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This is really cool! I could really use a longer gameplay video though to get a hang of how the screen mapping works.
stack looks solid, coroutine, stats, and utilities, i'm interested in giving it a spin. some interesting libraries in there i haven't seen before. even then its hard to reconcile statements like native gevent (sans monkey) with libraries like flask (thread locals) or even the std lib. one of the main benefits of gevent vs twisted or other async libs is the ability to actual reuse the python ecosystem via a handful of monkey patched modules, a position which this stack effectively disavows.
In Haskell: isLower $ toUpper 'ß' is True. I wonder how many security holes this unexpected behaviour causes.
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As someone who relies heavily on the Ruby ecosystem to do my job day-to-day, this is really interesting. But I can't tell from the site what exactly it's doing. Are the membership "dues" going to fund an individual (André?) or a team to work on this full-time? Part-Time? Can I influence with my membership which projects my money is allocated towards? Will the accounting for the money be published within the "membership"?

As it's presented, I have too many questions to even begin to be able to put this in front of my organization and feel comfortable that what I'm pitching provides good value for the money spent.
Well, no. I think this example show that the best interface is no graphical interface. If the key of my car were some physical button or combination on my phone it would be better than real keys. Real keys are better than an app because I can feel then in my pocket, take them out and own the door, fire the engine without looking at them.

Actually all terminal, vin, emacs, got, etc users here probably agree: best interface for advanced interaction with complex system is still the console. I would configure and program and repair my futuristic car from a remote keyboard and black screen. Then it will open the doors by nfc when my phone is close enough. And if on the move, I'll reprogram it from a term app in my phone.
I see this argument a lot: programmers working at for-profit companies writing proprietary software feel restricted because they can't use someone else's work to their advantage. Of course, these same programmers don't have a problem with proprietary software licensing. I don't understand this viewpoint. Copyleft software is bad but proprietary software is okay?
I was thinking about starting the anti-windows party to campaign for banning glass in architecture, just to see how dedicated people are to the premise of reducing bird deaths caused by human structures.
I'll give it a chance as soon as I can add simple extensions (like ublock, vim bindings, etc). And when they make the UI not look unfinished. Maybe it's silly, but those ugly square tab things look like a prototype before the design team had their turn. Petty as that is, I really find it annoying. Also not a fan of sharing the address bar with tabs, but that's minor in comparison. (I used IE for a long time, until well after Chrome was shipped, so I'm not inherently biased.)
I agree that in most applications, especially outdoor related, having higher CRI is much more useful than having, say, +30% lumen output. That is why I try to select flashlights with neutral / high CRI LEDs. My current go-to torches which happen to be also latest acquisitions:

- Surefire P6 body; bored to accept 18650 battery with McClicky upgrade and P60 / Nichia NVSL219B drop-in from customlites.com. Very bright with a nice hotspot. I use it to do a walk-around check of a small Cessna before flying at night. You don't want to miss those missing rivets.

- EAGTAC D25C Clicky Ti. Not a fan of a reverse-clicky but a moonlight mode is very useful in low light situations when it's crucial to preserve night vision. And it's also small and has a nice clip to carry around.

- Fenix FL50 headlamp. Accepts CR123 and AA batteries and has a nice beam pattern.

Two of those have Nichia 219 which I think is an awesome LED if you need good color rendering.
Roads don't support an infinite density of traffic. You can build all the parking you want in SOMA, but driving there will remain soul crushing.
I've noticed that SVG performance in Firefox is about 10x slower than Chrome -- is that what d3 is using?
That's news to me. Perhaps I'll have better luck finding words like "chancho" in a dictionary; I'll be right to look in the c's!
It all depends on your needs - if you want a better typing experience while on the go, the Kinesis is probably one of the worst keyboards for that particular scenario, and it's where the Atreus shines.

I've forked the Atreus for my own preferences (http://imgur.com/a/sCwcP), but use an Ergodox at home, and am currently working on a fork of the Ergodox for work. I'd love to try a Kinesis out, but I'm extremely happy with building my own keyboards and customizing them to my exact needs.
Thanks!
You can get a free version for iOS, Android and Blackberry...
(Same as paid version, just no bonus ships)
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I can survive on milliseconds of sleep every night. Preferably 27 to 28 million milliseconds, if you have to be so picky.
Elon Musk: Eventually, Cars You Can Actually Drive May Be Outlawed
Or ... you could get a tenkeyless keyboard
To me that sounds much easier than an autonomous car that has to work any time, deal with pedestrians, things falling off other cars, rain, snow, ice and many other unpredictable factors.
And we may even have more than one set of collation rules within the same language.

