skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fellow MessagEase user here. It's absolutely fantastic. It's great at non-dictionary words and special characters (there's no need to press a magic option key to switch to the symbol set), as mentioned above. Two other things I like: a) It has built in arrow keys, perfect for going back to insert a skipped letter or similar. b) Typing errors occur at the character level, not the word level. And are hence easier to fix. (Or, if left unfixed, are usually still legible.) No damnyouautocorrect moments.

Edit: I forgot to mention one of the most important parts: it's incredibly fast once you know what you're doing.
I just finished writing a lengthy grant application where the humanities professor used Word and I used LibreOffice. We used the review functionality and I didn't even know there was supposed to be a problem. Though, I don't really do more than touch the surface with word processor programs because I don't personally like them very much.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/dec/...

The economic realities of Fairtrade seem different IF the Guardian can be trusted on this.
What kind of transmitter are you using for manual control?
I assume you aren't using a ground station all the time...

I only ask because most new 'brand name' (JR, Futaba, Airtronics, Robbe) tramsitters seem to be 2.4Ghz. I know FM radios are still available on 36 and 40 Mhz, among others, but I haven't seen many used for a while with new aircraft.
Unfortunately, this is not possible; 10.4 was the first release of OSX that supported Intel, and 10.5 was the last to support PowerPC. Alas, you can't have a machine that was on 10.1 that can also run 10.8..

That said, you can definitely chain update your way from 10.4 to 10.8 without issue, and similarly from 10.1 to 10.5. The latter case is a little tricky as many of the machines that ran 10.1 were not deemed fit for 10.5 (e.g. the G4 Cube variants), but there are workarounds.
> hands inward about 30 degrees

What does the alternative look like? My google-fu brings me to lots of temperature graphs..
Apply in Tokyo: implicit.ly: Skinny framework - Scala on Rails
You're right. That was wrong. I obviously meant it's the effect of A plus B.

It would depend on the amount of "bottom feeders". That's a bad way to define it though, "non-productives" might be better, since it would include pensioners, children, students (including people who go back to studying if this program is introduced, but are older than 0-24 years), really ill people, ... mostly not people I'd define as bottom feeders.

I would say that it's a lot larger than 1-2%. Let's assume that a lower bound on the non-productive people would be 30% of the total (which would mean tax levels need to be, at bare minimum . I would say that various factors are going to make that close to 50% over a period of time that's not very long.

Suppose you'd have the same tax level for these things as you currently have for social programs + medical programs (~50% of total taxes), then here's how much it could be (ignoring administration costs, which would take another bite):

Non-active population => basic income possible using 50% of govt. budget

30% => 11,249

40% => 9,642

50% => 8,035

60% => 6,428

70% => 4,821

(the current labor force participation rate is 65%. Since that is likely to drop, prudence would suggest you take the 50% or 60% figure as realistic. Increases in the govt. budget dedicated to this cannot make these numbers rise by a significant amount. So I would think the 30% figure is the maximum attainable even if the military were to be defunded)

Since even the largest of these numbers is only barely sufficient to live + insurance + ... is this really worth it ? This amount is not of the level that it's going to do what this program needs to do to improve our economic situation : give the poor disposable income.

The basic problem we have is of a different nature. We do not have any economic reason for 70% of the world population to be alive, and that number is growing fast. In the US that number is currently amazingly low, but it's bound to rise as well.
ACA was passed under regular order.
JRE 6 is the last JRE that Apple distributes itself via Software Update. JRE 7 comes direct from Oracle for the time being.
Drop, Stop, and Roll
Please tell me you're a non-QWERTY user. It'd require specific concentration to mistype QWERTY otherwise...
Yeah, even if this has some average benefits, you only live once and that benefit has to be weight against the time it takes to learn it.
That paper presents a good case that the layout was influenced by feedback from telegraph operators, but it doesn't really do much to refute the idea that changes were also being made for the purpose of preventing jams.

Obviously the claim that it was intended to slow typists down is unlikely. If the layout was rearranged in part to prevent jams, then it would have been rearranged so that nearby letters weren't hit in sequence. Without careful study of ergonomics, one wouldn't necessarily realize that that would slow a typist down. But it would probably prevent jams.

I also found some of the claims made in the paper very odd. They claim that because "SE" and "Z" are easy to mistake in Morse code, that those letters were placed near each other. How this would be helpful eludes me.
Your comment was ambiguous then. It sounded like your logic was "they don't run PHP because they wrote their own implementation"... which is still running PHP. I think you meant to say they're not running the normal PHP interpreter, so that particular functional call might not be implemented (but it could be, still...).
The Model T started production in 1908 and the first commerical airline flight was in 1914. The state of the art for sea transportation around then was the Titantic, which sank in 1912. So maybe that had something to do with it.
hey thanks for responding. i did not realize it's so small with only 100k people, but i think i might actually like such a small community. and i do find the fact that there are many great restaurants there to be a tremendous plus. and according to craigslist, the rent isn't that crazy either - i see many places going for less than $1,000 a month which is what i'm paying for a 1-br right now in coral gables.

re: pot - as mentioned, i AM a big smoker (vaper to be exact). how has the scene changed since the legalization? if you're not comfortable sharing in public, just let me know and i'll pm you in private!
There are two factors at play.

