skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here. keybr says that my speed is 97 on average and 150 max. IIRC my average was below 90 a year ago, but that was measured through some other method. I type a lot more code than English prose, though, and English is my third language.

That switching away from QWERTY will give you a massive speed boost is a myth. Although the world's fastest typists do not use QWERTY, the main benefit of alternate keyboard layouts is not speed, it's comfort (and, well, ergonomics).

The question is polarizing - you can find testimonials of people who tried Dvorak/Colemak/Workman/etc. and either liked or hated it (so be careful to not fall prey to confirmation bias). I don't mind the "hobbling" as I very rarely use others' computers.
I really don't understand this sentence:

> So Anne takes her bit, A, and puts it through her handy entanglement-decoding machine, which spits out an answer: either B or C.

(Note: I have a Ph.D. in Math and half a major in Physics that include a few quantum mechanics curses (for example, with the Sakurai book))

What is a entanglement-decoding machine? You cant use entanglement to send information. Just repeat after me: You cant use entanglement to send information. This is one of the most common misunderstandings about entanglement.

When you make the measurement and get the collapse, you only get a random value (with a weighted probability). It's not possible to use that to get information about B or C.
What Good is Green?

The following things are green;

trees
grass
moss
apples
...
Note the observable universe has an event horizon 13.8B years in time or 92GLY wide in space which we cannot communicate across. Some speculate the observable universe may also have the mass-energy of a black hole with an event horizon of that size. But the observable universe is not a singularity with all the mass-energy concentrated at a infinitely small "center". So in conclusion the observable universe SOME of the characteristics of being inside a black hole, but not all of them.
Geez you look close to launch. Taking preorders?
> That's not how it actually works; price is only bounded by the value is brings, not proportional to it

Price can be whatever the hell someone feels like asking for something, which already invalidates your claim. I can ask for $500k for a bucket of shit, but you probably wouldn't be willing to pay it.

But there's a set price already, staring you in the face, making your claim look silly.

Now what you might be getting at is that the price you're willing to pay is bounded by the value you perceive in something, and that's certainly correct.

People aren't willing to pay for air because they have all the air they could possibly want to use at their disposal already. Air just is there. The fact that you can't survive without air doesn't mean you assign an extremely high valuation to it. You don't even think about air, let alone how much you'd be willing to pay for some in some specific situation.

> Sure they can; they've always have! Roads, cops, healthcare, education; hell, you're European, you should know.

You're just showing your ignorance here. None of the things you listed are actually free, as in, without cost. All of the services you listed are provided by people working in exchange for money, and the money has to come from somewhere, and it's not free. Someone needs to do something productive to pay for all of that, and.. well, it's actually our hard-earned money they're spending. Go figure.

> Maybe expanding it to the levels of allowing everyone to not work is (still?) unrealistic

That much we can agree on.

> claiming "things can't be handed out for free" is silly

Nice strawman there. That's not a claim I've made. Read again.
> ng-if, ng-switch, ng-repeat? There's already a language in the browser that does these things, it's called JavaScript.

It's nice to have a largely declarative way to specify markup but still allow simple loops and conditionals.

Hasn't every template language in the world has come to a similar conclusion?
I started having symptoms of RSI about 10 years ago after 22 years of 8+ hours of daily computer use. This went on about a year when a comment on Slashdot.org back then pointed me to an alternative theory of what causes RSI.

Anyway, cured me. Cost $0, took little time and I didn't have to change anything I was doing.

http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/mb_what_is.html

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vsR4wydiIBI
half a major in Physics that include a few quantum mechanics curses

I'm sure you meant "courses" but I like it more the way you wrote it.
Sorry for the kids today! post...

I find it weird that so many young people get burnt out, in relatively simple jobs with no responsibilities (on the job or with kids/family).

A couple of people at my office have had to take a couple months of sick leave because burnout. And they had simple responsibilities and no overtime etc.

