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Hilarious. You're assuming the DOJ is actually trying to prevent monopolies; it seems to me their main motivation is responding to pressure from Congress and corporate lobbyists. If Apple were called into their offices to defend their market share, they would say something like "we have .001 percent of the mobile devices market. This market includes anything with a wireless connection, like laptops and all cellular phones." The DOJ would say "Ok, sounds good to us. No monopoly issues here." (Unless, of course, some powerful Congressperson was pounding on them, trying to cause headaches for Apple..)

As an example, the DOJ just let the only two satellite radio companies merge (Sirius and XM). They allowed them to define the market as "anything that can broadcast music". The market included all normal over-the-air radio stations, internet radio, and (for all I know) iTunes. By that definition, XM and Sirius only owned .01% of the "anything that can broadcast" market, so there were no antitrust issues.

I got a personal look at this when I sold my last company; we were bought by a competitor and the DOJ called us in to evaluate the merger and determine whether there were any anti-trust issues. We defined the market in the broadest terms possible and got absolutely no resistance from them. (Granted, even had we defined the market in narrow terms we still should have been ok.) To this day I'm amazed at how tractable they were.

The system is broken.
I'd give about a buck fifty for ID.
"Best" is a relative term, but Wordpress became the de facto standard by being it for the most uses of the word.
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The welcome post only has its title on the front page now. Before we didn't have an option for descriptions to not show up on the list pages.
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It would be hard I think to name a more irrational group of people than entrepreneurs.

May we be blessed with an abundance of the more altruistic among them.
I find it interesting that you're the most vocal supporter of the Openmoko on this site, and you still don't use it as your only phone. Hopefully they will work out the kinks eventually, but it is not an option for most of us yet, not even those of us who care about software freedom.

If you NEED to have a backup phone, then it is still just an expensive toy.
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"No terrorist is going to base his plot on getting a gun through airport security if there's decent chance of getting caught, because the consequences of getting caught are too great."

That wouldn't seem to apply to lone suicide bombers, since the worst consequence for them comes if they don't get caught. And if they were caught, they could at least detonate in the airport and cause some havoc.
umm have you actually seen the terms of the bailout that Paulson is trying to sell?

the bailout “shall be limited to $700,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time.” - the key words are 'at any one time' meaning this is a blank check for Paulson that he can just keep on drawing

It gets even better: "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency"

so Paulson gets a blank check and we can't see what he's doing with our money - awesome! sign me up

to top it off with icing: "The Secretary is authorized to take such actions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the authorities in this Act, including, without limitation... designating financial institutions as financial agents of the Government, and they shall perform all such reasonable duties related to this Act as financial agents of the Government as may be required of them;"

so totalitarian socialism replaces free market enterprise? o yeah what happens to the dollar?
> Why is emacs a great editor?

It isn't--don't believe the hype. On the other hand, I couldn't write a line of code without IntelliSense.

Does anybody know anything about Emacs.Net that Microsoft is working on?

http://www.knowing.net/PermaLink,guid,31fdc849-db2a-4f7d-bf9...
And, to keep it fair, everyone on OkCupid is "poly" and looking for a friend on the side, or has herpes, or both. (At least one of the OkCupid developers has been known to comment here on HN...and if he's around, I extend apologies for the vicious and unfounded accusations.)
Yeah, you have lots of pedophiles on your channels. Curb that shit.
Ever heard of Amazon Web Services?
Detonate their gun?
Who would you rather be in charge of the bailout? The President? Congress? ... Ill put my trust in Paulson, he and Bernake seem to be the only ones who have a clue as to what is going on and how to fix it.
It looks like some people have the idea that biases are inherently bad, and they see this collection of bias patterns as a list of flaws that would not stain the judgment of the ideal human being.

This is not true. Unless your ideal human being is omniscient.

In many cases it makes sense to set up a framework where we try to minimize these things, such as a scientific observation or experiment. We minimize bias as best we can in such cases because we're trying to learn something that exists outside of the realm of human experience, or that at least is universal to all humans. However, the motivations behind all such experiments are hopelessly mired in dubious assumptions, heuristics, and guesses (like hypotheses). I say 'hopelessly' but I would use a more positive term, since bias is ultimately what drives human action.

This is why it is important to recognize when and what biases are appropriate in what contexts. Here's a quote from this very article:

"Cognitive biases are instances of evolved mental behaviour. Some are presumably adaptive, for example, because they lead to more effective actions or enable faster decisions. Others presumably result from a lack of appropriate mental mechanisms, or from the misapplication of a mechanism that is adaptive under different circumstances."

