skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
vim allows you to select a region and operate on it. It sometimes necessary, but in practice, people use the compositional commands. They are faster and mentally easier. So empirically it seems your preference is different than most.

Also, what do you mean, maps better to other forms of editing?
I'd say the exact opposite: If I had gigabit internet, then keeping files outside my own premises pactically no longer makes sense. The only reason I do that at all is because my DSL is the bottleneck when I need to share something. If I had a gigabit connection, why should I bother with the unreliability and surveillance of "cloud services"?
On Windows 8.1 I was unable to configure CTCP using this command.

Running this under an admin Powershell reported CTCP:

(Get-NetTransportFilter | Where DestinationPrefix -eq '*' | Get-NetTCPSetting).CongestionProvider

From here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/51b...
Well, looping constructs are not related to a particular domain (e.g. electronic circuit design), but are general purpose construct.
> The post also fails the mention the concept of region in Emacs: you select a region than perform one (or multiple) commands on it, instead of encoding the region in the command like in vi.

Would the visual mode selected areas in vim be equivalent to this?
Wait, if special interests make laws that's another very fundamental democracy problem.

This isn't passing the buck, it's pointing out the obvious fact that its all one and the same. Democracy is having all your authorities under scrutiny and control by the people. It's hard.

In a state with unbelievable amounts spent on lobbying and with self-monitoring intelligence authorities, there are certainly things to work on.

Imagine a country where corporations can't sponsor political campaigns. Or where surveillance isn't monitored by secret courts applying secret laws.

Democracy isn't black or white, it's always a shade of gray.
It's actually pretty easy to do without food labels. Apply this simple test: are you feeling dizzy from low blood sugar and is your stomach hurting from hunger?

If yes, then congratulations - you're burning more calories than you're eating. If no, then don't eat for a while. If no and you're actually feeling even a little full, stop eating, right now.

You'll get used to the lower calorie input after a while and the feeling of hunger won't be as sharp.
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> In chess I'm good at strategy but terrible at calculating

Chess is 99% tactics/calculation. What we call "strategy" is just a set of heuristics that we use to avoid having to do endless calculations. However, a lot of those heuristics are already included in most chess playing software. So, if you're weak player as a whole, even if you have some strategy acumen, your contribution in an assisted chess setting will be negligible. The computer will be doing all the work anyway.

My rating is around 2000 and I have done some assisted chess playing and I can tell you that it's extremely hard to not just take computer's suggestion at every move. The chance that I'll come up with some brilliant move that the computer missed is very slim.
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I don't think that the present situation, when the top chess playing program is free and open-source, is good for innovation.

I estimate that it would take me six months of work to get to the top-20 in the world, and I don't see how I can justify that work to myself.
The potential for Rust to innovate in a space completely dominated by C and C++ in the past decade has piked the interest of people who had never considered any other language for development.

Go, in contrast, is fairly unremarkable language. That doesn't make it bad in any way (tried and true combined with a primary emphasis in maintainable software is a winning combo), it's just that it's attacking a space which many other languages have dealt with before.
Most pupils in a mathematics lesson in elementary school swiftly learn that "getting the right answer" is the point, and some check out and soon begin to doubt their own ability to REASON to the right answer.

It's been some years since I was in K-12 (I'm in my 30s), but I remember the opposite being the case: almost all the points on homeworks and exams were typically awarded for "showing your work". A correct answer with no work shown got few to no points; meanwhile an incorrect answer could get close to full credit if it showed the correct reasoning but ended up with the wrong result just because of a trivial addition/etc. error.

People tended to criticize this from the opposite direction, arguing that "in the real world" getting the right answer is all that matters, and that giving kids near full credit for incorrect answers was coddling them.
> The LEO team had designed the system that they would have like to have had if they had been running the teashops, not one that the managers themselves had asked for.

This has been the story of my life as a programmer, 61 years later and we are still doing that.

I'm not saying that we should always build exactly what the client asks for (they are often not aware of what is possible which is after all partly your job to explain) but in many cases I've seen projects fail because the person designing the over all system didn't go spend a few days with the people who would be using it (and I don't mean meetings with them, I mean go and sit in their office and watch them actually work).

I've found meetings are a horrible place to gather requirements from users (especially if the user has a manager present) as you never get the full unedited story and this leads to false assumptions.

Also something I find works well, get copies of all their actual filled in paperwork (anonymised if required) as you'll often find the process the manager describes and the process actually used diverge somewhat ("oh yeah, we don't bother with that, we just write the drivers name on the manifest").
I don't know, there seems something unpleasantly supercilious about taking a software project that's obviously written to a high standard and saying you think it's a joke. How do you know the author won't be unhappy to see someone say that? It kind of seems like classic #shithnsays.
Google gets 12,000 removal requests on first day after EU privacy ruling
A vegetarian calling meat eating "the most rational choice" !

