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I agree, it's a long term play, and their chance of winning over hardcore console users is zero at this time. However, they will be directly competing with consoles for space under the television.

As for solving your problem with hardware confusion, they could have manufacturers ship Steam Machines with some kind of rating system. Remember how Windows had those performance ratings for memory, processor, etc? They could do something very similar. You look at a Steam Machine, it says processor 5.7, memory 4.5, graphics, 5.1. Then you look in the Steam game library and see a certain game recommends graphics 4.5 or greater. Or this indie title plays great on anything 3.4 or higher. You use those numbers to guide your purchase.

Changing hardware will come to their advantage though. Xbox and Playstation will ramp up over the next few years, and we'll see some improvements and major titles heading their way. However, what's happening 5-6 years from now? Xbox and Playstation are dated, Steam OS has the bugs worked out, and Steam Machines are available with the latest advances in hardware. Where are you going to buy Call of Duty now, for your 6 year old console, or pickup a Steam Machine that can run it twice as fast, at Ultra HD resolution? That's going to be a big plus for Steam, and if people are buying in 5 or 6 years from now, they're less likely to jump on the next console launch, since they already have powerful hardware in their living room.

Another huge plus for Steam in the living room is Oculus Rift. If it's released below $300, and exclusive to the PC and Steam Machines, they have a unique experience the consoles can't offer.

Nothing is short term, I think Steam Machines will make a crawl the first few years, but I think they're going to be pushing to replace consoles, and I think they might succeed. Cheap games, big sales, Oculus Rift, low cost or high performance hardware to choose from, and eventually an open store available for anyone to publish towards.

Edit: Oh, one other huge advantage. They're backed by every hardware manufacturer they get involved. Dell is going to be dropping flyers in every mailbox around the world, with a couple of pages showing off their Steam Machine line-up. Dell wants money, and if Steam Machines succeed, they get rich as well. PC sales are down, they'd love another piece of hardware to sell. Get every other hardware company doing the same, and that's a lot of free marketing.
I have much more than $100. Hence why I'm even bothering.
I think that "nationalism" is generally thought to have really gained traction in the 18th century; Napoleon's France is often described as a nationalist state, and Herder (the dude credited with naming nationalism) was alive around that time. Germany started thinking about becoming Germany not that long afterwards, and did so, incidentally in France, in the 19th century.

Some people suggest that one of the reasons Napoleon was able to do so well militarily in the earlier years was this "Levée en masse" - most other countries at the time being a little hesitant to arm and train the peasantry, for fear they might demand rights. Civilization says that it's the Republic, not Nationalism that is the prerequisite for conscription, but eh.

On racism, yeah, what you are calling Tribalistic derogation - when it is based on inherited characteristics and actually ends in discrimination, functionally sounds a lot like racism, even if it happened before the term was coined.

How did that work in, say, the 16th century? I mean I'm sure that an Italian in France would face some discrimination, but would that be true of his kids? or would his kids or grand-kids be considered French even though they looked a little different?
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So, your logic is that because he's motivated by the enjoyment of making people miserable (without their consent), he's not a sociopath?

Garfield's point was that this is the thoughtless sadism of a cruel child, not that the guy is somehow worse because he's unwilling to inflict the same pain on his family that he inflicts on strangers.
Kinesis is also super hacker friendly. If you email them and ask they'll sell keyboards without the keyswitches so you can put in cherry blue or cherry clear switches. They've also been very willing to provide technical information - they sent me mechanical diagrams of the main PCB so I could build a replacement controller running custom firmware, as well as part numbers for the ZIF connectors.
My finger tips sometimes are numb. Personally, I'd like a virtual keyboard where I don't need to touch anything. Any advanced Leap Motions or laser keyboards being developed?
This. And not to mention, 4 year universities seriously under-sample students from poor, urban backgrounds.
That said, information equality does suggest a marginally higher baseline of power-sharing than gross information inequality is able to achieve.
A free, open song contest idea
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I think the only reason why programmers are paid so well is because the general public thinks that "computers are hard". When I tell people that I am a software engineer, their eye widen and automatically categorize me as a "smart guy".

But recently, I've been seeing programming being marketed as something that is easy and fun (which is true to some extent). For example, that Hour of Code video that was posted on Google the other day really tried to promote programming to the general public.

I even saw a recent thread on Reddit about job hunting, and I would say about 70% of the comments were about how you could get a job as a programmer within just 6 months of learning... and I agree with what they are saying. I personally know about 2 people who were able to get a job as a junior developer in less than a year of programming (one 8 months, the other 11 months).

