skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were a few subtle slips in the show but overall they're doing a good job at keeping it as real as possible (within television's scope). Someone, for once, thought about hiring consultants I suppose.
I had one of those, conceptually the most interesting hardware I've ever had. I never took advantage of the modularity.
i-JSON[1] (internet JSON a/k/a interoperable JSON) has a standard date format. Not surprisingly, it's based on ISO 8601.

1: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7493
That is why it is recommended to untrust every Chinese CA from your system. It won't affect daily browsing even for most Chinese users. The super majority of Chinese websites, even state owned ones, buy certificates from US companies.
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Capitalism is about the means of production being privately owned. It's quite possible to have a socialist society in which you get what you can pay for.
hg crecord is awesome for fine grained patch splitting.
There's a chart for that --

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programs-a...

-- but the question is always really really slow to do what exactly?
It could simply be because i tended to be up longer on moda and therefore ate more meals.

Reports vary. A friend of mine took some (of mine) and claimed to experience extreme jitters and paranoia, whereas I can only describe moda as giving me an extremely mild calming effect. Calm and hungry.

It took me a week of taking it before I could say definitively whether it was having an effect at all, so I eventually decided the drug as a recreational experiment wasn't worth the money.
Prodictivity of the drone of a coffee shop? Try it at home
They want to remain in control and never be displaced.

You can tell when a country is either totalitarian or when it's heading that way when they begin seeking increased control over the media, when your communications are subject to routine governmental monitoring, when you can become criminally suspect for having cash, when they're afraid of you being able to encrypt anything because it might be Terror/ChildPorn (read as "forming plots against them"), etc.

Most of all, they don't want to end up dead like Saddam and Qaddafi.

They have valid fears of that becoming reality. Just like other politicians....
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Maybe I'm lucky but I've done that many times and so far the customs never bothered
I'd add the USA to that list - plenty of evidence that National Security Letters have been used to stifle/gain access to/alter coding projects in the interests of US GOV.

It's probably even more insidious, because simply confirming the existence of an NSL can be a crime punishable by significant custodial sentences. In the USA, posting "The police asked me to delete this code" could land in you federal pound you in the ass prison for 10+ years.
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This was exactly what I experienced in summer at China this year, no openvpn(not even commercial one or Linode self-hosted one), no ssh-tunnel, no other used-to-work vpn solutions.

For ssh it sometimes work for a few days then the whole IP/host is blocked.

I did not have to time try obfsproxy, shadowsock or whatever, but it really really sucked, to make things worse, my Nexus phone could not get any updates etc either, as Google is also _fully_ blocked, I felt I was back to Stone age there.
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Where is that? I've lived a lot of different places in the US and I've never seen anything like that outside the downtown areas of really big cities.
Pale Moon for Mac OSX 24.7.1

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewforum.php?f=41

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099556
Also substantial ignorance about crime patterns and the role of the courts.
Really? Scientific studies are now establishing that this or that "destroys you"?

I find it rather presumptive that you simply tell this person not to do something, period. They have more information about their own life and the trade-offs involved. As a straw man, maybe they earn enough from occasional shifts to pay for treatment of an otherwise deadly medical condition, or don't have other economic opportunities.

In addition, many jobs simply need to be done in shifts, and someone's gotta do it. Servers need monitoring, hospitals need staffing, power plants need running.
I had an employer chide me for only working 40 hours a week. I was told "come on, there's programmers in Silicon Valley who sleep under their desks every night!".

At drinks after work, the co-founder of a startup complained about people leaving the co-working space at 5:00 every day. "What's the matter with them? Don't they like money?"

If you're having trouble envisioning that kind of environment, it means you're a good, empathetic person. And it means you've had the luck of only working for managers who believe in work/life balance and a healthy approach to the job. Hopefully their example sank in, because if you're not a manger already you're well on your way to being one of the good ones.
I read that they hired a consultant from the CIA. Not sure if true of course, but whoever he is he's doing a good job.
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It's not dishonest in the least. For a country supposedly as violent and dangerous as the US, with the vast number of guns that we have, to have a murder rate on par with Amsterdam is worth noting - it's also worth noting that it has been improving for decades almost non-stop. As we gradually end the war on drugs, it's likely to drop a lot further.

If we get that 4.x rate down to a high 2.x rate in the next 20 years, would that not be a solid accomplishment given the guns in America? At the rate violent crime has been dropping over time, that's likely to be the outcome.

And as I've noted previously, America in fact has a lot of cities with extremely low murder rates. If you want to live in a very safe city, there are plenty of options.

