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It'd be awesome if there was a plug-in that auto-magically worked around these blocks, using bit-torrent and crowdsourcing.

Features:

If you try to peer into a walled garden, your browser plug-in notices the issue and grabs the content off of a torrent (if available).

If you come across an error "not available in your country" (i.e. it's not yet available on a torrent, or you are the first to report this issue to the plug-in), you press a REPORT button, and the plug-in communicates with others using the software (behind the scenes) to see if others have access to the content.

Your participation in the network could be passive or active. If you are paranoid, then you could set the flag to prompt you before uploading any content. If you are less paranoid, then behind the scenes, your PC would automatically help upload "hidden" content for others to see, without prompting.

There are obvious copyright and legality concerns (be paranoid about kiddie porn for instance), but that would be a cool, valuable tool for some Hacker to crank out.
I have a Natural 4000 too. I had wrist pain for years and then it got drastically worse in a few months. My partner recommended the keyboard and within two weeks my wrist pain was completely removed with no other lifestyle changes. I've had it for two years and the pain has stayed away.

Apart from RSI relief I find it has also increased my typing speed.
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Object.getPrototypeOf(Child).constructor.apply(this, arguments);

Works, but is even more verbose. However if you use Object.getPrototypeOf on this you fail the recursive problem in nest super calls. Read the stackoverflow euestion
The same goes for the other end of the spectrum, people over 50-60 who started using the intern.. ehm sorry, facebook to connect with their grandchildren and play games. Their whole browser experience ends there, they don't ever type a URL in and have no notion of bookmarks other than facebook's app bookmarks (and they get disillusioned when they're missing).
True. I have little interest in actual discussions on G+ or FB because of the public use of my full name, and the connections that I have there. There are, and will remain, plenty of people that enjoy interaction that has a bit more anonymity. r/truereddit is quite good.

I think part of what has happened to these dwindling forums is that they are functionally out-dated, and a bit too insular. -It takes too much time for new people to get up to speed on most boards. (dont forget Hubski, btw. :))
A good review of the 4000: http://xahlee.org/emacs/ms_keyboard/ms_natural_keyboard_4000...
I don't claim to have any special knowledge here so yeah, could be. I didn't know about that flag BTW - thanks for mentioning it. It sounds similar to O_DIRECT on linux?
related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185743
Ridiculous. I should completely shut off my life if I wish to complain that an immoral law be stopped?
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TL;DR - "It doesn't. Women and men are about equally good at math. Also, CS doesn't require much math ability."

Actually, I don't see how those two ideas form a coherent argument.
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It's a close run thing even with individual manufacturers. Apple will almost certainly slip into second place next month if the trend of the last month continues. Apple was down 6 points to 24%, Samsung up 7 points to 17%
They are still paying more for the same services. What if I went into a restaurant with you and the charge 10% of the amount of money you have in your wallet if it's less than $1,000 and 1% if it's more or equal. You have $50 so you pay $5 but I have $1,000 so I pay $10. How is that fair to me? We got the exact same meal. If anything it's unfair to the person who pays the most regardless of the percentage.

We all benefit from a stable government and economy. I don't see how one using it more efficiently should be punished.
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I thought this was going to be about how effective recruitment by Biology programs is responsible for reducing the female enrollment in CS programs.

Instead it just tells us what we already know.
Most of the comments here talk about how whatever useful can be done in Scala can be done in some other language. That is not the point, Scala is a good language because

- Compatible with JVM

- Strong type system

- Linear Typing

- Substructal Types

- Local Type inference

- Concurrency constructs built in as actors (Akka)

- Integration of OO and functional paradigms

- Supports Higher Order Programming

- defn-site Variance based Parametric Polymorphism

- Mixin Class Composition for finer grain reuse

- Traits provide stackable behaviors (aspect-oriented style)

- Embedded Polymorphic Domain Specific Language (DSL)
using dependent path types

Every language design is a trade off, but Scala is more expressive and concise than Java. Sometimes that may look to you as code which is unreadable. Other languages like clojure make some other trade offs. But Scala tries to bring some of the benefits of functional programming (in say Haskell) to Java.
It's not. There's a brief strange bit where he thinks advanced meditation skills can lead to psychic powers, without really distinguishing them from people's perceptions of reality changing. Other than that it's pretty much "do these exercises with your head and look for this stuff to happen", and some ranting about general meditation instruction not being enough of that.
I used to program with a regular keyboard, but as I got older I found that wrist fatigue became more of an issue. I now code on a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 and never have any issues. There is a short learning period for the split keyboard, but I didn't find it slowing me down for more than 4 hours.
I'd be much more interested in a presentation that takes the following tack: we know that some professions are mostly male, some mostly female, and some a mix. Lets pick a bunch of careers from each category. Can we find any common characteristics in those three groups? Can we form a model based on that with predictive power - one that lets us say "based on what we know, we predict that X% of radiologists will be female" and be reasonably accurate?