Imagine you want a date. Do you call up your favorite celebrity and ask him or her out? No. You find someone that you like that has a greater than 51% chance of actually saying yes. (OK, it doesn't need to be 51% since you stand to lose less than you could gain. But some mental calculation like that is going on.)

The other factor is Internet hype. Try this: write a story involving Google or Apple as the protagonist, submit it to HN or Reddit, and watch as the Internet goes crazy for it. The companies are "hot" now, and merely mentioning them sells newspapers (or pageviews, or Reddit karma, or whatever). If what you're writing is technically true and contains controversy, all the better.

The first factor rules out Apple. The second factor rules out Microsoft. And who's left?
oh on a more serious topic: how hard is it to recruit developers and engineers in boulder? i'm a non-technical founder who is returning to school for CS, but i don't want to be limited to recruiting just fellow students who may not have what i need.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the norman layout here. I consider it to be an improvement over colmak and workman.
Using it on my ergodox (and I know another relatively prominent geek doing the same), and really enjoying it.

https://normanlayout.info/
Meh, Communism is like Zero-Point Energy. It sounds good in theory, but it's been disproved time after time, yet it still has adherents saying that the conventional power grid is evil, and that Zero-Point Energy will solve everything.

I'm waiting for someone to tell me that Communism works, but that people are broken, the most marvelous rationalization that history ever spit forth.
Look at the HN thread about this article [1], specifically the top comment. Among other things, that study failed to take into account the "plateau effect" that occurs in all types of exercise regimens after several weeks of the same type of training.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438124
There are many measurable metrics to determine the "best keyboard layout", such as whether common letters in your language are on the home row, or the total finger distance travelled when typing typical text, etc.

The three most common english digraphs are TH, HE, AN, and they all require moving off the home row to type in qwerty. I consider this an inconvenience, one that doesn't exist in other layouts.

Of course there is a cost to learning a new layout, but if you're probably going to be typing for much of the rest of your life, the cost is very small.
The reason I switched to Dvorak was that I wanted to learn to touch-type properly. When changing an ingrained habit, there's always that transition period where the bad old habit is the better short-term choice than the good new habit, and if I'd tried to learn touch-typing QWERTY I'd have fallen back on my bad habits probably without realising it. By introducing a new keyboard layout into the mix, falling back on my bad old habits had an immediate negative consequence (wrong letters appear on screen) so I knew I'd messed up and could immediately rectify the mistake.

Of course, now I know how to touch-type and I'm quite comfortable with Dvorak, so I'm not sure I could muster the mental energy to switch to this Workman layout, pleasant-looking as it is. The biggest drawback of Dvorak is indeed the L and R keys... but I guess my finger muscles have strengthened or I'm just more used to it now, so it no longer bothers me.
I figured this is not very different from the Indian education system. And I think the type of government can influence how this is executed, as students have other fields to look forward to in India (not sure how it is in China).
I had a programming layer on my ergodox, but due to some bugs in the firmware haven't bothered with it...

Ideally (when I get time to fix it), I'll have a thumb key to hold down and get any programming symbol (optimized to Python for me) on or nearby the home row.
> That is specially in non-english laguanges.

From a linguist's point of view, the language that English is grammar checked against in Word has always been a broken approximation of an uninformed prescriptivist's version of English.

An example opinion from the guy who wrote the book on English grammar:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005061.h...
Best part is that now you can play FPSs using the mouse and DASH keys.
I'm surprised that there isn't a larger drop, and especially surprised that some neighborhoods have actually seen increased traffic.

Anyone have an explanation for that?
They operate thrift shops in some areas of the US. It might be a west-coast mainly thing, but I think they have some locations on the east coast as well.
Sure, but not everybody is like you. The random bands play at the random local bars. There, the music isn't the focus; it's more backdrop.
Interesting. I have a split ergodox and switch to a laptop keyboard a bit. My fingers don't seem to mind the angle too much. Though it is crazy how keyboard layout has been status quo for nearly 100 years.
Agreed. I'll add that if you can't touch-type, your keyboard layout is the least of your problems. Take a few days off and learn.
In order to use BLE stack in nRF51822, one will need to deal with their DRM for the S110 SoftDevice, or implement an open source BLE stack similar to what the article suggests.
That's not that high. There are buildings higher than this.
Ask a Roman how Rome works?
The novel analyses were nice, but seeing various programming languages analyzed would be even cooler.
Perhaps you should try getting some idea, then. It's not like there hasn't been a ton written on this.
Well, I can see it didn't take long at all for the Oppression Olympics to get underway.

