skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes any country could do it alone, but all it does is slightly reduce global demand, Australia being a fairly small country population-wise likely didn't make a dent. All other things being equal it doesn't leave fossil fuels in the ground, just increases the amount of time before we extract them. That does buy time for the human race to find a lasting solution.
Minority Report had almost no effect on UI as it was both internally incoherent, ergonomically untennible, and depended on non existent technology.

In fact in many ways it set back the dreams of UI by teaching a generation to value nonsensical interactions and poor ergonomics over usability
They use exactly the same process and technology (these days either gas diffusion or gas centrifuge). These are iterative processes; you keep running them until you get the level of enrichment you want (<20% for fuel, >80% for weapons). Quit speculating on how you can get the answer you want and try the facts.
This is it: http://www.kiwiforgmail.com/
Is this the same?
http://liguangming.com/shadowrocket
You could have set up those media keyboard shortcuts yourself at the software level.

The problem with the Fn key is that it, itself, typically cannot be reassigned.
yea especially when in that same line they mentioned onion routing and explained traffic monitoring by comprising tor exit nodes.
Most faucets have aerators. Flat water has a distinctly different texture that aerated. For instance, if you're really thirsty, you can chug distilled water (which seems to have much less dissolved gases) rapidly, but spring water will not go down as smoothly.
> and depended on non existent technology.

Exactly why people are influenced by it.
I'm more scared of his wife - looks like she's the brains in that relationship :-)
Yes.

AFAIK ReactOS works together with Wine, so it could probably improve the integration of Windows apps in Linux.
Firefox's WebExtensions Documentation
Did I miss anything or does it really boil down to "When designing this app (AireLive) we only thought about flawless internet connectivity, which is taken for granted in South Korea but not in the US"?
Looks interesting. Do you order one of each kind and send back all but one?

Also, why is that Windows key so accessible? That is what that diamond shaped icon is, right?
"Multi-billion" is irrelevant here because most people working for a large company don't have anywhere near that kind of budget. We're talking about two programmers who were allowed to work on a research project for a month.

Also, Facebook releases lots of great open source software. Apparently you haven't heard of React? For more see https://code.facebook.com/projects/
What do you think the car should do when it can't see any lane markings?

Would also be interested in knowing what you think it does right now, in the failure scenario we're discussing.
And as an aside they're the easiest way to exchange money when overseas. It's like a bank where the bank meets you at your hotel and gives you cash, and you never have to worry that your PIN won't work or your home bank will decide not to honor your transaction for fraud protection.
Chrome is finally getting faster on Mac
My point was not whether this would be a good thing or bad, but to point out a likely consequence.
> http://www.trulyergonomic.com

I like how they advertise "100% of the keys in 60% of the space", when the majority of the space they save is the numpad... which isn't replicated in their keyboard. There's a number of odd choices with keys, probably the greatest of which is hiding 'insert' behind a function shift.
I'm sure I'm not the only one, so could you explain the prank? Certainly the message you posted doesn't show up when I try to compile it...
"Carbonated water" is an acid-base mixture, with more than one part of the mixture had "carbon" in
it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonated_water

Just adding acid won't give you the pleasant taste.

Also, humans ofte dislike trace flavors, even when they like the flavor : it subconsciously tastes "dirty".
> EDIT: As an aside, what width space-bar do most of you think you require? I've just been thinking about KB key-width, and the space-bar shaped elephant-in-the-room loomed it's lengthy head.

Well, mine's about a half inch teardrop shape :)

http://alphagrips.com/

I imagine it's just so wide so your thumb doesn't have to move from anywhere on the main keyboard to hit it. It is used incredibly often!
I don't think any left wing politicians give a shit about public transit in rural areas. The battleground is the dense suburbs.
Although Smalltalk was early computer language from the 1970s, it could not run efficiently on most computers until the 32bit CPUs came along in the 1990s. By then the simple C language and it's OOP hybrids dominated the coding world.

Smalltalk came on the scene before computer operating systems were well developed as we know them now. Hence Smalltalk did a little bit of everything- code, GUI, OS, IDE. This an advantage in providing an unified API to all these services. However all these services are not as well developed inside Smalltalk as in the layered systems we have now.
> Whenever I see a keyboard with an "Fn" key, I sigh. This means that the designer of the keyboard thought he knows better which functions I need and took valuable space in the modifier row for a key which I will probably never use.

And what tells you they won't make this key configurable? Nothing.

> Media control functions? Come on.

