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The Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard [1] features a detached wireless numpad which you can place wherever you want. Say what you will about Microsoft, but their input devices are quite nice.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/b/sculpt-ergonomic-k...
I do this with a trackball; I learned to wiggle the mouse with my left hand because it fits with my desk better, and, like the product above points out, it's a little more ergonomic to avoid flying over the numpad.

In my experience, trackballs have a tendency to better support ambidextrousness.
Messaging app Glimpse Labs shuts down as cofounder departs for new startup
What if it was a sphere, but the camera moved along with the ship -- with a dead zone in the middle?
Companies can afford the marketing luxury of a female CEO when they're on the upswing. Companies fighting to survive appoint ugly fat dudes.
Isn't it a way to get out of all legal issues so they can test if their start up works? I mean they only have one small route in one city, at this point it's more a test than a real big company.
.Net seems to do the same thing, Javascript (according to jsfiddle) as well. So maybe this is more widespread than I thought (again - I have never seen that character in the wild)?

Java (as in Try Clojure) seems to do the 'expected' SS thing. Trying the golang playground I get even worse:

fmt.Println(strings.ToUpper("ßẞ"))

returns

ßẞ

(yeah, unchanged?)

So, while I agree that you're technically correct (ẞ exists!) I do stick to my ~7 letters list for now.. It seems that's both realistic and usable.
I suppose my point was that it is unfortunate that so much context is lost by the time a chart ends up in Wikipedia. At a minimum, they should probably get rid of some of the decimal places in their table.

I was not trying to paint it as likely that the other studies would be similar to the one I looked at (I see why my phrasing doesn't necessarily communicate that, but I was simply trying to say that I hadn't done more than look at the 1 study).
> The energy kite simulates the tip of a wind turbine blade, which is the part of a turbine that makes most of the energy. The kite is launched from the ground station by the rotors, which act like propellers on a helicopter. Once in the air, the kite generates power by flying in large circles where the wind is strong and consistent. Air moving across rotors mounted on the kite forces them to rotate, driving a generator to produce electricity, which travels down the tether to the grid.

Are the rotors that launch the kite the same as the ones that generate the electricity?
The IntelliMouse 3.0 is basically a legend of its own.
As if humans are any better at this decision?

Very few humans can execute split-second, emergency decisions correctly.

Most simply panic and whatever happens, happens.
>>It's more like you start a new pizza company and you're not allowed to use Stallman's Pizza Cookbook, which has some recipes you like. You can still hash out the recipes by yourself, with much annoying time and effort (and wasted food). Stallman's just not letting you benefit from his cookbook, because he thinks all pizza should be free.

No, you'd just have to share your recipes whenever you sold the pizza. You can still charge for the pizza (or not) if you want - and the guy who buys it from you can sell it or give it away or whatever.
I think the "you can see where the bus is and how many seats are left in" is a really good way of doing public transportation.
No, I have not and I won't.
What stops YC companies from doing this? You get your 150k from YC, you're making a few million a year in profit, and instead of killing yourself trying to make billions, you say "good enough" and hand the reigns over and let the company keep doing its thing conservatively. Pretty sure that's what I would do.
Thanks. I had tried it in 5.3 and only got the boring "The use statement with non-compound name 'strict' has no effect" error: http://3v4l.org/WY1Vs
Hey moderators, did this set off the flamewar detector? Because I don't think that's the article's fault, and people may well have things to say that aren't flamebait.

Current count of comments = 31; points = 37.
MonoGame 3.3
well - yeah it's pretty dark scenario... but it's an extreme example of why it's a harder problem IMO to solve than a rocket landing back on earth. You have multiple cases simple or complex where a decision must be made to either drive over a pot hole or drive into the oncoming traffic lane or off the road altogether. I'm certain a computer controlled car can make these decisions faster than a human driver, but much like a computer can typically not always judge the difference between my sarcastic comment and it's literal meaning it I would imagine have a difficult time solving these problems... maybe NP problems are solvable now?

