skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe there's some obscure federal law prohibiting cameras inside the actual buildings? Who knows...
Unfortunately not, XSL isn't really my thing. I'd probably consider trying to go via LaTeX, but that's because I like the way LaTeX looks out of the box and probably isn't appropriate for most things.
One of the things I loved about moving to Australia was all of the houses with 10 or 12 foot ceilings. I live in a place with 12 foot ceilings now and I love it. I definitely find I feel more calm and relaxed.
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It's still reproducible just by substituting the top function for the stable alternative we use: http://pastebin.com/D3S6SYBM. Haxe 3.1.3 on OSX.
It's history (https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/history/5250?page=3) shows the first edit to be on April 13, 2011 @ 3:31 PM.
I spent a summer working on a peach farm in the packing house. It was hard work. The next summer I worked as a life guard at a private club, which was over all incredibly easy (and I got paid more). It was transparent which life I'd rather lead.

Fast forward 20 years, and as "hard" as I work in software and mobile games, it's never been as soul crushing as working on the farm for minimum wage, with absurdly strict owners. (I once got yelled at for looking at the clock on the wall behind me when we were in a lull.)

My now father-in-law has been a farmer for 60+ years. He has never had much money and still works the fields.

He works hard. I'm pretty sure I only did once, 22 years ago.
I am not sure if and where I disagree with you or if I just misunderstand you. I don't see the distinction you are drawing between "Spreading the work as evenly as possible" and "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". But I also don't think that this is the heart of Marxism but it is about getting rid of the possibility to exploit workers by the possession of the means of production by a small elite. Likewise I don't see that Marxism necessarily implies some kind of centralization or inefficiency, i.e. I don't think there is a contradiction between free or partially regulated markets and Marxism, they look almost orthogonal to me.
As well as my portable keyboard I keep a small non-slip mat folded up in my bag, to sit the keyboard on top of.
They guy who is marketing this keyboard is responsible for selling keyboards, so he lists them in the order of likelihood that the reader owns one. Speaking exactly, only 71 people on Earth actually have Windows tablets, so mentioning them first would only serve to make the author seem like a corporate toolbag of the highest order.
HPMOR is available as a podcast also - http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/.
No, please no this is terrible.
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"Your airplane is so expensive!"

"But your bicycle is so slow!"
As well as the teardown, the disclaimer is pretty interesting too:

> We love the FBI. We've worked with them on several occasions to fight crime and locate criminals. We've helped them with instructions on gaining entry into certain devices. We have nothing against them, and we hope they don't come after us for publishing this teardown.
Microsoft Foldable keyboard
What is DCC, in this context?

I tried to find it in google, but the acronym is very ubiquitous.
You've said this more than once, but you are completely wrong. 'Crystal' is Methamphetamine HCl. Desoxyn is Methamphetamine HCl. They are exactly, 100% the same chemical.

If your issue is with smoking vs. other methods of ingesting, we can talk - but that doesn't make them 'different drugs' any more than Nodoz is a different drug to Caffeine in coffee - Desoxyn being smokeable too, of course, though I'm not sure who would bother.
The facts and figures generally don’t support the rose-tinted political view of work. Studies consistently show how jobs keep many of us poor while also making us ill, stressed, exhausted and demoralised

This whole article is a ridiculous strawman. People don't advocate hard work for its own sake (or if they do, this viewpoint isn't politically influential). They promote hard work for what it brings, that is, whatever the worker produced.

Graeber's essay is wrong. There are no "bullshit jobs". From the employer's point of view, why would they hire someone if hiring that person wasn't profitable? Does he really think businesses put the ideology of everyone having a job over profit?
I'll definitely have to give that a read.

Have you seen this Marc Kushner talk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hha0NsYXS5c&feature=share

Would love to hear what you think. He kind of argues that historical buildings are no longer the best ones nor the only way for us to build great things. And that "Architecture is not about math or zoning — it's about visceral emotions."
Like you, I also own a small BT keyboard for casual use when traveling; but I actually bought a $15 no-brand one on ebay, and it works fine.

I think there's definitively a professional market that can afford to pay well for something only used occasionally. It's just not mass-market.
Sounds similar to this project to build an open source stenographic keyboard:

http://stenosaurus.blogspot.com/
They pretty much started the company "reinventing" something invented before at Dartmouth College.

Then they went on to "reinvent" CP/M for the IBM-PC.

They "reinvent" pretty much everything they do.
Can you give examples of this kind of job, other than those created directly by the government?
Yet another keyboard with staggered keys. How come are all keyboard manufacturers going out of their way to complicate the layout by staggering the keys? It makes absolutely no sense, and only contributes to inefficient typing and wrist fatigue.

