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Seeking asylum in Germany is terrible, agreed, but it is so much easier to get a work permit visa here when you do have a job offer - good luck trying to get the work permit in the UK. In OP's case the best scenario would be to get a job offer from a Berlin based company and have the company apply for te work permit - it's a streamlined process that takes around 4 weeks.
I just ordered an ergodox. There is one day left on the Massdrop: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ergodox

I went a bit keyboard crazy, and think the ergodox is the best modern option. As far as I know, it's the only keyboard that is split, matrix key layout, mechanical, and has thumb keys.
You need to be an administrator, but you do not need to be root. This exploit lets you start from an administrator account for which you don't have a password (but have gained access to through other means, like exploiting an app run by an administrator user) and then leverage that into root access, something that normally requires the password for the account.
Still sort of waiting on a read AND write eInk solution ...
The crazy thing is I used to have a boss who was native to India until late childhood, and (so the story went) had taught himself English, largely by watching American TV. The guy now has zero accent. So I was somewhat skeptical. But maybe some people as part of their personality just pick up on pronunciation faster than others?
They probably know a lot more than we do about the geopolitical situation and that's why they still work there.
I think the reason people got slightly sniffy about it was the use of the word 'foreign' in a negative context, which, whether or not it is intended, will be interpreted by some as xenophobic. Had it been stated as '...having unintelligible accents...' it would probably have passed without note.
Making jokes at the expensive of fascists is a proud tradition. Long may it continue. It guards against their language and mythos being taken seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball
The range of accents between native speakers of English even in the US is large now. Sixty and seventy years ago before radio and TV had had time to do their work, the range was even larger.
Those other components don't take much power. My phone lasts a week idle, and the hours it lasts with the screen on would go up tremendously with e-ink, especially outdoors. The backlight takes an overwhelming majority of power for such activities.
What if - on a rare occasion - you did say something that was misunderstood by a lot of people who trust your judgement? Would you be ignorant at that time too?
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They usually take a day. To maintain quality, we curate all the music that comes in, being that we are not just a store but a discovery platform and user experience is very important to us. We just have too much music coming in and we are way behind on curation.
Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack - half the ROM of the HP-35
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The ECTACO jetBook Color 2 is color e-Ink:
http://www.ectaco.com/jetBook_Color/

Here is a review of the first jetBook color. Haven't seen much on the 2nd model:
http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/ectaco-jetboo...

It's rather expensive, which would be my guess as to why it hasn't had a rapid expansion of market share.
Public scrutiny? I, for one, don't really care if the NSA does these things, and I don't think most people in the US do. Or do you mean scrutiny from other governments, and people outside the US? Then yes, it seems like a pretty good idea to keep it covert.
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* O'Reilly Store selling print book (bulk print discount assumed): 95% margin or $38.00
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Is that really the kind of margins they operate at or is that a typo?
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I'm sort of surprised that Facebook's "friends of" is a directed graph, when the actual social graph is undirected. I guess they use enough directed edges for other things in that graph, but I'm sort of surprised their social graph isn't undirected and ridiculously optimised as its own separate thing.
I used to work retail. Occasionally we would get telemarketer calls, I would just tell them, "We are a retail store, please stop calling us." It works as far as I can tell.
i would guess this decision depends on many details - it's going to involve weighing costs v benefits of making available for public inspection. the risks don't seem huge for a budget doc (compared to something with more operational details) while there are already possible gains - this report suggests that the CIA has misled the public, for example http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/dna-test-verified...
On that point, I think some of the best action right now would be raising general awareness to the population, particularly the extremely negative consequences this could have on the nation. Despite what some may believe, I feel the US is still a popular sovereignty. These government programs persist because there is a very large (if not majority) portion of the USA that believes these programs are good because they keep us safe from terrorism. Until you change that view point, no 'routing around' is going to solve anything.
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This is one of the few cases where this is worth repeating: correlation is not causation.

PG is definitely one of the foremost researchers in the realm of entrepreneurial success factors, but it is important to step back for a moment when analyzing such things as verbal accents and "Zuckerberg likeness" correlating with failure and success, respectively.

Just as Noam Chomsky criticized Peter Norvig because of his focus on statistical methods versus fundamental models, I would suggest that inferring success based on statistical observation without an underlying model can become a confusing and unrewarding process.

Statistics is a tool to test fundamental models, not a model to explain phenomena all in itself. As such, I would guess that founder success is more likely based upon mundane traits such as intrinsic motivation, intellect, experience, access to capital and key personnel, and most importantly, luck. We see this time and time again in superstars such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, John Carmack, Bill Gates, etc.

Extremely smart people are more prone to analyzing every tiny variable, which sometimes causes them to give additional weight to trivial factors in a complex equation.
Well that sucks ... I can't see the details of that deal without being registered/signed in. I was mildly curious, and may have bought in, but without seeing what the deal is I'm not gonna register :-/
The humor signal in this case was indistinguishable from the noise of normal NH contrarianism :)
There are "things you can't say".[1] You can be right, and your message can be harmless but the way you communicate it comes so close to a cultural taboo button that it requires too much extra effort not to be misunderstood. You just probably shouldn't go there. It will cause misunderstanding. Its kind of like having a thick "cultural accent".

For example, I used to, but do not now, ever use the word "niggle". Its just too much work.

[1]http://paulgraham.com/say.html
I installed this from the App Store two days ago on John Carmack's recommendation:

http://slidetocode.com
He acknowledges this. Then explains: he did the interview and made the statement to help founders, and this clarification will help founders. I'm all for not engaging in this type of situation, but I admire his reasons for responding.
>The range of accents between native speakers of English even in the US is large now.

Sure, if I plot all the accents in the United States on a graph there's probably a lot of divergence. I would think that the accents that impede understanding are outliers though. (At least among native speakers.)
Don't all the other keyboards he suggests as alternatives have most of the same [perceived] problems as the Code keyboard? They all seem to have similarly positioned left Alt keys, wide spacebars and traditional (not ergonomic) layouts.

The Code keyboard does have multimedia keys — the insert/delete/home/end/page up/page down keys do that with a function button.

If I was in Atwood's position and making a perfect keyboard for myself, I'd do basically the same, but have dedicated multimedia keys.

The problem I have with all the alternatives suggested here is that I don't want my computer to look like a toy. Apple has done a good job at making their devices look sophisticated and professional, and I wish PC manufacturers made high end keyboards and mice for people apart from gamers.
Cherry G80, MX Blue Switches, Decent build quality (not Model-M but then what is), 1 third the price.

Completely standard layout and available with a UK layout.

I paid £60ea for my pair (one home, one work) and they are cheaper in the states.

They even sound like a Model-M.
We don't scrape anything from any of the sites. All the music that comes in, comes directly only from the artist through musicfellas.com/artist
Scott Adams has a nice dismissal: I agree with your analysis of your hallucination.

(and, to defend the pg, he says he would have let it all just go away, but it's a really important point and he doesn't want the meaning co-opted by people with any agenda other than helping people grow companies better.)
I don't see how this is a discussion. His point is completely valid, and holds true for many things.

If you were to become a public speaker/motivational speaker in Canada, then not being able to be understood in either English or French would affect your career.

It seems to me like everybody is caught up in the semantics of whether pointing this out is politically correct or not. I personally think it doesn't matter, and if you're truly committed on creating a startup in the US, you'll have to just persevere regardless of the opinions, as this is just a remark on data.
There is nothing to be sorry about, you should expect public speaker to be able to convey their message or at least compensate it with sheer brilliance.

Even speaking from your heart should not save you:
http://glavtube.ru/video/844D72986KRX/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%...
(sorry for the lame video hosting because YouTube decided to region-restrict this speach just, you know, because)
So the message is, 'It helps if people can understand you'.

Um. Ok. ...and I appreciate that PG wanted to make this clear as the press loves to make a story where there isn't one. But do we really need to vote this up like crazy to guarentee it is the top story for the next 48 hours? Are there really that many people here who will benefit from this lesson?
This is such an incredibly poor description of FWD. And generally, those who oppose increased competition are those who cannot compete.
No, it really isn't. Just record something they say, and have a randomly selected group try to transcribe it. Count errors and measure speed.
The biggest problem with the "talk industry", if you can call it that, is the talk selection process. You may have the best talk in the world, but if your proposal doesn't get approved, you ain't giving the talk, no matter what.

The author talks down on giving "tool talks". I agree, those are the most boring talks to listen to, but at the same time, "tool talks" are pretty much the only way to get a speaking slot these days. Those kinds of talks are easy to create a coherent proposal. The more interesting out of the ordinary talks are hard to propose.
Roughly forty years ago, I saw an NSA recruiting notice tacked up on a bulletin board in the college math department's hallway. As I remember it, the notice said that the NSA aimed to stay five years ahead of the outside state of the art.
- How much watch?

- Six watch.

- What, so much?

- For whom how.

...

- MGIMO finish?

- Asks!
I am not sure why people would be so upset about a keyboard. If you need an ergonomic keyboard, use one, but don't complain about a product not being ergonomic. That's like complaining about a bicycle not having 4 wheels and an engine when what your really want is a car.
Same here. Circuits class, Chinese prof with accent. Also he sort of muttered, making a bad problem even worse. If you are in a position of giving information or instructions to others then you are responsible for clarity of communication. An obtrusive accent can hinder that.

What PG talks about is also why Linus acquired a North American accent since moving to the United States. His accent used to be strongly Finnish (Swedish?) but now he speaks American English like a native.
What? Listening comprehension is absolutely measurable. Take the same passage, have subjects in different groups listen to it as read by various speakers, and test them on how much of the content (and its implications) they understood. Of course there is an extreme where the passage isn't understandable at all. But what we're talking about is the point where the words are comprehensible, but the mental effort to decode them is quite high. That effort pushes out the higher-level thoughts that would otherwise be going along with the surface-level listening. So listeners will know what was said, but have thought and abstracted less about it.

This kind of thing is commonly done in linguistics research when trying to, for example, differentiate dialects.
I picked up on the language of business in order to get my business going. It isn't rocket science. What you want is someone who can connect with people. Culture is a part of that but business tends to be sufficiently at arms length that cultural barriers are not fatal.

What is necessary is being understood, having a common mutually intelligible language and enough connection that things can get done. If your engineer is living in a world of machines or bits, or software, that individual cannot be an effective CEO in that mindset but language is much harder.

I am learning Bahasa Indonesia. Last time I tried to tell someone "I only speak a little Bahasa Indonesia" it ended up coming out more along the lines of "I speak a little Bahasa Indonesia" which I must have said really well because I couldn't follow a thing after that......
Such implicit pessimism is a bit premature. We've already had one legislative wack at the problem and the results were close and extremely promising, e.g. they didn't break down in any conventional way (by party, region, etc.)

We already know from history that the American system can draw back from this sort of thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee), it's way too early to assume that won't happen again. (One caveat, the Church Committee did its work after the death of J. Edgar Hoover.)

We also won the Cold War/Clinton era "Crypto Wars"; this account is U.K. centric (I'm amazed at their success), I'll note we won earlier in the US: http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars (HT betterunix in this current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302520).
It's not a review if you've never held it in your hands.
The accelerator went back on their word fairly early on in the arrangement. When someone does that, that's basically the time to start looking at walking away IME - dishonesty is a matter of habit, chances are they're not going to turn over a new leaf and everything else is going to be fine from there on in.
Unusual that this is from the man who is "into the whole ergonomic split layout thing": http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/have-keyboard-will-...

Obviously opinions change, or other factors have prevailed in the design of this
bzzt

You fail the analogy-off. He's not talking about stares-at-feet aspies who can't say hello to save their lives. He's talking about neurotypicals who don't see their own lingual deficiencies and how it impacts how they are viewed, understood, and accepted by others.

There's nothing more draining than being a listener trying to constantly adjust to understanding somebody who isn't quite able to communicate what they want to say.
He has another, similar one that I like: "I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination."
Hmm. It works on my iPhone so I'm pretty sure there is no flash involved. What kind of an error are you seeing?
I agree, I was about to post this same sentiment. There are people who speak perfectly good English but they are simply bad at communicating, the net effect is the same, they are unable to lead because people cannot understand their ideas.
I recall working in a lab with a lot of foreign grad students from different backgrounds (under a professor with a bit of an accent). There were definitely times the accents interacted in interesting ways, where some would understand completely and others would have no clue what was said (even after several repetitions) until someone else said it.
I found a typo:

>A startup founder is alway selling.

(edit: has been fixed)
I think you make a good point.

I think we must also assume that protesting (both to our peers and our so-called "representatives") won't achieve much, at least for the foreseeable future. There's too much money being poured into the right pockets, and too many of the wrong people in the wrong places in government to dislodge. And even if this particular group of authoritarians are removed, there are plenty of replacements waiting in the wings to take their place.

For this reason, I think your first option ("build something that 'routes around' this") is the best. Granted, it's easy to hand-wave and say that this can be done -- but we cannot otherwise assume that the people and agencies which have lied to us in the past will quickly turn over a new leaf and respect our Constitutional rights. We must assume that they will continue to snoop on us, and respond appropriately: peacefully, and cleverly.
Assuming you're trying to reply to auctiontheory, I read that as borderline personality disorder - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder
It's amazing that, in the right context, curling up in a fetal position and remaining very quiet can seem heroic. I'm sure that Hollywood will add some embellishments in their retelling: http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/jude-law-ewan-mcgregor-lin...
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Yes. For an example of why, observe the situation we're discussing.

