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That DNA article has half-baked information. Here are some saner links:

http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/bitcoin-exchanges-...

http://www.zdnet.com/in/bitcoin-exchanges-suspend-operations...

>>>The central bank had, on Tuesday, issued a notice, warning the public of the risks involved with virtual currencies while claiming that it could be used for money laundering and funding anti-terrorism activities. It stopped short, however, of issuing a ban or any other restrictions.

But still, I don't know what "framework" RBI wants to bring in, to "regulate" Bitcoins. From http://rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=3...

>>>The Reserve Bank has also stated that it is presently examining the issues associated with the usage, holding and trading of VCs under the extant legal and regulatory framework of the country, including Foreign Exchange and Payment Systems laws and regulations.
Few points here:

> Text being unreadable due to no spaces at all."

Text without spaces is readable. Text with spaces is more readable. Readability is a continuum. Literature is certainly readable without bold, italics, underlining, and indentation.

Colored text, for people with normal vision, remains clear. Clarity is not lost, another channel for transmitting information to the user is added.

We don't use color highlighting in books, but perhaps we should. I haven't tried it, so I cannot say it would not be better. I have heard it suggested that coloring lines of dialog would make literature easier to read. I think it is very plausible that Shakespeare in particular could be made more accessible with the use of color. With the rise of ebooks, this sort of experimentation is now feasible and I think that it is likely that we will see people experimenting with this sort of thing as the new capabilities that ebook devices provide give us an opportunity to revisit some traditions that were originally set in place by material constraint.

And lastly, code is not read as literature typically is. Most literature is written with linearity in mind. Most code is written under the assumption that the reader will jump up and down it repetitively, frequently jumping to random locations in the file. Coloring code therefore becomes useful in much the same way that coloring road atlases are useful. You don't need to trace a road back to the nearest label to find out that it is an interstate; you can tell right away because it is blue. That big area inside of that squiggly line? It's a state park, you can tell because it is slightly green, so you don't need to look around on either side for the dotted line surrounding it. That green area in the middle? That's a comment, you can tell without scanning your eyes to either side looking for comment characters...
I am surprised by this, as I have had the opposite experience.

I moved from a windows to mac a few years back, adopted alot of the keyboard shortcuts and recently a few months ago back to windows primarily. I found that on a mac the same shortcuts I use in the terminal (readline bindings), I can use most everywhere (ctrl-a for line start/ ctrl-w to kill last word etc...). For the most part Vimium takes care of the browser.

I have often found the windows shortcuts to be hidden an obscure. Alt+F4 is the defacto kill app on windows but trying to press it is inconvenient especially while Alt+tabbing through windows.

I agree command and control can be confusing but they give you more range in keyboard shortcuts as a result. The windows 8 search (although an improvement over 7) is also medicore compared to OSX spotlight making it much easier to CMD+Tab and navigate to different apps.

The least keyboard friendly part is certainly the windows cmd prompt where pasting is ALT+SPACE+E+P ... as opposed to CMD+V on OSX... not mention the lack of navigational shortcuts in the cmd prompt (kill back a word, kill rest of line etc...)

The most frustrating part for me is windows shortcuts not being consistent throughout apps. In most of the windows CTRL+BACKSPACE will kill the last word but not in notepad? or most winform applications... Ctrl-F is find in most apps but "forward email" in outlook?

I guess its really a matter of personal preference, but I think as far as keyboard shortcuts go, both OS's have plenty.
i think almost all 'emacs' guys has remapped CP to ctrl
Hmm, would it would be possible to actually detect if Google's got information about a visitor - by creating a web page with google ads and then snooping what targeted ads are getting shown (which is possible through DOM traversal)? This way, information can leak.
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Oh man, here we go again. The amount of FUD in this article is absolutely shocking! The Reserve Bank of India has not declared bitcoin as illegal [1]. The article certainly does insinuate that it is:

A couple of days after the Reserve Bank of India issued an advisory to public not to indulge in buying-selling of Bitcoins, the first raid in India was undertaken in Ahmedabad by Enforcement Directorate (ED) on an entity that provide platform to trade in this illegal but virtual currency.

I'm 100% certain that the website in question however was in violation of several KYC and AML norms as well as money exchange regulations, so the fact that they shut it down does make sense.

It is sad more-so because the regulatory framework is extremely opaque and if I were to start a bitcoin business in India, I wouldn't know where to begin...

The RBI has done a shitty job so far of regulating the Indian Rupee. I'm an Indian and my personal savings are now worth 30% less since 2009 on a global level (USD->INR went from Rs. 43 to a dollar to Rs. 62 now..). Internal inflation is at 10% YOY and there's no practical way to protect your money. Of course, I'm not implying that bitcoin is the solution to all these issues, just saying that on a personal level I do have issues with the way the RBI has managed (mismanaged?) our currency.

