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Re document-retention policies: Typically the real concern is the cost of document review: If there's a lawsuit, a lawyer or paralegal ($$$) will have to review all the potentially-relevant documents to determine whether there are any that should be (i) labeled as confidential, and/or (ii) withheld on grounds of attorney-client privilege.

(Footnote: The latter gives rise to the bigger fear -- if you were to inadvertently give the other side a copy of a privileged document, you might be deemed to have done a "subject-matter waiver," entitling the other side to all other privileged documents covering the subject(s) discussed in the first document. Moreover, the other side might be able to take the depositions of business people and lawyers, which amounts to interviewing them on videotape, to find out just what the client discussed with its lawyers, including who said what. The other side can usually be counted on to play any awkward sound bites for the jury.)
Also remember that many browsers will autofill this field, including the password, if someone just types the first 2 characters of the username. And malicious websites can take advantage of that fact to scrape U/P pairs with half the work.

Bad idea.
I really never agreed with the whole philosophy that you are never to drink scotch with ice. It brings out an interesting flavor that you cannot get when drinking it neat.

I also don't think it is such a cut-and-dry issue as some people make it out to be. Macallan even produces this: http://www.notcot.com/archives/2010/01/the-macallan-ic.php
If your paying 1k/GB your getting the short end of the stick.

To put this in perspective you could have a redundant array of in expensive RAM + network storage for less than this. (Excluding energy costs).
I too enjoy Hendericks over all other gins. Next time you are drinking your hendricks on the rocks, try muddling a slice of cucumber first and then add your ice and gin. It's great and refreshing!
If you can present it in a meaningful way like "So easy you'll never need to read a manual", i think is a differentiator
Love it. Wanted something simple like this without realising it. Its great for room parties in a college dorm when you just have a laptop and some speakers.

If you want to improve it, you could do some clever check on whether the video is actually a video or just some still images with the music on top - as 60% of the videos I played seemed to fall into the latter category.
Don't you think that most people from western countries would be shocked when an acquaintance casually mentions that he should have brought a gun in case he needs to shoot a criminal?
Roku sounds good, I see they use BrightScript, do they support any javascript or do I've to recode everything?
A Japanese keyboard layout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Japanese) has a shorter spacebar and some extra keys instead. You might be able to remap them to extra modifier keys with suitable software.

The Kinesis Advantage (http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage.htm) also has a unique layout where you hit modifier buttons with your thumbs, and it uses brown Cherry mechanical switches. It's $300 though.
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Your intro read like prose. In a few short paragraphs I felt I was reading a novel.

You have the touch. Are you a professional writer?
i don't get it. can someone explain?
thx
You could probably build one today, but if you mean for a reasonable cost, then it's probably 15-20 years depending if storage doubles every 18 months or 2 years.
Thnx, glad to hear people like it! It took me 2 months to realize the whole thing (first the ListAndPlay.com concept and during the last 2 weeks this Last.fm mashup).

The idea of checking for still images was something I've tried in a previous version. I decided to remove the function because somehow there is a reason why a video is popular on Youtube and is no 1 in the results (often good sound quality). FYI: checking for still could be done by comparing the 3 different thumbnails youtube generates for every video.
Which means if he says "Yes" you're quite likely to succeed - but says nothing at all about probabilities in case of a "No".
Heck, working in monitoring I know that there are jobs where punctuality is very important. Although I don't usually do shifts myself I've done few when there's noone else available, and it was very embarrasing when I forgot and showed up late one morning to replace a sleepy night shift guy.

But that's something we try to avoid as a team, not some corporate policy managers can hide behind to screw you over and/or cover their asses.
Hope he's using a decent modern filesystem (e.g. zfs)
> You could probably build one today

you mean the technology to achieve such density already exists? that's interesting.

do you expect storage to keep up with moore's law?
1. India is second largest visitor to HN after US.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com . (Alexa might not be great, but its the best source I can find right now.)

2. There is no group focusing on HN readers from India, so why shouldn't I do it. (And hope people will join.)
I actually had been sticking with Macallan for a while, but went to a JW tasting with friends a few weeks ago, and discovered that I like their Gold about as much as Macallan's single malt.
Ah I didn't think of that. Well thanks for the speedy reply and neat tool - I will be using this a fair amount probably.
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I think that'd put me off. If I can help it, I won't. Too greasy. Greasy food gives me headaches.
Focus. I don't think the discussion of Fund Raising in Bangalore would be interesting to all HN users, but I think it will be interesting to people from India, so I would like to have such a focussed group.

Also there are many Focussed groups of HN users on Google group.

http://www.google.co.in/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&...
Ask HN:  Coroutines in Python.  Good?  Bad?  Ugly?
I've been tempted to start using coroutines in my Python code, but I'm concerned I might be shooting myself in the foot by using them.

