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Regardless of whether Jobs would be proud or not, for both iOS AND Android AND Windows Phone, touch screen keyboards are the #1 most popular type, and for good reason. The people have spoken.

If they were such a hidrance people could always still buy the keyboard models they abandonded en masse starting 2007.
Maybe it's time to upgrade the hosting plan.
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Mechanical steering? You'd have to go back significantly more than a decade to find cars without power steering for most cars.
> nowadays the public apprehension is even bigger

Really? The mood in the UK feels much more accepting than it did a decade ago.
nope, the xbox one emulates the xbox 360 OS -- and the games themselves run inside the xbox 360 OS[1]

for the game, it's like running on a normal 360. and that's why things like multiplayer work. [2]

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/18/xbox-one-backward-compati...

[2] http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/backward-compatibility
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First, I love that this is from over 60 years ago. Here I am in the 21st century, happily thinking that genetic algorithms are relatively new techniques, and along come Von Neumann on HN, reminding me that, no, of course this is foolish, they are if not billions of years old, they are older than old, newer than new, infinitely permanent.

Second, more specifically, error correction is a natural extension of two techniques/mandates:

a) The need for energy: A machine that is not provided plentiful energy will soon cease to operate as a machine unless it can gather it's own, and graduate to organism status.

b) Reproduction: many copies have the opportunity to survive beyond catastrophic errors to a single organism (eg. lightning strikes) and reproduce with mutation to reduce effects of minor but still limiting errors (eg. cold-bloodedness).

Thanks for the link.
I believe it runs using the WebKit exploit available on FW 1.76

This means it's probably not very useful to most end users who generally will have upgraded by this point (the exploit is about a year old), but it allows developers to continue working on the SDK for whenever another exploit is found, and possibly allows further investigation of the PS4, potentially allowing the discovery of new exploits.
Packt Publishing is worse than Apress. They basically take a subject, say Cocos2d-x, and publish a bunch of shitty books that cloud the book market with outdated information and bad code practices.

Packt and Appress ebooks are not even properly formatted for a programming subject (text alignment, code highlighting ...). Compare any Packt/Appress ebook with Pragmatic or LeanPub ebook formatting, the difference is staggering.
>According to this game I have an average speed of 157 WPM on an iPhone 4s

Sorry, but how does that counter what I said? Parent said that typing on a touchscreen "It is practically impossible".

If you have 157 WPM on iPhone 4s then it's a counter-proof that as I said, it's anything but "practically impossible".

That you "hate it" is another thing, which I can understand. It's not the best experience in the world and obviously sub par to a full keyboard. But it's clearly not "impossible".

And your 157 WPM are for 4s as you said.

iPhone 6, with the larger target area and auto-prediction, makes it even easier, at least for me. And if the new model brings some tactile (force) feedback, that would be even better.
Creating "much bigger seed heads" is one of those things that sounds much easier than it is. For one, grain crops like wheat have pretty much approached the limit of what's called "harvest index" -- the ratio of the seed head to the rest of the plant in terms of biomass. Any further and the seed head becomes to heavy to support and the plants fall over before harvest.

But more importantly, things like this come down to the difference between qualitative traits(traits like those in Mendel's peas, where a single or a couple genes control the trait and it's inherited in a mendelian fashion) versus quantitative traits(traits controlled by many genes, like skin color in humans, where the distribution of traits within a population takes the form of a bell curve). Glyphosate works by inhibiting the action of a single enzyme, so a single gene coded to produce a variant of the enzyme resistant to the chemical, or an enzyme that can degrade glyphosate, can confer resistance. The yield of a plant and how it distributes its resources however are hugely complex traits that not only involve essentially every gene in the plant in some way, but also environmental factors. It's still simply more effective to use traditional methods, crossing different plants and performing multiple rounds of selection based on yield, than it is to use biotechnology.
Of course the implementation is going to be incomplete in some way, since OpenBSD kernel doesn't have the APIs necessary to actually implement multiple seats, so the implementation won't allow creating more than 1 seat.
why on earth would you expect a sysadmin to break those out? both acronyms have a pretty high usage saturation level. if you don't know these acronyms, a sysadmin isn't doing you a favor by telling the reader in a blog post about security features.
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A quote from someone who commented on the page:
"When the programming addicts on Hacker News write about programming addiction, they almost never call it programming addiction. Usually they call it being passionate about programming. And in their opinion, programmers who are not passionate about programming are bad programmers."