E.g. Norwegian had two common ways of collating æ,ø,å and their alternative forms ae, oe and aa. Phone books used to collate "ae" with æ, "oe" with ø and "aa" with å, while in other contexts "ae", "oe" and "aa" would often be collated based on their constituent parts. It's a lot less common these days for the pairs to be collated with æøå, but still not unheard of.

Of course it truly becomes entertaining to try to sort out when mixing in "foreign" characters. E.g I would be inclined to collate ö together with ø if collating predominantly Norwegian strings, since ö used to be fairly commonly used in Norway too, but these days you might also find it collated with "o".
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Eh, not totally. For instance, the backoffice UI of Umbraco CMS was rewritten using Angular or something, and now it's just...slow. Unreasonably sluggish. I've seen other work from agencies with no 3rd party dependencies that use all this crazy JS and animations that unless you're on a top line MacBook, it's just sluggish.

I've been using the web for a long time, and while loading was slow, I don't remember UIs feeling so sluggish and unresponsive.
There was a lot of fussing and moaning over tech buses using Muni stops, but that got resolved legally (even if people aren't all happy about it).

You should bear in mind that for a lot of similar startups (e.g., Uber) there's a sort of "we'll sort the legal stuff out later" attitude that, so far, has tended to work out well for them..
That guy is the last holder of an old jitney license. The ban was enacted by not issuing any new licenses. People who already had them were allowed to keep operating.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-One-Man-Traffic-Buster-...

http://www.yelp.com/biz/jess-losa-jitney-97-san-francisco
The Kinesis Advantage also has no numeric pad, so that there is less travel for your hand to the mouse. I've had one for two years, and am a huge fan.
"in My Fair Lady (based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion)" which of course draws on Ovid's Metamorphoses poem about Pygmalion from ancient Greek tradition.
Ask HN: Is deploying Erlang web applications to a public PaaS viable?
For the sake of argument, let's assume Heroku. Although plenty of buildpacks exist, many are outdated or have various idiosyncrasies in how they mandate project structure and environments, though this can be addressed by modification.

Practical Erlang deployments have all been complicated, large-scale endeavors, involving multi-node setups, clustering and so forth.

Yet the deployment and provisioning convenience of a PaaS cannot be understated, despite the inherent loss of flexibility and being subordinate to high level quotas set by the provider.

I know for a fact that hosting Erlang apps on Heroku means you lose said multi-node advantages, along with incurring limits on concurrent connections.

My question is: Is it worth it for an end-user facing web app built on the platform with rather special considerations that is Erlang (whether it be driven by a raw web server like Cowboy or Yaws, or a framework such as N2O, Nitrogen or Chicago Boss) to be hosted on and withstand moderate traffic on a PaaS like Heroku, or will the operations and debugging costs prove too great? What detailed list of caveats must I be aware of? Any successful stories of such setups?

Thank you in advance.
What happens when drones get much more powerful processors
I have fond memories of this compiler: C was my first programming language, and LCC-Win32 was the compiler I used.
Trolls cross the lines.

"If you don't agree with the person who made this video why are you posting here?!?! Get a life troll!"

Trolls is the heroes of the internet, the diversity.
That's something worth mentioning as an addendum to a more substantive comment. Making it the sole basis of your comment is the epitome of short-sightedness. As the proverb has it, when a finger points at the moon, only the fool looks at the finger.
I think those thing all on their own is not the hard problem - the hard problem is deciding whether to avoid the child crossing the street by driving over the cliff or slamming into the oncoming traffic...
It's really not a hard technical problem at this point. It's mostly social and political. Think about the typical car out there:

- You need a piece of plastic and metal to unlock it. Losing that object is a serious inconvenience, especially if you're on a road trip. Compare that to unlocking your cellphone or your bank account.

- It doesn't have a "settings" functionality. For example, you can't configure a car to refuse to move if a seatbelt is unbuckled. Such a feature (perhaps a default that you can disable if you really want to) would save many lives.

- It would be easy to write an app to help you optimize your driving for safety / fuel efficiency if you could download data that most cars have, but you can't.

- Your car could warn you if you're approaching a red light or a stop sign and not slowing down. It's trivial, and it would save lives.

These are just a few examples of ways in which most cars in the market are archaic and inefficient. This is mostly because of two reasons: the incumbents have no incentive to make changes that don't increase sales, and governments don't pressure car manufacturers to include state-of-the-art life saving technology until it has existed for a LONG time and everyone knows about it:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/federal-legislati...

The difficulty in making self-driven cars the norm is mostly about the politics of the transition.
Consider a door with a handicap button. The interface is: press button, door opens. Now consider a door with a motion sensor, the new interface is: walk towards door, door opens.

