skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it not freak you out that your laptop was created by a company that makes billions a year learning everything there is to know about you?
For true "innovation" you can always go the Twiddler (http://www.handykey.com/) route. I've got one of the original models but have never actually tried it.

Supposedly this is something the guys at Xerox Parc were excited about and it's based on the much older idea of a chorded keyboard.
That's pretty much the boiler plate ad hominem.
MIT has an open course on Operating systems[1]. It's the one reasource I keep going back to.

The textbook for the class is available free online. I pull it out at least once a year.

[1] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
That post on the economics was great, and it offers a convincing explanation of why they shut down.

The funny thing is that the author often thanks the team for making their numbers public. But he also calls them reckless and irresponsible. I think people's judgement looks worse in hindsight. And if you are benefiting from someone's candor it would be smart to speak of them more charitably, if only to encourage future candor.

But that link is a great analysis.
If had done some basic googling you wouldnot have needed to try it. Everybody know Clojure is not suited to this as it stands.
Until I started using EMACS I would have thought the author's argument was a slam dunk four star lock. Now I realize that habits are habits because they're habits, not because they are the right way of doing something.

We are more flexible than our machines, and though it might take a day or two to figure out home` and `end`, a laptop is a tool that one uses for years.
Or patchwork/utf8 [1] since it handles fallback in the event mb_* isn't installed and can utilize several other libs.

[1] https://github.com/nicolas-grekas/Patchwork-UTF8
You might be conflating monads with do-notation? Do-notation is a syntactic tweak to make using monads a little prettier, and is implemented in the language, but you can just as well use monads without it. Consider the IO example:

main = getArgs >>= mapM_ putStrLn

where

getArgs :: IO [String]
putStrLn :: String -> IO ()
mapM_ :: (a -> m b) -> [a] -> m ()
15" MacBook Pros do not have a numpad, but it sounds like you don't want that price range.
same with me, I have a working experience in Accenture and IBM and Both company sucks...

I do not get any benefit such as daily perks which make me not to leave my job...

Recently, I applied for Google Designer Job and when I get a job there, I swear that I will write a blog post for Hacker News about the working environment of Accenture...
My anecdotal sample size of one makes me wonder how Dropbox means to sustain itself.

I'd been on a $20/month plan with Dropbox for a few years now. I recently cancelled down to the free tier because...

* I didn't want to pay more to store/sync even more data.

* All my apps that add great convenience by leveraging Dropbox for sync will work fine and consume just a fraction of the free tier space.

This is actually the "killer" feature right now. If I had to pay to keep this functionality, I'd probably pony right up, but it would be tough to start demanding payment for that.

* Dropbox is actually pretty slow.

Sure, I'm just one person, but their percentage of paying customers has always been small. Just a few years ago, there weren't many if any viable alternatives - now there's a whole slew of them and Dropbox hasn't changed much if any in that span.

Also, since it seems to come up so often. I've seen nothing in the way of moves by or significant interest in Dropbox in the enterprise. Meanwhile, Microsoft is pushing SkyDrive, Google has Drive and Box is stating that they're fully enterprise focused.
Some the way clojure deals with things is diffrent, everything about state.

Also SICP teach all kinds of concepts from the ground up, its really cool to learn and understand but it has no use other then your learning.
Same reason many corporations make a pretty penny off easily accessible public data? Slick presentation, rich tools to use the data with, and integration into existing work-flow?

The comment was more a gesture at how all this public/semi-public/private/extremely private data can end up being used. Or indeed how it has been used or pitched to be used. When you have NSA affiliates like Palantir mucking about with firms like Hunton & Williams. Teaming up to do attack work on generally anyone who opposes the persons who make up the facade that is US Chamber of Commerce, you have a shipwreck in progress.

