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After using both a Kindle Keyboard and a Kindle Touch, I much prefer the touch screen. I wouldn't mind having page turning buttons though.

Switching orientation to landscape makes most of my PDFs readable, at the cost of scrolling three times per page. It's not fun, but if necessary you can put up with it.
There's a lot these days that, in years past, would have sounded like something out of a tinfoil hat convention.

Yet, even some of the nuttiest, worst-case scenarios that people feared about in the wake of the Clipper Chip debacle have been surpassed by reality.

It boggles the mind.
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And to cancel the account you've to email them i.e, there's no UI to do that. Despicable.
You can boil down practically any essay to a one liner like that and dismiss it just as easily.
Are you sure about "last year"? I thought the bug was assigned CVE-2013-1775 and discussed in late Feb 2013.
People like to generalize a lot.

for someone who lived in Dubai for 5+ years, I find those stories really strange. the city is really different than what you get from Media.

the government give a lot of privileges to western residents that's why the local population is nearly 18% of the total population.

Dubai has a lot of problems with its social system, but these sex/rape stories are definitely not the major ones, and its totally uncommon to read such stories.
Do you not read HN while wearing your orange hoodie (hood status: applied) and chanting the list of Common Startup Mistakes over and over again?
I think the authors point was to suggest that Atwood's keyboard is no better than existing models, which can be had for much, much less $$$
Maybe it's 1/13th the cost of the network in Mexico City because it provides less than 1/13th the usage.

>There is one catch: phone calls must be limited to a maximum of five minutes to avoid a saturation of lines.
This is why you don't need to pay your programmers too much but you do need to pay them enough that they can focus more on their job and not on trivial items.

In hindsight, nicely presented lunches, gym (and perhaps babysitting?) on campus apparently serve a very real purpose. It makes sense that they are minimizing distractions. (When you think of it this way, employees should not have to pay income tax for free lunch at work but that's a different conversation.)

However, your parent comment made me think a little:

>It can reach a point where you can barely purchase a soda without any stress over spending money.

Do people with money not stress about spending money? I mean sure, I have a decent wage rate. According to the New York Times[0], a little more than half of Americans make less money than I do. However, it is difficult to shake the fear. I am by no means wealthy and I have no alternate source of income. If I am out of the work force for a few months, I will have to take shelter with my (retired) parents. I am by no means the most frugal person in the world. I have a nice Nexus 4 phone and I make whimsical purchases like going to the water park ($40+ for about three hours) and I eat out and stuff a few times a week. However, there is that fear in the back of my head that says what happens tomorrow? I would like to go to grad school. Will I be able to afford it?

The article makes me feel like the wealthy people don't have worries like that. I kind of envy that.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-p...
I think we are going to see a massive showdown over crypto backdoors, the likes of which we have not seen yet. I am further not sanguine about the tech companies coming out on top this time.

The problem, as the article points out, is that people are demanding greater security, and government abuse is driving this. That security comes at a cost for things like wiretaps. The choices are bleak and the showdowns are commencing. Dangerous times.....
The NSA, unlike the CIA, does not have such legal restrictions.
This is quite a common way to bypass sudo (get access to a user who already logged in as sudo and reset clock), I remember seeing the same exploit (or variations) time and time again, for multiple systems.
But pg has a pretty good idea of the 'why' of this observed phenomena so there is your underlying model: it is fundamentally important for CEOs to be able to communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders.

Your 'correlation is not causation' mantra seems misplaced unless you can argue that effective communication is not fundamentally important.
Sometimes unusual coincidences like that actually happen. Improbable doesn't mean impossible.

I'm reminded of the first time I watched Das Boot. I knew very little about the movie going in, aside from the fact that it was considered a classic. I enjoyed it a great deal, but thought they overdid it with some of the obviously artificial drama. Afterwards I was surprised to find that the stuff I thought was obviously fake had actually happened to the real submarine the story was based on.
I prefer those found at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4NL9i-Fu15hhYGB-d0hmS...
Parallel construction is being investigated because it's probably not legal.[1]

In the NSA's own words "If the intelligence community collects information pursuant to a valid foreign intelligence tasking that is recognised as being evidence of a crime, [it] can disseminate that information to law enforcement, as appropriate." [1]

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/06/justice-departm...

There's two modes of operation, you seem to have the second in mind, and I am thinking of the first:

1:

a. NSA collects American national's "information pursuant to a valid foreign intelligence tasking". (this may be illegal, violation of fourth amendment rights, no supreme court decision)

b. NSA tip SOD (if 1. is illegal, then it follows it's illegal to pass on)

c. SOD instruct police force to stop and search for 'traffic violation' at time and place, obscure evidence trail. (DOJ investigating if this is illegal)

d. d:a) no evidence is found.

d:b) evidence is found, parallel construction begins.

