skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link.

He definitely did quite a good job with the fitness function (bigrams, finger priority, etc), I just didn't see quite how he came up with the workman layout specifically. If he manually evaluated a few layouts and made tweaks, then surely there is further optimisation to be done for any given body of text. For something as central as a keyboard layout it seems like even those small gains could have huge effects.
The Leidenfrost Maze
The distro matters in that 95% of users don't customize anything, but, yes, other than that, Ubuntu is just as customizable as any other Linux distribution.
Vietnam is the largest rice exporter, though Thailand used to be #1.

http://www.dw.de/thailand-no-longer-worlds-top-rice-exporter...
You know, I can't even tell who you're talking about there, Motorola's FRAND patents or Apple?
Americans seems pretty short nowadays compared to some countries in Europe, where average is near 5-11 and a few over 6'. Still a few short countries here in Europe too.
I am with you mate, on this one. Only if one develops a sense of revulsion, when reading poor little Meem's story, can one contribute to bring about change.

Others like your parent mean well. But that kind of thinking leads to quiet apathy, in my opinion. So what if Meem and other women are better off, than previous generation. Clearly this is not enough. Come on man! A 9 year old (or whatever age) not knowing there are other things that are possible, working 9 to 9 and just getting half a day off on Fridays. Is this the best life, she can have? Seriously people, there is something wrong with your thinking on this. You are not being ambitious enough, and settling for very low level of results. Again the last few sentences are not for you, RodericDay, but for all those who are countering you with their pragmatism and level-headedness.

Lincoln, when he fought for abolishing slavery, also would have faced such reactions. (And to all others, my intent is not to directly put this commenter alongside Lincoln. Its just to make a point, to recognize this as a valid sentiment)
> it is likely that you are simply targeting the wrong VCs for your type of business, are not pitching it right

I think we've found the problem. I believe there is a disconnect between founders who have the ability to pitch and those who have the ability to grow a business.
as a dvorak user i find his measurements very interesting.

has anyone noticed that while the distance traveled in dvorak is higher than both other alternatives, it alternates hands much more frequently (23% vs. 31%+ same hand frequency), and moves towards the top row more frequently than to the bottom one. I don't know about you but for me it's easier to extend my fingers top than it is to flex them towards the bottom row.

there is also less time spent on the number row, but repetitions with the same finger are more likely.

i still think there ought to be a better way to deal with special characters than shift keys
The selection process is usually along the lines of 'the poorest of the poor'. Organizations such as this identify an area or ethnic group, then a village, then a family. The recipients are selected, then approached, in such a way that minimizes self selection. The idea is to bring a poor family up to the standard of their slightly less poor neighbours. Then the village up to the standard of other villages. then the province. etc.

I personally dont see the invited comparison, at least not directly in the title, given the context of a 'Global Impact' article. This could be simply my lens, and yours. I work in development field (mostly cambodia), so i automatically apply it to what i see here. You seem more involved with the situation in US(?) an rightly say that it would not apply in the same way.
As the example of Germany shows, your optimistic claims in the first paragraph seems to be untrue:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/human-traffickin...
> i still think there ought to be a better way to deal with special characters than shift keys

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6541910

(make the number keys hide under the shift keys, as they are used much less frequently)
While I agree this is not a huge engineering endeavor and Yahoo could do the Internet a solid by making this work, our free dev databases are limited to 10k rows (and, as the name suggests, intended for development). Please don't put a billion in them.
At least on your computers (where it matters) you can change the mapping. If you can touch type you can simply ignore the labels on the keys.

I'm building a custom mechanical keyboard (with blank keycaps) and I have changed the various function layers several times and had no problems with adjusting to that.
It all comes down to the question what you do mostly and how easy you can get used to new layouts both physical and in software.
The soft device is provided as a hex file and does not contain any DRM whatsoever.
There are already scanhacks for iPad cash registers. Mostly consisting of a touchscreen overlay wired to look like its part of the protective case. So, forget that iSense of iSecurity, its not there ..
Actually, pretty much only places that have lots of extremely poor people have high-quality mobile payment networks, because they're the only places where there's a market.
Someone's probably paid per link they create, independent of the value of that link.

