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I think Twitter is making the correct move here. It's always been the holy grail of Vine and others to try to create quick consumable content without making others create it.

This article just makes me think of supporting more startups like Augmedix and the future of Augmented Reality will truly be a revolution in healthcare.

It would be great if you or OP could do the analysis again on HN Reads, but with the larger dataset.

Well now I have to choose a new interview question.

In fact, there's really great data on this same effect. Shankar Vedantam from the Hidden Brain podcast recently talked about this in relation to political arguments and experimentation related to it: http://n.pr/1uL0RAe

10-20 mins bike ride via bike share - I use Overcast to listen to podcasts at 2x+ speed, shorten silences, and voice boost. Since I'm biking, somehow the speed of bike matches really well.

On Caltrain, I tether my wi-fi. If you're on the fastest bullet, don't bother trying to get internet, it doesn't work. Otherwise, the moderately fast bullet or the regular trains will give you reasonable internet to answer email.

Oh, I also use VLC with a tv show or movie and watch at 1.25-2X speed so that I can watch a whole thing in a fairly short span of time. You'll realize it works pretty well.

Additionally, I swear by Pocket (which also reads articles to you), Voice Dream (which integrates with a bunch of other things and can read to you as well at a fairly fast clip). If I'm reading, I'll also use the Kindle app or potentially have my Kindle with me.

If I'm reading an online article, I've been trying to train myself with Spreed so that I'm reading faster.

I've seen others just play games on their mobile devices or use dating apps - both of which seem to magically make the commute disappear.

They do exist for a number of species including black rhino. For many of these species they need open habitat, but the right to hunt them is paid for by sportspeople which in turn goes to the conservation of the open habitat.

Oliver Sacks once held the weightlifting record in California: http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/collection/8-thing...

The same applies to why there is a McDonald's on the Champs Elysse in Paris, in the heart of Beijing, New York City, etc. It's a loss for the location, but it's really just an investment vehicle where the land itself is not being used for traditional purposes.

With Facebook and Apple effectively owning a number of viral channels on mobile, I wonder how you think of the larger problems of channels in general. It's not like the past when a multi-friend selector was easily available. Will you guys be integrated with the chat platforms (FB, WhatsApp, WeChat, etc.) or do you think old school is still cool?

Singapore previously had very small micro-apartments that housed a single person and things folded in/out. Singapore started zoning out these apartments because they were seeing population growth from replacement declining. Just a fun fact.

You could probably just take the same methodology as the Poole-Rosenthal index for partisan politics in the United States. It's always the most widely cited for the current state of divisiveness in politics and I think could be applied here.

Edmond, congrats on the launch! If I wanted to introduce this in my startup, what would you suggest? Book club? buying everyone the book? Have it sitting on our company shelf? Thanks so much for giving back.

Four positions (Engineer, Designer, Sales Team Lead, Remote EAs):

1) Generalist Engineer - functional programming back-end (OCaml - don't worry, it's okay if you don't have experience, we're interested in your elasticity of learning), javascript front-end, iOS front-end. Looking for our fifth engineer to join our team.

2) Designer - you will control the look, feel, user interactions, and user experience for Esper.

3) Sales Team Lead - you could sell wood to a tree. You will be guided by our head of operations, but you will lead a team focused on sales. Competitive base salary and commisions.

4) Remote EAs - you will be working for us, using our software and helping serve our customers.

Check us out at www.esper.com. Our dream is to give everyone a top-tier machine-enabled assistant - that's right, you too, can feel like Oprah. And if you work for us... look under your chair, you get an assistant!

This is a pretty big deal. The ability to let individuals just focus on their work is important, but probably more importantly - the currency of Washington, D.C. and government is communication. Like any large institution, there are customs built in to tell stakeholders that this institution is here to stay. Any slight changes are areas of interpretation for everyone involved.

But something as simple as this is a great way to communicate that things are changing. It means that someone is so highly valued that they are important (disregarding the condescending title). Because if there is one way people in D.C. communicate, they communicate through how they dress.

Interesting. I (and others including Tim Ferris) was under the impression that eating protein for breakfast helps stimulate mental alertness and promotes weight loss. It seems that this small sample (still a RCT) does not support that hypothesis.

Studies have shown that smaller more frequent meals are important for general alertness and weight loss - the theory being that you're not maxing out your body's sugar or food load.

This is similar to the PhD filter. You have to find folks who have the right balance between theory and practice.

