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Ask HN: Use Vim? What Feature "sold"you?
There's been a lot of buzz lately about Vim and with projects like Janus, getting started has never really been easier. However, when a newcomer does research on how to get going with Vim, there's a ton of duplicate information, but not a lot (at least that I've found) on what features really finally convinced users to deal with the learning curve and really dig into Vim. I find it hard to believe that using h j k l to navigate is really Vim's strong selling point and yet it's what we hear about most often.

The only consistent answer I've heard is that ci is a lifesaver. While that's true, I'd also be interested in hearing about what tools and tricks you've picked up that made you say, "Ok, Vim is my editor!"
If you are from Canada and can't get to our ebook, please drop me a line at sheel at feefighters dot com and I'll send it to you... Oversight on our part to not get that fixed before launching the ebook
Now you bring in the East German secret police. Masterstroke!
I think in Egypt what happens is largely a matter of what the army lets happen.
How do you suggest to handle Distributed Er[l|j]ang on GAE Java?

GAE and AWS Beanstalk are great fit for web apps and web sites, where each worker is identical.

In case of Er[l|j]ang each node will need to have different node name and be connected to other nodes, otherwise it will not be much useful to me.

I also need to launch different clusters, so it getting complicated.
> They're calling themselves a "security firm" (at least that's how everyone refers to them) and they engage in cyber-warfare against anonymous.

Random acts of stupidity by individual actors that should know better do not qualify as cyber-warfare.

> Having your mailserver compromised on that premise, during what was probably the first serious attack, disqualifies you from that game.

I sincerely doubt that was the first attack on their infrastructure and applications. We're routinely attacked by targeted threats and we're even smaller than HBGary.

> And by the way, how do you know their source code was not stolen or backdoored?

I don't, but I will be asking about it when I speak to them, as will everyone else they speak to. Hopefully they will segregate the code from the Internet.

> Excuse me? "Absolutely perfect security"?
> This was not some minor breach into some peripheral webserver. 4.71GB of their E-Mail is on BitTorrent

And what's the value of the information assets stored in that e-mail? Is it 4.71Gb of subscription reminders for icanhazcheezburger? What proportion of that mail is actually sensitive and unencrypted, or decryptable within a timeframe where the sensitivity is still relevant?

This is the thing, it's easy to scream about volume, but the fact is that there's a lot of data to go through. We've already seen stuff leak out from it that realistically was not best placed to be sent around unencrypted, but the same would apply in any company that had their mail servers broken into, the mail stolen and then distributed across the Internet.
Seems to be the same thing with the BlizzAuthenticator. Good idea, but I wouldn't use it. You gotta consider what happens if you loose your phone. You can't do any emergency calls and don't even have access to your saved phone numbers anymore. You're also locked out of your Gmail Account for god knows how long. I like my phone, but a little bit decentralizing can never be wrong :)
Oh absolutely. But that does imply the same will occur everywhere, with special focus on the "noise" and "devaluation of property". And whether you believe in the "strong magnetic field" fear or not is irrelevant if you're trying to sell your house near the tracks to someone who does.
I think the issue here is that there are two entities: HBGary and HBGary Federal, that seem to be only linked by investment and name. HBGary Federal was 'engaged in cyber-warfare' against Anonymous, not HBGary.
Sherry Turkle: I'm in Google, Google's in Me
What I think is funny about Quora, is that the idea is absolutely not new: there's loads of similar websites online like it. (Yahoo Answers et al). Still there's a big buzz around it. Fair enough, the UI is a lot better than on those other websites, but that doesn't make it that special. Or am I missing something?
Some of them are. The Guy Fawkes masks are sort of a good way of describing them: a bunch of completely unrelated people assuming the same identity for a time. Likewise, the "Anonymous" you hear of is usually the "Anonymous" that pulls this sort of stunt and then publicizes it. There are a number of people hanging out on /b/ doing nothing but humorous (depending on your sense of humor) image manipulation, also calling themselves Anonymous, and people trolling LiveJournal doing the same. They've all got a different character, but if they all use the same name, it makes them difficult to attach attributes to.

They get to be anonymous by all assuming the same name, "Anonymous"; it's tricky to talk about them as a unified group because it's a group of groups, all with the same name. "This Anonymous" versus "that Anonymous" is hard to talk about. (It's a disclosed exploit in language.)
You don't understand what the Turing Test is all about. It isn't testing intelligence, it is an attempt to answer the question "Can machines think?". It's all there in that Wikipedia link that I posted.

Also, what makes you think that what goes on in your own brain isn't just another form of "brute-forcing"? What makes one implementation of thinking "thinking" and another form just "brute-force"? And then, brute-forcing is the technique of trying every possible solution - a Turing Machine must be able to move in a near infinite solution space, so brute-forcing is not actually possible.
P(jobless|PhD) is important; it's a measure of how much job security a PhD leads to.

