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Personally, I find vim's modal editing to be very efficient. When starting from a clean slate, it doesn't really matter much -- but when changing/editing existing text/code, I find it feels much more natural. It also works well without using the mouse, which is important to me because of carpal tunnel syndrome (and also helps when working without a proper mouse, such as on laptops).

I've only toyed with emacs, but based on that, I don't think emacs' idea of keyboard "chords" is as good a fit as vi(m). With standard keybindings, it also puts a strain on my wrists.

Modal editing and the "edit language"[1] (verbs, nouns, modifiers (and motions), like dw=delete word, dd/dl=delete line, d$=delete from cursor to end-of-line, dG (delete to endo-of-file, where gg/G is motion for moving to top/bottom of file respectively), ciw()<ESC>P=change inner word (cut word under cursor to buffer), add "()", escape out of insert mode, paste word between "()"). These look cryptic, but quickly starts to feel quite natural and intuitive.

My impression is that Emacs' Evil-mode has evolved quite a lot lately, and allows one to combine the best of both: a much better programming language (scheme dialect) for customization, with modal editing and vi(m) key bindings. But I've yet to play with it.

If you don't mind using the mouse, you might also want to look at ACME[2] - it's a bit more exotic, and unfortunately hasn't gotten as much support as VIM/Emacs.

The creator of Vim, Mjolnar, has a great video on "7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6K4iIMlouI

I think the idea is very powerful: aim for incremental improvement in your workflow. You don't have to use vim to do that, but you certainly can use vim for that. Another editor that might be worth a look if you're not already familiar with vim, is: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

The main argument for Neovim/vim/Emacs over other "smaller" editors would be the plugin eco-system. I have a theory though, that beginners tend to start out with a lot of plugins, and then gradually trim down, as they realize the power that lies within the editor itself.

Still, for vim, you will probably want a plugin manager (well, maybe not now with vim 8 supporting that out of the box :-), and depending on what you're writing, some integration with a tag tools, like cscope, perhaps a search-tool like Ag/The silver searcher: https://github.com/rking/ag.vim#readme

As for plugin manager, I'm personally in the process of moving - I'd suggest looking at Vundle and/or vim-plug.

Finally, you can generally count on any unix-like system to have some form of vi(m) installed -- I'm not sure I really see that as such an important point, but does make it easier to edit stuff on a server with only ssh open to the world. But that stuff you're editing should probably be in a VCS, and use some kind of automated push to land on the server anyway! :-)

[1] http://yanpritzker.com/2011/12/16/learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-n...

"A Tour of the Acme Editor", by Russ Cox
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M
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This reminds me of the book Interface by Neil Stephenson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(novel)
Here's some further reading on the matter making similar observations.

http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-elizabeth-holmes-reality-disto...

http://www.unz.com/isteve/theranos-maybe-old-white-men-dont-...
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Because sellers are able to see what people are wanting to pay for their item (its included in the listing), they can easily identify the going-rate for items and use that to decide whether they want to sell or not.

Like any marketplace there'll be time wasters - I don't sell on eBay anymore because of them - but in my experience, most of the time its the buyers that are time wasters.

In our case - since buyers have gone to the effort of creating a WTB listing, you could argue they're less inclined to waste sellers' time. Of course, the feedback system/reporting users would help us to identify repeat offenders and take action.

Check out our demo which should help explain things: http://www.wantobuythat.com/demo.html
I'm a neophyte here, but I don't understand what that means. Are you asking past YC founders to release a short statement regarding "starting-up understanding"? And what are cliffs?
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There are plenty of defense contractor jobs on the west coast, including the SF Bay Area (though, a lot more in SoCal than the Bay Area.)
...100% a human endeavor.

That's actually good news of a sort. It might imply that corporate behavior might still be governed by a program of targeted .....?

Just thinking out loud here folks...
I'm afraid Daemon (novel) beat you to the punch. It's an excellent novel, about fairly similar situations.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon
> I don't like this attitude at all. Euclid, Archimedes, Newton, Leibniz, Riemann, and many others did a fine job correctly calculating areas, volumes, and so on without need of measure theory.

The history of mathematics is a history of ever-increasing standards for proofs. "Proofs" that, say, Euler wrote down that were perfectly valid for the standards of their time would probably not accepted in todays standard. I personally also think it's plausible that today's proof standard in "typical" math papers will not be acceptable in 100 years anymore, when they perhaps will additionally have to be computer-checkable (and computer-checked).
When I see companies demanding people's lives, I now see a message. The message is from the executives, board members, and investors. The message is the reality behind 'corporate culture', 80 hour weeks, and other destructive, unsustainable practices.

