skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read a lot of posts on programming-related blogs about the importance of typing skill and keyboards. Maybe it's just me, but at least as far as typing skill/speed goes, I'm not really seeing it. Sure, a lot of our job is typing, and you need some baseline level of skill at it, but I don't think I've ever been hindered in my ability to produce code and features faster by my not-particularly-great typing abilities. If I could wave a magic wand and make myself type twice as fast as I currently do, I don't think my overall productivity would change much at all. The majority of my time is spent thinking about the best way to create or fix something, researching options, etc. The actual process of getting the result of that onto the screen seems relatively quick by comparison.

I might even go so far as to say that, if your typing speed is seriously hindering your productivity, then your language may have too much boilerplate to it, and you might want to put together some code-generation tools for yourself.

On the other hand, I will say that I now prefer those ergonomic keyboards with the split, down-sloping keys. After extended fast typing on a normal keyboard (writing documentation), I sometimes get a mild wrist pain, and using this type of keyboard seems to prevent this without interfering with my overall typing. They seem to be surprisingly hard to find though, with like 5-10 of them on Amazon versus hundreds of conventional keyboards.
If you want to get a feel for what Africa is really like watch the acclaimed documentary Darwin's Nightmare (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424024/). I've knew a couple who slummed it in Tanzania for a few years and there stories are hard to believe but are more or less in line with this movie.
That is true, however the Nexus 4 is an exception to that rule.

I own a nexus 4 and can not think of a single thing which i would switch to an iPhone 5 for. The only thing it is lacking is LTE support, which ill be happy without until my next phone.

side by side, they are very similar - http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=5048&idPhone2=...

But the amazing thing is, the Nexus 4 (16GB) is now less than half the price of the iphone 5c (16GB). I cant justify ever looking at it compared to what i already have.
Aside from marketing, it doesn't appear that 64-bit architecture would have any significant benefit (right now).

I haven't seen much other technical information about the A7 core, but it's likely this chip will be used in upcoming iPads, so perhaps there are other significant improvements.

Does anyone else know more about this?
Regarding stenotype hardware options and Plover, check out the Stenosaurus (http://www.stenosaurus.com). It's not out yet, but it looks promising.
...kind of like your post?
Replying. First of all I'm going to toss the idea of 'relative poverty' out there.

http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-the-meaning-of-relative-...

Second of all. If the people in Africa are so much poorer, it means that helping people in America is a much better investment because their opportunities to improve their lives and have a future (and help our economy) are so much better.

I seriously think at the end of the day it's a self centeredness that motivates people to go to other countries and help. They essentially want a cool story to tell their friends, not so much a genuine need to help others.

Or maybe you can't even blame the individual. Maybe in America we are so far from even knowing what a 'meaningful' life is, so we see people doing cool things on T.V. and say I'll buy that adventure and it will make my life meaningful.
Your son wants to be a philosophy major? Chan paraphrased the response of many a parent: “How do you get a job in philosophy?” But hold your tongue, he urged them. Let them think big. Two months later, they might decide they love math anyway...

== The only reference in the article to the headline topic.
Yes, Apple want you to buy a 5C, not a 5S. This way, they get to use the 5S as the limited-first-run of the parts that will go into the 6C (when we'll have a 6S that's a limited-first-run of the 7C, and so on.)

Let me just quote my previous post, it's equally applicable here:

> Apple has never been able to make enough iPhones of each successive generation for people to get their hands on during the first few months after release. Whereas, once they've ramped up production, they tend to have all these parts left over in the pipeline that they have to sell off as N-1 gen hardware to price-sensitive late adopters. (This is also why the iPod Touch was originally created, to serve as a sink for N-2-gen parts.)

> Now, Apple are trying to shift the purchase frenzy to the N-1 gen, and position their new gen-N tech -- whose production hasn't yet been ramped up -- as something for early-adopters only. In other words, to switch from an (N-1, N) view of the world, to an (N, N+1) view.

> Everything in the S will filter down to the C of the next gen. They'll get their pipelines saturated with 5S parts just in time to wrap them in plastic and call them 6C parts. As long as more people buy Cs than Ss, this works out perfectly.

