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Using the Solow growth model, economic growth has three factors: population growth, technological improvement, and financial savings. All three factors are reducing growth in the developed world. Populations are stagnant or declining, technology may be displacing more jobs than it creates, and we are in more debt than ever.

So what is the root cause? Birth rates fell because of declining economic prospects, and savings declined for the same reason as well. Alone among these three factors, technology has continued its advancement, except now instead of improving labor it is a substitute for labor.

There were other supply shocks, such as the oil crises and more importantly the baby boom in developing countries that made outsourcing possible. But those are transient factors in the long run.

In the long run technology stands alone as the disruptive factor. We can try to mask the problem with financial debt or economic redistribution, but the problem remains that unskilled labor is no longer needed, and skilled labor is an increasingly high hurdle to clear.
People who buy the top of the line mac are almost certainly professionals, not average joe's reading emails and visiting facebook. The 16GB limitation is a problem, as is having outdated hardware.

Apple is failing the professional market significantly, and not just in hardware. They've also been killing off their pro software offerings. It's making a lot of us very uneasy.
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The script captures multiple screenshots over a few minutes, discards duplicates, then sets the one that has the largest filesize as the default.

This doesn't always result in the nicest screenshot being the default :) Some manual intervention is generally required, and that hasn't happened yet.
There's no 3 year limit.

I usually get 5 years from my notebooks (batteries are an issue, of course)
Soes anyoneone know,is it the same in EU?
I'm currently itching to buy one, but at the price it's impossible to justify given how out of date they already are.
Ask HN: Technology stall
i'm an enterprise developer, specialized in .NET stack, i've been ranging from eCommerce, Media, Healthcare ad now Public Administration areas, it may sounds good, someone may says that i've been "lucky" to face with multiple biz domains, but is not all gold what's shines, in my country (Italy) there is no importance (or almost) to quality of projects (especially Technically), you have to face with ridiculous deadlines, poor team mate (in order of thech knowledge) and tremendous customers.

When i started to work i thought, "nice, i'm paid for doing what i would have done i my free time !", but now looking at the current situation i'm not of the same thought anymore, i would move on to different fields but i can't focus on one in particoular, i constantly feel interested in IT Security, then low level programming (C/C++) than again "new" languages like GOLang, RUST etc.. i can't focus on nothing, i think it's due to my work frustrations, does anyone ever been in a situation like mine ? and more... some advice on how to follow the right path ?
Sure, but intrasystem travel will only be economical if we can mine and get fuel, energy, and mass from non-Earth sources.

If we get to that point, scaling up just consists of waiting a few decades of exponential growth to kick in. It might not even involve humans, but just letting automated robots continue to build more robots.

If the technology is there, moving mountains instead of ships is just a small jump.
I work at Google, and here is where I saw most of their usage, but I haven't used them directly (yet). There are plenty of documents published outside, especially on bigtable and other structures, for example: https://www.google.com/search?q=bigtable+bloom or http://www.bing.com/search?q=bigtable+bloom
Cached version, since we appear to have hugged their database to death.

http://web.archive.org/web/20160616053900/http://accu.org/in...
The selection is basically all the Amiga software that IA already happens to have, and that we know about, and that we've gotten around to adding to the Amiga category. Most of them come ultimately from TOSEC.
What we're missing is cash in peoples hands to spend on innovations. For many 80% of income is going to rent. How can you even hope to build an economy on that?
i've had friends doing this for years on other sites

i always like seeing people move on a business idea of taking a highly utilised hacky subset of one business and giving it the superset treatment
> We had a brief flirtation with giving people iPads instead of PCs, and that is better from a support / update point of view. But, the desire for a "real computer" is pretty strong with the generation of people we have on staff.

That's an odd way to put it, as if your people are being eccentric for expecting fully-functional computers. iPads have their uses, but they're not at all comparable for many tasks. It's as if you'd tried offering people motor scooters as company cars, and were surprised when they wanted "real vehicles."
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It could be done on the client if you get them to enter their old and new passwords.
>My question was, why would one be so sure that Uber will be successful with that?

I can't predict the future so I won't claim they will be successful. You previously wrote:

>why you assume that they'll have an edge in the transition to a very different business model?

I responding to whether or not they had an "edge" in comparison to other companies which is a much weaker claim than "success".

Industry analysts like to play the "guess-the-next-product" from Apple by working backwards from

+ Apple patents filed
+ open job listings (what competencies)
+ type of companies acquired
+ supply chain contracts signed, broken
+ etc,

All the above leads people to speculate about the coming "Apple TV" or "Apple self-driving car", and so on.

