skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's what's known as a mid-brow dismissal. The average HN commenter feels a gratifying sensation of intelligence when they point out that "a blockchain is just a database". They can feel that they are debunking a con with their razor-like intelligence, like Neo, escaping from the matrix.
So you're expecting people to make 10-12% in after-inflation returns?
I have concluded that, in the USA, most ordinary folks have, much to their detriment, never heard of Dave Ramsey.

https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/the-truth-about-car-payments
He is talking about monetization.

It’s not even that counterintuitive with some capitalist forethought.
> The only good thing is that cars post 2002 seem to be more way more reliable on average

The manufacturers needed to make them last more than 100K because most of the manufacturers are closely if not directly tied to the financing, and if they wanted to make loans at high interest and 96mos they needed a car that would last at least long enough to cover the majority of new 65+ mo loans people are getting.
You're really misusing that figure, here is the quote from the article you linked below:

>The average new car payment in America has crept above the $500 per month mark for the fist time, settling in at $503, according to a recent study by Experian.

and here's your statement:

>When the average car payment in America is around $500 a month

See the mismatch? This is not evidence that people (especially poor ones) are overspending on cars. It doesn't say anything about people without car payments, people with used cars, people who bought outright or even how many people exist in those categories. Besides I just put $500/month on a 5 year auto loan into googles calculator and I got a cost of $27,751. This isn't exactly an extravagant purchase for a new car.

Besides this notion that most people will ever be able to cut their expenses enough to "amass multiple millions of dollars in investments over their working career" is just painfully out of touch.
Thanks I'll check it out. I've started favoriting alot of things and don't have time to read everything all the way through so I'm trying to manage the process better.
How much do we need to get paid to give up FB and other online services? (PDF)
I am quite certain there are a number of 10-day retreats that don't go into the cult-like/dogmatic aspects you describe here (that meditation is a cure and controlling body energy and all that) and would be more free about allowing anyone to leave and/or see a doctor.

I have not been to one myself, but I have read countless recollections of others' experiences, and a focus on caring for those attending is often a priority. Your experience sounds like the opposite of that, and as you've said, there are others with similar negative experiences too.

It's sad that it's out there, because I think there are plenty of 10-day retreats that wouldn't be such a problem, but maybe they should be required to be more upfront in setting expectations and better screen for potential hazards.

If you don't mind me asking, who was the speaker in those videos? Did your center have a specific "lineage" or "school" of Buddhism? Was it Goenka by chance?
The only thing I can think of is give a man a fish/fishing pole to this comment. It's been said billion times over, but 2017-2018 is the year of Africa. You will see in the coming years React software development shops pop up in Africa like we saw in Pakistan, India. That being said, I don't think it's $100 laptops, its $1000 laptops.
Hackers exploit casino's smart thermometer to steal database info
The opioid epidemic is a symptom of underlying socioeconomic and societal issues. That is why it concerns me so greatly. It’s a canary in the coal mine, if you will.
>accept abusive employment

My friends and I tried to "end game" the conservative mindset and I hadn't thought of this option.

Our exercise was: if hard conservatives achieved their goal of, say, eliminating food stamps, what would happen? Presumably private churches etc couldn't pick up all the slack so the only thing we could think of was skyrocketing crime. What, are people going to just starve to death when they could simply walk out of Safeway with ten loaves of bread and a jar of peanut butter?
So... do you need a laptop for that or an eReader?

Granted eReaders were a niche at the time of OLPC, we didn't fully grok where laptops fell on the useful vs distracting scale and the idea of a general purpose computer you could also teach kids to code on seemed really really cool and probably the best way to on-board them onto the internet.

All in all, OLPC's heart was in the right place, but until we know how to properly introduce computers into the classroom as a general purpose educational device, something more like a rugged eReader and open source textbooks feels like it would be more productive in accomplishing at least some of the goals of OLPC.
It was an LCD display with near-retina resolution and a transflective screen. It could be backlit, but when it wasn't backlit, ambient light was enough to illuminate the display to readable levels.

PixelQi got as far as building working prototypes that could be installed in ordinary laptops, but no takers from the laptop industry.
Seems to be back to normal now
I'm curious about whether you've tried to push the dosages into more psychedelic ranges and whether that had an effect? Many researchers seem to think that at sub-dissociative levels the effectiveness is less, as the _experience_ of that state is what alleviates the depression, not the chemical (so to speak).
For anyone stuck behind the paywall (PDF warning):
https://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/nano/documents/Joy%20-%2...
iOS' "Do Not Disturb While Driving" is a good example of how they're trying. Sure it's touted as a "safety" feature, but it's doing what they need to do: encourage the user not to use their phone all the time.
I really enjoy your thinking.. Do you have some kind of blog where I can follow you? :D As you already mentioned, contributing whatever resources you consume is relatively unreasonable on mobile devices, because it would pretty much double data and battery usage. So while there is most likely some kind of overhead connected to the third solution you suggested, I still think it is probably the easiest one because it doesn't require any new specialised hardware.