I myself have worked normal "IT days" for over 15 years, sometimes it's hectic and sometimes calmer. You only have to know how to relax in your spare time. And yes I work at home also sometimes ("bring my work home") and sometimes think about work problems semi-constantly. But going for a run etc helps to clear your head. Or having a robust night out with a killer hangover!

I think these young people just don't know how to work hard and party hard :) And they are crybabies, also.
Agree - i think 2-way data binding is a more superficial benefit vs the other benefits you mention
Personally, I tried to get it to do a "turn data on when I have the display on, otherwise turn data on every X minutes/hours", but handling all the corner cases was difficult.

Plus, programming in the Tasker UI is fiddly.
Thermodynamics doesn't say that "everything is bound to break down,

It's pretty close to that.

and that we won't be able to predict all of the ways it can happen".

So either you don't understand how to generalize the Halting Problem, or you didn't get the reference.

I guess you're referring to the second law of thermodynamics. It says that the entropy of the universe tends to increase.

Exactly. There are far more states of a given machine that are broken than there are states of a given machine that "work."

EDIT: Also, to expand on what erikpukinskis says in the cousin comment, you can enthalpy farm to fix what's wrong in any given body. The problem is knowing what to fix. The body is so vastly complex, it's going to be very hard to guarantee we always know what to fix ahead of time for everybody. (Halting Problem) Hence, some small fraction of any population is always going to be dying from unforeseen failure modes, unless some philosophically interesting tinkering takes place. (In any case, it's inevitable that all Homo sapiens will be gone, eventually.)
You need to reboot twice due to change in operating mode for touchpad (I2C vs PS2) and audio (I2S and HDA). In Windows 8 (_OSI=Windows 2013), it is running as I2C/I2S devices, in Linux and Windows 7 (_OSI=Windows 2009) in PS2/HDA mode. This is not Dell specific.
Nitpicking but ClojureScript the language does not keep state in a centralized atom. That's just a common pattern used for Reagent/Om apps.
Nope - CentOS 7 + XFCE 4.12 seems to be enough for me.

Its also convenient when workstation and servers are based on the same distribution.
Why Do I Have So Many Apps?
I find it fascinating that trivial modifications of photos qualify as 'transformative' and thus evade copyright. So it's okay for me to download the new Taylor Swift single, add some extra reverb, and start selling copies of it? Cool.
Regarding Dvorak, I've had good success from only ever typing Dvorak on a split keyboard. To this day, 13 years on, I still can't type it on an ordinary keyboard. When I'm using my laptop away from a desk using its inbuilt keyboard - which I don't do much - I use it with the QWERTY layout.

Most of the times I need to type on somebody else's computer, they've got a non-split keyboard, so no problem there. And if they do have a split keyboard, I can just look at the keys. I can also do that if I need to use Remote Desktop and it pops up with QWERTY (as sometimes happens).

I've certainly found this to work for me, though of course if we were all the same you'd be doing this already and I wouldn't have had to mention it. I suspect it's part of the reason why my QWERTY speed is still OK, on non-split keyboard at least. Most people who see me type on a QWERTY keyboard are very surprised to find out that it's not what I'm used to.
It's funny Meteor actually has this problem upside down and are trying to add a way to have server side rendering.
The best keyboard hack I will ever recommend is to remap:

CapsLock+hjkl -> the arrows

CapsLock+Spacebar -> Return

CapsLock+ui -> PgUp and PgDn

CapsLock+yo -> Backspace and Delete

That's the best way to reach control keys, imho.
I think the "current serious thought about black holes" is about quantum theoretical effects at the event horizon. Seems there are some problems with reconciling quantum entanglement at the horizon with the fact that nothing can return from beyond the event horizon apart from Hawking radiation. This results in the "Firewall Paradox" [1]. One of the proposed resolutions of the paradox is the claim that directly at the event horizon, invisible to outside observers, a kind of ultra-thin particle inferno exists due to the breakdown of entanglement. This would make it effectively impossible to enter any black hole. (I don't really understand any of this, consult wikipedia and the referenced articles for more correct explanations).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_%28physics%29
Thread-Local-Storage Benchmark on AMD64 Linux
Yes, and yes. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gyagapen.c...