The message is: "WE ARE NOT GETTING RICH FAST ENOUGH!"
It's hard to know in advance all parts of your code that will be critical.
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Said the man who literally wrote "Starship Troopers" a documentary about a fascist utopia.
>I feel like current research models have seriously underperformed in recent years...

The research models have performed as they always have, if not better.

The only thing that's changed is the introduction of know-it-all Silicon Valley VCs who think bio is the same as software.
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Very thought-provoking read. My first impulse is that I would rip out anything 'smart' in a place I buy and replace it, and not use anything 'smart' in a place I'm renting — but I've been living in my home for over a decade, and I'm wealthy enough that I can imagine replacing a lot of stuff if I wanted to.

But I can imagine a lot of folks not wanting to replace their thermostats, their refrigerators &c., esp. after spending money to move in.

It's going to be a problem, for as long as people do not own and cannot control the devices they rely on for life support.
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They tried this and even piloted a program at Princeton. It failed. There a lot of non obvious tactile ways that student use textbooks that the Kindle can't accommodate.
But if a new update changes how the car drives, wouldn't the data that would've been captured by the updated car be different than what the old outdated car recorded?

For example if the new update makes the car more aggressive, then other real drivers might be more careful, slow down more, etc compared to the original runs?
They do something to the scroll events on that page. It's pretty terrible.
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Hi, we are Simitless [www.simitless.com]. We are building an online platform to enable every expert to contribute their part to organizing and structuring the human information of the world.

So, what is it exactly we are doing? Our prototype-platform allows creating data apps for Market and Business Intelligence. For example, an expert in any domain, be it industry, research, journalism… has lots of data. These data are scattered on different spreadsheets, etc. Difficult to have an overview, to search, to track. Unstructured = difficult to use. Using our platform, they can create their own data app fast and with minimal effort. Plus we enable real-time collaboration for any app that requires multiple users.

What is a data app and why would one need one? A data app is a kind of software that is made up of three main domains:

• data structuring, collection, and consolidation (a database),
• data analysis (graphs, dashboards, reports),
• data exploitation (resale, landing page, marketplace).

These are the processes that any data analyst and any expert are very familiar with. Heck, we are all very familiar with these steps, as we all run our own projects.

• Create a database with its own structure.
• Input data.
• Visualize data with the graphs and dashboards.
• Put the app up onto our marketplace and sell accesses to charts, dashboards,
database, etc. We provide our expert with a landing page (customizable),
take care of billing, invoicing...

Our vision is to consolidate the world's information. We aim at enabling the expert in each of us to capitalize on their knowledge and experience. Everybody will finally be able to contribute their part to organizing and structuring the human information of the world. And we would like to contribute our part to making the world a better place by providing ways of being better informed by means of structured, concrete, visible data.
Considering the article is only a few paragraphs, and right in the middle of the article it states "dining on pork bung at your favorite Italian restaurant is improbable (most hog bung is exported to Asia)". I don't see how you have any factual support for the statement "a lot".

In fact, there isn't even anecdotal evidence listed.
Driver Verifier is the main one I've used. It's pretty awesome.

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Their answer was to hang the light higher. No explanation for keeping the nightly illumination.
As you say, it can be pretty difficult to accept the unfairness of death by random software error. However, this is a situation that already exist today, but understood and acknowledged by a very small portion of people in our societies. For (a non life-threatening) example, thanks to the post-mortem above, we have a pretty deep understanding of what happened and why during this outage; but for some people it could have been a mere "Spotify is down, again, no more music :(".

I'm very curious to see if our understanding (as a society) of our own technology will improve over time or if people will continue to blame the internet for "not working" 20 years from now.
Cool plot line, I'd go see that movie.

A related scenario, one that theoretically could happen today, is hacking into commercial airliners auto-pilot systems, and directing dozens of flights onto a target.

Set aside the fantasy movie plot angle, how realistic is this today? Is it any more or less plausible than the millions of cars scenario? If people are truly concerned about the car scenario, shouldn't they be worrying about the aircraft scenario?
Any company will typically interview about 5 candidates for one open position. So statistically, after 5 interviews, it's no surprise that you didn't get an offer yet. But I'd say: after 5 more, I'd be surprised if you still didn't get one offer.

The hiring managers feedback you have been getting ("we just hired someone else") may be true.
Keep interviewing. It stinks but you have to look out for yourself. Even asking for the offer can put you in a weaker position.

There is the argument to be made that an interested applicant should follow up, etc, but I look at all the interactions in the interview process as part of the negotiation. So I want to be careful of the message I send either via reaching out, or via my silence.
you probably should apply soon, they take forever to respond :/
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There is a Jevon's Paradox with the use of drones. Look at the total hours flown thus far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
> Garbage content is not an improvement over no content, no matter what your demographic. I'm also skeptical that there's a very large demographic for whom even $10/mo in subscription fees would break the bank.

