skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>French said he and others in the industry are certain the home computer will revolutionize home life, making still more time available for leisure and other activities.

A perfectly reasonable assumption at the time - why not use these tools an inventions to make our lives easier?

In many ways this has come true, mostly in the communications sector. Now even a 'basic' smart phone has more computing power than what could be imagined at the time of the article. So we've moved from 'computers in the home' to 'computers in our pockets' as a natural development within Moore's Law.

What the article clearly didn't account for, and I don't see how it could at the time other than very vague postulation, is how these tools have also forced working people into strange relationships with technology, some of them harmful.

As in, the 'ghost phone' feeling of missing a call, or feeling a compulsion to keep checking social sites for the latest update, or expecting people to be within reach and contact 24/7/365. These aren't new mental hang ups, per se, they're just exacerbated by the ease of use of tools which can create a loop of sorts.

Lastly, articles like this, which are positive and were informative at the time, can benefit from different perspectives on occasion. The one that I was compelled to research was the relationship between US worker Productivity and Wages. A quick look around and I found this[1]:

>Though productivity (defined as the output of goods and services per hours worked) grew by about 74 percent between 1973 and 2013, compensation for workers grew at a much slower rate of only 9 percent during the same time period, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2015/02/la...

Yes, there are many, many factors involved regarding that kind of trend over ~40 years, but I genuinely associate computer technology as playing a significant role.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/why-the-...
Casey said in one of the J&C shows that he tried to do the site in HTML & CSS but ragequit and wrote it in C.
Why does an older person using something mean that a younger person wouldn't want to?

There's no Android device on earth that's nearly as hip as the iPhone. Regardless of how many old people are on iOS.
The iOS app creates a VPN connection, yes, but it runs p2p. Same as Android.

It's approved. We're just waiting on a DUNS number for ZeroTier, Inc. :P

We also have experimented internally with network containers for iOS and Android apps, but that's a whole different use case:

https://www.zerotier.com/product-netcon.shtml

Network Containers is our experimental tech for allowing apps to join virtual networks with no kernel/OS involvement via a private mini IP stack. You can do P2P networking between instances of your app, other apps, servers, and anything else ("connect all the things") using standard network code, Posix network APIs, and familiar protocols like HTTP.
can I share photos?

That's what I used to use Google+ for... sharing personal stuff with small group (i.e. family)

then they rebuilt the photo albums from G+ as Google Photos, regressed all the features, and redesigned G+, regressing the photo sharing story even further

I don't know wtf they're trying to do at Google but it seems after G+ failed to dislodge Facebook they don't know what to do and just make everything worse
This goes under the name of "Unit Economics" and is reasonable for small startups to use. It's VERY hard for a potentially high growth startup to cover their overhead costs. (If they were already cash flow positive, most likely they wouldn't be talking much to VCs anyway)

Companies go through stages:

1 - "Can we build something"

2 - "Will anyone pay for it?"

3 - "Can we turn a profit on each unit?"

4 - "Can we grow profitably and eventually cover our fixed costs?"

Generally you want to know #3 before tossing bags and bags of money at a company, but it's ok for startups to ask for money without having it answered. It's also ok for companies to ask for money without having covered their fixed costs yet.

To oversimplify...

Let's say my fixed costs are $10mm. Let's say each delivery I make turns a profit of a dollar, and each customer uses me for 20 deliveries over the course of 4 years. (Lifetime value of $20, which I get $5 per year) Let's say that it costs me $10 to acquire a company. (Customer acquisition cost)

Then in year 1 I'm $5 behind on each customer, but by year 4 I'm $10 ahead.