This is their strategy, working out perfectly.
There's a local startup here that produces coffee supposedly with the same enzymes produced by the cats. I think this might be them:
http://coffeeprimero.com/
I've tried it before and I have to say, it's not bad...but not really for coffee lovers either. At least if the bitterness is at all part of what you enjoy about coffee, this stuff is pretty bland and boring. The fact that they only sell it ground is another hint that it's not really meant for coffee lovers.
Brand's brilliant humor and keen cultural insights are so refreshing. In case you missed his takedown of cable news, it's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2eDj39q0Fo
No, I like making comments about it on social networks. If I get even one person on board with freedom it's a win. If I get enough people on board that Apple feels pressure and I can use unjailbroken iOS without these restrictions that would be great, I actually like iOS when it's jailbroken. I know that's a pipe dream but whatever.
To me, I think Apple is trying to move into smart house industry.
"If finished per its developers' claims, Tox is only interesting to criminals. In its current state, Tox is nothing but a scam that provides no privacy. It is, however, a moneymaker for its developers."

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That's not what I was responding to.
I actually think the blog is more interesting than the article itself, and worth commenting.

See their first post (excerpt):

Who runs this site?
We are a group of concerned Americans who feel the Tox project
poses a danger to society in several ways. We come from a variety
of backgrounds and both sides of the political spectrum. We believe
in the US constitution and all its laws.

and

Tox is dangerous in several ways: If finished per its developers' claims,
Tox is only interesting to criminals.
I'm definitely familiar with Z3 and with solvers used offensively and defensively in software security. I'm just curious as to how widespread it's become with generalist software developers as a problem solving tool.

These are great links; thanks for posting them.
Exactly. We went through this exact same marketing with game consoles, years ago. The N64 was a 64-bit game console! What did that mean? Who cares, it's four times as much as a SNES, and twice as much as a Playstation!
I think "notorious national journal" == "well-read national newspaper".
The OP's solution didn't deal with letter counts at all; my first expression was to show him a similar solution that was more succinct to illustrate the principle at work. My second solution deals with multiplicity properly.
How were you forced to upgrade ? It's neither mandatory nor automatic.
"Given the persistent lying and strategic errors of judgment that this week's revelations disclosed, the NSA needs to be put into receivership. Insiders, beginning at the very top, need to be removed and excluded from the restructuring process. Their expertise led to this mess, and would be a hindrance, not a help, in cleaning it up."

And that is why reforming institutions in a rentier society that has given itself wholly to institutional corruption is difficult. It's literally unimaginable to people at the top of the pyramid that any of their peers should be stripped of their powers _as_a_group_; or that an institution whose function is the maintenance of elite control should be restructured.

That someone of the stature of Professor Benkler is calling for a restructuring of the Intelligence Community as it stands now, is a big deal. It is direly needed, let us hope it happens before the US of A falls to an even more authoritarian government; or worse, a dictator in deed if not in name.
Counterexample: India.
It is definitely a wanting to own my own business thing. I wouldn't say I am great at sales. Actually part of my fear of doing this full time is that I won't be able to generate enough revenue. I really just don't know the correct process to hunting out and getting sales from business's.
I think that giving money to a gigantic charity like red cross or 'the adorable children with cancer foundation' helps, but I feel as if I'm just giving my money to another gigantic beauracracy and I have no idea what they're doing with it. I never read in the news about the 'Red Cross' building a homeless shelter. For a THREE BILLION dollar charity I feel as if the Red Cross is amazingly quiet...

To be genuine about helping people I think you have to do it yourself at a local level. It takes more time but it's actually geninune and sincere. That's what community is all about.
Apple made a lot of compromises in designing the 5C to make it cheaper, but they completely failed to make it cheap! It's still more than two and a half times the price of a Nexus 4 unlocked. Unlocked sales for the 5C will be pitiful. Under a multi-year contract the 5C isn't substantially cheaper than the 5S, so people who want the best phone will shun it. The iPhone 5C is going to fail utterly in the market segment it's designed for.

However, I do see a couple of possible markets where the 5C may succeed. There's the Hello Kitty "anything in pastels is squeeeeee" crowd. This market includes little girls, people buying phones for little girls, and Josh Kerr apparently. IF the 5C proves more durable than the 5S it might also capture the tough-wear crowd that wants a phone that doesn't have to be hidden inside a giant blob of silicone to survive a 6" fall onto concrete. Let's face it, not many people are going to want the cases Apple is trying to sell for the 5C. I'm just speculating about the 5C's durability though. Plastic phones might not feel as nice in the hand, but if they use high quality plastic and are well built they do tend to survive better than phones made entirely out of metal and glass.

