skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around Beijing, the problem is (1) use of coal as fuel with outdated poorly maintained energy producing equipment, (2) use of coal directly by peasants in the winter to keep warm (in Hebei), and (3) lots of cars with poor fuel quality (even if the emissions equipment is working, they aren't given the right quality of fuel). The solutions are quite simple: upgrade the equipment, get farmers to use natural gas for warming, and import the good black stuff from Saudi, not the cheap bad stuff (Sinopec is evil).
> like the rest of the developed world, wireless networks will subsume your fixed line services.

http://abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Products/8153.0~December...

You sure about that? Plus, how are you going to transmit 1 Gbps with an acceptable level of contention, with a very very thin wall or two in the way over any distance greater than let's say a hundred metres?

Plus, this deregulation that you speak of, the national telco was being privatised starting in 1997, and deregulation happened before that even. Broadband ISPs have been around forever, and their DSLAMs for more than a decade too.

> Your fixed line services, at the national level, are still relatively small.

In some areas, we've got three networks running to the same premises. Fixed line services are near enough fully built out and have been forever.
Microsoft is still doing stack ranking. I believe that was a major part of the HR scourge he was referring to
Though I'm a long-time vim user, I've never even used cf" nor do I know what it means. However, I find most vi emulators work very well with the standard movement, yanking and inserting commands, and some basic visual modes.

I used ViEmu quite successfully a few years ago when I was doing C#, and I use vi mode on bash every day without many problems. If you keep it simple, you should be able to work across emulators pretty well.
Most of these vim emulators are open source, so there's always the chance to just fix it and do a pull request. The main two vim emulators that I am using are:

- XVim for XCode

- Evil for Emacs

And both do a really good job. Evil beats XVim hands down, but XVim is a lot better than the others I tried: IdeaVim (for Intellij), Vrapper (Vim for Eclipse), and Vintage (Vim for Sublime). Out of these, vintage is by far the worst. I think it does more harm than good because the missing and wrongly implemented keys confuse me so much that I get worse at vimming. IdeaVim lacked a lot of the keys that I use regularly important (vi", va", vit, vat, etc), and Vrapper was kinda good but I think I couldn't map jj to <ESC>, but it's been some time since I had to use Eclipse.

I tried to fix IdeaVim, but I browsed the source for some time and couldn't really figure out what to do. However, I also enhanced my local XVim and Evil setups a bit by extending the code and it was a lot easier than with IdeaVim.

I've said this before, but with all these implementations, somebody should have written a "libVim" in lua, that can be embedded in almost any project, and can be hooked into the input stream, and then you'd just need to define a set of methods in your delegate textfield (or what it is) and the libVim will call these methods based on input (i.e. move cursor, insert text at position, change text at position, scroll up, scroll down). I don't think you'd need that many delegate methods since mostly it is writing to a text buffer.
Interesting read !!
They've embraced open standards:
http://blog.app.net/2013/08/07/response-to-brennan-novak-par...

And they have started releasing client source code:
https://github.com/appdotnet/

a16z is already getting a return, since App.net has been profitable for a while. It's all gravy since they've made it free to sign up. The user base is about 10 times bigger than last year. It's true we don't know how many new users are paying but since that fixed costs are covered, it doesn't really matter.
If you swap around the pedals of your car, I suspect you will have similar problems.
Another way is to swap back and forth, this will get you used to a new editor with less frustrations. But cold turkey is faster :)
Your second point is exactly what the German government is afraid of according to the article. According to the article there seem to be security vulnerabilities on 3 levels in TPM 2.0, which might be used by intelligence agencies - the article states NSA and China who is actually producing most of the TPM chips.
I prefer to blame 串儿 and excessive 中南海 smokers
Vim has ruined me as well. Nearly every other editor that has a vi mode really just has a vi mode, not vim.
This means that you cannot use 3 letter commands, but the 3 letter commands really are the most powerful. I cannot count the times that I have used ct( or ci", now after adding the surround plugin it becomes even easier with cs'"
If I remember my German correctly the articles argues around many different points.

