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One day after appointing new CEO, Sony announces big losses of $2.09B
That "vi gang sign" is a real shocker.
Their Web Shape demo (http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/shape.html?locale=default#) lets you "scratch out" objects - perhaps they could implement that here? It's what I usually do when writing equations quickly, anyway.
That's not what the GP meant. He meant getting Vi key bindings in any imaginable text field.
This idea is very unique, I haven't heard any business like this except for business like bowling and ice skating where customers should rent shoes before they can play.

I agree that the possible problem on this is sanitation. You should think of idea how to resolve this. Maybe you can use the idea of using socks, stockings or removal insole.

Goodluck.
Yes, but can you make it paste the second way if you yanked with 'yy'? That's my problem.

Edit: aha, pasting in insert mode works like this!
I don't think any of the free BSDs distribute the classic vi by default anymore, but they've standardized on nvi rather than vim as their "enhanced vi" of choice.
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Perhaps expand the options?

Like you, I had but then deleted my facebook account; however, a professor of my grad school class requires one, so I created a temporary account.
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For It Before They Were Against It? Google Spent $400K On SOPA Lobbying
Oh! I read over the line that says that the author is actually developing a Visual Studio plugin to close exactly this gap.

That's cool. Also puts what I took for condescension in a different light.

Anyone used it? I might consider learning vi bindings decently if I can keep getting all the IDE goodness.
This seems very similar to the Locker project (http://lockerproject.org)
I used to, but I deleted it.
I've considered deleting my facebook account, but ultimately decided to keep it because nearly all of my extended family is on facebook only. I did delete nearly all the personally information associated with my account and decline all requests from others saying I went to XYZ school or am related to them in some way.
What is the rationale behind deleting LinkedIn?
Yes, I deleted my Facebook account in early 2010. However, I have since created a placeholder account to buy ads and admin a business page for my company. I've logged in exactly once in the past 2 months.
Startup America relocates to s.co URL and offers free .co domains to all members
MasterCard Tap-And-Pay Barely Registers With NYC Subway Riders
When I see the hatred people have for anything "Lotus" I'm both surprised and not surprised. Surprised because I didn't know so many people used a "Lotus" product like Notes. Then not surprised since I've used them and constantly curse at them.

Even with this post I read the title and had a bit of hope for IBM, then saw the link to lotus.com and stopped to debate if I should even click on it.
> The first time you stumble into vi or vim, you are shocked and disgusted that you have to use 'i' to start typing text. Can't remember which of hjkl moves in which direction. And you need to press 'a' if you want to insert after the last character of the line. Since you're already probably used to other editors, and if the arrow keys work in insert mode (they do if the system is configured properly, which is over 90% of the cases), you will stay in insert mode and not go back to normal mode except if absolutely necessary. You'll probably spend 20 minutes with it, and never go back.

All of this, except the 20 minutes part. I'd hate to have to spend that much time with one of these "enlightened" editors. Just let me use my arrow keys, please and thank you.
A professor requires a facebook account? Could you elaborate?
Not really - all that anyone is bothered about is whether the predicted results are as useful from the digital computer with it's program than from a bunch of pipes, tanks and pumps.

I can see at a philosophical level the question is of interest - but arguably at a practical or theoretical level the question is either irrelevant or can't really be stated.
Does this page exist in the other languages? Can we go a level up?
You can only run demo apps with Wayland, neither Gnome nor KDE support it yet.
Second this question.

I find Linkedin to be of value. I have never had an account on the book and never will.
I do have a Facebook account, but I've hidden everybody from my news feed, I don't post anything to my own profile, I use it only to access information about people and for communicate in the groups.
If you're a little pragmatic about it like me, you can still use the arrow keys to move around, at least in vim this works out of the box.

I've been using VIM for over a decade now, and learned to make good use of many of its features, but I've never had the urge to stop using the arrow keys. Except when working remotely to some ancient Sun or HP box that only has vi, or some crappy terminal settings that mess up the arrow keys.

The idea behind hjkl is that it's supposed to be faster because you don't have to move your hands away from the letter keys, but in practice, I don't actually move around in single-character increments that much when editing anyway.

All I want now is XCode with VIM bindings :-(
I deleted my Facebook some time ago, now. At first I was alarmed by how many times I started to go for it on my phone purely out of muscle memory when bored or waiting in line. Now, I hardly even think of it and feel better being without it.
Interview with good info about validating a business BEFORE building
RentMeAHandbag.com seems to be the only site that offer women's shoe rentals. However, instead of a queue system, they offer weekly or monthly rentals. From the page I checked out, they're quite pricey ($279/week or $558/month for Manolo Blahnik pumps).