Will it sell? Never underestimate the Hello Kitty crowd!
"The iPhone 5C ships with iOS 7 pre-configured to use background wallpaper that matches the color of the Phone. Little touches like this really differentiate Apple’s products from its competitors"

Have you heard of Lumias?
That looks pretty neat. Do they have a page with any more information on it?
I aim for it. Clearly before the streak started, I was much more intermittent with some days passing without visible progress. :)
"If you ever suffer from Impostor syndrome, you should probably prepare even more, because the standard interview situation will make you feel like an Imposter in the worst way."

It may also help to think of that Dunning-Kruger study [1], according to that it would be normal for the competent to be full of doubt while the less experienced would be full of confidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
This makes no sense. Why would Jony Ive, supposedly one of the greatest industrial designers, and Apple, one of the greatest consumer products companies, be so darn excited about rereleasing a 1 year old product in 5 colors for 15% less?

Do people care about the color of their phone? Not enough color choice is not something I've heard as a complaint about the iPhone 5.

Are the millions of cases available not a reasonable solution for those who care about color?

Would I really buy an iPhone instead of an Android because I can get it in yellow and it ships with a yellow background screen?

The more likely explanation for the marketing difference is the lack of production capacity for the 5S and/or lower margins.
Inform enough people and Apple will be forced to open up or go out of business, with either being an acceptable option. A couple of more years the way the market is going and they're going to be driven to irrelevance, which is also acceptable.
I had a droid x2 and it didn't get 3.0 despite being priced similar to an iPhone and it was less than a year old when 3.0 was released. This is very common with android phones.
Feel free to run this by an immigration lawyer if it matters to you, but "Opening an LLC is legal regardless of immigration status" is true. It doesn't imply that working for your own LLC is legitimate absent a work-capable visa. The Times is mostly reporting on a way which currently avoids controls designed to make working illegally (which is, ahem, not uncommon) more difficult.

In a similar fashion, owning a LLC makes it radically easier to not pay income taxes than being a W-2 employee, but it does not excuse you from paying income taxes.
> I disable the flash on every piece of camera equipment I own. In my book, there is never a scenario where it is okay to use a flash, if it is too dark to take the photo, then don’t take it.

That's about 90% bathwater and 10% baby.

Yes, the vast majority of the time ordinary people use their flash, they really shouldn't be. But there are genuine situations where even snobs like us to need to just suck it up and break the no-flash streak.

The most obvious is when you're not trying to take a beautiful photo; you're just trying to take an accurate one -- like inside a crawlspace where something needs to be repaired.

And then there are the times when you only get one chance to capture something amazing, and there's not going to be time to set a long exposure and pray for no-blur. This happens a lot when children or animals are involved:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/18575617@N03/2281710004/sizes/z...

But even in broad daylight with relatively still scenes, there are still flashworthy situations. For example, when all the light is behind the subject:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/18575617@N03/2408341744/sizes/z...

(That one is from the days before HDR -- if the flash hadn't fired, either the subjects' faces would have been underexposed, or the sunny background would have been overexposed.)

Now, just to give equal time to the opposing side, this non-flash photo would have been absolutely ruined if the flash had been used:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/18575617@N03/2407218105/sizes/z...
Custom fields similar to Drupal that doesn't rely on a pile of hacks would be a good start.
Scientists discover cosmic factory for making building blocks of life
LTE is a major difference even if you happen to be happy without it.
Apple's primary value is in its brand + premium products. If their 5C is aimed at the hello kitty crowd, their iPhone brand will be demolished as a premium must-have phone. The 5C will take down the rest of the iPhone brand. The only thing worse than having 5% of the smart phone market in the future, would be having a terrible brand that only owns the hello kitty crowd. Kiss those hyper margins goodbye and nothing could be less cool than the hello kitty crowd (cool being a critical element of what Apple depends upon to sell very expensive consumer electronics).
Then you only look at the posts which are downvoted to oblivion, which is a strange tactic to take.
There's an old joke that says while physicists, engineers etc. focus on knowing everything about something so specific that it's practically nothing, philosophers focus on knowing as little as possible about everything.
How I Got Mark Cuban to Respond to My Email (Pitch)
After emailing him my pitch, I got a response and he liked it. Here is how I structured the email.
Yeah but what's the return on those dollars. You help people here they have a future, in third wold countries not so much.
The Great [Edison] Diamond Disc Experiment
I'm curious, what compromises did they make? The only compromise I can think of is the plastic shell, which I think will actually attract a lot more people with the bright colors vs. silver/black.
How to Write Safe Verilog: Become a PL Troll
Oh, wow, 1000x this article. Forget about the crying thing, which makes it vivid and more interesting to read but might obscure the fundamental point, which is that interviews make people incredibly uncomfortable. Some of the calmest, most unflappable people I work with shook visibly in their interviews with us.