I would pay so much for a notebook with straight/matrix keyboard.

This is what it could look like:

http://imgur.com/9KomLMg
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Are there really people seriously believing that work is more than a means to an end?

Probably, but this argument is mainly a strawman to avoid debating actual classical economics. The classical viewpoint is that no job would exist if it didn't serve some useful purpose, and requiring people to find a job instead of getting welfare, is a way of preventing people using other people's tax dollars for their sustenance, instead of getting it by performing some useful task for someone else.
I left this out from the parent post because it's a subjective judgment, but I absolutely disagree that he's a "great" writer, or even anything really more than "serviceable" at best.
These are almost only ever found in old houses (pre 1970). The reason for high ceilings is cooling - Australia in general is a pretty warm place and cooling is ever a problem. I live in a property that was built in 1929 and it has 11 foot ceiling and is cool enough in summer that I don’t have air conditioning.

After 1970 the regulations were changed and all the houses were built with 8 foot ceilings to save money. I hate these low ceilings as they feel totally oppressive.
The stamp machines surreptitously took portraits of users in 2004, it's likely the self-service package kiosks do too.

https://epic.org/privacy/postal/
Coffee shops, usually. Then again I usually travel around the city on foot, so the keyboard allowed me to avoid carrying the laptop around.
If anything, I'd prefer using the many other folding keyboards out there, ones that don't have a huge gap between the two halves when unfolded and thus feel far more like a regular (laptop) keyboard with respect to key spacing etc.

The B key is usually in the middle, and I've always used my right hand to hit it, so this isn't a keyboard I'd want to use.
I thought I was missing something because I only hear great things about it but I couldn't stand it. I tried twice to read it but could never understand the appeal. It's nice to know I'm not alone.
Emo Player reads your emotional and wakefulness state as you listen to music
BLE and Bluetooth are not really that related.
> Speaking exactly, only 71 people on Earth actually have Windows tablets

Was that necessary?
Please stop breaking the build
Hate to inform you that anyone can be classified as "irregular" regardless of how innocent/harmless you are... Just ask all the black lives matters and occupy protesters who are currently getting harassed.
Cool! Any examples of using AsciiDoc for math or scientific notes? (I.e. with formulae, references...)
I feel the same. I have worked in agricultural jobs and it is really hard work - work so hard that even when young and fit you end the day so tired that you want to sleep as soon as the sun goes down. About the only positive out of this experience is it does make me really appreciate the cushy lifestyle I have now :)
There are updates of new features on his blog:
http://www.sleepingbeastgames.com/blog/

But no recent financials that I can see. Spaceteam was a breath of fresh air in the mobile game space and I'm glad he's enjoying success.
And here is one of the many problems with government surveillance: prior to the Snowden papers, I would be completely open-minded about the legitimacy of these actions.

But knowing what we know now about the scope of extra-judicial surveillance, I am incredibly grateful that the journalists blew the whistle.

The US government and all of its actors have lost the presumption of good faith, and it's a useful thing to possess.
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Smartphones and tablets are at least 15 years old too. Bill Gates used to run around CES telling everyone that tablets were the future.

Anyway, for the "Post PC era" to truly take off, we're going to need portable wireless keyboards that "just work". Tablets are going to replace desktops for most people, once we figure out how to attach better input devices. The Microsoft keyboard does appear to be a big step in the right direction, if it actually works.
> Like a videogame, start small and have young children earn new “levels” of responsibilities, like going from sorting clothes to earning the right to use the washing machine.

I feel like kids are smarter than this. When my mom made me start doing my own laundry at age 12 I did not feel like I was winning at life.

> Talk about chores differently. For better cooperation, instead of saying, “Do your chores,” Dr. Rende suggests saying, “Let’s do our chores.” This underscores that chores are not just a duty but a way of taking care of each other.

I completely agree with this. I think this was the biggest piece missing from the way chores worked in my family. We had a cleaning lady and my mom had her clean less and less of the house as we got older in order to teach us responsibility via chores. But it was a very individualized thing and always felt like an artificially engineered scenario.
Are there any detailed reviews on textblade from actual humans? Googling around i find only copy-paste advertisements, and to say that their website doesn't fill me with confidence would be a massive understatement.
Companies with a flat structure are weird
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Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about.

My dim understanding of the issues leads me to consider a conflict. Pi is more or less considered to be more or less random, or some flavor of random, notwithstanding known patterns of Pi. "Random," to me, sounds a lot like "unorganized."

A book is definitely organized. A larger book is highly organized (entropically speaking). So while you probably can find the same sequence of words in a two-word or ten-word or other small book in Pi, at some point you get a book that's too highly organized to appear in Pi.