[1] - http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?pr...
You should create something better than Linux and distribute it for free.
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I think it's good to build a culture where having to write a postmortem is a mark of shame. It seems incredibly perverse to do otherwise, and while I appreciate the thrill of a good crisis, any professional should endeavor to do no more and no less than sleep soundly knowing that nothing will break and page them at night. (Developers aren't in the on-call rotation? That's your first problem.)
I'm a bit confused, you say nonsense, but then you apparently agree with two key assumptions.

I'm definitely not saying it's a good situation we find ourselves in here, or that data is 'safe' anywhere. But I would want anyone to think very long and hard before moving servers outside the US and claiming that provides some sort of benefit, other than as a political statement... It actually sounds like you agree with that.

Maybe r/Worst possible/A dangerous/ would be better. But I do appreciate reading the opposing opinions.
This is about one Foundation and how it was used as vehicle by CIA to launder money into other countries as "Aid to Developing nations", and achieve its political ends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation#Relationship_wi...

The CIA had been laundering its funds for dozens of organizations and events, and the foundation served as one of its main fronts.

If you look around you will find a lot of such covert channels.
I have mine mapped to the compose key. Don't need it a ton, but it's nice to have it close by and convenient when I do.

Would probably have been better as esc or ctrl, but I didn't feel like having to relearn the muscle memory for those keys.
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I disabled Caps Lock so that by itself, it does nothing. I mapped CapsLock + hjkl to the arrow keys a la vim, and several other similar CapsLock + <something else> combos that make sense to me.
I think it's cool that you're passionate about this stuff, try boiling it down to the essentials though. With all the self-deprecation and laundry list of questions, you lost me.

When I saw alan_cx put criticisms of the huge US military alongside arguments for socialized healthcare, I detected possible weakness. I thought something like, "growing the government makes it grow!"

It's like there's this odd static thinking some statists exhibit - like "we can vastly increase the government's power, but only just in this one corner with health care." But that's willful ignorance, that's not how things work. When you get a big expansion, budgets and authority swell for the whole thing including in the nasty bits like military and intelligence and through data mining/sharing between agencies.

You won't make headway trying to out-wonk someone on the ACA who is so clearly sold on the idea of socialized medicine. On that issue, the guy is a belieber. :)
Sleep earlier. Started yesterday, midnight instead of 3am. Plan to at least hit 11pm every pre-workday of January.
I'll travel in a new country every month.
If the ads are shown in an iframe on a different domain you won't be able to traverse them due to cross origin restrictions.
Looks like a good alternative.

FWIW, I am very happy now with:

1. [Haroopad - The Next Document processor based on Markdown](http://pad.haroopress.com/)

2. [mouapp.com](http://mouapp.com/)

Haroopad mainly because it is open source and based on node-webkit and very compatible across platforms.
How does it compare with Mou?
The first ruby code I find with unicode characters outside the comments gets the author a smack around the head :)

Yes it is all very nice that you can do this, but if you publish some code which some poor shmuck wants to modify on his non-uber-unicoded-dev-setup you just made his life a lot worse.
And Yet, Apple is only worth $500B, at the same valuation Apple would have worth over $20 Trillion.
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So far I was really enjoying Mou App[0], but this looks like a step forward.

[0]http://mouapp.com/
A few nice resources on iOS
Haroopad looks very promising as well. I'll definitely give it a try.
Exactly like it is to be any other privileged white boy in prison.
Someone always has to say this, but it's a little bit tired.

A new year is not entirely "arbitrary". Sure – from the point of view of geology or global history, it's irrelevant. But it provides a very obvious psychological "clean slate" – a fresh start and obvious break. It usually provides a little holiday, some time spent with family, and an opportunity for reflection.

Yes, most resolutions fail. But people aren't perfect, and if we were all able to commit wholly to self-improvements at the drop of a hat, the world would probably be a much better place. Since we can't, I don't really see the harm in a little psychological boost once a year.
Spying is an age-old game and it's not just the US doing it ;) I'd love to see some leaks out of Russia and China. It doesn't matter where your data is stored if it's off-premises. If you were putting it in the cloud unencrypted, you were already at risk, Snowden or not. Intelligence agencies around the world recruit workers in tech companies, the company need not overtly cooperate to get screwed.

