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I kinda think this too. One thing that's particularly hard is driving through snow on a mountain. Even going through Tennessee is a challenge. I don't automation is there yet, and probably won't be for a while. Clean roads, where we know what's going on seem to be the way of automation right now.

If you don't train your humans to drive in bad conditions and good, they won't help here either.
It's not a myth, it's a fact. What you are talking about is the Productivity Paradox [1]. But it doesn't change the fact that we are standing on the edge of the AI cliff. You can not compare computer advancements till now, which concentrated mainly on making computers faster, with new efforts to make the same computers smarter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
I flew on one from Oakland to Stockholm (return) last week. It worked great. The windows are kind amazing - they tint themselves according to conditions. The big disadvantage on the way over northern Greenland was that I couldn't see properly out the window, when there were beautiful clear skies. I always love seeing the vast open expanses and glacial valleys on Greenland.
actually, they're not that iconic:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/featur...
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Yeah.

The problem with travel hacking (it's not really economically feasible to fly business between Europe and US for most of us) is that you get so used to it that every single transatlantic work trip becomes a big complicated optimization game. Flying economy simple stops being an option.

This time the other day I lucked out via what seemed to be a Star Alliance-wide mistake fare between Scandinavia and Seattle and a few more US cities ($700 for r/t business class!). That plus a cheap connecting flight to the Bay area fixed it for this time.
> I only experienced jet lag on holidays but I love it

I feel the same on slight sleep deprivation: if you usually get a good night's sleep and one day wake up after 3/4 hours, after the groggy phase you'd feel in a positive, relaxed mood, probably not top notch mentally but it's very similar to having drunk a small amount of alcohol. I really enjoy it.

It doesn't work if you are already sleep deprived.
I'm curious: what's the idea behind waking up at 2:00 AM? Are you the sort of person who can't easily sleep more than 8 hours?
Web apps, and malware injected into adverts. Oh joy.
> why do these things happen?

> Gizmodo

Friends don't let friends read Gawker.
Capitalism does not trend toward equality. If you were expecting that, you were wrong.

Capitalism trends towards greatest total utility (in the economics sense).

Capitalism would prefer 10 people with $50 and one person with $1000 over 11 people with $10.

We can't be surprised when that happens.
Even if you want to remotely attach a USB device, doing it through the browser is a severely silly way to do it.
Why not attach USB devices over IRC? Or SAMBA? Just because it is possible, doesn't mean that it's reasonable or good.
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I propose that this is a capital-H Hard Problem, and that new technology is needed to address it. I further propose that this technology exists, but is not yet mainstream. The fact that monitors can be calibrated to great accuracy is proof that the tech exists.

There is an opportunity here, but to understand this space, you have to dive into it. There are some excellent books on the subject of colorimetery, but a quick bootstrapped understanding might look like:

1. Your eyes are designed to fool you.

2. How your eyes fool you is determined entirely by the photons that enter it.

3. Each of these photons has a wavelength. The more of them at a given wavelength, the more your perception shifts.

4. What you perceive as color is a combination of wavelengths. But -- critically -- these combinations affect each other. It is not true to say that the more photons that arrive at a given wavelength, the more intensely you perceive that wavelength. It causes a shift in your perception, but this shift is not necessarily a simple increase in brightness.

These are first principles, and it's a very brief sketch of the problem. But everything else follows from this. What ambient light sensors currently do, how APIs are designed, etc is all secondary. The problem is both as simple and as difficult as outlined above.

Now, you can say that this isn't worth tackling, or that the current systems are good enough, and so on. But you'd be missing out on quite an experience. Seeing the type of results you can get from a perfectly calibrated environment is really mindblowing. And the interesting part is, it's impossible for me to describe these results in text, or by showing you a photo, or a video, for the same reason you can't describe an Oculus experience. You have to be there.

Personally, I find colorimetry one of the most intellectually fun and gratifying areas of science.
It is not always defined. It's defined to take an address to a pointer with an offset within the object's space plus one. Subtracting two pointers to distinct objects is undefined. This is to allow for segmented memory architectures. It's also to allow implementation of garbage collectors by the compiler
> In a perfect game system you'd probably make labor income taxes less than capital gains on investment

Indeed you would [1]. According to some legal scholars, wages earned from labor were/are not supposed to be taxed at all in America. The tax code was designed to tax investment gains only. Just imagine if that were upheld

> The fact is lower/middle class labor income workers put more directly back into the economy than the wealthy "job creators"

By doing what? Consuming consumables marketed to them by Corporations? The same Corporations that would just as soon replace most of their menial labor with robots.

