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I feel sorry for the lead character and he obviously has problems, but the wannabe CTO of EvilCorp reminds me more of Dexter. This is the first TV show I've enjoyed enough to schedule for it in a long time but that character (Tyrell Wellick[1]) is a bit too dark for comfort.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0514444/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2
You mean like "Only 10,000 of your people died. 20,000 of theirs did, so your atrocity isn't as important as theirs."? Helluva world view.
Thanks for putting a lot of thought into this! I've used many KBs over the years, and haven't thought about the alignment of the number row at all.

As an example, I just noticed that my Surface "Typepad" KB has a very narrow tilde / back-quote key (~ and `) which biases the "6" to the left. If this weren't the case than it would be more centered, but this is then thrown by the width of the "Backspace" key.

Is numerical input (without the use of a number pad) covered at all in any of the QWERTY vs. Dvorak vs. etc. debates? They have mostly looked at character input to my knowledge, with little regard to numerical input.

Thanks UHK for asking this question?

(personally, I think I'd just adopt to whatever, but "power users" may have a different, justifiable position on this.)

EDIT: As an aside, what width space-bar do most of you think you require? I've just been thinking about KB key-width, and the space-bar shaped elephant-in-the-room loomed it's lengthy head.

Based on the visible wear patterns on my 7 year old laptop, I reckon I'd be more than happy if the space-bar only extended from "V" to "N".

I assume the KB designers have already looked into this, and we've already reached "optimum space-bar", but I'd love to see some research. Anyone know of any studies that have been done that confirm why my space-bar needs to be more than five times larger than the standard letter key?
After the latest episode it feels a bit more like "nerd soap opera".
Weapons-grade uranium.
The latency with that method is going to suck, though.
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The article touches very briefly on many possible explanations without ever coming to a conclusion.

But I'm fairly certain it's the one they mention towards the end: the evaporation of oxygen and the development of carbonic acid. That's why putting water in a closed bottle slows down the process.
After investing in a Truly Ergonomic[0] keyboard, I personally don't want ever again to use a keyboard with asymmetrically staggered keys. Having a perfectly mirrored layout is much nicer to use. The 6 on it is on the right, if that matters.

[0] That's the brand name, it's not really truly ergonomic, or at least not as designed for ergonomics as a Kinesis. Homepage/store: http://www.trulyergonomic.com
> You can find an equivalent population in Western Europe (e.g. UK, France, Germany, Benelux, Scandinavia) the size of the US population

If we're going to compare the top 25% of Europe versus the US, then let's use the top 25% of the US for the comparison, and use the bottom 25% of Europe to compare against the bottom 25% of the US. Given the population numbers are a lot closer for that comparison, it makes drastically more sense than trying to compare Finland to the US. It also makes far more sense on a diversity basis, given across all of Europe you get a lot of diversity, and the same is true for the US (with ~140 million minorities, and a vast number of national and cultural backgrounds).

It's absurd to compare solo countries like Norway to the US. There's no scenario under which that can ever make sense.

How does Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, etc compare to the bottom 25% in America?

How does all of Sweden compare to even the top 50% in the US? (that's 165 million people, so I feel like I'm giving you an extraordinary benefit there, comparing against tiny countries)

It's blatantly obvious what happens when you use a full European comparison, instead of just picking the top European nations. I've been accused a lot in this thread of cherry picking data, well only picking the top European nations is extreme cherry picking.
Off-topic but that domain name is ridiculously long!
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I'm in the same boat as you. I definitely won't be switching to Windows 10 with the privacy settings as they are, but I prefer working on Windows over Linux, mainly because I'm more confident that it won't break in some way (I've not had the best of luck with Linux, though I've seen it get progressively better, and I'm glad about the emerging work on Wayland/Mir, I just wish the audio stack had an overhaul too). Fingers crossed ReactOS will be stable by the time Windows 7 is no longer supported, either that and bite the bullet and switch to Linux/BSD.
Always been a fan of this Tumblr for cataloging movie/tv UIs - http://fakeui.tumblr.com/

I think some of the entries could serve as inspiration. Think about the effect Minority Report's UX has had. It was an idea that wasn't new, but seeing it (I think well done) in a movie gives it a more concrete goal for a lot of people (tech) and a reference point for other people (non-tech).
Anybody interested in an ebook about how to dose yourself (or your entire company) for optimal startup performance?

I've thought about putting one together by interviewing people about their non-amphetamine-based get-shit-done regimen (timings, dosages, ± side effects, results). It'll be like an Internet bad-broscience guide, but with a slant towards combining wider anecdotal evidence with results and performance benefits/drawbacks across everybody.

email me if you're interested. If there's enough seed interest, I'll make it happen.
From my typing class in high school (on a typewriter), we were taught to hit the '6' key with our right index finger.