How much you are targeted by these entities is a matter of how much of a nail you are to their hammer.
Hi all,

I'm the author of the post. Happy to answer detailed questions on using Chromium as a Dev platform. Any suggestions for a follow-up post?
Ousted Yahoo exec's golden parachute may be a record
If you manually google the title and then click through you should be able to bypass the paywall.
Which is why I always remap it to a second ctrl key. Now, having a second control and a second option/alt key in place of the home/end could be pretty nice, i gotta admit. The missing tilde makes it a total non-starter, though.
> it's true that writing generic containers in Go isn't so great

That's one hell of an understatement.

> is it really sufficiently horrible to warrant that?

A number of people obviously and repeatedly say that yes, a statically typed language without parametric polymorphism is sufficiently painful to use something else instead.
Are there any plans to make this into something more interactive, like http://nodeschool.io/? Alternatively, do any of the interactive "Learn Coding" sites out there feature Go? I can't think of any.
> then this means that people who’s labor income will lie between $0 and $20k will have no incentive to work.

This is called begging the question.
Money is one factor. The other factor is that I dont want a retina-esque screen right now since I will be running linux on it and kde and chrome's support for hidipi screens is not great right now.
It was dismissed because there was no proof that they were turned on at the time. How in the hell a cop could ever prove that is beyond me.
Yes, it absolutely does, and I am very much not happy about it. I am the most anti-Google person I know.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to live in a world of ideals, and so, I must compromise from time to time. As I mentioned elsewhere, I have another machine with 100% free software that I use for PGP when I need to keep secrets.
I'm of course not even close to be familiar with business and investments but what I think is going on here is that you can't rely on 'cash cow' forever.
Cahokia
I said: "look at a list of the top 10 large countries by GDP per capita (I picked a cutoff of 6 million people to exclude small banking and oil states which aren't really generalizable)"

You said: "Someone could strike gold/oil in one of those bottom ten countries, making a few people very rich, thus raising average GDP."

I'm open to counter-examples, but offhand I would say no; that can only happen in small countries. That's why I limited my comments explicitly to large countries. :)

(In the spirit of full disclosure, I should note that it was late, and I didn't properly filter the list of the bottom 10 countries by size. Liberia and CAR are small, and should have been replaced by Mali and Togo.)
"Doesn't that imply revenue growth is slowing"
do you really expect a constant growth of 152%? of course the percentual growth will slow down, that by itself says nothing.
Major Political Donors Have Access To TPP Documents. Everyone Else? Not So Much
Thanks for calling us out on this. We're working to make sure this type of miscommunication doesn't continue to occur.

If you have any other issues maintaining your payout schedule please email me directly at manisha at balancedpayments dot com.
Killing caps lock makes perfect sense, especially if it's still around as a shift-lock. Putting Home and End there is not the craziest thing I've seen done with it. (I personally remap it to a larger logo key, and use that with my window manager, but the X1 Carbon actually has a decent-size logo key to use for that.)

However, the soft function key row is crazy. It completely breaks touch-typing; if I wanted that, I'd use a tablet. Likewise, putting Delete to the right of backspace makes backspace a smaller target to hit, and it's a very frequently used key. Moving the `~ key is the kind of thing done by folks who think "Oh, nobody ever uses that", and who don't understand that keys used by 5% of typists are still critically important. (Both for people who need to type "jalapeño" and people who need to type ~/Downloads/foo .)

More importantly, there's no tradeoff here: this makes it worse for the loyal ThinkPad users, but doesn't actually make it proportionally better for others. And even if it did, that kind of consumer-targeted optimization is for consumer laptops like IdeaPad, not business laptops like ThinkPad.
> and people who dedicated decades to their expertise do not react well to being openly and repeatedly described as “sucks ASS and Booawles!!!!!” by entitled students who failed after submitting their papers a month late.

> “Open” and teenagers with social bias don’t mix nearly as well as one would love.

Who cares about that level of reviews? The validity is weighted by the source and level of discourse.
Mvelie -- you can drop it in the "improve this data" and we'll address it. (I've added it to our list of things to check into.)
Are you making bets on Dart or (P)NaCl staying with the platform in the long run?
> Really, nothing in between those two?

