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> Because typewriters, and therefore keyboard layouts, predate computers

Even early US computers (and typewriters before them) had relatively varied keyboard layouts, but somehow[1] they still managed to converge into the standard 104 key layout that we have today in the early 90s (and that is a quarter of century ago). What we have missed is the extension of that convergence into international community.

> There's no technical reason to not just have composable meta-keys, excepting maybe the pure number of existent diacritics [0].

> In fact, on the German keyboard, the circumflex (ˆ), acute accent (´), and grave accent (`) keys all compose with the next entered character. (That is, á is entered by pressing ´, then pressing a.)

Dead keys are fairly good solution. Indeed I counted 19 dead-key diacritics on my countrys official standard keyboard (which almost nobody uses).

[1] IBM PC/Wintel monopoly probably helped
Noted. I was negatively surprised after seeing a trend. Won't happen again.
> Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other types of reference materials often conform to a rigid and pedantically defined aesthetic. This aesthetic is more about context, appearance, intuition. Editing is an art form.

Right. That's called a "house style", which is not about correct or incorrect but rather about having a more-or-less arbitrary standard all writers must adhere to in order to make the final product more consistent.
Well ok, if you say so - the choice of words in "the world is not like that" suggested otherwise. And I guess I am being pedantic, as the whole discussion is obviously aimed at people from the US, and I fully agree with your overall point.
I understand lots of people will want to paint this as a sweeping indictment of minimum wage hikes overall but all of us here should know better than to generalize from one sample, especially one as skewed as this.

Here, we have a business that:

1. Is in a market that's been declining for decades.

2. Is in one of the most expensive cities in the United States.

3. Has a product with an essentially fixed price.

4. Sells a "commodity" product: the book you get from there is indistiguishable from the same book bought elsewhere. (Of course, the overall book buying experience is unique.)

5. Sells a product that has a digital alternative rapidly rising in popularity.

6. Is in the number #1 city in the entire world for people predisposed to prefer digital alternatives to things.

They may as well have been a cash-only store for horse-drawn carriage accessories. I'm sad they're closing, but it's amazing they lasted as long as they did and says next to nothing about large-scale economic policy.
if you can attach and debug a process through sublime text, then maybe.

as it stands there is no real replacement for visual studio (save maybe xamarin studio / mono develop)
De-Ballmerization and Microsoft is oozing delicious developer love. What the hell happened. It's like Skeletor became He-Mans best buddy all of a sudden and started helping everyone.

I'm thrilled. The MS tooling is really, really good and the only thing stopping me from committing to the stack fully has been it's lack of open sourceness (vendor lock in is still feasible but getting less of an issue).

Edit: Pardon the fanboyism but I've tried a set of feasible Non-MS language options for my particular domain and F# in Visual Studio beats for me, my particular use case and coding style Scala, Clojure, Ruby, Python, Haskell, "browser technologies"...
Name it Discovery.
The FBI have a permanent liaison with the dutch cybercrime division. Nice guy and quite competent.
> several should survive even a Chicxulub-class event

That's an interesting proposal. I'd love to read a study on that.

> But I suspect you mean something different than independent biospheres. If so, what risks are you thinking of?

Well there are degrees of independence. Perhaps "isolation" in the systems engineering sense is a better term. There are a lot of high-risk probabilities that arise as technology advances - and the Fermi paradox isn't encouraging about our chances. For some example risks, let's say grey goo, cybernetically enforced self-destructive tyranny and unexpected stable artificial black hole. In some case, the light-minutes of separation may make the difference.

It might make more sense to build an artificial orbital habitat at L5 or the like, but these seem so fragile compared to biospheres that could be constructed on Mars. Being out of the gravity well is a huge advantage, but the gravity on Mars is low enough that space elevators become a real possibility. Perhaps Ceres is a good compromise - lots of water, metal rich asteroids all around.
You've equated "college" with "education". There should be many ways to be educated without going to college. As I wrote in my blog, I never said that the college experience was valueless.

But I did suggest that it could be done cheaper and faster. And I questioned the price.
Whoops. Sorry humor police!!
This is an amazing reply, @dirktheman - thanks for sharing. Your answer is so dense that as a beginner, I'm basically spending 15 minutes reading up on each line haha. Thank you! I'll shoot back more questions.
> They are expected to spin off the Nook business and make some money (and reduce losses) from that, but I doubt it will be enough to save them in the long term.

The physical bookstores have remained profitable, the losses have all been in the Nook unit (and specifically the digital part of the Nook unit -- the college bookstores, which are tied to the Nook unit, are also profitable.)