Anyway, my point is that the public is starting to see computer programming as something that is accessible to everyone. Which is great! I truly believe that programming is an incredible skill that will improve the life of anyone who learns it. But the thing that I am worried about is how this will effect our industry. If almost everyone knows how to code, I feel that available jobs will be more scarce and competitive. Our salaries will follow. I don't want to say that I don't want people to learn to code just for this reason, but at the same time, I am worried about my vocation being marginalized. Also, a tinfoil hat part of me is saying that this is a plan by the higher ups to drive the cost of software down so that they can make more profit... but never mind that.

But then, another side of me is saying that our jobs will never be marginalized because I find myself studying and practicing hours a day, and it's still not enough to keep up with some of the smartest guys in my company. But will the management know how to recognize talent?
I don't know that Nix [0] is up to building crypto-safe deterministic builds, but it certainly works to be more deterministic than most other build methodologies. Nix works very hard to ensure that during build the only resources visible to the builder are those specified in the build script. Then that build information is hashed and carried along with the result of the Nix build as its fingerprint. The fingerprint is passed on to anything which depends on the build results.

The end result is that the final fingerprint of a build artifact is extremely sensitive to absolutely every choice made during the build and it's very hard for the artifact to depend on anything that hasn't been deliberately chosen in the build scripts. Together these facts help to ensure a kind of global, repeatable build determinism pretty much unheard of outside of Nix.

[0] The project Guix is forking
I think this is just la la land jibber jabber. You all can pretend privacy is irrelevant and you don't care if everyone knows everything about you because it is "meaningless" or whatever
...

But unlike some on HN, I will continue to live in the real world.
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A UPS van sitting somewhere waiting is expensive because of the human inside. A driverless one costs nothing (except some refrigeration if applicable). Additionally residential have lower fuel costs for electric vehicles. It doesn't matter if the driverless vehicle takes 4 hours to deliver to an area when a UPS guy could have done it in an hour.

Note that UPS costs come from having the human. They need larger vehicles to absorb that cost, and then have to get the most bang for the buck in the time used. Driverless deliver can use different sized vehicles and time is far less important.
>Math has to be at the root of it.

Numerology is just as likely of a root.
I too was hesitant to jump on the Kinesis Advantage, but my hands were hurting so bad that I sprung for it on Amazon for about $260.

It has definitely taken some getting used to, but I am typing pain-free for about a month and a half. I am a software developer by trade, so I use a big chunk of the keys and do so without issues.

Only thing I don't like is that the bracket/brace keys are really out of the way. If I cared enough I'd move and re-map them (the keyboard is very customizable), but I don't.
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I know, no one in the world has secrets, what's the big deal?
I'm not sure the relevance of the link.. I never said cigars were healthier.. certainly there are risks involved. But there's a huge gulf between a pack a day habit and a couple day a month indulgence.
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If your fingertips get numb while typing, STOP TYPING AND GO SEE A DOCTOR. Ideally a doctor who specializes in Sports Medicine. I'm not kidding. This is _not_ something to screw around with.

And there are all sorts of reasons why zero-feedback keyboards are a bad idea, but that's a whole separate discussion. If you REALLY want a laser keyboard, ...aw http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/laser-keyboard-kit-p-1638.h... is out of stock. There are plenty like it, though.
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This is a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5937047 but a ton of work has gone into this library since then including support for Google Charts, D3 Treemaps, localization, cross-browser compatibility, error handling, mobile compatibility etc.

As a result, I release version 1.0 today :)

https://github.com/nicolaskruchten/pivottable/tree/v1.0.0
See also storybundle.com, which is very similar.
true, as a smoker trying to ween myself to something a bit safer that lack of hit is what annoyed me with other e-cig solutions I tried. The nova tank though is a very tolerable substitute to actual smoking.

If I was a non-smoker though I would not start a nicotine habit at all. I wish I had never started smoking, it's a very difficult habit to reverse.
You're being ridiculous. So if someone has someone else they fear will hurt then, there is no reason whatever that that dangerous person shouldn't know their whereabouts because in principle it is possible for the potential victim to know their whereabouts?

Assuming most people on HN are good programmers, there is clearly no linkage between a person's ability to write RoR code and how to reason about normal things in the world. I'm just being honest.
A UPS driver is time constrained hence a vehicle sized because of their costs and routing to make best use of their time. Neither constraint exists for driverless vehicles.