Being free from bias doesn't make you smart, it makes you paralyzed. What makes you smart is your ability to use these adaptive thought processes in a way that enables you to accomplish your ends.

Seen in this way, it is impossible to blame world hunger, etc. on people's cognitive biases. Maybe you can blame it on capable selfish people combined with inappropriate biases among the general population?
I think every open store will have the same set of "crapp".
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No, I appreciate it, I wasn't aware of that. I think that it makes my point even clearer, however. The only reason that Apple doesn't want to allow a VM of OSX to be able to run on top of Linux, BSD, Solaris or Windows is because they want a locked down system. They want to make more money selling the associated hardware. And, while that is certainly a choice they are entitled to make, it speaks fairly loudly to a culture of being closed and locked down.

Even Microsoft is releasing Open Source licensed software these days. Isn't OSX built on top of a Darwin Kernel? Any one know of Open Source releases the Apple has done? It would be nice if they returned the favor to the community.

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Keeping in mind that there will be more Android phones...I wonder what the general consensus about today's events....is the problem more with the hardware or more with the software?
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Depends on whether you believe this'll be inflationary or deflationary.

If the government decides to inflate to pay off the bailout, then it sucks for savers and is awesome for mortgagees. But if their intervention isn't enough to halt the deflationary pressure of all these financial institutions failing, then it'll be catastrophic for debtors and good for savers.

People who held cash in the depression (and didn't see it wiped out by a bank run) gained close to 4x their money in about 2 years, which is as good or better than most other bubbles in history. That's relative to consumer prices: relative to asset prices (like stocks), it was nearly a 10x return.
I'd rather there not be a bailout: let investors like Buffett pick up $5B here, $3B there so that no one individual holds $700B in his hands.
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What I don't understand is, why haven't all these clever people, kicked out of the app store on spurious grounds (Apple: "it kinda sorta almost looks like something we've already done or are about to unveil"), banded together to make a simple installer for their apps, something like a jailbreaking wrapper for their app:
You make your "illegal" iPhone app, stuff it thru the wrapper which then creates a .dmg installer file. Users then double-click the .dmg, the wrapper searches for your iPhone, if its not jailbroken it asks you whether you want to jailbreak it (with an option to download the latest jailbreak version), then installs the app.
taking into account emotions (which are an antiquated reaction system based on choosing a course of action with incomplete information in a hunter-gatherer tribe setting) is an important part of reason. And the term rational has an extremely solid foundation: a set of self-consistent rules that allow you to accurately predict reality. If it doesn't predict reality, throw it out and go back to deductive experiments until you come up with something better. Rationalism is inductive. that's the whole point.
nonhackernews.com already kind of serves that need. Do people want a wallstreet only social news site?
with the number of links about fed bailouts, maybe so
How does this contribute to your understanding of anything? Flagged.
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That makes sense if you're using Emacs on a laptop.

However, when you're at your desk, the most awesome Emacs upgrade is to buy a Kinesis Ergo "Contoured" keyboard (http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/). It moves all of the control/alt/Apple/Meta keys from all of the random locations to your thumbs and so once you get used to it, it's way, way better than anything else.

The only downside is that it only comes in one size so if you have large hands / long fingers it might be too cramped.

For the skeptics, once you get used to it, it's actually quite easy to go back and forth between the laptop keyboard and the Kinesis. I.e., very little mental dissonance.
> But there's certainly years of material left after that, if you want it. After eight years off and on I still haven't touched a sizeable number of emacs features.

Precisely. You can get productive with emacs after a relatively short period of time, but you will have a lifetime of learning afterwards. After 10 years, I'm still discovering new things.
Sure but if you are transfering terabytes of data around I am not sure if that is the right system to use. Better to have a dedicated line and a SAN.

But then again I live 10 years behind the times. One day I will stop using font tags, center tags, tables, Windows 2000, and ASP 3.0. But then again no need to change what works.
Why bother? Boycott!
Maybe fork the Wordpress project instead.
Don't sweat it. Not that long ago, you didn't have a prayer of starting a successful business before the age of 30. The 20-year-old founder is a very recent fad.

The demographics may be shifting, but it isn't your fault.
Er rather, I meant a different selection bias. The one where you selectively remember friends that fit your hypothesis.

Also, the thing with quite a few statistics is that the risk is say 1/1000, and I honestly have closer to 50 people who I interact with in a month.
Definitely, Paulson knows more about this than Congress. But Paulson has the perspective that comes with being a former Goldman Sachs CEO, so he might (knowingly or unknowingly) be biased towards helping out the banks too much.
Basic functionality works really well.