What's important about that is: you are not getting an accurate read of a candidate's state of mind in a high-stakes interview. I think you have just a couple of options to improve your accuracy given that fact:

* You can take deliberate steps to lower the stakes in your interview process by changing the kinds of transactions that happen in the interview (for instance, by constructing interviews that involve collaborating on a problem instead of challenging the candidate).

* You can "discount" the signals you get from the interview, particular w/r/t already nebulous concepts like "confidence", "social skill", "enthusiasm", and the dreaded "culture fit".

* You can push more of the recruiting process into situations where the candidate controls their environment (for instance, by doing stuff at home, and on a fixed but flexible time scale) and less on in-person timeboxed interviews.

I'd love more ideas. We're trying all three, but it's a lather-rinse-repeat kind of situation. I'm getting good, I think, at spotting signals that are probably the result of jitters. And I think I've learned pretty conclusively that those jitters have zero correlation to on-the-job performance. But I have so much more to learn.
No black iPhone5C, Jony I am disappoint.
you don't think the difference could be that in the hypothetical case it would be common knowledge that women and men are equally capable of this, but in the paper they are reporting on observations that, so far, only show the behaviour for males?

in other words, feminists aren't robots that detect syntactic patterns and automatically complain about them. rather, there's actual reasoning and experience behind the objections.
> I think the iPhone 5C is the perfect realization of hardware and software running harmoniously on a single device.

Wow, really? The iPhone 5C hasn't even shipped yet!
> scientism's self assertion as the one true belief

There is no such thing as 'scientism' and science is a method, not a belief system.

There are people who go through life without dogma. Every idea they have can be challenged. Therefore, if you define 'belief' as 'dogmatic belief', as you seem to, they don't have any beliefs at all.
I'd also note that in a point on the unit circle, cosine is the x coordinate and sine is the y coordinate. A good reason to try flipping a cosine first. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unit_circle.svg

(I still remember how people would describe trig in high school, it is a wonder more teachers didn't explain the cos = x, sin = y thing. Probably because my teachers did not understand math.)
The coolest use I've seen for the iPhone's flash is the Azumio heart rate app¹. It uses the flash to illuminate your finger, which you place over the lens of the camera. And then they do some fantastic image processing (presumably comparing shades of red) to detect your pulse.

¹ http://www.azumio.com/apps/heart-rate/index.html
Brilliant.

What I'd love to see is a step by step description of how this was constructed. If I have an end goal in mind, it's simple enough to hammer some characters into something a machine can use to do that end goal while still being readable by a human. But this? It floors me, and I can't even imagine where to start. I can understand the code with a bit of thought, but getting from an empty text editor to that seems beyond me.
I'm sorry but I can't read rubbish like this; stopped after the extrapolation of Apple's potential future innovations as 'the construction industry' and 'plumbing'.
My favorite example would be Taiwan.

Kicked out of their home country, yet they thrive.
Damn, just noticed that now that you mention it.

America just kinda wants that whole 'Native American holocaust' thing to kinda quietly slip under the rug.
I've been considering some of the alternative ergonomic keyboards, and found an external numpad with arrows and editing keys [0]. I've been using an Apple Adjustable Keyboard [1], which has a separate numpad which can be used separately from the rest of the keyboard (though requires an ADB port). Unfortunately, the 6-key cluster on the AAK is awful, and painful to use regularly (tiny dome keys which require too much pressure for their tiny size).

[0] http://www.ergogeek.com/ione-scorpius-32-mechanical-numeric-...

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Adjustable_Keyb...
Excuse me if I don't feel sorry for you. Don't you think that's a pretty good problem to have?
Ok a couple thoughts to chew on:

1. I don't disagree about the Maslow's heirachy thing. If i was near starvation i wouldn't turn away bread from a dictator.

2. Two examples of countries who have recently won democracy: South Korea and Taiwan. Both made the trnasition with minimal violence.

3. I talk to older friends who came from Eastern Block countries and they describe their respective systems (before democracy) as completely and utterly demoralizing. You have no hope of anything better. Your lot in life will also be at the will of someone else.