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If you want to try fountain pens but don't want to spend $$ on a nice one at first, check out the Pilot Varsity line.[1] They're cheap and disposable and seem to write pretty well. (I'm no expert on fountain pens though.)

I use them for note taking at meetings and whatnot. You do want a fairly fine/tight paper to write on though - the same as any other liquid-ink pen.

[1] http://pilotpen.us/categories/fountain-pens/varsity/
I enjoy a lot of the speculative fiction around junk dna containing an ancient message hidden by our progenitors. What a great way to talk to your descendants (seeded by, say, bacteria lodged in comets) through time when they are ready to hear what you have to say.
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False advertising is a scam, it's just one that lots of established companies get away with. I guess there is a difference between that and one of those confidence schemes where the entire organization is a fraud, but it's still a scam.
I'm a lefty and I switched successfully to Mitsubishi Jetstream pens a few years ago. They don't smudge unless you're writing on glossy paper. I bought mine at a Japanese stationery/pen shop in SF (at the mall next to Union Square) a few years ago, but you can find them anywhere. Here's a Rakuten link: http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/atn/item/sxn-15005/
Yeah, I'm well aware of that fact, on account of living in New Zealand. ;) I was directly responding to the person I, erm, directly responded to, who posted a link to Kon-Tiki.

> I don't recall any evidence that they sailed all the way to the Americas

We have obvious evidence of contact between Polynesia and South America before the 1200s, as the Maori arrived in NZ in the 13th century with a sweet potato, as I mentioned.

As for "all the way to the Americas", the distance from Rapanui/Easter Island to Chile is less than the distance from the Marquesas Islands to Hawaii (which was colonised in the 10th century), or from Tuabai / Tahiti / Cook Islands (whichever identity of 'Hawaiki' you prefer) to New Zealand.

So, we have evidence that Polynesians contacted the Americas sometime before the 13th century, and we have evidence that the Polynesians were capable of navigating distances greater than that from Easter Island to Chile in the 10th century.

I'm not aware of any evidence of any similar ocean-going prowess of South American natives, as such, Occam's Razor probably applies.
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I contacted the site's author, the link should work now.
Wow, why would they torture children that way? Even ballpoint pen is obviously outdated and should be held back, keyboard is the king.
I mean, the article is misunderstanding asynchronous but urgent communication. But it's about Slack, and my comments are geared toward learning the communication habits of a team.

If Slack is interrupting your work, then you are using Slack wrong. Period.
Try elm (http://elm-lang.org/) first; it doesn't mention Functor, Applicative, Monoid, Monad anywhere.

You might come back to Haskell later and it won't seem like such a big deal. (I use Haskell for serious work and love that a quick patch doesn't suddenly start breaking things in 10 other places - it's a real time-saver!)
I have a nice Baoer 79 Montblanc Starwalker clone that I paid under $4 for ( delivery included )
Here is someone's review http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/240914-baoer-7...

If you prefer something larger,the Jinhao 159 is a clone of the Montblanc Meisterstück 149
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/216230-jinhao-... and is under $6 on ebay
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I can recommend the Pilot Metropolitan [1]! I have two and they are better than some "very nice" fountain pens I've used/had. Very smooth, very little issues with leaking, pretty cheap at <$20.

[1] http://www.gouletpens.com/Pilot-Metropolitan/c/191
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My family spent 6 nights in the Tetons and 6 nights in Yellowstone in the second half of May this year and I think it's only fair to temper your opinion based on when you visited. Except in July & August, neither park is remotely full, and because the in-park lodging is limited, it never really gets too awful. It just seems bad because there are so many bus tours these days, so when 80 people descend on a site all at once, it makes a big impact. That's rough on all the roadside boardwalk areas, but these bus tours almost never do any real hiking, so the vast majority of the park is still clear. My personal opinion is that the mudpots/fumaroles/geysers you see from the boardwalks are just novelties -- the beauty of the park lies in the wilderness (we, in particular, love the Lamar Valley in the northwestern corner. Wolves are commonly viewed, the hiking is astoundingly good and varied, and you can go hours without seeing another soul.).
This sort of pedantry is exactly why I submitted this library to Show HN in the first place -- I'm not a C programmer by any particular training other than self-taught, and I've never worked at such a low level in industry. Knowing that C programmers consider something like sizeof(char) to be distractingly weird (where I would just consider it consistent/defensive) is good to know!
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I say good riddance. Leave it to people who make a job out of it. We should admit it and move on, removing stuck bits of handwriting from where it doesn't belong anymore.

I personally never liked writing on paper, it was ugly and time-consuming; I would never be able to express myself on paper: I'll compress the meaning away or just quit halfway through.
I love fountain pens. Like automatic watches, they create a certain attachment and appreciation for function.
Me too. I love nice pens, paper, calligraphy, the works. I practically fetishize it and drool over Moleskines every time I'm in a bookstore.