ShoeDazzle.com ($60M in funding) offers more of the type of service you described. However, instead of rentals, members pay $40 a month to receive a new pair of shoes selected by a Hollywood stylist.

It's also worth noting that in a 2011 interview, RentTheRunway.com ($30M in funding) said their future plans may include "product lines like shoes" - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870337340457614...
Yes. It is not in my name. My previous one was also not in my name, but got banned for being named Jewish Adolf.
Poll: Do you check for brute force attempts?
Web applications that properly deal with brute force attempts on user accounts are rarer than they should be. What mechanism do you use for guarding against this type of attack?
I did not find it to be of value. I spent most of my time on LinkedIn dealing with recruiters and other undesirables who wanted to contact me.
Yes, but I never use it and I locked the security down so tight I don't even know if I have permission to post on my own wall anymore.
Deleted my Facebook account Jan 1 of this year as an experiment to see whether focus and creativity increased. Mixed results--some positive--so far.
Have facebook, love it.

Had Google+, deleted it when my name started showing up in search results. I just don't like the way they're trying to work it into every other thing you do with them ... without your clear permission.
thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it!
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Web performance and the 2012 US election
'legal' means something different in China. The government is the rule maker, judge and player.
Why You Will Fail to Have A Great Career
Is XFS available in stock RHEL 6.2 ? or does it require an additional purchase of the Scalable File System Add-On

http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux-add-ons/file...

Redhat doesn't list prices of its add-ons and its generally onerus if one has to call sales to find the price of a filesystem

Reminds me of Veritas VxFS
The Facebook IPO: too little, too late.
Room for innovation in the phone service space
Very interesting, the vision is the same, and I wasn't aware of this project!

But I'm not sure it follow the technical vision I have of building a distributed operating system (unfortunatly I haven't detailed the technical part), I'll look more in depth and put a comparison matrix (with unhosted.org, pagekite.net and owncloud.com too) on the Orexio website.

Thanks a lot for pointing this!
No, why should I? More distractions?
Uhm, the site isn't officially done yet, and I have no relation to the actual developer of it. I just follow the developer's rss feed (tynan.com) and noticed him mention that he plans to release it in the coming months.

I could point to other startups my friends are working on and they currently look horrible, but they're intended just for a few friends right now and they're thankful nobody's done a "show HN" for them yet.

Sorry if this came off as a troll, just saw someone vent about a problem that other folks seem to be attempting to be working on. I have no idea whether sett is going to actually solve the problem or not.
I still have mine for the purpose of marketing my site, but I have removed almost all of my friends, and have moved my "social" interactions to G+.
http://ollawalla.com
It's easy. You simply call IBM to get a quote (http://bit.ly/Ac0zjF), put together a budget proposal, wait for the next fiscal year for budget approval, draw up a purchase order, schedule your training, and you'll be up and running in 12-18 months tops.
I mostly use Eclipse with the Emacs+ plugin for code development these days. Emacs+ provides an almost flawless Emacs experience, except for that fact that Eclipse is kind of a pain in the butt and often sluggish at manipulating text. It's sluggishness does interfere with my thought processes. Eclipse is very helpful for some things, but it would have been oh so much nicer if the features of Eclipse had been incorporated into something with the fluidity of Emacs. It's too bad that Lucid went out of business.
Yes, mainly to spread the word about http://HockeyBias.com
great work, kind of finding it difficult to know who is hiring and who is looking for jobs.
Any info with this post? Is this a new release? New features? Anything?
I have one but under a fake name.

Why do you guys choose to not have one, go by a different name, or delete your facebook?

Personally, it just feels creepy having a facebook and that's why I have one under a different name. Not that you couldn't figure it out anyway but it gives me a sense of security.
You’ll Download Physical Objects Sooner Than You Think
I have had one since 2004, but do not use it for ANY social features. It's been reduced to a site for extended family to reach me for non-emergencies.
One More Reason to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4S: Tweaking Siri
"I also disagree that relying on advertising revenue is such a bad risk for Facebook: so does Television and their business model has been succesful for a loong time. "

It's not a problem to rely on advertisements as a main source of revenue, but Televisions have commercial breaks. What Facebook is afraid of is that most of their users won't even use the website at all, and only the mobile app. Or to continue the Television metaphor, it's like having all the TV watchers switch from TV, to TVs without commercial breaks. poof goes the revenue.
Not to be uncool, but I enjoy Facebook. I find it to be a fun way to stay in touch with connections, discuss, share, chat, etc. Sure I want data portability, but I believe that will come in time from competitive and user forces, and my life is not a protest. My online social activity is inane anyway - I don't care that much who stores it.

If you are worried about your activities being tracked and sold, stop using your credit cards. Have you read the privacy policy on those lately?