Most people listen to music, you know. It's certainly not crazy to have them on every keyboard.
I personally like the Mario & Luigi series (spiritual sequels to Super Mario RPG) even better.
HTML in Java
Not all technology is mobile phone apps. Some of it is geological engineering, or heavy machinery, or genetics, or...
Notice ParcPlace's offering is more than 7x that of MS or Borland. I believe both it and Digitalk's competitively-priced alternative were merged into a single product after PP and Digitalk merged.
Using RxJava to Monitor Hystrix Streams
Perhaps it's sad, but maybe it's the catalyst for change we need. Microsoft can lose a few individuals as customers and not blink an eye. Losing significant quantities of foreign governments as customers due to US government policies and actions may not go over so well with their bottom line.
It is possible to remap pretty much any OS X key with the help of a utility like Karabiner.
Ironically, I am an operating engineer at a power plant. So, yeah, I don't have much of a choice.
I didn't miss the point, I disagreed with the premise of picking the top outcomes in Europe, while ignoring the other half of Europe that represent quite poor outcomes.

When comparing the US vs European nations, there are certain requirements to get a positive outcome for Europe. You have to drop most of the medium countries like Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Czech, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Turkey from the comparison - to say nothing of Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia, Belarus, Russia, Albania, Moldova.

The focus has to be on: France, Germany, UK, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium.

If you deviate from that exact list, Europe's ratings on everything implode rapidly.

It points to the persistent intellectual fraud in most comparisons to the US that you see with regards to Europe. People always want to stick to talking about just a few nations. They never want to do even a EU vs US comparison (eg twice the unemployment rate of the US, with next to zero GDP growth for eight years and with only ~60% the GDP per capita). US life expectancy is also as high as the EU, despite our supposedly inferior healthcare system. Median incomes are quite higher in the US than the EU, and median household wealth is also higher. The US also produces greater total output in terms of science, innovation and nobel prizes than the EU does.
It's very disconnected though. The I-10 route ends at union station and there is no direct connection. Also it would be nice to extend it on I-105 west all the way to LAX. The current situation is pretty popular and the fares can be as high as $11 (or more?) to go into downtown so if the were to really improve the connections it would only make the routes more popular, and thus more expensive at peak times.
>>building "apps" for desktop or mobile? ok, you got me there... smalltalk is probably not apropo...<<

… because?
There's also some Macbeth and Hamlet going on here.
>Good for mindset, but bad for soulset.

Exactly. From the linked article: Modafinil "indirectly upregulates cerebral serotonin" ...a concern for those focusing on quality of life rather than quantity of output.

"To give you some perspective: the type of behavior displayed by upper classes of society; the elegance, the subtlety, the higher levels of intelligence and conscience, most likely reflect low serotonin levels (or rather, a lower ratio of serotonin to other neurotransmitters). Now take the opposite, high serotonin, say in combination with a poor immune system, low metabolic rate, chronic inflammation, and what will you have? Well, a serf/thrall."

Further discussion here:

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/73104-natural-serotonin...
http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/78451-symptoms-signs-of...
This is a great class ... we've been promoting it to everyone (who uses Java) at the university where I work.
The FN key, especially on laptops, is not something the OS has any control over. A few laptops have a bios setting to allow swapping fn and ctrl buttons, but not all of them.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514781/intercepting-the-f...
> 5) Has some of the most generous welfare state policies of any nation. The US has free healthcare, and very large food and housing programs for the poor. Which is why America's poor are better off than all but half a dozen nation's poor.

Not to start an argument. I'm hoping you know something I don't and that will be a huge help.

I keep hearing about this free healthcare, yet I have friends and family members who can't afford the medication that keeps (kept) them alive. There was no other option even after chasing programs offered by the drug companies for "free medication" and applying to state programs. Do you mean they can go to an emergency room? That's not free either, you end up getting calls from collection agencies for the rest of your life, just like any other debt. And the emergency rooms are never a good idea unless you're actually bleeding out. My former father-in-law sat in the waiting room with a ruptured appendix for 12 hours because he was obviously poor and had no insurance. The nurse explained, if you have insurance, you have a Primary Care Physician to get you admitted, you can get right in. He didn't, so they told him to go home and take some ibuprofen. When he didn't (he couldn't physically get up) they got to him when they could.

For myself, health insurance is the single highest cost item in my budget. It costs more than my car payment or rent. I'm on the least expensive Affordable Care Act insurance in Texas. There is no subsidy unless you make 400% of the poverty level. As a business owner with a new business, I have zero revenue or income. I would be fine with that cost as a tax on income, it could grow with me. But as a flat rate, I will only be able to afford this a few more months unless our business becomes profitable, then I'm in the same boat as all the other poor, unless I go running back to some established employer. My wife has Type II diabetes. So I'm going to do whatever I have to. Her prescribed medication costs ~$400 per month, but after much searching we found a different combination that was $40/mo. Hopefully it works as well, we'll have to see.