No, it is a measure of how much job security a PhD is correlated with. I believe that the qualities that lead to one being able to complete a PhD are positively correlated with being able to get and hold a job. Therefore you need to restrict to just those people you think could get a PhD to figure out how much the PhD helps or hurts you.
So the point of this discussion was showing that HTML cannot be parsed, in general, using regular expressions and asserting "... it turns out that the programmers who don't understand the pumping lemma are the same programmers who unnecessarily reinvent well established tools when faced with simple problems."

I don't buy this. I've never heard of people attempting to develop a single regular expression to generally parse HTML/XML. The pumping lemma doesn't prevent people from using regular expressions to grab bits of info out of particular pages for which they know the layout.

While there are maintainability and generality concerns with doing so, the "quick and dirty" regex approach can work in particular cases and isn't a sign that a developer lacks a proper grounding in FSM-theory... in fact, it might be a fine solution for one-off tasks.
I hope someone hacks it to work on XP by the end of the year (even without acceleration) so I can figure out what additional workarounds have to be done to all my stylesheets.

Hmm, maybe browsershots will eventually list it.
Olive Smart Mobile Phone Announced
Olive Mobiles has announced the launch of new Olive Smart VS 300 mobile phone which is a smartphone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread as OS. It would be the first in India to get Android 2.3 and get here to know more about it.
Can't wait for 500S demo day.
OpenID?
Microsoft Intros Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate
From the referred Michael Pollan's article[0]:

> Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket.

Once you let that sink in for a moment, your food choices should be pretty easy.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t....
I stand corrected. This is exactly what I'd tell my students if they had made the mistake I made.
Awesome design. Even the book.

I noticed that if you flip through the pages quickly it looks like the ninja star at the bottom of each page is spinning and traveling across the page!:)
"Typical postdoc pay is $40-60k/year depending on where the job is located ($40k in Urbana-Champaigne, $60k NYC or Chicago)."

I say thee "Ha!", sir. The offers I was getting for post-docs were consistently on or below the low end of that range, even in San Francisco (which ain't cheap).

Probably one of the biggest nudges I had away from academia was the realization that as a post-doc, I'd have a lower standard of living than I did as a graduate student. It didn't seem like a smart trend to follow.
A visual exploration of where New Yorkers moved in the last decade
Ask HN: Who is the best programmer in the world?
my main question is why? Seems to be the worst of both worlds.....
All the pain of Erlang syntax without any of the incredible stability and scalability of Erlang.
Mobile: It’s Not Too Late To Be Early
Is that the PayPal fob shown here for $5:

https://cms.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-cont...

Or is there a free one available by other means?
What HP Really Bought From Palm: A Mobile Future Untethered From Microsoft
True. But along the same lines...

I wonder if it's able to say to itself "I think I'm in the right ballpark, so I'll buzz now" and then take the 3-4 seconds it takes the host to recognize the buzz and ask for an answer, to finish its processing to get to the answer it's most confident of.

In other words, it doesn't need to actually have the answer to buzz. It just needs some confidence that the answer is close at hand.
Sure, but the font and size are exactly what you are free to control as you please with your browser.
One difference is its all private equity. These companies are not IPOing yet. There isn't a mad dash by the masses to buy tech stocks (or buy and flip their houses for that matter.) All these gains and losses are pretty well contained by venture funds and Angels - it certainly could be a bubble for them, but it will have nowhere near the wide ranging affects of the tech bubble from a decade ago because there are so few people involved and its orders of magnitude less in total valuations.
Out of curiosity, what, exactly, are Kurzweil's qualifications to be making predictions like this? I see that he's done a fair share of building music synthesizers. Neat! But I don't see how he made the leap from qualified to make a synthesizer to qualified to make broad predictions about computing and biotechnological trends over the next three decades....
To be fair, it was a burning shrubbery.
> They're calling themselves a "security firm" (at least that's how everyone refers to them) and they engage in cyber-warfare against anonymous.

Random acts of stupidity by individual actors that should know better do not qualify as cyber-warfare.

A firm that can have their entire email database compromised by one individual's "Random acts of stupidity" doesn't have enough safeguards.

And what's the value of the information assets stored in that e-mail? Is it 4.71Gb of subscription reminders for icanhazcheezburger?

We know it's not that. Ask any random company what they think of having their email db out there as a torrent. No one is going to like that idea. It may not be the end of the world, but no one credible is going to say it's not a big deal. No one is going to say it's worth the money saved by not isolating your mail server.

This is the thing, it's easy to scream about volume

No one is screaming about volume. That wasn't even central to the point being made. You seem to be trying to pretend it is, though.

but the fact is that there's a lot of data to go through.