Countries around the world slurp up data over the wire, they just haven't been caught with their hand in the cookie jar yet. At least the NSA's massive data caches won't be easily hacked. Verint (just one of many companies in the surveillance space) has 75 countries as customers. There's a ton of sh*t going on under the radar. You may hate surveillance and want more transparency but nobody can pretend it's just the US doing this stuff.
I loved remapping Capslock to Ctrl, but eventually gave up the ghost because the statefulness of Capslock was getting confused and I was having a hell of a time keeping my virtual sessions and master client session "in sync"
Yes, I use it to switch keyboard language layout
oops... was going form memory on my phone thanks
It was 500 hundred when I got the ability, but that was a while back so it could have gone up since then.
Quite similar to be honest (Mou was my favurite editor so far) but this is really a step forward - IMHO. Interface is a lot better and it supports flavored markdown (having to double-space for newline makes using Mou quite a pain).
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imap jj <Esc> is a brilliant idea, thanks!
I am very unoriginal, uncreative, and uninovative.

Aside from browser and maybe calculator. What else would be good to hot key like the op author describes? Thanks!
On top of that, I suspect some of the anti-US stuff posted is for the express purpose of gaining customers away from the US. (this may get downvoted, people may disagree, but I have no doubt it's happening)
Malware that can hijack the users' cookies can do that, as described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6950758 at 15m40s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6K2GqyijM#t=15m40)
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Editing titles seems like another level. What other levels are there?
I can't believe Google actually did that. They just proved that they can do whatever they want with no justification what so ever. They just proved that they aren't a service provider anymore, they're a service controller that will, if it wants to, filter the flux of information and let through only parts of the internet.
They'll normally list all the new features on the main website when the new -RELEASE version is actually available, this is just a -RC.
Interesting. Just yesterday I decided to start blogging again with Octopress, and conducted a fairly extensive search for a good Markdown editor for OSX, and found nothing impressive. Mau gets tons of attention, as does Marked, but neither does a good job of handling an octopress post with code blocks.

I'd ended up giving up and just going back to Sublime, but LightPaper handles my use case perfectly, so...nice. I think I'll be using this.
I currently use Sublime Text 2 in distraction free mode + the SmartMarkdown package + a tweaked Solarized theme with some extra markdown syntax highlighting. Works for me ;)
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Got to try and get back on the Paleo wagon, or at least move in the right direction. Good time of year too - the lunch time street food market near our office isn't back until February, and that's often my weakness!
I think we should strive for not repeating the Microsoft situation with a different brand. Like someone else commented, a Raspberry Pi seems like a better solution. Chromebooks are extremely tied to Google services.
Thanks for sharing this! PonyDebugger looks awesome, I'll definitely try it
Loose 20 pounds. I actually accomplished that (and 10 more) last year :).

Learn Python.

Actually put my homepage on the internet (wow, wouldn't that be something!)
ReText - Markdown editor for Ubuntu
With everything javascript, a browser can get you quite far. You have :

- repl for a handful of languages from javascript to haskell with lisps in between.

- jsfiddle to learn ~basic client-side webdev.

- canvas/webgl to learn ~basic graphic programming.

- if you dig deep enough you have VPRI OMeta for parser/metaprogramming.

- if you're not in a hurry you can even learn ~basic unix (busybox, gcc 4.3) on Fabrice Bellard's jslinux

I don't think you can learn prolog easily though.
What? No Syntax Control?

Looks great. Does it support Github flavor?
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"Malware that can hijack the users' cookies" is a little different to "which is possible through DOM traversal" though. I wanted to address the point in case some got the impression just using the DOM via JS would allow it.
Remapped to backspace
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On my laptop, I remapped it to be the left click button, and it changed my life. I used to find dragging windows and files around and selecting text such a pain with a touchpad, but with this remapping, I can do it really, really easily. I just use my left hand to click and my right hand to move the cursor. Try it!

Anyone know how I can remap the Caps Lock key this way on a Mac?
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On fr_FR mapped keyboards (AZERTY) the upper left key is a utterly useless ². I've remapped it to a backtick ` which is otherwise complicated to obtain (needs a 3 key combo). If anyone interested: http://planetozh.com/projects/azertyck/
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Just make it the Control key. Yeah, Emacs user. I assume if you use vi you'll remap it to Esc. Either way, you'll be happy.
; is pretty useful in vim though, it repeats your last motion.
Yes there is. It's Fn-TAB.
If the amount of funding somehow remained the same... Which I find highly unlikely. It would definitely cut down on the bureaucracy and make things significantly faster.

