skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I tried, and I switched back for the same reason as you. The amount of time I spent trying to work out whether I was on QWERTY or Dvorak, and in that case where was the full stop, far outweighed any possible benefit in typing speed.

When people tell me that QWERTY is uncomfortable, slow, etc, I honestly have no idea what they're talking about. For me, the problem is sitting in a chair staring at a screen all day.
Test: Internal Citizenship
Do humans grow in 3 dimensions?
Research suggests the power should be slightly less than 2.
e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15761809

Some groups of athletes list overweight because muscle is very dense - BMI doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat.

However, this does not mean that BMI is useless even here - overweight athletes often suffer similar medical conditions as overweight people generally.
I've been pretty consistent about only using dvorak on split keyboards, and only typing QWERTY on non-split keyboards. This has done a pretty good job of keeping my muscle memory for both separate. My QWERTY typing is a bit rusty, but I can still manage up to 60wpm when using my laptop, and I don't have to pay too much attention to what my fingers are doing. Though when I use QWERTY on a split keyboard I have to watch my fingers.

(These environmental cues can be funny sometimes - if I use emacs for editing C++, which I do only very rarely, I keep missing out semicolons. Because most of the time, if I'm programming, and my eyes can see emacs, my fingers know I'm using python.)
Word itself allows you to compare multiple files nowadays. (Though I don't know if it does three-way merges, yet.)
> He says: "There is strong resistance across the political spectrum to accepting scientific evidence on genetics. Most of those that now dominate discussions on issues such as social mobility entirely ignore genetics and therefore their arguments are at best misleading and often worthless." He claims research shows that as much as 70% of a child's performance is genetically derived.

Does anyone know the research papers he is referring to ?
When you say "bullshit" do you mean it's immoral or that it has been disproved by science?
We use Breaking Bad references.

* Heisenberg is our Hypervisor server. Running everything.

* Combo is our MySQL database.

* Ehrmantraut is our Git server.

* Skyler is our build server.

Basically that. It's a bit of fun. There are 5 of us in the web team who all watched BB.
Yet brains of geniuses are physically different than those of ordinary men.
Questions To Distinguish Real From Fake Science
> "In England, few are well trained in the basics of extended writing or mathematical and scientific modelling and problem-solving," he writes.

When people talk about teaching problem-solving, they need to justify whether they actually know what they are talking about. I'm not going to say that problem-solving can't be taught, but most of the people who talk about it are just using a meaningless buzz-word.

Problem solving is mostly about domain knowledge. There's domain-specific strategies which can be taught. There's also a small number of more general strategies. And there may be ways to encourage students to find strategies, and try to transfer ones from other domains, but this isn't a field where you can assume that anyone who just happens to be using a few of the right buzz-words is going to be helpful.

But just saying "teach kids to solve problems" is arrogant and moronic. Kids already know how to solve problems - human beings are pretty much problem-solving machines. And most teachers already try to get kids to think for themselves - it's just not that simple (especially when there's a lot of pressure to get exam results, set lots of assessment, and to prove to some public servant that they are teaching problem solving).

As for genetics; he might be confounding "genetics, home environment, and other stuff which doesn't happen in class".
> There is no serious evidence that Dvorak is a 'better' layout.

Yes, there is, and it's even presented in the article. Finger distance traveled if horrible for QWERTY compared to other layouts.
I think this is not black or white, It's more like a grayscale.

I'm surely more introvert than extrovert, but not completely introvert. Even if I feel some Asperger symptoms in myself in certain social situations, I also enjoy to party and meet new people.

So I'm sure anyone is 100% introvert or 100% extrovert all the time (this would be really insane).
"The plural of anecdote is not evidence."

Without seeing some kind of properly conducted scientific test that examines a range of conditions (age, native language, current typing ability on QWERTY, typical typing material, etc) it doesn't seem worth the effort. If Dvorak (or Workman) is that much better, then it's surprising nobody has been able to conduct such a study.
I've been considering to try the use a foot switch as a shift key.
Why static vs dynamic typing battles are rarely interesting
The entire paper (which includes references) is also available there, here is a direct link:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/interactive/2013/oct/11/...
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TED talks are lying
I sincerely doubt there is anything here. I'm not even sure why this drivel makes it to HN. This is a political statement written by a career politician to drive a political agenda. If science is used it will be purely selectively in support of largely predetermined conclusions.
I never knew Chanel made guillotines.
The point is, how does it help a person improve themselves if the entire society is designed to reinforce the view that you can't help being dumb, because your Dad was, so therefore .. why try?