Let's look at San Diego versus Amsterdam: nearly twice the population and nearly half the murder rate.
They hire a lot of technical consultants - Silicon Valley does as well [0].

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-how-season-1-b...
I want to add that Amsterdam is TOTALLY NOT dangerous. It's got a high murder rate because it's a capital for drug lords and assassinations happen. Civilians are completely unaffected by this. In my neighbourhood multiple people were assassinated while I was a kid, nobody ever talked about it, nobody was scared or anything, it's a non-topic really. In fact most of them used to happen in the wealthiest part of Amsterdam where all the rich people live and where I'd happily and safely cycle to school by myself at age 8 every day.

One of the streets where an assassination happened and where I'd cycle daily was this one: http://www.studiokoning.nl/Foto_Amsterdam_2/Apollolaan_14042...

Again this is a street where virtually everyone living is a millionaire, and the primary school she's 1 minute away from is one of the best in the country.

Nobody I knew ever witnessed anything, you'd just read it in the newspapers. The people who got assassinated were high level drug bosses who'd been in organised crime for decades. We're not talking about civilians here.

Beyond that, these are eurostat numbers and they're a bit shitty. The murder rates include drumroll abortion, dangerous driving and euthanasia. In short, it has nothing to do with crime or safety. So even the homicide rate of the Netherlands (a mere < 1 per 100k) is overstated. (as it probably is for American cities which have high abortion rates due to socioeconomic issues and poor sex ed)

Amsterdam is a super safe city I've lived all my life. (and I've traveled and lived in 4 continents so I can compare.) In terms of safety, sadly no developed country compares to the US, it's that bad.

I'll tell you the actual murder rates for Amsterdam and the Netherlands for 2014. Amsterdam 20, the Netherlands 137.

Per 100k that's about 1.5 for Amsterdam (for comparison, 1.3 in 2010, 1.5 in 2011), the most dangerous city in the Netherlands, and 0.8 for the Netherlands.
That's a non-issue. Everything you've ever experienced is mapped through your perceptions, and thus it's all illusory. Physics is about coming up with language that describes our experiences accurately, not distinguishing between meaningless philosophical inventions.
Hollywood Technodrama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDsiYi4LwFI
Linux user here, but I'm still pretty glad to see an open source version of windows being supported, even if it the russian government.
What's most interesting here to me is that people are taught which fingers to type with. I was never explicitly taught how to type, but I usually hit 6 with my left middle finger. I type at 130 WPM on average.

Edit: after some screwing around, I hit every number but 1 with my middle fingers (I hit 1 with my left ring finger).
The lead character feels to me like "Dexter as a Hacker".
> If you exclude the places where murder happens most, of course you appear to have a low murder rate.

There is no "of course" about it. If the murder rate were uniform throughout the US then excluding any handful of locations would have minimal effect, but excluding those locations causes it to drop precipitously.

That isn't to say it isn't a problem, but it's a localized problem. So if you're moving here and are worried about being murdered, all you have to do is live in New York and not Baltimore.
To the right of the '5' key, above the '3' key and below the '9' key.
> This is what I imagined Adderall was supposed to be.

It's worth noting that different psychotropic drugs work differently for different people.

For example: when I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago, I trialled three drugs. I definitely noticed ritalin. I certainly noticed dexedrine (and hated the experience). Strattera did nothing for me.

Other people have other experiences. YMMV.
severus_bro. I'm still not sure what you're suggesting. Is it that the Chinese government is allowing its people to be treated badly by employers? That may be true, but could they actually do much better? Improved working conditions mean reduced competitiveness and more unemployment.

Anyway, "I don't want to repeat myself" tends to be a sign that somebody has come to the end of their chain of reasoning. So there's probably nothing further for us to discuss. I hoped you might be someone who could explain a valid reason behind this popular idea. More than "Be like the better ones."
The great firewall is a cowardly, non-confrontational technical infrastructure. I don't see China using a multi-billion$ missile system to shoot down a harmless foreign communications satellite that also served people outside of China. They're smarter than that.
Thanks for the tip. I'll keep that in mind from now on. Cheers
1) you're comparing the safest US cities to the 'murder capital' of Europe. That's a total joke. It's like comparing the standard of living of a European billionaire to an American homeless person and saying 'look!'. That's why he's saying it's dishonest.

2) Even if the comparison was reasonable, you completely fail to understand the cause of the numbers and what they say. And they say nothing about safety for ordinary people living in Amsterdam, I can tell you that right away.