2:

a. law enforcement agency DEA/IRS/SOD asks NSA to get foreign intelligence, because of investigation already underway.

other steps as above.

I take issue with this: "the goverment broke some rules to do their job (which so far I have not seen any evidence for)"

The FISC found NSA overstepped their remit, broke the fourth amendment, announced that the FISC did not have sufficient oversight, and said that the NSA misrepresented facts repeatedly. The NSA initiate programs and depending how they feel about it present them to the FISC after the fact. In addition this contradicts what Obama said about there being no abuses. The only way that Obama could not be a liar here is if he did not know about it. Is Obama misinformed?

In your own words: "the amount of collection here is trivial.", the government broke the law however 'trivially'. This is an admission on your part there is evidence and that you have seen it.

You have not addressed LOVEINT. You seem to be missing how the LOVEINT stuff came to light, it was self reported by staffers, not uncovered by the NSA. Voluntary handover of information is not a check or a balance. Would you think the police were doing a good job if they only dealt with cases where the perpetrator made a statement on their own actions and turned themselves in without an investigation? Would you consider such behaviour a crackdown by the police? If there were sufficient checks, the NSA would know well before the culprit volunteered the information. In addition this contradicts what Alexander said about there being no abuses.
This fact was reported on the official Quora blog back in February (http://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better).

> If you come across a Quora link anywhere and you want to read it without being asked to join Quora, you can add the text "?share=1" to the end of the URL.
There really isn't. You're letting your bias influence your opinion. Read the paper, draw your conclusions carefully, I wager you will have to change them.
Impossible to find.
That's not an affiliate link. Affiliate links are tag=, not ref=

Please get your facts straight before lambasting a guy providing a link.
I had a C professor with a thick Russian accent. Apparently he had been talked to by the dean after several student complained in semesters prior to my taking the class, and after each class he sent out written notes of the important aspects of his lecture. He was a great teacher with a wonderful grasp of the English language when he wrote it down, but his accent was atrocious when he got excited during the lecture. I'm glad he was able to work around that, I learned a lot from him.
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I would buy an ergonomic version of the CODE keyboard in a heartbeat, and tweeted as much to Jeff Atwood. I guess we'll have to wait and see if he's willing to do that.

There could be other considerations -- I wouldn't be surprised if there were patents around keyboard layouts, specifically the ergonomic keyboard. That could keep other companies from making ergonomic keyboards.

A quick google search pulls up the following patents:

http://www.google.com/patents/US5612691

And then there's this:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1034680/mskeyboard.html
I think the problem really arose because he said foreign accent. So if it was someone American with an incredibly thick and hard-to-understand accent that would be fine? It wouldn't, if what he really cares about is comprehension.

> I'd thought of just letting this controversy blow over.

A common PG tactic, this (see also the "HN mods wilfully ruin submission titles" storm). But probably not a great one to emulate: time and again here we've seen startups badly burnt by the "fuck up in public and don't say or post anything hoping it will blow over" stance.

Even if it does blow over, you've damaged your image. People might treat you the same, but they'll long remember that time you ran away and hid when people expected better of you.
US hackers for the NSA have been able to publicly admit to performing offensive cyber actions for years, usually by mentioning they were on the "offense" side of the program when talking about previous employment. They couldn't admit to specific acts, of course, but they could admit that such acts - categorically - happened.

People just didn't care.
Here's a startup idea: help people speak English well. I live in France, my kids don't speak English at all. I send them to the "American School of Paris" on weekends for a so-called "immersion program" where most kids are French. Results are a little disappointing, and the thing is quite expensive. Yet the waiting list to get in is immense, people are willing to fight to get in.

I'd pay a very high price for an app or a program that young kids would love / do willingly, that would result in them becoming fluent in English.
>Go back to reddit, kid.

The one-hour-old account says to the two year old account.
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Where you say schizophrenia you probably mean split personality disorder. I am not even bothering to re-read your first sentence because of your perpetuation of this horrendous misuse of language.
>Take a shower.

I don't know, if PG took on Lisp Machines Inc. that might have been a problem with Greenblatt.
It was always both as far as I know.

"For Facebook Chat, we rolled our own subsystem for logging chat messages (in C++) as well as an epoll-driven web server (in Erlang)"
The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back
Niggardly is even worse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%2...
i guess there are 2 things here :

1. having accent is ok as far as you can make others understand your point in english ...
2. bad english (i mean really bad) will be turn-off anyway with or without accent .... so it is not accent but its all about english as a language i guess ...

I've seen people with english and no bad accent but still having trouble in making other people understand :) and they are either Dumb OR they're P.hd holders (not generalizing though)...
They're too big to fail, they have some very nice friends at Google or they're some kind of big shot AdWords client.

Google should come out and do their thing banning them.
This isn't a review its an excuse to post amazon referrer links. Trolling 101 stuff right here.
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Ryan Air is the worst web presence online.

It makes a great next-generatin Turing Test -- given zero information about the website (like a person just going to it for the first time), can an artificial intelligence book something on the Ryan Air website with no upsell purchases and not letting the booking process time out (which seems to be between 5 and 30 seconds for each of their 14 steps)?
Oh, I see. Thanks, I didn't get that.
SCUMM VM ported to JS: http://clb.demon.fi/html5scummvm/

Github: https://github.com/juj/emscripten-scummvm
A distinct lack of response by pg on this issue would not have sent an effective message. I think that the audience that reads these misunderstandings is large enough, and of a wide enough spread of interest/knowledge in the issue, that most would not interpret this lack of response as an attempt not to step down into muddy water.

Seems like pg made a good choice to me. I don't think that people will focus on attacking him in similar ways in the future- his self defense was clear and reasonable, and it doesn't really appear that he is defending a sort of terrible racist agenda at all. It also seems that his publicly stated opinions are reasonable enough, in general, that future attackers would be dissuaded from attacking him by the sheer fact that most attacks on pg's opinions/statements would be hard to back up when pressed.
Thank you Matt Cutts for debunking the myth that Facebook likes and shares have any effect on Google rankings. This has been an issue of some debate between me and my friends.
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> hat is what I mean about how it is easy for him to write or lyrics like that, he will not feel the full brunt of society's affects

Who exactly feels the full brunt of society's effects? This is starting to feel like a no true scotsman argument. I'm betting you can disqualify almost anyone from feeling the full effects.
Presumably all available when the NSA wants it.
And yet no one mentions a trackpoint.
Perhaps there is more to be understood here: Snowden didn't blow the whistle on the US Government, he blew the whistle on the US People, and what they have allowed their government to become.

Big difference.
That wasn't a review at all. Did the reviewer even have one to review?

The layout is basically identical to the Model M. A lot of people like that layout.

It's not "ergonomic". Most people don't use or want an "ergonomic" keyboard (I used a Microsoft Natural for years and my wrists always hurt. YMMV.) "Wrist problems in a day"? Yeah, ok.

I was looking forward to a real review.
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Is this shaping up to be the Beats by Dre of keyboards? Take an okay but not spectacular product, slap on a name from an well known and respected name from the industry, and ride to combination to crazy profits.
And some people don't even try. I'm fascinated when I listen to someone who speaks English with excellent syntax and vocabulary, but with consistently poor pronunciation. Sometimes it comes off as a mark of pride, like "I'll deign to speak to you, but I'm not going to put forth the effort to sound like you."
The biggest reason I can't see making the switch to ergo keyboards is that at the end of the day I'm still stuck with my laptop when I'm out and about. It's just too much trouble to retrain my brain when I can only use these fancy keyboards 50% of my time.
No it's not. A typical engineer is not a good CEO. Like Knuth said, "a good scientist/engineer is one who get to the bottom of things". A CEO is someone who gets on top of things. That is not to say there doesn't exist someone who can do both, probably better in one than the other. Bill Gates / Larry Page / Larry Ellison, etc. are (or used to be) good engineers, but they are also good businessmen and able to to communicate the language of business.

A CEO not only communicates with his engineers / manager / executive team, but also with external customers. There are also different classes of customers: enterprise, consumers; each would need a different sales pitch. A CEO who is not able to connect with people is not going to be a good CEO. And by connecting, you probably need to make references to sports, music, fashion trends or whatever that is the demographics you are selling to are interested in.

A CEO who is "foreign" to US culture / language will have a hard time running a company in US. Now if you are as charismatic/iconic as Arnold Schawazenegger then you might get by. But even Arnold worked hard on his English and he is clearly picking up some American accent :)

Disclaimer: I am a recent immigrant and have a strong accent.
For surveillance it's of great importance to know the difference between me being friends with Iranian nuclear scientists, them being friends with me, or us having mutual hugs going on.
When it was "erlang" I think they were just running ejabberd.
Oh please. Get over yourself.
I felt the same way, but randomly followed a link to one of the suggested alternates and found it pretty compelling. Besides looking like a nice device, one can apparently configure a custom key layout with a web app and download the adjusted firmware[1]. So, while I dislike the review site itself, the content was ultimately helpful. Maybe I just don't have the same aesthetic sense those who have serious opinions about keyboards.

http://www.trulyergonomic.com/store/layout-designer--configu...
Clearly OP is not in the target audience. It is also unfair to post a negative review without having actually used said product.
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You can't fit a chesterfield sofa because the chassis isn't designed for that. Exactly like the phone ecosystem.
I fail to see what would be 'dark' in the first place about making it hard to clear local browsing data on a single-user device.
I can say, from experience, that native Texans and Australians can have difficulties understanding each other.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fChqXqvvmg8 for an example that I enjoy of a song, in English by native English speakers, than many English speaking people have trouble understanding. After you've seen the words written down, native English speakers usually can then understand. But if English is a second or third language, then good luck!
Maybe I have a different understanding of 'multimedia keys', but both you, your parent and the reviewer seem to think that there are none on the keyboard in question.