Genetics isn't good for anyone but bigots and haters. There is absolutely nothing useful in the Genetics movement for the common man - fact is, the entire movement to categorize humans genetically is a corporate one, with the intent of providing insight into the nature of the consumers the corporations paying for these studies wish to acquire as willing - or even unwilling - subjects in their empire.
What a hilarious test. I'm only surprised there weren't more questions. 10 questions, 16 types?? I came up ICUE, then ICIE, then ILIE (I don't lie, I omit the truth!). Most Meyers Briggs tests come up INTP, if not INTJ or INFJ for me.
There seems to be, here & on the "interverse", a battle on whether it will be more more hip to call this spaghetti code or to call it clean code. I don't see very much debate on whether or not it is GOOD code.

It isn't good code. It is cleanly written, especially for the time. But all the noise about how bad it is isn't "hipster" talk - this is 400+ lines of completely unmaintainable code; which is why it isn't part of the current code base.

As soon as they got some money & started trying to make it do more, they wised up and dumped it
Doesn't this mean if '/admin/factory_reset' normally requires authentication, requesting '/admin/factory_reset?_=graphic/' would bypass this without the need for custom headers...
To imply that strengths are determined by genetics is to ignore the fact that genetics are naught but a starting point.

Humans are just complex chemical reactions. Yes, genetics determine the beginning state, but the experiences determine the future.
:hintkeys
I wouldn't say it has no effect, it's just so minor that it would be silly to base our educational plans on it.
Is there a way to download it? This viewer is an absolutely ridiculous and contemptible attempt at keeping readers on your website. Using someone else's paper, no less.

EDIT: Yes, it's here https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/8043...

(The PDF also has clickable links, and lots of them, if anyone wants to chase down the sources.)
What happens when your private key is compromised? Someone is able to read all your messages and send messages impersonating you and you can't stop that, as the address is a hash of the public key which derives from the private key. You can't change keys like you could change your password in a traditional email. You'd need to start using a new address but you can't expect the whole world stop using your old address overnight (if at all).

This looks terrible. GPG solves this problem by not having keys and addresses bound mathematically and relying on web of trust to match keys to addresses. You can always revoke compromised keys and start using new ones. You can't do that if the address is mathematically derived from the private key.

Our email addresses are our identities these days. Any system that aims to replace email needs to provide some safe recovery in case the keys/passwords are compromised. It's just too risky to have unchangeable password/key for your identity.
TSA loudspeakers threaten travelers with arrest for joking about security
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You might also want to take a look at the ergodox: http://ergodox.org/
It's not so easy to buy as its just a DIY project. Massdrop organizes some group buys [1], next one should be due anytime this year.

[1] https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ergodox unfortunately, requires an account even to see the offers
Same, please update the title to include a 'satire' label or something. I wouldn't have clicked had I known.
Okay yeah it was rather bullshit to say that, but part of me just wanted to fulfill Godwin's Law nice and early and get that out of the way.

Anyways, it's hard to argue that genetics control anything in humans very heavily: evidence shows that almost anything genetic can be overridden by later events, and there's so much variance as it is.

And not to mention the fact that gene expression is affected by environmental factors!
Your point was well made and added to the conversation.
What we think about Scientology, and what Scientologists think about Scientology, are two different things - are they not?

Jung theorized that the collective human consciousness had many archetypes that could not be explained through environmental means, and Hubbard seems to have capitalized on that idea and attempted to push it forward, which is what I understand "History of Man" and Hubbards' common Time Track theory to be all about. While I am not a Scientologist - I do believe that collective unconscious and conscious 'reality about _something_' is what Scientology really attempts to dissect. But this is based on a naive investigation of the subject beyond the tabloid 'everyone knows the subject is bullshit' collective agreement ..

The point I wish to make is that there are two versions of Scientology - and indeed, other esoteric topics - what "everyone knows about" the subject, and "what only the true practitioners know about" the subject. These two points of view are often diametrically opposed. Maybe Voynich is the result of a cargo-cult that observed some other, greater subject? Same could be true of a lot of subjects dealing with metaphysical esoterica ..
Most people are not NBA tall, so luckily it's no such a problem for BMI over mass populations.
Chrome: well-known provider and is available without third-party installations. The latter will either fail or be acquired and shut down anyway.
I find this constant indoctrination concerning. Where does it end? If two people wanted to have a serious discussion about individual rights while waiting in a checkpoint line at the airport, would they also be subject to arrest?

Whatever happened to the idea that we would not let terrorists change our way of life?
For those unfamiliar with Reason, it's a libertarian publication.
You might then wonder why they are so concerned with typewriter ergonomics.

