skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Ideas are cheap" is a misleading expression. The full expression is "Ideas are cheap without execution". But same goes for "Execution is cheap without a good idea". I'm annoyed at people preaching this expression out of context as if they know what they're talking about. From my experience, those who actually get stuff done appreciate BOTH execution AND ideas. Great ideas are very hard to come by, and the winners fully appreciate it and make sure they execute them when they see one. On the other hand, the losers always circle jerk about how ideas are worth nothing (while not actually doing anything themselves which is ironic). It's probably because they don't value the ideas that they never have enough motivation to execute on them.
Not to downplay the prior art, but I'm not sure I can call rump kernels an evolution of the previous work. I certainly hadn't heard about OSKit at least in 2009 (since it's not cited in my 2009 USENIX paper), despite going through several rejections with program committees for rump kernels since 2007. I first heard about DDEKit at my FOSDEM 2011 presentation when someone asked about the differences between rump kernels and DDEKit. I don't know if me being ignorant is more embarrassing for myself or the general computing community.

I do know that even my first [rejected] paper on rump kernels from 2007 stressed the idea of not forking. Of course, I was young and stupid(er) back then and didn't realize that academic program committees couldn't care less about if something actually worked or not, as long as you could generate nice graphs out of it.

Yes, I absolutely believe that drivers should be separate from the OS layer. Them being bundled together is a (pre)historic mistake. I agree that we would be in a much better place if projects like OSKit and DDEKit had gotten attention early on.
Paid, but interesting:

Pragmata Pro: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fsd/pragmata-pro/
Triplicate T4c: http://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html

Something a little different:

Fantasque: https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
Lowercase and i hyphen are very different. Some other characters I'd have to see better aligned to tell.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Comic Sans! It's my goto font for all of my coding needs.
I use source code pro lite on everything that requires monospaced fonts now. I use source sans pro a lot in documents / email.
Thanks, I've seen that before, but it doesn't list Proggy Tiny, and just shows the characters in the font in a line and not how they'd appear in source code. It's hard to discern things like line height, compare the fonts at equivalent sizes, or see how they'd actually look in source code.

It also has anti-aliasing enabled on fonts that support it, which I personally hate. Proggy Tiny is designed to be pixel perfect at small sizes. MonteCarlo looked similar to Proggy Tiny, but when I typed MonteCarlo's example[1] into my editor and compared to Proggy Tiny[2] I really disliked it. That shows why you really need to see it with real source code in an editor at the same size.

Thanks for the link though, it's a good resource to see some of what's available!

[1] http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/java-example.html

[2] http://imgur.com/no8txTq

Edit: totally didn't notice it has a compare mode, and that you can change sizes and turn anti-aliasing off. This thing is sweet!
If a block chain is closed and the membership known, you could use some metric of "organizationally distinct signatories" to determine the length (/cost) of a chain rather than proof of work.
Isn't that a bad idea? Including a domain name that you don't even own in a contract?

Also, I took a look at the posts under @pixelmagazine handle, and they are definitely high-quality articles, and I'm sure they took a lot of efforts to produce, so, I'm curious, why do you choose to publish under Medium instead of setting up your own website?
That is not about the BBC Quiz show "QI" hosted by the legend Stephen Fry. This post is about the energy Qi, the principle moving energy of a living thing Qi. Not the lovely hour spent watching British comedians, and sometimes other nationalities, banter back and forth with verve and mirth all around a loosely themed pack of trivia.
Just want to draw attention that most of these are made up words. They don't appear in the dictionary. Use these words wisely.
I recently learned about /mute, which is a godsend. It lets me keep those channels open that I'm interested in, but lets me avoid getting a little red circle in my taskbar every time a message appears in them. I keep 80% of my Slack channels muted now, with only the really important ones unmuted.
It doesn't work for Helvetica or Arial, but less-famous typefaces can change pretty significantly over time:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033126/roboto-rebooted-why-goog...
No one has yet mentioned the ultimate hacker font -- Glass Tty VT220:

http://christfollower.me/misc/glasstty/

Then there's UW ttyp0 for those who still prefer their fonts bit-mapped:

http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/

And UniVGA, an emulation of the VGA font that provides much of Unicode (useful for a little Turbo Pascal nostalgia trip with an appropriate color theme, or the FPC IDE):

http://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/
I sell you an amazing AI that will write novels, given some natural language input. I deliver you a word processor and templates.