Don't get me wrong as a parent - I am super excited that perhaps - just perhaps, my kids when they are ready to hit the road won't have to worry about learning how to drive :D and I can rest easy the other drivers won't be crazy too.
We'll the Turkish i/ı/I/I is I think exactly the example I would have come up with of characters that looks the same as i/I, but should have it's own code point, just like cyrillic characters have their own code points despite looking like latin characters.
>There should not be three codepoints for 中, 日, 力, and most other characters

There wouldn't be. Where the characters do not diverge, you don't need separate codepoints, surely?
Dang. $1,800 a day? I've been missing out.
When I was an undergrad at UW, I engineered a vacuum bug that took advantage of a JDK1.1 bug in constant pool verification to suck out the user's in memory environment configuration (so like PATH variables and such).

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/kimera/flaws/vacuum/

But most security holes these days are not flaws in the JVM/CLR, but logical errors made in the application; e.g. allocate a buffer and reuse it, this says nothing about memory safety at the VM level at all!

And at that, no one really trusts JVM security anymore, preferring to sandbox the entire operating environment in a heavyweight or lightweight VM.
The free exchange of ideas and designs will ultimately win out. This will be evident by 3DRobotics outpacing a company like DJI. Also, I agree with the whole VR thing. Have you heard of the Lighthouse tracking technology by Valve? Crazy stuff
A bunch of concurrent random access into game content files can't be a good idea.

Unless that share is on a RAID or something maybe.
> 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.

It's definitely not trivial.
>Not his call.

The mistake was leaving out the "or, at your option, any later version" clause. That would have allowed new kernel code to be GPLv3+ licensed.
If you have a Bloomberg terminal, you can get more pricing.

Also, if you have a source of split-and-dividend-adjusted prices, you don't have to do a daily simulation, you can just simulate on the days when there is a buy or a sell.

Also, why does the leverage vary? Shouldn't it be 1.0 every day?
i've also owned two keyless cars back to back with slightly different interfaces (two different german manufacturers, in my case) and here are my thoughts, mostly i completely agree with you:

1. touch-handle to unlock is awesome and useful
2. touch-handle to lock is worse than useless. keep this on the fob and on the interior. nobody reaches for the exterior handle when they're walking away from the car.
3. the touch shouldn't be too sensitive, and should only be on the inside of the door handle (or under the door handle, whatever the layout is) - my
4. there should be a delay of about 500ms i.e. touch it for half a second before it unlocks.
5. no button, like you mentioned
He hasn't spent much time between the coasts, I guess. You'll outlaw cars in this country when you pry them from Americans' cold, dead hands. The transition to driverless cars may, perhaps should, happen in the biggest cities. But in the rest of the US, it's not a technological problem so much as an identity issue.
Sure, you can decide to just spectate, but like it or not we all have to share this tech ecosystem. If there's no consequence for companies or people that behave in ways that harm the whole industry, we're all going to suffer.
I'm writing my dissertation (music theory) with LaTeX; the text is all stored in git, and all of my examples are PDF files in a submodule (so the main repo doesn't get huge). I need to have the examples tracked, and the submodule allows me to pin a particular version of the examples with a particular version of the text. If I need the PDF of a chapter I sent to my advisor, for example, I can just check out that tag and run xelatex again to generate the real document.

The example PDF files aren't easily generated with TeX, so I make them in Illustrator and store them with Git. They change a little less frequently than the text itself, and usually once an example is done it doesn't get updated very frequently. In my case, at least, I can't easily version the "raw source" for the examples, as the Illustrator binary files are ~3x larger than the resulting PDFs.

I suppose I could use something like git-annex, but every time I've tried I haven't really been able to get the hang of it, and the time I'd spend learning it is better spent actually writing the thing.