It's destroying our planet and causing untold, horrific amounts suffering to animals just because people get a kick out of chewing on other beings.

PS. I've been around other European countries most my vacations and never had the problem. Worst case you get salads and omelettes.
To be honest, i feel like git really needs better wrappers or a better GUI or better defaults.
There shouldn't be a quadrillion command flags to know for simple tasks like this. And i don't mean the -S but the "use -S instead of -s but for other things use -asm, oh and then you have command xyz which takes --<long option> followed by other options, but only use those if your SHA hash can be divided by 3.141 and it's full moon".
It's actually pretty easy to do without food labels. Apply this simple test: are you feeling dizzy from low blood sugar and is your stomach hurting from hunger?

It actually wouldn't work in each and every case. I practise intermittent fasting, up to two days, and quite often I wouldn't feel dizzy and my stomach wouldn't hurt, at least as long as I have plenty of water. But I'm sure I'm burning more than I receive on fasting days!
1. Even if your internet were fast enough, cloud storage outbound transfer is expensive. If the primary purpose is archival, then it works. If you do anything interactive, you quickly lose the cost benefit.

2. Latency will hurt when you do anything interactive.
Soldiers are taking their orders from a higher authority. Not sure who is telling terrorists or murderers.
Well I agree with you at some point. But how do you look at the nanotech in general then? I think that Michio Kaku talked about how with nanotech it is possible to attack cancer cells precisely, so that imho that is some point of inteligence in your body then..
I did vegan paleo for a while. It was tough, but manageable. Travel wrecked me though.
Don't forget that your basal metabolic rate is not constant in different circumstances and over the duration of your life. It actually goes up if the calories consumed go up. I guess in some lucky individuals it may go up high enough to offset all extra calories - but, surely, to a certain limit.

Also, this BMR varies between different people - even if their bodies are very similar. So that is probably the source of the confusion "i know this guy who eats all the time and is skinny, therefore the calorie theory is wrong".

This page has links to numerous studies that prove the calorie in - calorie out theory. As far as I know, this theory was not yet disproved by any clinical study.

http://examine.com/faq/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-loss.htm...
There actually are people on long-term keto diets. It's actually used to help certain kinds of epilepsy, for example.
Analog electronics is a unique, not representative case.I think it depends greatly on the field and application. Some applications are too complex for math, so you just have to create really good simulations, like for example in wireless communications.

In other applications , value comes through integration, managing complexity ,smart component selection, and rapid development and combining multiple knowledge domains.One such example is smart watches. Some of the theory is less valuable there.
Answer: Adverse selection.

If you charge 2x your normal rate for some class of clients (e.g. startups) with no other changes in how you source or engage with clients, then you may end up with only those startup clients who were not going to pay you anyway. The guys who would have paid you will baulk at the 2x fee. Those who accept don't care that the fee is 2x, as they weren't going to pay anyway.

There's no substitute to doing due diligence and limiting the risk (e.g. through contracts and short payment cycles, as others have said).
“I find playing against computers depressing. I don’t like losing. I also think it's not so useful practise. Even though computers have become more human in their style ... it doesn't help you too much in preparation for playing humans (which are still my main opponents).”

— Magnus Carlsen, in an interview with Peter Thiel at the Churchill Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBnSU-LX1ss&t=23m51s
Can anyone comment on what makes stockfish different from other chess engines? If I'm curious about state of the art in computer chess, is it worthwhile to study its source? What interesting ideas should I expect to see there beyond what I vaguely know to be the standard approach from introductory AI courses, i.e. some sort of alpha-beta pruning search?
As to the sugar, I find myself using stevia a lot now. You have to experiment with it; with some foods, you really notice the taste, and it doesn't work very well as a sweetener. But in greek yoghurt, for instance, stevia tastes really nice and not at all unlike sugar.

That brings me to a second point; as a vegetarian, one of my best investments was a simple reusable yoghurt strainer. Natural yoghurt has a lot of carbs in the form of lactose, but straining it into greek-style yoghurt removes these sugars, leaving protein and fat (which you can control by choosing no/low/full fat yoghurt). Add some stevia to it, and you've got a healty breakfast, snack, and/or dessert without any carbs.

I think it should also be said that relying solely on soya protein is not the best idea. It's a complete protein, yes, but there's very little we understand about nutrition--one of the few things we do know is that variety is better. That being said, the firmer the tofu, the fewer carbs--plus it's easier to cook (fries up nicer). If you get sick of tofu, paneer is a good alternative, and easy to make as well.