Also, I'd curb your exuberance towards believing the lower/middle class "puts more back into the economy", because to the extent the lower/middle class is increasingly replaced by robots or cheap foreign labor, if this is your true belief then we should institute a universal income. Because that's going to "put more back into the economy".

> Demand comes from people that spend

But for example, planned obsolescence encourages spending. But is planned obsolescence really a tangible benefit for the "people that spend"?

Also, imagine if "cash" was of fixed supply (Bitcoin) rather than inflationary. In which case, you could make paper gains over time by not spending it or investing it. Wouldn't this provide more people with financial security given the risks and complexity of investing money in general?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_statutory_argume...
The kinetic energy of the flywheel keeps things moving when burning gases aren't moving the pistons. The evidence of this is demonstrated on the two flavors of the motorcycle I own. One version (BMW R1200GS Adventure) has a heavier flywheel than the other (non-Adventure). I've ridden both. With the light flywheel it's easier to kill it pulling from a dead stop because there isn't as much mass to overcome the lack of subtlety in my clutch hand. On the Adventure version that I own, sloppy clutch work that often comes with trying to get a 600 lb. "dirt bike" out of a mud hole is ignored by the more massive flywheel. Even when the cylinders are barely able to fire because I'm one sniff of clutch away from killing the engine, the bigger flywheel will keep things turning for a wee bit longer before I kill it and fall over in the mud.

As for the answers parallel to mine that say it's the mass of the other pistons, the mass of a piston is trivial in comparison to that of the flywheel. Even lawn mowers mentioned in one example have flywheels (at least the ones I owned always did). The mass of a tiny lawn mower piston is going to have a hard time against the relatively large mass of a lawn mower blade with no flywheel.

To speak to your two points: 1. My motorcycle's pistons lie on their sides, gravity has no practical effect.

2. Power stroke movement is caused by the expansion of burning gases, period. All other factors, such as flywheel inertia, contribute relatively minimally.
My point is that there are some problems that there's no ergonomics, no lifestyle changes, no amounts of exercises or stretches, and so on, that are effective for.

I'm not saying these problems are fundamentally impossible to address, but there are currently problems that our present level of understanding is not very good at dealing with.

As a side note, I believe that ergonomics is currently a pseudo science that is only effective if you've got a common sort of problem. All the ergonomics advice I've ever been given for my problems has been terrible.
ok, i think i understand your sentiment a little better now

but i'll say, i remember reading about the finnish boxes years ago but that is where it ended for me, i read the article and moved on

these article described entrepreneurs learned about the boxes and made an effort, be it for profit, to do something similar for others

in the absence of anything else i still would commend a for profit effort

i think any derision should be lauded against the political bodies in the places where the for profits are able to effect change due to a lack social legislation
Hey, folks, go start a business before voicing opinion about these matters. It's just amazing how there's this recurring theme on HN of folks without a clue about business thinking they actually know something.

Better yet, this is HN. Go formulate a startup and apply to YC, let's see how far you get and what you learn about what it takes to provide excellent innovative products that people want to buy. You'll also learn the gut-wrenching realities of being an entrepreneur.

And then, a few years later, you'll find yourself having a surreal conversation with some know-it-all who never risked anything, never tried to innovate, never tried to launch or run a business, who is absolutely certain you are a greedy pig, your company is evil and the customer service person should be just as wealthy as you are.

You don't understand just how dumb some of these comments sound from the vantage point of someone who achieved success through continued struggle and effort spanning years and at great personal and financial cost.

There's nothing wrong with Capitalism. What's wrong is the victim culture we seem to be developing --which leads exactly nowhere at both a personal and national level.

I say this in the nicest possible way. Get a clue. Please.
I was so disappointed by those electronically dimmable windows in the 787.

When it's automatically controlled by the central system/crew it's fine, but when you want to manipulate them yourself the ~30 second delay from button press to actual change is quite annoying, and you wish for the old style mechanical sliders instead.
Not the above poster but I find you just tend to wake up about 2am because your body thinks it's 10am and time to get up.
If it's guaranteed to slow consumtion, why not? "Taxes, never" is short sighted.
With these kinds of sports, I have to wonder how much cumulative brain damage (CTE) contributed to his death.
An interesting point that people aren't talking about is food waste.

It's estimated that wasted food contributes 13-17% to aggregate global warming.

Who will write an app to help people waste less food and monetize by reduce costs and savings for users and businesses?

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.5b05088
This sounds like "Just pay three thousand dollars per flight and problem solved!"

