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without emotions, you would have no use for rationality. why pursue a start-up or other endeavours? because you have drives to satisfy, because you want to be happy, because you have curiosity -- our emotions are what motivate us. reason is necessary to accomplish complex goals, but by itself it is powerless.

human will resides in emotion.
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I thought the exact same thing. Would be really interesting to see how emacs is used by someone skillful.

Anyone with a webcam up for the job ?

:-)
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is this a first? a youtube video upvoted on HN? please kill yourself submitter and voters.
I'm right there myself. Good luck. :)
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this is one of the first things I do when i get on a new machine. It is also the first time i've seen anyone else do it. My thumbs are much stronger than my pinkys and are much easier to be using lots.
Server Error in '/' Application.

Nope.
"do you know how to do feature X"

Yes, that's it. A couple of times I've imagined a really cool feature that vim could have... and it turned out it already has it ... along with additional features and extensions to that idea that I hadn't begun to imagine... whoa... That's a rare and impressive experience (for me), and it gave vim a special place in my heart.

But I agree with you that the same thing would be true of emacs too.

Vim is a huge mess/mass of features, and if you don't already know about a feature, the help isn't very helpful (googling works better). Emacs scripting is probably more regular, being based on a full language.
i wanted to play with microcontroller for drip irrigation, pumps, solar powered etc

Simpler, natural solution exists for plant+fert+pesticide:
wet field: a combo of rice+azolla+sheep+duck+fish
dry field: a combo of rice+white clover

Similarly, i wanted to play with microcontrolled fish-keeping, pump, filter, aerator, heater, fertilizer ... fancy stuff

Simpler, no-tech natural solution again exists:
just use soil+aqua plant+sunlight

Really, nature amazes me to no end, to the point that i hate my engineering knowledge ... i truly concern that my creation will be inferior to nature

For reference, the natural books:
one straw revolution: masanobu fukuoka
the power of duck: takao furuno
ecology of the planted aquarium:diana walstad
Until somebody realease something that isn't a 'Brick with no video recording' perhaps.
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FFS, not that one again. I've seen it about half a dozen times on reddit, and once already on YCNews.
> the article actually suggestes swapping the caps lock key and the ctrl key to have it better positioned for emacs use...

I'd argue that this is ergonmically essential for long-term emacs use, otherwise you run the risk of 'emacs claw'.

Took me less than a week to get used to it. If you regularly use other people's machines then it's not a good idea (but then, neither is emacs unless you are carrying around your .emacs file, since you'll miss all your personal keybindings).
Western Union is pretty reliable and has a wide network in India. I personally had a very good experience with them.
I was going to vote this down, but I watched it and liked it.

I don't agree with every point -- on several occasions I felt the analysis was wide and slippery -- but as far as the general situation and general factors involved, I think it was worth watching.
You know, around these parts we just say 'not hacker news.'
Congrats to the founders.

However, I'm not sure how big a "win" talent acquisitions are to the investors. Would love to hear the thoughts of any angel investors/PG/etc on HN. I know if I'm ever fortunate enough to become an angel investor I'll prefer the companies to be acquired via DCF :).

I could be wrong, but with only $21 million in total funding I highly doubt the acquisition price was over $10 MM, and even that seems generous. After taxes, fees and other TPS that 10 turns to 6 or 7 rather quickly.

Or if they went the non-liquid route, hopefully they all received a nice chunk of equity in ShareThis. Either way, a multi million dollar payout per founder (there's 3) for a ~year of work is quite nice.
This is another problem with apples 'App Store Only' policy. If they weren't the only possible provider of Apps then they could legitimately reject ones they didn't like. The authors would just have to sell it somewhere else. But because they are determining whether an app can exist on the platform they have to be a lot more carefull about what they reject.
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I think you are looking for an editor which feels modern but has the power of emacs,vim or textmate. If you are on Windows, you can try http://www.e-texteditor.com/. If on OSX, http://macromates.com/ Even i used to go round this question. I tried emacs, then vim , then textmate, then e-texteditor. Finally i felt Vim to be comfortable for me. You need to try all of those before settling on one.
People love emacs because you can customize it to your liking. That's why it's touted as such a divine tool, and that's why it's worth it to keep trying to learn it.
Correct. But that doesn't mean that it's any less important in the mobile ecosystem. It's the only truly free phone in every sense of the word. You're free to do anything with the phone, at any time, without the permission of phone manufacturers, or app store reviewers, or fucking NDAs.