Well the first thing that came to my mind when reading the title was the phenomena of moving rocks in Nevada [1]. It could be similar but unlike them this doesn't seem to leave any trails.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stone
Intelligence and defense leaders offer support for Obama's NSA reforms
> We were looking for a great cross platform library for native (c++) apps.

Isn't that what Qt is for, with the added bonus that it's what Qt is actually for and thus e.g. documented and supported?
Yes. Not to mention incredibly well-tested and battle-worn. The unit test coverage for some of these libraries (like net) is incredible.
What Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Breakup Means for the Future of Type Design
Sounds like Chromium might be the successor to APR, the Apache Portable Runtime. I believe that the authors of Chrome consciously tried to provide functionality that replaced APR, presumably because of their multiprocess model.
I just noticed some errors in this but the basic gist works... I shouldn't have added the isset checks, those would prevent it from throwing the exceptions -_-
Mechanical keyboard on laptop with high res matte screen... that would be amazing.
The Apple laptops I used recently had this sharp edge. Looked clean, modern, etc, but hurt my wrists like a #&$&.
> Firstly, there's no such thing a "morality of a country" and in any case the law does not represent it.

By the same token, this is why it's always idiotic to talk about "the people". It is always wrong to say "the people chose" or "the people believe" or "the will of the people". Real life isn't a musical set in Paris starring Jean Valjean.
Simple sample app would be great for the next post.
When you imply that the gene is not distinctive of Tibetans, you are disputing claims I didn't know the article made, and it makes me wonder why. Are you pushing in the direction of "Tibetans are indistinguishable from Chinese and Tibet is China"?
I wonder if the Chinese occupation is having any effect. I could imagine that either ethnic Chinese inflow or native population outflow might make things change. I had a brief google session trying to see if there is any population change recorded, but I didn't get an answer.
use www.cellmaster.com.au (disclosure I am the founder) At the moment it is free for low volume usage.

These also look like they would do what you want, maybe spreadsheetconverter depends on your needs:

BaseCase.com

stoic.com

www.spreadsheetconverter.com

www.smartsheet.com

http://www.forguncy.com/ (Japanese)

www.spreadsheetweb.com

Please tell me more. Details of my email on www.cellmaster.com.au.

P.S. I also like ethercalc as spreadsheetguru suggested - but think many of above would be less work.
What about the whole row of function keys missing, and the position of escape and tilde?
Great suggestion! I just added this as a security overview section of the README.

https://github.com/spark/core-communication-lib
This is a huge opportunity for Dell on their portable machines. As far as I know, Dell is practically the only OEM that hasn't royally screwed up their professional-grade notebooks. The M4800 is a beauty – extremely powerful, and fantastic to use. The keyboard isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a traditional, non-Dentyne (yes, chiclet keys type like Dentyne) canted design, with a numpad, but a good keyboard nonetheless. It has a TrackPoint, which isn't as good as the previous model ThinkPads but is now much better because Lenovo have somehow decided that their sole purpose of existence is to copy Apple and "unify" shit that didn't need to be messed around with. I hate to play stereotypes here, but it was kind of expected from a Chinese company. Their pants-on-head retarded marketing videos and even their products – for example, the Yoga tablet copies iOS 7 icons and iOS 6 dock... wtf, and the marketing video for the new X1 is blatant Ive-hyperbolic. The marketing and hyperbole has long stopped working for Apple (thus the Designed in Cali bullshit), what the HELL were Lenovo thinking?

Dell isn't perfect. They have horrible QC and design issues on their lower-end products, and the Precision machines aren't cheap. But they're solid and well-built with a ton of features, good battery life, good keyboards, decent pointing devices.