I'm not complaining. I've had high paid jobs and and made alot of money over my life. We have it easier than most of the people we know. We are both young(ish) and healthy enough to still work. We have some savings, but I've spent most of it pitching in on healthcare for the family members I mentioned including my daughter. One of the reasons we started a business is we want to have something that will support us when we aren't able to do it ourselves, because we don't have anyone to do for us what we did for them. We don't have other options that I know of.

Tell me you do. I want to live in the America you do.

(edited to fix typos)
What Can AI Get from Neuroscience? (2007) [pdf]
On Jealousy and Greatness: Greatness Is for Everyone
Could you point me to a good resource on nootropics?
I wish that were a choice! Unfortunately for me most of my career options are shift-work based at this time. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Let's hope this isn't one of those cases.
I guess you could make a rule like Fn-* = Ctrl-*. And anyway the plan seems to be making the software Free, so you can hack it anyway.
I leave tap water in a carafe in my refrigerator overnight before drinking it, and even that tastes dramatically different when warm than when fresh out of the fridge.
Not exactly mazes, but there's a good talk on generating dungeon-like levels for a rogue-like in Python from PyCon 2014,

http://pyvideo.org/video/2582/castle-anthrax-dungeon-generat...
The challenge seems to be the OCR takes place in a post-processing phase instead of real-time, and the desire is to catch the improper page flip before putting away the book. Perhaps with one or more gigabit pipes, the image processing can take place in the cloud in near real-time.

The Kirtas units seem highly-regarded by conservators; they might have lots of objections to even gentle shaking of their sometimes fragile charges. The impression I get is that the slight vacuum employed by the Kirtas on pages is the most handling that is accepted. There might be recent developments in computer vision and robotic fingers which could see an improved robotic analog to a human page flipper in the future.

My personal hunch is the popularization and (relative) mass adoption of the slower, lower-tech open source book scanners will eventually outstrip the dedicated scanning throughput of the high-end units, and put more digitized content onto the Net, along with a legal fight over content "abandoned" by publishers. When I digitize my content, it goes into my private collection, but I sure wish publishers were more aggressive with digitization of the older material, or lenient with letting that older material go into the public domain if they aren't even chasing the long-long-long tail of that material anymore.
So basically friends and guanxi...
My experience of Modafinil is similar. I'm prescribed it for sleep apnea. It dispels the daytime somnolence and lets me function. It's been enormously helpful for me.

At my 200mg dose, I've seen no changes in vital signs (BP, heart rate), affect, or cognition.

I guess people around me might say I'm smarter on it, but only because the comparison would be to me asleep at my desk. It hasn't allowed me to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics, at least at the 200mg dose.
If you are working with unfamiliar data it is very useful to be able to view a huge number of rows in one go. It is the kind of tool that coders all have and use but is unavailable to the general public. Of course excel should be able to quickly scroll through millions of rows if that is what the user wants. Filtering maybe the next step but you need to feel out the data first to know what to filter.

Also, it makes a certain sense to over-engineer this kind of technology to give other elements of the stack some leeway. Lazy loading is great but so is pre-emptively loading data in case latency rises.
Languages thrive or die. The successful ones are those enable(d) less capable people at the time to do fashionable works as good as, or even better than the professionals. It has nothing to do with anything other than marketing strategy: find a under served market segment and empower idiots to do mediocre+ works with little efforts. In order to achieve so, language designers have to break old paradigms, simply because if they don't, the less capable people at the time just don't understand, nor capable of (otherwise, they would be professionals).
Are you suggesting those as counterexamples? Neither one is an example of an "all-encompassing environment."

"Visual C++" no longer exists, it's just part of Visual Studio now. When it did exist, it was merely an IDE for regular C++, not any kind of separate environment.

Visual Basic was a package including a GUI toolkit, a programming language, and an IDE for developing ordinary Windows applications. These tools were deployed and used as ordinary Windows applications. There was no separate computing environment with its own windowing system, data storage mechanisms, UI conventions, etc. And the current Visual Basic .NET isn't even that anymore; it's just another .NET language now, where you can swap out the IDE or GUI framework for whatever is available (including none at all if you like, you don't need either one to have a useful VB.NET program).
The businesses merged, not the products.
I am at 20mg ir of adderall and if it weren't for the jitters I wouldn't know I have taken anything. But that low strength provigil is very very noticeable, for example.
As the lead developer of the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard I can confirm that the Fn key can be reprogrammed just like any other key.

You can make Backspace emit Ctrl, Enter emit Alt+Tab, or make the Right Shift play back a macro.
Hey, you could use a GUI client named GoAgentX on github. You could find the download link at this address.

http://shadowsocks.org/en/download/clients.html
Video Games Are the Perfect Way to Teach Math
Gopher images for the Go developer community
The function key is most often (read: always) implemented in hardware so when you hold the button the chip in the keyboard modifies the raw character code sent over USB.