Plus, business class only helps you avoid jet lag on certain itineraries. Sometimes due to timing, sometimes due to crappy business class on some shorter flights or less luxurious airlines.
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I think you're putting the elite class on quite a pedestal. Most of them aren't like you: they didn't get to where they are via hard work. Rather, they stole, cheated, played politics and took credit for other people's accomplishments. Yet others were born into wealthy families and had everything - education, jobs, connections, promotions - handed to them on a silver platter. In fact there's quite a few who haven't worked an ounce in their whole lives (unless you think playing golf with daddy's friends counts as work).
APIs to access HSMs exist already, though – PKCS11 and friends. And HSMs are designed to deal with accesses questionable sources, so if you wanted to improve their accessibility with a HSM-specific standard, it'd be not much of a headache.

All other bazillion USB devices ever made are not designed to deal with security, and exposing them over the internet will blow up spectacularly.
It's only mildly awkward to go to bed at 6pm, and then when you fly back east, you don't have much jetlag in that direction either. 2am in China is 11am in SF.

(I'm assuming the OP is flying from the US, based on the destination choices.)

EDIT: removed bad NYC math.
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You don't need much and a lot of the OTC pills are way too much and cause that odd sleep. Iirc Some pills are 50mg of the stuff and you only need ~1mg to get useful effects. Any more and you risk bad dreams and other weird effects.
People don't want fluidity. A few moths of unemployment every few years wrecks most people's long term savings.

Now if you have no kids or major bills and a high paying job then sure it can feel like a vacation. But there is a reason unemployment is often considered one of the most stressful periods in someone's life.
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> Syringomyelia often doesn't cause any pain and isn't progressive. Just because it shows up on the MRI doesn't mean it is the reason for the pain,

True however my neurologist disagrees and since she's a consultant with decades of experience I'll go with her view ;)
sorry in advance for posting a contrary opinion, but this runs contrary to "both sides" of what I hear in the debate and I feel like it's worth sharing, I can't be the only one...:

if you want to make a "warning" sign, like "Caution: electrical hazard", my claim is that it will get noticed MORE and serve as a better warning if you display it in Comic Sans. Reason, it looks like an actual person went to the trouble to warn you, as opposed to some overly cautious liability dodging corporate (or OSHA or insurance company) warning.

And I'm not saying it's perfect or doesn't have a lot of other fails, but it's my goto font for signage because it's ubiquitous and it gets the message across. I'm mystified by people who only wish to be warned in ... in what, serif or sans, I don't even know?
I think that you fail to understand the reasons behind the wealth increase. Wealth increase does not usually happen by itself. It happens mostly because people do something differently. This change is very often gradual inside the society.

Correlation between wealth increase and fertility rate in a single country is a very good indicator of this.

The main question posed in my original post is actually different.
It doesn't need those comments; you do.
I carry a 1911, which is a design more than a century old.

John Moses Browning was the Leonardo da Vinci of gun design. In addition to the M1911, several of his other designs are still in production, and indeed, in active duty use by various militaries.
Look at WebRTC for an example. Despite having zero convincing scenarios where silent P2P data channels that discard your explicit networking (proxy) settings, that's turned on in all browsers.

Fun conversation: I asked someone involved with WebRTC for a real, non-video example, and they honestly suggested "maybe your browser wants to talk to your fridge and would benefit from data channel encryption". So far out of touch with reality.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least if, for instance, this ends up allowing enumeration by default or something else.
I don't think you have to reach for "economics won't exist" to see the serious problem that schemes like Basic Income would hope to address.

> our whole economy is based around the idea that each person specializes in one thing.

As technology advances, the amount of preparation any of us needs to specialize in something useful/valuable skyrockets.

Rather amazingly, 1% of the population of the US are truck drivers or work directly for trucking companies. With families, we're talking about closer to 2 or 3% of the population of one of the most advanced nations on the planet.

What's the skills and preparation gulf between a truck driver and the person who obsoleted him? Same goes for manufacturing (which is thriving in the United States, but with lights-out machining, where one person babies and maintains a pod of CNC machines) and many other fields.

We need less and less wet robots, and retraining them is close to impossible already -- it may eventually be completely impossible due to specialization.
Why wouldn't you try to make this as easy to parse as possible, just as prepend a size to the message at least, and possible to other fields internally too. Make the size a fixed width and it makes reading easier.

I deal with crappy protocols on a daily basis in the form of FIX and other exchanges. I hope to never have to deal with this one.
I agree about the nice qualities of scheme, but by analogy, would it be a good idea to only drink good single malt whisky in Intro to Drinking?
>>and instead a functional, unidirectional design pattern called Flux is a better fit.

