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>I wonder whether HN comes close enough to the effeciency of curated sources, conferences or some private circles to mention it as a proxy for staying on top of current developments.

When a development hits the media, there will be a thread on it at HN, and that thread will contain entire arguments and links to curated sources. The question is where to start to research if you're not an engineer. This is a better place than most.
Yes but your clients probably are still sending them to you.
At least for me - a native German speaker with English as a self taught second language - I find that the `y` in bay actually makes it easier to figure out the correct pronunciation.

Since `a` is pronounced as `ah` in German, just having `ba` would make the `a` sound like the one in `bra`, which would make it hard to distinguish between `ba(y)` and `ba(h)` when first learning the language.

Removing the y's would also leave one with seemingly strange words like `awa`, `ga`, `sla` and `sta`. Which quite honestly to me, look much more like mnemonics rather than actual English words.
Same here in Turkey. Most people just say vvv.

We don't have a "w" in our alphabet, and a name for it though.. That might be the reason.
I don't place any value on "Internet karma" (and I can certainly afford the hit, in any event). But I do enjoy HN and respect its goals, and I hate to see it attacked by what amounts to moderation abuse. The Internet doesn't need another echo chamber or another game room.
Congrats Bemmu! I love reading these status updates by people such as yourself and patio11.
The other added benefit is that both of you live in Japan, where I hope to one day live, and both of you are running your own companies from there.
Also I am loving the Candy you have been sending lately, so keep up the good work!
I was a Quora skeptic too and then I read this answer

http://qr.ae/2fcM3
I got so excited when he said that it really was possible to write at 100 words a minute but then he said that it's nearly impossible to actually learn Gregg, I wonder if there's a website somewhere....

About the Livescribe: it's an okay pen but difficult to hold. and somewhat awkward because of the camera at the tip, but it could depend on the way you hold pens.
In the US "hostile work environment" are words of art with specific legal meanings. Read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_work_environment and see if Jobs' reported behavior seems to have been even close.
When saying your domain name aloud, you never have to say www if your naked domain automatically redirects to your www. subdomain. Most of the time when people say it, it's completely unnecessary. I suppose you could use another subdomain to fulfill the same purpose of 'www' but 'www' is such a common convention that you would then probably need to redirect your users from www to whatever other subdomain you use.
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Have you ever wondered how the brain knows certain things about our body? For instance, when we hurt our hand or other parts of our body, our brain tells us where the pain is exactly.
I don't see the utility of shorthand anymore. If you're just taking short notes, you don't need to write 225wpm...and if you've recorded everything, then you can listen to the recording later and take notes or type up a transcript verbatim.

It would seem better to learn a stenography system so you don't waste time inputting actual text, which surely you would need to do anyway? (How is the time the author saves writing in shorthand not negated by the time it takes her to type it up afterwards?) I guess if you knew shorthand and steno, you could do everything pretty quickly.
"Not about popularity, sustainability or user base, but money."

By what criteria would you say that those companies are sustainable?
I worked on this game alone for about a month. As a programmer by trade, the design, art and sound effects took most of my time :)

- Programmed in Java, using libgdx as the engine

- Sound effects made with sfxr

- Art made with Gimp and Inkscape
Except Dart isn't trying to be another "compiles to javascript" language like CS, Dart is trying to completely replace js which is why it's so much more difficult to implement. They have to build an entire VM to rival V8.
That just makes me cringe more, sorry. Even if you don't agree with these politics, you are very much describing them in their particular language and framing: a commitment to human dignity described as a use of force.
The court is still very political. I can't even begin to
talk about Monsanto--they are horrid. I remember having
a botany professor at Sonoma State university who would
literally shake when everever he started to talk about how
evil Monsanto is--that was years ago.

My point is Not that the court has flaws. It does--that's
why the appointment of Supreme Court Justices is so dam
important. Enen then, I've noticed justices change their
views through out the years--so I'm glad they are there
for life. Would I like to see Ph.D's in only the hard sciences a basic minimum as a requirement in order to be
Supreme Court justices--Yes!
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It's about RAM usage. I strongly encourage you to read this: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators.
Luckily rumours say that Microsoft took a lot of the good ideas from Mantle and will implement them in DirectX 12:

> http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/177407-microsoft-hints-tha...

On the other hand: Even if the overhead for OpenGL can be lowered a lot (and I believe this is possible), this will be released as extension set - not as an elegant revised API as new DirectX versions do (see the Longs Peak fiasco).
Unfortunately, issues like this are not confined to the United States. Both my Aunt and Stepmother are currently fighting cancer. We're Canadian, thus we have universal health care, but each province is responsible for administering its own prescription drug plan. Thus, depending on where you live and your income, you may or may not have decent coverage for cancer drugs. Complicating the situation, there is often a gap between when a drug is approved and when that drug is available for coverage.