That would be much more useful than the constant "men are better at math" vs "no they're not!" argument. And if there were interesting findings, someone else could try to determine how much of the difference was social or biological.
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I have the Das Keyboard Silent which is a mechanical keyboard with brown switches and it helped me a great deal with neck pains partly beacause you don't have to press so hard and partly beacause I don't move my neck to look at the keyboard as much (whats the point, the keys are all blank)

I'v tried a bunch of ergonomic keyboards in terms of how the keys are placed and how the keyboard is split but the only thing that really worked for me was the switch to a mechanical keyboard. I suggest to try a mechanical keyboard for a while, I can't say it works for everyone but for me it was a ginormous difference.
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How were your retinas damaged, if I may ask?
I loved it! Watched it from outside the UK through a proxy.
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I believe the author means elite as in the elite firms within their fields, not the overall market.
I use a ZaggMate which doubles as protection, weighs about the same as any other case and is not bulky at all. It works quite well.

> Maybe you just need a smaller laptop ..

No, I don't want to have a small laptop as my main computer. I had an Eee before the iPad, but the difference in the writing experience is not too different in the end and the other advantages of the iPad are greater. In any case, you can hardly call me a person who unreasonably hangs on to Apple stuff: I'm writing this under Linux which I installed on the MBP my university gave me. I hardly ever boot into OS X here.

> Also, terminals are great, but writing anything serious without X is a pain.

Why? Emacs doesn't really need X, and I don't need to re-typeset my work every five minutes.
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I never understood the exception for game engines (ala Lua). Why are those okay but other VMs not okay (from Apple's perspective, of course)?
I have a MS Natural 4000 too and I always make sure every computer I spend a lot of time on has one. I do really wish they made a model without the numeric keypad. I find it ironic that an ergonomic keyboard forces my right hand to reach to far for the mouse. There is another MS arc style keyboard with a separate bluetooth keypad but the keyboard isn't quite as good as the 4000.

Anyone know of an ergonomic keyboard as good as the 4000 without a keypad?
There are some comments from the submission two years ago when this was new:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=889353
Do you mean the classic Natural Elite or the one of the intermediate versions? The classic Natural Elite still feels a bit better to me than any of the new versions (including the 4000), which is why I keep a stockpile in my basement.
I wouldn't say that I was aware of being stressed by driving before - but I'm definitely less tired driving than I used to be. Now I just chug along at the speed limit, listening to a decent audiobook....

Also I inevitably do a lot of driving up and down the UK A9 - which is a scenic but rather horrible and notoriously dangerous road.
1. Well it is. Which is kind of the point.

I like the feature as well. Beats Google's "site:" operator!

3. The exact match domain should be top in most cases. But smearing brand all over the page like horse manure stifles smaller companies.
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At these scales? Probably not.
Yes, ergonomic keyboards are great. In general, ergonomics is of sublime importance but is really easy to ignore for most people.
Yep, I try to keep an extra one or two in the basement myself in case my main one goes bork. I think the feel is far superior to the 4000. I also put down the $$$ for the Kinesis and, though I like it a lot in many ways, it is a bit more than I need. I'm doing this primarily for comfort and speed, not out of CTS-induced necessity.
While people do suck at evaluating risk, so do the people who set up the speed limits. In my town, it's 50 km/h everywhere. Everywhere.

Crazy tight winding path in residential area? 50.

Three or four lane-wide roads stretching for a few kilometers with nothing but forest on both sides? 50.

I assume we can agree driving on the crazy winding path is more dangerous. Guess where all the police traps are.
For me I've found these two websites to be helpful:
* http://www.audiodharma.org -- podcasts, including introduction to mindfullness meditation
* http://www.accesstoinsight.org -- translations of the Pali canon
It becomes more interesting if you add a third: "This logic was presented by a female mathematician."