But then you turn around and invoke "security through too-much-stuff."
I think about this a lot. A great pm can be a huge help to senior devs. However in the cases Ive seen senior devs end up doing most of the pm's thinking.
But then you wouldn't get to use Bayes' theorem in a public setting.
It also varies widely by funding agency. NIH-funded postdocs are paid abysmally small amounts; DARPA or industrially-funded postdocs can pay quite a bit more reasonably.
I guess I was just responding to "the corruption going on in Egypt". I didn't mean to indicate you in particular, apologies if it comes across that way.
Escrow, adjustments, carve-out, basket - what founders need to know about M&As
"We’ve added support for the HTML5 canvas global­Composite­Operation property"
Maybe you could bill your clients to a fixed date. I could imagine that a lot of people spend more than just one dollar
Also, 37signals' office has a lot more square footage per employee and looks like they've spent a lot more on the design and materials. That's probably partly a reflection of 37signals' marginal product per employee and partly a reflection of hosting workshops for paying customers there. I'm not sure Zappos could afford the 37signals office aesthetic
Yes. 2-factor authentication does not address site impersonation.

This is for the more common case of trying to access a user's account without the user's direct involvement. (e.g., if I grabbed lists of common passwords, try to use your password from a cracked site to access an account on google, etc.).

Classify this as "step forward" not "silver bullet".

kb
Yes - but take it from me that it can reaaaaallllllyyyy drag out the process if your results disagree with the status quo. I was made to show that something didn't work in general (in lots of cases in practice), as opposed to just showing that

1. it has not been proved to work,

2. it didn't work in a specific case,

3. my replacement method is mathematically rigorous.

And that is why I work for a megacorp, at the moment.
Thanks. I also found this:

If you don't have the OTP codes and didn't set up a backup, and can't access any computer/device where you have access from logging in during the past 30 days:

3) You'll need to fill out an account recovery form to verify ownership of the account. Take time to answer each question to the best of your ability. The form was designed to ensure that no one can gain access to your account except you. Since Google doesn't collect a lot of information about you when you sign up for an account, we will ask you questions like when you created your account, what Google services you use, and who you email frequently (if you use Gmail) to make certain you are authorized to access your account.
How does two-factor cut down on phishing again?

Instead of a fake login page with 2 boxes, a phisher could just create a fake login page with 3 boxes and pass the keycode along with everything else.

The only increased difficulty in phishing, is if the user notes they're seeing a keycode prompt, decides that they probably shouldn't have to enter that again and doesn't just key it in anyway.

When we're talking about people who fall for phishing scams, does that sound all that likely? I mean, these people have a history of ignoring red flags and being blissfully ignorant to what should even raise a red flag.

Now, what two-factor will help mitigate, is casual sniffing, keylogging, shoulder-surfing and saved password cracking.
Random comments - make your own assessment as to their value ...

Get a part-time job now flipping burgers or waiting tables. Use that to stretch your deadline a month or three. Continue to consider the "startup" as a genuine potential future job, and find a way in the next two months to get some money - any money - coming in from that.

If you continue to be serious about the startup, why are you living in London? that's got to be more expensive than other options. Are you renting? Do you own the house? Are you sharing? Are you living with your parents?

What is your degree? Consider doing some Project Euler problems in both Python and C#. Compare and contrast. Don't spend too long on them, but a solid range of worked solutions tells potential employers that you can code and solve problems.
I think we're talking across purposes here. I'm asserting that the fact that they were compromised isn't particularly bad. People get hit all the time. The fact that they were hit by an SQL injection bug is unfortunate and should've been picked up but these things happen all the time. I'd also say that while they're a security firm they should still be held to the same standards as everyone else, there's nothing inherently special about a security firm being compromised anymore than a plumber's getting a leak - what matters is the damage and how they fix it.

The red flags as you call them are not the facts nor the means of the compromise alone, it's the data that is lost and whether or not HBGary Federal a) practiced what they preached and b) followed appropriate processes and policies to protect the information assets according to their sensitivity.

My hope is that on balance they did b fairly well and maybe some of a. My expectation is that they did some of a and probably not a lot of b, the results of which would be the red flag.

Again, I don't think that security companies should be held to higher standards than others as on balance we tend to hold less sensitive data than our customers (although that which we hold we should handle correctly). If this were an online pet shop people would talk about the attacks being quite advanced, laugh a little and move on. HBGary Federal aren't the first security firm to get hacked into and won't be the last.
Yeah, apparently they're going to have it for imap, but I'm hoping they include gtalk in there too.
It's all relative. The office tends to conform to your culture and employees.

The Zappos style is "do whatever it takes to make you and your customer happy". The chaotic, haphazard office style befits a company that once drove to a B&M store to buy a pair of shoes that they didn't have in stock and then delivered the shoes personally to the customer (all for free btw). Absolute bloody madness that earns them over a billion dollars in revenue in a niche of a niche of e-commerce that even the big boys tried (and failed) to compete.