One is spying (NSA), another is restrictions on what to install (Microsoft) and some parts discuss the threat from China, manufactures of the TPM chips.
Frankly, it sounds like he's just recharacterizing basic efficiency plans to make it seem like Facebook is on some sort of altruistic mission. There's little to no action called for, no commitments towards altrustic ends. It's just a "hey, we should get more people online" (which only helps Facebook's bottom line) and a "we're trying to make Facebook load faster" (again, bottom line).
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I think cf" is pretty standard. I think it is even a original vi command and not a vim extension. Change the text from the cursor position up to the first instance of the " char.
I will never understand why would anyone eat the same food everyday. Eating is fun, more fun than anything i know of.
My unscientific gut feeling based on personal experience is that is harmful. After a few hours you need to step back and give your brain time to digest and store what is has studied. If you don't give it that time then not only won't you be able to learn new things, but you won't later be able to recall things you already studied.
As for "listening to Mozart," that strikes me as an extremely passive activity.

My lay theorizing on this: certain types of music (and much of the classical repetoire) helps relax the mind. We spend far too much of our time being grossly overstimulated, and I've found that a great many of the typical stimulations in a Western experience (advertising, technology, popular music, city streets, etc.) simply wear at me. Nature, nonlinear landscapes, classical (or earlier) Western music (there is some awfully annoying non-western music, Indonesian gamelan being very high on the annoyance list for me) help immensely in this regard.

Just as strength training is stimulus for growth that comes during recovery, I suspect music may be part of the downtime which helps the brain and/or emotional / stress aspects of the body recover. Meditation or similar practices might operate similarly.

Total armchair theory here, but it's what I've got.
If the data you are storing in them actually matters enough to care about the spying.
Are open standards not important? Just the source?

They have been starting to release the source code of the client applications they've built:
https://github.com/appdotnet/
This is an article from 2008 about dust storms from the Gobi travelling across the Pacific; this isn't the main pollution problem in China today.

The dust coming in from the Gobi was a result of deforestation and poor land management policies, which were pretty much cleaned up for the Olympics and have remained quite fixed. We haven't had a real dust storm in Beijing since early 2008, I think, and definitely not one in the last 4 years.

The PM2.5 today is not carried by dust from the Gobi, but it still exists, of course. Ironically, the overall effect today is much worse than it was in 2008 (maybe because it just stays in Asia now?). I'm not sure if the pollution can still travel across the pacific without the huge dust storms of the past.

Here is some more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Dust

All of the info in the article is out of date though. I wish I could find something more up to date. Edit: a recent dust storm in March 2013 that made its way to Japan:

* http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1187348/dust-storms-a...

* http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/12/national/tokyo-d...

I remember this, but I didn't think it was particularly bad, at least the sky didn't turn yellow. The air was definitely crappy though, but once it all blew out (well, to Japan), it was quite clean afterwards.

Perhaps the solution to China's pollution problems are giant fans (Japan can then build giant robots to destroy these fans).
and with China's huge investments in Mongolian coal mines, it's not about to get much better any time soon :(
> The companies intend to accomplish their goal in part by simplifying phone applications so they run more efficiently and by improving the components of phones and networks so that they transmit more data while using less battery power.

Isn't it already happening for a while (or forever, depending on the companies) ?
Companies who cared about performance and responsiveness already work on optimizing their apps. Because more usage means more revenue.

Mobile OS and hardware makers already care about battery life and efficiency, because these are strong competitive advantages.

The rest of the effort seems to be into getting carriers to make Facebook/other companies requests out of quota, witch is not new and belongs more to marketing/sales strategy than anything else.

This initiative feels like some generic PR move with nothing special to latch on.
They are very similar to a casual glance though as I don't read Reddit regularly I can't say more.
When my mouse died, I got a magic trackpad instead. It's much more precise than using a mouse, you don't need to keep hunting the scroll bar everytime you scroll, and with all the gestures I don't even miss the mouse anymore. With a little practice I'm even able to do Photoshop work from the trackpad.
Flagging. RTFM.
I experienced a dust storm in Japan that started in China back in 2009 or 2010 so I think problems still do exist post-olympics (but perhaps greatly diminished from before? you'd know better than me on this)

But I totally agree that the coal residues are the major issue at hand.
I can write what's new and exciting about Go on the back of a napkin.
Yikes. When I read the part about him trying to decide what to do if it covered his mouth, I thought 'drink it!', but it appears that might not be the best course of action after all....
I normally use ct" which is pretty much the same but excludes the character which I find is normally more useful - if I'm changing something in quotes, then ct" makes more sense. ci" is the best one of those though (change inside ")

I also have the same problem as the op, I can't use vim plugins.
I think the news is out and all know the facts and fabricated facts too.

I think its time for the govt., and the president to come out and say "Yes", We Spy on you for your safety and we assure and ensure you don't get penalised for wrong reasons and systemic errors.