Maybe regulation can solve some of the problems with the current systems, but the idealist in me really wants to see provably transparent (open source) and secure solutions which don't require trust in the hardware so we can still make use of modern, efficient (federated) server farms without having to giving up control over our data.
Well actually no. Mobile destroyed Flash and Silverlight and all of the complex apps that were moved to mobile went native - like Netflix.
XCode is well suited if you want to build an iOS app. If you’re trying to build a glorified web app wrapper and to boot you start out disliking everything that has an Apple logo you’re not going to have a good time.

That’s not a problem though, I’m fine with less web app wrappers and less ported Android apps in the App Store.
"The architectures that are gone are blackfin, cris, frv, m32r, metag,mn10300, score, and tile. And the new architecture is the nds32 (Andes Technology 32-0bit RISC architecture)."

here is the list of survivors:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

after 4.17.rc-1 linux still supports 23 archs.
I've noticed with watch notifications I'm far more likely to mentally dismiss them without losing my train of thought.

Phone notificaions, on the other hand, clog up the unlock screen, and seem to demand action when I pull down notification center and see old ones.

I still keep notifications low, mind you. Watch ones are still a distraction. But on balance I find it much less.
NBER working paper at http://www.nber.org/papers/w24514

Abstract:

GDP and derived metrics (e.g., productivity) have been central to understanding economic progress and well-being. In principle, the change in consumer surplus (compensating expenditure) provides a superior, and more direct, measure of the change in well-being, especially for digital goods, but in practice, it has been difficult to measure. We explore the potential of massive online choice experiments to measure consumers’ willingness to accept compensation for losing access to various digital goods and thereby estimate the consumer surplus generated from these goods. We test the robustness of the approach and benchmark it against established methods, including incentive compatible choice experiments that require participants to give up Facebook for a certain period in exchange for compensation. The proposed choice experiments show convergent validity and are massively scalable. Our results indicate that digital goods have created large gains in well-being that are missed by conventional measures of GDP and productivity. By periodically querying a large, representative sample of goods and services, including those which are not priced in existing markets, changes in consumer surplus and other new measures of well-being derived from these online choice experiments have the potential for providing cost-effective supplements to existing national income and product accounts.
Hmm, i recall reading something similar about Steam's VAC.

Simply having Cheat Engine running is enough for VAC To flag you and lock you out of any multiplayer via Steam.

Used to play GW2 quite actively until they released their first expansion, as i got kinda tired of their "episode" cadence and that future "episodes" would require the expansion.
There was not a mode switch, at least not on my OLPC. You switched from color to B&W by turning the backlight brightness all the way down (thus shutting off the backlight).
Should I just stop attempting to make these trivial patches? (2004)
Interesting use of neural networks right there. Putting someone else's fingerprints on the hand of someone in a photo to make it look like they were the subject of the photo.
I don't think so - over-prescription of opioids and more common usage of fentanyl seem to the be the key factors in the death increases. Nothing to do with underlying socioeconomic conditions nor societal problems. I don't understand how you're making that leap - care to elaborate?
I've made a playlist of all the youtube videos on this page.

Find it here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSkXABXNKIo2eKpTsnWWj...
The results are limited for Ketamine too.

http://www.cochrane.org/CD011612/DEPRESSN_ketamine-and-other...
I pretty much only use Amazon as a fallback, when I need to buy something that I just won't find in any other store, online or brick-and-mortar.
Does the free and open web have support for augmented reality? On device security? On device machine learning? Accurate GPS? Accelerometers? What about low level graphics?

The “web” is great for websites and CRUD— not so good if you’re trying to go beyond that.
> Blaming any problem of this magnitude on individuals is not reasonable.

This is just anecdotal, but I see this a LOT. The stubborn insistence that blame is paramount in any discussion and that the world should be made fair before action can be taken to improve one's life is a pretty substantial barrier to said improvement. Sometimes the deck is stacked, and working on unstacking the deck can happen in parallel with reacting to the world as it is now. Out of college, I had friends who made half as much as me and spent twice as much; income aside, we were both exposed to pretty much exactly the same environment, and somehow we made purchasing decisions that were completely swapped from what you'd expect. As the parent comment said, "Amazon needs to do better" too, but putting personal behavior outside of the realm of control of the individual isn't helping anyone, it's harming them.

I agree with your general point that simply wishing that people would do better for a behavorial issue at this scale is unlikely to do much, but I don't think that's implied by the GP comment's suggestion. There have been successful campaigns to cause large-scale behavioral shifts before[1], and recognizing personal choice as a potential mechanism of improvement doesn't mean we can't approach the problem in an intentional, structural manner.