(Before I get modded down into oblivion, I should state that I agree with both points: Women and men are about equally good at math. Also, CS doesn't require much math ability.

I just think it's interesting to analyze the argument's logic.)
A good book about this is: The Breakout Principle by Herbert Benson. His model is that creative insight comes from periods of intense activity followed by a down period.

http://cbass.com/Breakout.htm
No, I mean there literally isn't an opportunity. The bill won't be scheduled for a vote if he has a hold on it. Should he filibuster an unrelated bill?
Is it easy for programmers of all abilities to understand and use?

Will I still understand my own code in 9 months time?

I think that their is more to being a good language than a list of features.
Meh, I watched it last night, and it left me wanting more. It delt more with Turing dealing with homosexuality than exploring his discoveries in depth.

I was disapointed.
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Yeah, I was going to ask about this.

A distributor somewhere is left without his advertising dollars because I'm going to go watch this from torrent without any ads.

I wouldn't mind some ads, but I'm not going to wait until this becomes available in my region. That will probably take years.

Media producers and distributors: start thinking about worldwide zero day distribution now or be prepared to go out of business.
This reminds me of the work done by Răzvan Musăloiu-E. [1], which used some
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examine the relationships between filesystems in the Linux kernel.

[1]: http://cs.jhu.edu/~razvanm/fs-expedition/
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I used to love my Microsoft Natural Ergo 4000 keyboard. I did find that the pressure (PSI to press a key) goes up quite a lot after owning one for a few months, which can cause finger pain if you are coding for long hours.

After having MS Ergo keyboards for about 7 years, I finally switched to a Kinesis model (http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage_pro.htm), and although more expensive, the pressure has stayed consistent for the 1+ years of owning it.
I have 4000s everywhere, too, and I concur with your request!
Ergonomic keyboards ease strain when one is typing a lot, which can easily happen when one types for a living. They are a necessity for many who end up with wrist strain (I had my first serious episode at age 17, another one at age 22, and another one at age 24).

They also can enable you to type faster. This isn't very important for coding, but it may be important in a variety of other contexts depending on what you do. I've been trying to push over 90 awpm myself.

Here are the keyboards I've had and tried:

MS Natural Elite, classic, affordable, does everything right. I feel the same way about this keyboard as I do the classic MS intellimouse, which was superceded by (IMO) inferior products. The spacebar felt a bit loose and broke on me a couple of times.

MS 4000, never felt as smooth to me as the Natural Elite, but easier to obtain. I think they made the spacebar more stable, but not as easy to reach. I was in the habit of putting my natural elite in my lap and pounding away, the adjusted curvature of this model didn't allow this and otherwise annoyed me.

Kinesis Advantage, major price tag and major pain to use if you have to use a mouse periodically. Also more difficult to adjust to. That said, gives you a slight advantage w/ typing speed (+10 or so words per minute) and allows you to easily touch type the numbers, something that very few people can do. Also, very very comfortable.

Do you really need an ergonomic keyboard? Depends on what you do. I predominately use a laptop keyboard (on my 13" Air) these days and haven't had a major issue with strain for some years, largely because (I assume) I do other wrist intensive exercises (primarily yoga). That said, if I ever did something again where I really needed to push 100 wpm, esp. over an extended period of time, I would definitely crack out my ergo keyboards.
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Interoperation with Java from Clojure is generally fairly painless. The largest exception that I can think of is if you are trying to integrate with a library/framework that is heavily object-oriented and requires class inheritance. Clojure is very opinionated on the functional programming aspect, and although it is generally possible to extend classes, it can be relatively painful.

However, if you are only using objects, calling methods, or even implementing interfaces, interoperation for Clojure is quite nice.
"Not when I could just use Craig's List and avoid all this drama."

Good luck with that one. Seriously, has this guy used Craig's List recently (or ever)? While the chances of things working out are probably decent, Airbnb acts as an intermediary and as such ensures the transaction is at least refundable. Ask Craig's List to do that for you...

