skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no way I would request to an employer that I have a special keyboard just for me

Why not?

> or try to reconfigure software to support it.

Why not?

If there's a much better alternative out there that can make you more productive - and Dvorak has been one of those things for me - your employer should be jumping up and down in joy at throwing however many $10 keyboards at you as you're asking for.

There are also plenty of USB devices that convert between the two, or keyboards with hardware switches. Or, of course, in software. I use AutoHotkey, because keyboard layout switching in Windows is completely broken, and it works pretty well.

If that's your excuse for not using Dvorak rather than anything else, you're doing both yourself and your employer a huge disservice, especially if you're going to take that attitude to other things.
According to the article, the point is to ease the author's repetitive strain injury and tendonitis.
A similar research based on the land lotteries in Georgia in 1832 and in Oklahoma in 1901 showed that outright increases in wealth (i.e., winning the lottery) had little or no effect on generational wealth. There was also another similar research on the land lotteries which showed negative effect on generational wealth.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/SITE/archive/SITE_2010/segment...
I have used names from fantasy books.
Shire, Mordor, North, Dorne, Vale ..
Instead of being cynical, maybe consider the fact that students find it easier to type essays with Word than with other products, so Microsoft gave them a discount so they could afford it? Win-win.

Just a thought.
faintly entlightening
Touch-typing is the key, if you have to look at the keys regularly then switching to a new layout will be an order of magnitude more difficult.
Yea that article caused a lot of confusion amongst folks.

Personally, I don't think that the $650m has to apply for the one contract (healthcare.gov) for the general act to be quested like the post above ('and we get THIS')?

As for your math - sounds reasonable, but wow my expectations of what $55m can yield are vastly different than how you rationalized it.
I see what you did there, coursera py
I had never heard of this foundation/charity here in Miami, FL (East coast USA). So I don't think it is a major organization like the red cross or humane society in the US. (I may be completely wrong)
I also have RSI from years of piano, typing, and then (this is almost embarrassing to say) high level starcraft.

Changing your keyboard layout isn't going to fix bad habits and the things you have to do to stay healthy (stretching, taking breaks, and strengthening).
I think the opposite you're exactly the person worth paying attention to :)

I think most people like the idea of being "free" from hoarding. because it clutters the mind. I guess the thing with bookmarks is that they need to disappear after either an action or a certain amount of time has passed since they where last used/created.

I'm also wondering how this works visually. I often find if things are just messy then I hate it and feel like I'm cluttered. But if something is kept clean and structured then I'm happy for it to stay as long as it gets out of my way when I don't need it.

I'm wondering if bookmarks are the same. If I don't need you disappear. But when I want to get it back then I want to find it in a clean and organised way.

The problem is I don't want to invest anytime in the process of managing the clutter. I want to manage itself.

What do you think ?
The idea is to use chip and pin for high value (>$50) purchases and PayPass/PayWave for amounts under that. That way you can pay for small purchases faster than cash while making large purchases more secure.

Unfortunately, at least in Canada, it seems like merchants were only obligated to buy the chip terminal so a lot of smaller businesses didn't bother with the wireless payments and force you to type in your pin for a $7 pita.
NASA’s $1.1B Jupiter probe reboots after unexpected cat nap
NOTE: As a heavy DriveNow user, they keep me up to date. I just heard this week from the fleet manager, Ed, that the $30 a day rate will be going away soon. sadpanda.jpg
Silver Car rocks. They have had a low key presence in Austin, TX for a while now.

The story understates how good the experience is. They know they are selling a premium experience and they deliver.
The myth of maintainability
Yes, but the starving child in Boston in your article went to a nearby world-class hospital where he was given free food.

Poverty exists in the US; extreme poverty (living under the purchasing power equivalent of USD $1.25 per day) is extremely rare (<0.5%) in the US, whereas it describes 50% of people in subsaharan Africa.

http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/rwss/docs/2010/chapter2.pdf
Just for the record, what OP is doing is illegal. His main goal while in Thailand is work. By working while on a tourist visa he is breaking Thai law.
There are a lot of "hacktivist" groups based in Palestine, Iran, Egypt, and Syria.
It's been done before, they usually end up getting returned when somebody needs to install Office to do their work.
I figured it was more like 80-90%, but didn't want to take the time to look up #s, hence .. "more than half".
I've only ever been able to hunt and peck QWERTY, not having learned it through touch typing, nor did I ever pick it up.

So when I learned Dvorak, through touch typing, it affected my QWERTY skills exactly not one bit. The only way in which my QWERTY skills are now bad is through attrition, but it's still no problem to accomplish a reasonable percentage of my previous speed. It just comes up pretty rarely that I have to type on QWERTY these days, and if I do for a few minutes it's no problem.