The most recent reports have cast doubt on the plans to spin off the Nook unit given its worsening performance -- while the college bookstores could probably be spun off (or kept with the main bookstore business) successfully, there doesn't really seem to be anything for investors in the Nook business.
No, I didn't buy it.
That denies conscious thought to me. You can ask me why I do something. Go ask the beaver, see what it says.
The minimum wage is a cruel policy that makes it unprofitable to employ low skilled workers. It's great for Silicon Valley robotics engineers, and terrible for disadvantaged urban teenagers.

So, great job San Francisco voters; your ignorance of economics is exacerbating the inequality you complain about.
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> Problem?

Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8940651
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Or syntax highlighting breaking because some code you've been given has some 8K-long regex on one line in the middle.
To some people, fussing over a certain set of grammatical issues is the mark of an educated person. I remember one person who got angry with me when I responded to their lecture on the word "decimate" with a little bit of historical linguistics. Probably because it seemed like I was undermining their self-image.

What's interesting to me is which items are in the set of things to be fussed over. Split infinitives, yes. Is-doubling, no. "Decimate", yes. Any other borrowing from Latin, no. It's so arbitrary, yet some people cling to it so fiercely.
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disproving.. your second link has MongoDB at #4, which to me would make it "one of the most popular"
"Intensive purposes" (and "intense and purposes") is an eggcorn, so it's started the long walk to acceptance.

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/32/intensive-purposes/

Edit: this is a nice article about it http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/23/magazine/on-language-retur...
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You could buy lifelong supply of free lunches for the price of enterprise licence of a well known SQL database.
I don't think the beaver did itself in? It was us (or the Iroquois Confederacy anyway) that hunted them to near extinction. They got along for 10 million years just fine the way they were.
CA does not allow tips to count towards minimum wage.

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_tipsandgratuities.htm
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Most writing is structured such that you don't need to read the entire thing to get the gist of it.
Probably D&D with a human dungeon master would allow more possible actions, in the sense that NetHack only allows (a)pply, (C)all, (d)rop, (e)at, (E)ngrave, (f)ire, (P)ut on, (q)uaff, (Q)uiver, (r)ead, (t)hrow, (w)ield, (W)ear, (z)ap, #dip, #invoke, #name, #offer, and #rub actions with specific items in your main inventory (and most of those actions won't be applicable to most items most of the time). A human DM might allow many more verbs, like stacking things on top of one another, repairing items in a nonmagical way, building new devices or modifying the functionality of existing devices in a nonmagical way, pouring a liquid onto a specific object or dungeon feature (including one that can't be picked up), and a lot more.

I agree that the bot ascension is an astonishing achievement, and one I didn't expect to see for many years!
I don't have any citations handy, but there are a lot of stories, both reported in the press and relayed anecdotally, of people who got laid off during the crash and then got re-hired at lower pay once the dust settled.

On top of that, a lot of people were unemployed for a long time and then had to jump on the first offer they got, which often paid less.
Those sneaky bastards, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that they've also been dumping gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year while no one was looking :)
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Very often yes; but I can't say so about that article.
"There are probably more scientifically-minded readers here who possess a formula which will show the ridiculous number of Tsar-Bombas needed to make Venus safe for Humanity."

Not to mention the nuclear fallout that would drift for a long time all around in the atmosphere - basically anything but "safe for Humanity".
I think , he is now a potential subject for a larger "identity theft" - depending on how meticulous he has been with respect to passwords for other services.

The password could have probably been used for Dropbox , Evernote , and even mail(work and personal) - now making him completely vulnerable to a slew of attacks !

This is not as simple as changing password for netflix and walking away.
Wouldn't this story be a reason to actively research these drugs?
Moore's Law should apply, and eventually processing power should catch up. I think we'll see the 2MB limit removed by 1997/1998.
One quick question - would you also know of drone simulators that offer the ability to test out flight control algorithms?
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To Kill a Mockingbird perpetuates the idea that women make false rape accusations. We shouldn't celebrate such a hurtful topic.
Why do all threads about Atom seem to be full of people opening huge files with text editors? I've never had performance issues with Atom with a 2013 MBA.
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Wow, didn't even think about that. Huge step for the Unity project.
I found this super interesting, especially the stuff on the early evolution of the game and how various cheating ("trick") plays were used, such as hiding the ball under a player's jersey and running away with it, or suturing ball like patterns on the jerseys of players so it wasn't obvious who was carrying the ball.
How about educational licensing? I'm forever trying to fit real PM tools into my curriculum but it is hard to do.