It's worth pointing out that it's possible to have a bad experience with ANY service, including a hotel. As merely anecdotal evidence, I can tell you that I've had my reservations dropped at a hotel after it was paid for and confirmed: it can happen no matter what service you're using.
It's ironic that ten years ago many people (average consumers) thought that AOL was the Internet. Now they think Facebook and Google are. Ten years from now, it'll be something else and HN type people will still be doing their own thing as usual.
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I've had a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard for a couple of years, now. Apart from the (relative) comfort, it's a well-built, sturdy (i.e. heavy) peripheral, which in itself improves the typing experience, I think.

If you are thinking of switching to one, then be prepared to spend some time adapting to it. I'm a ~100wpm touch typist, and while at university had used the 4000's predecessor, but it still took me nearly three months to get back up to speed after switching to the 4000.

But, having made the switch, I don't find my ability to type on non-ergonomic keyboards affected in the least; I routinely switch back and forth between my desktop and Macbook.
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Anecdotal evidence based on four years of active meditation would in my case seem to indicate that the jittery loopiness lessens while the capacity for creative wandering increases.

This is exactly my experience as well. After about three years of meditation I have also found that I almost never get angry any more - things that used to piss me off or frustrate me just kind of roll off now, and I can really think more objectively about them and tackle problems in a constructive way.

I think one of the keys with meditation is to become the observer of our thoughts and not self-identify with them. You are not your thoughts.
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Large scale hunger is typically a symptom of systemic failure, not a lack of food production ability. There's no consensus on how to fix that. Niall Ferguson suggests that the "killer apps" are competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the Protestant work ethic. This is controversial - see, for and example the comments on his TED talk[1] or the reviews of his book[2].

As for reporting yourself as satisfied, this is hugely subjective. I could be unsatisfied because I think my bosses at my well paid and comfortable programming job are doing things wrongly, this, I suspect, would be a luxury problem to an unemployed graduate on benefits, who again has a luxury problem compared to a homeless crack addict.

> Our political mechanisms and were designed a few centuries ago by people who had the mathematical and scientific sophistication of a contemporary high school student.

Will all due respect, but there's really no way to say this without being a dick: Go read a book. The big philosophers of the enlightenment are towering intellectual capacities.

> There is every reason to believe that we can do better if we put our best minds on this task.

Quite the contrary. People are people and they all have individual goals and desires. Societies can't be designed and directed on any significant scale without devolving into totalitarianism. Our enlightenment friends realized this, and anyone who's tried to do this has failed miserably and bloodily.

1: http://www.ted.com/talks/niall_ferguson_the_6_killer_apps_of...

2: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Civilization-Ways-West-Beat-Rest/dp/...
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Thanks for the feedback, we really appreciate it.

We have planned to eventually change the custom need button to allow people to custom build a card, but we wanted to see the first reactions before doing so.

We'll definitely look into replacing the "By app2card" in the very near future, most likely by the app name.
I found this to be a good introduction: http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
The author of the blog post clearly follows the field.
That's how agriculture happened, which is the biggest step forward the human race ever took.

And many groups and individuals that failed to evolve towards agriculture either died or have been thrown in slavery (as civilizations with agriculture developed more rapidly than the others without it - that's how cities started to emerge, as suddenly bigger groups could live together).

I get what you're saying too. Personally I would do anything to keep my child from starving. But extinct species are NOT in danger because of poor people that are fighting for their lives. And not all poachers are poor, not all poachers have an excuse, quite the contrary.
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>Is it easy for programmers of all abilities to understand and use?

Thats a loaded question. I don't know about you but I have met alot of People who write VBScript in excel spreadsheets that call themselfes programmers. To say the language is bad because programmers of all abailities can't understand and use it will make all languages even the simplisest ones fail that test.

You should be asking can programmers that I will be asked to work with understand it and use it, however your answer to that question I think will say more about the programmers you hire / work with then it will about scala.
That's right - that's why Apple released stuff like GarageBand, Pages, Keynote, Numbers and iMovie for the iPad - so that people would not use all this content-creation software to create content.

Oh wait.
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There will be two speakers. One talk is about the Quantified Self aka keeping track of yourself and the other talk is about Git. Language will be most likely Dutch, but if there are non-Dutch speakers around we'll switch to English :) This a recurrent event every last Thursday of the month.

Thanks to SETUP (http://setup.nl) the event is open to all free of charge, but you do need to register, so we have an indication of the amount of people interested.

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Regarding the rendering technologies it was exactly the same, a big pile of JS that you need to render actual content.

The main point of the author seems to be that G+ doesn't use progressive enhancement.
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