And how many different frameworks are in common use to implement that pattern? :)

Edit: Also notable the the 'V' in MVC line comes from React's home page.
> This sounds like "Just pay three thousand dollars per flight and problem solved!"

That's because it is. The fact that there's a solution that costs money doesn't make it any less of a solution.
Question to the down voters:

If you think this is a bad idea, how else do suggest we redistribute the pool of capital to something more evenly distributed? Oversimplifying a bit but the choices are either, 1) Tax income 2) Tax wealth 3) Seize wealth.

Option #1 clearly isn't working as long term those with wealth (i.e. capital) grow their power, influence, and wealth further. Thus increasing the divide.

Option #3 doesn't work because there's an inherent "unfairness" to arbitrarily seizing the assets of others.

Option #2 has it's merits. Arguably a billionaire is getting a larger value from the security/tranquility of a peaceful existence than a pauper. Should the billionaire not pay more as a result? Think of it like negative interest rates but rather than doing it on just cash in the bank, it's on total assets. If I own a bunch of stores in a city, I arguably have more incentive to prevent riots and looting.
Have you experienced it? If so, where can I?

I'm not saying its a bad idea, just that this direct path in implementation is.

There are many other (better) ways of implementing it, like the Mozilla light sensor API. If that doesn't satisfy you, you should create a new spec for light sensors combined with a practical implementation and then push W3C to use your spec over Mozilla's.
How incredibly sad.
>How can you spend $40k+ per homeless person each year

They don't. Figure in all the staff in the system earning $35K+, operational costs and what's left over goes towards helping people.

I find the nonprofits here print brochures, answer phones and refer you to other nonprofits who print brochures, answer phones and refer you to other nonprofits... in an endless loop.
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You're absolutely right that too many corporate employers take a "check the box" approach to being good employers. They strive to do well in rankings and to develop a good reputation, rather than focusing on treating people well.

But the bigger issue is that people have ended up in a position where they are powerless. And that is because the system doesn't see them as valuable. In an economic sense, unskilled labor isn't that valuable. But in a philosophical sense, those human beings are part of a society that should be looking out for them.

The best instrument of change in this case is government action (which I suppose means that holding this opinion also makes me a little bit socialist).

The root cause of the problem, at least in the United States, is that our educational system (aided and abetted by institutional discrimination and/or neglect) has failed to give many of its citizens the skills and knowledge they need. Furthermore, the social safety net is both inconsistent and insufficient.

As a mere business book author, I have a hard time tackling such problems, though I've certainly offered my opinions.
An even faster x86-64 Asm one that does it with no memory accesses - everything is in registers:

https://github.com/davidad/8queens/blob/1989666c45baa639f152...
gedy regardless we must lead by example. We have seen that guilt and public inertia can drive others to act. Being exemplary does have an impact.

China signed a climate deal with the US to limit emissions for the first time in 2014. In 2015 they and earlier this year they signed a global deal on climate also.

Leading and being by example can lead to change.
> Seriously though, wired connections are out. Bluetooth is the thing.

...and that's why we have Web Bluetooth, which is already in the Chrome Dev Channel.

https://webbluetoothcg.github.io/web-bluetooth/
It took years to put band-aid security measures onto a standard that initially allowed random websites to dump your VRAM contents and/or remotely exploit kernel-layer video driver bugs.

And graphics drivers/hardware are a much easier to control market than USB devices. You have five or six GPU vendors to yell at and/or blacklist broken driver versions, and tens of thousands of USB vendors.
Try damn-near impossible. And if you do it for a reason like this you can get deported back to the US with "kick me FBI" tattooed on your forehead
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You already can personalize them?
Servo isn't strictly just the HTML+CSS part, if you have a look at the project's sources.

Modularity is relevant because if stuff isn't modular and has code paths to deal with missing functionality, you'll have a much increased burden, aka a fork.

In Firefox (and maybe Chrome, don't use, so not sure) you can disable it in the configuration but that could easily be enabled again by some script or extension.
So I would like to emphasize on 2 things:

- on Forum there is no direct private message, the messaging system is public. A message can be at the same time a status, a part within an article (which is composed by many status) and a message in a conversation.

- there is no newsfeed on Forum, but a stack of cards. The user swipes the cards up to upvote the status, down to pass. By doing so, he contributes to rank the content.

demo video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft7JvfzoF2Q
Not really a viable approach if, like the majority of travel, it's for work.
In aggregate the $1Ks add up. But I suspect that they cash out in a place like Russia and even going after a few million there is more work than worthwhile.
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