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There's some really good stuff on this list... A few titles I was aware of, but just had not gotten around to, but there is quite a bit of material on this list that I was totally unfamiliar with as well. I'm definitely looking forward to digging into some of it.
When I studied abroad in Freiburg, Germany 3 years ago I lived in something that was fairly similar to a boardinghouse. It was all college students but we were attending a variety of universities in the town. We each had a private bedroom/bathroom (with heated floors no less!) but there were 3 shared kitchens - one on each floor.

Info about where I lived:
http://www.goethe.de/ins/de/ort/fre/unt/enindex.htm

I wasn't doing startups at that point but I was was obsessed with technology and the internet. Upon arrival I was a bit disappointed to learn that wifi was only available in the common dining hall areas.

This actually ended up being the most beneficial "feature" of our living situation because instead of closing our doors and surfing the web in our private rooms we were constantly out in the common rooms where all sorts of serendipitous moments occurred. Some of my best memories from my study abroad started because I had been sitting in the common room/dining hall on my computer before getting hooked into going on some adventure downtown.

I would LOVE to live in a situation like that again. I feel it would be amazing to set up something in the style of a boardinghouse in Austin, TX (where I'm moving in March).
I ended up doing something very similar after reading Steve Losh's article. I kept Control where it was, using Caps Lock as Escape/Hyper . The best part by far is using Caps Lock + hjkl for navigation. At work, I leave my arrow keys & numpad covered up with a mouse platform so I can keep the mouse closer.

A side effect of this was feeling completely lost when using Windows in Boot Camp. I found that there's a great piece of software on Windows called "AutoHotKey" that lets me do the same hjkl navigation.
The US hasn't been a traditional empire either though. I think it's arguable that American economic dominance came on the back of the military. After all, we never had governance of any of our imperial "territories". It's hard to tease apart the military and the industrial of the military-industrial complex, but I haven't seen compelling evidence that amazing run the US has had over the last century was primarily dependent on military power.
It may be useful to remap right shift to shift/delete in similar manner. Also look how awkwardly placed ctrl is. You can remap enter to act as ctrl if it is pressed with something (and plain old enter otherwise).
I did this in my keyboard layout: https://kozikow.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/the-only-alternativ... .
Oh, man, this reminds me of the pain of writing even the most trivial microbenchmarks in seven or eight languages. How about throwing in some of the fast scripting languages for healthy competition? E.g. JavaScript, LuaJIT and Julia. Feel free to borrow (MIT licensed, but I'm willing to relicense whatever I can):

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/test/perf/mic...
I often teach programming in a community capacity, and I hate hate HATE the "User Culture" that this article points out.

That said, it's absolutely correct, and it gets things done. It makes the users happy, and after a certain point they can pay for better tools or get minions to do the repetitive tasks (scale by hiring more minions, be flexible by hiring smarter minions, etc.)

When teaching you really do need to be careful to take it slow--it's really really easy to jump off into jargon and lose your audience, and people will generally play along to avoid looking stupid. And then they'll never come back.

Communication is the art of projecting your ideas onto someone else's experience, and many first-time programmers don't have anything other than everyday metaphors to rely on. We've gotta be careful with the noobies. :)
While not a complete waste of time - having some foundation in that stuff is useful in the way learning to do long division is useful - it's definitely not what they should be teaching. Can't really blame them given that many universities also go that same route with CS classes, but hopefully people can put pressure on them to fix it up.
As a quick tip for new entrepreneurs is simply to hire someone to do it on elance. For as low as 150-500$ you can get a very good summary of the market, the competitors, the market-size. You can ask to have it in a excel spreadsheet sorted by features, money raised, etc.
Being mildly familiar with the US political system, but none of the specifics here, my best guess is that it was a combination of political donations and hiring some sort of lobbying company.

As a mild form of corruption, it's fairly common for lobbying firms to hire ex officeholders, as well as close friends and relatives of officials. Then the lobbyists have a core of trusted people that can at the very least get the official to listen to their client's argument.

There (usually) isn't any direct payoffs involved, but if someone plays by the rules they can generally be assured that there will be a cushy job waiting if they want it once their career in public office is over.

So in this case, my best guess is that a firm was hired to have one of the governor's colleagues raise the issue of the pardon every so often until he finally said yes. It also probably didn't hurt that he was the sort of person who can afford to hire their services, and there's always some upcoming election that needs to be financed through campaign donations.

