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What device are you using?

I have 3 Google Mail accounts (a regular gmail and 2 Google Apps for your Domain email) on my Samsung Galaxy S. Using the Gmail App, I have access to conversations, labels, everything and it keeps each inbox separate. It's truly a godsend.
I'm not sure what you mean, you ban it exactly the same as you ban copyright infringement or child porn or any of a dozen other crimes that are committed on a computer that simply involve a transfer of information between a few parties.
I'd appreciate having the bins that you mentioned. My issue is that often times I see a parent comment being corrected by a child comment. However, due to no point values, I often dont know who is correct and who isnt. Here's an example:

http://files.jjcm.org/example1.png - Here we see a comment as it is now on HN. At the moment, I dont know if my page has a legitimate problem or not.

With comment scores, I'll immediately know whether the problem is universal ( http://files.jjcm.org/example3.png ), or if it's simply isolated to a specific user ( http://files.jjcm.org/example2.png ).

This is an issue that I find I encounter time and time again on HN. While comments are sorted by best score at each level, between indentation levels there is no way of discerning which is more highly ranked. I think having a system such as feral's logarithmic bins would be a nice middle ground here.
If anybody else is curious to learn more about single-letter domain names. They were grandfathered in from another era.

"As of August 2011 only three domains, i.net, x.com and x.org host a web site. q.com is active but redirects to centurylink.com."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_doma...
... you can get 'attractors', basins in the dynamics. If either several different models, or slightly tweaked starts with the same model give you the same or similar-enough answers, then you know you've stumbled into a basin by luck. Small errors aren't going to change much. If your outcomes are different though, then you know that the weather from that starting state is very sensitive and unpredictable.
As much as bitcoin's gotten some bad press recently, this kind of market volatility will severely hamper bitcoin's efficacy as a stable unit of currency. It needs a consistent and stable rate of growth (even if negative).
Part of the problem may have been that I was coming more from a perspective of book publishing--the original idea was that CQ articles would be more like short books rather than long blog posts. And books you are paid by quarterly royalties. In fact, my payment scheme was pretty much identical to the Pragmatic Bookshelf model except that a given piece might be appear in multiple places--an issue of CQ, a collection of related articles, etc.

But maybe I didn't make that clear or maybe that made it even harder to find writers since it's more challenging to write long than short. (I did adjust back from my original idea of very long pieces but that didn't make enough difference.)
One minor idea (not really an issue):

- A small summation at the top perhaps? The website is lengthy, so perhaps adding something to hook people in quickly would be good. Even "After he blah-blahed at blah-blah Miles decided he needed to blah-blah. He could work for you!"

Although I'm sure you could think of something better. :)
Thank you very much.

The issue I'm trying to understand is exactly how the fuck it is so fucking slow to parse 56 fucking kilobytes of text at session login time that it justifies encrypting my fucking desktop settings in a fucking binary configuration file.

I thought maybe the default configuration had ten megabytes of shit in it or something, which could conceivably sort of explain it, although then that would be another fucking stupid decision that would require explanation. But 56 fucking kilobytes? Which gzip suggests would be 35 kilobytes with a human-oriented syntax?

Give me a fucking break.
Yeah, I can see how that would work. When I was using it, it didn't even have different names or dates or anything for the different files, so it was impossible to even guess where a specific article was.

And I didn't say anything about getting through more than 20 articles. I said I save that many. I try to read a few every night, but usually on a weekend or on an airplane is where I get a lot of reading done.
Ask HN: Should my small company take a big (but sweet) space in San Francisco
We are small right now (4 people) but we are kicking ass and we are need some good space (about 750 - 1000 sqft) because we've outgrown our sublet.

We found some awesome space that I think will ROCK (great location, very cool industrial space, 2 decks) in the longer run (as we grow) but is very big and expensive (3000 sqft / $6500 per month). We can hustle and make this work by subletting some parts of it and benefit by having sweet space but its a distraction. Hacker News: What would you do?
That's easy: Cheap, fashionable clothes that have good fit and are of relatively high quality. The quality of Uniqlo blows Gap or similar stores out of the water.

I wish they had stores outside of NY. But Uniqlo is great.
Always enjoy reading johns posts.
Forbid businesses from accepting the currency due to stability issues. Also use FUD terms such as "deflationary, the exchange rate changes so much, IRS may take a more active role in investigating sudden influx of cash".
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It should also be noted that criminal use doesn't raise the price of bitcoins, since criminals don't necessarily hold their bitcoins. For them bitcoin is just an another money laundering system.