If they put in a 3:2, high-density display, 7-row keyboard, Topre short-throw switches, and a nipple mouse that's less recessed, and market it like mad, it would be the perfect machine, one I would pay for and a lot of professionals, too.
This is about laptop keyboards, but there is a huge diy scene around improving keyboards. I have an ErgoDox (http://ergodox.org/) which is very well thought out and open source (and people are iterating on it - see: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44940.0 )
Judging from the number of dependencies I think it'd be more fair to say Chromium is the new Boost.
The tour does this: http://tour.golang.org/
Does YC buy into later rounds of a company or just let the dilution happen?
Your weed-buying friends are quite safe from the full power of the NSA and 'parallel construction' being brought to bear on them and their petty crimes. I can't really understand why anyone would even _think_ that would be the case?

In fact, I just don't understand the problem people have with the 'parallel construction' of evidence. By its very nature, if the original evidence existed, and new alternative sources can be found, these it must be believed that they point to the fact a crime has been committed. In which case it should be prosecuted, and the criminals brought to justice. Or are people suggesting that if the NSA finds evidence of a crime, that crime can no longer be prosecuted even using alternative, non-NSA sourced evidence? That we should just wait until investigators stumble across the crime by accident, and allow many criminals to avoid prosecution?

My feeling is that if a valid and uncontested, un-tainted evidence trail exists, showing that a crime has been committed, then morally there is no problem. We are not talking about the use of torture to obtain the original evidence, for example, rather it is a side effect of the intelligence gathering process. This sort of cross-pollination between intelligence agencies and law enforcement has always been present, and the source of the original 'tip off' was generally inadmissible due to classification or to protect sources.

This is not even a new idea. Law enforcement has to deal with 'tainted' and inadmissible evidence all the time, from protected sources, conversations overheard in bars and so on... Sometimes the evidence has even been allowable at the time it was collected, but circumstances change later. Anyway, in these situations it is standard practice to try and obtain different, non-tainted and admissible evidence pointing to the same outcome.

We now have a new word for this, in 'parallel construction' but the outcome is no different.
Sure, but it depends on how you define marketing. In some respects, Apple views marketing more along the lines of the CPG model than the typical tech model. It's a model in which a fair amount of product itself falls under the rubric of marketing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_management
> If you vote for the lesser of two evils its not like your going to benefit.

Plurality voting systems generally result in two dominant parties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
That's how scientists work, they figure out the possibilities, and work with the evidence from there. It's not done by guessing what's more probable, and you don't eliminate a possibility immediately just because it's less likely.
No, they're actually not. Terrible travel, and a completely flat key top is a non-starter – there's no bevel to guide your fingers, and no tactile travel to absorb the shock from your fingers, leaving your hands fatigued.

Before you ask, I'm typing this from my MacBook. Yes, it's painful. The sharp edges on the notebooks don't help either.
Google japanese keyboard layouts. They have always been like this. It always made sense to me, as I touch type. I once bought a japanese thinkpad just because of this.
> I'm assuming you used 'blue' ones on the Kinesis

IIRC, the advantage is actually the keyboard for which cherry brown switches where created.
Caps lock should not be changed despite it's ostensible uselessness. Programmers often remap caps lock (I personally use this tool [1]), and it's nice to have a big target for the pinky. Remapping is of course possible with these new keyboards, but the split key design that replaces caps lock leaves a much smaller target. In addition, I'm sure there are hunt and peck typists that still legitimately use caps locks instead of shift because it requires less coordination and hand contortions, so leaving caps lock alone also has accessibility benefits.

One area where keyboard designers aren't innovating enough is the spacebar. The left 2/3 of the space bar is rarely used by most touch typists and hogs very accessible real estate. I like how Microsoft split the spacebar on their new keyboard [2] and replaced the left half with backspace, the most commonly typed (but normally most hard to reach) key.

I'm disappointed to see thinkpad/lenovo make these mistakes given their reputation for quality laptop keyboards. I personally use an x230 [3], which has a similar chiclet keyboard as the x1 carbon in the article without the transgressions.