The biggest problem with Openmoko is that nobody knows about them, and nobody realizes why they matter. Everybody sees the horrors going on between Apple, the App Store, and developers' applications being rejected for competing with Apple, and then they complain about it, but that's just the way it is.

Yet that's not how it should be, and if everyone could find out about Openmoko, and actually realize and know why their freedoms truly matter, and that Openmoko makes the most freedoms-loving phone on the planet, then I wouldn't have anything more to talk about.

But we all know that even Openmoko's unexpectedly high sales amounts for the FreeRunner is still only a drop in the ocean compared to even only the iPhone, and even less compared to the entire smartphone industry. And that's why it matters to me and others to get the word out, to let people know that there really is another option that doesn't squelch your freedoms, and that if freedom truly matters to you, then you do have a choice.

Freedom is Your Choice. I choose Freedom.
Actually, I believe wearables represent the future of ubiquitous computing, but I think phones will be a keystone of this story for a long time.
I still don't see how that's any different than any other language. Something somewhere has have a web server implemented in order for you to test things in your browser. And if you don't like Apache, there's always Lighttpd and other web server options.

Probably the best thing for PHP though is that once you set up your trivial testing server, you never have to touch it again. You just keep refreshing the page, or pointing the browser at new pages, no matter how much code you write or file structures you change. It just works.
Yes. This has a very easy answer. One that you could implement in large parts of the world.

Pay everybody using debit cards drawn on a foreign bank using some stable foreign currency.

But just try it there and see what happens. Mugabe is very happy the way things are -- running his fellow citizens into the dirt while he and his cronies make out like bandits.
Looking out for number one
One man's crap app is another man's treasure app.
I don't think emacs has a steep learning curve for being a really efficient editor, the way (say) vi does. If you can get through the day in emacs without touching the mouse, you're basically there, and the rest is just discovering all the features and ways to customize it.

Force yourself to move the insertion point with the arrow keys, for starters. Then learn a few shortcuts so you don't go insane. C-a for beginning of line, C-e for end. M-f and M-b for forward/backwards by a whole word. C-v and M-v will scroll you up and down through the document and move the insertion point so that it stays on the screen.

Emacs doesn't need a lot of UI. It isn't an IDE, for one thing (though it can be used as one). Customization is done by putting incantations in your .emacs file. Managing buffers and panes only requires a handful of commands; learn the keys for them, or re-assign them if they're awkward.
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My wife bought an Asus EEE PC 701 (1st gen). She didn't like the fact that the apps were different (she's not technical but uses Linux) so I installed EEEBuntu as her main system runs Ubuntu but it was a little too slow for day to day use and the screen resolution was a little too small.

She now uses it with XP and has a much better experience (for her) - We have a 20Gb USB hard disk that she can stick to the lid with velcro patches. Her only problem is with having to mount the drive via truecrypt from suspend but she wanted encryption on the drive.
PhD is not less risky, it is just perceived this way by PhD students since they have too much contact with tenured professors.
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Interesting article, and a phenomenon I hadn't thought about before. One thing the article didn't really focus on that struck me as a more intuitive way of understanding the phenomenon is that 1 is the first digit hit when the order of magnitude is increased (and 2 the next). So assuming for example a particular sample rarely goes above a given number, say 250 for argument sake, that means a large sample of the results are likely to be between 100 and 199, majorly skewing the results. Even if x was 700 a first digit of 1 would be far more common than 8 or 9. At the next order of magnitude the same logic would apply.
Let's try to prevent it from happening here first. After that, we'll consider how we can help the rest of the world.
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I'd not checked out justin.tv since Justin's 24h lifestreaming event ended, but the other day I was round my brother's house (my brother is a non-techy person) and we were talking about the US Open tennis and where we should go to watch it.

"Oh I know this great site which has all the sports" he says as he loads up Justin.tv.

So basically justin.tv has loads of traffic because it is the hub of illegal sports rebroadcasting.