It essentially disconnects data when screen is off (the algorithm is a bit more complex, but that's the basic idea). Especially in areas where my phone passes between 2G/3G/noSignal often, I see much improved battery life.
According to this [1] StackOverflow answer there is no API support for enabling/disabling mobile data, but it can be done using reflection. Process requires CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE permission.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12535101/how-can-i-turn-o...
HHVM vs. PHP 7 – The Competition Gets Closer
Nuclear.js also does this, with pretty idiomatic JavaScript
If you think the answer is "the 25-year-old", you've noticed a problem with aging that slowly extending lifespans doesn't solve. It's not just about whether you're alive or dead.

Apparently you are not familiar with the SENS arguments for how an immortal human would have the apparent age of ~35.
I wouldn't think it could matter to an outside observer whether the mass inside an event horizon had converged to a point of infinite density or not, there just needs to be enough mass collapsed to an area small enough to create an event horizon.

If the outside observer were to cross the event horizon to check whether there was a singularity in the middle, they'd approach the same frame of reference, no longer be affected by the time dilation, and find the singularity.

/notaphysicist
I just bought a Nokia 105 for about $16 after my 6320 finally died, and I'm quite happy with it.

Battery lasts for ages, I'm not afraid to drop it, I don't get distracted by social apps and notifications all the time, and it just works.
What is “Serial Collaboration”? Or how a London duo delivers exceptional work
Now I am conflicted do I down vote or upvote? Hmm.. what a dilemma.
I just finished reading The Facebook Effect [0] and the author there suggests that countries are worried that Facebook poses a threat to a countries sovereignty. Facebook often has more information on citizens of a country than the political body does. If Facebook plays along and is willing to share that information, the politicians would probably be happy. But it is still an uncomfortable thought to some that a private entity holds that much influence. Facebook has been aggressive in establishing deep roots in the web such as universal login and tracking information. You can argue their entire worth depends on being deeply integrated with the lives of its users. Integrating Facebook information with things like passports and voting doesn't seem so far fetched.

I'm curious as to what a democratic country can do to punish a service like Facebook. I don't think most governments have the authority to force ISPs to block access to a website. What could happen if Facebook doesn't comply?

[0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Facebook-Effect-Company-Connecting...
I agree. But I also think this work (and future work like it) will help with that; having convincing proof that a preservation process works will make it easier to get obstacles to prompt preservation out of the way.
The other-side of the argument is that JavaScript is much harder to tool than HTML.
I sleep through most of many of my flights, and I find my fellow travelers to be oblivious to most things.
What is "obsolete" on CentOS?
I read your comment before clicking the link. Cracked me up!
You think you're making a logical argument, but all I hear is bitterness and rhetoric. Bitterness is toxic and it drips from all of your posts in this thread. Why? You could make the same points with kinder language and get farther with this crowd than you are right now. Also, if you have logical points to make, surely you can back them up with specific examples? I'd be interested in reading what comments other people have made that you think would have been downvoted had it come from somebody else.

Now that I think about it, an HN alternative without karma where everyone is anonymous would be an interesting experiment.
Our policy at Red Hat is upstream first. Work is being done upstream and benefiting Arch and everyone else. It's not on Fedora. Fedora just benefits from an extremely good QE cycle compared to other distros, and a well-integrated set of packages, which is something rolling-release distros don't offer, not that there's anything wrong with that.

RH development is a feeder for Linux. A lot of RH employee contributions upstream are in the categories that are talked about, but so's a ton of work on GNOME and other areas.

Fedora packageset stabilization is a feeder for RHEL (every few years Fedora settles down a bit as it gets ready for a branch, then screams off again), but the code itself feeds everyone.
> There is no right or wrong.

So I guess 2 + 2 makes whatever the hell you want it to?