(Incidentally, this new Github feature makes it much easier to browse my examples repo!)
Suddenly, Safari's behaviour of hiding the favicon unless you click the address, makes sense.
> Ä and Æ are more different from eachother than the characters in Chinese and Japanese which have been merged.

> They are used for the same thing, they share etymology, but they are not the same letter.

That second quote applies equally to Ä and Æ.
When for reasons of security or server side logic we do not feel comfortable running code on the client, we run it on node and setup a simple API that mirrors the vendor's API. Say for example that you are using Firebase (we use this for a chat app) but do not want to expose keys or need to run some code on messages (validations, etc). It is not ideal b/c part of the reasons of using BAAS is to avoid maintaining a back-end component. Depending on your needs, some BAAS vendors offer a "server code" solution, for example Parse's Cloud Code, that way you still avoid setting up a back-end component on your own but still run validations. etc. Parse's in particular is well setup based on events (after or before you save an object). Incidentally, they too use node.

Naturally, for this approach, you need that the BAAS vendor offers a Node SDK (most do), or maybe some other stack (PHP, Rails, etc).
(Creator here)

Thanks for the feedback so far, everybody, it's really appreciated.

It's the first time for me to offer a product on its own apart from the regular Rails consulting/development business, so especially the comments regarding international acceptance are very much welcome. I'll see to offering an internationalized landing page as the next step so as to not put off international audiences.

That said, if you want to experiment a bit more, drop me a line at dk@cormhq.com and I'll expand your free trial for a month or two to get you going without worries.

Also: Interesting how time zones work in this regard. Most comments are from 1-3 hours ago, I had expected the first comments to pop up 4-6 hours ago. Terribly difficult to judge, these things.
Create and edit SVGs in the browser
I agree that the gift was inappropriate. I was responding to your comment:

"Hitting on a woman" - Doing nice things and inviting her to be alone with you on a day dedicated to romance.

The invitation to have dinner may have happened anytime.
> I cant work out if Formula E with completely autonomous cars would be interesting, or really boring...

Well it can't get any more boring than it already is.
> I dare say that if all operating systems were nix, that might also be a good thing. It certainly would make life easier for developers.

How?

Windows and Unix have evolved entirely different ecosystems. Most developers have a tendency to exist entirely in 1 or the other with only a little interaction between them.

I personally am able to use either environment comfortably, but that's actually a big part of the value I bring to certain environments. But that isn't the norm.
Speed up your angular apps and get rid of sasqwatches
This reminds me on how researchers call speech synthesis a "solved problem" since decades. When asked why they don't use it for presentations, they say that it just doesn't sound very well..
The Haskell 2010 standard includes Foreign.Ptr which allows direct, unsafe manipulation of memory: https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch35...
I would highly recommend spending a little bit more (ok, double) and investing in a TypeMatrix 2030.[0] The size/mouse position thing is important I think - and the 2030 is of comparable size - but it's nothing compared to having vertically aligned keys and the most used buttons (enter/backspace) in the middle. Also the build quality is superb. I could never go back.

[0]: http://www.typematrix.com/
I've never had any computer-related pain (well, not since the lengthy gaming sessions of my youth), and my current typing ability is more than sufficient, so I guess my impetus to switch is tiny.
Was it? I thought that only exacerbated the issue. malloc is free to return previously used memory, is it not? Various systems might provide some last-chance efforts against this kinda thing, but the bug would still exist and be exploitable in some configurations, right?
This looks absurd to me. I never put the mouse in front of my shoulder, I always use it at an angle. I'm trying to actually use the mouse like in the demo picture from the article [1] and it feels awkward.

[1] http://evoluent.com/wp-content/themes/evoluent/images/kb1_co...
The city owns the fist two squares worth of sidewalk, if there are more those belong to the residence and you're allowed to park there. If your vehicle etc. block or intrude on the city parts you do get cited. Enforcement may vary, however. Plus you're free to call the SFmta to ticket violators.
I both love this future because I think it will save lives and be awesome, and hate it because I am sure, totally sure, that we won't get a physical disconnect button to turn the car off, open the doors and get out if the car is malfunctioning, on fire, or taken over by hackers or the 'Car Safety Administration and Prevention' department.