What's your experience using coroutines? Good? Bad? Ugly?
Thanks. The faster way in this case is to use another browser that I don't lock down as much.
Indeed he is an ultimate badass. Flask is really great. But, especially given how beautiful the Flask docs are, I don't know what makes people think Scribd is a good idea when there are shared google docs, everyone has libre office or ms office or you can print to PDF. The last slide says he will put the slides on his personal site which has been down for a while so I guess that might be a reason.
as i am surprised that no one has mentioned it: when ever i am in the uk or ireland i get a nice cold pear cider (bulmers, magners...). just love to drink it instead of a beer!
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I had the same idea but dropped it after seeing GrooveShark and being too busy with other things. Still, it has tremendous potential. A lot of people get their music from YouTube, but there's currently no good mechanism to leverage that.

Now, for the advice:

1. On the front page show who's listening to what. Drop the How, What, etc. Don't tell people. Show people.

2. Allow people to create playlists with interjections, such as "That was Little Dragon with 'Twice', and now..."

3. Allow people to do insert temporal video casts: Sports, weather, news.

This could be really big if you hit it right. Find a designer for God's sake. And feel free to drop me a line. My email is my profile.
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water, tea, fruit juice. when I'm out, an occasional glass of wine.
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If "light" = quick bug fix while on the road, then yes. I've done that and a bit of sysadmin from my G1 Android by SSHing over 3G. I use ConnectBot for SSH. I even keep a tiny cheatsheet of the htop commands folded in my wallet.

I have a friend who uses a netbook for dev work while travelling and a Mac at home. From observing him first-hand at my home, he didn't seem too happy with the cramped keyboard and the slow machine, but it certainly works for basic stuff on the road.
I'm not sure I could. (If I could, I'd probably be able to omit the hedge at the start.) But here's the best I can do.

1. The rules of go are very simple. (Well, kinda. Use, say, the Tromp-Taylor ruleset.)

2. The resulting game is very subtle, in e.g. the following senses. (a) For any game, define an "increment" to be how much better you need to be than someone else in order to beat them 75% of the time. Then the number of increments between a total beginner and God is larger for go than for any other game I know of. (b) Same as (a), but this time define an "increment" to be how much better you can get with a week's hard work or something. -- That is, there's a lot to learn, and learning it really makes you appreciably better at the game.

3. The difficulty of the game isn't simply a matter of getting better at mechanical calculations: there's a whole lot of strategy and "good taste" and so on.

4. It seems to be an uncommonly beautiful game. Now, any good game is going to have some aesthetic appeal for its expert players. But it seems as if (a) really good go players get more out of it aesthetically than, say, really good chess players get out of chess, and (b) one starts seeing aesthetic value in the game earlier in the process of getting better than with most other games.

5. (This is, I think, mostly a consequence of #1.) It's a very flexible game: you can use a different size of board (changing how long a game takes and the tactics/strategy balance), or give one player a handicap (changing the balance between the two) while keeping the game substantially the same. This is convenient practically, and (for reasons I can't currently articulate) it seems to me that it indicates something deeper about the game: it's a kind of Platonic essence that can be instantiated in many different ways. (I wonder occasionally about playing go on a graph that isn't just a square grid. It seems like hexagonal go wouldn't be too big a stretch, whereas to make a decent hexagonal chess game you have to change lots and lots of things.)

6. (Related to #1, #4 and #5.) It's a game that can be played with enjoyment even by total beginners: it's much more approachable than chess, for instance.

7. Although there's a lot to learn about the game, the understanding:brute-facts ratio in what you need to learn is better than in, say, chess. You can play go very well while knowing scarcely any detailed opening theory, whereas to be any good at chess you need to learn a lot of lines.
You can already buy 512GB USB drives, because you don't need to power them while not in use you can basically stack them indefinitely the only question is would you conciser a 50 pound USB device a USB stick and would you pay several hundred k to do so?

Storage has experienced rapid exponential growth for a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hard_drive_capacity_over_t...
Regarding "if you seem to have done everything correctly", I don't think that any honest scientist can claim that his/her study had no limitation or flaw.

Hear. Hear. This, of course, was the thrust of Richard Feynman's famous Caltech commencement speech on "Cargo Cult Science."

http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm (adapted HTML text)

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf (PDF version as published by Caltech)

As Feynman said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that."
straight gin? gin+tonic is somewhat drinkable, gin straight up is the worst drink I can think of.

To each his own, I suppose :)
Another Milwaukeean!

The little bit that I played was also online. I didn't (and still don't) know anyone that played, either in person or online, so I haven't had anyone I can just bombard with questions. Whenever I played online I just got slaughtered, and any pleas for "what am I doing wrong" generally went unanswered.