Perhaps spam generation could be disrupted... :-)
Personally, I wonder why there's not many discussions about hacker's keyboard layout. Where at least ()+-=. are dedicated keys
Since most of the trip back is conducted at terminal velocity, you only need enough fuel to decelerate from that. In addition, you are no longer lifting the 2nd stage and all that fuel any more.

So it would be SUBSTANTIALLY less than 50% probably less than 10% extra fuel. Far far smarter though. Much harder design.
I strongly oppose this view. Understanding how refraction works in no way diminishes the beauty of a rainbow. I would say it even enhances it's glory. Similarly, understanding the underpinnings of fiction does not ruin it at all, and if anything, enhances it.

This is just my personal view, of course, and to each his own. But I personally can say that having seen the inner clockwork of fiction, I would not go back and have it any other way. (And many other agree with me: There are many internet communities devoted to understanding and explaining literature's inner workings, the most well known of which is tvtropes. I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in plumbing the full depth of literature's workings.)
yeah, i was doing the high-school thing at that time.

and plenty of kids who -- with or without formal training -- are solid hackers.

there are def more foreign businessmen than 老外 devs, and not without some cause: i'd definitely get more compensation from a startup in the bay or bank in ny than i do at my current job.
Im not sure if you're taking purchasing power into account, but if not, be aware that US$1 a day is doable in many countries, but very much not in america. Poverty is relative, just saying.

And for what its worth, i live in cambodia and have lived on such a budget, albeit only for 3 months.
Or under-generalised with the logic duplicated in a dozen places, ever-so-slightly differently
I would guess for both good and evil.

The good reason being able to login to the router to reset the password if the customer forgot it (I remember some home/small office routers don't reset the admin password when you use the reset button).

The evil reason being able to login remotely to any router and snoop around.
excellent rant on the dumbing down of data access and UIs
The cost of the abuse does not exceed the cost of losing the program entirely and leaving the non-abusers high and dry. It's not an ideal situation, but we are worse off if we throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Since when is Scientology artificially constructed? I think "thinking about Scientology" is not the same as "the subject of Scientology" - and after all, who is to say that the Voynich manuscript itself doesn't contain some seriously intersting, deep, secrets on the nature of the universe, being overlooked by the ignorant who do not know its language. Like so many other subjects in the world, alas, of the human soul.
Lazy Jedi
Yet another reminder that passive income is the greatest arsenal in a programmers' toolbelt. Not having a salaried job gives one more time and energy, total focus. Having total focus and ability to also indulge in leisure allows one's true goals to be attacked and achieved. It's interesting that my life right now is based around 'becoming rich', well actually just self-sufficient, so I can then work on my true projects. Life after life ;-) Let's just hope I don't get too old before the passive income kicks in. Thanks for all your essays and other forms of enlightenment Paul.
>>I'm not even a smoker but if somebody wants to consume/ingest all kinds of substances I don't lay any claims to his digestive track or blood stream and it's really his business to destroy himself if he so wishes, at any rate he pleases.

Umm, very many people use various drugs occasionally and recreationally without any harm coming to them.

Denying healthcare to users is cruel, especially as the risks involved are comparable to playing sport. Shall we deny healthcare to horse riders and rock climbers too?

Denying healthcare to addicts is especially cruel as they have a problem. Personal responsibility is not a good reason to behave like an arsehole towarda the needy.
Average salary for a software developer in India is ~10k US. You're paying him 4.4x that. You should shop around. Contract out some small pieces of work to other developers in the $5-$10/hr range and see what quality of work they deliver. I suspect you'll find you're overpaying. (I pay my contractors $5/hr)
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They leave themselves open to law suits. He hasn't been questioned by police, nor arrested, nor tried, nor convicted.