But as a lefty, I feel like the proper experience of using them is pretty much off limits to me.
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> Spencerian script, an excessively flowery and not-all-that-legible form of writing

Agreed with one exception: capital A. The Spencerian A looks elegant while the Palmerian A looks like 3/4 of someone's bottom.

Everything else is a bit of a shrug in my book.
Lots of the comments here are attacking the idea that "electrosensitivity" is even a real thing.

I think it's not relevant, and actually counterproductive to argue if it's real or not. Instead, let's give these people a place they can live "free" of those things, which makes them happy, and we'll continue to live in a place with electo-stuff, which makes us happy.

Win, win, everyone is happy.

After all, I can choose to purchase renewable energy or not, I can choose to purchase GMO-free foods or not, I can choose to purchase hormone-free meat or not, etc. etc., so why not let these people choose to live "electro free" if they so choose? Their choice in the matter does not impact me in any way.
I'm a lefty, and I can barely get pens to work most of the time because of the angle I have to hold the pen to write with (lefties tend to push pens, which makes them not work). Pencils weren't much better because of the smudgy mess it created all over my hand and the paper. Getting through school was excruciating and messy until I got to college and it was considered "okay" to turn in work I had done on my computer.

I could have pretty decent handwriting for about an hour and then fatigue simply set it and most of my writing is an illegible mess. Not surprisingly, when I was young and we were graded on handwriting my grades were pretty poor.

Cursive didn't help much either as the continuous strokes simply meant I made more of a mess all over myself.

I was an okay sketch artist as a kid, so I had good pen control, just could never really adapt myself to the written word.

Lots of lefties go through all kinds of contortions to improve some of the situation, you'll notice Obama reaches around where he's writing so he can pull on the pen. I tried that for a while but the back and shoulder cramps were pretty spectacularly killer.

https://traceyricksfoster.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/obama-...
I've been using Tufte all day today. First to make an email template for my CV and then a theme for MOU so i can take some clean notes. Man, this is just so good, like really really good, I am almost embarassed by comparison. Super cool, great job.
Aha! You're right...
FYI one of the lesser known features of cmake is that it can invoke your build tool as well:

cmake ..
cmake --build .

This smartly invokes make/ninja/msbuild or whatever directly from the command line; very useful on windows machines or to have 'universal' cmake runners for CI that touches multiple platforms.

(Also, tutorials; `cmake .. && cmake --build .` should smartly determine the correct compiler for the system and build it; you don't need the -G "FOO" stuff unless you're specifically doing something fancy)
Hey, I noticed you haven't actually opened an issue. Did you work through your problem or ...?
In an FPS like Halo the relevance of skill sets is much harder to measure, but I think it's a delicate balance.

If I were forced to choose, I'd say motor skills and reaction time combined with spacial intelligence are the key drivers of success. I have yet to see an FPS professional that doesn't have tremendous shot accuracy and agility, relying only on their strategic skills. But I have seen some with great shots and spacial awareness make many questionable decisions. But my exposure is limited and my perception is biased.

I'd guess general intelligence shares relevance almost equally as it affects weapon utilization, detection avoidance, enemy action prediction, strategic positioning, verbal skills (team games), random trickery, etc.
Whatever kind of paper they use in moleskines and gel pens have been a saving grace for me. For some reason it works much much better.
mmh, this guy seems to need very badly a new puppy. I wonder what race could match his style.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/2e/50/f2/2e50...

yup, this is something he could call mine.
Took me forever to find a person in the streets.
You can actually see some people hanging out in one of the Observation decks in the Burj Kalifa.
I've almost exclusively used fountain pens for about 5 years now, and it's been amazing. Modern fountain pens don't generally leak much, and they are SO much better to write with than a basic Bic/generic ballpoint. The primary difference is that you don't have to push down at all which saves your hand from a huge amount of stress after a long writing session. I really don't understand why more people don't use them these days. Another bonus is that you can choose from a very wide variety of inks, so you can change it up whenever you feel like it.

My daily driver is currently a Monteverde Invincia Deluxe Stainless Steel ($65), which looks fantastic and is a great performer. I highly recommend to that anyone with large hands, because it's definitely not small. I also recommend the Pilot Metropolitan (~$12) [1] and the Waterman Phileas (~$50) all of which I have used extensively for class notes.

If I don't have one of my FPs for whatever reason, then I have been known to go for smooth "roller ball" pens as well - they use more lubricated ink than standard ball points and require less pressure, so they generally feel like mediocre fountain pens.