Also subscriptions are really hard to deal with at an .edu, and at 16weeks/semester (14 really) so 4 months x $9.00 x nStudents
Tech worker salaries aren't set by the government. They're set by market forces, so why would that be something he ought to think about? Are you suggesting a government enforced salary cap on software engineering salaries? What exactly do you think you could do about high pay of software engineers? I don't understand your comment. It seems that you're understandably upset at the negative effects of rising prices, but why the focus on the high pay of others? Should everyone make the same salary?
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Question as an aspiring web developer with a moderate-high degree of comfort in Javascript, and low-moderate comfort in Ruby: would you recommend giving 100% to mastering Rails, or dabbling with Meteor from time to time?

The aim is to not get a job as a developer, but build my own projects.

Apologies if this kind of question is better suited for Stackoverflow
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Because no one wants to use a laggy text-editor, it doesn't matter how sleek and hip it is if they can't fix that.
You can watch players (and bots) play NetHack in real time:

telnet nethack.alt.org

...then hit "w" to watch games that are in progress. You might need to resize your window, and some players might be using a different character set than your terminal.

If you want to start playing, telnet there, create an account, hit "p" to play a game and then "?" to read basic help. http://nethack.alt.org/ will keep logs of your game as well as other stats.

This post also mentions previous bot attempts such as the Tactical Amulet Extraction Bot (TAEB), which is also worth looking at: http://taeb.github.io/

Warning, SPOILERS: If you're okay with spoiling the game to some extent (e.g., solutions to common puzzles, which corpses are safe to eat, strategies), check out the NetHackWiki: http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
It's great to see more example Flux projects using different implementations, but what we really need is just one larger and more sophisticated app example.

I've been adapting a React-based app to the Flux architecture for the last week or two. I constantly find myself scratching my head, especially regarding asynchronous operations that need to be reflected in the View.

It would be nice for the mock API in these examples to "simulate" a poor network connection in order to see how asynchronous error handling is best handled in each implementation, for instance.
It's not (merely) about right vs wrong, but about "destroys useful symmetries" vs doesn't, or "makes language less useful" vs doesn't.

If people start to use "up" to mean "down", that defeats the purpose of having words for them.

If a term's very existence is to provide a context-free way to disambiguate, it will be a pain when people expect you to infer the real meaning from context (cf literally).

In programming, if you accept some new idioms, but those make it hard to see if a given line of code mutates state, that will create pain for you down the line, even if it's "just the evolution of the language".
Consider the ancient Greeks and Romans... There was no Book of Zeus that the priest would read from every Sunday, the gods were useful metaphors for repeating patterns in history and human nature, and they didn't really care what you actually believed. Then along came the Christians and it wasn't enough for them, that you participated in the public rituals, you had to believe too. The Romans were perfectly happy to let people they conquered or otherwise incorporated into the Empire to do as they pleased, exchanging gods and legends willy-nilly. Judaism was fine with the Romans. That put the Christians and the Romans on a collision course. So I see this as a return to the old ways.
I see no problem with Angular, but at the moment 1.x is dead tech, and 2.x is not here yet. So it's difficult to start a new project with Angular without feeling a bit nervous.
What school accepts people for a second bachelors? I have been seriously thinking of doing that but I thought most schools didn't accept people for a second bachelors.
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I remember them every Memorial Day, and shed a single tear for them.

That's one tear for all of them, not one for each. And it's a metaphorical tear, not an actual tear. If you really want to be accurate, it's more like a metaphorical grim and wistful expression, with a tantalizing moistening of the eyes, followed by uncharacteristically rapid blinking. It's very sad, yes, but it's not like those words are dead--they just have severe brain damage and will need arduous custodial care for a few more decades, until they can safely be allowed out on their own again.

Truth be told, I was actually thinking about my dear old deceased dog in that metaphor, because my eyes are actually rather dry otherwise. I use the same trick when I wear contacts. And I always get Memorial Day and Labor Day confused. One is at the start of summer, and the other is at the end. So I might have accidentally metaphorically shed an almost-tear for all of them on Labor Day. They will be missed. Because, by choice, I don't ever visit them at their assisted living facility. Or write them. Or write to them.
Sometimes I forget that they did the Shared Source release several years ago. However, once in a while I see it mentioned in an academic paper.

Point being, the most common reason companies give for not releasing source for a project is that they have code from contractors that they aren't able to release. That shouldn't be the case with Windows.
Labor force participation rate should be dropping. The baby boomers just started to retire. Since they make up a much larger proportion of the population than their age range implies.
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The difference is $7/person. If the tool saves them 10 minutes over the course of a month, it's paid for itself.

It's more like paying a construction worker $100 an hour and then giving him a hammer that costs $5 instead of $10, but only drives nails at half the speed because it's too light.
> Consider the recent acceptance of the ironic usage of "literally" to mean "figuratively".