It's as if the two are in completely different areas of my brain, and for anyone wanting to learn Dvorak, then this is a very easy way indeed.
Quoting from memory:

«We used to treat our physical machines as home pets, having few of them, giving them proper names, caring about them individually.

Now we treat virtual machines as cattle on a large farm, marking them with numbers, denying them any individuality, and killing them when we don't need them any more.»
Do you have a reference for that, or are you Humpty Dumptying?
I would assume it does. Here in Canada I have to approve the total before it asks for my PIN.
I don't see why it should matter what justification she gives for why he should stop, someone saying "stop" is clearly unhappy and uncomfortable with the situation. Saying that it's ok that he 'misunderstood' her because she gave a reason that meant nothing to him denies her agency.

Ignoring that she was clearly uncomfortable with everything about the situation, even if she were merely uncomfortable with making out with a married man this would be more than enough reason for her to say stop and expect him to not continue.

The fundamental problem with this kind of equivocation, though, is that in a scary as fuck situation people do what they can to get out and sometimes they can't figure out the right thing to do in the split second between someone kissing them and shoving their finger in their genitals.
I majored in Biological Anthropology (BA 2007). Today, I'm working as a Software Engineer in San Francisco. I had been exposed to programming in the past, and got my professional start working on consulting projects after I lost my job as a Copywriter in 2009. Work on as many projects as you can and surround yourself with people that know more than you do.
> But compare it with feudal economics, where a rent-seeking class had a monopoly on everything and had absolutely no incentive to improve the economic conditions of their subjects.

This sounds a little like the US today. In order for capitalism to deliver what promise it holds, it must be saved from the capitalists. That means intelligent regulation (as opposed to mere red tape).
Oh. God. Don't remind me.

Source: Former Rentrak employee.
The idea sounds interesting but it would likely turn into one of the greatest drains of my productivity of all time.
I don't really have experience with the US (I'm from New Zealand), but from first impressions I agree with you. Capitalism is a system of regulations to restrict the actions of capitalists.
I haven't found comprehensive sources. Here's one blog that's good to reference when working with Bluegiga radios.
Reference for which? The meaning of "tinkling" or the claim made in the sentence that contains it?
I switched to Dvorak seven or eight years ago to see if it would help with RSI issues I was having. It helped a lot, and I never switched back. Sometimes I have to type QWERTY (at kiosks at the library, for example) and I just laugh at how ridiculous my hand motions become when using it. For people experiencing wrist pain while typing, I recommend trying it. A lot of people use it (compared to other minority layouts), so support is widespread.
The Wars on fat, sugar, etc. are also occurring outside of socialized medicine. (I assume that by socialized medicine, you mean, in the U.S.,Medicare, Medicaid, and any other health program explicitly funded and/or provided by a government entity.) These wars are also being fought by private insurance companies, where the healthy subsidize the less-healthy, and the profit motive exists.
EFF Quits Advocacy Group - Cites Surviellance Concerns
j1z0 So, out of the countries you mentioned, where one could engineer the best bootstrapping lifestyle? Why have you chosen Malaysia?
Yes, repressed emotions and trauma will manifest in some way for many, many people. For some people it can manifest physically, via stress, psychosomatic illness, etc. For others it may be depression or anxiety.

You have to deal with your shit.
That's interesting. It's very much what I assumed we use tabs to store the temporary stuff that we need right now or in the very short term. Bookmarks are not a solution engineered towards this very temporary way of working. However tabs are not the ideal solution either they are just a work around. I often find I want a convenient and temporary place to put this short lived content and it should disappear when I stop using it. What do you think ?
Hey - thanks! I did a bunch of these, and it was a great way to get started with http://www.merchantprotector.net

I liked sideprojectors.com quite a lot too, thank you!
Ugh :( :(

$12/trip still makes sense for one-ways, but $30/day was awesome. At $30/day it was almost worth it to go across the bridge in HOVland in the morning and keep it all day.
Just remove this word from the article. Everything should make sense fine without it.
This is the best resource on the subject, written by the designer of the protocol. The author is, surprisingly, a pretty good writer. This not only gives you everything you need to know (without grokking the spec), but also talks a lot about why they made the decisions they did.

Highly recommend...
http://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Low-Energy-Developers-ebook/...
I have decided to follow your lead and take a 'broad view' of what 'incivility' means, which is to say the real definition and it's direct opposite.

Good luck on taking the high road, or whatever it is your posturing is meant to convey!

Oh, and if you are going to pretend my definition is just the dsm 4 super narrow version (as if you had any idea of that before you looked it up on Wikipedia to try to debunk what I said), try googling 'passive aggressive definition'.
Situation for keyboard layout is even worse now that we have a lot of keyboards that we work with. For example I use these keyboards on daily life:

- My laptop keyboard

- My iPhone keyboard

- My iPad keyboard

- Car navigation keyboard

- Keyboard on my Google TV remote control

- Keyboard on copy machine at work

It's somehow impossible to change all those keyboard layouts and if you change a few of them then you will be confused when typing.
Rapportive like online service?
Are there any free/paid services which takes email IDs and can provide professional information about the user holding that email ID?