[1] https://www.massdrop.com/buy/pilot-mr-fountain-pen
Lefty, grew up in France (= forced to use a fountain pen from 1st to 12th grade), I just learned how to write in a way that minimizes smudges (my 2nd grade teacher would tear apart any piece of work with smudges on it and make you redo it, that's French education for you), plus heavily use blotting paper.

Now I work for a big tech company and still carry a notebook + fountain pen + blotting paper to meetings, it amuses my coworkers.
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Maybe. I think the "good idea leads to riches" story is much more often constructed in retrospect because people like tidy narratives.

I also think that the whole notion of "good idea" is misleading, in that a lot of people think that good ideas come out of the blue and then you just run with them. The companies I find interesting don't start with one good idea; they iterate toward success and have hundreds of ideas along the way, winnowing the good from the bad.

Ernest Hemingway wrote, "The first draft of anything is shit." Artist friends say, "To make good art, you first have to make a lot of bad art." Ira Glass said, "It is only by going through a volume of work that [...] your work will be as good as your ambitions." I think this is true for all creative work.
most likely submerged due to earthquake activity in the region

It's shoddy journalism that the word "earthquake" appears nowhere in that article. Nor did I see an alternate explanation proffered.

That's the very first question I had: "how did it become submerged?".
I think it's useful for being able to read old documents. My parents and grandparents wrote only in cursive and I'm finding I have to read their writing to younger people who can't read it.
Read the article. The sensitive people go around demanding everyone acquiesce to their unfounded demands. The article does everything but come out and say they're obnoxious, annoying neighbours. I don't think anyone is stopping people from going out and living by themselves, just that no one else should have to put up with them. If these folks just stayed at home, turned off their WiFi, no one would care. The fact that they need special treatment from everyone else is why this is even a subject.

Edit: In addition, giving into stupid beliefs does the world harm. It promotes further poor thinking and suboptimal choices that hurt other people. (Or even, innocent children, if you want to play that card.) That's why, in as far as we have any responsibility to society, we should fight irrationality.
In my hometown in the 80's, elementary school kids were not allowed to use ballpoints. Fountain pens were allowed from the 3rd grade. Before that, wood-based pencils only. Even mechanical pencils were forbidden. It was said that ballpoints and mechanical pencils, especially the former, would have very negative effects on developing one's handwriting.

This was the case for Chinese, in which a good handwriting was highly regarded. As far as I know, there are no studies to prove or disprove the claim. It was true for me personally and for my classmates. I could execute many handwriting forms in pencils and in fountain pens easily while extremely hard, if ever possible, in ballpoints. After using ballpoints for a pretty long period, I couldn't write as well even if I picked up my fountain pens again. It had to take some time and some writing to get it back.
Check out Office Code Pro. It's a custom version of Source Code Pro, and slightly more readable in my opinion.

https://github.com/nathco/Office-Code-Pro
Oh, thank god Louis CK has covered this. Case closed, then.
Yup, my typing speed is ~80 WPM and my writing speed is probably way less and not even as easy to read.
I feel like the tail on the i is too long.
If there was an early time when pushbutton phones used pulse dialing, it must have been brief. All of the pushbutton phones that I ever saw as a kid were DTMF. I'm not sure how a pushbutton pulse phone would have worked without digital electronics. This was at a time when, in the US, the phone company had a monopoly on phones, all phones were rented, and you actually paid more for "touch-tone" service.

Later on, the phone regulations were changed, and you could own a phone. That's when cheap pushbutton phones came out, that had a switch allowing you to choose between pulse and tone dialing, because you still had to pay more for touch-tone service and some regions didn't offer it.

The weird thing was, sometimes you had to use both, for instance at my college, the phone system used pulse dialing, but I had to enter a "calling card" code using tone dialing in order to call my parents and put the call on their bill.
The most interesting thing to me is the picture of they guy on the deck of the boat (from the article). What is the material used to cover the solar cells? It must be tough enough to survive salt water and people walking on it. And yet it must allow most of the light thru.

Maybe it's a very newbie question to materials people. But it's interesting to me. My mental image of solar cells is they're more fragile than that.
Sure, but your latter paragraph describes ideas + work. The idea is cheap; what's valuable is the proof.

Startups are a great example of this. Nobody at all buys ideas. Nobody. Startup ideas are, in market valuation, worthless. But go out and validate the idea, prove that they're money to be made, and you'll start to see investment. Actually generate results and somebody like Google or Facebook might want to buy you. But if you show up with unproven ideas and try to sell them, you'll discover that they have security guards to keep you out.
This year I spent some time in Rijswijk (a small city right next to The Hague) and I was able to get to The Hague's center and back without ever having to leave the bicycle track.

Seriously, their bicycle tracks are amazing. Physically detached from pedestrians and cars and ciclysts have separate traffic lights.