However, Pi is also infinite, so it's infinitely possible to find any sequence. (This sounds really hand-wavy to me).

But since Pi is infinite, then isn't it also infinitely unorganized?
To me this looks indistinguishable from:

http://www.amazon.com/iWerkz-Universal-Foldable-Bluetooth-44...

Available now at half the price.
In practice, everybody will just say "OpenBSD httpd" and there will be little to no name confusion.
And the corruption; police who search your house randomly to find ot you use drugs which were placed there by police to fill their quotas, or your car. Or judges who were working with private jails. Or police officer who shoots you because you get out of your car. Or you were killed by police becouse your neigberhoods thought that you were Muslims making bomb, in fact you were watching Conan lights closed. Or you know that you are innocent but the hearing is once per 3 months and that makes your life suck. You are that taxi driver, you carry that killer, well fuck you, will question evry detail for 12 hours and we'll make you talk about him...
Are people finally realizing how terrible touch interfaces are? Is it really happening?

Now someone needs to reinvent the mouse to go with this keyboard!
In my experience LaTeX is quite poor at separating content from presentation, at least when you're unwilling to rely on the default styles. All the layout commands are context-sensitive, so I often end up writing presentation code in the middle of my content, or accidentally breaking the layout by moving content around.
The MS Explorer trackball had a large surface area, was located at the top and could be used by multiple fingers or even the palm.
I'm a grown man and still have to ask my mom how to use her washing machine when I'm there.
I agree. My preferred phrasing uses “we” (we are working on this code together) instead of “you” (you are working on this code and I am telling you off) and is usually a sort of polite suggestion with concrete justification. For example:

Another thread could have modified ‘x’ between when we test the condition and when we take the lock, so we should test that ‘x’ is ‘NULL’ if ‘y’ is true here, and if not, sleep and retry.
I used a device with a keyboard like that.

It's horrible! Very uncomfortable, and it's missing a sort of "feel" that tells you where the keys are.
So optimising compilers are becoming more important, not less, then.

Edit: to clarify, the interesting thing about that blog is not the cross language interop magic, though that is pretty cool, it's that a smart compiler that can compile C and ruby together simultaneously can delete vast swathes of abstraction and overhead to produce radical speedups, just through better optimisation. So whilst things might not be moving very fast in the world of more traditional compilers, research compilers with a focus on dynamic languages are still showing big speedups. It's a bit early to proclaim the death of optimising compilers just yet, though perhaps I've just misunderstood the abstract. I'm not sure the latest hanging fruit for compiler developers is using more and more exotic machine instructions
I like that. That's the reality and they face it.

That's much better than corporate-speak from lala land where there's only Surface tablet and Windows phones.
MS board's corporate strategy is to prioritize cloud services over client operating systems and hardware. Hence the client-neutral messaging.
"Don't be such a Negative Nancy" - If you hate work and chores yourself, do you really think your kids are going to develop a better attitude than you?
An interesting article but frustrating to read as a non-linguist/grammaticist.

While it's about the incorrect usage of the word "lain", the article only actually uses "lain" correctly once in a sentence ("Those skeletons had lain under that supermarket for centuries"). Additionally, the article uses but doesn't really define the terms "transitive" or "past participle"; ignorance of which are the key sources of confusion for regular speakers.
Would be very interesting to see a Docker container using this, so we could compare performance with the Mono one.
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Can you recommend some alternative writers that fill the role better?

I think his writing has two particular things going for it:

- He explains concepts clearly with understandable examples.

- He presents concepts that aren't (or weren't) well known outside of academia to a wider audience.
Or this one at $30.

http://www.amazon.com/Perixx-PERIBOARD-805L-Bluetooth-Foldin...
First hit of this query: https://www.google.com/search?q=irc+dcc
Is all the required software onboard the device itself? I thought it was using some kind of paired application to handle processing the input.

edit:

>With the TextBlade, WayTools can deliver over-the-air updates to keep firmware up to date, something that's not possible with most keyboards. The TextBlade will have more functions six months after it's released than it does today. For example, one upcoming update will add multi-device support, and that update is coming a few weeks after launch.

Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/03/06/hands-on-with-the-textbl...

So it seems that there is enough brain inside the device to handle it all, if I'm reading that correctly. Interesting.
I have more than one friend or loved one with a serious psychiatric diagnosis. They, and some other pretty smart folks I know, have sometimes remarked that they might have been perfectly happy, or at least accepted rather than stigmatized by their neighbors if only they had been born as hunter-gatherers or nomadic pastoralists where they could be shamans or something.