Would love to update CRM with finer details of users..
US switch to metric system is long overdue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...

I wish temperature and distance would be measured in metric commonly. So far the most we get are volume and mass on packages.
Optimize for Java? (it needs this more than other languages do).

But, to be fair, typing is (or should be) a tiny fraction of your coding time. Even in Java.
a lot of these issues are vendor/hardware specific and wouldn't exist on systems configured and shipping w/ Linux installed .. or at least certified by a vendor to support Linux and that's not the case most of the time ..

some user configuration/setup should be expected on systems that aren't .. that's just the reality of the situation

it's silly to discredit an operating system because of that
Extremely rare? 313900000 * 0.005 = 1,569,500 people living on $1.25/day in the USA?
The efforts big pharma makes to continue selling precursor drugs suggests big pharma actually love the current situation. They block laws which would help make cooking considerably harder. For all the war-on-drugs rhetoric, the laws are actually quite weak when it comes to blocking the availability of precursor compounds. Stopping the trade would lower profits. This is bad as far as the companies are concerned. http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/meth-pseudoephedri...
Not sure how noteworthy this is. Ask any of us to work for free and you might get the same answer.
It is a fascinating problem, you launch with one type of space craft and then you recover with a different craft (in terms of mass distribution, fuel supply, etc). I'd love to hear how the avionics deals with the two systems. especially given that most of the rocket systems I've seen internal descriptions of are very narrowly tuned to be critically damped around their launch parameters. Unlike say aircraft that are dealing with fuel weight management issues and load balancing.

I know Elon said he would release the videos, and I'm sure they will, this is definitly the kind of 'rocket science' that is very intriguing to me.
How do you feel about things like Social Security Disability benefits? By most accounts there is some very real abuse of that social welfare program that could cause it to not be there for people who legitimately need it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50156574n
I learned dvorak by printing out the layout and glancing over at the paper while typing back in high school. It took me about a month to get comfortable and I'm now basically a touch-typing bilinguist (though I'm slower at qwerty, it's more mental effort to do the conversion on the fly since my muscle memory is dvorak).
It's reasonable to be a bilingual typist. I use dvorak on my personal and work computers, but qwerty for other people's computers and iphone/ipad. It's really not too bad.
Regarding the views of techies, this is an overgeneralization. The real situation is more nuanced, and there are a range of views, well- and ill-considered, across the ideological spectrum.
I originally thought this two. Trick: when typing QUERTY, look at your keyboard. Anything else, try to just look at the screen. Helps your brain differentiate layouts.
Leafing through it, I'm kinda' reminded of the first time I had a copy of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming in my hands.

Just me?

Yes, I thought so.
Aren't free refills common outside of America also? Maybe not.
Are you suggesting that the previous popes education was lacking?
That seems like a reasonable definition of "extremely rare". Platinum is extremely rare, several hundred tons of it are mined every year. (A number that sounds incredibly heavy, but pales in comparison to the numbers of common metals.)

Half a percentage is "extremely rare" compared to numbers like 50%. Most people in America have absolutely no experience with the sort of poverty that is nearly inescapable in many underdeveloped counties.

If you can't get over the "~1.5 million” thing, just consider that this is comparable to the poplulation of The Bronx.
Of course it's incredibly different. I won't trivialize how shitty life in the ghetto is if you don't trivialize how shitty life as a subsistence farmer surrounded by simmering ethnic conflicts.
Wow, this comment just appeared through a time portal from 2001! Linux is firmly established in a variety of professional markets here in 2013. Please educate yourself before wasting time commenting.
The ultra orthodox are causing all sorts of problems in Israel as well. Front line did a report on it. They're raising their kids on nothing but religion, keeping them away from school, math, science and encouraging them to bury their head in the Torah their whole lives. No skills, no college. They reproduce at a much higher rate than other Jewish groups in Israel and in a few decades 1/3rd of the population will be Ultra Orthodox. They'll end up bankrupting Israel because they use more tax dollars than they put in.

Another example of why religious extremism, no matter what the religion (yes even Buddhism) is a step backwards for a group of people.

No religion is immune, Jews, Christians, Muslims, no one is. I still remember the article I read in the New York Times about Ultra Orthodox Jews hiding other Jews who molest children (the Jewish version of the Catholic molestation scandal) because their religious laws prohibit Jews from turning in another Jew for a crime. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/nyregion/ultra-orthodox-je...