I think the site is great though, so I hope after all the copyright lawyers break down your doors and you are forced to go back to "legitimate" streams only, that your growth is still strong.
The Day of the Virtual Desktop has come ... and gone.
There's actually an extension by Michael Weber that might be helpfull for recording screecasts:

http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/
Wow. It's like google for radio stations.
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I've always been fascinated and concerned by the concept of computer composers. As much as music has an immense wealth of theory and mathematics behind it, I'd also like to think it also has a uniquely human sense of art and creativity to it too. What does it mean if a machine ends up being able to do this better than us? I'm hoping that at least in the near future the computer simply remains the artist's aid!
Python 2.2... ... That's like 4 versions behind the current.
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what the hell accent does he have? american-irishglish?
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The worst misuse of the term 'load balancing' ever
If you prefer to use the mouse, rather than keyboard shortcuts, you might be happier with something like Acme/Wily (http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/). It's not available for all platforms, though.

Emacs is intrinsically a keyboard-driven editor, and mostly just tries to keep the GUI out of the way. Your experience is more meaningful than anybody's dogma about whether keyboard-centric or mouse-centric development is more productive for you, but mostly using the mouse will make it hard to take advantage of what makes Emacs special.

(If you, or other readers, want to really learn Emacs, you should probably give it at least a month. Once you're comfortable with the basics, gradually learning elisp will greatly increase how useful it is for you.)
Articles like these are like a cognitive maturity test.

If you understand that biases empower action, and the logical fallacies many times revolve around language, then these categories are nice-to-have illustrations, or patterns (for you geeks) of conversations.

Like all pattern systems, however, their use is more illustrative than practical. And of course, people sit around patting themselves on the back about how they've mastered the system, meanwhile having the same biases and logical flaws as the rest of humanity.

That's not smart, that's blind.
Also, first things first, Control-H followed by t brings up a tutorial. Work through that, it covers all the basics.
A couple reasons to not try to immediately make the keyboard shortcuts match the editor you're used to:

* You'll probably overwrite some other really useful keyboard shortcuts unintentionally. C-v (Paste, on Windows) is page-down in Emacs. C-c is the prefix for mode-specific commands; C-c C-c sends email, compiles the function under the cursor, etc., depending on what file / buffer type you're working in.

* Emacs has its own ways to do some of those operations. Copying and pasting under Emacs is fundamentally different because of the "kill ring". Instead of having a clipboard, it has a stack (which loops once you hit the end, hence, "ring").
Killing them seems a bit excessive. I'll settle for castration.
I looked in the mirror and saw someone who lives in a one-bedroom apartment, has modest and efficient '97 and '01 cars (one for his wife), saves about 10% of his income, and has no credit card debt.

So, yeah, I'm looking for who to blame.
"mmense success shows that if your product provides enough value, you can still compete"
... iif u r backed by GOOG.
I thought Ruby and Python were roughly isomorphic. Is there anything drastically different about Ruby's syntax? I wish he'd given an example.

BTW, if I recall correctly, this is what PG calls "wishful thinking"-oriented development in On Lisp (actual words may differ, but "wishful" should be in there)
Never thought I'd see the day when a Cracked article appeared on Hacker News. I left Digg to get away from this sort of stuff.
That puts control on the home row. You'll be pressing / holding down control quite often in Emacs. (Frequently typed characters should be on the home row for efficiency. That's why Qwerty has semicolon on the home row.)
alnayyir - I haven't gotten your email yet. Maybe you can put yours up (here or profile) and that way I can keep an eye out for it.
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In Emacs, press Control-h, let go of Control, and press t. That starts the tutorial, which will probably take about half an hour.

After working through that, some combination of reading the Emacs Wiki (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki) and a recent edition of _Learning Gnu Emacs_ will get you off to a good start.

Getting really effective with Emacs takes a while (probably at least a month), but it is very deliberately designed to be keep growing with you. If you come to prefer it for editing, you can bundle together your config files and extensions and run Emacs on all the major OSs. It becomes its own extensible environment, much like Firefox with its extensions. (This is why the time spent learning it pays off.)
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Are you sure about this? Erlang for example . . . seriously, consider what Erlang is best at and then consider where hardware is headed in terms of processors . . .
Because they're telling us to pay them to teach us how to be successful just like them. Follow our easy program and you'll get rich, just like us!

I'm aware we live in a capitalist society. It's fine to make money. I'm saying it won't be my money.
What's your HD doing during these freezes?

It's like the old days in Photoshop, when you need to give it its own dedicated scratch disk...
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Heh. Is it really so unreasonable to assume a competitor being absorbed into a larger organization won't be the most innovative?

