skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, Plowshare succeeded in it's practical applications. They wanted to dig big holes fast, and by god they did. That was when the indirect costs of applying the technology (namely, poisoning the world) became apparent and it was prudently abandoned.
Plenty of winners have lost their winner status via destructive drug abuse. It is practically a cliche in hr entertainment industry.
Presumably the point being that the Russian government (like many others) has access to Windows source code.

Well, we know they have XP and Windows 7. I don't know about Windows 10, but that seems less likely at this stage.
It's less dramatic -- languages thrive or fade away ;-)
Solution: start mountain biking. You'll be drinking warm, dirty, old water from old bottles and finding it delicious in no time.
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>what they say makes sense

I would argue that no single statement can make sense. Sense is made when multiple statements are combined.

It's really all just about appropriate cognitive load. Every statement must be processed and it's great to be as accurate as possible and as accurate as the consensus agrees to.

Anything higher quality than that falls under the category of "great writing," which only a handful of people cherish.
That's exactly what I meant. Thanks for putting it in clearer words.
I agree some but not totally. For example, I only run IIS as a web server for Windows as so far nothing else does nearly as well as it does on Windows IMO (I use nginx on Linux). As well MSSQL is the goto database on Windows. MSSql is pretty damn nice too although scaling and licensing is very expensive not to mention the hardware you need to run it.

But when you get into distributed software solutions which is mainly what I am working on, it is hard to get the same scalability and functionality out of Windows and Windows native products. For example, a decent messaging system like RabbitMQ either has numerous Windows specific quirks or just won't scale the same requiring more servers to maintain throughput and reliability. Not that it can't be done though, just it really changes the cost factor and the architecture. I can even use SQL Server Broker which is pretty good but again, now the costs go up pretty significantly both in terms of hardware and licensing as you can't just run it on a bunch of commodity/virtual servers full or Ram.

I made a great living off Uncle Bill and the entire Microsoft ecosystem, and I am not a Windows hater (I really like C#), I just recognize for most solutions of scale it doesn't work out without significant cost and tradeoffs.
This is what happens to your suitcase after you check it in at the airport
Http://geekhack.org/ is a pretty good source. The ErgoDox originated there.
I wonder, Does Ubuntu phone support Android application?

I want to develop Android application and then install/debug it into Ubuntu phone.
Totally agree.

I'd even move to allow importing software and hardware (firmware) only under the condition that the sources be released, audited by the importing country, validated and recompiled (with validated compilers) by the importing country.

I can see only advantages to such a scheme:

1- promotes free(dom) software / open source,

2- improves security by forced auditing,

3- by increasing the cost of importing software, promote local production of software, therefore

4- reduce unemployment,

5- this would detect bad firmware (toyota, jeep), before it can be used in deadly applications.

etc.
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> Apple will patch them just like other security flaws

With the condition that you have to upgrade to the very latest system :)
Yes, and I suspect that the primary issue of this approach is it doesn't scale. You need top-end teaching talent to pull it off, extremely strong parental support, and a school that has the wherewithal to remove uncooperative students whose behavior crosses a quality boundary, for more intensive support elsewhere (just not in those classrooms). I've seen this approach work well in a private school setting. But that school's endowment was already self-funding (thus tuitions added to the capital funding but had no real impact on operational funding that was largely drawn from interest) so the school had no qualms whatsoever instantly dismissing any disruptive students, and there was a line of previously-passed-over, eager students ready to take their place.

Behavioral problems inside the classroom were extremely rare in that setting (what little existed was negligible and ignorable by public school standards, like simply doodling "to" another student), and the academic atmosphere was far more supported by the students than I've seen in the American public school system. Supporting your anecdotal experience, many of the attending students were either honor roll or in the highest academic tracks in their previous public school lives; at that private school, they were ranked as average.

In the public school system I've never seen this approach work beyond one-off, heroic single-teacher-led efforts. Once that teacher leaves, the approach leaves with them; I've never seen a public school officially run classes this way. Ironically, the "more primitive" one-room schools of American yore were supposedly run this way, but I've never been able to locate academic studies of their effectiveness.
1. LongeCity: http://www.longecity.org/forum/forum/169-brain-health/

2. /r/nootropics

From there you should be able to find other resources; but they're the best.
Yes, that was my point. They are happy to let people circumvent the firewall as long as they're still able to read the traffic.
I started taking Modafinil 3 months ago because I had to start a job which would be new & kind of difficult for me, and my prior "normal" routine involved getting really sleepy in the afternoon (yes, I was getting proper 7-8 hrs at night) and taking a nap, which wouldn't be possible at the new job.