It's a sad thing to watch, history repeating itself over and over. Different groups of people, different religions all making the same mistake without learning from each other. I guess that's the one thing we all have in common. Stubbornness.
Are these monthly salaries quite typical across the board for the majority of people in Bangladesh? I employ a JS developer in Dhaka as a contractor who's hourly rate is $22.00 USD. I would have crossed his palm with about $4000 in the past month alone. Yet he still tells me he's only on the slightly higher side of 'average' when it comes to lifestyle/income over there. Earning 90% of a sweat shop workers monthly salary per hour kinda makes me second guess this. Anyone here have any direct experience of what the cost of living in Bangladesh really is?
I actually don't recommend preparing. I believe in odds. I met a couple really interesting people at a recent hackathon. Guys were standing behind me and asked me and my friend question about our conversation.

And I feel like preparing yourself to find new people to talk to at a conference/meetup is kind of weird. I go to meetup to meet new people and learn new things, but I rather do this naturally by immersing myself into the atmosphere. If I don't have anything special to ask / to look for other than attending a talk, I'd just go home. There is nothing wrong with that. It's perfectly fine.

The best time to socialize is before the beginning of a talk and when you are in a line for refreshment like pizza. Haha
I have had luck at SFO with Super Cheap Car Rental which is coincidentally the only highly rated SFO car rental place on Yelp.
It's good for legacy devices, but I can't think of any reason to use ANT in future products since you'd need to have a BLE version for iOS users.
For the meaning of tinkling.

EDIT ah, you probably meant "inkling".
Something I've been thinking about is the smartphone release cycle verse the console release cycle. Valve could inflict a lot of damage on Microsoft and Sony's market share just by releasing an incrementally better Steambox once a year.

Consumers don't want to buy a new $1,000 computer once a year, but many are close to doing it with their phones. The subscription/contract masks to cost to a degree. I'm not sure what the economics will come down to, but a new Steambox once every 6 years seems quite unlikely.
I'd really like a keyboard layout optimized for phone usage, particularly with swype or predictive keyboard styles in mind. In particular I think you actually want to go the opposite direction of things like dvorak with such a keyboard because you want to make common motions distinct from each other. With swype, dvorak would leave most common words having a very similar motion profile. Qwerty is perhaps better, but I suspect non-optimal from how often I have to guide it.
I switched my mother to Ubuntu 3 or 4 years ago... No more wiping viruses every month. Actually, support calls dwindled from every 2 weeks to basically never. Ubuntu does everything she wants (browser... Email... Watch videos... Download camera photos... View them...) without any problems.
Hey if you need anything in mtl let me know.
Disclaimer, I am not a lawyer.

They are not making any attempt for the summary to replace the TOS, rather it is intended as a summary for user convenience. I imagine that the only way that they could run into trouble is if someone showed that they deliberately made the summary with the intention of misleading users. Also, if there is an ambiguity in there TOS, then the summary may be invoked when clarifying it, however it seems extremely unlikely that that would happen.
I'm not going to defend security guards, as we can see in the case of George Zimmermann, things can get unhinged, but, is there any reason why you don't seriously question the training and motivation of those who wear a police badge? Because there's a lot of police abuse out there. As bad as it gets, no private security has ever bombed a neighborhood it was supposed to protect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing

Sure, that's an outlier, but then there's also the Jose Guerena case. Or the Cheye Calvo case. These are more well known ones. In "The Rise of the Warrior Cop" Radley Balko lists literally hundreds of cases piling up over the past decade where egregious abuse of force occurred because of lack of police oversight.
Ah yes, the undeserving poor. Alfred P. Doolittle gave a pretty good accounting of what they might do with it in Shaw's Pygmalion:

I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time. If there's anything going, and I put in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: "You're undeserving; so you can't have it." But my needs is as great as the most deserving widow's that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. I don't need less than a deserving man: I need more. I don't eat less hearty than him; and I drink a lot more. I want a bit of amusement, cause I'm a thinking man. I want cheerfulness and a song and a band when I feel low. Well, they charge me just the same for everything as they charge the deserving. What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything... Don't you be afraid that I'll save it and spare it and live idle on it. There won't be a penny of it left by Monday: I'll have to go to work same as if I'd never had it. It won't pauperize me, you bet. Just one good spree for myself and the missus, giving pleasure to ourselves and employment to others, and satisfaction to you to think it's not been throwed away. You couldn't spend it better.
I'm not a PHP-guru, but it's entirely possible that they're playing around with some background configurations that would make performance tweaks in some sections of the code difficult if they're defined variables.

I guess this is an implementation of a semi-defined variable. It should probably be noted that there may be a tiny bit of performance improvement when calling isset instead of defined when checking for variable set. I'm not sure if that's one of the considerations since it would definitely be a case of premature (and ultimately pointless) optimization anywhere else, but since it's Facebook, they may have gone that far to squeeze every bit out of it they can.