All this anti-Facebook pride strikes me as bitterness. Everyone has a right to do what they want, but would be all the wiser to look at themselves to understand why.

Facebook gives me more than I give Facebook - a lot more. When that stops being true, I'll stop using it. I too am kicking myself for not building a social network in 1996 - I'm not going to convince myself Facebook is evil because I didn't.
I feel somewhat bad now about linking to it. The developer's blog (tynan.com) hasn't even linked to it yet, just mentioned the name of the site coming soon. I was bored one day and typed the supposed url in, and oh look a beta placeholder page.
Sounds reasonable. I was about to guess a similar thing. A minimal Debian install (perhaps Ubuntu and other child-distros as well?) installs a vim-tiny[1], which often throws people off[2].

[1] http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/vim-tiny

[2] http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...
For the people that do, there's still a HN group over there:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/114326995294656/
I voted "I used to, but I deleted it.", but actually I have a personal account with no details and no friends, which I only log into on the rare occasions I need to edit a company facebook page, and the login details to a friend's account, for when I want to check up on how Facebook works for the sake of a marketing campaign.

edit: I deleted my account three years ago because it annoyed me and I rarely found myself using it. If that wasn't the case, I'm not sure if by now I would have decided to delete it for other reasons (e.g. privacy) - I haven't really stopped to think about it.
I'm not sure if this still works, but I'll be trying it a bit later today. (and I am guessing you're not after GTK only VIM editing)

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vi_key_bindings_in_gtk
Sorry, the 32 of you (as of this moment, out of 152) who claim to never have had a facebook account. I call shenanigans. I don't believe for one second that 20% of a sample of hacker news readers never, ever had a facebook account.
Somehow people don't mind Windows being pirated all over in China. How is this different? Everything in China is copied.

That's what no copyright means: pirated commercial software, putting GPL software in proprietary software (that gets copied, too), downloading warez and movies and music. And that's all right!

No GPL developer starves to death because China is ripping his source code all over, similarly to no Western software developer starves to death because anything from Windows to Photoshop to games to $younameit is copied around in China.

Software isn't written to suck up money via any half-imaginable channel. Software is written either because it's fun or that there's someone who ends up paying enough so that the development becomes feasible.

Crying out for the loss of income if only the Chinese had bought original copies of the programs would be akin to MAFIAA crying out loud for the loss of income if only everyone who pirated a song would've bought the damn album otherwise.

GPL is a good weapon in Western countries because in the west these companies also actively go against pirating their software and content.
You only offer Facebook and Twitter logins. tab closed
I'll delete my Facebook account when there's Distributed Social Network Protocol I can use instead.

Social networking has evolved to become a useful part of my life that I don't want to live without. But the evolution of it's usefulness in relation to me is diverging from the evolution of Facebook and Google+.
I think you should also consider the type of users you're targetting on FB and reddit as well. From my experience, I would've assumed that redditors would be less likely to sign up because they're already at a place (say the hiphopheads subreddit) to browse and read stuff related to hiphop, so I'd think it's less likely for them to go on to another site to read similar content. Where as on facebook it's users who are just browsing facebook and there isn't any hiphop pages for them to read on FB so if they click through, they can continue reading more about hiphop.
They have shown scant regard for their users privacy in the past.[1][2] I deleted my account as a result.

[1] http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/linkedins-soc...

[2] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390998,00.asp
What is it about a physical process that means it is performing computation?

It transforms input to output -- some computation systems are just less powerful than others :-P

People often think that Information Theory provides an answer, but it doesn't really enlighten us about what information is and what its nature is.

Can you point to any particular problems with the notion of information as that which reduces entropy (which is itself a quantification of what is unknown about some system)?
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Eh... I'm in college, and it's nearly impossible to get my friends/classmates to use email, so I sorta need to keep it.
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Yes, but I am planning to delete it for good after creating something as a replacement (Hybrid between facebook and blog)
even thought posterous spaces is in good position now for me.
I've got an account, but a dns ban on *.facebook.com (and their other dns). Three or four times a week, I fire up a dedicated browser (configured with a (somewhat slow) proxy to circumvent my own ban) to check on what happens, and sometimes post a link or two.

I'm happy with this compromise, right now. I no longer have any addiction, but I don't feel too out of the loop. And I feel in control of the data I give to facebook.
I thought this was a rant on hash bangs or GET request variables and the coloration between them and people who use VI...
What is NoOps Anyhow?
I didn't want you to think your comment had gone unnoticed.

Well played.
Stripe.com or similar that works in Europe?
Can anyone recommend a payment gateway service with a good API, similar to what Stripe looks like it offers, that works in Europe with the Euro currency?
In my opinion it's not a matter of definition, it's a matter of understanding a real type of phenomenon.