I find it a bit unsatisfying that when I search for an artist, that's not what I hear because the station's likely moved to the next thing. I understand what's happening, but I don't get what I want.

Do you do any clustering yet? The list of results is sort of a "big pile", and after I pick one, I'd like expect to see related/also-would-like stations. Especially if it's not immediately "good".

Also, need to fix the Back button.
What I was saying is that for regular Google search I'm pretty sure they use regular web search algorithms.

Also, I really think the fixation on Pagerank is quite a devious thing Google has done, because it completely obscures all the other complexity of a search engine. Be it stemming, synonyms, inferring search intent, etc, most of that stuff doesn't really come out of Pagerank. There are "thousands of signals" or whatever it is that the Keepers of the Search have, and they all play varying roles in the actual ranking process. Could knol articles be more effectively winnowed than by web search? Yes. Would it be appropriate do treat knol articles specially in web search? Probably not (imagine user backlash).

Within Knol, they also have the advantage of ratings and other stuff though. What really bothered me about your initial comment was the "maybe they use some social news site style voting"... you could have actually looked and said "oh! they have ratings", instead of just blindly pontificating.
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I have it installed and it works great but I must admit I didn't make the switch, partially because of the lack of extensions (I'm a web developer so I use firebug, webdev toolbar, etc a lot).

But it also made me think about what I like about chrome. Then I went looking for extensions to install on Firefox and I must admit I don't miss chrome because I have most of the good stuff in Firefox now!
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Weird, I use my iPhone for everything but a phone, because, frankly, it sucks as a phone. Which is good, because I let it disrupt me less and am less likely to disrupt other people because I don't want to wait for it to unfreeze and then another 30 seconds it takes me to scroll through my contacts list and then thumb the fucking thing and then click on call.

And, shit, I don't even use it for email because it sucks for that too. I can't search. I have 5 email accounts for various things and I have to click 15 times to check them all, instead of a single view like the blackberry. Oh and I can't search. I mentioned that. Did I mention that? Yeah, I can't search. And when I click on a message I have to wait for the fucking webkit view to load before I can read it. I can't copy and paste addresses, I can't forward emails as sms's, I can't save attachments. SO awesome.

So yeah I use it for everything but email and the phone. And maybe SMS messaging too I do a lot less of because it's another slow cumbersome process that zaps the joy out of semi-realtime conversation. I love it when it craps out, and how it can't send in the background and those wonderfully stupid chat bubbles. I am not 12 years old.

So I don't really use it for anything other than browsing the web, tracking poker stats and playing Wurdle. I love Wurdle. I can play it until my thumbs cramp. I hope those guys make millions.
So far, Apple has done a pretty poor job of managing the store. Look at all the '...zomg, you're charging for this!!?!!1!eleven' "review" posts.

I'm hoping they throw someone at the project that has some common sense.
yes. i already use a script to generate it.

so... are you the guy that explains jokes at parties?
Two other reasons to avoid unnecessary customization are (1) your fingers will learn it and (2) other people's fingers won't know it.

Occasionally you'll want to use emacs on someone else's system, usually in their current session. You'd like to be able to do that without customizing their system. Similarly, you want them to be able to use your system/session without undoing your customizations.
i did this in 2005. i should probably update it a bit. are there new archetypes? flick-r?

here are the archetype sources:
blue-jacking friend-ster mo-blogging mo-zilla nap-ster net-scape pod-casting pod-jacking tag-tagging war-chalking war-dating war-driving web-2.0 web-casting wiki-pedia
It should be noted that well over $10k in additional lenses were used to shoot that video.
No, Chrome doesn't have a few of the goodies I love in Firefox, addons of course and keywords / %s goodness. Its a great browser (Love not waiting for a slow tab) but Firefox is much more powerful to me.
One day I will stop using font tags, center tags, tables, Windows 2000, and ASP 3.0. But then again no need to change what works.

Words fail.
Isn't one of the main definitions of creativity the making of connections between hitherto unconnected things?
the article actually suggestes swapping the caps lock key and the ctrl key to have it better positioned for emacs use...

UNIX/Linux users have considered this mandatory forever, regardless of editor choice. PC keyboards are simply wrong.
Ummm, well, LLVM and Bonjour come to mind, and then there's a little-known project known as WebKit for which Apple is the main sponsor :-).

They also do tons of smaller stuff - as a ruby programmer, I appreciate Apple's sponsorship of the RubyCocoa project, and the fact that they have hired Laurent (the main programmer for RubyCocoa) to develop the next-generation MacRuby implementation, which provides free bridging between ruby and Objective-C
How many people actually use DRM on the iPod/iPhone? I'd say a negligible amount.
Until you've burnt it to a cd and ripped it again :/
Maybe in the US you're correct. The US is only 1 market though.
Well - just put yourself into the shoes of the students - you get some minimal money to go through this boring review - would you not assume that preparing the machine and securing it is the experimenters task? Would you not just go through the excercise with minimal thinking effort?
That is a completely different case, XBox was never promoted as a universal device that anybody could program for.
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Quote: Design patterns are spoonfeed material for brainless programmers incapable of independent thought, who will be resolved to producing code as mediocre as the design patterns they use to create it.

Which is a bit hard on a lot of journeyman programmers but nicely covers MOST of the program code that is going to be written in this world this week.

Master craftsmen should properly abhor design patterns but they may prove the saving grace of many a corporate development shop.
yes, but it has also opened up a number of opportunities in other markets, so it can't be ALL bad, right? http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobtrends/trend/q-prostitute --the times correlate.
This study has a big hole: It wasn't their machine, plus they were told which sites to go to, so they assumed they were safe.

Also those who moved away the dialog did the right thing: it's not their machine, they should leave the dialog there for the admin to take care of.
I am a die hard vim user who has been learning Clojure recently and I have learned a little Emacs along the way because everyone in the Lisp community bangs on about it.

The funny thing is, every time I go to write some Clojure code - I want to open a Vim session, but I am always strangely drawn to Emacs for some reason.

Recently, I decided to figure out what it was about Emacs that made me want to use it so much over Vim. I soon realised it was all about being able to load a REPL process in a window and interact with it on the fly.

I can run Emacs, open a Clojure source file, write a function then hit C-M-x to send the function to the REPL to be evaluated. Also relevant is that Clojure support in Emacs was available shortly after Clojure's release to the public late in 200.

This is a very specific case (lisp-style interactive development) but it's why I personally think Emacs is great and for me it has nothing to do with Emacs text editing features! I will always prefer Vim for pure text editing power.
I'd suggest using your mouse less - you can increase your speed more with the keyboard than you can with the mouse.

There are a number of looks that emacs can have, from emacs -nw (runs in your terminal emulator) to emacs with GTK. And there are colour themes within each. M-x color-theme-select
It's actually hard to do that - I ran into the same issue with a site I made. There is no good way to play sound in a browser except via flash.

So I used a hidden flash applet and triggered it via html events. But the flash itself was hidden since it didn't have a UI - it was just for playing sound.

Since it was hidden there was no way to click-active it for flash block people.

Maybe I could have put a message of some kind saying flash wasn't active, but it didn't seem worth the trouble. (In my case sound was nice, but not that critical.)
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I don't understand: where is the problem with clicking on those popups? What would the apropriate reaction have been? If the browser is implemented correctly, it should be impossible to create a problem by clicking on those popups. The only popup one musn't click is the "install software, OK?" popup, but that wasn't among the fakes.
Where were you a while ago? I had a long discussion on wikipedia trying to find a formula, but was unsuccessful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archiv...

And BTW, just black or white is not enough. There are some colors that are hard to read with either black or white. See the the wiki archive for some examples.
In general, there is no such malware, so the experiment is complete nonsense in my opinion.

If there was such a malware, that is, if there was a temporary bug in the browser allowing such a thing, then the dealing with the dialog boxes would just be an illusion of security. Any other innocent looking thing could screw you over just as well.

I think the users were just used to stupid looking popups (what has the advertising industry not tried yet?) and did the right thing by removing or ignoring them.
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Note a typical film maker probably only needs 1 or 2 lenses. They probably went overboard and used 8 or 10 different lenses -- but you can get 1 good lens for about $1000.
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Have you noticed that one of the main results of this saving of things which are "too big too fail" is a concentration of those big businesses into even bigger business, a greater proportion of which are now too big to fail? The rhetoric we had become used to hearing - that liquidity is subtle but very important (which it is) has changed to language of protection and we see policy responses to this. For example - the bans on non-naked shorting hits the liquidity of the options market (because it's harder to do things like hedging when you want to deal in options) and leads to further stagnation.
This article is pretty disappointing. He seems to just dig for reasons to bash the gPhone and glorify the iPhone, without making any serious comparisons.
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