Edit: -1? Impress me.
>I don't see any logic in extending the new identity backwards in time to before it was adopted

Do you refer to gay people as straight when talking about the time before they came out?
I realize you notice it but it's certainly not unusual. President Obama does something similar [1].

"the intellectual stammer signals a brain that is moving so fast that the mouth can't keep up. The stammer is commonly found among university professors, characters in Woody Allen movies and public thinkers of the sort that might appear on C-SPAN but not CNN."

If that's what umming really means it wouldn't annoy me at all to umm more.

Umming could also be the symptom of an additional mental load. Such speaking disturbances occur once in every 4.4 seconds [2], which suddenly makes me less worried and more tolerant about how people sound when they speak.

[1] - http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/26/opinion/la-oe-daum-o...

[2] - http://www.themorningnews.org/article/in-the-beginning-was-t...
It's too bad they lost Denniston, I remember listening to him speak at Kleiner a few years ago as a student and thinking to myself, "this is one the most well-spoken, intelligent individuals I've ever encountered." Probably true for most KPCB staff, but a loss nonetheless.
Chekhov's gun
Yahoo Acquires Bread, Will Shut Down The URL Shortener That Earned You Money
As an Asian who has spent considerable amount of time in Thailand due to having a girlfriend there, I agree with most of your points except the part where you claim apartments cost $1,300 - 2,000 for a "livable" space. I find that it is simply not true - low-end but still nice condos in non-touristy areas can be had for between THB 15,000- 25,000 which is well below USD 1,000. You must be referring to the luxurious Sukhumvit condos, where the prices are higher probably because of the location and the fact that those are touristy, expat-y areas. Get a place in areas like Ratchada and you'll find the prices significantly lower for equal levels of comfort and luxury.
In a was I liked that the interview did not focus in one particular direction. It had nuggets of wisdom spread all over!
Slow, dog slow.

I've tried Open / Libre Office on both Windows and Linux targets. A benchmark: Create a couple columns of, say, 10000 x/y values, and see how long it takes to create a basic scatter plot.

Also, I've noticed that the user interface of Excel is a lot more polished. For instance it's more forgiving of exactly where I put the mouse pointer before clicking -- valuable for me because I get severe eyestrain headaches whenever I have to look too closely at the screen for too long.
The profound sense of entitlement of professors like Webber can fairly be called disgusting. Some--make that many--successful academics have no compunction whatsoever about exploiting the time, energy and experience of others.

I recently left academia on account on account of the exploitative culture and then declared an eternal moratorium on low-academic-value, unpublishable or otherwise uncredited technical work for academia. Perhaps I should start a movement called Technologists Leaving Academia.
How do you figure that? Manually checking the ages of accounts proved laborious and unrewarding.
Ask HN: Anyone here using Nagios?
Hi HN, just asking around. Who here uses Nagios? Anything you don't like about it in particular? What about it you like the most?

Just trying to know what systems/server monitoring tool people are using nowadays. I hear the usage of NewRelic often times from other people.
Worked for KPCB backed startup RGBNetworks a few years back. Loss all of my respect for that VC after that. Install their own CEO - most technologically clueless guy I have ever seen, kicked the 3 founders (extreme smart MIT grad) out of the board/company, went on a hiring spree for a lot of clueless VP, directors (friends of CEO) - turn a company with $40 mil / years revenue into a walking zombie.
Ask HN: Frontend vs Backend learning
I might be getting the two confused but recently I was offered an opportunity to take either Python or Javascript training program and I'm deciding on which is better for me at the moment to get into web development. I always hear Frontend is much harder than Backend?.

As far as I see it Python is Backend and Javascript deals with Frontend stuff related to HTML and CSS.

If given this opportunity to study the either Python or Javascript I'm curious what do the wonderful HN community choose and why based on your answer.

IMO I like both and wouldn't mind learning either one at the program but I have to choose one so help me decide thanks.
I did the Chinese school thing 11 years ago.

The low end tech scene is quite vibrant but wages for competent dev's keeps going up. China really just isn't that poor anymore; though you still have plenty of kids who are poorly trained but willingly to work hard on the cheap.

Most foreigners outside of the few American tech companies are entrepreneurs and/or managers. I'm quite unusual as a researcher.
I have over 2000 bookmarks. Simply organized by folder on my chrome browser.