That's fine, and there very well may be some issues here that are worth investigating that don't just involve figuring out a definition. But your specific questions, "What makes something computation", and "What is it about a physical process that means it is performing computation?", both hinge on a blurry notion of "computation" that needs to be pinned down before they can even be taken on.

Because if we take the first definition of the word from Google, "The action of mathematical calculation", then the answer is pretty trivial: a physical process is performing a computation if the states of the physical system reliably map to the result of a known mathematical operation, no more, no less. Now, we may quibble over what is a useful computation, whether a computation is happening if we don't observe it, etc., and that's the kind of tightening of focus that's necessary to get any answers in these situations. Those tightenings are not implicit in the word "computation".

This is a typical philosophical problem - questions like "what is consciousness?" and "what about a physical process makes it conscious?" may be answered in a straightforward manner by going to the dictionary (google (Define consciousness) -> "The state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings"), but answers along those lines reliably fail to satisfy philosophers because they don't actually mean "The state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings" when they use the word "consciousness", they're using some personal tightening of the term that carries a lot of unspecified baggage (or perhaps they'll hide this baggage in "awake" or "aware", which just shifts the issue). Arguments then ensue about the right definition of the word, the one that matches the "know it when I see it" feeling that each person involved has about it, and little progress is made because nothing is pinned down concretely enough to actually discuss.
Sample bias?
> A while ago, I read somewhere that XFS is good for a small number of large files, whereas ReiserFS is good for a large number of small files. I don't know whether that's true anymore if it ever was

It used to be true. XFS has for a long time been the very fastest real filesystem available when it comes to moving data, and one of the slowest ones in real-world use when it comes to changing metadata. Untarring a kernel tarball a second time (on top of the first) is pretty much the canonical benchmark for metadata operations, and the one where XFS used to be at it's absolute worst.

XFS is in the news right now exactly because they have fixed that deficiency. It's still faster than ext*, zfs and btrfs in pretty much everything else, but now it's comparable to them when modifying metadata.

So this is exactly the right benchmark to use, because it's the one where there has been recent change.

Video of Dave Chinner presenting this at linux.conf.au: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FegjLbCnoBw
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"HEY. Hey you. Studies show if you don't read NevBlog.com everyday, you might die."

That probably sounded really cool in the blogger's head, but to me he just comes over as an arsehole.
http://notifo.com/hackernews
There should be another option for "Yes, but it's pseudonymous"
Ask HN: How much will developers at Facebook make off of the IPO?
What kind of equity were Facebook developers offered prior to the filling, and what do you guys estimate (calculate?) they'll make on average?

I was reading some estimates on quora that ranged anywhere from 40,000 - 2.0mil, each. Anyone have a idea founded in fact?
#1 thing I would want is speeding up the site. I've experienced a lot of slowness and empty pages when trying to submit comments.
Very cool. Will this work on an iOS device? Maybe some kind of Dropbox sync in case I can't download my file to the computer I am using. Might be fun to use when I am limited to my iPad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR
Along with the two options that pop up when "Choose your nearest city" is clicked, how about a third like:

Don't see a city close to you?

This option could then take the user to a page where they can submit their city & email. I think this would help you make the most of your traffic and also provide some guidance when you're trying to decide where to expand to next.
Yes, joining works when I want it to appear at the end of the current line, but I want to it to appear at the cursor. Anyway, seems like pasting in the insert mode works the way I want, for the first case.
After all, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...
I put together a really quick valuation multiples analysis based on financial info from the S-1: https://twitter.com/#!/daranda/status/164854828957310978/pho...

Disclaimer: This analysis is flawed

- Using multiples is not a perfect method to understand the valuation of a business. It's one of many. It's a proxy. It's quick.

- This chart uses 2011 financial data. Facebook is growing fast - their multiples would come down significantly if we used 2012 projections - which we don't have. If I had more than 10 minutes on this - I would use 2nd half of 2011 or Q4 2011 as a run rate.

Quick Thoughts (Not Conclusions):

- In Ben Horowitz's argument against the bubble - he says the valuations they were seeing at AH for large private tech companies (like facebook) is in line with large public tech companies (google). So just looking at the data quickly, I was disappointed that FB appeared to have higher multiples (his blog post: http://bhorowitz.com/2011/03/24/bubble-trouble-i-don%E2%80%9...)

- DAYAM FB has a crazy operating margin

- And they're getting better at monetizing each user. User growth was 40% from end of 2010 to end of 2011, while revenue grew 80% (http://allthingsd.com/20120201/facebook-has-845-million-user...)
I use FB for what it is - a way to keep in touch with people I don't see often.

From my point of view, most people are on FB, some are on Twitter, and almost nobody is on G+.