If you read the original piece, it's perfectly clear what was meant, and there's absolutely no room for anybody to misunderstand it. Still lots of people did. And they were quickly corrected in the previous thread.

And if you read this very thread, you'll see people responding to his even more carefully written clarification who still hold their initial misunderstanding and are writing angry replies as though their mistaken reading of the piece was what the author had actually said.

Seriously. There's no fixing those people. The only winning move is not to play.
It's a direct quote from one of the survivors:

> "We had 72 hours of life support when we started the dive so we managed to eke out a further 12.5 hours. When we looked in the cylinder, we had 12 minutes of oxygen left," says Chapman.
Hmm. My screen's been on for 2h 22m out of 2d 10h 22m (about 4%) and it's used 3% of the consumed battery. 49% of the consumption is cell standby, 47% is phone idle.

YMMV of course, but 70% screen consumption seems way high to me.
> No multimedia keys (because really -- they're a pain in the rear)

While I completely agree about pointless "launch browser" buttons, I find the basic multimedia keys to be quite essential. It's a royal pain when one has to waggle mouse for a whole second or use tricky global shortcut keys around when there's a need to quickly mute music or change volume.
It is pretty refreshing to load a page and have it usable within fractions of a second, instead of it having to go and fetch an untold number of external scripts, initialize and create the widgets and objects, etc. Not to mention that sites with auto-play A/V are prevented from blaring at you without your permission.
I'm not a big fan of Bruce. He does have some valuable technical things to read though, you just have to take his personal opinions with a grain of salt.
Not even that. Lots of Mac help sites will include snippets of Bash code for the user to enter (say, something using rm to delete files the Finder is having trouble statting), and people will just enter those. You don't even need to do anything sneaky with the copy/paste process. Just offer some malicious code and expect the user to run it blindly since they wouldn't be coming to MacNoobHelp.com if they were capable of vetting for exploits.
Why the hatred? Quora isn't that bad. They fixed what google/yahoo answers couldn't
brain.js library is a NN implementation in JavaScript. It's very easy to use.
https://github.com/harthur/brain

Here is a test with a model of a robotic arm:
https://assemblino.com/show/public20123372.html
..."accents so strong that people can't understand" is the key here. An obvious truth well known to everyone frightens people sometimes. He does not tell, he uses that as a standalone parameter in screening applications. In addition to 'accent', lack of communication skills is a problem even for natives.

That said, instead of 'accent', I would use there 'problems in communication skills', which implies native speakers too. Otherwise a lot of people don't understand PG correctly.
I'm curious about what happens to the art of programming when Moore's Law goes away.

Pretty clearly, programmers (as a society) have let Moore's Law carry the ball. We've quit doing assembler, we've quit doing C, we've started to do interpreted stuff. If you're an Arch Linux user, you'll have noticed the 10x or 100x size difference between a GUI and a text interface system. So, even in terms of user interface, we've let Moore's Law carry the water.

After speed and multi-threading and parallel programming stop giving rewards, do we go back down the abstraction chain? Do we start programming in C or assembler again to gain additional speed? Do we all give up (at least to some extent) on GUI programs?
The reason for voting this up isn't so people know that it's good to communicate well. The reason for voting this up is to correct a misperception with what was said. Corrections rarely ever get the publicity that they deserve.
It may be designed to be sufficient but you still have to declare a fuel emergency if you fall below it so it is not a normal event.
Doesn't the fact that they scored the same on the first tests actually prove that being rich or poor doesn't matter in practice?

If you give someone a problem to solve and then another one of course he will still be busy with the first. For rich people it's a simpler problem so they solve it quicker.

Of course it's possible to end up in a negative spiral. It's up to society to provide for people on a sufficient level that they can lift themselves up if they are able to.
Could you post the price for the people without massdrop accounts? I'm curious but I don't want to sign up.
Lots of hate for a keyboard that is getting reviewed by people based on pictures.
Has anybody reviewed it after actually getting their hands on one?
There is no difference in the amount of scrutiny given to contractors' background checks vs. government employees.

Take for example the fact that all weapons used in the military are designed and built by private contractors. Would you say it's a risk to allow contractors to have full access to weapons data when they are the ones that design and build it?
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The keyboard that I would love to see produced is the Guru Board - http://www.guru-board.com/ Though sadly I'm not sure if it will ever see the light of day.
PG offered a clear underlying model in this essay. His model is that a) founders need to sell well to succeed and that b) it's hard to sell well if you can't be easily understood. You have a "guess" that mundane traits are more important for success. He has a theory and data that support his theory.
This is correct. The CIA cannot operate domestically, that's the FBI's job.
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