> he articulates them well and can back them up by showing his thought patterns

What if his thought patterns are all fucked up, and completely detached from reality? Wouldn't it be better to change your views based on reason, logic and evidence?

I'll be throttled again real soon, if I can even post this one anymore, so I'll paste a reply that was meant for another comment of yours.

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> As I suspected you have never experienced any financial hardship. This is fine in itself but is very telling in how you perceive the world.

Having experienced it wouldn't change anything about what's rational and objective though.

> It's easy to calculate the value of something that has no direct value to you. It's called a cost benefit analysis and it is the corner stone of any business education but is applicable in many fields beyond business.

I can't help but wonder if you're trolling me, but here goes..

Since value is subjective, it cannot be calculated, because calculations require units, and there's no unit for how much you happen to want something at a particular moment. It also can't be measured or represented externally, outside of your mind.

If you're engaging in a cost / benefit -analysis, that implies that you do perceive value in something. That would be the "benefit" part. But you still can't put exact, objectively accurate numbers on the benefit.

You can, however, decide how many dollars you're willing to lose through a course of action, and you can expect to gain a number of dollars from it. But that only represents your subjective evaluation of how much something is worth to you, in terms of monetary units.

> It is however impossible to do this accurately if you are incapable of any thinking apart from ego-centric thinking.

That's insulting, especially coming from someone who's woefully unequipped to correct me on economic matters.

> If you do understand the difference then you are purposefully corrupting the discussion. Please stop doing this.

Yet another wild-ass accusation. Could you please stop?

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Oh ok, will check it out, thank you.
"And they are crybabies, also."

Funny thing I've discovered in life, understanding and compassion are free. They don't cost a thing, but they're still some of the hardest things to get out of a person.

Have you talked to the people who got burned out? What do they say about it? Your post doesn't sound so much like a "kids these days!" post as, to be frank, an "I'm an asshole" post.
Anyone else clicking on this because of their wrist/hand/arm pain, I would highly recommend

http://www.amazon.com/Conquering-Carpal-Syndrome-Repetitive-...

which is a series of very simple exercises.

I have found more relief in daily stretches outlined in the above book then the keyboards I use: kinesis advantage, placed on my lap, at work (8 hours a day) and Truly Ergonomic at home on weekends
I must admit I've never had this problem, but I do leave my phone to charge most of the time.

You can, however, pick up a phone with long battery life if you want. The Nokia 106 for example – specced for over a month on standby, 10 hours talking.
Lodash was still slightly slower here for me.

Chrome 43.0.2357.65 on OS X 10.10.0
Sally Ride:Behind the Google Doodle that marks the late space pioneer’s birthday
No really obvious way to do that in OS X (Mountain Lion)
Telling mobile devs not to use web tech is an example of where this argument (request? demand?) falls down. There are a lot of advantages to using web tech (cross-platform, easier to develop, easier to push updates), and the result is not necessarily worse; it may be better. CSS is a very expressive and powerful layout language, for all its rough edges. Apple uses WebViews in their own apps (like the mobile App Store app).

The rough edges of web tech will only get smoother over time.
When It Comes to Finding the Best Home, Location Is King
When Family-Friendly Policies Backfire
Paul Egoscue's books "Pain Free" and "Pain Free at your PC" are also very good. I'm really looking forward to Kelly Starrett's "Deskbound" to come out too.
Hyundai now offers an Android car, even for current owners
The Analytics Stack for Every Mobile-First Startup
Jonathan Zdziarski on the Proposed Updates to Wassenaar Arrangement
Technically, all of my smartphones so far have a working FM radio app preinstalled (I'm in EU). Is this block some US thing?
> The total amount of money in existence is many magnitudes more than it would theoretically take to end global poverty.

No quantity of money can end poverty, and no reasonable theory suggests that any amount of money can.

Systems of distributing goods and services (whether or not money is used as a proxy in those systems) might, but the quantity of money existing is pretty much irrelevant to that.

> However, no one dares attempt this, because it would knock the struts out that prop up the whole system (namely, debt).