Here's some more info on nr (2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10102529
Actually, many of the advanced text editors offer plugins that replicate a variety of the functionality you mention. To better answer your question, I am forced to reveal the text editor I prefer (please do not take this comment as a slant to any other text editor): vim.

For vim, there are several plugins that provide completion functionality (for various languages)[1]. There are things to deal with Java imports specifically[2]. (I don't know what you mean by fixing build rules.) Hey, there are even plugins meant to facilitate whole IDE functionality for some languages[3].

Personally, I avoid things like Java so I have less of a use-case for IDEs anyway. Specifically, I code in C and Haskell (and a touch of by-hand llvm-ir for fun). In C, automatic imports and the like, I do not even wish for (since it is so necessary for me to completely understand the function calls I make, I need to read the docs quite commonly which mention the header for #inclusion). And, for Haskell, I'm constantly prototyping in ghci, so I learn what I need anyway. In neithr of these languages do I feel it is helpful enough for me to desire such things. Having said that, I understand that many people disagree; not too long ago, there was a small uproar that Haskell did not have a proper IDE yet. And I am exposed to IDEs at $DAYJOB, but if anything, that has further soured me towards them.

To all their own, text editors and IDEs alike; I think I'm likely to stick to my text editor :)

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5169638/autocompletion-i...

[2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=325

[3] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=213
Like most governments around the world, they tend to think that "change = defeat". The US, UK, Canadian, and Australian governments are not really any better in this respect. They don't really understand the internet, and are therefore (sometimes justifiably) frightened by it.

Governments, by definition, are meant to "Govern". Most see that the the rules of governance that they, as experts, have defined, should be "The Only Rules". They have a vested (if only intellectual, but rarely is this the case) interest in seeing people follow these rules. Any discussion, or debate, regarding alternative rules, is obviously being pushed by people who don't know what they're talking about.

It's oppression based on consensus and bureaucracy. Sometimes it's nefariously directed, but often it's just pigheadedness and arrogance that lead to decisions like this being made.

Although, sometimes it's just downright manipulative pricks holding the reigns. Hopefully this is less frequent than it actually appears to be. I'm giving these governments the benefit of the doubt, though they haven't done much in recent years to deserve it.
There is no need for abstractions to have a strict hierarchy. they're all abstractions -- They employ some measure of indirection -- and thus neither are fundamental or 'real' if you think about it. The words "physical" or "real" won't help you to understand physics at all.

It's like you're asking if numbers are more fundamental than operations on them when you can't possibly have one without the other.
And using a VPN doesn't have these risks?
Everyone in VFX industry successfully uses visual programming in production: see programs like Nuke, SideFX Houdini, RealFlow, Fabric Engine, etc.

> but its inherantly tied to the engine

There's no successful (like C in text-based programming) visual programming environment for general-purpose programming at the moment.
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I've had a similar experience using ritalin. If I have a clear task, I will feel a pressing need to execute that task.

If I don't have a clear task, I will procrastinate even harder.
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A side comment, as it's the first time I see the "ultimate hacking keyboard":

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. Media control functions? Come on.

Most keyboards that have an "Fn" key do not allow you to remap it in any way and invent new, impressively useless functions for it, often involving holding it for a second or longer to get to some functionality (the mind boggles).

I couldn't understand from the description if the "Fn" key is fully configurable — I sincerely hope it is, because otherwise I will never want to use this keyboard.

Otherwise this seems like a really nice design.
I don't have the C skills necessary but I would love to see ReactOS reach mature (-enough) state for work use soon: the new, privacy invading, direction that MS are taking their OS in with Win10 is unacceptable to me and yet my productivity on Windows in general is so much higher than Linux/OSX (probably just habit to be honest, I'll soon enough find out unless MS comes out with different approach to privacy defaults)
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I don't see the Great Wall of China as inherently evil.
I don't think Chinese people would benefit if we (the west) had free reign to impose all our extreme capitalist beliefs on them. Maybe they are not ready for it.

It's arrogant for us to believe that we are on the 'free' side of the firewall.
I don't see how one side is more free than the other - Both sides are subjected to constant brainwashing by various media - Be it at the hands of a suppressive government or those of greedy corporations.
Does anyone else have links to other interesting approaches to keyboards (products or otherwise)?
http://chemandy.com/calculators/round-wire-resistance-calcul...

Claims a 1km copper wire with 10mm has a resistance of ~0.2Ohms. But I don't think it's ok to use normal resistance for pulses that last on the order of microseconds. I imagine capacitance and inductance play a very significant role.
I can't help it but.. do you have any science to back up that this no-nonsense style is harmful? I much prefer it to the style of long, winding sentences full of jargon and old, uncommon words.