Applying that game to decipher Uber's hidden master plan by factoring in their army of 1200 programmers, their $15 billion of raised cash, the acquisition of deCarta (logistics mapping), etc... it seems like they have an "edge" over the other competitors to pursue bigger goals other than crowdsourced taxis. (Lyft hasn't raised the amount of money that Uber has and Amazon's new fleet of Amazon branded delivery trucks seems to an extension of their warehouse logistics rather than generalized non-Amazon logistics.)

Like you said, it doesn't mean they'll succeed.
Plus, hospitals are not really drive-in. You get much, much better safety of you're driven in by an emergency vehicle, who books the doctors upon approach, gets priority lanes and who can open the gates. Driving in and having to explain yourself at the reception is another story.
> Out of curiosity, what kind of area do you work in?

I started out in semiconductor design (Motorola) in Tokyo (systems engineering - developing MCU firmware for consumer product customers. Sony and Canon were my main customers). This was a long (?) time ago - the mid-to-late 80s into the 90s. In the mid-to-late 90s, I did a startup developing software for electronics payments and banking on the Internet that sold its wares to the largest banks in various countries around the world (and sometimes the country's big telecom vendor if they were feeling feisty enough to take on their banking clients). In the early-to-mid 00's I tried (and often failed) to construct deals around aquaculture, mobile data telecom back-haul and coal-to-whatever conversion projects. This decade, in a addition to kick-starting software development teams for non-technical startup founders, I seem to be settling in around clinical informatics. I'm hankering to try and see if it is now possible to construct a "remote-first" company for enterprise software in healthcare IT.

But I'm old and old fashioned. I tend to bring in people who have substantial development experience (there are always exceptions for brilliant young talent), and I've learned that people like to work like they like to work and to try to enable their productivity in their own style, not inculcate them in the "one true way" I want them to work.

I'm guessing I said something really out-of-touch to trigger the question. What was it? :-)
Is there any web client? As far as I can see it is only available on Android and iOS. Unfortunately I don't use any of them.
Yes. My point is in agreement with yours. VC money isn't a redundant phrase, though taken literally it would seem so. (Venture Capital Capital essentially...). The implicit "firm" is very important. VC money is money from a Venture Capital Firm, not just any venture capital.
For a device that many of us carry literally everywhere and literally every day, I think 3 years is a pretty good lifetime.

I can't get a pair of shoes to last me 2 years. The fact that my 2013 MacBook Pro is still working is fairly surprising to me.
"At times of Great Epidemic,..."

The plague of 1770?
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> I personally like just writing fractions of a full turn

Well just multiply your fraction with τ = 2π and you get radians. E.g. a whole revolution is τ radians (or 360°), half a revolution is ½τ radians or (180°), etc.
The CPUs in 2015 rMBPs are Broadwells, for example i5-5287U used in rMBP13 was introduced in Q1'15.

The author of the article was writing about non-retina MBPs, which are still for sale.
> Not only is it unusably verbose,

It's an (admittedly not thread-safe) implementation in under 30 lines! (I would have bothered providing a thread-safe version if Standard ML had a thread-safe reference cell type. Alas...)

In any case, clients don't have to see any of this. All clients have to do is use the functions `pure`, `delay`, `force` and `fix`.

> but it relies on mutable reference updates.

Well, laziness is mutation. My implementation just exposes that fact. A better criticism is “your implementation doesn't give you polymorphic lazy values, because of ML's value restriction”.

> Doing this properly is a non-trivial problem that really requires language support.

I don't disagree. I want both strictness and laziness, naturally. But if I'm forced to have only one, it's easier to get the benefits of laziness in a strict language than the other way around.

> It's also much easier to make a strict Haskell data type than it is to do this ML hack you've proposed.

Even if you use the STRICT pragma, the type checker still won't distinguish lazy from strict data. What happened to “the type checker is your ally”?

> And again, strict languages don't actually solve the totality problem:

I never said they do. What strictness does is “cordon off” the misbehavior of computations (diverging, raising exceptions, you name it) so that it doesn't infect values.

> To actually get any interesting benefits of bottom not being a value, you need a totality checker

No, that's unnecessary. One benefit of bottom not being a value is that, for instance, you can prove type class laws by induction on the datatype for which you're providing an instance. (You can do that in Haskell too, if you don't mind being wrong.)

Of course, bottom is always a computation, but that's a fact of life in languages with general recursion.