I suspect the solutions that do get deployed will be something like a larger vehicle in the delivery area acting as a distribution point, and smaller ones making the deliveries from there.
No it's always been a bad investment because it's either a currency (not an investment) or a commodity (but one absolutely nobody consumes and does nothing).
Personally, I've never viewed the Canada Post superboxes as "eyesores" or "ominous". They blend into the typical Canadian streetscape and are no more remarkable than street lamps, signs, artificial concrete sidewalks or paved roads.

As far as security is concerned, as someone who lives in a household where no one is around the take the mail in during the day, I'd much rather have something confidential delivered to my locked superbox down the street than have it delivered to an unlocked mailbox near my front door that anyone can access freely.
Guix replaces the programming language in Nix with one written in Guile, a Scheme implementation that is the official extension language of the GNU project. Guix also contains package definitions for a fully free distribution of the GNU system. If an official, fully free GNU OS sounds awesome to you then you will like Guix.
It's definitely worth it for me because I went to a liberal arts collage. Our class size is from 15 to 30. No graduate students. Professors are always available in their office hours.
If symbolic action is your cup of tea, might I suggest taking a look at my side project, Brian's Taskforce. The model is a hybrid between petition sites and charitable giving. The basic idea is to propose local improvement ideas and put down symbolic donations to charity alongside those ideas to emphasize how important the ideas are to you. The powers-that-be then can see more than just a number of "votes" but see a dollar amount that is going to good causes if they take action.

https://www.brianstaskforce.com/

I've not had a whole lot of luck drumming up interest. But then, I'm terrible at that. While the original intent was to use it for local improvements, I later added national and business-oriented subdomains.

I've been trying to get my local town of El Segundo California to make several changes that would amount to modest but noticeable quality of life improvements for me by putting $1,000 bounties on each. For example, paving better sidewalks along portions of my daily walking commute. But so far, my only successes have been in convincing local businesses to make some small changes.

I believe in the concept, but I think a volume is necessary and I don't have nor have I yet developed the skill to create the volume.
Some flights on foreign airlines allow cell phone(assume through microcells). Just not on US domestic flights.
> SF is a city and has the same needs as any other
> city, which means it needs people to meet all
> those needs. You can't have a city with just
> wealthy tech people because then no one's going
> to come over to fix the plumbing.

If this is the case, it would be factored into the market. If there are no plumbers available to work in San Francisco, then no one would want to live there as they can't get their plumbing fixed. If there are no baristas in San Francisco, then no one would want to live there because there would be no coffee shops.

Coffee shops aren't closing in the mission, quite the opposite, more are opening all the time, selling expensive coffee to tech people and providing barista jobs to baristas. Now for it to make sense for the barista to work at these coffee shops he or she needs to be able to live within commutable distance of the coffee shop. If there is no one within commutable distance willing to work for what the coffee shop is willing to pay, the coffee shop has to pay more and raise prices. If coffee prices go up so much that people hate living in SF because of it, then rental prices will go down because people will move away.
Oh please. I call shenanigans on everyone promoting this view, including the OP. I find it hard to believe you are all special humans that have no things you wouldn't want other or particular people to know. It's like pretending a monk or something, it's sort of pretentious.
I also think, like you, that OcculusRift will be the big game changer that may spell the doom for the consoles (because are far from being powerful enough for these kind of things).

As for the ratings system, sure, it's possible but it does not mean it's not confusing for consumers, and it adds another barrier to adoption - that's basically NOT mainstream. And you mentioned Windows performance ratings as a reference, but that's a failed example since nobody ever used these numbers anywhere.

If they go for categories/benchmarking, then they will need to have a kind of authority in place to attribute such numbers, and Valve's message so far is very against centralization. So I don't expect them to lead such efforts. If they ever did, I believe they would make it simple: SteamBox Level A to play these games only and do streaming, SteamBox Level B to play all GPU intensive games... etc...

EDIT; I don't think Dell will get rich, and neither most of the hardware manufacturers involved for that matter. SteamOS is no more no less than an Android OS-like for the PC, and that will push prices down for manufacturers which will fight hard to make small margins on large volumes. It will only be profitable for very few players.
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What patches can you use that are fairly low dose and not a 24 hour time release?
I was really hoping to hear from the OP, but I'll address this tangent.