[1] https://github.com/alols/xcape

[2] http://techland.time.com/2012/09/20/new-microsoft-keyboard-s...

[3] http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x230/
HTML5 App development FAQ for Firefox OS
If publicity equaled making money hand over fist, Ron Burgundy 2 would be the top grossing movie right now.
First, North Korea is a pathetic straw man. You'll have to do better than that. Second, you assume that people who challenge Libertarians want central control and are opposed to the free market. Why does everyone have to think so black and white?

Here's the thing, if Libertarians actually stayed true to the underlying principle of Libertarianism (the sovereignty of the individual over his own person, body and labor), and also stayed honest about what it means to have a free market (which follows from individual sovereignty over their person and labor), then I would become an ardent supporter. Unfortunately, as this article points out, most libertarians completely betray these principles when they argue for 100% sovereign rights over land and any other of the finite resources of this planet. If you understand the free-market, and you looked at it honestly, then you would realize that land ownership (defined as ownership in perpetuity) is completely antithetical to the free market, because you can essentially buy an infinite amount of something (perpetual ownership) for a finite cost.

In my opinion, a true Libertarian would realize that some things are part of The Commons, and by necessity we need to figure out a communal way for managing The Commons. If we want the free market to manage the commons, then we have to first treat it like the commons (e.g. we are all owners, and are all owed a share of the ground rent).
Are you referring to the implicit assumption that consumption is the primary incentive for a person to work? That's pretty non-controversial among economists, but if you're a philosopher or something you can certainly argue the point.

Anyway, that assumption about consumption is really only the premise of TFA. The sentence you quote is the implication of that premise and some statistics. Argue with the premise, argue with the statistics, argue with the implication if you want, but I just don't see the circularity here.
I've yet to read the OP, but there is also the question scope, both in geography and in time.

If work produces a small margin of improvement for the worker (e.g. a small amount of disposable income, but nothing substantial nor, under the circumstances, making the difference between life and death). If work does this, but simultaneously produces substantially larger benefit and advantage for the employer.

Well, then you as the worker may be engaging in and facilitating a runaway condition for yourself. The more you work, the more you advantage the "haves" who are employing and holding you in a "have not" position.

I'm reminded of "War Games", which was rerunning the other night: "The only solution is not to play."

Not everyone at the bottom of the economic pile is an undiscovered Will Hunting-esque economist. But there is a lot of "smart" that is conveyed universally through the human and societal dynamics. You don't need an advanced degree to know when you're getting screwed.

And sometimes, it feels paramount to stop the screwing, even if it costs you.
"Rational" is an unfortunate choice of term, but it was the term the field of economics has used for quite some time. It is best to separate in your mind the idea of a rational actor and the colloquial connotations the term carries with it.
It has to be done at the congressional level. Why won't Obama just do that already?
I can't agree more!

I started dabbling with Arch sometime between 2011 and 2012. It's my primary desktop OS because of being both a rolling release distro and being a rolling release distro that distributes packages in binary form. Don't get me wrong, I love Gentoo, but I find my patience waiting for large builds (KDE, X, Firefox, etc) diminishing over time. The AUR also has such a vast number of packages, I can't really think of more than one or two circumstances where something I needed wasn't available (or I was too stupid to know what to search for which was probably the case).

ABS is a godsend for exactly those reasons you cite since you don't have to worry about installing tons of rubbish into the file system for cleanup later (if there is a later). Though, I've found using the ABS SVN repos handy once or twice in the event I needed an older version (and wiped my cache, not realizing ARM was available at that time).

All things considered, Arch is the best of both worlds in terms of a strong, binary package manager and the ability to tweak packages through custom builds. I wouldn't suggest it's a panacea but it comes darn close. I'll risk coming off as an evangelist, but I can't help myself: When I discovered Arch, it made Linux a tremendous joy to use and helped me rediscover the passion I felt when I first discovered Gentoo many years ago. The difference is that this passion has been sustainable. :)