skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article seems to imply that it is impossible to live for less than $1000 a month (internet included) in the US in a remote area where you can focus.

I regularly travel out to Eastern Washington (close to the border by Montana) and the area is very rural and prices relatively cheap for rent (and house prices are not unreasonable if you're looking to buy).
No one will come bug you if you live in the woods, and Satellite internet (while not perfect) is decent as long as you're not doing anything too bandwidth intensive. You can also always live near a bigger city and get Cable internet.

As far as food costs go, if you can fish, hunt and grow a vegetable garden, you can be self-sufficient most of the year.

I'm not saying everyone needs to go out and live that lifestyle, but I just wanted to challenge the assumption that you couldn't live for less than $1000 a month in the US. A lot of people do, and aren't necessarily poor or bad off either.
I just don't understand the logic behind aqui-hires. If a founder starts up his own company, and if he is very serious about it, he will put in everything he's got - his passion, his vision and his hardwork. It becomes an integral part of his life somehow.

Now, suddenly a corporation pays the founder a large sum of money, makes him shut down his company, literally erasing every single connection he had with his creation. Now, no passionate founder would like to let someone destroy his own company, his hardwork and passion. But even if he wanted the money, and he thought if it's a good compromise, no passionate founder will think nor share the same vision and passion for the corporate owning him as much as he had for his own company. Obviously most of us startup because we don't want the corporate life and we want something different. So, to aim to get into a corporate by means of a startup is quite contradictory, no?

So, in essence, how does the corporation justify the investment for a semi-passionate founder whose product has just been destroyed? They pay billions in some cases, only to realize that the founder doesn't share his old vision and enthusiasm anymore? How does this work? I will gladly love to be corrected on this one. Someone with experience, please explain this cost justification to me!

Cheers.
Yes, in this case the hidden meaning of the Red Book is the unconsiousness itself. Holding the secrets to the meaning of life. My question is, are the Voynich, Antichthon Universalis of Codex_Seraphinianus manuscripts, Valis (Philp K. Dick), Michael J. Topper's or even Castaneda's work merely artificially constructed fantasies (like Scientology or the Church of Subgenius) or also pointing to or connecting with a deeper layer of reality of archetypes rooted in our biology like in Jung's the Red Book? Is there a deeper meaning?
I use the house names of westeros (game of thrones) for all my hostnames in my home network. Its a lot more fun mounting a drive from winterfell or streaming movies from kingslanding.
You just described the world of most Fortune 500 companies.
"One of the first things you will notice is how short people there are. The second thing you'll notice is that food portions in restaurants and cafeterias are much larger. Strangely, everybody feels hungry all the time."
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They could also just join 301Works[0], who seem to some degree affiliated with the Internet Archive and will keep on running the redirect if they are given technical control of the domain.

[0] http://archive.org/details/301works
From the article: 'However, I believe that the way that alternative layouts focus on just the home row for optimization is somewhat misguided. We should optimize the keys inside the hand’s natural range of motion and not just strictly the home row.'

While alternative layouts strive to make typing easier, they invariably come up against the constraints of a grid-based key placement.

Using a genuine 'anatomic'/'ergonomic' placement would put reset the whole layout argument: how to optimize for a given language, with human-friendly placement of keys (say, using the Kinesis Advantage keyboard or equivalent). Now that would be an interesting experiment in layouts! (Would there even be a home row?)

And, BTW, I've 'forked' my usual Dvorak layout to make it easier for Lisp programming. We (particularly Linux users) tweak our window managers and screen accessories to individual perfection; why not our keyboard layouts too?
The morons in IT department in my current company have accomplished an amazing feat with the host names. We have one host name that I have been using for 2 years almost every day and I still have not memorized it! I am having to cut and paste it every single time.

The host names were invented so people won't have to memorize IP addresses. IT morons here with their "functional hostnames" have managed to defeat the purpose of hostnames, so that they are now harder to remember than IP addresses!

Please please please get a clue, use geography, mythology, Simpsons, anything but stupid "bisappjmpthatthislakdh000283".
The acquiring company gets the entire staff (or at least everyone who comes along). Assuming the company being acquired has built up a decent product, you can see the acqui-hire as a recruiting move, where you're hiring on a group that has shown they can work together, ship product, and all the members have already been vetted by somebody else. The purchase price is really just a recruiter's fee and hiring bonus bundled together.
One advantage of this policy for foreigners is that it's remarkably easy to get into the best Chinese universities (even Tsinghua) compared to the effort the average chinese student has to expend to achieve the same goal.