These installers would be an issue whether or not one was running Steam. If you were installing from a disc (heh) rather than using Steam, all that installation stuff would have happened while you were running the installer on the disc (with Admin privs).

So yes, installers that potentially install stuff under %PROGRAMFILES% and %SYSTEMROOT% will require admin privs. Unless you change permissions on the associated directories and registry trees, there's no way around that.

AFAICT, Steam itself (and, indeed, many games sold through Steam) does not require admin privs. Maybe I'm wrong about this. That's why I asked the OP for clarification.
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Congrats on taking the dive! Business is pretty much "selling something". A lot of these methods of starting businesses like the Lean Movement and others is just another fancy word for market research.
Good. Everyone who owns, works for, frequents or defends these sites is a sociopath and a failure as a human being.
insanity...but I guess it is not without precedent. In decades past the elite used propaganda to convince young men to go to war and lay down their lives for nothing.

I guess it is easier to convince young people today to go into heavy debt for a degree that has little worth. At least it is easier than convincing them to die for nothing.
You've got to be kidding ... Sure, the world would be different if everyone was a computer that was written by you ... OK, fine, but what does that have to with anything?
Check out the numbers from the University of Virginia:

http://www.baconsrebellion.com/articles/2012/06/uva_bureaucr...

Instruction is less than 15% of the budget.
It's possible, but highly unlikely imho. I haven't found AirBNB prices in NY to be all that appealing (I live in NYC). They are at a discount, but not a great enough discount for me to go AirBNB over the comfort and convenience of a hotel and often find great hotel prices with apps like HotelTonight. And when I've looked elsewhere, AirBNB places are similarly underwhelming. I can see it being cheaper for a group to rent a nice apartment vs several hotel rooms, but I often travel alone and find comfort in the convenience of a hotel.
What have the trading volumes been like on Second Market since Facebook went public? My perception is that pre-IPO Facebook shares was the bulk of their business.
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I'm almost ready to say that "ergonomic keyboard" is an oxymoron.

Thinking outside the box: Some musical instruments have a small number of keys for a large number of notes. Playing for long time periods without injury is now part of the basic training that all musicians receive.

Maybe a model for an ergonomic keyboard would be something like a saxophone.
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You want to look up 'chording keyboards' - They're one of the few things from Engelbart's 'Mother Of All Demos' that's not now a standard part of computing.
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Can you open an issue on https://github.com/arthurnn/octostalker/issues ?
Yes it's a silly, flippant response by the OP. What if sivers.org posted her diaries for HackerNews to read?

I bet you could find people for which her diaries would not be "meaningless" and could make this person not feel happy about that information being known here. Here, we can make someone like Nelson Mandela seem horrible, just think how would we could make this women feel.

You don't have to get out dystopian examples of why this view is basically stupid. It doesn't stand up to common sense.
Perhaps reworking the new evil-mode for emacs might be easier than embedding "real" vim.
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"universe is also ancient, why are we still exploring it, by calling such a process as science" ?

The answer is simple. "Human Thirst for knowledge never ends" and nobody really knows for sure where they are headed.

"The present" which we feel really proud of, will be called ancient and worthless in the future. Because, the knowledge of humans increases with time (or understanding of nature increases with generations, some become dumb over time as well)

"The future" few people have envisioned it (saints in ancient form - who didn't expect anything from anybody but wanted to spread the knowledge, "visionaries" in the current business world - who want to rule the world with money, etc)

"stand the test time" just because they are not accessible doesn't mean they didnt' stand the test time. We keep discovering the same things whichever has been told in the past and the same things will happen in future as well. Its just that we love to call it with different names.

Someone has to connect the dots. Nobody has time in the current world. Everyone just moves on.
Not your typical programming, coding, or development bootcamp.
This is such a great comment. I would have liked to put it so succinctly as this!
All right, scepticism taken. Look at these images:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qzhiolzuxsw/UK0HEPH7x4I/AAAAAAAAH8...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a7UIHnAfmH0/UK0Ga-RmigI/AAAAAAAAH5...

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/chand-baori.html

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/chand-baori.html

This is just an example. What do you think has higher probability of being used to build this?

1. Math and calculations or 2. Numerology?
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Isn't the usual solution to stop doing whatever causes the pain? There isn't a known cure (ie pill, exercise, etc). If the impact of my fingers on the keyboard is causing the numbness then my best option Is to find a way to minimize the impact?
But at least it would have served its purpose of redistributing some wealth from Wall Street into the pockets of first adopters and programmers. ;-)
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