Not saying I agree, but it could be the start of an interesting discussion.
Web browsers are massive, bloated turds that need to die.
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It runs via an exploit found about a year ago in WebKit [1] , and allows running custom code. It does not enable piracy, as that would require greater system access. It allows running simple applications, with severe limitations (can't use native video out or controllers; workarounds employed are using an HTML Canvas for visual output and a Nintendo DS for control).

It is a very basic SDK right now, it is still in development and has a long way to go. Considering the exploit to run code only works on FW 1.76 (~1 year old), there presumably aren't many people able to run code anyway.

[1] http://wololo.net/2014/10/24/webkit-exploit-confirmed-to-run...
This reminds me. I have to figure out how to block OutBrain. I can't believe serious websites allow link bait like that on their pages.
So if I understand correctly, we should depend on a corporation to decide where these books end up and who has access to them? It sounds like a terrible idea to me. Not all great thinkers / researchers / inventors end up being University professors.

If it doesn't end up being a book or article or in some way shape or form in writing, that the professor wants anxiously for every human in the world to read about, then chances are it wasn't worth writing about anyways.
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Why should BAP theorem take into account 24/7 human support and CAP theorem shouldn't?
Agreed. The world simply becomes different.

I had volunteered, as I studied engineering in the past to give 3d classes to kids for free. We have PhDs like ObiJuan making videos and releasing them over the net teaching FreeCad, OpenScad, how to do robots and so on.

The children we teach today (10 ,11,12,13 years old and older) are incredible. They do create their own toys.

When this people get to 18 or 20 years old, "real engineers" but with no real experience prototyping because it was simply too expensive to fail, will not be able to compete against them.

People will be able to prototype their own small cars soon thanks o sharing sites like thingiverse, youmagine or github.

There will be Linus Torvals of hardware soon.
Just don't call it "Continuous delivery"
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I really appreciate this reply, I hadn't thought about essentially cold-calling companies that need devs but aren't advertising.

My problem is I live in a small town that's really only residential and fast food - no real industry or large companies here. While I love public transit my transportation beyond that is limited (no car) -- which is why I wish I could get hired in SF, I can easily make it to that tech center. I have looked at the Who's Hiring post, but I wish I could find more companies interested in Coffeescript/JS or Lua that are willing to help with relocation - even remote work.

I have had friends look over my CV, and that was amusing - I had a section that essentially read like "He enjoys long walks on the beach and talking about American Idol". I was trying to sound more like a human than a machine. A friend rightly informed me that this sort of personality information would be best disclosed at an interview. After that I added a bit to my 'Experience' section - work that I had done for friends while acting as a system administrator. I get a little upset when I have friends who are more qualified in security fields and they get hired very easy - it seems like their resumes aren't formatted as nicely. Qualifications really do speak for themselves.

I think I'm just upset when listening to grandparents talk about how 'back in their day' they could easily go find an apprenticeship. I wish I could find the same for webdev, frontend work. I usually go to DEFCON each year if I can save for it, but I haven't had as much luck networking at that. I think most people show up to DEFCON to drink, really.. (not a bad thing)

Anyway, thank you for your kind advice, sir - I will adjust my search <3
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Fluid pumping is still mechanical. They mean electric steering.
Could it really have been there? Remember how the US looked back in these days: The US had to invent its "moral high ground" and chose to be against racism all of a sudden mostly because it had to justify the costs of WWII.

I am an outsider but I could imagine, that this artificially introduced moral is part of the reason why racism and other problems are still big in the US: The people generally believe that they already have the moral high ground and after all won against the evil. It is much easier to handle 800k+ refugees like Germany will do this year, when your moral self-awareness is a bit more toned down to say the least and you still think you owe the world.
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Perhaps it would clarify things if you knew that Weston is the reference implementation of Wayland that is presumably going to depend on logind.
"Up to 80 words per minute" doesn't look very promising.
This may just be Sunday-brain, but I can't seem to see what this service actually does - is it effectively just an outsourced credit-control department?