Source: a visiting professor from China
He didn't imply that at all; if M&A execs also care more about pedigree, then pedigree is a great way to drive a VC exit, especially compared to building a business that actually makes a profit.
i switched to Dvorak but it was too left hand heavy. Had to switch back to QWERTY afer a while.
Yep.

But in my experience, developing JS and HTML in Netbeans feels like 70s style development. After using Eclipse (or Netbeans) for Java development, I find JavaScript development never is that great in IDEs. Maybe they've optimized certain use cases of JS auto-completion and type inference, but for me it always feels like the IDE is just an editor, and a lousy one at that, compared to vim.
I think the best way is to have a custom keyboard. Google ErgoDox, you can program your own keys to suit your needs
Oh well, it is an easy course.

My few cents is that it helps improve your life, taking such a course. At my university, we had an "easy" philosophy course, focusing on Sartre and Kierkegaard, existensialism. The course itself, opened up whole new perspectives to me, and way of perceptions. Maybe this is the one greatest enhancement as a person I gained from my years at the University.

I'd say such philosphy courses should really be mandatory for everybody. Not the usual Examen Philosophicum, but the mind-bending ones.
My understanding of Occam's razor is "use the simplest explanation that fits the facts."

The implied question is "Why do Harvard students take this class?"

Rather than resort to philosophical mumbo-jumbo (as the article does) about Harvard students feeling a yearning to improve their overprivileged existence, the simplest explanation is that students take the class because it offers an easy A.

QED
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One word: hagelslag.
It's not an irrational behaviour to say "I don't know where you're holding the knife this time, but it's not worth the effort to find out"
Wow, what's up with the ad hominem, bro?
See, I'm not entirely sure about this date ordering stuff.. because I'm around #80 by that method, but if I use the API, I'm #118. Try http://caius.github.io/github_id/ to see what your actual user ID is, as I think it's more truthful.
Hunger among children is a bigger problem for wealthier families (earning >400% of the poverty line) than for the poor.

http://mchb.hrsa.gov/chusa11/hstat/hsa/pages/221oo.html
Acquihires dont move the needle for VCs.
Be honest. Are you actually going to use those diluted feel-good aphorisms to shape your life?
"Our tax dollars end up channeled to special interests or spent on useless wars or utterly wasted."

Not only tax dollars. All the new money we print too, which is a tax in effect, devaluing dollars and favoring those who can grow their wealth with the inflation (either those receiving newly printed money, businesses with pricing power, investors, or workers who can demand raises).
Could you explain what the importance of emptiness is? It sounds mysterious and interesting.
What about tracking everything you type for a month to see which letters you use the most as well as their frequency and then generating a keyboard layout that will actually work for you?

These keyboard layout wars seem just too subjective to me.
Because they have money and want to explore something unique. You don't have to major in CS and believe it or not not everyone needs to know how to code.
I'm seriously considering remapping the number row so that tve symbols are first class. I think that would bring the greatest cost/benefit ratio.
Sorry for the delay: busy weekend. I added a FAQ

https://draftable.com/gmail/faq

with the answer to your question (and more), but I'll answer here too:

We don't modify the data in your Gmail account, so if you try Draftable, then uninstall it, your Gmail account won't be altered. Furthermore, if you disable Draftable before uninstalling it, we'll delete our index and revoke our access to your account.
Otherwise... subtitles.
Still the warfare in ancient China didn't result in Chinese thinkers creating "jealous rules-giving God" but something called

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven

Put that in that western "we invented the resistance to the unjust government" pipe.
I hope you mean Idaho and not Montana. Spokane is cheap but not that cheap, in the more rural communities like Newport, you could probably do $1000/month with lots of work cutting wood and such. If you want cheaper, cross the border to Idaho or Montana, but the farther away we get from infrastructure, things actually become more expensive, not less.
Not knowing this case, but the general way to read a pin is a cheap thermal camera filming the keypad. After you remove your hand, your presses remain hot for a short while, and they can even usually recover the order by the relative warmth too.

They also want to film the underside of the card to read the three digit code.
thanks for the lel
It's not an empirical observation, it is a political opinion, which resides on guessing what other people think, and in my opinion getting it terribly wrong. If you approach the problem with wrong premises, you get wrong solution. If you say only problem with drug war is racism, you don't get a solution for it because you're looking in a wrong place.
Frankly, I hope they don't, for the simple reason that we need some high profile link breakage before people learn to treat URL shorteners accordingly (that is: avoid them whenever possible if they're outside your own control).
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I love the idea of alternative keyboards, and I spent a few months trying to learn Dvorak, but no matter what I stop because it screws all my keyboard shortcuts.

OSX's "Cmd Qwerty" feature was nice, but didn't help in Inkscape (since it uses Ctrl) or Vim.