I wholly disagree. You think from the perspective of an US citizen but there are other places on the map where 10$ would be a great deal. This would restrict these people's access to information that they might need just as mush as you do. The side effect would be effectively closing off parts of the internet to a great array of people. You'd eventually get at the same impasse the film industry is now. Bad distribution, unserrviced areas, article piracy would pop-up.

My father earns ~300 EUR/month. How would you convince him to pay 10$/month for a website that publishes maybe ~5 articles that seem interesting to him a month?

And your information staple is not just _one_ provider, but many providers, and you'd probably have to pay them all.

The presence of paywalls would not necessarily exclude the existence of rubbish. Look at newspapers before internet, bad press also existed then, tabloids existed then. And people paid for them. No, the reason bad content exists is not because of the payment model, it's because people _like_ it. They enjoy shitty articles, they let themselves emotionally manipulated by factless press. We, as a collective, are pretty weak.

But open, even ad-based access to information can improve this. Open access leads to a more diverse information stable and eventually, people settle for the, it not best, at least better information alternative. Thing that would not happen if you were stuck in your information bubble, as is with a sole or few information providers.
I guess you prefer the old way where taxi cabs had a virtual monopoly, and it was expensive as hell. Uber did the right thing by disrupting this market.

Theranos potentially could have been amazing for medicine, but more and more this looks like an epic disaster.
> To teach programming languages in an historical context, is a different task.

To present the topic in a historical context the students first have to know what was context/standard at that time, under what circumstances the solutions of their time were developed, whether the restrictions still hold etc. In other words: You would have to include half of a "History of Programming Languages" course, since this is surely not common knowledge.
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>So you can access your list of open tabs from anywhere on the screen? Sounds good.

Yep! Hold right-click and use my scroll wheel from anywhere in the browser window. So not the userChrome (tab area, bookmarks bar) or off-screen (my OS desktop).

I have another program that is "tab aware" bound to a different hotkey: I can press alt+space and begin typing in the Title name of a tab to open that tab from truly anywhere on the screen. It could be nice to be able to have "global hotkeys" for a browser that does the same thing.

>Surely it's the complete opposite: if you have multiple windows, then why do you need Group Tabs?

One is passing off handling multiple groups to the Operating System (handle multiple instances of your browser) while the other is the browser handling multiple groups of tabs. Different ways of handling the same thing with trivially different workflows (alt-tabbing and hoping you alt-tab to the right instance of your browser or {Ctrl+Shift+E / Rebound Hotkey} for tab groups and selecting the proper group that you can name.

Being able to name my tab groups instead of having 19 different instances of "Firefox.exe" helps when trying to find the proper group rather than the proper window.

Multiple windows lets you split screen estate though! But IIRC there are add-ons to let you split the browser screen to render 2/3/4 tabs at once for that use case.

They have their pros/cons but have a lot of overlap and redundancy.
OK, so you recognize that in this case social shaming is not being used to change Moldbug's mind. If you're only talking about one of two justifications, you probably shouldn't state your case as "social shaming can only work when..."

I don't appreciate apologists for people who claim that some ethnic groups make genetically good slaves, so here we are.
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There are many ways to load and execute JavaScript, static/dynamic adding a script tag to the html, html imports, manual fetch + eval , concatenation of javascript files in 1 file, in the future maybe the import syntax ? and now <script module> ?

Do we really want to add more ways ? Complexity is an enemy of security, it will add more confusion. Maybe we should first disable/remove ways to load and execute JavaScript.

We should also think, if what really need is a client solution or a better tool/system to transform scripts, in a script server side.

Why, what should be clearly answered before thinking in terms of how.

Sometimes having the bigger picture in your head helps.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Approximately 100% of civil cases see a motion to dismiss early on, essentially the legal argument that the suit is obviously unfounded. Since it wastes everyone's time, attorneys don't tend to bring those sorts of suits, so the great majority of motions to dismiss don't go through. Judges tend to think that the suits actually brought to court should be heard out.

So while settling isn't at all an admission to the claims of the case, it's at least done in recognition that a reasonable person would probably want to hear out both sides of the argument before deciding.

It is a pretty strict standard, and I'm not a lawyer so I couldn't say what exactly would qualify for dismissal outright. Maybe something like "this person has never even met my client" or "this company doesn't even exist".
Yes. We pretty much won't invest without that.
I'm on a paperwhite (the newest, I think?).

Honestly, I think it works quite well. Code is fine. Graphics / Illustrations might be bad at times, depending on the formatting job.

