time completely unsupervised, even as early as age 7. We lived in what would be considered the second ring of Kiev. Not the very center, but just outside the center. I would compare it to midtown areas like Lake View in Chicago. Having lived in a few places around US, I would only be comfortable sending out my kids (future) out to play like that in areas outside the city. Well, for one, having lived in places like Chicago, there really isn't that many places in the city to really send your kids to play in the first place. There are parks, but they are spread out enough where you have to walk for blocks to get to them, unless you are lucky enough to live next to one.

Again, never been to Philadelphia, so I am picturing it to be similar to Chicago. And if that's the case, perhaps it makes a bit of sense to move out when you are ready to raise your kids. Is it so wrong to start out in the city, have your fun, and move out to the suburbs in your middle years. Of course, I do agree that the problem is the School systems being paid for by the property taxes instead of by the state. The state should collect property taxes uniformly and then combine it with other taxes and distribute it to schools based on child population in each school district.

I am also not a really huge fan of the Suburbs in general to be honest. I like the idea of small towns rather then suburbs. The difference is, a small town would, and should, have it's own economic engine, local services, and everything else to cater to your life. That way you can actually live and work in the same place, and raise your kids. The problem is consolidation of industry. So many companies, especially tech companies, concentrate around one location, forcing high density living to be the ONLY answer. What about medium density living? What about spreading the employment centers a little more evenly, allowing for lower density, but without the need necessarily to always drive to work, and if you have to drive for some (medical perhaps) reasons, it could be 5 min commute at most. That would be the type of society I would strive to build, but I am not in in the business of building societies, and I am guessing plenty of people would disagree with me.
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Why does that gadget need to be a watch?
Police investigations are generally secret for obvious reasons.
Cowspiracy takes a somewhat extreme view on this, but the overall message is correct. IPCC numbers estimate the emissions from agriculture at 24%, though that may not count full life cycle costs or the effects of damaging ecosystem carbon sinks. It's scientific consensus that agriculture, and especially ruminant animal agriculture is one of the largest contributors to climate change. https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html

This proportion is also likely to go up significantly in the next 30 years. If you want to get a more visceral sense of that, try changing the "Diet" settings in this climate change mitigation model http://tool.globalcalculator.org/ . For more of an eye opener, change the "examples pathways" to IEA 6DS (current trends) and then just manipulate the "Type of meat" parameter. Simply by replacing 64% of expected ruminant consumption (beef, lamb etc.) with other meats (chicken, pork, etc.), we can decrease total worldwide emissions by 43%.
I don't need ANY of the watches I own, including my:

- Concord Mariner
- M&Co. "10-5-1"
- Apple Watch

It is not news to me that a watch is a luxury item. It is jewelry. Now that being said, it also does some lightweight fitness stuff for me. It provides unobtrusive notifications. I have made and taken a very small number of calls with it. It is more convenient to start and stop Strava with my Apple Watch than with my phone, and that saves me buying a dedicated bike computer.

All together, I say it is jewelry that happens to provide some handy-dandy reasons for rationalizing my purchase of jewelry. What is the problem here?

Now if Apple isn't selling a metric fuck-ton of watches, is that a failure? No. It is only a failure if Apple is not selling watches, but Samsung is selling watches, and Google releases a Nexus watch, and so on.

If "Smart Watches" become huge and Apple Watch is squeezed out, Apple could one day discover people buy a watch, then purchase a phone, tablet, and laptop that are compatible with the watch, instead of purchasing a watch that is compatible with their iPhone, iPad, and Macbook.

Thus, Apple may say they want to sell a bajillion watches, but what they really need to do is sell enough watches and have enough credibility that if smart watches disrupt smart phones, Apple already has a seat at the table.
The investigative side of BuzzFeed isn't given the credit it deserves, particularly from the HN crowd. When most major news organizations have reduced or flat out dissolved their investigative units BuzzFeed has been spending more and more money to produce high quality investigative pieces. It's been a while since they aren't just a "funny" listicles site.
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Possible counterexample: iPod Hi-Fi.

Really a rather inexplicable product. There were already numerous iPod docks on the market when it launched, and was neither cheaper, prettier, nor more functional than its competitors.

I don't think Apple released any exact sales numbers, but it's safe to assume it was a flop. The iPod Hi-Fi was quietly discontinued about a year and a half after its launch, and there are less than a dozen currently being sold on eBay.
Fully agree. I don't even see the use cases. For most things that are mentioned in the comments (mostly something like connecting proprietary USB devices to the browser) a native application that proxies the related data to browsers seems like a much better approach. For well understood device classes that would be used by a bigger number of websites it makes far more sense to standardize high level APIs which covers exactly these devices (like it happened for webcam and other stuff).

The WebUSB approach also limits each device to be connected and controlled by exactly one browser frame which makes it not very desirable for sensor and other input applications.