37signals, with sparse digs and even more spartan design decisions, keeps their decision-making more minimalistic and cold (we will not implement a feature before its time). Meetings are death, build less, leaner and more flexible. All this results in an environment where they could pack up and move the entire office within the same day that they push out a beautifully useful new major feature in their software.

Someone commented about Pixar's offices[1], which seems more a testament to their employees' penchant for exacting design and aesthetic perfection, with no pixel out of place and no colors clashing. Their workspace keeps their employees making films that gross billions worldwide and which are universally praised as classics in film and storytelling. Pure, exacting entertainment.

[1] http://www.officesnapshots.com/2007/07/16/pixar-hq/
Totally agree. I address this in the section "Ways this inflationary period (if it exists) is different from 1997-2000". I am sure I missed a bunch of other ways it is different.

I think this inflationary period is probably closer to past ones (e.g. microcomputer/peripherals in the early 80s) then the wide spread financial asset bubble of 2000.
What got me from no to yes on an angel investment. Case study
"In wisdom or dumb luck, Matt saw that a feature that mostly works for most users next week is better than a perfect feature next year."

In other words, Worse is Better.
he's talking about the human brain
When they rolled it out was free. I didn't even pay shipping. I guess they're charging for it now.
Ask HN: Where is all the talent at?
Our startup is looking for that All-Start CTO and have been reviewing candidates, but falling flat. What are some of the networks/communities out there where people have found talent looking to jump on board startups? Especially those with traction and revenue!
So nobody is going to say anything about this :Twitter may be valued as high as $10 billion, based on the microblogging service’s recent low level sale discussions with both Facebook and Google executives.

Maybe I missed it but I had no idea Facebook or Google was interested in acquiring Twitter. Google, I expected, Facebook is a bit shocking...What would they do with it? Shut it down? FB needs to be careful--they're already seen as big brother to many.
I don't speek for Ryan Dahl or the community at large, but from what I can tell hanging out in the IRC room and reading the mail list is that it is ready for production for just about anyone. Now mind you, anything this young isn't going to be perfect, but what systems are? As far as I know the SSL issues are fixed or being patched ASAP, so you should be able to get something up and running and feel fairly secure in it

0.4.0 brings quite a few API changes from 0.2.6, so if you haven't been keeping up, you should really scour the API docs. You can also check out the wiki for a guide on migrating. https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/Migrating-from-v0.2-to-v0.3
I've been working on the periphery of this project for about a year now (my company created the on screen "avatar" that's shown at Watson's podium on stage) and it's been amazing to watch as Watson has progressed.

Some of the early matches I got data from were downright funny. Lots of nonsense answers and weird correlations that kinda made sense but made it obvious Watson didn't really understand the problem space.

In case you're interested the avatar gets realtime data from Watson and visualizes both Watson's internal state and the game state. The core bit is a collection of "threads" that swarm around the surface of a sphere. The speed, variability, color, and length of the threads are all tied to the data we get from Watson. The colors roughly correspond to confidence, and when the threads bunch up it has to do with what Watson is "doing" (i.e. if he gets an answer wrong the threads will go slow and gather to the bottom of the sphere, if one of the other contestants is answering the threads will gather on that side of of the sphere, etc).

The designer and my team agreed early on that there would be exactly 42 threads. ;-)

Oh, and when Watson speaks the threads push off the surface of the sphere to the intensity of the audio. It also makes a subtle glow in the center of the sphere brighten in an homage to Hal.
NYTimes had 'Play against IBM Watson' interactive feature few months back.

Here's the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/16/magazine/watso...
"Please do not fart by our table and then walk away. I beg you."

So you should fart and then NOT walk away? Clearly, you should stick around because... we will want to hire you? I mean, what's the alternative here?
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The pandaboard is amazing. I mean, dual core A9 processor, 1080p video with a DSP, wlan, 3 usb ports, JTAG, expansion headers in a neat tiny package all for $175? Damn.

It could be a seedbox, NAS and dedicated video / music player all in one, or you could use it for your next robotics project to do on board processing on your quadcopter!
For some reason this post has been taken off the HN page (can't find it anywhere in the first 6 pages of results) Anyone know why this sort of thing happens?
We did this for one of our startups but had major issues after the first month when it turned out that spreedly doesn't db the credit card cvv ('cause they're not allowed) and then paypal wouldn't let us bill without the cvv code. We've had numerous issues with paypal not letting us do some simple things just because they made a decision at some point that we were sketchy and shouldn't be allowed and they tell us they'll NEVER EVER change their mind.

That said, we still use paypal recurring billing on a few sites cause its just sooo easy to do, even if it is a bit user unfriendly.
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