Just an aside, but in all of this I'm taking on faith the power of advertising that the HN community at large seems to consistently think that we're helpless before; this has never been my experience; I don't care much about ads, I don't see any mechanism in which they could drive my purchase decisions, etc etc. To wit, I buy the cheapest option (that I haven't already tried and disliked) for cheap items and extensively research medium to high priced ones. There's no question that brand advertising affects my level of brand awareness, but it's _really_ not difficult at all to remove that factor from your purchasing decisions. If anything, my prior would be that all the people who blindly purchase based on brand awareness are shifting the value prop towards brands that are _less_ well-known, since theoretically they need to compete on something else (price, features, quality, whatever).

[1] Spend any time with Europeans and you'll appreciate how impressive the American anti-smoking campaign was.
Most sub-dissociative levels were probably with nasal sprays; I can assure you, this was definitely dissociative levels every time, via IV.

We tried increasing the dosage, which made the dissociation more potent, but had no improved psychiatric benefits for me.
“The moving sofa problem or sofa problem is a two-dimensional idealisation of real-life furniture-moving problems and asks for the rigid two-dimensional shape of largest area A that can be maneuvered through an L-shaped planar region with legs of unit width.[1] The area A thus obtained is referred to as the sofa constant. The exact value of the sofa constant is an open problem.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_sofa_problem

Familiar to some of us from Douglas Adams' _Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency_.
Protip for anyone considering grayscale: you can set it to activate on triple click of the home button.

I personally use a red color filter with this setting. Reduces nightime blue light exposure. But one bonus is that the red phone is also way less compelling.
Yeah, a lot of things that are seen as modern social media problems have been issues online (especially on community websites) for a while now.

Of course, part of the reason they seem worse now is because sites like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit have completely ignored all community management advice found online and done nothing to discourage bad actors or keep the quality control up.
Show HN: A serverless music video maker Memeweaver.TV
>Meanwhile, architects are working on facilities for elderly people with dementia, and trying to impose the exact opposite: provide the patients with visual cues to keep them as oriented as feasible.

...while keeping them from wandering into places they shouldn't be wandering into.

I had a story told to me at a training about a facility that put up stop signs on doors they wanted people to not wander in to. They neglected to consider that (after stopping and checking for cross traffic) one typically proceeds on their way when they encounter a stop sign.
Recruiting Good Team Players
Isn't education the government's responsibility?

So, the American people don't have a spending problem, America has an education problem. (America has many education problems, really)

People only do what they know how to do. If you let a street worth of kids grow up on the street without giving them another opportunity, how are they gonna put food on their table? The ways they learned on the street. Same idea.
> if your game can be botted you botched your game design

So Starcraft, Counter Strike, and PUBG all have botched game designs? Please..
The Guardian has an excellent piece far better than me rehashing it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/28/deaths-of-de...

“Is the US facing an epidemic of 'deaths of despair'? These researchers say yes”
It's advanced quite a bit, and the article references some of the latest advancements[1] just published.

[1] https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~hankhoffmann/autoconf.pdf

edit: disclaimer - I'm working with the University & Dr. Hoffmann on this, but have also replicated (some) of the results in earlier papers.
Sorry, are you talking about the US or another country?

We have elements of common law in the US code, and you can definitely have binding precedent that doesn't involve the Supreme Court. As for most folks not having any contact with lawyers... I'm not sure I've met any adult who hasn't.
That may well be but my questions are genuine questions (I'm curious).
How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2M concurrent SSL connections (2017)
Causing a rapid increase in gun sales. Two tenets of the platform hit with one stone.
That was a mode switch.

Turning backlight brightness all the way down was the mode switch as presented in the UI. Very old versions of the UI made it explicit. At the MMIO level of course, there was a bit that got toggled.
Informative and helpful! Thank you!
>but in my opinion if your game can be botted you botched your game design.

That has nothing to do with the commonly accepted definition of cheating. Using in game mechanics which harm the player base in some way is considered cheating in every competitive game ever made. "The devs messed up" is not an OK to do whatever you like, that would ruin these games.
Apple's investment into Clangd and refactoring tooling
Wait until the realize that the strip-club model of independent contractor would allow them to charge their contractors for the privilege of working in their environment.
There is a little Safecast[1] data from the area, which does show slightly higher levels, but nothing too crazy. You could add your own readings[2] to improve that (which has been on my list, downwind from Hanford).

1: http://safecast.org/tilemap/?y=35.665&x=-106.501&z=10&l=0&m=...