Ergo keyboards always seem to stick it on the "wrong" side. :)
But nukes are the reason there haven't been any direct wars between major powers since WWII. Isn't that a good thing?
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I live in an area where water is drawn from aquifers within limestone deposits - I actually like the "taste" of hard water over soft, but when I leave a glass of water out for the night, I might also see flecks of calcium precipitant.
You and your facts. :-)
Best i can tell, you can create your own keymaps covering on all of the four "layers" reachable via modifier keys.
West != USA. Move to some European country if you dislike the US so much.
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Escalating the issue could be a good thing, even if people suffer. The problem with technological oppression like censoring or pervasively surveilling the Internet is that it's invisible and there's very little organised outcry. Just look at Snowden revelations. Nothing has changed, and most people simply don't care. Effectively once the requirements for bypassing the GFW become harder to deploy than a few clicks, from an easy to follow guide, the majority of the population will just accept this oppression.
https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab master works fine; you just have to clone it and replace extensions/treestyletab@piro.sakura.ne.jp in your profile.
Stop enriching before it gets to weapons grade purity and it's fuel for a reactor. Fail.
2 miles maybe, not 10 or 20 though... plus the searing heat ;)
Agreed apart from lines on the road. Many studies have shown that less signage and lines makes people drive more carefully/slowly - a boon in housing neighborhoods.
Elliot's most powerful hacker tool: his heart.
And let's not forget BlueCoat.

These are our colleagues designing and implementing these tools of oppression. We should ask them why they exercise their talents in this way.
Cancerous governments desperate for control. Swim away.
What about tiny dust particles getting caught in the water?
We might just fundamentally disagree an the whole tool ideology.

Imagine this device: It only has button, pressing it will torture every human beeing in earth for 100 years and then wipe out what's left. Trying to disassemble or analyze it will do the same.

Would this still classify as "just a tool"? (peaceful uses: explaining the importance of restraint etc.)

This is not supposed to be an analogy, but a serious question, because I don't believe that guns dont't kill people. And if we disagree on such a fundamental question, I don't think an internet debate could have a sensible outcome .
Seems nice. Where is more information?
Hiring anyone to do anything carries a (quite significant) cost both financially (not their hourly wages -- all the other fixed costs) and in management time, and in the cost of added risk (perhaps they steal employees' stuff, set the place on fire...). In that case it wasn't worth all those costs vs just emptying the @&^#& trash myself, which took all of 5 minutes at the end of each work day with the added bonus of giving me some brain-idle time to wind down.

The accountant and lawyer examples have the opposite characteristics : lots of risk from not hiring someone competent and experienced.
I don't notice anywhere in the description which clarifies if the Fn key itself can be changed to, say, ctrl or alt.

I also would avoid this (otherwise nice) keyboard if Fn could not be changed to a standard modifier.
I'm no expert on the topic, but I think you need essentially different tools and technology to reach the purity necessary for weapons. So using these way more expensive tools to create fuel would be just stupid.
One would assume that they have an adequate back up system in place such that a cryptolocker type attack would be simply negated.
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To remain in power a little longer.
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I am aware of this effect (my wife is Russian) but I would still argue that they are not capitalist in the same way that we are (though they do come across as hyper-capitalist on a superficial level - As in; they are big consumers and they like to show off their social status).

One thing that really surprised me about Russian and Chinese people though is how well they take care of their friends and family (for example, they are often very willing to share their money to help each other) and how genuine they are compared to westerners. I know it's a big generalization but it's something I noticed.
Ask HN: Best non-apple laptop screen?
Although the general quality of laptop screens have dramatically improved this last couple of years, while comparing to macbook/pro (or even a solid desktop IPS ) screen it still seems that most ultrabook (even expansive one, looking at you X1 carbon :) ) can't quite match.
What the best non mac screen out there for programming?
I use laptop mostly for coding and reading online so for me quality is about deep contrast, high brightness and non saturated accurate colors.
PS : nothing below 1080p (thanks god this is starting to become the norm now)
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That is way to utilitarian for my liking. I am also personally convinced that Hitler (sorry ) was good for the western world in the long run (I think the lesson learnt will have more impact in the long run than the damage done), but you won't ever see me defending anything like the third reich.
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Even worse. Many new laptop keyboards have the media control buttons be the default behavior, and require the "Fn" key to access the F keys.
At first China also used Cisco's stuff, but soon they could't keep up with the requirements of the Chinese govt. After that a man usually criticized to be "the father of GFW", FANG Binxing, came up and built more powerful censorship hardware and software for the govt at Beihang U. It is said that they now use supercomputers to parse, analyse and block (and even inject, remember GitHub?) all packages going through the Chinese network boundary.