Occasionally, I'll hit up http://goproblems.com and I struggle with all but the most obvious answers.

Despite reading a book or two about the game, and the handful of games online, it just never clicked. But I remain fascinated by the game and am on the constant lookout for someone who actually knows how to play. It's been a while now since I last tried to play, but I'm always down.
Neat product, how do you match up the song title with the correct video on youtube ? - from my experience with searching for song titles on youtube the top hit often isn't the one you want.
The problem with a lot of these fancy and expensive keyboards is that they have far too few keys.

For instance, the Realforce 87U ($255) has only 87 keys.

My current $24 keyboard has 136 keys. And I still wish I had more keys! Using a keyboard with a mere 87 keys would be torture, no matter how pleasant the tactile feedback was.
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What I think are the three ESSENTIAL chess books are listed here: http://j.mp/bvbRoO ...The cheapest one is a lot of fun.

I won money in the U.S. Open and the New York Open, but that was only because I was basically improving quickly and was better than my rating. When I reached the point I could play speed chess with a clock without looking at the board (blindfold chess) I had overdone it and pretty much quit.
"Whatever the reason, we would like to honor these companies -- our anti-portfolio -- whose phenomenal success inspires us in our ongoing endeavors to build growing businesses. Or, to put it another way: if we had invested in any of these companies, we might not still be working."

Awesome honesty.
TVS Electronics India makes a cheap, decent 'Cherry Blue'-based mechanical called the 'TVS Gold' for around $30 (converted from INR).

I have one. I'm thinking of buying one for the day gig as well.

Pics: http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:7268&do=co...
It's not alarmism, what I'm saying is that this civilization is unsustainable by any metric you care to throw at it. We've over run our phosphorous reserves. We're depleting energy, land and the ability to feed our civilization. We're systematically amputating ourselves while worrying about the blood spilling on the floor.

It just strikes me how far away from reality this debate has taken us. Yes, none of this will kill the planet or this species for that matter, but it will kill this civilization.

In fact, this has happened again and again throughout history as Jared Diamond points out in his book, Collapse. When you see the record of civilizations and the choices they have made then 5 key metrics stand out;

1) Environmental damage

2) Climate change

3) Hostile neighbors

4) Friendly trade partners

5) The societies response to it's environmental problems

What's interesting is how he compared these metrics and individually isolated cases in histories where only a few were present and used them as examples to see what was going on. It's a beautiful and thrilling exploration between the factors, stakeholders at play and why those choices were made (as far as we know). A comment simply won't do that entire thing justice.

The thing is that there is a delicate interplay between our surroundings and our civilization and stretching it too far without healing won't lead to pleasant consequences. A civilization is a delicate state of things that needs to be maintained at a certain cost be it resources, intellectual or cultural capital. Everything joins to create an integrated whole and that's the problem; you can't have one without the other.

So, essentially we need to make a series of choices about how we are doing things and how we could do them if we want this period of prosperity to survive beyond a few decades.

Yes there is hope, but there's loads of work to do.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_...
Wow. Superb answer, just what I was looking for. I'd actually heard your point 2 repeated several times, so I guess it's a common idea.

By the way, one of the reasons I "like" Go (in a purely objective, looking from a distance without learning it kinda way) is that, from what I've heard, even average players can beat computers at the game. Obviously, this is mostly to do with accidental, mechanical facts about number of possible moves, but in an age where Chess has been "won" by computers, it is something of an appeal for me. Do actual Go players feel the same way?
I'm confused. Why do all of these "elite" keyboards still have oversized dome keys that wiggle around, have a lot of travel, and have big gaps in between them. I'm sorry if this just makes me seem like a mac snob, but how could these compare to a slim, minimal-movement keyboard like this one? http://www.apple.com/keyboard/ [edit: I am not normally an obnoxious snob about keyboards, but considering the subject at hand is keyboard connoisseurship, I have to admit my strong appreciation for the slim-key style which didn't seem well represented in the discussion. (Not about mac vs. pc - just about the key-style.)]
Maybe I'm missing something as I've never even heard the term "mechanical keyboard" before - some of the nuances might be lost on me.. but I know what I like and I'm pretty sure I would never go back to a large dome key keyboard like the ones shown. ...Oh wait, there is one keyboard shown that has minimalist keys, but it's $2,400! This is ridiculous, maybe I should go into the PC keyboard making business.