2: https://github.com/Safecast/General/wiki/Safecast-Devices
As I said, people probably can't imagine :)

OK, consider a tall gantry crane on wheels.[0] Now imagine a plate, several feet thick, with layers of steel, lead and concrete, suspended below the rails. With a cab on the top, and no line of sight through the holes for the cables.

0) https://houstonforkliftsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07...
Massive #Ransomware attack cost City of #Atlanta $2.7M
Bending PVC for your next maker project video
So what, the end justifies the means? "Who cares if they installed spyware on everyones computers, it's okay because they caught some cheaters"
So you're thinking that people in the future will wonder why we weren't more parochial in our sphere of concerns? More precisely, they'll be morally shocked at the notion that we were too close to treating all humans as of equal moral worth, instead of prioritizing those that are located closer to us geographically?

Don't get me wrong, I'm very aware that most moral systems have somewhat-principled reasons to prioritize those that are geographically closer to you. This is intended more to illuminate that side of the argument than as a full-fledged suggestion for how to set our priorities. But the claim being discussed here, that the future will wonder why we let people die in the streets, is still bizarre to me in the context that you're framing it in.
This isn't true. Ketamine infusions are also administered to patients with chronic pain.
Sugar wasn't just written in Python. Parts of it were literally coded in the worst way possible. We're talking Daily WTF levels.

For example, the icon for each Sugar "activity" was an SVG file. When you started an activity, its icon would "throb" in the center of the screen, fading in and out. Guess how the throbbing was implemented.

That's right, it would perform string substitution on the SVG file, filling in the actual colors for macros embedded in the SVG, then reparse and redisplay the SVG. For each frame.

Had it been a simple matter of being written in Python, Sugar might've been usable. But it was shitty Python and that's what killed it.
Your comment doesn't make sense, but even if it did, you don't have enough information about what we do to make any intelligent judgement and you're just being unnecessarily aggressive and hostile. Please stop doing that.
At first they were 21.co and they invited developers, startup CEOS and investors under the premise of much larger per-response rewards ($100 for investors, $20 for CEOs, etc). Since then, they've been sending mostly $1-$2 spam from Tokens and ICOs. The payment is in Bitcoin, so cashing out also takes a big chunk of the earnings. Coinbase sounds like a nice landing spot for a team that likely dreamt bigger than that.
One thing to note is that one of the programs they flagged accounts for, Cheat Engine, is basically a memory modifier similar to what you find in console emulators (or what GameShark or similar used to do).

It should have limited effect on any competently written online game as the game state would be decided by the server, not the client.
Your argument is: "I have done x in the past and I turned out fine, so x must be the best path in the future".

That's the least innovative way of thinking. Ever.

PS: I'm not saying $100 laptops in Africa or good or bad, just saying your argument is ridiculous.
Why New York City Stopped Building Subways
While printing is cheap, the licensing of the content often is not and can vary from country to country.

If textbooks were cheaper, Khan Academy would not be successful.

Open Educational Resources (OER) hopefully will make some inroads on this but until then, textbooks are generally more expensive.
yes it has gatekeepers. All POS systems have them but true Delegated is more controlled but since NEO holders can vote no single person/entity can take the sysyem downor alter transactions which is the whole idea
> "Pain killer manufacturers need to tackle the issue of opiate addiction"

Looks like they already have, lol (all the way to the bank).
Developers vs. Managers Confrontation
The linked article mentions (on page 3) that, on servers, the gain was seen when not idling: "On this Tyan server, the idle power usage ended up being the same across these three most recent kernel branches. However, the power usage under load was found to have some nice improvements."
I purchased the Apple Watch when the cellular version came out. You can bet that my smartphone usage has gone down since I've stopped carrying it around.

I get my messages, my calls, and my emails. I can get directions if necessary. I even get my wallet, my weather, my reminders/schedule AND my music. What else do I need?

EDIT: Did I mention it also tells time?
This should be in the title! What an improvement!
Honestly, I don't think we'd try to destroy ReactOS at all. Windows has stopped being a cash cow for us - recently, we've even started to disband the Windows org, moving the kernel to Azure etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if we open-sourced NT, at the rate things are going. Windows devs are likely flattered by ReactOS at this point.
This. Many of the projects/products I've designed for companies in the last few years are intentionally being kept out of the Chinese market. It's too dangerous for ip and other portfolio protection reasons. It's a great market for commodity items like cigarettes and cars, but the bleeding edge tech from the rest of the world will always be 5-10 years ahead for this, ip reasons, and how common dishonest business practices rear their head. I think this will only increase with the big government push to internalize every industry they haven't already (machine and fabrication tools, manufacturing equipment, etc.)

Every country has to face the fact that because of the Internet we now live in a totally globalized world. Borders only exist on paper maps and globes and in the mind of governments. Those of us developing tech don't care about such things, we dont even see these kinds of barriers anymore. We just see good ideas, and smart people.