If I'm reasonably confident of these #s, then it pays for me to get as much investment money as possible to invest in customer acquisition. From a current cash flow (and potntialy from GAAP [0] earnings too) perspective I am losing money, but this will maximize the long term value of the firm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_accepted_accounting_...
Norway’s $850bn oil fund to sue Volkswagen
This is really interesting - thanks for the link. I'd be curious to see how effective that is in real life.
I was shocked the other day the Intel discontinued Intel Atom. So if one needs a cheap SoC board, there are now only ARM like Raspberry Pi, and no cheap ($50) x84/x64 compatible boards with Windows drivers. The Intel Atom 230 (1.6GHz dual core with HT) of 2008 was cheap ($50) and fast (Pentium M based). And on the high-end side there is still no 5GHz and there is little single-core improvement since 2004, since the Pentium 4 3GHz. We need more competition with x84/x64 to get lower prices and faster cores.
As I mentioned in my other comment, people do not want to hear about studies or other data indicating that marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol. They just do not want to hear it.
I once had to drive myself few hundred kilometers back home after a discharge from a psych ward - i was taking some new variation of activisation pill intended to make me less apathetic.
While usually I am super careful, will yield/brake preventively to avoid an accident (haven't had one yet - in big part thanks to mindfulness and survival instict) - in the begining that medicine just threw it out the window. I quite literally YOLO'd head on with an 18-wheeler because my brain just went OVERTAKE NOW, BITCH. (did not crash, it was just incredibly stupid and tight) Took me some time to adjust and stop being riddiculously reckless.

Same with nausea suppression pills for travel. I was once made to drive after taking one.

I'd venture to say that the lower likelyhood of an accident while on cocaine would come from most people that not pay any goddamn attention to anything, frantically scanning everything: the road, traffic, road shoulder, pedestrains, etc, etc
> I can find a restroom ...

Did you mean "can't" or maybe "can never"? In most cities I've been to, including SF, it's been really hard to find public restrooms.
I consider it possible, and found a game that tries to teach one the concepts: Human Resource Machine[0]

[0] http://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine
I must admit that I have not played Minecraft on any computer without a fast nVidia card. It could be the OpenGL driver that makes it slow in your case actually.

I am not sure that the graphics are "basic" in the technological sense - Yes, the graphics have a retro-pixel look and no fancy shader-tricks, but there are a lot of large views and a lot of surfaces, and no cheating with a world box.
Just do what JPL does: http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
No one should have a phone on their desk in an open plan office.
Number Puzzle
Apologies - I edited my original post to take out the overly-sarcastic 'witty' just before you posted. I also added a touch more substance to my comment.
Choking under pressure
Perhaps implying that such material is not intended to share or be reviewed.
That trick is usually used for FM radios according to other comments. FM radio is in the VHF band, so that would probably also work for VHF TV broadcasts too (more so low VHF than high VHF). I doubt that it would work for UHF, although someone who has actually used it would need to confirm that.

Most TV channels are on UHF and nearly all antennas are designed for UHF. They are able to get poor reception of the high VHF channels and no reception of the low VHF channels. The "world's smallest" TV antenna that I linked should have been designed for UHF too.
Damn. I was not aware of this.

I mean I was aware that spooks were aware of forums and watching them and such, but I never thought that a forum like HN would be a target for them.

But I guess that after thinking for a bit HN could definitely be a valuable target. It's just hard for me to accept that a community I visit regularly could be under the influence of these organizations.

Scary thoughts.
>only if the investment is more than 5% of the company

Interesting, I think it's the same percentage in Indian stock exchanges.
> Literally every word of what you just said about abolishing slavery

Slavery is a noun. So is union. I'll let you draw your own conclusions...
Great idea and great execution! Extremely useful. Thank you
Unofficially, there was also good ol' Saint Monday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Monday
tl;dr Specifies a pyproject.toml file so alternatives to setup.py can be used.
I think as a lawyer who practices a great deal of corporate transactions, I have a much better idea than most on the legal structure and compliance issue with corporations on a state by state basis.

But instead of telling me my question shows I don't understand, please answer any of the following:

-Are the token holders shareholders?

-If shareholders do the token holders also get to vote for the board, or are their tokens/shares non-voting?