My feeling is that the former is more encouraging of critical thinking, since the errors stand out more. The latter style can make you think that maybe it is just me that is too stupid to understand. What the more complicated style has going for it I guess, is that it can exclude the uneducated, and it may also serve as behavioural cue to put you in a scientific state of mind. Clothes are known to do this [0].

Personally, I still prefer the casual style.

[0] http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/04/02/194855061557...
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Why English as the Universal Language of Science Is a Problem for Research
Except it's almost impossible to move there and get gainful employment
As someone who hits the "b" key with their right hand when typing, I find it encouraging that they're splitting that off to the right side, as the vast majority of "ergonomic" keyboards put it on the left side, as the home row method of typing instruction recommends.

(I learned my non-standard method of touch typing playing MUD's via telnet in the mid-nineties)
The new switchable pass they're making for the 405 HOT lanes is bigger and thicker. Still smaller than the one in that article, but no longer just a sticker. http://wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/everything-you-ever-wa...
Of course it does, but they have a less expensive and more effective means of enforcement, which is just to shut it down. That's effective because the actions they take at a single location apply to a large number of infringements.

But if they can't shut it down via technology, they'll most likely shift to individual enforcement and harassment. In that case they have to chase people one at a time, so to get widespread effectiveness they have to make sure that each individual case frightens as many people as possible. That means that the individuals targeted will be punished more severely.

Enforcement 101.
It's a pure summative estimate, as I understand it.

I imagine that it's taken as the input for a net present value calculation by many investors.
Capitalist beliefs? They're just as capitalist as us, even more so these days (especially in Western Europe).
Have we all forgotten corkscrew ?

http://agroman.net/corkscrew/
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Some examples of APIs I have in mind would be fitbit, Jawbone, iHealth, Withings etc.

Thanks!
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I almost never touch the 6 on the top row but use the numpad instead, although it seems I use either left or right index finger depending on which hand I pressed the last key with. If I'm typing the shifted version (i.e. the ^ operator), I always use my right index since my left hand moves down to the shift key.

Perhaps for the same reason, I don't use anything other than the standard PC layout; I'm basically memorised where all the keys are, and changing them will greatly confuse me. Split keyboards don't work for me either.

IMHO if you have to consciously think about which finger is being used, you should practice typing more. I didn't really know which finger I used and actually had to slow myself down to figure it out.

Edit: after a bit of experimenting, my fingering pattern seems to be approximately like this: http://i.imgur.com/zpcmHZ9.png
In almost all cases knowledge of copy-on-write doesn't have to be widespread because it is equivalent to value semantics.

It is only because they were using a buggy dll (which for non-matlab users, is custom native code that matlab calls against using a FFI), that the expected semantics of matlab were violated.
Please re-read my comments on this thread and others on this article you will find that I've actually been very patiently trying to explain some simple concepts -- to someone that repeatedly swore, accused me of criminal activity, wilfully misinterpreted me and raged at me. I said nothing that I would not have said IRL even when I did eventually descend to sarcasm in respond to the personal attacks.

Good luck in your future endeavours.
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From the main page: "It's important to note that the above are only the layers of the factory keymap. You can redefine them in any way and create multiple, custom, application-specific keymaps."
> It's quite possible to have a socialist
> society in which you get what you can pay for.

Of course it is, but that's not relevant to the point being made.

> Capitalism is about the means of
> production being privately owned.

... with the subsequent implication that things need to be operated for profit. As a result people have to pay for their services, so people can only get what they can pay for, which is the point.

Going back to the original comment[0]:

> ... you get what you pay for. It creates
> a classist, elitist society.

My point is that this is unavoidable under capitalism.

Capitalism => private ownership of production
=> operation for profit
=> charging for services
=> only get what you pay for
=> classist, elitist society
(according to kafkaesque[1])

This may not be limited to capitalism, but it is an unavoidable consequence of it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10100170

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kafkaesque
1) San Diego isn't the safest US city. The safest US cities are on par with the safest eg Scandinavian cities. There are US cities with 100k+ people that regularly have 1.x annual murder rates. If you want to live in a very safe city, the US has plenty to choose from.

2) Nothing you've said refutes or alters Amsterdam's murder rate. Nor is what you said very effective, watch: your statement says nothing about the average safety of someone living in New York City. You completely fail to understand the murder rate in New York City and how it impacts the quality of life of the typical citizen there.
Why not have two "6" keys, one on each half? The user can use whichever one he likes.