Innocent until proven guilty is a firm principle.

Accusing someone of a sex crime will have very serious consequences for that person.

She has said that she doesn't want to involve legal processes. When the company publicly says that he assaulted her they force the legal processes to start - either he sues for defamation or police get involved.
42 is Gods phone number, and if you don't believe me, ask Deep Thought.
I am really happy and thankful for people working on improving the keyboard usage. I knew about Dvorak and Colemak but it's the first time I am discovering the workman layout. The author went to a length of analysis and effort to come up with this layout - including trying dvorak and colemak - the end of that page contains many comparisons between qwerty, dvorak, colemak and workman.

As well by reading this article I learned about the TypeMatrix keyboards [1] - I must say I am very intrigued by this idea - I would definitely order one if it contained a good trackpoint.

I myself learned touch typing first QWERTZ (German layout), then after moving to France had to learn AZERTY (the worst layout ever, especially for programmers). In the end because I had to travel and work on keyboards in different countries a lot - I decided to learn QWERTY US International, I configured it with AltGr Dead-Keys and now I am able to use the same layout where ever I go (even Russia and CIS countries) and on my computer I have all the accents for French, German and Turkish. So yes, I know it is not optimal for the Finger usage, but I need a keyboard layout that (a) is available on ALL stock computers, (b) on my computer can be enhanced to allow writing ALL the accents of European languages by using key-combinations.

I think alternative keyboard layout researches should take into account international usage.

But this is just my opinion.

[1] http://www.typematrix.com/
I use World of Warcraft's server names: http://www.wowwiki.com/Realms_list

Like Aegwynn, AeriePeak, Alterac, Arathi, etc.
we started with some that seemed reasonable, and then we modify them after some weeks of use.
Nice, let's fix the problem by hiding it, good thinking out there.
The statistics comparisons of classical texts (Moby Dick, etc) typed with each layout are pretty interesting. Though they are much irrelevant to me.

Could you please run the linux kernel sources through that statistics application?
Hellenistic philosophy came after those guys; IIRC the biggest schools were the stoics and epicureans, with the peripatetics (following Aristotle) in third place. Plato got more influential in the later Roman empire, after Hellenistic times. So your comment kind of supports the grandparent's point (your "little bit of pre-Socratics" means the "early Greek" GP mentioned).

A cute bit for us computer nerds: Chrysippus pretty much invented boolean logic (in the Hellenistic period) and was considered the Father of Logic in antiquity. My intro philosophy course with a heavy emphasis on formal logic never mentioned any of this.
I probably will build a bigger mansion myself. And make more security premier.
Hey now, British sockets are the best: integrated switch, grounded, fused plugs, bomb-proof, cable is flush to wall and its much harder to accidentally pull out the plug.
GTA V for Linux? The first "killer" game on Linux will probably be cross platform.
Most people have travel insurance? It seems completely unnecessary for most trips.
In what way are British electric sockets broken?
ikr, people in this thread seem to be reading this into the context of the 'living wage' idea floating around. But its nothing like that. These are one off grants to people living in completely different circumstances. In developing countries whose governments are not able to provide basics most developed countries take for granted.

The living wage is an income, not a one off. And its being talked about in terms of developed countries whose government would distribute said income.

The difference is easy to see when you consider what you would do in each situation.

Situation A) You are given 6 months pay to increase your standard of living. Many/most people would invest such a windfall. They would pay debts, buy land, stocks. Many would treat themselves to a nice car or something, but i dont think people who NEED that money would do so.