In our case, we are very lucky. Both my Aunt and stepmother have good drug plans that refund their expenses. However, their treatments still cost thousands of dollars out of pocket. They're relatively lucky - they're both seniors who were well prepared and highly insured. Even luckier, they don't have dependents.

I can imagine many, many circumstances under which someone with a family, even in our relatively good health care environment simply could not afford many of the drugs they need. For example, in many cases, complete drug coverage is a premium offering through private insurers. I'm not sure how many healthy people in their mid-30s would really consider premium health insurance a huge priority, especially if they have families. Rather, the tendency could be to assume that their good health will hold and they won't need insurance.

In response to your valid criticism, I do agree with most of what you say. But, I would also argue that cancer is an asshole and, if I were in a situation where saving my life could bankrupt my family, I'd sure pray that my community put helping me out above making a political statement about the quality of prescription drug coverage in Canada!!
The way this is presented in the blog post is as if this is a really insightful but now under-appreciated gem of mathematics.

But all that description is saying is, when a 2D shape is made by rotation, its area is the multiple of the 1D generator and the 1D path it takes? You don't say!
And then volumes! when a 3D volume is made, its a 2D shape going through 1D path ...wow.

Forgive me if I am not impressed. This is not an unknown theorem but a trivial mathematical fact that one learns somewhere around Grade 7 in school. Of course, Pappus deserves credit for discovering in 300 AD, and the paper by the Goodmans is nice to have a general formal proof of. But even that paper concedes that they are simply proving a general proof for completeness.
I just looked at the Wikipedia page for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_%22www%22 and have never seen so much unsourced drivel in my life. For the record, I have been pronouncing it the way I described in the GP comment for the last twenty plus years, so that's some sort of data point.
> Performance penalty is no longer an issue with AWS: CloudFront support for root domain/zone apex has been there since June 2013 [1].

And it does it through an hardcoded alias and not a cname. How clever.
How many do you want? Everyone I know uses it, regardless how they got it.
Please re-read the HN guidelines. They ask you not to bait other users into downvoting you.
He only types up small portions of (apparently) long interviews, for quotes. In this case, the combination of shorthand and the camera and software is like a jump-to-where-I-mean feature for audio recordings, which sounds amazing, frankly, for this use case.
Hey there. 20 year old. Office is pretty good for writing stuff, and I prefer the power I get with it over something like Google Docs. Additionally, most people I know prefer Office over Google Docs.

However, I also use LaTeX when seriously trying to write documents, so I'm probably an outlier.
> Why should I use www?

You just shouldn't. It's a relic of the times when protocol was embedded in the URL to differentiate ftp from http or gopher.
I am building a JavaScript widget that give you access to over 10 different sources of contact data and storage services, check it out at http://www.elastic.io/product#samples
What distros are you using? I've had no problems on Gentoo and have heard similar from Arch users. Sure it doesn't play nicely with the wider ecosystem (understatement), but it's been a long while since I could agree that Steam on Linux sucks.
Often one does not need 10 reasons, 1 is enough if it's critical enough.

For my case the missing libs in py3 world are

* boto (AWS interface)
* pika (RabbitMQ interface)

Yes, supervisor too, but it can run in a separate Python 2 env.

It's also about fear that next package that we need to progress faster might not support py3.

But confidence builds over time and the list of
Python 3 packages will only improve over time. It will converge to one single Python 3, there is absolutely no doubt.
An Academic Psychologist's Defense of Facebook
> "The only way to approach something new is though analogy, right? I can't think of any other way."

That's certainly true to an extent, but it also strikes me as the sort of thing you're a lot more likely to hear from a philosopher than a mathematician. Sure, you could try to understand computers by drawing analogies to televisions and typewriters and everything else that they can emulate, but that approach will always miss the rather fundamental concept of what it means for a machine to be a universal computer, capable of building complex processes out of a very small set of very simple operations. The analogies only serve as our inspiration for which algorithms to implement and what meaning to ascribe to the result of a computation that the machine was always capable of performing. You can gain useful knowledge about the capabilities of computers in a bottom-up fashion starting with a simple instruction set and building things, just like mathematicians can start with a set of axioms and explore their implications ad infinitum.
You don't press escape to enter a mode, you press escape to leave another mode and return to normal mode.

Most vim users are only in insert mode when... inserting text.
Expanding on this: emphasis on support from the community is a mechanism to maintain the status quo. If you are part of a wealthy/powerful community, you can take risks and get the payoff. If you're not, your best bet is to try and conform and join such a powerful community - but you may not be able to.

If you're the only X-believer in a community of Y-believers and you get cancer, well, it's not that the Y-believers want you to die, it's just that you're not part of their church and hence your fundraiser will get nowhere.

This is not a good system.
And at the same time, some people say it is. I think you and they are both right.
The population of San Francisco is 800k, so it is significantly smaller than any of those cities.