Maybe a YC for science is in order?
Had to add this because I thought it was fairly obvious, but all the other Scala mentions were either snarky or seemed to miss the core point of the title of the post : "What languages fix"

Scala : functional programming without leaving the JVM

Because enterprises have spent a decade or so building up JVM expertise in the form of Java.
I'm currently doing my A levels in a small school in the Upper Palatinate. The problem is - at least in Germany - that some schools have to invest the money they get in fundamental thing only, like sanitary facilities. The school I'm attending doesn't even have WARM water AT ALL! NOWHERE!
On the other side, there are new built schools that can invest their money in Smart Boards and video projectors.
Another point is that most of the "old" teachers simply don't know how to use these fancy new things (including computers in general) and there are also teachers that are so fascinated by Facebook and BayernMoodle (http://www.bayernmoodle.de/) that they more or less force their students to use it on weekends in order to give them exercises.
More or less, when I tell my mother about the lessons (she went to the same school as I do), I often realize that sometimes neither the teachers nor the way eduction is being done changed all. I would be happy about new books, some on mine are far older than myself.
Maybe others have different experiences, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
Thanks for the link to Haroopad! I installed it and looks really nice, super easy and fast.

A couple initial downsides...

- I thought Chromium had spell checking, but you don't get it in node-webkit apparently, or it's been disabled. Must have spell check, even poor Chrome spell check.

- Export to HTML - The resulting document doesn't look quite as good in Chrome as exported HTML as it does in the preview pane in the editor; so it's not quite WYSIWYG. There are ways to customize the style of the export, the preview pane itself is HTML... (Export to 'Plain HTML' and put your own .CSS?) But it would be really nice if 'Export as Styled HTML ' got you a matched document at least in Chrome.

- I think word wrap is broken on the editor pane - it should wrap entire words at the end of the line, not cut words in half, right?

Saving documents directly as .md is an interesting trade-off. It's just plain text, which makes things oh so simple. But I'm not sure if this eliminates the possibility for having any non-visible text or meta-data at all inside the document, so that might cut off future features. Not a downside of Haroodpad really, just a consideration for using naked markdown. Most will probably see this as a pro not a con.
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Use of caps lock as control.
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Since you don't read Valleywag, I think it's important to note that one of their criticisms of the technology class is a pervasive attitude of "I can have my cake and eat it too".
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Get the time balance right between my full time job, my startup and my wife and child.
A lot of people here hate on BG for his past and at the same time idolize Steve Jobs. If you would just have swapped MS and Apple in terms of market growth i am not so sure if Jobs wouldn't have made as many questionable decisions as Gates. Apple of today is making lives harder for a lot of companies, arguably more than MS of today. Also MS seems to share a lot more (Open Source, Public research) while Apple seems to be 100% self-centered.
That of course makes sense for any competitive company, just saying that when one reaches the top, they always look kind of evil while the underdogs seem more sympathetic.
As a Total Commander addict, I cannot believe some is still copying files using drag and drop, manually selecting files etc. There are some alternatives for a Mac as well.

As far as remapping goes, I've remapped my right ctrl to delete. I delete a lot, and reaching to the far right corner of the keyboard was a pain.
I am not big fan of US imperialism. However, if one examine the facts, it is unlikely that China and Russia/Europe will be the dominant force anytime soon. US still can dominates EVERYTHING if they really wanted to with their military, political and economic power.

If you read

The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century

Jim Norman

http://www.amazon.com/The-Oil-Card-Economic-Warfare/dp/09777...

A high oil price checkmates China (with its large population) but puts money in Putin’s coffers. Going back to the cold war one will see the fall of Soviet Union is engineered by suppression of Oil Prices during the cold war. After 1989 the Soviet reexamine, they agrees that it is cheap oil price that checkmated them.

The trick now has a lot to do with strategy and game theory. I find that to be a bit depressing. As Dave Logan who wrote Tribal Leadership says:

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast."

It would be nice to see the countries foster a kind of culture that will generate wealth for all, instead of devising game theory and strategy to out compete each other or different corporate factions.

Healthy competition is a great instrument on small individual scale, it is idiosyncratic/inefficient on the country scale.
The marginal product of your work is higher. The amount of money you make is proportional to how much value would not be produced if you were to quit. To copy an older explanation I wrote:

Consider a very important profession, say superhero. Having one superhero to stop the Joker is worth $1M. Having two superheros is worth $1.1M - Batman is sufficient to stop the very dangerous Joker, but two superheros can stop both the Joker and the far less dangerous Harleyquinn. The marginal productivity of an extra superhero is $100k even if the mean productivity is $550k. As a result, superheros get paid $100k because if any superhero quits, society loses only $100k rather than $550k.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6846579
Eliza Manningham-Buller ran MI5 for some time. HN may be interested in these pre-Snowden discussions from someone within the security world who believes in what they're doing.

This is one part of five lectures for the 2011 series "Securing Freedom".

Part One: Aung San Suu Kyi: Liberty (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012402s)

Part Two: Aung San Suu Kyi: Dissent (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0126d70)

Part Three: Eliza Manningham-Buller: Terror (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0145x77)

Part Four: Eliza Manningham-Buller: Security (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014fcyw)

Part Five: Eliza Manningham-Buller: Freedom (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014pxnq)