In short, it works. I have been taking 200mg doses. I don't notice any focusing effect. I just don't get sleepy, at all, during the day. Only other effect, for me, is caffeine sensitivity -- as other posters have noted, modafinil will not make you feel wired, but add half a cup of coffee and there you go, if that's your thing.
Does it actually do that? I haven't heard of it... But just reinstalling the OS accomplishes the same, slightly less quickly. Of course, if the malware is nasty enough, it might modify user settings to make a program run automatically, e.g., by adding it as a startup item, which, unless that OS reinstall included a patch, could then exploit the bug again and reinstall itself to the system locations. Not much Apple can do about that.
My gut sense is that 10100 degreed wouldn't even be enough to render a pixel accurate mandlebrot set on your phone's screen. So many twisty edges.
I agree, both generally and specifically. Supporting your argument is Bell Labs' `sexist`[0], a commmandline tool, part of the Writer's Workbench.

http://man.cat-v.org/unix_WWB/1/sexist

A relevant section from its man page:

[When given a file as input, sexist prints alternatives]
using neutral terms instead of sex-related terms.
For example "business executive" could easily replace
the stereotypic "businessman."

To me, "businessman" can be gender neutral just as "guys" can be gender neutral. Today we[1] don't use "businessman" for the same reason that in some years we won't use "guys"; it still gives a biased-towards-men picture of people.

[0] I'm citing Bell Labs because they're prestigious and respected by HN.

[1] Because I'm trying to influence the vox populi, I'm using "we" imprecisely. I hope that those who disagree with me follow my argument even though I'm not speaking for them.
> If you've been driving lawn mowers, ATVs, or farm equipment since you were old enough to reach the pedals, the way many rural children do, then passing the driving test is a piece of cake.

Not necessarily! When you go into the city for the driving test and encounter a bunch of crazy shit that doesn't exist on the dirt roads you drive, like stop lights and crosswalks and congestions, it's totally easy to fail a driving test just because you aren't familiar with the mechanics of how traffic works in areas with higher levels of development.
Actually 'b' is at a completely wrong position( on a ordinary keyboard ). It is inaccessible for both hand, without moving your wrist which causes strain.

I have globally remapped 'b' to the right of 'l'. It feels much better. The old 'b' key is now unused.
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Funny you should say that, Git's fast-import format was adopted by most DVCSes for easy transfer of commits from a foreign repository. Transparent-ish proxies do exist, like git-remote-hg. Those others have different models for history (Bazaar uses folder-type branches, Hg's branching is also different) but Git's internal model is a common subset.

But Git was not a first mover. That simple model was pioneered by Monotone. Git won because Linus' use case required high performance. DVCS flows from that (no waiting on the network), as does the index, and it just made for a huge difference in user experience.
Wouldn't something like Tabs Outliner in Chrome be a suitable replacement?

What would be the UX issues there for people switching over? Docking? Tabs styling?
A different (probably slightly cheaper) hack to get a safe copy of an array is:

A = X; A(1) = A(1);

Then one can evilly edit A in-place in a mex file without accidentally editing other arrays like X. However, the docs tell us never to edit arrays from input arguments in place, so a future version of Matlab could be cleverer and still break things. I wish their mex API would provide a supported way to edit things in-place. Native Matlab code does allow inplace editing:

A = fun(A);

If function fun is defined that way too, A can be altered in-place by native matlab code, but not (officially) by mex functions.
Much less famous than Feynman's Messenger Lectures at Cornell (or his real "Lectures" that got turned into the books) are the lectures he gave in New Zealand that became QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.

The good news that they're online!

http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8

Enjoy!
Who wins when currency is destryoed
I'm not American, but still catches the eye that this currently stands at "911 points"!
You have no idea what you're talking about:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/chinese-counterat...

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/deadly-lessons-the-last-...
Incidental question, but does anyone filter tap water? If so, using what technology?

My area has decent water, but there are some issues. I tried bottled mineral water, which I found quite inconvenient and expensive. It's probably very harmful to the environment too.
What can I improve on this app?
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The attention economy is dead. Welcome the trust economy
I would use effective to describe what you are talking about. If it were practical, the utility would exceed the indirect costs.
My favourite approach is the DataHand ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand )

Also the chorded keyboard ideas like in Douglas Englebart's famous 1960s computing demo, where he had a chording keyboard in one hand and a mouse in the other ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard ). The modern variant on that has headed towards wearable mobile use with the Twiddler http://twiddler.tekgear.com/

Also, the Buxton collection includes some interesting keyboard designs (including the two above): http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxto...
You can make a campfire out of plastic explosives, too. You got an answer to your question and then moved the goalposts. Move on.
Well they actually do run on karma. CERN runs largely on tax money. If citizens of the countries that contribute to CERN don't support giving money to CERN then it's grants will eventually stop... NB I'm not saying that this one incident will stop any grant money but this sort of event tends to sour people's minds.
Ashley Madison adultery website faces $578m class action over data breach
Scheme is a "Lisp implementation", it's just not a "Common Lisp implementation"
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I've been on a TrulyErgonomic for the past 3 years, and on a TypeMatrix before that (using the Bépo layout, a french dvorak), and while I've been happy with both of them, I would advise to check the ErgoDox, Axios, and Keyboardio nowadays before buying one (they are splitted and have more keys on the thumb).
Scientist note: Do not drink distilled water, at least not as a significant portion of your water intake. Water contains clinically relevant amounts of minerals that are important for health [1]. Fortunately, most "distilled water" sold as drinking water actually has these minerals added back in.

On a related note, really dont drink deionized water (you can think of it as ultra distilled, also the process does not necessarily involve distillation). Aside from tasting extremely nasty (dont ask), sufficient quantities are extremely dangerous. Fortunately it is expensive and generally only available in labs.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1495189/
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An introduction to Ergonomic keyboards:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/the-model-01-an-heir...

Here are a few dozen of links about keyboards:

http://thespanishsite.com/public_html/org/ergo/keyboards.htm...
I have lost data, twice in the last six months.
Very DIY (still have to solder mine together): http://ergodox.org
The developer console can disable the cache so that you can edit websites live, is that what you're seeing?

Also, I wonder if it's still slow if you restart with extensions disabled. There's a lot of hidden interactions in the current model.
She is stunning though but yes, both are psychic but she is by far more scary and has him under total control.
I bought a TECK when they first came out. Sadly the layout doesn't lend itself at all for other languages. I tried to reconfigure it[0] for German but I found the experience pretty jarring, especially because I don't have a job where I can always use my own keyboard (and thanks to its weight the TECK is a bit heavy to lug around).

One thing I liked was the separate arrow keys (though the duplicate didn't make much sense). I barely ever need the numpad but I can't live without the arrow keys (I don't even see how anyone who's not a vim user can).

[0]: https://github.com/pluma0/teck#overview
I love the thought put into this. A few years ago this was exactly what I was looking for, but today I am doing most of my work on my laptop, and even if you plug this in there's a problem, your keymap is lost between the native laptop keyboard and the UHK. To me this says that it's not really a hardware problem, it's something that should be 100% software, and give you an easy way to transfer keymaps from one system to another.

That is, I need a Mac keymap and a Linux keymap, where everything is synced between. Which ironically, is pretty much already possible by customizing the native keyboard layout files.
I filter mine just to remove some of the taste the pipes add. I'm not sure if you're looking for something fancy, but I use a basic Brita water filter. The best thing to make water taste better thought is to chill it in the fridge though.
I totally disliked the series... It's poorly written, disconnected and the lead character doesn't convince enough. Even the story-line is totally poor IMHO.

So the only good thing is the realistic hacking scenes...
Due to Benford's Law perhaps the 6 key should be located on the right as you're left hand will, on average, type more digits anyway.
he is saying that it has 4x population on 5x the area.

the latter being the kicker, most euros do not comprehend the distances that hit you in the US. plus, cali is a desert. try cycling in 40C heat, for 10miles (15km). people use cars because of the AC.

distances also hit as your work rarely is located where you live - US has planned cities with strict zones. you live here but you work there. US commute is very, very different than anything in Europe.
Charcoal based filters, like brita, or the ones built into higher end refrigerators are cheap and effective. I've used them for years, though the effect on taste might be a placebo, and the water in our area certainly isnt unsafe.

Of course, it depends what "issues" your local water has.
Why ANY government would use closed-source US software has always been beyond me. The only explanation I can think of is utter ignorance. Not even bribery explains it (which I know is a BIG part of it, but still makes zero sense from national security perspective).
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Having to press three keys for a force reload (Ctrl+F5 on Windows/Linux) seems incredibly awkward.

I can't really imagine living without F5, F11 or F12 as a web developer.
My conclusion: warm, de-gassed water, like warm, de-gasssed beer, doesn't taste too good.
China is ~20% of the world's population (1.36 billion of 7 billion).

If everyone in China left China, and assuming the rest of the world is living as a family of four (play along), then every home in the world outside of China would have to take in one Chinese refugee.

"Leave" is not a viable strategy at scale.
The water in Berlin tastes better after sitting for some time.
Try installing a fresh copy, or do some HDD/RAM checks. I have been running 10.10 since it came out (+Firefox) without any problems.
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Well, there are always traces from some heavy metals and excess of chlorine for example. I was thinking about a gravity or a reverse osmosis filter. Surprisingly some studies I've seen came up with very good figures in case of rather simple gravity filters.
In one of the scenes, where Darlene enters the commands like this: http://i.imgur.com/cGN3FQw.jpg

(for those who don't get it, she is entering a space before every command so that it doesn't end up in `history`)
For anyone interested in having their application and web testing in the same runtime, I'm making a CL web automation library/front-end out of emacs for testing and botting purposes.
https://github.com/olewhalehunter/kommissar
That's a fair statement.
At my home, I use a filtering faucet with a carbon filter (the same thing you see in those filtering pitchers, or some fish tank filters). Mid-tier refrigerators that produce chilled tap water frequently include this kind of filter.