Scam?
Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas?
Send me $10 and I promise that I'll send you back $20 shortly... I might change my mind and only send you back $5 but it's definitely not a scam because I sent something back
My school had us enter our IDs into a keypad to buy lunch, so I did this everyday. Then, I had to enter it in a computer and got annoyed as the system wouldn't take it. Turns out the differences was that the lunch keypad was set up like a phone with 1 on the top while computers were set up like calculators with 1 on the bottom. It had become muscle memory and I was swapping two digits because of the change in entry device. Ever since then I've thought the incompatibility baffling, as well as surprising that it doesn't cause more problems. I hadn't noticed it at all until then.
Do you rate Arduino boards are are you using something else?
You are not a webdesigner
Monaco 10 is the only true code font :)
That is, until I get myself a retina Mac, of course.

Then I'll use an undecided vector font and the last remaining piece of resistance from classic Mac will be gone.
I had the luck of having very good math teachers, plus a share of natural "easyness" with math (wouldn't precisely describe it as talent). All the things you mentioned can be solved by having good, dedicated teachers (I mean dedicated to teaching, not just to one specific student). Unfortunately, they're not as common as they should.
FYI, in geometric algebra you can truly multiply two vectors and get another element of the geometric algebra out, no matter the dimensionality.
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What are these?

Every transmitter I can think of requires FCC type certification. If you're a police department, you can't build your own radio to use on the spectrum you've obtained from the FCC, you have to buy something that's type-certified. Similarly, you can't just go ahead and transmit on the unlicensed bands, that also requires type certification. SDRs are sold as test equipment; using them as radio transmitters is generally illegal.

Now if you're a licensed amateur radio operator, SDRs are great. You are completely allowed to use them to transmit on any frequency for which your license class allows. But there is a special provision in the laws for amateur radio operators; we are specifically licensed to build our own equipment. (And keep in mind that the use case for amateur radio service is limited by the same law; if you're not using it to establish 2-way communication with another amateur, you're doing something illegal. There are exceptions, though, and the FCC doesn't seem too picky. WSPR and other propagation beacons are strictly one-way affairs, but are tolerated.)
I actually think Color was a great idea compared to thousands of "Uber for X" ideas launching everyday nowadays. At least they tried to do something novel. In my book Color was a good idea executed badly. That said, idea is something that cannot be judged objectively. You saying Color is a bad idea is not different from people saying Twitter was a bad idea when it first launched. The only difference is one succeeded and the other didn't. Oh and I think "Tinder on Blockchain" is a good idea.
I've been using Source Code Pro Light for quite a while. It's great.
Just a bit of feedback (bias: I'm used to Monaco for Powerline)

The lowercase 'a' is much better than Monaco.

The tilde and lowercase 't' seem harder to see than Monaco.

People see characters differently, so some things which make it harder to see for some are easier for others.

Make one want a website which generates a custom font based on each person choosing the most visible variant of each glyph.

Hack: http://screencast.com/t/nnGD3Wm1M7Z5

Monaco: http://screencast.com/t/65hJcI43XT7
"," too
You should check it out and decide for yourself. I have no context to comment on the team's actual technical competence, but it has become clear to me that their M.O. is talking big and delivering fluff.
Every time "electrosensitivity" comes up, I feel obliged to post this story...

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revelat...

...and this related wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
Here's a scenario. Someone sends you a message Tuesday morning, asking "hey what is the best way to push data into this system." You are not available, off in your fortress of solitude, so they wait for about 30 minutes to hear back from you, they don't, and they proceed with reading documentation and trying to figure something out. A day passes.

The next day, you look at their work and you exclaim "wow! this is going to be really inefficient and cause problems with other features that I know are coming!" and they say "well that's why I asked you..." and you reply "well, I'm not concerned about being AVAILABLE..."
In the 1970's there was a woman 'allergic to the 20th century'. With her it was the same story but her allergies were to do with credible things like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19810223&id=...

This woman was a regular feature in the news and, if she was alive today, she almost certainly would be allergic to bluetooth/wifi etc.

Reading between the lines of her story it seems she had a doctor who was seeing her as 'allergic to the 20th century' when really she was suffering from just the normal things that affect humans from time to time, e.g. depression. So rather than being depressed everything could be blamed on 'the 20th century'.