I wish the Programmer's Layout of this would take HJKL into account at least. That's and :wq being a nice "roll" down the top left of my keyboard are what keep me on QWERTY.
I watch the industry and my understanding is that, in practice, chip & pin is not safer, the attacks just change. As does the liability.
The 'QWERTY was developed to slow down the typist' story is a lie. There is no serious evidence that Dvorak is a 'better' layout. If you were starting from scratch, there would probably be no advantage choosing one over the other, except that QWERTY is the standard. Retraining is a waste of time.

The last sentence isn't supported by the prior, assuming you want to improve your typing.

Let's say that dvorak and qwerty just as "good"/"bad" and that there would be no advantage choosing one over the other. Then retraining is probably not a waste of time because when retraining you don't pick up bad practices, like you did when you first started to type (not knowing better).

It probably is easier to start from scratch than trying to relearn some subtle parts of something you've done every day for for over a decade. Also, the motivation to learn qwerty better isn't as big compared to dvorak where you are forced to make progress to be able to do anything useful.
The attack just changes. That you are attacked doesn't.
On the screen of a terminal that may be tampered or bogus, you mean?
That's the measure of effectiveness from a bourgeois perspective, who considers themselves superior because their families are more endowed.
> ShrinkOnce allows users to take a link to a file, website, or video and lock it with a survey

That sounds terribly annoying
I did the same thing. I could take Chicano studies, Asian American studies, African American Studies, or three Karate classes to fulfill a requirement. The first three options were known to be difficult but not particularly deep and students alleged that you would get a bad grade if your political views didn't match the professors' views. I took the latter most option and had way more fun.
I'm the kind of person that always look at the positive in every situation. Which often makes me seem callous, this is one of those times.

I see the average getting fatter and therefore that makes me more attractive because I am tall and lean.

Obviously I'm not thinking long term about societies healthcare costs. But right now I'm feeling pretty smug.
And if the HN readership can't finish one in a hackathon or during a weekend project, we wouldn't know either.

:)
Can't access the article due to database error, but since we're discussing keyboard layout effectiveness for developers:

If we were indeed limited by input, why wouldn't this come up in discussions about languages like CoffeeScript (or even Python/APL) that save keystrokes to begin with? In the case of Coffee and Python, the keys saved are actually the hard-to-press symbols as well. And yet I've never heard the point come up.

Perhaps this is more about our need to feel superior by adopting a routine of cargo-cult efficiency than anything else. In the broader view of productivity, optimising keyboard layouts is more like optimising memcpy() in C. While it may bear some results, it's rarely the actual bottleneck.
I did actually, some time ago. It is a powerful work, but I do not see how the conclusion that drug war is caused by racism follows from it. Same for alcohol prohibition - while prohibitionists featured plenty of racist propaganda, they weren't just driven by racial hate - even if America were completely racially homogeneous, there still would be prohibitionists.
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I'm sorry but what did you just say? you can't write something on MS Word home edition and sell it for cash? seriously, i had no idea you could restrict something so basic as a word processor - FFS that's absurd!
> Even in garbage-collected languages, you still need to do things like close file objects; the runtime doesn't do so automatically when it detects that there are no stack references to the file.

I'd just like to say there are sane solutions out there already to things like this. With the proper abstractions you get things like custodians[0] in Racket and several alternatives in terms of "call-with-..."[1] functions that do handling for you.

These might not be the languages that are being discussed here, but they offer things like these precisely because they are not the languages discussed here right now.

[0] http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/eval-model.html?q=cust...

[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/file-ports.html?q=call...
CTO of Alpha Networks is named Kang Ting-Kan.

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/3380:TT/profile

Where did you get "Joel"?
Having dealt with a dozen or so VC's in multiple startups and seen how they're working, I have a terribly hard time picturing what not "having the right pedigree" might look like. While there are certainly the odd investor that may be swayed by superficial factors, there are many more that generally are not.

Assuming you're a reasonably normal person with no severe personality defects or problems with hygiene to put people off from the outset, it is likely that you are simply targeting the wrong VCs for your type of business, are not pitching it right, or your business is simply not as great from a VC perspective as you believe it might be (which does not necessarily mean it can't be a great business for you - but a VC will be looking for high returns fast, and that excludes a lot of businesses that still provide people with a nice living).

Find our where your local startup people can be found (user groups, meetups etc.), and approach some to get a frank outside view of your business and pitch from someone who have themselves gotten VC funding - you might be surprised where it is you're falling down, and it could very well be trivial if you're lucky.
I doubt all (or even most) founders are passionate visionaries. If the product in question was a life changing invention, then yes, I am sure the founders would be more than happy to have their whole existence and sense of identity revolve around it.