There are a few solid good bookmarking apps but they all for the most part lack the option to import bookmarks/ also don't really have clean usable UX. The ones I am talking about are mostly for making bookmarks a social thing like pinterest

some of them are part of my Freeware Index project

https://github.com/Doubtme/FreeWare_Index

The rest are for my website index which has 17 main categories and 40+ sub categories spread out. I haven't made the website index public yet but I intend to once I organize it. I will probably end up deleting a few hundred links once I get to it
What a terrible article. First off, I was frustrated by how they quoted research but did not actually cite it. For example:

>For example, A. Miller and J Thomas, two researchers at the IBM Research Laboratory, writing in the International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, conclude that "no alternative has shown a realistically significant advantage over the QWERTY for general purpose typing."

OK, great. What was the name of the paper? Was it even in a peer reviewed article, or was it an op-ed? And when did they say it? The rate of research into keyboard layouts has been a trickle. If they said that in 1975, then it's not particularly useful today.

In fact, there have been a few studies that have in one way or another demonstrated superior qualities of Dvorak:

http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~buzing/Articles/keyboards.pdf

http://atri.misericordia.edu/Papers/Dvorak.php

(admittedly both of those were published after the Reason article, but I'm not going to spend all night looking for pre-1996 articles)

The article also claims that studies show only "a few percentage points" difference between QWERTY and Dvorak. How can this be, when the total typing distance for QWERTY was nearly twice that of Dvorak on Don Quixote?

So why are we seeing quote and number mining, more typical of political discussions, in an article about keyboard layouts? Well, to understand that, we need to understand Reason's bias, and then read the last paragraph.

And then all becomes clear. This isn't about uncovering the truth about ergonomics and keyboard layouts. It's about scoring a few points for the ol' free market. My guess is that one of the authors was having an argument at a party, and someone drunkenly suggested that QWERTY vs. Dvorak was a great example of the free market failing. "This will not stand!" the writer shouted at the sky, and then proceeded to write a five page article about how "nuh uh".
And that's why I am a heavy DriveNow user. I keep them a month at a time. The nearest location to my house is across the street and the nearest location to my office is in the garage in the basement. It works extremely well, especially since I get carpool + free FasTrak + free charging + free parking (normally $475 in my work garage) + free maintenance + $100k insurance. But you already know this since you are a DriveNow user.

$900/month, better then lease + insurance + maintenance + gas + parking + bridge. By $500+ a month.
Here's one thing I hate about bookmarks. They aren't. Bookmarks. They don't keep your place in the middle of a long work. They only, and always, point to the beginning of a work, not inside it, unless the author has made internal anchors and exposes them.

I'd like bookmarks to be bookmarks.

I'd also like bookmarks to keep track of what they have pointed to. So a bookmark might show you that it has pointed to paragraphs 10, 22, 39, and the current 44. Cause it'd be nice to be able to go back to paragraph 22 as a reference.

And a bookmark should have notes. Firefox bookmarks have properties/notes accessible on right-click; I imagine clever people could expand that.

Heck, why not make them queryable by sql?
Um...Sniglets?
Now code from your android phone
That is a matter of opinion. I think the lack of source code is a problem of incredible complexity, in that overcoming that hurdle would require one to somehow force MS to fix something.

I think LaTeX starts marginally easy, gets complex and fiddly but then pretty much just stays at the same level of complex and fiddly. Word starts very easy, gets complicated quickly and eventually presents un-fixable problems, no matter what your skill level.
How the US Cracked Japan's Purple Encryption Machine
Obama hurting innovation
There is exactly one building taller than this. So not only is your comment unconstructive, it's wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_th...
As other posters have pointed out, using mobile payments bypasses corrupt middlemen. Afghanistan has started paying rural police using mobiles, and some of them are seeing "raises" >1/3 their salary.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/17/m-paisa-ending-afghan-corru...
42 -> 4,2 -> for, two -> fortu -> fortune!
Deep meanings :D
There was no link to the actual words each wrote in their conversation, so the whole brouhaha might be artificially amplified (eg. One party might have been rude or arrogant, the other might have just reacted).

Besides, there is a confusion in one of the arguments between getting content for free and getting authors to work for free.
UHF transmitters can be rigged on a RC transmitter as a module or through the trainer port, depending on the radio. DragonLink and EZUHF appear to work this way. (I haven't used any of these.)
>It is a made up number. So what? It's not made up out of thin air though.

Wait what?

Yes you can assign a probability to everything, it doesn't necessarily mean anything, but you can do it. I hope that is not how you prove all of your math problems.

I'm sorry I must not have been clear in my previous post. I did not mean that you personally were moving the goalposts. I meant that your hypothetical person who believed in garage dragons was moving the goalposts. I was trying to argue that your analogy was a straw man argument.

Also, your argument that 'religion has moved the goalposts' Would be an example of an association fallacy: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy