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It is completely off-topic.†

People will want meat to dig into for a meta-argument about global politics and I'm not going to offer it up, but let it just be said: it's very bad for HN that this stuff is being covered so prominently on the site. It absolutely, positively a slippery slope.

The site is clearly tacking away from serving entrepreneurial hackers and towards serving smart people who want a place to talk about everything they care deeply about.

I'm not writing my goodbye note or anything, but I'm having more and more of my best conversations in private cliques and off HN because HN is becoming less and less hospitable to those kinds of conversations.

† Need evidence? Graham appears to have manually weighted it off the front page; just a little while ago, a Mubarak story was parked there with 237 votes.
Your arguments make sense, and if Mubarak had announced this a week ago, it would have flown. But I doubt the feeling of the people will allow this now. I will be surprised if Mubarak lasts until September, and if he does it won't be without a bloodbath.
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Looking at the recent commits in the last two days, it doesn't look like visionmedia has changed anything for 0.4.0 in particular. If you're interested, you should try it out and file issues appropriately.

I'll probably be doing exactly that tonight.
Google as Fat Elvis
What if Quora doesn't yet want/need casual users who are unfamiliar with their central social (voting/tagging/following/constrained-searching) mechanisms?

Also, familiar/orderly interactions are hard to iterate rapidly: expectations are already set. Throwing new ideas out there, and seeing if people figure them out (or use them in unexpected ways) generates more knowledge and upside potential.

The mainstream will be trained-up on these interactions, by lots of other sites which settle on the same winning arrangements, in a couple years. Then, Quora will seem familiar.
>Suffice it to say that I think these "fight clubs" are a trend of men attempting to ape some perverted ideal of masculinity.

Like it or not, that's how evolution wired us. That's what used to work. I don't think it's unhealthy to have a consensual, controlled, relatively safe outlet for it.

Disclaimer: A few of my friends started something similar recently, though I haven't participated yet.
This community is not supposed to be "well rounded". I think you're looking for Digg and Reddit.
No central authority needed: Bitcoin is a p2p digital currency. See it in action
And also for the fact that social networks have played such a large role.
If you want to be super evil about it you could also embed the evil POSTing code in a swf that looks like an unevil ad and then let an unsuspecting ad network distribute it for you.

Edit: grammar.
there is no formal application process. you have to be referred by a 500 Mentor / respected angel.
Fair enough--but that's more of a "cheat sheet" than anything else, you know? Learning the commands and committing them to muscle memory is part of the learning process for any app. Vim is known to be generally difficult (or at least time consuming) to learn because you have to first digest what the commands are before you can work on getting them into muscle memory.

The question is: what features did you find that decided it was worth it to switch? If not for the feature itself, then how does the paradigm of its usage help you?

For example, ci{ is often cited by developers is awesome. It's so much faster than highlighting text within curly braces and changing it so while it's a pretty simple thing, Vim's implementation makes it a breeze to use.
Twitter API stops accepting whitelisting applications
I'm pretty sure every hardware maker realize that, but they also realize that is what won last time. Everyone wants to roll their own, but that is a risky venture (Palm couldn't hack it). Hitching your wagon to Windows/Android is better than going on your own and failing miserably.
Thoughts on the HP “Think Beyond” webOS event
Are these "application-specific" passwords limited in any way? For example, if one of them is stolen without my knowledge, can the attacker fully access my Google account (e.g. account settings, all Google services, etc.)? Obviously it's less likely that one of these passwords will be stolen than passwords, but it's still possible.

From the screenshots (don't have access yet) it seems that you don't get to specify the type of application or access, but I would assume there is some limitation on what you can do with these passwords?
...which is after it was already on the news. Not exactly proof that he started the rumor.
It's not aid from the USA that Mubarak is worried about, it's his personal billions. He wants them safely away from where a future Egyptian government can get at them.
Don't worry about it -- I got a response from pg -- voting ring detection.
Here's an answer counter to the conventional wisdom, which feels a little too self-serving.

What if ideas are things that need to be worked on and hammered out as well? After all, isn't that why working on a startup is more rewarding? The programmer isn't just a programmer anymore, (s)he's also the PM and analyst all rolled into one. Of course, the person in charge has to be good at it all in order for it to work out. Startup people have to "pivot".

I have friends at Apple and Google, and they tell me engineers are encouraged to work on their own ideas. Analysts have shown that those companies have fairly high productivity per worker. One of my closest friends at Apple does all the mockups for her team's features, despite officially being a programmer. It feels as if the role of PM is spread out amongst a number of programmers, who aren't exactly brain-dead with regards to what a polished product should be.

Now in most companies where PM is in charge, it feels as if the toolchain has been optimized to deemphasize the importance and reliance on good programming, hence PM/analyst becoming more proportionally value-dense (whether this is a good approach or not I will not debate).
Thanks for submitting this. I've applied to the beta. This sort of solution is very helpful to me, as I've used PhoneGap before to make apps before, but I don't have a Mac to access any more.
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Why not hand over power to a deputy until September then? It seems to me that the people really just want him to go, sure they won't support who he hands it over to but I think it will buy them calm until September.
One other potential problem I see with this study is that it doesn't seem to take into account that not all employees put in the same amount of time for an employer. For instance, some employees work only part time. So if 80% of your workforce is part-time, you're going to have a lot more employees than a company that produces the exact same profit with all full-time employees. The numbers would look a lot worse for you because of your high employee count, even if your productivity per employee-hour is the same.

Also, in salaried situations, you may have some employees who work 60-80 hour weeks while others only work 40 hour weeks. Now the high hour-per-employee count will probably effect productivity in other ways (extended periods of long hours tend to actually reduce productivity), but the difference in hours-per-salaried-employee is going to have some bearing on productivity also. This may not make as big a difference as the part-vs-full-time situation, but it could be significant.
Strange. The military was hinting pretty strongly all day that something major would happen in this speech, but the speech seems generic and has no real concessions over the previous one. Wonder if the military was the one misleading, or being misled.
That isn't enough for me. I wouldn't have a profile unless I had the ability to remove things.
Kik responds to lawsuit: "RIM employed a ‘bully’ like strategy"
Deal, although I'm not sure that's a good criteria.

Obviously Twitter is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If AOL had 100Bn in the bank, maybe they'd buy twitter for 10Bn.

But to me, that wouldn't prove Twitter is worth 10bn on an open market, it just validates that AOL is absolutely batshit crazy and likes losing money.

Maybe it's just me... Everyone in my extended family uses email regularly. Most use facebook weekly or daily. Twitter rarely comes up at all.
> "And who would you have him give power to?"

I'm sure the Vice President, while quite possibly a stooge, is perfectly capable of running things until September. As are at least a dozen cabinet- or governor-level officials.

That Mubarak would have picked the interim leader doesn't delegitimize the process any more than his staying in place. It would instead underscore his promise and intent to not seek re-election, to not manipulate the process and to seek a peaceful transition of power.

And the idea that an interim leader would instead retain power for themselves is farcical. The Egyptian people have expressed their will and surely they could do it again. Unless the entire military apparatus wheeled around on the people, there is simply no option whereby an interim governor could crown themselves dictator.
I see it as just another well-thought and argued Chicken Little. Unsubstantiated speculation != a bubble.
Glad I could help. I subscribed as well, if it works well it will really be helpful.
Google launches wedding planning site
You are confusing gamers with programmers
If the community doesn't want this here then why does it have nearly 100 up votes in under an hour?
For what it's worth, Angry Birds was ported to webOS last summer:

http://pdnblog.palm.com/2010/08/interviewing-the-master-eagl...
Pretty nice idea, but what the hell is "yofile" supposed to allude to?
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No, but that wasn't my point. My point was that this vulnerability can be (and has been) worked around by using nonces in the header. If you can see the response body, that protection becomes worthless as well (and there is no workaround for that).
Do you think a sports franchise would be interested in being able to show slow motion "see-through" shots? How about tracking people in a crowd especially when you can pick which person after the fact, there might be some government somewhere that might care to do that on every street corner.

Or much more simple and $$$. Track every people in CVS so you can figure out which one stole the razor blades.
Comparing the processing ability of the human brain with that of Watson is not meaningful. A computer also regulates a ton of parameters like CPU temperature, voltage, and so on. And every single unit has its own logic circuits for regulating internal stability.

What's meaningful is comparing energy and time required for creating a human or a computer capable of doing this, as well as maintenance costs.

And assuming Moore's law continues unabated, a Watson-scale machine will be competitive with a human within five to ten years. Given that it's already functional, I would bet money that it will be cost-effective compared to Ken Jennings by 2045, whether through advances in computing or energy. I wouldn't bet it will be sentient, but just that we can build one and set it up to answer questions cheaper than we can raise someone with as good a head for trivia as Ken.
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Like at the my home, at work my desk is clean, and only has things I require to do work and if I have something else, like tea equipment it sits in the office kitchen not on my desk. I might be a personal preference, but I would hate to collect all kinds of crap on my work desk.

37S is also a smaller company, so I would say that people there regard the whole office as their 'home' or house, not just their workspace. It's designed in a away that you can use the office like your home. You have separated rooms for different tasks and people working there are more like a family sharing a house not like a group of people sharing a space and having their own small private place. Like a family, you don't decorate your common areas (hopefully) by what whatever anybody wants, but more having some style, while allowing personal items in some places.
The label "scanner" seems kind of derogatory to me. From the perspective of a startup I would want one on the team only if they were a true generalist. The real problem is finding individuals who understand they like to explore different areas but have enough passion to focus long enough on something to learn it reasonably.

I guess the best term is a renaissance man or polymath.
I've also said on occasion that I have to "shoulder the responsibilities" of watching football in my PJs all Sunday. No one at my household is fooled by it either.
Correct. Put it up using Google Adwords or a similar network, make sure attacker.com has a proper crossdomain.xml file (because the SWF won't be served from attacker.com), and you have a working exploit that can be deployed all over the Internet.
Glad my thoughts were helpful and that you could incorporate them. I see your changes and it's definitely clearer now. Good luck!
That org is pretty heavily funded by ExxonMobil, among other reasons to doubt its credibility.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_St...
What about Turkey? He is going through an era of political and economical stability unseen since his inception 80 years ago.
Where's the business model that makes this worthy of investing? Where's the defensiveness when any credit card company can (and several have in the past) put together credit card offerings which do the same thing?
Ask PG: Has Gabriel's submission been flagged for vote rigging?
It looks like an interesting (albeit, local) post won't make it to the front page. I've notice this before with Toronto Hacker News Nights, that even with many up votes early on, it never seems to hit the front page.

Here is the post in question. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2202764

My guess is that since people from the same local typically upvote local-related posts, your anti-vote rigging system flags them as a group. In my humble opinion people like Gabriel (over 10k in karma, and a clear voice in this community) should be exempt from flagging.
But Gmail is a webapp, not a website. You don't get a link to an email stored in Gmail. You can only access things once you're already inside.

Twitter is very different. If you're signing in yourself to update your own feed, that's one thing. But when you are trying to view the feed of someone else, that's a horse of a different color.

The question really is: should Twitter be an "app" or a "site"? If you allow links in from the rest of the web, it should be a "site".
I think the VP and the parliament chair have exhausted any trust too as they've been trying to demonize the protesters for a week. Military guy + committee of OK ministers and opposition is probably going to happen
Could be posturing by some in the military for a coup attempt
How about messing with your friends?
So, a lot of small files create inconvenience and then one need a tool to navigate the mess?

You don't need that if you put everything in OneBigFile. Mine is 24KLOC. http://simplijs.com/OneBigFileFormat

Modern editors can handle big files.

BTW: I'm still looking for an editor that could open multiple files in a single buffer/window.
Thats kinda the rub; you don't get to choose whether you have a yofile, any friend can create and edit one for you.

The fun part (at least for us when playing with it) is joking around on your friends' yofiles. Because it is anonymous we're always curious who edited what, and you can be a lot more open/honest.
No, I tried to include every aspect into a short statement. Which part needs clarification? I'll be happy to elaborate.
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Wow, I wonder how many tiny spy cameras they have flying around disguised as insects right now...
Keep in mind each fallback/recovery option like secret question, secondary email address, OTPs etc. is an extra attack vector too. So would be good idea to store that old email somewhere securely too...
You May Kiss the Bride, Thanks to Google Weddings
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-tests-naviga...
Rhymes with "profile" and is a mashup of "Your file" and "Profile"
It's the S&P 500. I agree, though, that it is not a very good sample.
You're right. Let's discuss why we're discussing it, instead.
It's that or be sidelined as a commodity hardware manufacturer, though. Despite Samsung, HTC, Moto et al's best efforts (Sense UI and other things they've been tacking onto their Android devices), it's pretty clear that the UX is driven by Google. This handicaps (if not virtually eliminates) their ability to differentiate and brand their products.

After all, the only real difference between a Samsung and HTC is hardware - few people care about the custom bits on top.

Also, I don't think you give Palm enough credit. webOS is a solid product that had a solid enough launch. If Palm hadn't run out of cash, and their marketing wasn't so ass-backwards, they might've stood a chance. IMHO with a bottomless moneypit like HP backing them, they can put up a real fight.
You don't think there's any truth in "the cobbler's children have no shoes"?
Obama Demands Better Wireless
Maybe we can turn this into a useful HNer discussion.

Has anyone been involved with enterprise sales where one part of the company is supportive of the project while another isn't. The worst thing is no one knows what is really going to happen and a turf war is about to break out. The US administration is like the sales guy trying to influence the outcome, but really has very little ability to guide the result.
That's what I am saying; he knows Abdullah has his back financially. He can just stash his money in a Saudi bank.
Because it's an interesting phenomenon as previosly stated, and because we're talking about a politician that managed to cut off an entire country from the Internet.
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I don't know, but it doesn't matter because this morning it was me who woke up. It could matter to the me who went to sleep last night but he's no longer here…
Certainly it's not proof, but I'd be surprised if the CIA wasn't involved. Their main goal is to minimize the uncertainty of the situation, so if they saw a play to both end the uncertainty and also have the situation resolve on US-friendly terms then it would be surprising if they didn't intervene. At the very least they are strongly encouraging the situation.
Does every story have an "other side" like you seem to expect? What if Mubarak really is just another kleptocratic authoritarian now showing possible signs of mental instability with his "I'll leave/I'm staying" schtick? Is it the media's job to make that seem sympathetic?

In fact, I'll go further with this: One of the big things I hate about (American) mainstream media is that it tries too hard to give "both sides" of a one-sided issue. A case in point is the whole thing about whether vaccines cause autism: Informed people knew from pretty much day one that they don't, and that the whole supposed 'debate' was completely manufactured by a combination of cynical lawsuit-mongers and abysmally ignorant celebrities. Yet you'd have never known that from how respectfully those trolls were treated and how seriously the 'debates' were handled in the mainstream media.

That's actually a somewhat common critique of the media; I'm bringing it up now because what you said happened to clang on it to some extent. I'm not trying to attack you with it.
What were your thoughts on the video? I didnt understand..

Stand up means you become a lissner. Imagine 3 chairs in a room, you can only talk when youre sitting down. :)

Thanks for checking it out and writing a review!
theres a node manager in the npm repository called n.

npm intsall n

n install 0.4.0

want to use an older version installed?

n use 0.2.6
The Lunar Module is an amazing piece of engineering! It can land, be the base for excursions for more than three days, becomes and impromptu rocket launch pad and is eminently dockable. All that capability fits in a cube with a five meter edge and weighs less than 15 tons, it was developed and built in well less than ten years and it worked every single time.

Some like the raw power of the Saturn V, I think the multi-talented Lunar Module is much more amazing.
Fuzzy Logic vs Probability
The difference between the frequentist and the Bayesian Probability and Fuzzy Logic. Excellent piece of read for math geeks.
I would argue that that is not very pythonic, since it breaks the "explicit is better than implicit" guideline.
We have been running one of our critical services with node for a couple months now without any problems. It has been excellent to work with and I'm going to do more with it.
Web Sockets with Clojure and jQuery
Plone community mourns the loss of Dorneles Tremea
I suspect that a relationship of this sort is due to Parkinson's law. But I have trouble identifying a power law from his graph.
The difference between the frequentist and the Bayesian Probability and Fuzzy Logic. Excellent piece of read for math geeks.
That's a valid point, but most of the start-ups I've seen mentioned on Hacker News don't seem to be selling business productivity tools. I don't hold out hope that all those iPhone and Android apps are going to have a big positive boost on employee productivity. And who knows how much productivity Facebook has cost the world so far.
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one theory i have as to what's contributing to this is the fact that the returns on safer investment alternatives are so low. example, savings accounts that earn 0.5% annually. i remember when i could easily get 6%. so now taking a risk and spreading a large gob of cash across say 20 startups looks more appealing because even if the overall return for the group is a mere 5% that's much better than <=1%
I have to disagree that the site is tacking away from serving entrepreneurial hackers. PG just recently posted that the site, even with all of its growth, seems to have kept fairly well the integrity of the homepage and quality of discussion. I can understand a fear that non-hackerish topics can threaten to steer a site more into the mainstream, but I don't think that's a worry with something like this because these kinds of events are not to be expected to occur all the time.
RIM said to plan to have PlayBook run Android software
For what it is worth, Mubarak has been a peacemaker in the Middle East, and largely a protector of Egyptian minorities.
Which means you phished it once. Which means you need to take drastic actions to exploit it, a slow buildup over time is not an option.

Which in turn means you're more likely to get detected. It's not full protection - you'd still need a second channel for that - but it's better than nothing.
They don't want blood per se, but rather they want to end the geopolitical uncertainty. And the way they do this is by setting up the game theory so that it's in everyone's rational interest for the situation to resolve itself in a way that benefits the US and minimizes global risk. And if this means a few hundred protestors getting killed, that's what's going to happen.

It's not really different than any other coup or revolution.
Wouldn't his refusal to step down in the speech be a major revelation given that the expectation was that the speech would announce his stepping down?

I'd say that "Mubarak announces he will not step down during his speech which was to announces his leave..." is something major.
Perhaps the problem is that there isn't really anywhere that serves that niche.

Not that I'm offering to try and fill it - but perhaps somebody else on here might want to give it a go?