More than privacy people are scared of the ramifications of the surveillance by organisations that lost the trust.
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Most of these websites look nearly identical (twitter bootstrap anyone?), across all three batches. As a visual learner and someone who is (unfortunately) inclined to judge a book by its cover, it's hard for me to get excited about any of these companies by visiting their sites. Frankly they look generic. The cynical part of me wonders if these companies afraid of taking risks and doing something bold with their online presentation.

Also looking forward to the next era of web company names -- let's call it post-skeunameism (Crowdery and Apptimize I'm looking at you). This batch has actually been much improved in that regard from what I remember over the past few years.
Linux's vision is 1970's mainframe; TempleOS vision is a C64.

Failure is not an option? No! failure is an option -- it doesn't have to do everything because you use it in addition to Windows or Linux.

Everybody seems to have a chip on their shoulder. The rules are different from Linux. The line count is capped, so if you want to help, find a way to improve without increasing line count, more or less.

It is very-much by design that it is the way it is. God said 640x480 16 color and single audio voice.

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Strategy.html
perhaps causing some retail chains and corporations who own those to have less profit may have some benefit, but i doubt it will be very high.

i suspect that the problem is deep seated. For example, why can't just anyone enter the banking business? Why isn't there any mom & dad run banks - small, local banks with customers they can could with their hands (and toes)? Why is something as important as money (and teh ability to lend it out) controlled by so few?
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Thinking beyond money and more about the human impact global digital market places. A dual cultural & financial benefit.
That is not correct. There can exist flaws that cause loss of entropy that do not entirely compromise a cryptosystem.
Can you elaborate on the OS X issue (I think I've missed that disclosure)? Everything I can find, which admittedly is not anything authoritative (nothing from Apple directly), says that Apple hasn't shipped TPMs for a few years now.
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OK. There are several reasons. NFC is more convenient for the user, you don't have to plug and unplug it. Also increases reliability and usage scenarios for example as a payment device or door access, allows easy interactions between two devices.
When I lived in China in 2002, we had more than a few dust storms where the sky would turn completely yellow...it is a bizarre surreal experience.

On my recent tour of duty starting in late 2007, I only experienced one dust storm in the spring of 2008, then nothing. I haven't seen one for a very long time, but it could be that they've just solved the problem for Beijing (doubtful, since we are right smack next to Inner Mongolia).

This is like the only thing...the only thing...that has gotten better in China while I've been here!
Linux version ?
Blaming the Chuan (outdoor BBQ) vendors is quite funny; I feel like the officials are trying to deflect blame for their black Audi's running on crappy fuel.
I'll bite -- improved twitter bootstrap theme! The new design is more like the traditional "fundable" SV-startup-bootstrap theme.

In all seriousness, I think it is rather bold that they include a polarizing substance (butter) in their name. Personally I'd probably avoid the issue and go with something a bit less controversial. To be quite honest, even though I eat and enjoy butter the name "Buttercoin" is a slight turnoff -- I can only imagine how the less dairy inclined feel about it.
Myspace and others would disagree.
It's been tried before. What happens when the working class rises and takes what's theirs is that after some time, a new elite emerges thanks to this working class, pretending to have the same values, while actually screwing this very same class even more.

The crucial distinction to make here is what's yours and what's not. If people agree that one billionaire made his money honestly, by creating companies where people work voluntarily and that provide products and services people really need, thus actually creating value - then there can be no justification for anyone to go and take part or all of this billionaire's money. If they agree he stole his money or extracted them by force, then he's a criminal and all of the money he made in this way should be confiscated. But there's no middle ground here. You can't make a person kinda-guilty because he's rich.

But back to "might makes right". The collective might of the people is always greater than the might of any organization, be it government or a corporation. If people understood the distinction of two ways to get rich I described above, they could easily support protection agencies that would prosecute criminals, but leave alone and protect rich people who made their money honestly. This kind of arrangement would promote a greater degree of equality. And we've seen this historically too: the great rises in standards of living for the poor happened where markets flourished and regulations were minimal (scandinavian countries including, read their policies throughout the 20th century). Yes, rich people became richer. But so did the poor.
Even Kunming has pollution that is considered bad (though much better than east China). I don't think the environment gets much better in Kazakhstan, they are still industrializing. Once you hit Iran, it is almost as bad as China.
I always put it the other way. The problem with other text editors is that they are not vim.
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OP wrote "plethora of well known and well researched meal replacement solutions out there"

I'm just wondering if OP can name even one such solution.
Libcoro[1] is a C library providing the primitives to implement yield.