Here we are talking about a URL shortener that made revenue from ads: hardly an original or inspiring project. The guy's stated goal is "to help social media influencers and publishers better monetize their online content." Not exactly dream material here.

Let's be honest here, being bought for a substantial sum and maybe getting a job was exactly what the founder was looking for.
And that hate their bosses' guts for ruining the thing they just spent a chunk of their lives to do and were proud of, and now it's all turned to nothing. But since they need money and they're offered too good a deal to refuse, they swallow it and get in line. I'm not sure it' the best way to acquire talent. Of course, that implies people cared about the thing they did, but isn't that the kind of people you want to get?
Sorry, your first world starvationhas nothing to do with the thurd world poverty you have probably never seen in your life. Stop spreading myths or half truths and get out and see for yourself what i amtalking about.
To anyone who doesn't know what this is - don't read it. It wil make 99% of the movies from now on very much predictable to you. Although most might already be subconciously aware of this trick, having it spelled out for you will make you actively recognize it every time, as opposed to only some of the times.
Depends on what you call an acquihire.
No, on legitimate ones. You put the chip in the reader, it tells you the total amount, you hit OK, then it asks for your PIN, then the transaction goes through, then you take the card out of the reader. I don't think there's any way to pay before the reader knows the final amount.
And then, if you want to publish it, you should read some of the articles from this website:
http://www.fonerbooks.com/pod.htm
because yeah , i'm going to just ditch the 60+ games i own for windows, install linux just for that one game ? oh .. c'moon
I know dual booting is possible , but why bother ?
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In this case, it sounds like the product may have been circling the drain anyway. If so, the founder just saved everyone from unemployment and got them a fat hiring bonus to boot.
> We need to address the fact that we've lost faith in our governments, and that we don't depend on our .gov to provide for our needs, and that we don't believe in the contract anymore. This is a short-sighted sort of fix, and one that is only going to lay the groundwork for a much, much messier attempt at resolution. We need to fix the .gov.

I would really like to see more people taking an interest in figuring out the details of how to construct a government. Most people tend to go with the overly simplistic solutions of (1) "magically minimize" or (2) "reset back to [insert date here: 1776; 1860; 1950]", neither of which are intellectually honest answers. (They're akin to asking, "What kind of map projection do you prefer?" "A globe.")

I've done some work in the area (an HN search will turn up me talking about it), but I'm crippled by my own neuroses.

It'd be nice to see better toolsets for collaboration, for instance, or figuring out a way to wholly replace voting altogether (rather than swapping out the specific ways of casting ballots). Atwood's Discourse is nice, but it's still just a forum for talking rather than a system for making decisions.
As I am working on my startup today, I found the interview very relevant and insightful. I wonder how much of that information has changed for 2013 if at all?
You shouldn't feel callous - you have a good point and honestly deserve to feel good about yourself. Obesity, or rather weight in general, for some reason has become a touchy subject. It seems now mentioning someone's weight is taboo.

The truth is, people need a wake up call. Being overweight gets way too much not only protection, but positive reinforcement. It's a tricky one to solve - you don't want overweight people to hate themselves or suffer, but at the same time you need the nation as a whole to recognize this as a dangerous issue and address it.
Symbols are in the same class as uppercase letters in the Neo layout. They are easily accessible by pressing the caps lock key.

Hover your mouse over "Ebene 3" here: http://neo-layout.org/
For the most part I would say I'm an introvert, but it is highly dependant on what sort of lot I'm together with.
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If the Canadian part bothers you (it bothers me too) note that we have been giving them millions for years since they also developed the online part of medicare.

But you should note, the STATE run systems, are not built by the same canadian company.

Only the states that decided they weren't going to run their own exchanges and refuse federal funds to help people who need healthcare caused the federal system to be created.

Apparently New York and California developed pretty good enrollment systems of their own.

The federal system was only supposed to be a fallback, but it because a primary because of mostly right-wing run states.
That's like saying F's don't impact your GPA. The reality is that returning capital does materially impact returns. The median VC is in an asset class whose returns are pretty poor.
It seems like an algorithm to design a custom layout should be possible. You keylog what you type for a few days, then the algorithm could give you a few layout suggestions based on your keypress stats.
As this is becoming a car rental review, I'll point that if you travel to Spain NEVER rent from Goldcar. They are a scam, prices go as low as 15€/day but when you get to pickup the car they fight with you to take the insurance (the original insurance is only covers third party damage). Also they insist that you return the car with the gas tank empty the. They charge you 120€ to fill a small car. The cars are far from new, you have to wait long cues...
Now I usually rent with sixt, they offer better price than Avis and Hertz and the cars and service are top notch. At least by the moment.