But again, this is mostly just speculation, and I know absolutely nothing about his particular case.
Baidu has denied such allegation, claiming that:

1. It's a cloud based IME. Some data is uploaded to improve user experience.

2. Data upload is encrypted therefore no privacy concerns.

3. Servers are located in Japan and complies with local regulations.

http://tech.qq.com/a/20131226/014894.htm
(Don't shoot the messenger.)
Caps is a fantastic key to use for things like backspace, but if you want even more functionality, try using it with Colemak as a modifier that puts all the other common keys right on your home row: http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=1467
I'm one of the two authors of the selfish mining paper. Let me chime in on the selfish mining aspect of this generally insightful comment:

>The interesting question remains: what happens when some pools start to implement this strategy?

>I do not know for sure, but I suspect that the result will be a wash, so to speak, and most likely will end poorly for the cheaters (when they are caught). Their entire paper is based on the absurd claim that a single selfish pool will grow, like some sort of cancer, until it reaches 51% proportions (and then it's game over). While this is a possibility, at the moment it seems like an exceedingly remote one. In fact, the more cheating pools there are that use this strategy, the less likely their vision of a BTC doomsday becomes. Which group of bandits should one join, and is it worth the risk?

The revenue dynamics of selfish mining (SM) are such that two SM pools working independently are better off joining forces. The excess revenue for SM is super-linear in pool size. So, with X% of the mining power working selfishly, you make (X(1+eps))%, with Y% mining selfishly, I make (Y(1+iota))%, but if we combine forces, we make (X+Y)*(1+delta)%, where delta>eps+iota. So we not only get our normal winnings, but we win an additional reward for joining forces. And since there is nothing at the protocol level to break up large mining pools, there is an incentive for SM pools to get large and grow until the 50% point.

We deliberately deferred a game-theoretic analysis of selfish mining to a future paper, because such analyses tend to be highly dependent on modeling assumptions. E.g. would an attacker view reaching the >50% point as a complete failure event when all coin value drops down to 0, or as a complete success event? The answers on how to model this apocalypse depend on too many assumptions about the attacker, his motivation, and what others can detect about his power. A thorough job of modeling the game-theoretic dynamics of Bitcoin (with selfish mining) would indeed make an exciting follow-on paper.
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Definitely a good idea. I'm thinking about writing a post at some point about how valuable outsourcing certain facets of the process can be, provided you have some cash.
Some background: Over the past year, Valleywag has been taking shots at Pando and its editor, Sarah Lacy. Pando decided to return the favor.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/search?q=pandodaily
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An increase in inequality isn't a first principle. I'll take a increased inequality that comes with an increase in absolute wealth over no change 10 out of 10 times. Quite frankly inequality isn't something I find particularly meaningful. Don't covet thy neighbor.
>Since 1945, I've seen estimates that say the U.S. and Western Europe have donated in the neighborhood of $1 – $2 trillion (with a "t") dollars to various developing countries. It hasn't done much. Why not?

Because these money are not about helping those countries grow. It's about keeping them down, financing local lackeys, directing their progress in ways that benefit those giving the money, pushing political and cultural agendas, etc.
Have you read about all the oil and coal companies that the Foundation invested in? Or the private prisons and military contractors? I mean, maybe they aren't a part of Bill's current pet project, but climate change and human rights are both very important issues, as important as diseases.

I'm shocked that the response seems to be "Where's the problem in investing in companies that make the world a worse place if he uses that money for other good purposes?". The good you can make doesn't magically erase the bad you made.
This argument blames an entire city of people for what a few do just like TFA criticizes Valleywag for doing.
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There is no career path for anyone who only does one thing.
Please put the update at the top of the article, felt a little mislead after reading the full drama then only being told at the end that it was no longer current.
I ride my bike up to the Observatory a few times a week.

There is a stretch from Aug to Sept or so where I need to be done by 11am (or start late afternoon). Every year is a bit different though... sometimes there is not much of a winter, sometimes the summer is mild, sometimes almost hellish... luck of the draw I guess.

In any case I can usually count on about 3/4 of the year being sunny, 80F, and low humidity. I've traveled but have not seen better.
One of the points raised in the article is to understand why you can't immediately find a good competitor. 20-30 hours of search helps you cover your bases by finding the languishing or dead competitors; IMO learning what they have done to die out helps you avoid those pitfalls in the future. This could be part of your point about "knowing everything". Being prepared is paramount.
If others in the tech industry are keen to contribute to having as big an impact on the world as Bill has, I encourage you to check out the Effective Altruism movement in your area. Effective Altruism overlaps with lean approaches and evidence based action, and many of the proponents are big names in the Valley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism
This is actually somewhat understandable (even if still unforgivable) if you think about how typical non-technical businesses get their mobile websites done.

The desktop site was created first, and the mobile site was added much later. Often, the two sites aren't even on the same server(s) because the mobile site was contracted out to a different agency that uses an incompatible technology. My most recent freelance gig was to unify two websites run by the same organization. One was written in PHP 4.4 and the other was written in ASP.NET.