I think it's interesting there's so much billionaire scare-talk about skynet and the risk of AI and none of these companies mention meatspace-level security with their cool autonomous AI's they're building.

I genuinely wonder why that is; is it just preferring control (over the robot product by the company)?
I wonder if there are other, undiscovered industries that can be "1099ified" for profit. Maybe construction?

Maybe medical? Actually, I would appreciate an app that let me consult with a doctor without having to actually schedule an appointment and go to the office - just to determine simple stuff like "does this need stitches?".

Granted, that's an area I'd be a lot less tolerant of someone who isn't complying with any regulation or laws.
Avoid Scheduling Jobs Near the Transition Hours of Daylight Savings Time
Tenkeyless keyboard and a standalone USB numpad.
I think the author focuses too much on outlier examples (Apple, Oculus).

Great packaging and branding has a serious impact for companies today than previous years. More people sell online then ever before (shopify, etsy, etc) and there's no longer that brick-n-mortar experience you typically go through when buying your products in a physical shop. You buy online now and then that item is shipped to you.

In many ways, the packaging IS the brick-n-mortar experience for customers when they receive your product. No one gets excited about seeing a generic brown box on their doorstep. They get excited about the fact it has Amazon Prime printed on the side with the branded tape. "Yes! My what-you-call-it just arrived!".

This is the same experience that companies like Bonobos, Birchbox, Naturebox, Teespring, etc deliver. Its branded extremely well and they all care very much about delivering an extension of their brand to someones doorstep. In the case of a lot of subscription box companies, the products inside are relatively cheap to source. A large cost IS the packaging because they are delivering on an experience.

Try the World's box is fucking amazing (www.trytheworld.com). It feels good opening and seeing what's in store for you this month. I'm sure the products inside cost next to nothing, but its not just about that.

The author seems to make a case that Apple spends way too much on packaging (not surprising considering Steve Jobs cared about every detail inside and out). Then he uses Oculus as an example of really generic packaging that people go amazeballs for. Uh, yea we're talking about a 1 in a million type product that sold for billions, and did you see their DK1 packaging? It came in a freaking suitcase basically.

I think these are both pretty outlier cases, and the norm is that great packaging can really polish a company and expand their brand and product.

This is what we care about deeply at Pakible (www.pakible.com), the company I founded to help any company make beautiful packaging for their brands.

Yes, typically it takes a long time to create packaging and is very costly, and that part I will admit is true. But that is also one of the things we are changing about the industry with Pakible. To not have to worry about the construction, sourcing it, designing it. We help people do that so they can focus on the rest of their business.
This seems like marketing-speak to me. Or perhaps they haven't gotten far enough in their development for it to be really hard yet. Here are some examples of reasons this is harder than you'd think:

- At a complex intersection, how does the computer decide which traffic light is yours?

- You see an obstruction in the road. How do you decide if it's something like a plastic bag you can drive through, or something you need to swerve around?

A very experienced team has been working on this at Google for almost a decade. I'm not sure how Elon's team would have skipped so many steps.
I think producing a consumer-ready autonomous automobile is a significantly more difficult problem than sending a rocket to space and back.
We're not "here" though. Elon Musk saying "it's a solved problem" and it actually being a "solved problem" are two extremely different things. Musk is a smart guy and a good engineering manager, but he's far from being a supergenius, and has said stupid things before.

Google has a system that kinda works, but requires a very controlled environment, and doesn't cope with exceptions all that well. Hopefully it is "fail safe", in that cars will stop or slow down rather than run the risk of running someone over (something humans arguably fail at way too often!), but it's not yet clear that it's sufficient for a workable system.