Anyway, I'm rooting for you bro.
South Korea has been trying to have a go at this (following patterns in the France, the U.S., Australia, Brazil, etc.) and establish Sejong City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejong_City

However, the high court ruled that it was illegal to move the capital from Seoul to Sejong, so most of the government offices will move anyways, but the capital and some key ministries will stay in Seoul. In effect, South Korea now has two capitals.
I wish I could claim to be a toddler when it came out. :(
Links for whoever is interested:

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meek-amazon:
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I believe you confuse ergonomics with personal preferences.

Ergonomics means literally the "law of work" and was a science devoted to study how to improve productivity of people without breaking them, basically.

Then ergonomics' discoveries proved useful for other areas.

Now, tall mechanical keys are a personal preference of you, but this does not mean it being the best way to do it.

One question, is that really a personal preference or it is just the way you had been trained to use a keyboard?. Remember your first keyboard, how it was? it was tall with mechanical keys? how much time have you been using(trained on)tall mechanical keys keyboards?

I used to prefer working sitting down precisely before studying human factors and ergonomics. Working standing up looks terrible unhealthy until you dive into the data and realize that most of the problems comes from women using heels while working.

Then I discovered that the remainder of workers standing and moving while in work are in fact healthier than those that work sitting down. Sitting down all day is terrible for your health.

So I started working standing up a little and using a stool the rest of the time, put my computer at eye level.

At first I preferred the old way, because I had been trained since child for working sitting down. But one or two months later, when my body has adapted, I discovered the benefits were enormous. No way I could go back.

It is difficult for people to change a habit, but young people are raised with tablets and they will find awkward the concept of tall mechanical keys. After using Apple's keyboards for long I do too.
Very true. That's why there is so much competition to get into HYP (harvard, yale, princeton) as undergrad, then take easy courses or courses with 'private booklets, or even hire people to do assignments, get top grades. Finally, get a job in those blue chip IB or consulting, etc.

It is a big game, played very well by those who know. People are sold "meritocracy" bullshit. Even economist ran an article called "Heriditary meritocracy"
I like the pitch and the objectives stated here. The monthly funding model is a good fit for this sort of thing where users will want ongoing maintenance and improvement for their middleware.

Demo doesn't work well in Firefox (latest, Developer Edition) on Win8.1 x64, though. Z-buffering looks totally busted and the framerate is bad.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jymr2vr8ip52tw5/Screenshot%202015-...
If it wasn't advertised in Antic, Byte, Creative Computing, or Dr. Dobbs then I wouldn't of heard about it.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9204724
I was also skeptical (despite pre-ordering) until this review came out. http://www.macrumors.com/2015/03/06/hands-on-with-the-textbl...
> It means that basically any toy scripting language can have similar performance to, say, Javascript on V8, just by writing the base interpreter with their framework.

That actually sounds a lot like what RPython from PyPy enables.
Okay cool that they showed an iPhone and not just MSFT devices.
> And this is Fox News.

Different Fox News than the one everyone loves to watch and hate. (Instead of ignore.)
Thanks! We thought long and hard about how to fund the whole thing, and open sourcing + ongoing funding ended up looking like the best solution indeed.

That's quite the weird rendering bug. Everything works fine here in Firefox stable (tested on both Windows 7 and 8.1). Probably a driver issue of some sort? We're really not doing anything fancy, just using the default basic mesh material of Three.js and simple meshes.
> compared to a 5inch touchscreen and for $99?

You can find foldable bluetooth keyboards on AliExpress/DealExtreme/etc. for roughly 2/3 to 1/2 that price. Probably not BT 4.0 though.
I think NaNs tend to pollute results more effectively than denormals. However NaNs can be trapped easily by enabling the appropriate floating-point exceptions so that they turn into crashes.

Note that on most CPUs flush-to-zero is a CPU state so it's not really a default of a compiler, but of a run-time. Also, it is a per-thread state, so you can end up with code that runs faster (and with different results) on one thread from another!

I'm glad you liked the articles. There have actually been several in the Floating Point category since then. I think this one is the most important:
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...
but the entire set is available ehre:
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/category/floating-point/
As some others have suggested here I highly recommend checking out the textblade. Not only do I think the design is better but your money is also going to a better home rather than to a large corporate that has a dubious reputation at the best of times.
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I never underestimate Microsoft hardware, it's usually among the best in the business.

This looks fabulous. In fact, with my big Android phone (note 3), an X Server, a Terminal app and Servers Ultimate Pro, I can basically bring everything I do at work with me in my pocket.

In fact I should give this a try http://linuxonandroid.org/ and be done with the whole mess. Though this will get you pretty far http://kevinboone.net/android_nonroot.html

Combined with an MHL to HDMI adapter I can even use a real monitor.
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