There must be others from earlier times that have decided to 'play the dead canary' to devote their lives to distilling our fears of the new into some terrifying allergy condition of a syndrome, providing endless story for journalists to cover.
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Whoa, really? Fira already has a much larger line-height than nearly any other mono font I've used.
Entirely content-free bullshit article.
Don't forget the abrasive qualities of volcanic ash. The blade surfaces would be eroded, and the internal bearings supporting the blade, the multiplier gears, and generator inside would quickly become trashed.
Tidal blames Apple for shutting down its livestream of a Drake show
Here's another vote for Source Code Pro. It's an amazingly attractive font. I'm glad I discovered it.
I'd argue that ideas are only valuable if you're the one who can execute on them.
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In many cases, especially with lower-end routers, the firmware running on the end user device is the firmware running on the radio component - there is no seperate radio CPU.
Also Kon-Tiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition
That is the status quo. Is it a good system design? It seems to result in poor performance (hard for smaller employers to hire fresh college grads, since they haven't built an internal finishing school) and shoddy, duplicated effort (every major employer eventually constructs an ad-hoc finishing school for college grads).
So true! The only thing I dislike about my retina Mac is that Monaco 10 no longer looks right.
Is there really nothing else they could be working on while they wait for a response? Are they in such a rush to work on that one specific thing that they have a 30 minute timeout before deciding "ok, our scout is dead, we need to come up with some other way to get out of this cave: let's try explosives"?
That scenario wouldn't happen. If someone is sending me a message directly, in my present organization, we're talking Slack. Sent directly, that'll be a ping and I'll respond as soon as I notice which'll be in a few seconds. It's a disruption, sure, but if you're reaching out directly it's important. If it's _super_ important escalation to video-chat or in-person talk happens.

What I'm curious about is the regular polling model of availability. I could have been more clear.
Interesting! I always assumed that the keypads were introduced at the same time as touch tones. The era of keypad pulse phones must have been very brief as I'm sure I never saw one. Some early keypad phones lacked the * and # keys. Perhaps these were pulse dialed? Must research...
He said he checks messages if they're sent directly to him. That's perfectly reasonable and I'd wager everyone on this thread does exactly the same, not caring too much about chatter not specifically related to them. I assume no one here has 10 different people DMing them questions or new stuff to do.

I read his comment as he doesn't check Slack all the time unless someone mentions or DMs him. Your scenario doesn't happen in that case.
Social Loafing
Checking your email while doing mentally difficult work is like stopping to walk every few minutes while running a marathon.
Proportional is still very contreversial. A few of us have made the transition, and won't go back to fixed-width, but many value the ability to do ASCII art (aka space-based alignment). Other than that, there is absolutely no advantage to using a type writer font on a modern display.
Yeah, this is my go-to as well.
That's a pretty good advice, I would suggest OP should take it. I have exact same problem and after doing a lot of thinking alone, (yes off time in nature somewhere peaceful helps), I figured most important thing to do is to latch on to the positive side of the things, you have to fight with yourself to think positive, It could be scary but you have to do it and believe, world is a pretty good place. And as PanJaro said, you are among 5%. What you really need is someone in your life who can tell you everyday that you are fine, there is nothing wrong with you and, what you are doing is perfectly good in terms of amount and size, there is no more requirement to do any more, just keep on truckin. What you have is already pretty Good.

One more thing that is exceptionally important is to stay away from a lot of click-bait stuff, this will always leave you sad or feeling you lack something, and negative people. Basically anything that can amplify feedback loop of negativity that you are already struggling with.

And another most important thing is. Give your mind time to sort itself out. Don't force it to think anything, just let it go a little bit. Your mind has noticed that something in your life is not right, and it is trying to figure it out, like a puzzle, that is why it is trying to take you into a cave and curl up, so it can focus all it processing power on that one thing that it is trying to straighten out and squeze the answers and conclusions for future use.
The Freedesktop foundation is starting to scare me. I feel like all of their projects, in aggregate, are heading in a direction I do not know if I like.
I have more interesting subjects to read about, I will let the experts tell me their conclusion (when they get one.)
'We still "Hang up" when we want to terminate a call, and this refers to the action of placing the receiver back onto the hook of a phone ...'

oh my god. I'm old.
I think you are mistaken. What about a popular activity like life drawing? It's an extremely generic task in a sense, but you always end up with a product that's specific to you and to the circumstances of the model, pose etc. It's not a field where a lot of innovation takes place but just maintaining the existing traditions is enough to make it worthwhile.

In fact, as a postgrad studying on a visual art course, the obsession with newness in the culture of art is something I'm beginning to tire of. It seems to serve metonymically as a sign of "youth" which is of course something perennially desirable but not really intellectually a big deal. If you look at the hobbies of retired people you see a different emphasis, which is probably a wiser one.
Well apparently you don't understand what I'm saying. It doesn't help that I accidentally typed "selfless" instead of "selfish", so my meaning of "rationality is not selfishness, selfishess is not rational" did not come across.

"Rationality", as in the rational way of making decisions and taking actions, is only defined up to a specific set of values, goals, or preferences (however you want to phrase things) -- those goals are a free parameter.