Money is debt. Even commodity money -- as long as it is being traded not to be used for its intrinsic properties but for future exchange -- is essentially being used to separate the two sides of a barter transaction so that you don't need to exchange things of direct use such that the money then becomes, in effect, a marker of debt from the whole of the money-using society to the money holder.

So, yes, "debt" is the foundation on which the whole system of money is built because debt is what money is (modern fiat currency represents the abandonment of even the pretense that there is something else to it, as that pretense has always been costly to the function of money.) But if you think you can rearrange money to achieve some goal without maintaining its nature as debt, you don't understand money at all.
Şehirlere Özgü Söz ve Deyimler… – #‎vedatoncelik‬ ‪#‎inspirational‬ ‪#‎siluet‬ |
Android Auto, a product that up until now was only talked about by industry insiders and journalists, just shipped this week.

Well, it didn't really ship, because it is being released as a software update to the 2015 Hyundai Sonata that existing owners can download. It will also be factory-installed on new models. Android Auto is an attempt to incorporate the convenience and safety of pairing a smartphone to a car without the distraction. It also points out that the car has become a software-driven mobile device, not unlike computers and smartphones.
Sorry, I'm going to nit pick, but non-coding and "junk" aren't the same thing:

Non-coding just refers to not being translated to protein, and we know (as you list, more for the benefit of others) that there are many non-coding functional elements.

Junk DNA is non-conserved DNA (e.g. shows only neutral selection). And if it's not being selected for or against, then it probably doesn't have much effect either way.
This would fall under the DMCA. So long as the publisher took down the material when notified it was an infringement, following their DMCA procedures.
I call this the "blackboard architecture". Not only is it great for locality of reference (and therefore easy on your data cache), but game state can be easily serialized, deserialized, and double buffered.
I've been using a TEK for a month but in the end I returned it.

I'm quite susceptible to RSI but it seems that, unlike others, my weak fingers are actually my thumbs instead of the pinkies, and this keyboard puts heavy emphasis to press modifier keys (enter, backspace - EDIT: ctrl, alt, etc were included in the list by accident) with the thumb. Within a couple of days I felt sore and could barely move my fingers. I then used the remapping software to move all modifiers to their usual places (as much as possible) and the situation did really improve.

However, I frequently switch between the desk and a laptop and always had to waste a couple of minutes to adjust to the different layout. The TEK _is_ slightly more comfortable but not enough to justify its high price for me, that's why I ended up returning it.

Additionally, the return process is long and tedious since they have a tendency to ignore the first few requests and they seem to respond only if put under pressure. I managed to ship back mine last week, after a monthlong attempt at gaining their attention.

I tried many keyboards during these years and in the end I think that switching to a mechanical keyboard (Unicomp EnduraPro) and from QWERTY to Colemak did 90% of the job for me. After that the law of diminishing returns kicks in.
With the Ergodox they call this tenting (not sure if that's a technical term), example:

https://github.com/adereth/ergodox-tent
Someone Tried to Mine Bitcoin on a 1960s Punchcard Computer
> It's 2015 and it still baffles that a basic file manager still need such tweaking, rewriting and brainstorming. Is there no such thing as a `problem solved, let's not touch it again' in the FOSS world ?

This isn't exactly unique to free software. You don't have to search very hard on HN to find threads of people complaining about Finder on OS X and Explorer on Windows, and enumerating the things they wish they could change about it.
I have a 24TB disk array, configured as RAIDZ2; 12TB of usable space. When I run out of space, I add more disks. (Or, more usually, replace old ones.) I use Prometheus to keep track of its state, and have an email alert set up when disk space drops below a certain point.

The problem with a program that tries to maintain a certain amount of free space is that I won't know how much space there really is. I'd need to subtract the amount the archive uses, then.. add back in the amount I actually want it to use.. and it all ends up as a bit of a mess.

It'd be much easier for me if I could just set it to use 2TB, and be done with it. I could probably rely on it actually using the space.