Disagree. There's a "float" period between when the order is placed and when it's completed (service/goods verifiably delivered). The dollar-value volume in this float period sets a floor on the market cap of Bitcoin.

I'm clearly fascinated by all this, and a little surprised that more people aren't. The Bitcoin protocol is one of the great recent innovations in distributed systems, and this particular application of it is the culmination of a lot of crypto work into a cypherpunk fantasy.
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So, in other news - governments everywhere ban bitcoin. Bitcoin use soars wildly.
Besides that AP CS exists, if you are running out of APs then you should be taking classes at a local community college or even actual university. AP is already putting intro level college classes into highschool, it doesn't really make sense to just offer all college classes in a highschool.
Nice. Is there anything like this for tablets? iPad or Android would be helpful.

Thanks
No, its not for everybody, but it definitely can help you be a better programmer. I also struggled with the CS heavy classes in college. I ended up taking a program that let me do half art and half programming. It ended up being pretty helpful for web programming but probably not the best if you want to be a system level programmer.
The problem of working with unsanitized user input is not specific to PHP, this has been a problem with other server side scripting languages as well.

Here is an ancient example: NT Web Technology Vulnerabilities, written by rain.forest.puppy, Phrack Magazine Volume 8, Issue 54 Dec 25th, 1998.

http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=54&id=8#article

This is one of the oldest articles on SQL injection I know of.
this reminds me about the quora post about bitcoin.
In a world of where there is no regulation in currency, you dont have a FED, this money will crash. We dont have liquidity in this currency, as so, nobody can 'inject' money in the market.
Ha thanks :) Yea adding an intro is one of the outstanding issues on github right now. Thanks for checking it out!
The xbox puts Microsoft in a better position than Apple for control of the television. I don't think you can count them out at all.
The cards are a NFC system designed by Visa.

There is no if, its in public field trials ATM, at least one event had 200,000 people at it. Visa has deployed terminals at all the sporting events and to pubs around the stadiums.

What is going to be fun is near field sniffers, harvest peoples data etc... I can imagine walking through a crowd and sniffing out dozens of cards etc... the problem of course will be using the data, unless you can work out a way quickly convert small value purchases to cash...
I don't like the phone browser. It's particularly annoying to read news with, because any site with Disqus (IIRC) causes the address bar to flash every time it receives another packet. I've gotten into the habit of hitting the stop button as soon as the text displays in order to kill whatever else is running. I could just turn off javascript, but then *.google.com doesn't work nearly as well.

The browser in Honeycomb is a lot friendlier and resembles Chrome, and word is that come Wednesday, the browser in Android 4.0 will be Chrome - what this means in practice I'm not sure, but so far my upgrade experiences have been positive.
I'm interested too... Jeremy@Zawodny.com (since I've considered writing such a beast myself like a dozen times)
This is absolutely a breakthrough in implant technology: of course, now the question is, how long will they last in-vivo? Five years? Fuel cells can have a foreshortened lifespan.

Also, an idea: perhaps such a battery could also be used for glucose regulation in diabetic patients. The current itself can be a glucose meter, and by opening or closing micro-fluidic channels the machine could regulate blood glucose much more accurately (and healthily) than the spikiness of regular injections.
I wrote 'mu' (http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu), which let's you index/search maildirs; I'm currently adding glue to use it as an emacs-based e-mail client as well (basically, something between wanderlust and notmuch).

Anyway, to get back on-topic, as an alternative way to analyse your mails, I've added guile (scheme) bindings, and it's pretty easy to get all kinds of interesting statistics from your mails -- see https://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/toys/muile/README
which is of course a good reason.

The problem is that there are some rather heavy casualties that come from not showing points.

- It's very hard, if not impossible to scan a thread for good comments. Busy people don't have time to read through a whole thread to pick out the good comments.

- I did a back of the envelope calculation here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569997 that shows that there is no way to assess the scores of around 50% of the comments. If there isn't a good way of assessing which comments are deemd good by the community is the system working properly?

- When a poster postulates something and is refuted by a sibling it's impossible to know who is right. Points give you a gauge of what HN as a community thinks. For instance, if a user comments that you should always use Bcrypt and a sibling replies that this is simply wrong I don't know what is right and wrong, even though it may be obvious to someone knowledgeable in encryption. Points give you a good header.

- When you don't show points people tend to vote less. Without having seen the numbers I'm confident that voting has decreased significantly. If noone is voting (or even worse, only a subset of opiniated users vote) then we're back to a threaded discussion ordered by randomness.

- As I remember it one of the original reasons for hiding points was to stop the "piling on" where already popular comments got more upvotes. You posted at some point that comments which had a lot of points before actually have more points after the don't-show-points change.