But then .. you know .. if you want an ebook reader, I'd consider this ~300 bucks one too expensive.
I recall seeing a study that concluded with mouse/gui-based editing being more efficient, even if users felt more efficient using vim. You might want to look at ACME[1].

For me personally, I can't use the mouse much, or my carpal tunnel comes back quickly. So I need a keyboard-only workflow. And I'm happy with vim.

"A Tour of the Acme Editor" by Russ Cox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M
Is this really how you feel taken to its logical extremes? Do you think humans should be allowed to eat other humans? Other live humans?

Eating is clearly a very personal thing, but it's silly to pretend that morality suddenly ceases applying.
Ask HN: Advice on building a community from scratch?
I've recently launched a website/forum/community to help others use up their soon to be wasted food.

The idea is to help people by providing them with ideas and recipes. These ideas are provided by a community.

I believe it is a skill to look at ingredients and have a basic understanding of what to cook. That skill like any can be acquired by chipping away day-to-day.

I'm wondering if anyone here has any experience in building a similar type community and has any lessons to share or points of failure to watch out for.

Or if you have any other input?

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> And Elizabeth Holmes won't be described as a billionaire for much longer (which unless I have missed something is almost all on paper)

Almost anytime a startup gets to a valuation that high, the founders have had an opportunity to take some money off the table. VCs like this, because it keeps the founders' incentives aligned with the investors' (they are more likely to take risks and swing for the fences if they don't have to worry as much about their own personal net worth).

It's dangerous if the founder divests entirely, but you want them to have enough that they aren't too worried about the risk of the company collapsing to make bold decisions when necessary.

That said, I don't know Theranos's cap table, but it's probably unlikely that her current stake in Theranos is worth $1B on paper even today - did she really manage to achieve a $9B valuation while holding onto 11% of her company?
I feel 1 is a timing related issue. Which are extremely hard to get right, and might happen.

2 and 3 shouldn't have happened. But since they aren't releasing any further details. It would be unfair to rate the system.
This works when you're asking your friends about your app. It doesn't work when you have millions of users. You will be getting complaints about everything and anything and everyone has their own agenda as to what is the most important.
The best drivers in the world (Formula 1) are already outcompeted by traction and stability control systems.
I am medically handicapped. I have zero plans to live in an apartment with a bunch of other people. Before life got in the way, I wanted to be an urban planner. In the US, we have largely outlawed the ability to build small houses in walkable neighborhoods because we have whored out all of our infrastructure to our personal God: The car.

That needs to change. If we could get that resolved, you and I would both be happier, even if we still disagreed.

Peace.
According to Alexa, Buzzfeed has been dropping in daily pageviews and global ranking [1]. That's synonymous with people getting, bored, right?

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/buzzfeed.com
I can see it now - a modern day tiananmen square as a lone figure stands in front of a long line of Edsels
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Still bad IMO. I do not recommend using an e-reader for PDFs. I use a Kindle DX on a rare occasion.

A tablet computer with pen provides the best experience IMO. I've used a iPad and an Android tablet before. Both have excellent PDF reading software. I recommend Bookari on Android. The Microsoft Surface, however, beats everything else I've tried.
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There are plenty of Biotech VCs in the bay area. The one I know best is Third Rock Ventures, but there are others. The timelines for success are extraordinarily long so it's not quite as splashy a space. It's almost impossible to "fail fast" with a "MVP" in the biotech space, so you have to put in tons of capital for a long time.

That said personalized medicine should end up being interesting, but I think it's really, really early days.
I think the Oasis is for a different market than most people here. It started making sense to me once I looked at the math:

* The Oasis weighs less than my current Kindle Keyboard 3G, even with the Oasis case. The 3G device weighs 247 grams - the Oasis is 133g, plus 107g for the battery cover (240g total). Never mind that my Keyboard 3G case itself weighs another 225g!

* The Oasis is not the "thickest Kindle ever". At the thickest point of 0.33", it's still the same thickness a Kindle Keyboard 3G (0.335"). With a case, the Keyboard 3G was 0.75" thick!

* The Oasis and the Voyage are roughly the same price. The Voyage doesn't include a cover, and it costs $85 to add an Amazon premium leather cover. That makes it just $5 less than an Oasis.

Weight, size & battery life are important criteria for digital nomads or perpetual travellers. If you're trying to keep under a baggage weight limit, saving 225g can make a big difference. So if you're upgrading from a 5 year old device (that still works!), this is potentially a huge upgrade.

This isn't a device for everyone, in fact I'm still unsure I'll upgrade my 3G yet (I don't travel as often nowadays). But I can at least see how it could improve my life.