Hey HNers, I'm the CEO of Esper - there's been a lot of questions regarding the business case for OCaml and I think it'd be helpful to write here:

1) It's practical - for our team, we had developed in it before and had deployed a large system in it - we could get to where we wanted quickly.

2) we think it's a competitive advantage (see OP and PG's Beating the Averages essay) - additionally, since we deal with large amounts of data, OCaml was particularly helpful in that regard too

3) OCaml is a good filter - the thing that matters more to us is a person's elasticity of learning - their ability to learn new things. We use the right tool for the right job, so we also use javascript, java, objective-C, etc. OCaml is a pretty good filter and test for elasticity of learning.

Lastly, not a primary reason, but an advantage - languages get popular because the companies that use them are popular (i.e. gain market traction and can pay developers). That doesn't mean it's the most efficient way to get things done. We'd like to be part of the group that helps make the industry more efficient.

We're also using OCaml at Esper. Here's our implementation for folks who are interested in using functional programming lagnuages: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19350590/designing-large-...

Esper (Palo Alto, CA - right next to Caltrain) - http://esper.com/jobs.html - FULL-TIME (could be remote) Generalist Engineers

At Esper, we are developing software that improves the communication and workflow between executives and executive assistants. It’s quite the creative challenge. Esper is using OCaml on the backend, with a web front-end using Typescript, an Android mobile app, and a planned iPhone app. This StackOverflow answer by our lead engineer Martin Jambon will tell you more about our approach: http://stackoverflow.com/a/19355173/597517

We are hiring two generalist engineers to join our team of five in Palo Alto - we offer very generous equity. We are venture financed and have an experienced team (Palantir, Zynga, etc.) working on an interesting problem and we'd love to talk to you about what we're working on!

One of my friends made this one showing the effects of increased mobility for females: http://www.tylervigen.com/view_correlation.php?id=2973

Esper (Palo Alto, CA) - Engineer - H1B, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome --- Check us out at http://esper.com/jobs.html We're venture-backed, have a stellar group of engineers (OCaml back-end - ONLY COMPANY IN THE BAY AREA, JS, iOS, Android front-end), and we're looking for another early full-stack engineer to join our small team of five.

We make software for executive assistants - it sounds small, but you'll soon get why we think it's game-changing. Also, you get an assistant when you join. :)

They probably didn't mention that WarGames was the reason why they "upgraded."

Esper (Palo Alto, CA) - Engineer - H1B, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome --- Check us out at http://esper.com - there's a manifesto there. In short, we make productivity software for executive assistants. We're venture-backed, have a stellar group of engineers (OCaml back-end, JS, iOS, Android front-end), and we're looking for another early engineer to join our small team.

Also, you get an assistant when you join. :)

I've used it and the first time I immediately saw benefit. Key awesome features include: intuitive design, really easy to share, and it's definitely something that could compete against a lot of photo apps out there that don't make it NATURAL to share and curate your photos.

Android soon?

Very true. Especially since m00t from 4chan won and they hacked the whole polling system before.

Three interesting pieces of data that help this discussion:

1) To combat extreme poverty, a lot of great studies show that giving direct cash is better than giving non-profit services. http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588385-giving-...

2) Instead of expanding the welfare state, it's probably better that we expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) which has HUGE support on both sides of the aisle. It was first created by Milton Friedman and is one of the only things that is a policy that we predicted would be successful and became hugely successful. The issue is that each party in the United States has found that public opinion polling finds that "SNAP" or other parts of the federal government are hugely popular compared to the wonky sounding EITC.

3) Some studies also show that despite poverty, human beings will also forgo basic necessities (as determined by the state) and buy things like smartphones, text messaging plans, etc.

All in all, really, what we should be doing is likely cash infusions to the extremely poor, expanding EITC (which somewhat supports the article), and keeping the important parts of the state alive, e.g. healthy food, early childhood pre-school, etc.

With the advent of the FDA, the likelihood of something similar to radium as a cure for cancer is unlikely. Although, I sometimes think with experimental international stem cell therapy or kombucha, there's bound to be something...

My girlfriend just parked on a nearby street and she had a spot right next to her, but had to move in 2 hours. So we took the chance and moved the car, but it was still close, so she could get a ticket.

If I had known about this, we would have used it! And oh, look at that. 1% chance of a ticket. awesome.

The last slide is really important since studies have also shown that social stereotypes ("women are bad at math") are reinforced in testing conditions. When people are reminded of these stereotypes, they perform worse (questions of race/gender before the big test).

I found that I did better at stuff when (a) I didn't care and (b) when I realized I'm not the smartest person, but darn it, I'm gonna try.