Unless they explicitly programmed the IC for re onfigurability of FN, it will be the same useless button.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but my understanding is that GAAP is not just stuff people generally agree on, but a highly technical set of rules:

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

And that they are determined in the US by the FASB, which is part of the SEC:

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

The SEC, of course, being the federal agency that regulates all attempts to take investment.

So I think the acronym's use here is important, because it signals that there is a precise legal definition of the term revenue, and that startup founders, so used to hustling and half-assing things, should not fuck around when using that word.
> Why do American companies sell this kind of stuff to China and non-democracies in the middle east? They must rationalize it in someway, but I think it's wrong.

Pursuit of the almighty Free Market without regard for scruples or morality. Basically, public corporations base success only on money. If you as an executive refuse to bow down before Mammon[1,2] then you are replaced by someone who will. Seealso Charles Stross' excellent Invaders From Mars[3]. The Chinese government and other regimes pay big money for these tools.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon_%28Dungeons_%26_Dragons...
[3] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders...
Essential books for the best poker players
In addition to all the arguments given in the article (go ahead, read it), the problem is that English is rather defective a language.
Everything we know about the world has at some point to go through our senses but it is still a reasonable assumption that there is a real world outside and independent of our minds.

When we collide particles in an accelerator and then look at the results on a computer screen you can hardly argue that our vision disturbs what the experiment tells us about the world out there in any significant way. The whole goal is to learn things about the world out there in a way independent of us and that is certainly possible.

Relativity taught us that space and time are really different from what they usually look to us not withstanding that we may have a hard time developing an intuition for them.

So I disagree, that our senses and minds have limitations does not imply that it is pointless to ask questions about what the world out there really is like.
> As in, it's been around for 40 years and it's not even in the top 50 on TIOBE ranking vs C which is everywhere. The index has its flaws, but being >50th is certainly a significant failure.

Are we assuming that the only type of success is continued growth and adoption? By this measure, every language that will ever have been conceived will fail eventually... Or is there a cut-off when you can't say a language failed any longer because at least it peaked high?

There are lots of languages that have been big and have influenced all of programming and software development. I don't know if we can just blanket label them as failures because they don't have many users at the moment. These are languages that have inspired far more advancement in programming than most of the popular ones.
> Are quantum fields actual elements of reality

Yes. Just as Schroedinger/Heisenberg quantum theory describes the behavior ("reality") for particles on a small scale, quantum-field theory describes the behavior of fields on a small scale.
May 1988, Smalltalk/V286 was viable on commodity hardware.

http://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBooks/SmalltalkVTutorial/S...
What if everyone jumped?
Each product is different, even those that appear to be the same. I'd try and stay away from comparing yourself to others and instead look at the data the right way. Then I'd compare yourself to yourself each day and week and do things to improve the numbers.

Instead of looking at it this way, I'd instead look at it on a cohort basis over time. A product can have a really bad (total active users)/(total signups) rate historically but actually be in really good shape after iterating for a while. For example, you might be working on your product for 6 months, have 3,000 signups to date, and 300 active users. It would be unfair to measure how things are going by taking 300/3,000 (10%). If you were to look at the same data on a cohort basis, you might find that some group of recent users is stickier than others (because your product changed, or product positioning changed, or something else), and the rate might be something more like 90%.

Products like Mixpanel and Amplitude handle cohort analysis well. You can send in a couple events (Sign Up and some authentic usage metric you define depending on your goals) and pull a cohort analysis. An example: http://aacook.co/retention.png

This chart tells you quite a bit about how you're doing. Week/week acquisition (number of new users signing up) is in the first column, new user activation in the 2nd column (number of new signups who reached a moment of value) and a basic form of retention (number of users coming back at week N).
Thanks for that, brilliant. Sticked!
You+Don't+Have+To+Accept+Being+Taken+For+Granted:+Part+II
Putting animals online: Does it protect or destroy?
Not "forgetting" math, but working in a more-social lower-math job. Aka management and sales, not engineering.

But anyway a huge amount of variation us being compressed into over/under 50th %ile. You can't read anything into an anysis like this, outside of the range of near-mode (average people) incomes and skill levels. A full economy analysis doesn't say much about people in the 80+%ile of skill level, which even a junior engineer or MBA is at.
The article "Visualizing Algorithms" by Mike Bostock has a fantastic section on mazes: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/#maze-generation
4 Reasons to Choose Cloud Based Virtual Training Over Classroom Training
I think you were accidentaly conflating the two users sumanthvepa and saurabhtandon (happened to me too, btw).

Personal attacks aside, you point still stands and I want to thank you for bringing some actual financial expertise into the discussion :-)