The only thing they share is the database, and even that might be handled by an export+import batch job (.vbs anyone?) rather than actually sharing the same database, because none of the ORMs are compatible with one another.

So what happens is that whoever maintains the desktop website has no idea how the mobile website works, and vice versa. If you pay them another grand or two, they might be able to figure out which URLs in one website correspond to which URLs in the other website, but the client probably cut that from the spec. Hence http://xkcd.com/869/
I have Caps Lock mapped to Backspace. Makes total sense after seeing how out of the way Backspace is.
I've used Autohotkey (Windows) to remap my capslock to select the word my cursor is currently in. Essentially pressing ctrl+left, then ctrl+shift+right. I too have become so use to this that using other people's keyboards is frustrating. I've taken this a couple steps further, shift+capslock selects the current line and ctrl+capslock activates Sublime's multicursor feature.
You should! I've learned to use elance (and when not to use it too!), very very useful. Especially when starting out without employees. You can't do everything yourself, and it's stupid to try to do it.. but that's exactly what most people do when they start (and what I did). Market research is a very good example of a boring task that's very hard to do for entrepreneurs because it can totally destroy their problem/idea..
The oil boom is real and welcome, and wasn't at all obvious when the article was written in 2010. Unfortunately it only postpones the day of reckoning. We're still dependent on foreign oil, just less so than predicted. Our economy is almost entirely dependent on the amount of oil we can consume.
I've probably devoted more time on HN to discuss the reality of politics and government than to cover technology issues. At times I feel pretty bad about this. I've also been subject to a partial new post hell-ban which may still be in place (surprisingly enough, most of my new submissions are tech related). And, yes, I've felt bad about this from time to time, to the point of limiting myself to reading HN and not posting for weeks at a time.

As I have watched all of this NSA, IRS, ACA/Obamacare and big-broken-government nonsense has developed over the last, say, ten years or so, I can't help but think that the tech community needs to be shaken-up like this in order to finally abandon ship and start really using their brains politically rather than acting as mindless sheep following who knows what.

I'll issue a blanket statement and say that everyone reading HN is smart. About technology. Not necessarily about politics and the ways in which the world turns. And yes, I'll say it, there's a wide swath of HN'ers who have been indoctrinated by the left-leaning academia, media and the echo chamber of the circles they frequent and identify themselves with that they've stopped applying critical reasoning skills to their political life.

As I said here [0], you have to be smart about your politics if you want to succeed in business in general. If you are not, you run the risk of incompetent moronic government-originated factors affecting your playing field in small and major ways. And, by the way, it really doesn't matter if you are an employee or an entrepreneur, a union or non-unionized worker. When things like this start happening they affect EVERYONE and there's a chain reaction that will make things suck in a big way for all involved, at any layer and at every station in life.

What you want, in order to succeed, is as little meddling and interference as possible. No, I am not suggesting anarchy. That's bad. No, I am not suggesting no government. That's worst. What I am saying is that you want a small non-intrusive government at all levels, from local to federal. You want a government that truly has our long term best interests at heart and not one that is a partisan prostitute acting almost exclusively to keep their sick species and party alive at the expense of the opposition and, what's worst, you, me, our families and our very country. We might just be entering into a phase where we might just realize that terrorism can't even begin to match the level of destruction bad governments and their policies are capable of producing.

Yes, yes. Crazy talk. I really don't like talking this way. It's just that sometimes I feel like people need a collective slap on the face with a well timed "Snap out of it!" before they'll wake up and see what is really going on. Snap out of it! Get involved!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6961005
I just disable its functionality and use it as an extra key for things such as push to talk. Getting in the hang of using as a replacement for delete/escape etc causes muscle memory problems when typing on someone else's keyboard, if you're only ever using your own then it's beneficial, kinda like switching from qwerty
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I've seen a JavaScript version of that talk. My respect for Jim is one of the reasons I switched to Emacs.
I remapped my Caps Lock key to switch into a "Greek" mode for typing, since I frequently need to type Greek letters interspersed with English. (Anybody in STEM classes should know how awkward it is to do this normally.) If you have a Mac, you can do this with Ukelele, a free key remapping tool. You can even set up and add "dead key" modes (e.g. the way opt+E allows you to add a diacritic to the next letter typed). There are some really advanced configurations possible. Ukelele even still works on Mavericks.

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...
"I’ve become quite used to it — to the point where using other people’s keyboards is inconvenient. " I stopped reading right there.
If that extra pay for recruiting girls more heavily works, that's ok.