Maybe Musk has something magic up his sleeve that will change everything, but so far there's zero evidence for that, and given Musk's history of bluster, I'm pretty skeptical.... If he really has something, he'll show it eventually.
The decade or so long problem is the mix of self-driving cars and those piloted by humans. And yes, the benefits will be obvious.
I'm aiming to get a non-EU internationalized version up as soon as possible. I was hoping the current (somewhat) equality of EUR and USD would be enough for a start, but apparently, this is not the case.

Thanks for the feedback!
No, IPSEC is useless because the ISPs broke the end-to-end nature of the internet which IPSEC assumes as a starting point.

So, IPSEC is a non-starter.
That number sounds really high to me too. 2000 of them of and you have a nuclear power plant.
She doesn't say that it's for equivalent sized housing. As I said square footage per person has increased DRAMATICALLY over the past 50 years.
Yes,

Here we are, with the smaller, easiest subset of the autonomous driving solved and massive hype anticipating the rest being solved "just 'cause" but offering no details concerning the solution.

I mean, with this hype flurry, we might soon see posters of flying cars. Imagine that once again we could look forward to that and once again be disappointed. Wouldn't that be a rush?

The coast-to-coast autonomous drive:
"A human driver is going to be sitting behind the wheel at all times, but won’t interfere unless the car requests help or has to turn off the highway."
-- Yes, an autonomous can drive a directly forward on a freeway with other cars or up a mountain alone. ETC.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/the-self-driving-car-...
Well, it depends. Do you unify those with identical glyphs but different origins? Do you unify only those with identical glyphs and the same origins?
It's not trivial from first principles, but traffic sign recognition is more or less a solved problem at this point (production Teslas read speed limit signs as you drive by them, for example) so it would be trivial to implement given what's available now.
They're supposed to be putting up a test installation on the Big Island of Hawaii sometime this year:

http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/blog/morning_call/2014/10...
Except you weren't patronizing an establishment. You were spreading FUD.
Sorry, what I should have said was "I'd like to use this, but it'd cost me". I'd hope Microsoft is also offering to let ISPs cache updates for faster/cheaper delivery.
Neat! In 2003 I was writing an obfuscator for .NET, leading me to explore quite a bit. It was fun.

But app level bugs aren't what gives Java a bad name, are they? When someone says, like the GP, that "what about Java, that's got tons of security issues", that's almost certainly from its use as a browser plugin. Otherwise everyone would be saying the same about every language out there.
He seems to think that these problems are just bugs in the system. We as humans know how to solve them, so it's just a case of coding that into the cars brain.

Did you see the video nvidia showed where all the cars are networked, so as one car figures out something, it uploads this to the cloud so all cars get that knowledge. ..
It is kind of hard to contact the copyright holder if there is no copyright license with a notice in it which says who the author is.

Technically possible, unlikely in practice, and I doubt anyone could find a proprietary product being sold in a store that does not have a license. For all practical purposes, where would you find proprietary work used in a proprietary setting but without a proprietary license?
There's a basic conflict between people who consider identity contextually relevant and people who consider identity universally relevant. To the former group, all that matters is that you did good work, full stop. To the latter group, that's erasure.
In my opinion anyone can be a newbie once taken out of their comfort zone.

John Carmack was mostly a C programmer up until quite recently and then started experimenting with some Functional Programming languages, and I'm sure he had a few things to learn when doing so.

Not to take away from an obviously intelligent individual.
I've been vaguely aware of Racket, but I haven't paid much attention to the details.

If I'm reasonably familiar with Common Lisp, what are the main differences/advantages of Racket to pay attention to? What's the best resource (preferably online) to use to learn about Racket?
I don't wan to call tha false modesty but damn when JC is using the language how "newbie" can you be?!?
It has been interesting to see how many friends and relatives have an initial "Why would I trust a driverless car on the road" reaction until I point out the idiocy of "other" drivers on the road. People believe they are the best drivers, yet readily agree that everyone else shouldn't be driving.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the progression of this. Seems like it could be the next big change to society norms.