It's no wonder that the Netherlands has a larger number of sold bicycles than it has citizens.
I can not find the study right now, I am on my phone, but I do remember that there was a double blind study conducted where they had people who self diagnosed them selves with EM sensitivity tested. If I remember correctly, group 1 was placed in a room with no EM emissions, but s router in the corner that would be on and blinking. It was a dummy router, just a box with LEDs. Group 2 was placed in a claimed "isolation" room that was supposed to be EM free, but in fact had several wifi routers hidden and active throughout the room. I think they had a few more controls.

The point is, people in the dummy router room, the LED box room, would immediately develop a migraine headache. People in the room with multiple hidden wifi routers actually emitting radio waves were just fine. But here is the kicker, the symptoms of people in the dummy router room were 100% real. As in, physiologically they did in fact experience a lot of pain.

I think the purpose of the study was about the power of placebo effect, not necessarily to torment and make fun of people with claimed EM sensitivity.

Point is, these people are probably in very real pain, it's just that their pain isn't really caused by EM emissions. The fellow on HealthCare Triage talked about it in his episode on Placebo Effect.
Usually I start small and with only a golden rule: use the tools that will allow me to save time and money. This means using PaaS during the take-off and focusing on dev.

Since you already know python consider using a django boilerplate[1] for your webapp. You can deploy it for free with a nice plan (better than heroku) in GAE.

My 0.02

[0] http://www.fullstackpython.com/django.html

[1] http://appengine.beecoss.com
I think this is one of the more interesting ones for its extreme terseness and opaqueness:

http://dflund.se/~john_e/gems/gem003a.html

It would be a little adventure to try to figure out how it was conceived, as although it looks like something a superoptimiser would produce, it was around before superoptimisation, and I think it was generated by a human likely related to the demoscene.
Hmmm. Maybe I am an edgecase, but I only like watching videos > 20mins. I watch a lot of Kevin Rose's foundation series, interviews with entrepreneurs, how to videos, etc. I see the value prop in having longer well done, high production value material and that is what I would pay for. They could basically be television and curate google endorsed channels for entertainment, news, education etc. seems like they want to compete with twitch and pandora when they really should just help netflix kill cable.
TIL! This is awesome! I never knew about this.

What does it do under Windows? Does it run say, devenv.exe/msbuild in the shell, as opposed to in Visual Studio?
Churn is often driven by emperor's new clothes, the feeling that change is automatically improvement and/or NIH-syndrome.
Actually they're already developing that region for geothermal. Just not inside the park: http://www.montanagreenpower.com/other/geothermal.php

There are actually much better spots in the US though. Some relatively close to Yellowstone:
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>As a curriculum/pedagogy, teachers using the Palmer method focused on drilling and discipline, the same “do it correctly or I’ll hit you” style common to instruction in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Where early 20th century extended into at least the 1960s at one Catholic grade school I could name :-)
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Yes, that's exactly what it does, if you're using the VS backend (which is the default).

(So you can actually be in 100% console mode in windows if you want and never launch VS. :)
I doubt the geofencing is intended to thwart DEFCON attendees who intentionally wish to update the onboard geofencing database. What it will probably be largely effective for is the other 99% of drone fliers, some of whom fly their drones too close to airports likely because they are completely ignorant and oblivious of the rules and inherent danger in what they are doing.
The OpenBSD project will not (cannot) prevent you from developing your own mips32 port.
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Yes, but you'll pay a third of that for short term housing.
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What’s one thing you’ve learned at HBS that blew your mind?
6-7 years ago I bought the Essential version of the PragmataPro font (http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm). And although in the intervening years I have tried dozens of other fonts, I have always come back to the PragmataPro. It is now available for 19 euros (~$21). I bought the essential version for $70 back then.

I personally use it aliased. The font looks a little dense with anti-aliasing on. But I never liked anti-aliasing anyway, especially on low-dpi screens.
I tend to prefer roller ball pens but I'm pretty much a lost cause when it comes to writing at this point anyway. Handwriting was never one of my better subjects in grade school under the best of circumstances but looking through old notebooks as they progress over the years apparently reveals a general descent into total loss of right hand muscular control. :-)
> A restaurant that kicks you out after 800 calories. Is this where we are now?

Yup! And a restaurant that kicks you out after 400 calories, and one that kicks you out after 1200 too. And one the gives you a bigger and bigger discount for every calorie you eat. And one that does the opposite.

Our purpose as programmers is to build every piece of software anyone will ever want. Just because very few people might want any specific variation doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. If someone is willing to write the code, why not? There's no reason why we have to all huddle a tiny handful of mass-market applications.
Customisable per-room notifications for HipChat have been in Beta for the web client since July: https://blog.hipchat.com/2015/07/13/customizable-room-notifi...