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I've always found that when I read a (fictional) book, I naturally have a mental movie playing in my head, and I cease to see words at all. I become hyper-focused and immersed in the image. If people talk to me while I'm reading (again, only fiction), I don't hear them unless they breach my focus with a louder voice or a tap on the shoulder. It's interesting to read that this can be taught.

What do you mean by that?

Related paper by the same author(s): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10252691

What is the most promising one?

What is HARC currently working on? Is it for now a continuation of the old CDG Labs / VPRI projects or are there already new projects planned / underway?

Also, how do you organize and record your ideas? Pen and paper? Some kind of software? What system do you use? I ask because I'm fascinated by the idea of software that aids in thought, collaboration, and programming - meshing them all together.

I've seen elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11940007) that you agreed that many mainstream "paradigms" should be "retired". Retiring implies that you replace. In particular, I'm curious what you would like to see filesystems or the Unix terminal replaced with?

I had no idea The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar was for adults. I read that when I was only eight or so after reading other Dahl books like Matilda and The Witches. I loved the premise.

It would be cool to create the drums for a song by taking a video of the performance and then using this software to create the recording to be put into the song.

I believe that "tools for thought" as a phrase comes from Ken Iverson's "Notation as a tool for thought" paper.

This appears to be connected to François-René Rideau's TUNES project (http://ngnghm.github.io/talks/cc-lc2016.pdf). These slides are probably worthy of a submission themselves.

My guess is that if it was not published at the time of discovery, there's no way to know for sure whether Ellis actually invented it before Diffie and Hellman.

I see. That's what I get for going straight to the demo without checking the documentation.

It's broken for me too. When I try to type, it places the cursor at the top of the code, no matter what I try.

My primary concern is with personal knowledge bases [1]. This intersects with new approaches to programming, because programs and algorithms are an aspect of and a way of interacting with knowledge.

It's mostly conceptual right now, but my idea is to represent knowledge as a hypergraph with spatial and temporal dimensions on both edges and vertices. This, I hope, could represent every kind of knowledge I can imagine. The hypergraph would function as a filesystem and database, and you could query/program the system. It would be Emacs for all media, and not just text.

I want to augment the inherent power of the hypergraph with a mashup of the OpenEndedGroup's Field, Xerox PARC's Smalltalk, Doug Engelbart's NLS, Symbolics' Open Genera, org-mode, Vim, the Wolfram Language, Bell Labs' Plan 9, and Ted Nelson's ZigZag and Xanadu projects.

If anyone finds this interesting and wants to chat about this stuff, please email me at the email address in my profile.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_base

How does friend recommendation work in a decentralized model?

Think about it this way. Perhaps a certain ratio of the articles recommended could be "out of your comfort zone."

FYI, the image on the front-page of overleaf.com still has the writeLATEX logo in it.

How would this be useful?

Another interesting article by Nick Szabo is here: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/02/irreducible-complex..., where he discusses proof-of-work (2006) and what he saw as the problem with it.

Actually, a compelling theory is that Nick Szabo (possibly in collaboration with others) is Satoshi Nakamoto: http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamo....

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=320646

How does Erlang's error mechanism compare to Lisp's condition/restart system (this question from someone who knows very little about both)?

(I originally used Vim, but then I switched to Emacs + Evil.)

I started out organizing my ideas in a single hierarchically organized text file (I call it ideas.org because I use org-mode) based on the categories of my ideas, and as each category grows, I place it into its own text file, replacing its former place in my ideas.org file with a link to the new file (this is where it sure would be nice to have Ted Nelson-style transclusion). As each category grows subcategories, I place those into their own files too.

Is this what you have in mind? https://github.com/Jonovono/C

Awesome job on the website, and it's great that you guys got such a good domain name.

A bit off-topic, but would it be possible for Pharo's windows to look native?

It's automating semicolon insertion. The browser translates {} + [] into {}; + [], so + [] === 0 too. {}; is undefined.

Not dead for me, and I don't have showdead on.

Like a link shortener built on top of the Wayback Machine?

Pretty sure that's the Insert key that turns on "overtype".

What's repeatedly surprised me is how I'll get results from DuckDuckGo and think that, "You know, I bet Google would have given better/more relevant results." And then I'm proven wrong! When DuckDuckGo gives nonrelevant results, Google often isn't any better, and when DuckDuckGo gives relevant results, sometimes they're often as relevant or more relevant than Google. I switched cold turkey a few months back, and I'm very pleased with how usable it is. I also really like the !word features, it's better than Google in that respect. I should mention that it's easier to do math in Google because Google infers more (such as inferring parens in an expression like: "2 + 2) * 4", outputting "16". DuckDuckGo can't handle that at the moment.

I've always thought that ZUIs would be confusing for users. It's a completely modal interface. If you can zoom in infinitely or zoom out infinitely, it would probably be hard to determine where you are conceptually. Can anyone address this?

It's worth noting that their Facebook page has a cover photo of a woman in a bikini, so it appears that they are actively trying to restrict their client base. This is their wholes strategy.