> An actually interesting solution would be to distinguish between data and codata at the type level

I've said that, twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240669, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240622

> It still wouldn't solve atotality,

I don't see how the lack of totality is something that needs to be “solved”. General recursion is a good thing a general-purpose language.
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And its name would be Lisp.
The 2012 MBP bought new today for $1100 will serve a lot of people really well.

An $800 Dell XPS will serve them much better, last them much longer, and keep them much happier.

A $500 Chromebook might be an even better choice.

Unless you have no escape from the Apple eco system lock in, it's almost impossible to recommend a mac to anyone anymore. Even if Apple does come up with a great refresh to their lineup, their treatment of the mac over the last couple of years means they might simply do this again, which means I really cannot recommend them anymore. Apple has pretty much destroyed all teh goodwill they built up with me, and the only way I can recommend a mac anymore is if they open up OS X to all hardware makers (but then, I'd trust Windows which has been doing that for decades, over OSX which has not and Apple would almost certainly have trouble supporting OSX on non Apple devices).

And finally, because of how deliberately tied up Apple's ecosystem is, that means I cannot recommend iPhones/iPads anymore despite iOS being a superior platform anymore.

I genuinely feel Apple is trading away their past reputation in an effort to extract money from consumers who may not know better.
After analyzing many OkCupid profiles, it became clear that 16-20% of all available matches are usually good matches (above 75%). That is, if you were paired randomly with people (on the internet) of the gender and age range you were interested in (and that are interested in people your age and gender), then 1 in 5 of them, on average, would be acceptable matches.

This varies wildly per person, but the overall average was surprising. That is, it seems low, but when you think about it, it's actually quite profound. You could randomly pick 5 straight or bisexual women between the ages of 19 and 37 (from among all the women in the world), for example, and it's likely 1 of them would be a good match.
Well, when those who we gave iPads literally[1] don't use anything but Outlook, a web browser, and Word with the weekly foray into Excel for time sheets, one might be forgiven for wondering if a Honda might be more suitable than a F-350.

1) in the dictionary definition sense
It wasn't that they were dirty, just that a particular potentiometer had the wrong setting on 1% of drives released before SSBB.
We have a small handful of alternate configurations, such as an A1200, ready to hand. However, we still have to go through and find out which items need to use them; it's hard to automate that. Screenshotting is the first step in that process, since it's then pretty easy to see which ones have problems.
Exciting to see that this is the top comment (at least for now) because I think this is the sort of attitude and vision for the future that will solve many of the health problems in this world. I'm also very excited by YC's UBI experiment.

People should be able to not worry about basic needs and be able to focus on enriching their lives and, by doing so, the world around them.

I encourage people to check out the entry for the Civilian Conservation Corps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps) - few people realize how important programs like this can be.
You certainly can buy an outdated Thinkpad, but the lines are refreshed often. Literally from the first Google result:

> At CES 2016, Lenovo announced a massive overhaul of its ThinkPad line. In addition to unveiling new ThinkPad X1 notebooks, tablets and convertibles, Lenovo also unveiled refreshes to its X, T and L series ThinkPad as well as a new ThinkPad 13. Except the ThinkPad 13, which comes with options for either Windows or Chrome operating systems, all the ThinkPad models unveiled come with Intel's sixth generation Skylake processor, giving them a boost in performance and battery life.
I haven't spotted the decrease. On the opposite, even some increase :-) (Or was that just a placebo effect? :) )

There actually shouldn't be any significant decrease since the Docker's overhead is negligible.
You would probably have a very different experience with Interlingua.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua

(The weirdest thing for me about it as a Latin and Portuguese speaker is that adjectives aren't inflected for number, so you have phrases like "servicios tangibile" and "contributiones actual", which sound kind of bizarre throughout the Romance milieu, where the adjectives would have to be pluralized too.)

You can see some sample texts at

http://www.interlingua.com/

or for example

http://www.interlingua.com/libros/

Interlingua is very Latin and Romance-heavy, so if your experience is more with German, it may not feel as familiar, but it's almost sure to be easier than Volapük for anyone familiar with multiple European languages. :-)
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Have you considered the possibility that people know what they're doing and have not embarked on multi-million pound project without realising how trees work?

By the sound of it, the land has been out of use for a while and had not already grown back. Probably due to lack of nearby trees to seed from?
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I have seen complaints about "aeroporto" vs. "flugaveno" (?) though.
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This article is part of a mini-course for kids about LISP and Clojure.

The particularity of this mini-course is that the code snippets are interactive.