Finally, chia seeds can be a useful addition. They don't have a taste (but they absorb an incredible amount of liquid, so you can soak them overnight to make pudding), but are packed with fat, protein, and fibre (approx. 32% fat / 16% protein / 35% fibre / 7% net carb by weight).
Discussion from 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4007229
I have trouble with my ulnar nerve which emanates from the neck, my physiotherapist noted that I have mild muscle wastage in my left shoulder.

Which editor would you recommend, should I quit Vim and try Emacs, or perhaps another editor?
It's destroying our planet and causing untold, horrific amounts suffering to animals just because people get a kick out of chewing on other beings.

You may be interested in this article:

http://anthonycolpo.com/ordering-the-vegetarian-meal-theres-...

Its arguments, in short, are:

Published figures suggest that, in Australia, producing wheat and other grains results in:

–at least 25 times more sentient animals being killed per kilogram of useable protein

–more environmental damage, and

–a great deal more animal cruelty than does farming red meat.

Now I'm not saying it's certainly right or wrong, but it may give a new perspective.
You are right. It is.

Thank you for the compliment.
Maybe in extreme cases, read this docs blog, he has done keto for a long time but i noticed he has now changed up and only does it at certain times. Also he has a lot of stuff on keto. http://eatingacademy.com/personal/actually-eat-part-iii-circ...
I just have to defend my thesis and after that i will get my BS degree in Informatics Engineering but i am seriously thinking of talking one of my (ex-)professors into changing the language of use at Parallel Processing, one of my faculty's optional courses. It was the last class i attended (circa one year ago) and even though i enjoyed using C + MPI (it was the first time i really got into concurrent programming), sometimes it was a real pain in the ass. Nowadays i am 100% sure that Go would be a perfect fit for that class. I think i have to send him a link of this blog post...
) looking at modern editors like Sublime Text and Atom, is how Emacs’ big idea has been thoroughly learned

There is no other popular editor that goes out of its way to show it's modifiable at every turn. Emacs is really asking for it.

Well I haven't seen atom since I don't have a Mac but I'm prepared to risk the statement!
I never said I was quick to violence. I am normally a very calm person.

That comment was ridiculous. In this regard we define "someone's child" as a non-adult. Technically an adult is someone's child but it is unlikely they require their parents protection in some way so in the spirit of the comment it is fallacious to include adults in the reasoning.

Simply insulting kids under the age of 10 and pigeon-holing what they will do in life based on a narrow prejudice deserves a hiding frankly. It also neatly sidesteps the phenomenal salaries that people in the fast food industry can earn if they want to progress.

In addition, Zen is not the opposite of violence. Actually, it is one of the aims prior to entering into martial combat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushin
That word doesn't make any sense in the Swedish original either. Seems like they botched the quote, can't even guess what he really said.
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While anti-biotics are (or their misuse rather) is clearly a big problem I don't see them being to blame for this trend of disease spreading with "westernization". Personally I'd attribute that to crap diet (BigMac & Coke) and sedentary lifestyle.
I'm a fan of Gary taubes (lost 30kg with simple low no-carb diet), those videos aren't really convincing. In the first one he talks about pork rinds being very bad, but really it's a good way to get some crisp in your food when you don't have flour and eggs. I couldn't get through it because of all the breathing.
Wikipedia founder: Google EU ruling 'won't work'
You need not to defend Emacs (saying this per your attitude on the thread). Your argument does not defeat the argument about the lack of proper command-and-movement composition. This neither diminishes nor augments the value of your favourite editor, so no need for religiousness here.

edit: grammar.
The future that everyone forgot
Like `evil` for emacs. The predecessors of evil (vimpulse and viper) did not cut it for me; but since evil I could not resist the switch.

I like the atom effort, and I think it may come a long way. But it also still has a long way to go until it is as mature as emacs.

Another good thing of emacs that I only recently started to appreciate is LISP --the grandpapa of all dynamic languages-- that is used for both emacs scripting and config-file format (they are kind of the same). JavaScript, how ubiquitous it may be, will never be as "impartial" and "timeless" as LISP.
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A project from 2010 that's stalled half-way through in alpha state.

Still, he is quite correct. You still need a Structured Data Query Language.
If you're asking about ergonomics overall, I'd say Vim, definitely. Though a lot in both cases can be mitigated with useful remappings (use Caps Lock as Ctrl, or as Esc! Or as both! https://github.com/alols/xcape or KeyboardRemap4Macbook). Also I find Dvorak a lot more pleasant on my fingers than good ole QWERTY.

I have at various different times felt a lot of strain hit some of my fingers, especially the pinkies. My right pinky complained first, and I realized how much it was used for.

I first switched from Dvorak to Programmer Dvorak so that my pinky wouldn't have to do curly braces and square brackets anymore, and so that both those and parens no longer required a shift press (also helping the other pinky), since Programmer Dvorak switches numbers with symbols (the latter of which I use far more as a coder.) I also got used to Ctrl-H instead of Backspace and Ctrl-M instead of Enter, wherever I could. They didn't work in the editor's command mode, so I created mappings so that they would.