Situation B) You are told that from now on you will get $1000/m. Forever. Welp. Im going to cut my hours and go for a drink. Again, many people would treat this as a windfall to be saved. But some (more than situation A) would spend it, knowing they will get more next month.
Good luck with that, as there are about 2 weeks of nice summer weather per year. Try Aruba, Curaçao or Sint Maarten (if you don't mind being jet blasted), they're part of the kingdom of the Netherlands so technically still the Netherlands.
You can't at least choose a car category in the US? Here you don't know which exact model you'll have, but you know that it will be among a list of similar models of different brands, or a higher end model if none of them are available.

Also... what car rental company would ever buy orange cars? That seems completely stupid, I have never had a rental car that wasn't black or grey.

I don't know how car rental works in the US, but reading this article it sure looks quite broken compared to the places I have rented cars (France, Japan, Taiwan).
I wonder why they didn't remove the debug symbols from the released firmware?
That's true, I shouldn't have generalized. Maybe how well a Checkov's gun is "integrated" is a mark of the quality of the movie, and the fact that it's obvious isn't what kills the movie for me, but just the poor quality all around, and I use the gun as the reason, while it's not that at all.
100% agree. This is not more than another hint of a failing government. If people wants and needs more police and are willing to pay for it it's the government duty to put it in place. Using taxes as a political weapon and demonizing them as something inherently bad causes irrational decisions that costs more money and could cost lifes.
We use http://teampassword.com/, no fuss, fantastic customer support and a pretty UI.
I solve the problem of having my layout available on all computers, by bringing my own keyboard. A keyboard that does the mapping at hardware level.
Agreed. I checked a few shows that I am familiar with, and they all look like subtitles.
Everyone mentions athletes whenever BMI is mentioned.

Most people are not athletes. Most people do very little exercise. When using BMI for an individual you ask them if they do any exercise, but for populations it's fine.
Do you understand that the Universe does not revolves around you. Do you?
Whose read Snow Crash?
I mention the NBA due to height, not athleticism. BMI is an overestimate for tall people and an underestimate for short people, due to the scaling law I described.
As well as the "typing out a novel" tests, he should also do a "typing out the Linux kernel" test.
V for Vendetta November 5th Revolution Speech
I would like a store that highlights open source apps. I tend to trust them more, for very good reason.
"One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself"

You can shape an awesome life for you and others using this "diluted feel-good aphorism".
No, a URL shortening company was a commitment to breaking the internet by adding redirection. The URLs should die to discourage the others.
On October 12 KDE Forums celebrated its 5 year anniversary
There have been applications that have been ported to Linux through using Wine as a library. Alternatively, if your app is c#, you can use the system.windows.forms stuff in Mono.
have you seen plover? (http://plover.stenoknight.com/)
This article is more up to date: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hulMC29f9...

Two things seemed to have worked in India's favour - (a) better preparation by the governments of the two states directly in its path (Odisha and Andhra Pradesh), and (b) a weakening of the storm itself (contrary to most international estimates, but in line with the Indian Met's - http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/cyclone-phailin-india-mete...)
The cut off is actually closer to 75%. Source: I have one and I was not top 50% (which BTW is A- at Harvard!)
Not really, high school GPA means taking all the AP/advanced classes -- not the easiest ones, ALL the ones.
No, Physics majors take the Philosophy class for gen ed distribution requirement.
Intro to (images in) Go
Good luck. You seem nice, but I doubt anyone on HN will be interested unless you're paying a competitive salary. I think most developers looking for co-founders either want another technical person to share the workload or someone with deep pockets.
> Temporal databases rely on the immutability of each record

Some maybe, certainly not all! What you mean are 'historical' databases, a.k.a. time series.
Or, to put it another way:

Leave off, man. It wasn't THAT bad!