That's weird, since it _does_ have them (or some of them? No idea what would be missing here, I don't even use these). That's puts the review into a weird kind of light as well: It has its facts wrong in the first paragraph..

http://codekeyboards.com/img/code-mediakeys.jpg
I told Jeff the same thing.
Get'm a DVD box set of The Simpsons.
Do you really need a submersible to lay cable? Could be they have on an espionage mission to tap someone else's cable?
People go to Pitch Nights just to work on the quality of their communication.

The reason is, if you have ever waded through a large round of pitches - you understand that it only takes a couple hard to understand sentences before you lose interest.

This doesn't just apply to foreign accents, it applies to volume, pace, etc.
Being a keyboard connoisseur, I own the Majestouch tenkeyless, the CM QuickFire, Happy Hacking keyboard, model M IBM keyboard, several Apple aluminum, Northgate ... many more.

My favorite are the Majestouch and QuickFire due to their shorter width minus the number pad which I never use. The same quality really. My Majestouch failed on me and it was 2.5X more in cost. QuickFire is highly recommended. Choosing the right QuickFire is important. Cherry keys code named brown, black, blue, red have their own characteristics. I like the Blue keys followed by Brown for coding.

If noise is an issue, it's hard to beat the Apple aluminum keyboards both wireless and wired. I use Apple keyboars on my Win7 boxes too.

Never been fond of the happy hacking keyboard. Keys aren't in the "usual" places. It got about a weeks worth of use. I do like the Ctrl key where the Caps lock is though and I configure that key through the operating system on all my keyboards.
How true. I remember .NET Servers were everywhere circa 2002, e.g. BizTalk Server.NET. Things never change in M$ land, now it's all Azure.
Added similar thoughts yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6297740)
We complain now and we will keep complaining about it, because no current ergonomic keyboard has good quality switches, or even good quality in general.

I had two MS Ergo 4000 in one year and both are damaged now. I have a cheap Amazon Basics keyboard for now.

Ergonomic keyboard users don't have enough alternatives. So we will complain until we get them.
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This is my reason for sticking with the wireless keyboard.It means I essentially get the same keyboard, same button positions, same feel whether I'm at a desk or using my laptop's keyboard.
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I recently got a Mac-compatible model of what is essentially the original IBM Model M "Clicky" keyboard from the original manufacturer who now operates independently of IBM [0]. I really like it a lot, and it's $50 cheaper than the CODE keyboard.

I doesn't have the ability to switch keys (for Dvorak or whatever) but I don't need that feature. It also lacks the hardware switch to go from Apple\PC mode, which I might actually use.

[0] https://pckeyboard.com/
When the first edition of CC hit the shelves the big thing on the internet was usenet and that was basically the only place to talk/fight about the stuff CC was talking about. The web was too new, the content to sparse and dialup was still king so you didn't spend hours online reading HN and StackOverflow. The audiences for these books are separated by a decade. CC2 was an effort to bridge that span of time but the audience has changed so it missed the mark. People care about different things today. The business of writing crappy code quickly, getting investment and getting out with your life savings intact matter more than the craft of writing code that first drew me to computers. Different times.
"I think we are going to see a massive showdown over crypto backdoors, the likes of which we have not seen yet"

All this has happened before, all this will happen again:

http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
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I figured this could be done by overriding any existing hardware button callbacks, but apparently you can not outside of your app (see this SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2986337/is-it-possible-to...).
Hardly. This lacks the depth typically found in a PG essay.
The Kinesis Advantage comes with Cherry MX browns or reds. The function keys are a bit dodgy though.
This. Start watching everything in English and add English sub-titles, in case people speak too fast.
This route is very unlikely, considering that virtually everybody knows about the current situation in Syria. It may make him look suspicious, at best.
Wait, something actually came out of the Theil Fellowship?
I find it interesting that you say this since it's quite opposite to my needs and usage.

I find multimedia keys to be an annoyance. I only press a multimedia key by mistake when intending to hit a different key or when trying to rest the fingers of my right hand above the cursor keys (I'm left-handed and often rest my right-hand fingers when using only the mouse).

I'm not suggesting your view is incorrect or wrong in any way. Just interesting to see how one person's necessity is another person's annoyance.