This is basically an example of eliminating an interface. You rarely think about these interfaces because they just do the right thing. Many very simple operations have interfaces, and you can sometimes streamline or remove those interfaces using simple mechanisms.
It's really weird for this sort of parallel invention to happen independently due to corporate secrecy, rather than because of free exchange of ideas and designs. Also: all of these working VR headsets are coming out of the woodwork after decades of being insufficiently immersive.
Can you elaborate on what MS would gain by tossing their rather fine kernel and using Linux/BSD? Particularly since that'd lose the massive amount of hardware support from current drivers.
Also, construction zones, traffic cops, parking garages
That's just a dark scenario of parent's problem.
>I cant work out if Formula E with completely autonomous cars would be interesting, or really boring...

in various papers there are announcements of how robots discover cooperative behavior ... I somehow expect that with further development of AI the robots should also discover the benefits of the opposite behavior too :)
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This reminds me of a game I wrote for Ludum Dare a while back:

http://0fps.net/2011/09/13/ludum-dare-21-results/

The title of the game was "Help! I'm trapped in a compact riemannian manifold"

You can grab the source for it on GitHub, though the build process is pretty janky as I wrote it in 48 hours and wasn't very careful with the distribution:

https://github.com/mikolalysenko/ludum-dare-21
Have you tried pressing those buttons in the lower right hand corner of the keyboard?
> Thoughts?

Yes. We should take methodological criticism seriously.

If the methodology is flawed, why should effort be put into searching for hypotheses? If the methodology is flawed, then the results are not valid, and any hypotheses are meaningless as well.
What I don't understand is why the smartphone is the server. Naïvely, I'd expect the server to be the Raspberry Pi, and for clients to be the smartphones. Clients connect to the server and push content which the server displays on the screen. Something like X11, in other words. Looking at what the application does, I don't even think it would be that difficult to convert it to an architecture like what I described above - in essence you'd be reversing the arrows on your interaction diagram.

Can you elaborate as to why you built the server on the smartphone rather than Raspberry Pi? What does that get you? How do you get around the limitations that phone operating systems (especially iOS) impose on background processes? What's the impact on battery life?
We run into this at FastMail all the time as well. For the one customer who needed "their own gear" we built out on SoftLayer for much the same reasons as the article - real hardware where you need it.

But our operations costs are so much lower than renting that we could replace all our hardware every year and still break even.

(yeah, we could get SoftLayer to refresh our hardware every year as well, but we don't need it refreshed that fast, and at the end we still own the hardware)
I see you subscribe to Photonicinduction as well :)

His playlist of "extreme light bulbs" is fun:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSu13VtLjZsSMiTLdQlEa...
I'll read more into it like you suggest.
My biggest takeaway from the site was the bit on batteries. In particular, the repeated reminder that we should never leave charging batteries unattended. I wonder how important this is to follow really... We have 100s of millions of devices out there charging everyday (cellphones, laptops, etc...) and we don't really worry too much about these batteries catching fire.
30k comes from CDC http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm Maybe it's not astronomical but being able to get rid of 30k deaths per year should be a welcome opportunity.
What link?

The method you mention is correct. It wasn't clear reading the article that was what she did.

I'm looking for the raw list of female CEOs, Tickers, and hire/fire dates. I'm also wondering if the results are different based on sector.
But it's for people running 7 and up, for one year. The 70% of Chinese users on XP aren't going to see the benefit of this.

(Why didn't Microsoft make it for XP too? They want to squeeze that last sale out of people. They don't realize the greater threat is people leaving their platform entirely.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlPI0AOj5MI a video of how birds do this in nature. Ever notice hawks circling in high winds?
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> "You can't take away any freedoms of something that is released freely"

Sure you can. If you release a animal to run freely in the wild, I can take away its freedom by shooting it. The only way to maintain its freedom is by also restricting my and others freedom to hunt it down. The way we describe this is liberty, ie everyone can live in freedom under common restrictions; restrictions which purpose is to maintain the freedom of everyone.
I'm sceptical that that's true. We can put mufflers on gas engines to make them quieter. The prop, though, is moving a lot of air, and there's no way to get around that and have it still work.
I'm of the believe that my children will not have to learn to drive and the children they have will not be allowed to drive (under normal circumstances)
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I'm being pedantic, but "No interface" implies that there is no interaction between user and device which would make the device useless. The interface is the point of communication between user and device. Every device needs an interface. I think a better term would be "No Input".

The author mentions a weather app and an app that shows basic stock market data as examples, but it's unclear to me how those problems could be solved with "No interface".
no. this is a limitation specific to MURS, from their explaination[0]. MURS band is cooler for them though because of longer lamdba. but the longer lambda = further propagation / power (a general rule anyway). so, FCC would rather not have long propagation (at least that is what it looks like.. don't know when the rules were put into place, the process, etc to say for sure).