-How many members are on this board? Since it is all autonomous how do you know the DAO has the minimum amount of board members are required by law? If say DAO is a DE corp (min 3 board members) and DE amends the law, how is DAO's code going to keep up?
Check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Disc...
China’s ICBC Buys 2,000-Ton London Gold Vault from Barclays
In college (small Texas city), I lived in an apartment just catty-corner to the university, but some parts of it lacked a sidewalk (though still had a curb). When taking the 10-minute walk home, some people would stop and assume I needed a ride!
One reason I enjoy sites with human-meaningful URLs is that it makes it easier to do this without leaving the keyboard.

I can use the Keyboard shortcut for the URL bar, then edit the url quickly.

I use this commonly to view content from various subreddits.
"Let's block one of our major use cases..."
>You think I haven't tried using Haskell on my platform?

Correct.

>It isn't supported and it doesn't work

What is "it"?

>I mean why would my first post be "Boy I wish I could use Haskell on my platform" if... I could use Haskell on my platform?

Because you incorrectly believe you can't.

>It would be much easier to compile via portable C or C++ that was human readable

Then do that, like I told you repeatedly. The fact that you have one of the developers of a haskell compiler trying to help you and you are entirely hostile and evasive makes it hard to take you seriously.
> This game was hard. So hard. I dont play games much anymore but I suspect that modern games don't punish the players the way another world does.

There are also modern games that are also really hard.
For example "Super Meat Boy" is said to be really hard (in terms of platforming skills): http://supermeatboy.com/

Or if you prefer something that is really hard, but on your brain, I recommend the puzzle game "Stephen's Sausage Roll" that came out about one month ago: http://www.stephenssausageroll.com/
Well english has replaced itself many times, just compare old english, middle english, Shakespeare vs now. It is evolution and english is good at adapting, but even so, in Roman times no one would have predicted English to dominate society. These things can change quite rapidly and history is not at an end by any means. And with the internet, I think the changes/evolution could be quite dramatic.
Since testing positive just means that you might have used anytime in the past month or so, that's not meaningful.

The study linked in the article confirms that yes, according to the evidence seen, marijuana significantly impairs driving ability, especially among casual users (to the surprise of no one whose actually used it I'm sure).
I think Apple is very well positioned to take a big bite out of the transportation pie, by all indicators they are strategic, committed, and have zero excess baggage. But I also consider it to be a very long play, I wouldn't expect returns from their TAAS (transportation as a service) venture in less than a decade. Is BH thinking that far ahead? I don't know.
Closer to Daniel Suarez, Daemon & Freedom. http://www.amazon.com/DAEMON-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731

This fiction starts the autonomous corporation from a vide game. The second book shows society's evolution to cope with the new corporation.
This - and the fact that branching out of phones/tablets/computes into cars or space exploration would be a pretty big jump industry wise. Everything they've built to-date has been an extension of either desktop and portable computing or Internet/networking/web technology. The one exception to this is their Music/Book/Movie business, but from my understanding those not only pale in comparison to their "physical" device sales, they are only done out of necessity to supply said devices.
Beaustantly – Beauty, instantly
What are the conditions of your experiment? What are you wanting to measure?

Just a measure of creativity?

How about incorporating other factors as mentioned in these comments, some do seem more measurable than others.

Ironically, I think that walking to increase creativity, calmness, clarity of mind, reduce stress, increase fitness, etc is actually purposeful walking. Walking to not get any advantages is more of an interesting phenomena. Why do people do that?
I won't bother taking the time to find out more about it, let alone download and use it, because it'll only disappear in a few years' time. I've already had my fingers burned by integrating previous Google services into my workflow.
Adventures in Benchmarking – Performance Golf
This case is a real problem for the "data-driven thinking" set. Or rather, the problem with that idea is you have no way to tell which data you should be looking at. Just because you have numbers doesn't make them the right ones.
I agree. It would be good with some kind of fly-weight allocation for a whole array of objects in java.