If so (and even if not, to be honest), I do find it interesting how often something pops up that seems to be a return to older ways of doing things. In this case, I'm reminded of how things worked in my early childhood (1980s, UK) - our local butcher, petrol station and others would all keep an account, which my parents would pay off when invoiced. In the context of the last 15-20 years, though, that appears old-fashioned to the extreme - yet here we are reinventing new ways of doing things the old ways.
I wonder what the 'Secure' printed on it stands for. Maybe each car has it's own private key, meaning you'd have to physically hack the car first in order to get a fake update stick to work?
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Grains, still ubiquitous in diets around the globe, are losing favor
Your first sentence seems to contradict the docs... which still don't describe "all the stable parts".
> At last count SystemD has over 40 "Interfaces". These are not publicly versioned standards. So there is no stable interface to even implement and there is no commitment that these "interfaces" will not change at any point in time.

Have you truly made no effort to research what you're talking about? The most cursory of Googling would have dropped you at the Interface Stability Promise, saved you the time to post your completely worthless message, and saved me and others the time spent reading it.
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Does not seem as if this concept has proven to work yet. Why? Developers are mostly thrifty and looking to solve a problem. Most of the time they can do this without help using Google. Developers also don't value their time enough or properly and like solving problems, so they would be more likely to try to solve the problem themselves than pay someone for it. That's why you need managers... developers are often not good decision makers in terms of utilizing their time most profitably.
> The "Interface Stability Promise" is referring to the unit configuration file format and the command line interface. This is not stability of the implementation c interfaces.

This is not true.
While it doesn't make it any better, one should keep in mind that anti-semitism was widespread everywhere at the time. Jewish refugees were denied entry not just by the US but also many european countries.
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I don't think it's really random.Since it's dictated by the computer, even though it looks random, i'm sure there are some patterns in the order(for example there are items that statistically sell together) ,But maybe they keep it as a trade secret , only to be known by a small group of developers and managers.
Triggered my OCD though when I saw the palm rest...

Yikes! Needs a bath!
I wrote this blog post a week ago and thought some people here might enjoy reading it.
I always felt the principles of science align better with those of open source software. Happy to see the good news at the end regarding funding from Europe: http://opendreamkit.org/about/.

To the author: the "Install LaTeX?" link at the top right is dead.
Unfortunately modern "news" is not based on evidence, merely the event of a claim.
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Do you actually have OCD? Or are you using it to describe how revolting you think those dirty wrist rests are?
The scientific process, since it is based on empirical observation, can only address entities and phenomena that possess a position in time and space[1]. Asking it to directly address subjective subject matter is like asking a flashlight to study the darkness.

Philosophy may not be directly beneficial to the narrow practice of science, but it is critical to almost every activity surrounding it.

For example, philosophy can help scientists answer questions like:

- Does the pain caused during animal research justify the knowledge obtained from it?

- Should we fund scientists to study better methods of farming, or atomic bombs?

- Should we publish the details of the specific mutations required to produce a superbug from bird flu, or omit those details from our methods?

- What is scientific knowledge, and how does it differ from other types of knowledge?

And on and on and on.

Let's look at Feynmann's statement again, that "Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds."

We're supposed to read that and think 'Hah, yeah - birds don't know and can't know anything about ornithology, how can it be useful to them?!'

Of course it can be useful to them. We study birds to better understand them and their behavior. We use the results of ornithology to make their lives better by answering questions like:

- What can we do to minimize the impact of wind-power generators on the migratory patterns of birds?

- How can we save and preserve this near-extince species of bird?

- How do birds influence the spread of jungles and other forests?

And on and on and on. Ornithologists study birds, and the interaction between birds and humans - of course such knowledge will be useful to birds.

In the same way, an individual scientist can be completely ignorant of philosophy and still be a good scientist - but philosophy (and other non-scientific disciplines) support and inform every aspect of life around her job. If she wants to explore the ethical ramifications of her work, needs to justify support of her work, or discuss the process of science contrast to other disciplines, she must begin to use the terminology and processes of philosophy, not science.

[1] 'Soft sciences', such as psychology, sociology, economics, etc. attempt to study subjective phenomena but do so by directly observing behavior of the entities/systems under study.
"The Germans were bad for sending the Jews to the gas chambers but the Americans were bad too for running articles about Hitler's homes" is pretty weak sauce.
Here's another great one, with bitcoins:

https://www.changetip.com/

It's too bad that these ideas keep failing, if one system would work out it would make the web so much better.

I wish the very best to the developers. Maybe you guys can make it work.