This description always bugs me, because the description is inaccurate. The examples usually given are not ironic usages of "literally" to mean "figuratively", they are figurative usages of literally to mean "almost as if literally" (that is, figurative uses of "literally" to minimize the figurative character of some other figurative expression.)

It is also not recent, at all. Its been going on literally forever.
Super impressed with it. I've been using it for a few months and this product has evolved quickly.
Nice idea but not sure about the execution, the generated poster looks just like minified code. Something is missing...
I'm not sure those two statements are related. I don't see how having .NET open sourced is directly effecting Microsoft's bottom line. I like getting free stuff too, but that doesn't man it is necessarily profitable for the company.
Here is the opposing view: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/17/t....
On the other hand, a high proportion of the most vigorously-defended aspects of the English language are at best unnecessary to aid understanding, and at worst arcane irregularities which survive as shibboleths to distinguish speakers by their level of education.
Potentially Microsoft could use their significant market power to convince other companies to open source their code.
Fucking wah. What do you want, another cryptocurrency?
dutchbrit - Just before things blow up ; it might be useful to recollect what other services use the same username / password ( and fix them all as well ). Mails / Banking / Wealth Management ( like personal capital , wealth front , Mint etc ) and Money Transfer ( Western Union etc) , online shopping accounts that have saved information of your credit card - And Change the password for all of those too.

If you are a programmer - make sure no one logged into any of your AWS ( or any such public cloud accounts) and generated another pair of keys. You might not realize anything now , but the attack might come when you totally dont expect it. They might spin up instances and have a few 1000 $ swiped on your card. ( Amazon will still charge you in these scenarios )
Silverlight's implementation of WPF runs on OS X already so presumably a lot of the ground work, at least for an OS X port, exists. I'd buy a copy of VS for Mac in a heartbeat.
NYT covers these engineers and their immigration status last month:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/opinion/the-cruel-waste-of...

For Wired:

> "What will you say," [Ira Mehlman] asks, "to an American kid who does not get into a state university and whose family cannot afford a private college because that seat and that subsidy have been given to someone who is in the country illegally?"

I would say, "We need to restore state college funding to the level it was when Ira Mehlman went to college; to make practical advanced education accessible to all, because it's the best investment we can make in our nation"
> when the results are the same.

Of course, if the results are the same, you should decide on price.

But software isn't a commodity product. Each one has strengths and weaknesses. I'm just surprised at the amount of price sensitivity considering a difference of 30 seconds a day between one tool and the other more than makes up for the price difference.
This site (edit: I mean the site of the current URL) seems to have stolen the content and contains no attribution. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/turing-papers-tha... has the story, so we changed to that, but its paywall seems worse than what HN will tolerate, so we put it back. This is unsatisfactory.

Can anyone suggest a better URL?

Edit: Sorry, it seems I got this wrong and the original post was just fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8993631.
(That might mean it was other sites ripping off MKWeb and not the other way around. So I'm glad we didn't change the URL after all.)
Really like the idea and just had this thought: why not just present the code in color, normally indented (so not like minified) and in your favorite theme (such as Solarized Dark) in a long portrait format poster, then put some glossy finish on it and I'd buy instantly.
Took a class on A/B testing...paid off during an interview for data analyst position
You're getting downvoted, but I think it's not because your claim lacks merit; rather the book perpetuates many ideas, of which that may be one. I'm sure fans of the book don't wish to perpetuate falsehoods surrounding a topic like rape, but they may naturally take a different perspective on what is being celebrated by sharing this news.
:) Or Lisp OS :)
Great, thanks for passing this along.
Note that there's a newer standard out for HomePlug devices (AV2): http://www.homeplug.org/tech-resources/hpav2_next_gen/ . I believe certified devices started showing up for sale not too long ago
It depends on your usage. Sure, source files are (hopefully) not going near that size, but many people regularly open multiple-MB log files or data files.

Also, for me at least, it's the principle of the thing -- we are talking about a measly few MB of text; if you can't even open that, IMO something has gone horribly wrong.
Just because something has been hidden in plain sight doesn't mean it isn't being hidden. Many people dig no deeper than the news headlines and I do think this has been abused in different areas to mislead the public.
Musically I'd say it's like sampling a classic hit and getting rich off someone else's hook.
That's a really interesting prospect, we hadn't really thought about educational licensing because we weren't sure of the applications. But we'll definitely keep that in mind
For side small side projects, where you want start and move quickly - I totally recommend Meteor. Before knowing _any_ framework I started reading on Meteor - and literally in hours, I had a simple app.

(Actually, it's how I use it. I am mainly data scientist; I do some webdev, but its not my main thing.)