If you are talking about the entire Bay Area that is a different thing, but not really a valid comparison. The infrastructure problems in San Francisco tend to be due to it being a small city surrounded by lots of even smaller cities which dont want to play along for the greater good of the region (eg by expanding BART or shouldering the burden of homeless services). If the Bay Area as a whole was governed as a single unit a lot of these problems would be improved. But it's not.

It's a small city in an earthquake area with large hills, and uncooperative neighbors, all of which make it very difficult to build massive subway or streetcar systems.
The best answer is to use srcset (supported in Chrome 34+, Firefox 32+, Safari 8+ and Opera 22+) with a polyfill (or not, depending on your point of view) for older browsers.

Srcset lets you swap out images based on screen dimensions and the device's pixel ratio (e.g. @2x/@3x etc). An example would be:

<img src="normal.png" srcset="smaller_than_600px_wide.png 600w, smaller_than_600px_wide@2x.png 600w 2x" alt="">

This would use normal.png in older browsers, then use smaller_than_600px_wide.png on screens with a width of less than 600px, and smaller_than_600px_wide@2x on those screens where the devicePixelRatio == 2.

It's smart enough to only request the images that are needed - on a high DPI small screen only the last image would be requested.

A polyfill won't be as efficient, which may cause problems depending on how you are using it.
>> SF's financial district

See "not spending time in the right parts of San Francisco"
I find Atlassian's product offering to be incredibly lackluster. For a company that doesn't focus on having a sales team, with a $3bn+ valuation, where is the engineering resources? They have many tickets that have been outstanding for years requesting simple features like these. For example the Jira restful api doesn't support bulk editing of tickets. I'm going to learn Java so I can just write the damn plugin for it myself. I also have to say the Jira restful api could be better... custom field names return as 'customfield_22939', seriously?
> and I had plenty of financially viable options...

A very good point.
It's an interesting question about the interesting etymology of the word. It certainly doesn't show any kind of illiteracy. How could you even begin to view it that way? That' span absurd interpretation of the words.
I am a subscriber to Candy-Japan and recently Bemmu sent out a larger pack that included all these really delicious curry flavoured chips.

Maybe if you ask nicely Bemmu will start a Potata-Chip-Japan :D
This is a terrific point and goes hand in hand with all the recent criticism of twitter's new-user-onboarding experience.

I myself signed up for a twitter account years ago but never could figure out how to use it until recently, really after I read all the posts about twitter's failures and understood what I should be doing.
If you let others host their content in a subdomain, like github.com did with Github Pages, they may get your main domain cookies.
err, no we don't, sorry!
Please don't post about being downvoted on HN. As the site guidelines say, it never helps and makes for boring reading.

Downvoting happens to everybody, and most unfair downvotes are corrected after a while by other users, rendering the complaint even more pointless.
can you put up your email. I keep getting an undeliverable. sales@salesinvaders.com
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As much as I hate the rest of Office, I have to agree that Excel is way ahead of any other spreadsheet software I've ever used. That's not to say it couldn't be dislodged by something better - there's definitely a niche without a decent solution somewhere between an Excel sheet loaded with convoluted VLOOKUPs and a writing something custom with an SQL interface to a database.

I'd bet you could find a huge market for something with an interface like Excel but easily able to consistently parse/transform/create new tables.
gevent simply has the nicer API. I've never once had an issue where the monkey patching failed, or conflicted with another library. Yes, monkey patching is a dastardly and gross thing, but in practice gevent works amazingly well for 99% of use cases.

Not to mention the performance is very good, especially in the most recent version.
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The old manuals are on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/1916GreggShorthandManual-5thVers...
Good deadline, bad deadline
I'm a native english speaker I'd make the same assumptions about "ba" as you would. I'm not sure what accent "ba" would be pronounced "bay" in.
In the Play Store, OfficeSuite 7 Pro is ranked #47 among paid apps and games, is Editor's Choice, and rated 4.5 stars.

There is also: SoftMaker Office, Kingsoft Office, Docs To Go, Polaris Office, and Microsoft Office.

All of those, IIRC, are non-cloud-based.

So in the mobile/Android space, at least, it would appear that there is indeed a lot of interest still.
Gentoo on ~amd64 with open-source radeon drivers.
I think the main reason why unpronounced letters remain in English orthography is to give hints about the language of origin, which is used (usually subconsciously) to determine pronunciation.

In this case, you have explicit phonemes in some cases (especially for digraphs), and context. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out which word was intended.

interesting link: http://zompist.com/spell.html
I'm not against this thing existing, I just think people need to be fully aware of the security model and risks.
> Correct your tone or leave.