How is garbage collection for arrays of value objects solved? Is the whole array gc:d, or what? If an individual element is referenced somewhere the array stays in memory?
People also seem to forget that Kodak owned the entire digital still photography market for its first decade. They had a 1 megapixel sensor during the Reagan administration, for crying out loud.
One of the biggest challenges for building on Android is its complexity, and the team must successfully integrate with a lot of surface area conceptually (the fundamental building blocks Dianne explains is just the start). This unusually negative comment thread (for HN, I think) is probably illustrative of how frustrating Android development can be.

On the other hand, it's been clear to me that Google is investing heavily in making Android an easier platform to develop for.

First, the tooling: Moving to Gradle for the build system was a huge improvement. Making a repeatable, extensible build is the vital with teams moving towards the DevOps world with CI/CD. Android Studio has also been a welcome change; all of the separate components of the build being integrated together makes for a much better development experience. The best example of this is Instant Run, which is a great accomplishment for the tooling team.

The Support Libraries are also a solid investment for implementing good patterns - particularly patterns that can be tricky to implement yourself like the separately sliding appbars. Getting more developers to adopt the support libraries also allows more compatibility, since Google can release the fixes independently from platforms.

YouTube has also been a great resource for Android developers as Google has been constantly releasing content about how to build better apps. Jo and Ian are really great.

Anyway, I would watch this space. It might be a coincidence that Dianne made this post, or the most recent videos ("concurrent tasks with multiple documents" and "tasks and back stack", respectively) were also about basic Android features. Maybe Googlers are reflecting on what Android is due to the current news of Oracle v Google. Or maybe it's because IO is this week. I'll be watching!
When Dreams Change – Why I Left Adobe and Joined InVision
Not every bet pays off. That's why there is risk in investment. It doesn't mean Berkshire didn't perceive value or sound management, it just means that they were wrong. They're good because they're right more often than the other guys doing the same thing, but they won't hit on every bet.
Rise of Weird Facebook: How the World’s Biggest Social Network Became Cool Again
No, compared to FB products, its more competing with Facebook Groups than group chat on Facebook Messenger.

There's lots of UX issues with existing group-shared-content solutions that could be addressed, but until we actually see this I'm not sure what it offers new in the space.
I think parent commenter meant a device that can check the impairment of a person's reflexes, physically, when asked. Like a breathalyzer for reflexes.
> That's why there are a lot of ownership stakes of 4.9%.

Is reporting speed really important enough to change the size of your investment?
Honestly, I really wish my terminal/bash had mouse integration..

Every so often I'll be deeply embedded in a command, and want to go back and edit an earlier part of it.
With KB shortcuts I can go to the beginning/end, or forward/back one 'word' at a time, but sometimes it'd be nice to just say 'put the cursor HERE.'
Not a terrible bet. Their dividend yield is fairly respectable at current prices, the price has fallen to around 2012 levels, and Berkshire mostly likes long-term, stable bets.

I personally don't see Apple doing too much in the short term, but they'll certainly continue to be around, and will probably match the market in returns for the foreseeable future.
Swift now available on FreeBSD
I've used Win32 (I guess calling it that in the 64b era dates me) including some of the COM stuff, though I guess not as extensively as you did (TFA definitely brought some memories, the stuff looks a lot like the usual Win32 stuff.)