Oh I just gave away so much secret. I'm so doomed. Everything above are just made up stories. Don't believe me. Don't track me down. Please.
I actually use media control keys very often when playing music on my laptop, much much quicker than going into an app first.

I actually like the how OS X by default uses the fn functionality, and you press fn to access f1, f2 etc.. Except for very few games, I never actually use those keys anyways. And even then I use something like Palua[0] to automatically enable/disable the fn key based on the app that is currently in focus.

[0] http://itunes.apple.com/app/palua/id431494195
sigh

http://cdn.sandiegouniontrib.com/img/photos/2015/03/07/Murde...

Oh my god, it's the LOWEST. Yes, the lowest of big cities. San diego has a population of a little over a million, quite comparable to Amsterdam (which has a smaller population, but roughly a million).

And what's the murder rate in 2014? 32. Amsterdam's murder rate in 2014? 20.

Alright so, the safest big city in the US, has a murder rate comparable with the most dangerous city in the Netherlands, or as you call it the murder capital of Europe.

(2) Yes I did refute your claims. Are you not listening?

1) Again, the 4.4 number includes abortions, dangerous driving and euthanasia. You can make a claim for dangerous driving (although it's mostly self-murder, so doesn't impact my safety), but euthanasia and abortion doesn't affect my safety AT ALL or anyone else's. Virtually every year the actual murder rate in Amsterdam is below 2, again comparable to the SAFEST city in the US, and this is supposedly the most dangerous city. So someone aborts a baby, or a 95 year old with a great life who went blind, bed ridden and in constant pain from a chronic disease wants to die and is requests euthanasia, makes my life less safe? It's a joke.

2) And those are murder rates of who? Organised crime. 90% of the murders in Amsterdam are assassinations of organised criminals, people who generated +$100m in drug money and get assassinated by a competitor. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with my safety. It doesn't affect me at all. Drug crime isn't like it is in the US, every month or so one or two people get assassinated in a targeted attack. I've never witnessed this or heard the gunshots or seen the blood or the bodies, despite living my entire childhood in neighborhoods in Amsterdam where this happened. (the richest neighbourhood by the way because these drug lords are all multi millionaires who live in expensive villas. The fact someone goes to their home and kills them and spikes the murder rate affects ordinary people in no way whatsoever. As opposed to gang violence in the US which takes the lives of many innocent people, and takes the lives of young small time petty criminals who have few opportunities, as opposed to 50 year old millionaires who've been in crime for decades). It's like saying if a police officer kills a dangerous criminal and the murder rate goes up by 1, that this makes your life less safe, it's a joke.

3) Actual crime (whether it's assault, rape, theft) is all much lower because Amsterdam is extremely safe and the murder rate is only high because virtually all victims are high level criminals. If you actually look at safety (whether it's from murder or any other crime) for ordinary civilians, it's nowhere near the safest US city. The comparison is a total joke.
>>You could outfit entire teams with Borland or MS tools for the price of a single seat license for Smalltalk in the 80s or 90s.<<

Different Smalltalk implementations, different prices:

https://books.google.com/books?id=wJswszKTwl4C&pg=RA1-PA43&l...

>>Then Java came along, and it was free.<<

Free and The-Future-of-the-Internet TM.

----

There is an important technical / licensing / business problem with Smalltalk that has not been mentioned -- lack of library standardization.

Apart from a few core classes, each Smalltalk implementation had different class names and method names for things that once-upon-a-time were special but quickly became commonplace -- like windows and menus and …

So you could never hire a "Smalltalk" developer: you hired a VW developer or a Smalltalk/V developer or a VA developer and waited for them to get up to speed with an unfamiliar environment.
You should sign up for notifications for the github repo where they post DMCA takedowns. People who release open source sending DMCA takedowns to people who create repos with that code.

I'm not saying it's right. I think there needs to be a stipulation in the DMCA to allow service providers to actually be able to research and think about the take down request. As it stands right now - you can send a DMCA takedown for any github repo and github MUST ASAP disable that repo - no questions asked. Of course - asking to take down a repo filled with material that isn't copyright to you could get you into legal trouble. However, I doubt people in China care about US laws - especially if they are the government themselves. Would you sue the Chinese government for wrongful DMCA takedown of your github repo?
I was just going to say that. Same with the "b" key on my Microsoft Natural, it's on the wrong side. Why not just have two of them?
You can almost always swap that in the BIOS or the OS
This also applies to `burn`, no?
Good for mindset, but bad for soulset. A lot of people live in their heads with Modafinil, and don't take guidance from the subtle cues in nature, which they're going to have to at some point. Michael Tsarion brings this up in his talks: The War on Conciousness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knwyZawRse8 We have a deep fear of Nature because it's the 'final boss' we have to deal with at some point. Be this death, grief, or getting old. Any number of things are competing for your attention in Nature. Rushkoff talks about how our minds increasingly live inside a computer program and are out of sync with Nature. The internal clock is ignored and we live in a constant state of panic when checking our email and trying to game the stock market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQHubIMP-as Alongside time being out of whack, we experience different hormones and endorphins at different times of the year. So summer might be dopamine, winter might be adrenalin filled, and autumn is some sort of smart drug like Modafinil which allows for high performance.
Because the keyboard can snap together for non-split use, and then you'd have two 6 keys adjacent to each other.
when tor was mentioned in the opening scene of the first episode, i knew that this show was different.
Maybe you have this switched? Many major retailers (supermarkets) to not own much of their product.
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Tyrell seems more like Patrick Bateman than Dexter.
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This is a great talk about some of the methods China and other governments use to block the Tor network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMr8Xl7JMQ