A megalodon release is a bit different.
Benford's Law applies to distributions which vary over orders of magnitude, and locally flatly in the log-space. It obviously doesn't apply to adult male heights, which follow a (69, 3) normal distribution, thus 6's and 7's dominate. In the log space, this distribution is not "flat" over an order of magnitude; it's a steep "bump". However, incomes, urban populations, file sizes, and natural disasters (measured in dollar-cost or fatalities) do follow such distributions, and hence we observe Benford's Law.

To a person with some statistical background, I usually explain Benford's Law in the context of town and city populations. Obviously, there's great variation in the populations of chartered cities, from as low as 10 to over 10 million. I note there is nothing "natural" about normal distributions other than the fact that they emerge from the addition of a large number of (finite variance) variables, a process that approximately describes the determination of adult height from genes. Then consider the variables that determine a city's population. Being near water might increase the population by 50%. A strong economy over a decade might lead to 40% growth. Oppressive taxes might decrease the population by 20%. It doesn't matter what these numbers actually are; the point is that the population is the product rather than sum of such variables, so we get an approximately normal distribution in the log space. Variation in log-population goes from as low as 1.0 to over 7.0, which means we can expect approximate flatness over [4.0, 5.0). Then, approximately 30% of cities between 10,000 and 100,000 people will be between 10,000 and 20,000, which is [4.0, 4.3) in the log space.

I like the fixed-point/scale invariance explanation of Benford's Law better though, because it's more intuitive than the one I use. Still, it's not completely satisfying. It doesn't explain why Benford's Law applies to all of the distributions to which it applies, such as file sizes, urban populations (inches and dollars are purely arbitrary units, while numbers of people or bits are not) and fatality figures in natural disasters.
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Congrats to newscred for getting on the list.
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Does the opinion on this change when you're cheating "the boss" vs. when you're cheating a client? Using billed time without permission seems different to me...
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Emacs has an intuitive interface - the keyboard shortcuts. Discover them.
Thanks - didnt think anyone would notice since it's buried way in there. It was a big surprise to us.
So RussB is looking at the summary of all these apps and declaring them crap? Sounds something like the flood of bogus app reviews in iTunes put there by people who haven't even downloaded the apps.

But he has a point - In a (somewhat) open catalog like the App Store, we as users desperately need a better filtering mechanism than the one iTunes currently has. The answer isn't to restrict app entries to someone's definition of quality or marketability, but to provide tools to make the user's decision making process simpler.

I think there's a startup opportunity in there somewhere.
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Yes, but the formatting is important. The screwed up line breaks are not an accident!
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Hi folks. Well, after a lot of work, I think it's time that I put my http://licensekey.net in front of hacker news so I can get some early feedback.

(For now, it's hi-def screenshots, the servers can't handle the load, and I want to get a phased sign-up. The product itself is written in Python/Django)

What I'm trying to do is create a tool that will allow independent software developers successfully market and sell their software to end users. Most software developers do not have the time or inclination to comb through detailed analytics to market their software, they cannot be bothered to do detailed timelines or planning, so my software presents a neat interface from which the marketing as well as planning of their software products can be managed.

The frontpage gives you an instant overview of how all your products are performing.

The networking tab allows a social network between the affiliates, the end-users and the developer of the software.

I'm trying to partner with someone who has a proper server infrastructure, so if anyone is interested in this, or has tips on how I can go about this efficiently, send me an email at maximusklein@gmail.com.

So, please give me some feedback on the app. I'm flexible in cutting or adding features to the app, or doing things differently. I'm trying to make a full featured and USEFUL application, so if you belong to my target market, and there is something you wish you could have in an application like this, then do tell me!

Thanks!
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Bad assumption my frigid Norwegian ass! What about the AAA rating from the agencies?

They fucked up too.

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Tell them you fucked up.

It's not every decade that real estate takes a strong economy (3Q 2007) and throws it immediately into the toilet. This is what Bushonomics gives us: our recoveries are jobless and flaccid, and our "slowdowns" are disastrous, even when they fall short of being numerical recessions.
I had a roommate from upstate New York with a very similar accent. I think it started as an affectation, and eventually turned into his normal speech pattern.
There is a great solution... Only accept high quality apps but then let developers distribute on their own. That way all the stupid repackaged public domain books can be sold, but don't have to litter the app store.
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Watching the screencast for SLIME (a common lisp mode) was what convinced me to switch to Emacs. (It may very well convince you to avoid it, but it'll be an honest impression of what Emacs looks like with a power user.)

Link in the comments from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230990
I chuckle at guys like you at the grocery checkout. Eat fresh food, it beats any "healthy packages" you can find.
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