Hiding scores to reduce arguments seems like a very crude and inelegant way of solving the problem. You solve one problem but effectively render the scoring system useless in the process.
Instructure's (http://www.instructure.com/) is a startup doing a product in this space (it has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread). My university just switched away from blackboard to it.
Well, it's your site and you're doing what you think is best for the community.

Fair enough.

I feel pretty unhappy about it though. As something of a data-geek, knowing there's data I used to get (and that I personally found really useful) that you have chosen to withhold... I don't feel good about that at all. Especially when you did it to solve a problem that I didn't even notice.
It gets a +1 for being a non-jquery solution (jquery's fine for abstracting the DOM for animation and UX niceties, but you don't need to include what adds up to 2000 lines of code uncompressed just to find the contents of a text field and compare it), but this is the clincher.

The actual field that doesn't validate needs to be highlighted, because otherwise the disconnect between the error and the source makes it difficult to actually identify the source. The only other thing it needs is to position the error message adjacent to the invalid field.

When HTML5 is implemented better these things could be used more effectively. But HTML5 validation as it is now isn't useful until you can style the browser's errors.

It might be a better idea to hold off on the HTML5 stuff and work on polishing up the output :) Unless there's more control over the fancy new features now.
just for the record, saw it today: http://hall.com/
Seconded with enthusiasm. Eric writes at great length about the detailed decisions that go into programming language design, especially revision of an existing language. Even though I should know better, I have been guilty at times of "how hard could it be" syndrome. Reading what Eric says has cured me of that disease. (for programming languages at least)
I beg to differ. If people can buy drugs or launder money easier with bitcoin than with coin coin, people are going to want bitcoin.
I think people are downvoting you because publicly viewable poll results are too similar to publicly viewable karma.

My guess is pg just hasn't gotten around to hiding the results from everyone except the poster.
There was no vesting schedule. It was an ownership grant.
Indeed. If it's worth $1 flat it will just be that much easier to do the conversions mentally. Also, vendors won't have to update their site prices as often.
Realistically, none. The fine print on the license will cover this eventuality.

In any event, if they didn't overturn Amazon's 1-click patent they're not going to overturn patents on other obvious things, so I doubt it will happen.
These are not really notes as much as they are full transcripts. I doubt how useful they would be for the purpose of studying since they would be too time-consuming to review on a regular basis. I admire the effort that was put into this, however, and am pointing this out not to criticize it but rather as hopefully a constructive warning that other materials will be needed.

I will note that it should be possible for each individual person to create actual notes from this transcript that would be more useful for studying. But it would probably be more time-efficient to undergo this effort while watching the actual videos rather than going back after the fact to create them.
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I meant how much money you would call in pro lawyers to get, not how much you would pay them.
This is much closer to how the system is suppose to work. You invent a technology and allow the consumer to benefit from it by licensing it out to anyone who wants to use the invention in their product.
> No one can make an intelligent decision until they know what an intelligent decision is.

Yup.

> And everyone starts off at the beginning when they're picking up a new language (or want to start learning).

Yup. PHP is a terrible language to be your first. Its loose nature, which allows an expert to sculpt beautiful code, is a noose upon which to hang oneself as a novice. Before I started on PHP (more than a decade ago), I already knew BASIC, C, and Java. Contrary to popular opinion, PHP is not a starter language, even though it is very easy to start.
Not sure where you make that assumption from. If bitcoin never gets adopted as legal tender for real world goods its value gets severely limited. If Government's explicitly state that bitcoin is not legal tender, and I can't buy a latte at Starbucks with it then its not very useful.
I think more that it needs some utility over other currencies within some context. That utility margin will bring stability.
Thanks. I'll take a look at that.
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Nothing. MS isn't forcing anyone to do anything. When faced with a patent holder who claims you distribute an infringing product, you have two choices:

1. Pay up.
2. Don't pay up.

If you don't pay up, and the company wants to take you to court, then you have to either prove yourself to be non-infringing, or get the patents invalidated.

MS is of course being pretty shady by picking targets that are very likely to want to avoid litigation with a huge company with a legal war chest. But unfortunately, patent law allows companies to "overlook" potential infringers if they want, to no ill effect.
It would actually be a lot easier to ban than the other things I mentioned since it would require a financial transfer to purchase them to begin with. A better example would be online poker, the ban of real money online poker actually had a pretty big impact on users.
Disappointing. I may have to stop using it for my freebie projects if this continues.
I have to totally second this. Reading this comment made me realize I got the same behavior too. Even worse, sometimes I avoid reading comments altogether, because to me they lost almost all the value they had when displaying votes.