It works on reddit with gold, so it's not like it's impossible to pull off....
Those are some interesting stereotypes you've got there. Developers don't value their time?
Do Europeans actually believe that the main problem with Blacks in the US is racism?
Despite popular belief, most Amazon facilities do NOT use kiva robots. The fulfillment center would have to be completely rebuilt on the inside to accommodate them. Heck, even some new facilities still don't use them. I work over at Amazon in one of their largest fulfillment centers in the USA. To answer your question regarding where a tote is sent in the facility is simple. During each shift, there are any number of queues open (usually about 5). When receiving an item from DA, we will scan an item into a tote and the computer determines, based on the size of the items, where in the facility it needs to go (library, or library deep). Aside from a few exceptions, most items are randomly stowed. The stowers all have a rate, and because of that, will find whatever space fits their needs. Pallet mass (items with a lot of the same quantity to fill a pallet) is checked regularly and pulled from the regular shelves and sent to a sorting area (at least that's what they started doing at my FC) where it can be stowed somewhere in "pallet land." Try not to think too much into where items are stowed, it is pretty much a clusterf*ck across the FC.
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The question was what people actually do on an iPad. And the consensus among people who don't get paid by Apple seems to be: couchsurfing.
AFAICT Closures are still much faster than Function.prototype.bind.

(http://jsperf.com/bind-vs-closure-setup/44)

Could anyone who knows more about the implementation details point to an explanation of what's going on under the surface?
I've noticed this as well. Most developers will spend 40 hours building a wheel instead of offering to wire up a pre built solution that costs money.
Yes, I think so. Would you care to elaborate why this would not be so?
Hm. If I were an advanced player I might be up to creating an advanced mode! ;-)
I have a Kinesis Advantage and I love it. I'd really like to try out a Datahand...
The mistake here is that professors don't write for "every human in the world". They write specifically for a small number of people who are well versed in the research topic they work on. While it is possible that this information might be useful to others, this will usually happen as a consequence, not as the primary goal.
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I am starting human computer interaction/CS degree next year, and I'm worried about Discrete Math.

I didn't put much effort in HS towards math, and scored accordingly.
This is the only math course in the degree, I have no experience in the matter and want to know if this is especially challenging or if I'll be fine if I try?

There's also ~6 months till I actually start, what would be the best use of my time in learning the fundamentals?

Thanks
In true slashdot tradition I did not read the article, but if that is the gist of it, weak sauce indeed...
Official site - http://openstenoproject.org/

Blog - http://openstenoproject.org/

Looks like they're close to launching a crowdfunding campaign on - https://www.crowdsupply.com/
For one thing, it offloads the risk inherent in online transactions -- you buying an iPad and getting a brick and the seller actually getting her money.

Second, it makes dealing with payment a _lot_ easier for any internet business. You know the headlines from hacking where a lot of credit card numbers are stolen. Using Klarna, the internet company does not have to handle credit numbers by offloading that whole thing to a trusted third party.

An online store using Klarna is really a stamp of quality on that business.

Disclosure: I'm writing this from Sweden where Klarna is based, but I am not affiliated with the company. I did some research into online payment for a customer (a municipality) a while ago and came across Klarna.
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(I'm having trouble parsing your question.)

I think that most problems faced by black people in the US are a result of racism. Sometimes that's overt direct racism. Sometimes it's institutional racism. Sometimes it's the end result of years of policies that had racist origins.
I read the comment as being satirical but I find the best satire is that which could be mistaken for the genuine article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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I attempted to address this above, in a reply to a sibling of your request.
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My best advice against RSI is to get rid of the mouse and get a pen-tablet instead. This change has helped me two times (I switched back to a mouse after my first switch, and got RSI back after a while; switching back to pen-tablet resolved the RSI issues again).
I am getting this error

"Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later."
I'm not sure how relevant this is - the basic dilemma expressed here is about monetising traffic, not acquiring it.
I think there are different reasons why that may happen - perhaps a misconception of the problem space and what an off the shelf tool provides, or misestimation of implementation time vs learning time.

I don't think it is appropriate to say that developers don't value their time and therefore need managers, as a blanket statement.
Who else was expecting an article on a new way to collect cows into one spot?
Because addition of a single drug resistant trait is simple and the benefits are immediately observable. There are some experimental GM crop strains aimed at achieving better nutrient levels (golden rice, high lysine maize) or even better, improved photosynthetic efficiency, but these are much harder to commericalise for the lack of a single marketable "gimmick"
Looking at NBA, football and US sports in general, I don't believe that. These problems are usually more complex than "it's just racism". We have that kind of problems in Europe too.