[1] http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libcoro.html
Depends on (a) the quality of the coal (chinese coal tends to be quite bad, American coal is much cleaner) and the quality of the emissions equipment in whatever is burning the coal (Chinese environment regulations are bad, plant owners tend to skim and use outdated equipment).

Compare to the US or Germany, where coal is still heavily used, but the environmental impact is much reduced.
This isn't a problem with vi(m) but with application implementing vi keyboard navigation. Neither vi nor emacs are just their navigation keys and I have a similar problem with anything that is like emacs in that there's always a shortcut missing.
It hits a nerve because it's being advertised as a candidate for full-time meal replacement. Pizza rolls and fast food are not, so the comparison between the two is a false equivalency.

>Obviously he didn't go through a traditional degree program in nutrition, but I've seen what comes out of a lot of those traditional degree programs, and that's really not much of an argument against him.

That's another false equivalency. Nutritional programs do not produce scientists, but not being in a nutritional program doesn't suddenly make you a scientist.

>Well, no, he spent quite a significant amount of time reading textbooks and journals, getting a pretty reasonable grounding in the science. It's also not like it's his first time studying science, seeing as he is an engineer

Engineers do not practice the type of science required to develop new food/drugs. Where are the long term studies across various demographics with double-blind tests? The lack of those is what makes this "anti-intellectual".
can anyone elaborate on TPMs, what are they, why are they the risk in MS case etc.?
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Not on the htc one s.
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I spent a depressingly long time using git before understanding how the staging area worked.

I think hiding it under a novice/expert flag is a terribad idea, but I'm not sure what the right way to expose the staging area in this interface would be.
This is how Americans think, though. They believe that people who have no idea what they're doing are fonts of magic wisdom. It's part of their egalitarian faith.
I think GoComm and Kivo have the best chance of this batch. I think GoComm especially is a good idea and in retrospect so obvious, that i wish i would've though of it. Coordinating people, even in small scale events is painful. I remember when i helped with fencing tournaments our club ran (running computer system) it was a constant trouble tracking down free pistes, referees, making sure other stuff (refreshments, garbage and similar) was ok... we solved this with having a dedicated person on the floor in the hall, keeping an eye out and keeping me in the loop, but that isn't very scalable
Thanks, my vim problem is I'm always missing out on faster commands :)
Often, a strong expectation that a person will do well on a particular regime is enough to cause that person to do well on that particular regime. And I'm talking about measurable, physical changes.

I'd like to see some proper triple-blind studies involving people who haven't strongly invested themselves in the outcome.
Emissions per capita in China are well under half of those in the US so something doesn't add up about your post.
I am surprised more "seed investors" don't come on here once in a while and say... show me (demo) what you're working on... I have 15-25K to thrown down on something interesting. HN could use a little more personal engagement on here.
Trouble is that data from NSA leaks to other organizations and then used in number of nefarious of ways to sustain illegal and unconstitutional practices. As it happened wit DEA doing "parallel construction". Whatever the heck that means - means perjury and obstruction of justice to me.

my 2c.
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I agree. I'm fairly convinced that the nutritional world is in a dark age right now, and I wouldn't be surprised if all those problems you listed continue til long after I'm gone.

I don't advocate for soylent, but I'm not against it either, and that's only because I honestly don't know what to make of any meal replacement. Right now, making claims like potentially curing world hunger are much too premature when factoring in how little we know (i.e. we literally wouldn't know when we had such a cure if it slapped us in the face); thus I wouldn't be surprised if much of HN is backlashing based on those marketing claims. If instead it was billed less like a product, and more like a long-term research project into the intricacies of nutrition, then I know I would've backed it (and it would've made it a lot clearer that you're investing for a chance to be a guinea pig, rather than paying to be a consumer of a life-altering product). Because despite the fact that MRPs have been in constant research by other companies, a fresh open engineering perspective would still be welcome. They still have a chance to pivot that way, but some stuff like what's in this reddit thread, is a bit concerning: http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1jvsie/the_man_w... I don't particularly like the attitude of the comment, but it does make some good points.
I always knew there must be some solid UX reasoning behind those file copy dialogs.
Thanks, wikwocket. Am implementing your first two suggestions. I was simplifying when I said it's a $5 increase. Most people will be unaffected. But about 15% will be; I wanted to get some content ideas for what/how to say it to that segment.