I am really curious to know how the number of fights is measured, though. Is there some sort of sentiment analysis on the comments, comment statistics or it's just PG feeling?
> this money will crash

Give it a little more time. There has been more widespread adoption only for 8 months or something. I think the amount of bitcoin related activity is pretty impressive.

Let's see after five years if cryptocurrencies are still used.
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You're right. I mistook vimtutor for the first chapter of a Vim book I have, although I did make a point to indicate that I wasn't 100% sure in the OP.
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It's down?
I hope it will be back soon.
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Holy I didn't realize the odd answers were in the back. Best comment ever. Thanks!

The gap between what I think I understand after reading the text and what I find I really understand when I hit problem 1-2 in each section is immense, so I'm going to stick with the problem sets.

You can just ROT13 the answers you don't want to make public.
Any thoughts or criticisms appreciated. Poems especially so.
I don't understand. Without publicly viewable results, polls are absolutely meaningless to everyone except the poster.

In other words, the only content in a poll is the numbers.
I've looked at cfengine, bfg and others and they all miss the point of what a configuration management system should do, 1. It should be simple, 2. It should have integration testing., 3. It should be simple. None do this or even try to
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except for the fact that in a threaded discussion where points is only one of the parameters (time and user karma being the other tow as far as I know) this isn't true for most comments. I did the numbers for a long thread some time ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569997
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Do you mind sharing the algorithms used for sorting comments and for "graying out" (rude) comments?
Krazy koder ( http://www.krazykoder.com ) is a great way to learn programming by making games online.
I've been using vi for 15+ years and full-time for development for about a year. There were at least 3 of these that I wasn't aware of which I will now commit to memory.

Certainly a beginner could learn this stuff right away, but I wouldn't consider it inherently beginner-oriented. Personally I don't think one canonical tutorial or reference is as effective as a large number of articles focused on things that different individuals find useful. Vim is just too big to absorb through one gargantuan tutorial.
HN works fine for me without visible points (I think I might prefer it as well), but some simple way to see which posts have received an order of magnitude of upvotes more than other posts might preserve the good taste of the current design and satisfy the curiosity of those users who want that kind of feedback. Would be interested in PG's answer as well
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I'm pretty sure a four year old Macbook Pro would weigh more than two pounds.
Does anyone know how the body reacts to the charged glucose floating around?
Good point. I wrote to someone else on this thread - telling someone 8000-20000 words will scare off all but the few people who've already done that level of writing before.
I do frequently return to old conversations when looking for advice about everything from tools to strategy. I think having the points visible would make it easier.
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parse_ini_file is highly useful if you want to avoid tumblr's php file sensitive exposure problem of includes.
The content seems to have been removed, as it's now a 404 link. Does anyone knows if the content has been place somewhere else, or simply removed (temporary?).
I checked it earlier, it seems to have some nice topics through.
So if I rewrite an existing program from scratch and it takes 10x longer than just using the existing one, but one person uses the program, it's still worth the time?

I think that one person could have found the information from an existing source, such as _:help text-objects_. That isn't to say that the article is useless; it's just redundant.
Bitcoin is essentially a giant pyramid scam. The early adopters have cashed out long ago. As mining gets more and more difficult, less people will cling to the liquid currency. Why trade with a deprecating currency, anonymous or not? The fact that the exchange rate is below the cost of mining should be alarming for many reasons.

I'd assume the creator/first adopters do not care, either way.
I want to be a web developer too. I already earn a few hundred pounds every months for being freelancer. I love it. Thanks for the comment.
HN also "grays out" some comments, but the "graying out" seems to use different criteria than comment sorting does.
It has improved a lot. In the late 1990s it was decidedly behind the scripting languages of the time, and that's partly what I was referring to.

And, the weird lack-of-speed issues. It used to be that you could implement a matrix multiply, in an m-file, that would be faster than the builtin *. I benchmarked this myself.
P2P file sharing has a problem because you don't know who you're downloading from, and they know you (your IP at least).

That's not the case with bitcoins. You send money to some bitcoin address that is extremely hard to track to a real person.
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I've noticed that since points have become private, people have become more likely to contribute their up/downvotes...

A comment that used to get 10 points, now gets 15-20.
It is essential to remember that there is massive inflation of the money supply going on (by design), and that this is the key driver of the price downwards. ~35% increase in the money supply over the next 12 months; proportionately higher over the last 12 (as the same in absolute terms).

Its rise to $30 was driven by hype and speculation. The falling prices stop any speculators jumping on board, and there is no significant 'economy' yet. The rate of money supply increase will be halved in 2013, so don't expect any recovery before then.
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