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8054336
Or use the mouse on the left hand side of the keyboard...
Internet of Things will have somehow the same fate as IPv6. Some will adopt it, manufacturers will push for it, but nobody will care about it. It will be a niche for a few years before the market is ready for it.
I'd like to propose finding a new street parking spot in NYC after moving out of the way of the street-sweeper as a Turing test for the autonomous car.
Also a fan of the Kinesis Advantage. It took a few months to get back up to typing speed, but the Advantage completely alleviated the wrist pain I had previously. I have one paired with an Apple Magic Trackpad to further reduce wrist motion, and the combo works well (for me).
Very hypnotizing!
I assume you have a heuristic for geodesic motion? I doubt I could write down the metrics for some of those surfaces in a Lundum Dare timeframe.
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I think a driverless car would just slam on the breaks, and do so much quicker than you or I ever could.

And why is it always a child? You sound like a politician trying to make a "think of the children" argument.
>the respects your freedom campaign needs to grow to more hardware.

Yes, we'd like to do that. If you know anyone producing hardware, please encourage them to seek RYF certification.

We may not have a regular printer certified, but at least we have two 3D printers. ;)
1. A colleague of the author has commented in a lower thread that 12 years was the size of the data set available.

2. If n is very small in a several-year period, you wouldn't be able to do meaningful analyses on that period. How many women CEO's were there in the Fortune 1000 in the 80's? 90's? I'm going to guess epsilonically few.

3. Possible explanation that isn't hand-waving: selection bias, somewhat akin to the immigration effect. Because it's more challenging for women to get on a career path that eventually leads them to become a CEO, only the most determined/resourceful/hardworking will get there and be measured in the sample, whereas fewer men get weeded out. (e.g., IQ scores of H1B recipients from Asia is not representative of Asia as a continent, where IQ is a standin for whatever measurable trait you want here; and overall Asia and North America may well be quite comparable along most dimensions.)
I don't know if this is the sidewalk incident you had in mind, but here's one I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bPwfLe13Uo

One of the article's points is that elaborate packaging is an embarrassing display of consumerism. I guess camping in front of a store to be the first, and being interviewed opening the box is kind of sad in that way too.
Thanks this was my biggest question. I was wondering why it doesn't just stay tethered to the ground in one single position (or as close as possible) flying into the wind.

I guess it makes sense if it rotates perpendicular to the wind - like the tip of a rotor blade, to achieve these higher speeds.

Would be curious to understand more of the math/physics behind that. But at least intuitively it makes some sense now.
So you switched back to QWERTY, and/or now type Colemak, I take it?

I do agree about the time it takes to get all of your old speed back. When I learned Dvorak, it took me two years to get back to full speed. But once I was there, I was there, and with surprisingly little effort. I have a couple of victories on typing tests that I was actually trying to lose to prove it.
"If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree can not find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time."

Charles Fort

http://www.resologist.net/lo104.htm

edit - a quick game of Charles Fort Discovering Things would be great right now, though it is difficult without a frog and an umbrella.
I've been looking for a keyboard with detachable numpad. Use case: Occasionally, I use Blender which has a lot of shortcuts and numpad is very useful, but I don't want to be always there . This looks promising.
If you're left handed...
To be fair, the equivalent of malloc(x) plus a read of x+n bytes wouldn't compile, even with a custom allocator.
Commercial planes don't fly below 250m at all, expect when taking off and landing at airfields.

The structure of these "turbines" are that of planes which look like large birds to real birds, so they would stay away from the area with them.

I'd assume that these would be installed in large open fields, so it shouldn't affect migration patterns or bird localities.

I have seen eagles attack quadcopters thinking they were birds, but those are usually of similar sizes to what eagles' prey would look like, but obviously this shouldn't be a problem as well.
best weird habit I've ever acquired. Took only 3 days.
Except that when you have self-driving cars, those other cars are making similar decisions and opening a hole for a car that just might need to avoid that child.

This is why self-driving cars are going to be far safer than humans. Your self-driving cars will see a thousand hazardous situations as you are driving and adjust to avoid them pre-emptively and silently.

Yes, there will be some bugs on the way there. And it will kill a few people. But we kill about 30,000 people in car crashes per year and about 5,000 pedestrians per year with cars.

The programs could be quite buggy, and still beat that by I suspect a very wide margin.
Smartphones may have been highly class correlated in 2006, but they're not now. You can get one prepaid for around $30 at any cell phone shop. 77% of those 18-29 with an annual income under 30k own a smartphone.[1]

Atrocious public bus service impacts the poor much more than those who are better off: someone with a salaried professional job who comes in late a couple of times a week due to Muni will usually not even register on the organization at all, whereas someone making minimum wage on a time clock will likely be fired for that -- and thus strongly motivated to pay extra for a transportation mechanism that is likely to arrive on time.

[1] http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/06/05/smartphone-ownership-2...