Sorry for piling on, but it's my prerogative as an English teacher, and Marcus Brutus has a point. Phrases like:

it's very dangerous to treat human beings as fungible stimulus-response machines, and locate the nexus of responsibility for outcomes in the complex of external behavioral influences rather than in human agency itself

are great for showing your college professor you've mastered the jargon, but they don't get you many Likes on Facebook. Why not just say:

while there can be mitigating circumstances, I believe in personal responsibility
I strongly suspect people become more likely to strongly self-identify with one category or another as a result of the concepts recently becoming popularized and would be less apt to consider themselves at either extreme were they not presented as mutually exclusive, and in opposition to one another.
Hi,

I have tried and it helped a bit in that the fan doesn't seem like it will take off, but temperature wise not that much of a difference.

At least it's not shutting down, it's staying at around 66 degrees when idle.

My setup is also slightly more complicated because this laptop has hybrid graphics (basically 2 radeon cards), in this case turning off switcheroo helped a bit as well.

The lessons this laptop taught me:

- don't buy ATI/AMD

- don't buy hybrid/dual graphics

I'm very pleased with my other laptop with a Sandy Bridge CPU and integrated Intel grahics HD3000.
or put your keyboard in AZERTY mod, it does the same.
I use the cmd qwerty mode and program just fine.

In terms of vim, I actually like it a lot more. j and k are typed with the left hand (coincidentally j is still on the left side - same as qwerty). The right hand does h and l (again, h is on the left side and maps to going left).

On the other hand, Eclipse is super annoying because it seems half the bindings are cmd qwerty and half are dvorak but that's another issue. I've started using Vrapper to get vim bindings in eclipse and that seems to be working out okay so far.
> and Marcus Brutus

MarcusBrutus is mostly a troll.
It would be fun to get a feel for where the weekend HN crowd sits on the Meyers-Briggs scale, and the perhaps more relevant Lipson-Shiu test:

http://www.andrewlipson.com/lstest.html

Added: I am an ILIE
Many mechanical keyboards have a no number pad option. Two off the top of my head are: http://codekeyboards.com/ (currently sold out, so you would have to wait a bit), and the Happy Hacking Keyboard (http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Hacking-Keyboard-Professional2-B...).
I'm an introvert, but people around me don't realize that.

Too little social interactions is bad for me and at work I sit most of the day with headphones and keyboard. When I go get coffee or lunch, I need my socializing dose.
> others seem to enjoy the thrill, or like autonomy

Which is exactly what you don't get in corporate life.
The article does exactly this - there is a programmer workman layout with the symbols and numbers switched.
These mistakes are viral. Expose yourself to a pattern often enough and you will reproduce it. I was immune until participating in online forums but by now have made virtually all of these mistakes. The way to improve is to expose yourself to more correct patterns; read more well edited material than forums.
The artwork is consistently wonderful: baffling, amusing, worrying, imaginative, and surprising, not to mention beautiful and incredibly skilful. And there are nearly 400 pages of it. (And that's just the PDF...)
That's why it makes sense for the acquirer to buy. Neya was questioning why it made sense for the founder to sell.
Reads like: my dad works for Sony and I have a Playstation 5 in my possession.
This was one of those rare cases where I was ready to pay for the video; but then I am confronted with "Sorry, this film is not available in your region." and the buy or rent buttons are disabled. But guess what, somebody has uploaded it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK6DDC4CV0s
These apparent inconsistencies in philosophy can be rationalized by observing that USA has 300 million people and they don't all have a shared viewpoint.
I'd be fascinated to see how people do on the Lipson-Shiu test, but previous attempts to get people to engage have failed miserably. I don't think people here get the point.

Personally, I'm usually a Grand Vizier (ILIE).

(Oh crap - just took it again and got ILIG)
What is wrong with taking home leftovers? It is value for money.
I wonder the same. It's probably by mistake. I remember some Wii games kept symbols, some other had .svn (or was it other vcs?) directories on disk.
Extrovert based on my last test, but I feel introvert due to my difficulties to open discussion someone with me, either someone that I know or stranger.
I shall now interpret the opening sentence to mean "any Dao whose rules can be enumerated is either inconsistent or incomplete." Thanks, that's a fun connection.
He implied VCs care more about pedigree than about the idea.