The issues went away. More recently, more than a year after that, I started feeling my other pinky, the left one. I severely reduced my Tab usage and began using the Left Alt as a Left Ctrl more, so my pinky shares Ctrl usage (which was already on Caps Lock, but still..) with my thumb. Also worked.

An ergonomic keyboard would also be a fine acquisition. By the way, trouble in the "ulnar nerve which emanates from the neck" leading to "mild muscle wastage" sounds quite sci-fi to me (not disbelieving, just thought it sounded rather exotic.)
It's an intriguing idea, but like the correlation between margarine consumption and divorce, or the rise in global warming and the reduction in pirates, it needs more than intrigue. Perhaps the Grauniad article will give it enough publicity that it will be studied and meta-studied, and who knows? Correlation may imply causation this time.
One note on this: I interpret composability as the ability to combine a variable number of primitives of the same nature, like piped shell commands, or chaining function calls. vi is more about writing phrases with a fixed structure of (optional) pieces, like verb, subject, etc in natural language.
Early Google didn't sell search result placement, they focused on superior organic results. It was later that they copied the idea from Overture, a company with much smaller search volume, but which had figured out a successful monetization model for search. Google's organic search results weren't mauled by SEO in the early days. Likewise, in the early days conspicuously avoided ads ("Ads aren't cool" - "The Social Network").

Does anyone want ads on their phone? Or having their smartphone data stream continuously mined by advertising spyware networks? $100/mo, tiny data transfer caps, tiny screen, expensive hw, and an industry salivating at the opportunity to take a bigger chunk of the mobile users' experience. Joy.

I kinda thought that phones were a personal communication device, and that for almost a grand for the phone (unsubsidized, thanks Verizon, Steve Jobs RIP), and $100 a month, my phone would serve myself, rather than act as a personal data conduit to data brokers.
Maybe it's obvious to those with a better understanding of the game but can explain that "no shame" comment at 11:44?
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I think you mean 10k each, times a potentially large number.
I think you're getting close to some important points.

I think Sublime Text's multiple-cursor editing is nice because I can see where the focus is and get immediate feedback, much better than "replace-all" even if the end result would be the same. Bret Victor style.

So most of the real complexity in the interface is about region-selection, and the operations are actually trivial.

Of course, you need to first select regions (like interesting lines), then select other regions within those, others within those etc. How to chain it all in a natural way?
At least for large customers of PowerVR the GPU design includes the source code for the drivers. This is why you can't even rely on the same GPU model or even exact same SoC working similarly in the Android world because they come from different companies so have different driver trees.
Medical professionals are just starting to take this stuff seriously and we have only recently started studying the human microbiome [1]. Whatever existing information and biases you're using for your personal opinion are probably just as flawed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Microbiome_Project
lots of C.S. types quickly appreciate the structure/counterpoint in all of his instrumental music

What on Earth does that mean?
Even though I'm a very 'mixed' type of writer/coder, I find normal mode very useful because moving around in the document, for me, is much faster that way.

So even if I only have to move x words to the left, delete until the first occurrence of character y, or change the text inside the very next quotation marks (one of my favorite tricks), the 'hassle' of switching between modes is worth the ease of moving around the document. In the few cases where I need to do something even more trivial, I can still navigate the 'regular' way in insert mode.

Furthermore, I find that I generally work better if I don't just rapidly and constantly switch (mental) modes, even for prose. I'm starting to feel my 'instant' connection to the output makes me sloppier and makes it harder for me to reason about what I'm exactly trying to do. So for me it even has a psychological benefit to use an editor that has modes.
) Government has every right to think its what people want.

What? Why? You don't justify this bold claim in any way.
What sets Stockfish apart is its open testing framework. Many volunteers allocate CPU time to run test games, checking if a pull request actually adds Elo rating points. Also, its open development model is a big advantage compared to closed-source chess engines, which usually just have 1-2 developers. The ideas used are mostly the same in all top engines, the advantage of Stockfish comes from tuning/testing/polishing/tweaks.

An year ago Stockfish was near the top, but not quite there. Since then its development model became more open, and the open testing framework was introduced. The rate it's been adding Elo rating points since then has been amazing.
I don't know about this, to me archiving everything seems like a gross inefficiency. Most of the internet is spam and advertising, and of the rest, less than 5% is actually useful information or knowledge.

Archiving books, scientific journals and the likes would seem much more useful, but obviously you'd run into copyright issues.
I actually do keep score on advertisers whose uninvited popups or navigational hijack tricks waste my time. Their brands accrue negative associations.

I can't fathom why so many advertisers are so eager to demolish their brand equity by annoying the shit out of users.