(Yes, I know that mac keyboards only work on the mac, but if people care so much about these things, then that's not really an excuse for leaving it out of the discussion. Anyone else feel the same way about the slim-key keyboards being so much better?) edit: correction -I guess they do work on PCs http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1095349
I used to play a lot on NNGS and the Palo Alto Go Club in ~98 but now I just teach. Sticking with the f2f version :)

I was into the game enough that when I had a free week in a Japan, I spent it playing every day at a club.
This is not what I meant at all. If you have JS, you'd see one field. No JS, you see a regular login form. It has nothing to do with onclick attributes.

Also, just because it looks like one input field, doesn't mean it has to be one input field. It could be two fields masquerading as one.

Still, I don't think this is a useful design pattern.
This works great for me! The "MTV" function covers a need I didn't even know I had. Thanks a lot, and rock on!
Thanks, the workflow is: 1. User enters artist name 2. Top tracks of Artist shown as dropdown (Last.FM) 3. User selects track 4. Max 150 Similar tracks fetched from Last.fm according to that song 5. Fetch for every track the first hit from youtube (yes, 150 ajax calls) 6. Merge jsons, produce 1 big list 7. Start MTV!

Somehow this approach works for 99% of the times.
Does this mean human beings can effectively prevent ice age?

These are supposed to be cyclical, so it's pretty much guaranteed sooner or later we will have to face one.
I just bought a new landline phone for my home office. I know I'm way in the minority, but I still feel the call quality is far superior to my cell phone, skype or anything else they mention.
For anyone who still thinks Anthropogenic Global Warming is real, some reading material:
http://everist.org/archives/links/!_AGW_links.txt
http://everist.org/archives/links/!_CRU_emails_links.txt

Oh and yes, the graph was limited to 400K years,because otherwise it would show CO2 levels in the past FAR higher than today. And it doesn't show CO2 vs temp over geological timescales, because that graph clearly shows that CO2 lags temp, not the other way round.

It's the same old story - figure out who hopes to make money from a scam, and things get a lot clearer.
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Ask HN: How do you know when to stop working on any given day?
I always struggle with telling myself "enough is enough" by the end of the day. In my mind I always know I could have spent 1 more hour completing more work and I feel guilty about it.

I know this isn't a good way of thinking but I'm not sure how to quiet my mind. How much work is reasonable to complete in a single day?
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Thanks, I've put it on the todo list :)
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Indeed; any analysis of this sort must take into account the company's "platform tax" and how unlikely they are to do anything about it.
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Mike Butcher posted on twitter a couple of days ago that he was compiling a list of European seed accelerators funds, so I imagine they'll be a list posted on Techcrunch shortly.
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Care to explain why your level decreases without practice?
Summary: More great advise from Fred, you're adding somebody to your family when you take on an investor not just getting a silent pile of money. So consider what else comes along with the money and don't always just take the highest offer -- look at the value of each. The same applies for a sale transaction.

Opinion: While this is somewhat self serving for him to get people thinking this way it is true. Consider this example: Investor A offers you 5M at 20M for 25% of the company but doesn't know or understand your market and investor B offers you 4M at 16M for 25% of the company but has built a successful business in your market before and can help you avoid costly mistakes.

The same applies on a sale transaction. If you think the acquirer doesn't understand your business then the maximum value you'll see from that transaction is on the day of it. If you believe they understand it and it'll continue to grow you can stay on board and create much more value of which you'll be rewarded for.
Black coffee w/ as little sugar as I can tolerate in the particular moment of the day.
You have a really good tutorial on www.gokgs.com
Plus you can play there with begginers.
A possibly more practical use would be to invert this setup. I have a big window that faces west, which means I have to close the curtains if I want to work in my apartment in the afternoon. This system could be set up to block the sunlight specifically from getting in my eyes (and on my screen, whenever I'm at a computer), but still allow the room to be lit.
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It's very rare that I run in to a situation where the initial impression is accurate. How's such an inaccurate metric supposed to be a life saver?
Tea contains tannin as well as caffeine, the tannin is a relaxant the caffeine a stimulant, the caffeine comes out first. According to fmltea[1] the caffeine will all be drawn out in the 1st 2mins and the tannin in 5mins. I have previously heard that the greatest caffeine hit is obtained by leaving the teabag in for 30 seconds, I imagine it will depend greatly on the type of tea and how you brew it.

It does however tell you that with tea unlike coffee, stronger flavor does not mean stronger caffeine.

[1] http://www.fmltea.com/Teainfo/caffeine-tannin.htm
you should probably structure this submission different.
I love conspiracy theories, and read them avidly. That doesn't make me crazy.
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Thanks for the feedback David, I was thinking about a 99design contest in order to improve the UI. Right now I see they don't accept 'html code/css' contests, anyone aware of a similar contest site which supports JQuery/CSS contests?
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Sweet tea. Not tea with sugar in it, the Southern drink. And no ice.
It's not so bad. It's just one of those "hey, found something cool. Here's a link, if you're interested".