It's a pretty sophisticated arms race that's lead to some cool stuff, notably pluggable transports (like the obfsproxy you mentioned): https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en

Unfortunately the companies that enable this deep packet inspection are often American companies working overseas. My friend who used to work at Cisco said they had internal slide decks about the improvements they could make to the Chinese firewall. Then there's Bluecoat in Sunnyvale (https://www.bluecoat.com/) building the censorship systems for the middle east.

Why do American companies sell this kind of stuff to China and non-democracies in the middle east? They must rationalize it in someway, but I think it's wrong.
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They are not directly comparable, but not for the reason you state. Thing is, mass transit scale a heck of a lot better than highways do when population rises.
Very interesting concept - this would allow the human and the compiler to actually work together from the same conceptual model, as opposed to the antagonistic process it is now.

Too bad the multi-billion dollar Facebook didn't actually produce any usable code to benefit the community, for a change.
Hotel WiFi may not be as restricted as the average citizen's connection. Local 3G/4G service may be more restricted than your home provider's roaming service. It's a bit of a crapshoot, but the GFW is definitely targeted more towards locals than visitors.
I've not noticed 'stale' water, so I'm a bit confused about the topic.

If what you say is true, shouldn't places which use lake water, or places with a cistern, have the same stale taste to their water? Or those who melt snow for drinking water?
The split keyboards themselves feel completely unnatural to me, because I press the middle keys differently, depending on what letters are immediately preceding the key in question. For example, when typing "keyboard", I type 'y' with my right hand, whereas while typing "completely, I type 'y' with my left hand. In both cases, it means that I don't need to stretch my hands as much.

If an ergonomic keyboard does not include duplication of the middle keys, it adds quite a bit of confusion when I reach for a key that isn't there.
> The DMCA would only apply if you had been accused of copying, or creating a derivative work.

See my reply here [1].

> I find it interesting that the Chinese police have told him to shut it down, but have not put any restrictions on telling people he's been told to shut it down.

Don't you think that signals there is more to the story? I doubt some friendly people knocked on his door and asked him nicely to remove the code. Then after he did it - they told him to have a nice day and left him with some tea and biscuits.

My gut feeling is there is more to the story than what is in the one line comment in the issue tracker.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10102631
Yes there is a graduation as such for Ph.D. students -- it's not such a big deal seeing as it happens post viva/defence and many students don't turn up in person however it is still required to get the piece of paper that says Doctor of Philosophy on it.

Submission tends to be covered by laws as well.
But carbonated water tastes good.
I think it's great that people are questioning car use in big cities like Los Angeles. I've visited a fair number of cities in my life, and those without many cars are much more pleasant to hang out in. Much healthier, too. Subways, bicycle paths and walking streets work very well in large cities.

However, I hope people won't make the mistake of trying to get rid of cars in rural areas and small towns. Public transportation does not work well here.

Many left-wing politicians don't want cars anywhere, whereas many right-wing politicians want cars everywhere. Some people seem to have difficulties seeing that different solutions work well in different situations.
You can't build a web application on Hunchentoot -- a basic HTTP server -- and call it modern. Take a look at Clack for the actual modern approach: http://clacklisp.org/

Or one of the frameworks built on it:

http://8arrow.org/caveman/

http://8arrow.org/ningle/

http://eudoxia.me/lucerne/
You are missing a few sources. 14 to be exact.
Don't forget the tiny arrow keys (also sometimes home/pgup/pgdn/end) bunched up together - what the hell were those designers smoking? :-)
I think you missed my point. I'm talking about bundling all those countries so you can get an equivalent population and then make comparisons. I wasn't comparing Norway to the US, I mentioned it as part of a bundle of countries that get to an equivalent size of the US population. If you take the countries I mentioned you get something close to 300 million. The US population is a little less than 320m. Western Europe has a population of 400 million for example.
Git definitely wasn't a first-mover. Being used by the Linux kernel probably helped, though. (Though the Linux kernel actually used a different DVCS before Git...)