The reason is that it's a popular example of path dependence, where previous decisions affect the best possible current choice. This undermines their economic theories (the authors are economists). So don't expect them to be an unbiased source on this.

They also, for example, claim that Windows is the best OS, and that network effects have no impact on people choosing to use it
i believe the reason why thai supermarkets are so expensive is because the erm.. "real" thais buy their stuff from the street wet markets, rather than air-conditioned supermarkets. places like Tops are meant for expats, tourists, rich locals, etc.
I completely agree with the adviser, everyone who denies genetics plays a major role in academic performance/learning is living in denial. I've seen it many times, people that with no effort whatsoever manage to solve complex problems that require hours of hard work for most people. We need to accept our genetic limits and act accordingly.
First of all, I wouldn't be too upset about it if I were you. I assume that these start-ups have some oversight from the incubator/investors, and therefore before they pivot, much discussion is going on about why they are giving up the product they initially pitched and why the new product is a better one.

Pivoting happens, the danger is when it is happening as an excuse not to launch.

Using your example of the company that was going to 'distrupt an industry through hi-tech and innovative web and mobile apps' and then became an 'online magazine', these two things may not be as different as you're thinking. The first idea seems huge and maybe not possible in the near term. The second seems simple, and is maybe just a foot in the door to something larger.

In the end, the companies aren't receiving investment just because of the idea. It's also about the team and their ability to execute. The team didn't change, the ideas do. It happens.

As an example, I know of somebody who created a great business in online photos. They sold the company, and went to have another go and raised funding to make a camera that was easy to download photos from over wifi (this was in the late 90s). The camera became too much of a pain to make, so they went and created another very successful photo company. That's a huge pivot. From getting into hardware to mostly just making software, but it worked out better for their investors than had they stuck to the original plan, which wasn't going to work.
Whats special about this? It looks like any other linux distribution on an usb stick, maybe with a stronger focus on non-techie end users.
Well, for starters we only think it's so "precise" because that's the model we've constructed to understand the laws of physics. But once we fully understand what's happening at the quantum level, we might scrap the Standard Model altogether, and discard it as useless (for whatever we plan to make next with the new found knowledge).

Plus, it may be this "precise" in the same way Earth has "exactly" the things it needed to create life, and ultimately us, humans. That's to say it wasn't precise or exact at all. It was just a potential combination of stuff, out of trillions and trillions of other combinations, which may or may not have resulted with the same things.

So who's to say our universe isn't just one of the potentially trillions of trillions of other universes out there, and that other universes exist with life-forms that we can't even imagine (inter-dimensional/inter-universal beings, etc). We just turned out the way we did because that's what we "got" at the roll of dice (sort of speak).
what other products?
I typically use favorite cars from the Gran Turismo series; yellowbird, trueno, skyline etc. or characters from Quake 3.
Soyuz 11
Soyuz 11 crew was the only human deaths to occur in space.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/guillotines.asp
Whenever I buy one of their cosmetics for a girlfriend my wallet definitely feels beheaded after that. So they have nailed the experience.

But ... I really feel insulted by that kind of conspiracy theories. If the government turns evil, it does not mean it will be stupid. There are much more efficient ways to kill people en masse.
sure but switching to homerow hints would mean i lose the ability to use the text of the link to narrow it down?
The perenially-popular Myers-Briggs personality inventory is utterly bogus. If Myers-Briggs classified body types, it would be something like this:

"We're going to classify you in four different ways: height, skin-color, adiposity, and luminance. So, for example, I'm a TPWR (tall, plump, white, rainbow), but my colleague here is a SLBC (short, lithe, black, starlight). We're going to classify you with this questionnaire, but if you're unhappy with the results you get at the end please tell us and we'll change it."
> I don't need science to refute that the idea that achievement is 70% IQ

He never said that in the news article. He was referring to performance in school and specifically comparing it to teaching quality.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530924
Pretty sure the despot gets laid more.
From the situations I've been aware of, I believe this is certainly true in the world of programming books. However, typically someone will write a foreword and have quite a bit of latitude as to what they do, so it's more an honor than anything.

I asked why the lucky stiff to do a foreword for my Ruby book several years ago and he did a comic strip! :-) http://www.rubyinside.com/why-the-lucky-stiffs-delightful-fo...

With more academic books, I've noticed that the forewords are more substantial and will refer to the contents of the books and other research in a more precise way. As such, I suspect they're a lot more work, whereas you could bash out a good 3-4 page foreword for a programming book in a few hours if you had the relationships or experiences to lean on.
So the people of Finland have different genetics from the English?

The article also states that he is against extending pre-school education, which has to be shown to be highly effective again and again.