Hence you completely misunderstood, again, continuously making the assumption that "rationality" entails acting something like a banker, seeking some sort of personal profit in everything and caring for nothing else. Again, this just isn't true. If we take the Christ-character in the New Testament as speaking sincerely, for instance, he was acting rationally for his goals.

So again, the issue is not that one has to discard rational thought in order to take a "leap of divinity", but instead that you are assigning "more divinity" to certain goals, and therefore certain actions, than to others -- this all being contingent on your belief in the Scripture.
How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure (2011)
>Perhaps there is a rational way to justify suffering and even dying at the hands of one's enemy. I'd honestly be interested in hearing such an argument!

Yes, it's called "wanting to do so".
A few things I need to be available for on slack:

- customers having issues that involve things I work on

- employees I work with asking me questions about a specific thing

- getting feedback on ideas

- uploading documents and commenting on them

- having any type of conversation with a fellow employee

- letting people know I'll be out the next day, that I'm AFK for a bit, etc.
Regardless of how you do things, you're going to need to find a way to manage distraction. Personally I'm an engineer turned CTO who used to spend 95% of my time writing code, and now spends 75% of my time on management and "soft" tasks, so I can directly relate to both sides of PG's famous Maker's vs Manager's Schedule.

Every employee is going to need different amounts of space to do their job, both due to the role and also because of personality. While Slack can destroy focus, it actually has less potential to distract you then the people in your office (whether that be colleagues, co-working space people, or roommates/family at home). In all cases there need to be boundaries and reasonable expectations, and there is no way to set those without some dialogue and empathy happening.

Now, full disclosure, my team is distributed between SF and London with a long tail of employees spread in a dozen other countries, so something like Slack is essential to fill in for certain face-to-face communications. But even setting distributed teams aside, Slack has some of the best notification controls in the comm tools space. The granularity of the notifications and the configuration options to show/hide/notify different channels and groups give you an amount of control which no other tool I've seen affords. You definitely have to dig into the Advanced and Channel Prefs in order to really dial this in. I also use the Mentions tab, and use of Stars on Channels, People and Messages to augment its async capabilities while still staying remarkably available to help where I'm needed.

Of course this is far from a silver bullet and non-trivial to set up, but going back to email would be unthinkable at this stage. I have pretty sophisticated methods of avoiding distraction in email too, but it is infinitely augmented by telling my team: "if the sky is falling DM me on Slack". That way anyone on my team can get ahold of me at any time, and I don't have to worry about a bomb in my email inbox. The problem with email is that literally anyone in the world can email you at any time, and everyone uses email in their own way, so there is no space to come to a common understanding of how to use email. The only way to win at email is to define on your own terms how you will use it to make yourself the most productive and not letting others' expectations drive your relationship to email. One of the reasons Slack is able to "replace" email is because it gives a team a private space to set up their own social norms that is isolated from strangers and other companies who really shouldn't have a say in your priorities and time management.
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I love this and want to use it; I just wish there was a proportional version. I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to hack OTF to do my own programming font (proportional with programming-specific ligatures), but the how-to information available on the web isn't very complete.
Availability depends heavily on role.

The thing that's so great about Slack is that it's IRC, but private, but well synchronized, with persistent state across client instances, and you have fine grained control over the notifications.

The threading mechanism the article doesn't seem to understand is Slack teams.
Sure, just like impersonations of your boss are ill-advised. But funny to a certain at of people (your boss probably not being a member of that set).

I suspect you haven't said anything he doesn't know.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_...
Come on. I don't know anything about the Grid team, but this line of criticism is pretty specious, little more than Tesler's Theorem writ large: "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." Once AI is successfully applied to a problem, it's dismissed as not "real intelligence."

The big critique is that you were promised AI but all you're getting are "templates and some algorithms." I mean, what do you think AI is? Magic? I hate to break it to folks, but AI is just "some algorithms" applied to a problem domain.
Kon-Tiki was interesting, but I can't handle the implication of Heyerdahl's beliefs - that the Polynesian people, supreme sailors and navigators who travelled huge distances across the open ocean while Europeans were still hugging the coast, were somehow incapable of sailing to South America and back.

We know that there has been some contact between the Americas and Polynesia, for example, the staple food of the Maori of New Zealand was the kumara, a sweet potato, which are native to the Americas.

His main objection was based, I believe, on predominating currents and winds. However, in an El Nino year, the currents shift and winds shift, and there is evidence that Polynesian migrations eastward coincided with El Nino events.
Most communication methods other than getting punched in the face are technically asynchronous.
Elasti-tabs can handle the first case, though I don't really see why you would want to bother. The second case...I don't think is reasonable.
Which equivalent app? If you are also using email at your workplace, then your workplace might be missing out on the most important features that make people want to pay for Slack.