I installed an ultraviolet sterilizer before the filter. This has no effect on the taste, but it does prevent most sorts of pathogen from colonizing the filter. This isn't generally an issue, but we felt like it made sense to add this when we installed the filter anyway.

At my office (same municipal water source), we have a very fancy reverse-osmosis filter. This is the same thing most of the bottled water companies use. I slightly prefer the taste of this water, but I think this is just because it's colder. The device is much more expensive initially ($200+, vs. $10 for one of the pitchers or around $50 for an under-sink carbon filter).
I really like the fact that this post first distinguishes "#1 Bookings vs. Revenue".

I hear it almost everyday among startups, where they talk about bookings, revenue and incoming payments interchangeably. And sometimes even in the same sentence such as
"We made 100 k in the whole last year [meaning revenue], we currently make about 50 k per month [meaning bookings] and just last week we made another 30 k [meaning incoming payment]."

This makes it way to hard to properly communicate with founders. So great stuff this post.
My TEK stopped registering certain keys, like the arrow keys. Wasn't sure if it's a Mac issue. I bought the Model 01 on Kickstarter which ships next year.

I've got tons of keyboard notes:
http://thespanishsite.com/public_html/org/ergo/keyboards.htm...

And I wrote a small blog on Ergonomic keyboards:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/the-model-01-an-heir...

For something we use 8-20 hours a day, keyboards should evolve a little more.

I've read so many RSI stories it's scary:

http://markmcb.com/2014/10/13/severe-hand-rsi-pain-and-recov...

https://24ways.org/2014/dont-push-through-the-pain/

http://www.looknohands.me
The Truly Ergonomic Keyboard (linked elsewhere in the thread) provides a software tool to reconfigure the keyboard's firmware. I don't see how the manufacture couldn't provide something like this to also configure the Fn key combos.

I prefer firmware configuration over software anyway -- it lets you re-use the same keyboard with different computers or when dual booting.
I'm a Rubyist. I've never written a serious software with Smalltalk, but I love the core ideas of Smalltalk.

I'm not convinced this is the end of Smalltalk. Given the increasing interest in virtual reality (the Rift, Magic Leap, HoloLens, et. al), I think there will be a significant interest in being able to directly program an immersive VR environment.

I think Pharo and the quiet work on Open Cobalt will surprise people once people start looking for ways to live-edit things in a VR environment, and the kids in the upcoming generation gets a hold of it.
I programed in Smalltalk-80 from 1990-1995. I used it at Morgan Stanley to build a derivative trading system that was distributed between London and NYC. It was running on networed Sun Sparcstations. Traders would collaborate on the same trading "book" across different machines. One of the big battles of getting the system installed was persuading traders to make room and to use a mouse to control the system.

St-80 was a great system and by way my favorite programming experience. I remember visiting Jim Gosling to hear about Oak (which subsequently became Java) and thinking that it was neat but a pale imitation of Smalltalk.

What "killed" Smalltak were a thousand cuts. A huge problem was the fact that hardware in those days was slow. Our production machines had a 25 Megahertz processor which had problems with the interpreted language that was also painting a GUI.

For a long time St-80 would just take 100% of the puny cpu even when there was nothing going on. Eventually there was 4-line event driven patch that cleared that up but that did not help when the program actually did some work.

For finance double-dispatch arithmetic made things worse since even a simple addition would result in a bunch of message sending that was cute and pure but slow.

The monolithic image was an issue too since shipping and delivering production code was hard. There were source control system but ultimately the image was a hug blob that had to be shipped around. Another issue was the windowing system. Smalltalk was its own universe and basically grew out of being the whole environment for a machine (e.g. Xerox Star).

There were no namespaces so it was hard to segments certain kinds of code and you'd end up fiddling with the innards of St which may have unintended consequences.

It did not integrate with the window managers of the day (e.g. Motif) and could not use native widgets so we had to try to style our widgets to look like the window manager.

I think the folks at ParcPlace were great inventors and engineers (Peter Deutsch is a god) but they were not fast enough to respond to the pressures of the market.

I wonder what would happen if Gigahertz machines were avaible for Smalltalk and if ParcPlace had managed to make their system have a decent package manager and to call native widgets.

It was also hard to find engineers since C/C++ was there flavor de jour. At Morgan Stanley there was also APL/A+/J but ultimately Java took the world over and now then Javascript which started off as an interpreted language with a lot less that St-80 but some times timing is everything. Moore's law helps too.

With all that said St-80 is still the gold standard of my programming life which included other fun systems such as Interlisp-D and NextStep.