If, absent that reward, there weren't many or any girls in the class, isn't that some kind of problem right off the bat?
An interesting idea to conform to and one I am researching for a service I've been building. There is data in transit and data at rest. For many people I know, North America (I assume Canada and the US are one and the same, at this point) is the primary market/closest entry point. Do regulations require tracking data in transit thT may eventually be stored somewhere other than the US?
As I was reading this article, I found myself wanting to click the links he was posting (to get context), but didn't want to give Valleywag my pageviews.

So I wrote a chrome extension that solves this problem. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6969487
I live in SEA and dated a woman for four years who was pretty intimately plugged in to a related community that could probably offer some help. I still have a number of contacts I could point your friend to. aaron@brethorsting.com
Yep, consider a site for a restaurant. Information I want front and center on mobile? Hours, address, telephone number. No I'm not looking for your latest blog post, or to learn what you're all about, or even your menu unless I'm sure you're open and close by; I'm in my car, hungry, and probably got to your site off yelp anyways.
There's no reason to believe these factors will affect the US to a greater degree than any other nation.
I learned to type in a keyboarding class in high school in the nineties. I was taught to use the caps lock automatically for instances where there are 3 or more capital letters. I cannot give that up as infrequently as it happens. That is much more inconvenient to me than making that key do something else.
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My Caps Lock is remapped to '='

I originaly got this idea to remap when I started playing WoW in 2006. I needed a lot of keybinds and it turned I couldn't bind 'raw' caps lock, so I had to remap to other key and = seemed like a good choice.
Well, "in some sense" gives a lot of wiggle room! I agree the magnifying glass analogy is bad, but here's one "sense" in which the rationals "have more holes" than the irrationals.

There exists a function of the reals which is continuous at every irrational point but discontinuous at every rational point. However, there is no function of the reals which is discontinuous on the irrationals but continuous on the rationals. In this sense, the irrationals are "more continuous" than the rationals.

That's about the best I can do, though, which I admit is a stretch.
I don't identify as conservative, but I really like the extremely high social cohesion found in Austria. It feels wonderful. Everything works as it should, everyone acts as they should, everything seems quite wonderful in fact.

Plus you can drink beer in public in Austria. That's pretty "progressive" right? And doesn't Austria have legal prostitution (or am I thinking of Germany?)?
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It's K-12. They don't name anything quite right.

Having some programming background is a good thing. In fact, I think it would be better if the courses were more broad than deep, and looked at things like programming graphics, programming robots, programming microcontrollers in appliances, the internet protocols, wireless networking, encryption, sequential circuits, logic gates, etc.
Or you could just use twitter. That seems easier.
The trick here is defining "occur" and "real world" precisely. Are you saying the act of me writing down those symbols and expressing the idea does not count as "occurring in the real world?" ;)
Or you know, it's not about individual people, but about what they do and cause AS a profession (or region or whatever).

That is, this or that individual X (say, tourist in remote beach) might be an OK guy, but the activity of all of them combined might be causing a certain phenomenon (say, pollute and disturb the beach, alter the local economy towards dependency on tourism, etc).
This sounds interesting, but I honestly don't understand what it is.

Is it just 365 questions in a blank paper "memories" book?

Anyone know?
As a Spanish speaker who's used to using English keys for programming, I found it useful to use the Caps Lock key to change keyboard layouts.
Are you suggesting that science would advance at a comparable pace with only private funding?

Maybe he's not saying that. But I worked in a government-funded research lab for two years, and I have no choice but to say it: science would advance faster if it were privately funded.
I know you were just going with what was already on your system most likely, but wouldn't it be a good idea to compare against a more up to date version of Python (version 3.3.x) and Lua (5.2.x)?

Lua 5.1 initial release was in 2006[1]

Python 2.7 initial release was in 2010[2]

Ruby 2.0 initial release was in 2013[3]

[1] http://www.lua.org/versions.html#5.1

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_relea...

[3] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/24/ruby-2-0-0-p0-i...
I've got it mapped to Control like a standard hacker,

but this reminds me that some years ago I had it mapped so that if I hit SHIFT-CAPSLOCK (which is a rather unusual thing to do, think about it), it would type... a tilde. I have no idea why I thought I wanted that.
300 is supposedly the point at which you can downvote... I'm at 299 and I have no idea
Us Emacs users unfortunately have to remap it to control to retain sanity on standard keyboards :P
Wow, no kidding.
nor NIU
Given the number of papers I've read from industry, I doubt we'd have anything resembling science without public funding. Some private engineering perhaps, but not science.
Allot yourself 175 words a day. Then measure the results.
I stayed at a hostel in Istanbul that seemed to be staffed by long term residents. There was the guy who owned it, and then most of the "staff" were just various internationals (Polish girl, Egyptian guy, a Syrian, etc) who were staying there for a few months. Very cool place. Not sure how common this setup is.
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