The snippets are powered by klipse: https://github.com/viebel/klipse
If I had to make a bet, I'd guess that they're trying to add touchscreen capabilities to OS X to match up with the MS Surface Pros.
Surprised worse performance over poor, flaky connections than http isn't in the top four things worth trying to mitigate.
> I always find it interesting that many people who learn English as a second language often understand and know the formal rules of the language better than those of us who've spoken it natively.

I believe that's true for any natural language. To a native speaker, its rules are so natural (almost as breathing) that they hardly ever think about it. Frequently they don't even realize there's a question of picking the right form, because their brain does that job for them.

It's always the foreign learners who have to memorize these rules (which are never "natural" to them).
That's a large part of my interest in this area. That is, using accumulated knowledge, global awareness, inference, etc to help buffer against lies, lack of self-knowledge, uncertainty, hidden dealbreakers (finding out 5 years down the road about some fundamental thing that ruins the relationship), etc.

Also, it would be cool to be able to understand fully many of the intricacies and nuances of relationships and compatibility, then being able to do some of the heavy lifting using information provided by the user. That is, maybe some things are known to users in general, but they are either too time consuming or too difficult to do, so they end up not doing it (or it's to the point it's clear the site should be taking care of such things).
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No. It was about 1 thousand of years earlier. Documents and recorded stories are referred to two major events, which caused to abandon cities and colonies: Great Epidemic, then army of White Ugric.
A 1 watt laser is concentrated. Spread that over a 150" image and it will look incredibly dim.

It's true strobed lights do look brighter than their counterparts for less wattage, but only by a small amount I think.
Uh... I don't know what hospitals you've been going to. A few years back I brought a friend with a perforated ulcer to the ER. They had her under the care of nursing in about sixty seconds.
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Is that good PR though? Now impaired people with Teslas are going to be trying to drive themselves home or to hospitals, with potential disastruous consequences.

"He's having a heart attack, should we call an ambulance? Nah, shove him in his Tesla and set a route for the hospital, they'll sort it out there".
> The 2012 MBP bought new today for $1100 will serve a lot of people really well.

I am writing on exactly such a device, and I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to upgrade. The display is incredible, it's every bit as fast and responsive as the day I bought it, it doesn't creak or feel like it's about to fall apart. When you think back to the late 90s, when operating a five year old laptop felt like using a mechanical typewriter, it's truly amazing. I wonder if this will serve as some sort of high water mark for Apple product design. This machine has literally turned out to be years ahead of its time.
He mentions Lojban[0] but ironically fails to note that Lojban itself is a fork of Loglan[1].

It came about because the late Dr. James Cooke Brown, inventor of Loglan, tried to keep tight control over its development by claiming intellectual property rights over it. However, Brown did not move fast enough toward finalizing, formalizing and documenting the language to satisfy some of the enthusiastic and inventive community that had formed around it.

A group of those enthusiasts kept the basic concepts and syntax of Loglan (which they deemed not copyrightable) and created a new basic vocabulary to replace the words that Brown or the Loglan Institute could claim ownership of. (Reminiscent of the IP disputes over APIs versus implementations.) The result was Lojban, which continues to have a small community and a collection of translated documents and tutorials.

[0] https://mw.lojban.org/papri/Lojban
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan
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Real issue is that humanity's ability to exceed technology is limited. Even if humanity was to conserve more resources and invest more, majority of value and effort would be to increase the rate of returns from technology.
@ingenter please refer to the docker-compose.yml file of the source repository.

To make pulseaudio work in a container, you basically want to pass these volumes from the host to a container:

- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

- /etc/machine-id:/etc/machine-id:ro

- $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse:/run/user/1000/pulse

And then, this environment variable:

PULSE_SERVER=unix:$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse/native
I genuinely don't understand the point of this article. It seems to be that, because technology companies are partnering with businesses in other industries, they're somehow betraying the "disruptive" culture of the technology industry.

Is it so hard to believe that you might want to partner with GSK for bioelectronics research? Regardless of your opinions on GSK or the pharmaceutical industry in general, where else would you find that many scientists and researchers who can actually do the work? Sure Google could set up a recruiting blitz and try to raid the pharmaceutical industry, but they have little to no expertise as it is (I assume), so why wouldn't you want to work with someone who does?

Same thing with Chrysler. Why would Google want to start out in the automotive industry with a huge capital outlay to build a factory, staff it, etc.?

Sure, if these things take off and there's real money to be made, maybe it makes sense to take the work in-house, through development or acquisitions (e.g. Motorola), but I don't know why it's somehow "bad" to partner with companies who have expertise you don't.