It's true that the comment you linked to was way out of line, but if you're going to ask other users to be civil, please be civil yourself. It takes restraint, but it's necessary.
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Ah, 'k, yeah, I don't do visual selection much.
I thought that at first as well (about the potential confusion), but then recalled that most of the "possible" alternatives aren't real English words:

"bah" is really only a sort of exclamation and the sound of a sheep, not something you'd really have appear in an interview.

As you pointed out, "awa(h)", "ga(h)", "sla(h)" and "sta(h)" aren't English words [1] that you'd confuse in context so "away", "gay", "slay" and "stay" are the only possibility for them. The "y" really is not necessary.

I really want to learn Gregg now...

1 "gah" like "bah" ends up being an exclamation, and "slaw" as a food... but I can't think of a case where it would be confused with "slay" in context.

EDIT: Clarification on gah, awa, etc
Since Netflix has DRM shouldn't it be always viewed as a security threat?

I.e. DRM always increases security risks, so it always should be viewed as potential malware.

UPDATE: I guess some here like DRM? That's quite surprising.
One where the graph 'a' referred to the long a sound only?
I appreciate all the comments, but how do I test people for a limited period when they will have all access to my git in order to commit things? It's so easy to get all the code/fork when I let them go with my original idea on their plate right?
This is a nice piece about engineering. However, it would be nice to see an A/B test for what the users prefer. The technical drawbacks don't seem large compared to, say, +1% better conversion rate for people seeing your URL in media and typing it into a browser.
I do all of my programming work in one terminal or another and I still disagree with you. Programming isn't about typing text.
The shorthand is based on sounds, not spellings. So the difficulty is that the brain has to translate spelling into sounds first, which is a great barrier to overcome.

There is a similar fast writing system (速写）in Chinese. I tried to learn it for a year while I was in high school, but gave it up eventually. Other than the extra difficulties of logograms vs phonograms, another barrier is that one need to translate the fast writings back to "normal" ones for easy reads later. Many times it is so hard to tell what I actually scribbled down.
FYI, bitmessage (https://bitmessage.org/) is a working implementation of this "Everyone Gets Everything" model. Maybe have a look at how they do things ?
It does not compare favorably to Washington, D. C. either.
Nope, that's too much of a stretch and doesn't pass legal muster. Just FUD. I wish we didn't see these, because it makes noise when there are real issues here.
Sundar Pichai gave some numbers during the I/O keynote, saying that 67 of the top 100 startups, 58% of the Fortune 500 and 72 of the top 100 universities have "gone Google":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wt...

I'm not sure what that means exactly and the numbers certainly encompass more than companies using Drive as a replacement of Office, but I found them suprisingly high. He also mentions a bit before that Drive now has 190 millions 30-day active users.
It's very tempting, but I am a bit of a paranoid about the Fukishima disaster still not fixed and the possible food contamination.
There are specific professions in which it comes in handy. Journalism is one of them. Every now and then, you'll encounter someone who is willing to go on the record, but for whatever reason, doesn't feel comfortable being taped. (And by "every now and then," I mean somewhat greater than half the time.) And a lot of people are put off by the act of typing into a keyboard or tablet while you're speaking to them, even if you're making eye contact all the while.

I'd say any profession in which you're on the go and often have to take notes by pen and paper, shorthand is a necessity. This is doubly true in my case, as a partial disability in my right hand makes longform pen-writing a PITA.
How to become good at SEO, though? Or is it really just adhering to HTML 5 best practices?
The film implies he was a victim and does not criticize his suicide, only the laws and people who drove him to kill himself.
Martyrdom: "a display of feigned or exaggerated suffering to obtain sympathy or admiration."
First, you're obviously a very good person. It sounds like you're trying to solve some very difficult, expensive problems. Kudos for having the courage to tackle these problems and the dedication to wipe out your own savings in the process.

However, people who are as dedicated as you still need to protect themselves. In this case, it sounds like you're experiencing some financial stress as a result of your endeavours. Not only does stress like this interfere with your personal life, but it will also make your activism less effective. We need people like you to be able to run marathons and not just 100m sprints!

My advice is to network as much as you can and find a group of likeminded people with complimentary skills. Because you're the kind of person who believes giving back is important, you're also the kind of person who can motivate others to do the same. If you can find a likeminded group of people, not only will you get access to more skills, but you'll get access to more equipment. I also suggest that you blog about your projects, tell stories about people you have helped, and ultimately treat your social endeavours like a business. Buzz will attract volunteers at first and eventually donors.

In the meantime, ruining your finances will harm the very people you want to help because if you experience financial ruin, you'll have less time and inclination to help. Therefore, focus on the types of projects you can implement in your own community, using equipment and skills you already have. It's good to dream big, but with social entrepreneurship it is more important to dream sustainably.

Edit - I won an award for some social entrepreneurship that I was involved in. If you'd like to talk with a likeminded person, my email is on my profile!
Should we care that Facebook is manipulating us?