But those studies were done in the US, so genetics probably works different for them too.

It is important to realize that there is a heavy strain of racial superiority thinking in the English upper class. As far as I know, there is nothing similar anywhere in Europe today.
So how do you know it's genetics? (Short answer you cannot know ...) I also know people who outperform others and solve complex problems effortlessly, yet talking with these "gifted" people I mostly recognized that they had an inherent interest in the problem area and had done a substantial amount of self-study.

It makes me sad to read such a comment on hacker news. You seem quite convinced by your answer, do you have any proof to back it up? Is is just your perception? If so how do you know that it's genetics and no cultural traits or the way they were raised by their family etc.?
I am sure most agree that genetics is integral to educational success. But so what ?

Is the aim then to measure IQ in kindergarden and then decide at that point whether that person should be afforded the privilege of going to university ? And what happens if the tests are flawed (like almost all are) are we then going to accept an entire generation of disadvantaged children ? And surely everyone has worked with people who aren't book smart but are brilliant in their respective fields.

If recent history has taught us anything is that humans are the sum of many, many parts. And the minute you start narrowly categorising them you do them and humanity a massive disservice.
Just want to say; very apt dissection of this article of self categorization. Took the works straight out of my brain hole.
But how do you know that it was genetics and not some other factor that has led people like that to be like that? Or maybe a combination of things?
Oh. I've actually looked at the Lipson-Shiu Test now. Looks like the joke was on me!

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The irony, of course, is that programmers like myself adopt the US layout (instead of the local one, German in my case). To access \[];'/ without breaking fingers, having 'easy' access to @{}|:"

I do understand that there should be room for improvement. The situation is just so much worse if you look at other layouts as base line..
> We need to accept our genetic limits and act accordingly.

This statement reminds me a lot of the movie Gattaca.

One should never discount the importance of ambition, work ethic and passion.
Well, I believe in YAGNI. Throwing the biggest possible solution onto a small problem because it might get a large problem is speculative thinking. Which is bad.
What? The result would be exactly the same, right? You don't have your unpushed commit if your laptop is broken, neither with svn nor with git. The only difference is that you still can use your local git repository if your server burns down, but you can't do that with svn.
I couldn't agree more, you should not put people into boxes, especially not according to artificial measures like IQ tests.

What you should do is design the education system in a way such that more variance is possible, so that especially gifted students get the stimulation they need. In the paper the argument is put forward, that a "good school" improves the average performance of students, but also increases the variance between performances.
Does that have any limitations, though? Like an age limit?
Various reasons - first of all - in the developed world there are social safety networks that should take care of the less fortunate. So a beggar on the street means my government has failed.

Second - begging is lucrative industry in parts of the world.

Third poor != beggar. The people that they gave money to were poor but were also young, employed (in agriculture) and integrated into society.
I store my bookmarks under revision control, as a single HTML file. The file has some jQuery magic to allow tagging and filtering, and there's an online demo linked to from the repository:

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/

(I have my own bookmarks in a private repository. Which allows me to sync to N-machines.)
Just started using this and can say that it is awesome. I used to use Turkish Q keyboard previously, because it is the layout of my laptop; albeit I write in English primarily, and have already reached ~5 wpm, in fifteen minutes. I strongly suggest giving it a try.
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I didn't suggest $94M for 50 people. I suggested $10M for 50 people for one year.
ILUE

Keep a close eye on these guys. They will follow
instructions to the letter and use all their power and
ingenuity to go against the spirit of what was intended.

Omigod. That's so me. These guys really know their stuff!

(I'm such a sucker for Barnum statements.)
another ICUE
> So the people of Finland have different genetics from the English?

Yes, of course. I'm not saying that this explains the difference in educational outcomes but Finns, Basques, Sardinians and another group I always forget are descendants of the original (or at least earlier) Europeans. They are genetically different from waves of peoples who entered and conquered Europe later (Slavs, Germanic tribes, etc) which in turn differ from each other.
The whole point of the article is that "complying with transitional" is bullshit. It's just the second time that Microsoft got a standards org to rubber stamp whatever crap they were already outputting. And both times they failed to even document that properly.

ECMA does that for a living but they only got away with it at ISO because Microsoft promised it was only for legacy documents and they would fully comply with strict. It looks like they're at least claiming strict conformance for output in 2013 (as the blog notes basic tesing showed they couldn't even document their own output correctly in 2010).

And you're proudly claiming that they'll phase out the production of documents they described as only for "legacy" in 2008 a mere 12 years later.

They destroyed the credibility of the ISO to maintain their format monopoly.
Thank you.

Unfortunately the references can't be clicked and the full URL isn't given.