I think it's generally hard to make an easy-to-use API in C, unless the memory management involved is really trivial. (Let's ignore C++ for the moment including Microsoft's attempts like MFC and ATL, on the theory that binary compatibility issues make C that much more practical than C++ for this kind of thing.) IMO say poll or select (and the rest of the socket API, actually) aren't a picnic, either, and the only way to have a nice experience with these is by using a higher-level wrapper, and that's because everything involving variable-sized data structures, or any sort of data structure nesting, or literal initialization of this sort of thing, or lifecycles and memory management, or callbacks with private state, etc. etc. is just gnarly in C. (In C++ everything of course is just ducky and hence we never tire of articles discussing why smart pointers should really be passed by reference and shared_ptr is as good as gc except it's slower if used throughout and it doesn't work with circular references and don't use it unless you really have to etc. etc.) I haven't used the standard X C API but I glanced at it and it didn't looked very appetizing; that Microsoft's C API for GUI and OO looks worse than most of the standard Unix APIs kinda results from MS's APIs doing more, IMO, and X in particular, or Motif, which do more of what Win32 does, do not seem superior to Win32 in terms of usability, though if someone with experience in both strongly disagrees I'd take their word for it.

Now if you're saying that their C APIs of today are better than my argument is off. If you're saying that say writing a Windows program in C# is better than a C/C++/VB COM-infested program, then I think it's more of a testament to the strength of .NET/similar runtimes than anything else.
Stimulants have been shown to decrease your risk of accidents multiple times. Cannabis on the other hand has been shown to impair you ability to react, pay attention to multiple tasks, your metacognition... There's a huge difference here.

If you drive frequently, maybe cannabis isn't a good idea for you to take to manage your anxiety, depression, or seizure control. If there's not a drug out there that helps you that does not make you a danger to others, then tough shit, you shouldn't be driving.

Driving is not a right, driving is not something everyone should be able to do. I think I would be a sub par driver, and so I don't drive. I pay more money to live in the city close to public transit. I don't say "it will probably be ok" and endanger other drivers, and this would be especially true if I actually needed pot to function.
There are plenty of examples of large companies losing money, getting acquired by other companies and getting turned around to be profitable.

Sometimes (not always) the acquired company goes through downsizing led by the new owner before it starts turning profit. Very often this is more of a restructuring move by the new company as the acquired company can in some cases outgrow it's pre-acquisition size. Happens in automotive business all the time with higher-tier companies acquiring their own struggling suppliers.
>> Why does it need to do something to your body? Wouldn't it be good enough if it does something beneficial to your mind?

> Well, why not ride a bicycle, and let both your mind AND your body benefit?

Does that make walking a problem, compared to cycling?
Surprising that their "data science" team didn't take take the observations in the above two comments into consideration.
I'm not sure I understand what you're proposing. What is a credible test of impairment that can be administered automatically, remotely, anonymously, and with a high enough degree of accuracy and reliability (mitigation of false positives and false negatives), that we could feel ok about legislating around it?
> Had Intel stuck more piggishly to making better PC's, we might have mainstream water-cooled desktops running at 5Ghz+ and more reasons for people to upgrade.

Can you think of what those reasons might be? I can't. My office computer is an i5-3570 and it sits idle most of the time because it's just not that hard to have Outlook and Firefox open. A/V work and AAA gaming drive upgrades now like they always have, what other reasons would there be for Intel to push beyond their current efforts like you suggest?
Unfortunately doesn't work with AWS Lambda/API Gateway. Especially odd as Lambda has Cloudfront on the top of it, but shrug.

Unfortunately it looks as though letsencrypt-aws won't either.
The problem of data is that it apply only to the past, and always has a very strict point of view.

Data is great, but it has this one problem. The best results normally occur when one uses data to keep the gut feeling honest.
That chart has sections for both "Any Legal Drug" and "Any Illegal Drug", and both bars are barely visible. Are they claiming that all drugs, legal or not, don't affect driving?? Because that would be an incredibly stupid claim.
“Profound psychological effects. We never intended them for human consumption.”
I dont undertand, why reaching the critical mass would make the business fail ? It's not all about growth
Society's biggest problems need more than a behavioral nudge
China’s Virtual Reality Market Will Be Worth $8.5B
"Parlez-vous francais? If you answered yes, then you’re well on your way to enjoying the many benefits of bilingualism."

Umm... wouldn't answering "oui" be a better indication of bilingualism than answering "yes"?