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Why does Google need to operate locally in each country in the first place? Isn't that just a needless expenditure? More employees, more domain names, more dealings with localized bureaucracies and pesky removal requests? Rather than put itself in a losing position against local governments, Google should let local governments take on their own constituents (and risk angering them by censoring the international version of Google's sites.) A tradeoff between full access or no access to Google is safer for freedom than the complacency-inducing availability of a watered-down, locally-censored Google.

Now, if it's a matter of maximizing profit, this move seems to make sense from Google's standpoint. Having some ads on localized, yet partially-censored Google properties would produce greater profit than showing zero ads in a country that completely censors the international version.
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In fact learning vi/m is a lot like learning to play a music instrument.

It is a pain to start using vim. But if you reach a certain level you start improving more and more. Concerning vim, it should takes some weeks to be as efficient than with notepad.

I written this article which also might help you:

http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressiv...

Don't give up! It will pay faster than you think.
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Web Equation: Draw a formula, gets turned into LaTeX
I think the big difference is that Google is using the money from it's monopoly search to artificially subsidize maps below cost. OSM and Wikipedia etc. are doing no such thing.
Given what Irish bankers did to the country, I wouldn't give much credence to their opinion. Unfortunately they still pull the strings and have incredible political clout. I'm not even Irish (though I lived there a few years) and it makes me sick thinking what the banks did, and then to foist it off onto the Irish taxpayers. Ireland's loss is the US' gain!
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This is incredible good.

But some formulas doesn't work (for example: $\sqrt[3]{2}$) and I can't find a feedback / suggests a better translation button.
This highlights one of my main problems with social media in general which is that popularity does not correlate well to utility. Even in a relatively niche community like HN there is still tendency towards shallower, more general articles simply because they are applicable to a wider audience so they inherently attract more upvotes. But if you're running a business, the most important thing will be domain knowledge, and the most useful information will not be something found in a blog post that goes viral, but insight and wisdom discovered by insiders who have concrete, applicable experience. Finding these people is of course much harder than popping open HN, but it's possible if you stay focused on smaller communities and networking within your industry. Keep your nose to the grindstone long enough and you will become one of these people.

That's not to say that there's no value to be extracted from popular subjects. Of course there is a lot of capitalization to be done on trends and fads, and mass markets are the biggest, but as a daily visitor to HN I think I can safely say that I could come here once every two weeks and gain almost the same marginal value, significantly less than what I'm gaining in daily work experience.
Seconded! The Australian market is ripe for a company like Stripe. People are just now getting happy with buying things online, so hurry!
So. Awesome. And it works on my phone -- very sweet. My only quibble is that I couldn't get it to hack me up a per mille (this was the #1 question I used to get working as LaTeX support for a journal publisher years back).
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payments is a $557 million business for them - that's 15% - not immaterial
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This was interesting. I've recently been using latex to write math equations down but this might save me a lot of time (one I dig my drawing tablet out of the closet).

I'd be more interested in a write-up of how you made it more successful than previous attempts however, technologies used, etc.
> I still don't understand how they can offer this for free

You allow the following:

- Add tracking codes or affiliate codes to links that do not previously have tracking or affiliate codes.

- Add script to your pages to, for example, add services or perform additional performance tracking.
ACTA does not do most of the things they think it does. It's generally a good idea before protesting something to actually understand it, or you end up looking silly.

Here's some information on what it actually does and does not do: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-awa...
Indeed! And Australians are quite aware just how much they are being ripped off now that online purchases from non-Australian retailers are becoming more prevalent.
How can a badly put together website full of stock photos tell me they do anything different from their competitors?
How come we assume that Google is going to start charging as soon as competitors died?

I draw analogies with the IE vs Netscape history. When IE became bundled for free in Windows, Netscape open-sourced its code to survive.

Where would the browser be today had a judge ruled that Microsoft cannot do this and that Microsoft (and Netscape) should continue charging for their product?
Isn't this what game theory is about?

Smaller competitors won't open up, because even if Carrefour has high prices, the chain can lower prices any time to wipe out the competitors again.

So, the monopolist can have arbitrarily high prices because nobody will invest in opening shops.

This is one of the situations in which free market fails to deliver the optimal (for consumers) solution.
Interesting. Other mechanisms would be interesting too, like NFC.
Ask HN: what would make you switch from Facebook?
those who believe Facebook is just a stage in still evolving Internet and one day will be in MySpace shoes, whats your take on the future Facebook?
It did -\int _{-\infty }^{\infty }\dfrac {\cos \left( \pi t+\beta \right) ^{2}} {e^{t^{2}}}dt=F\left( \beta \right)

I'm impressed.
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At this point, particularly on news.ycombinator, surely the article should be about "Why, oh WHY, do those #? nutheads not use vi?". It seems a majority of people believe it is better, certainly a majority of the vocal crowd.
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Can one of you American citizens submit a FOIA request so they release the supporting documentation and research for such claims? I would if I were an American.
Facebook is an outlier. About DropBox, I'm sure Drew Houston spent every living hour digging into the intricacies of other solutions, the risks, what people wanted, etc when he decided he wanted to make DropBox.

You can pick up the domain knowledge while working on your product or before working on it, but you still have to get it somehow.
8 years ago would make you an extremely early adopter of the Linux port. XFS has seen significant development since then. I don't think experiences based on eight year old software hold much water.

XFS has adopted some nasty stigma of being a filesystem that eats your data. But it seems that for every user that complains about data loss, another does not.
Who guarantees that Wikipedia never starts charging, as soon as all other information services have been pushed out of the market?

The fact that anyone can make an exact Wikipedia clone thanks to the free licensing of their software and content?
One of my favorites was missing from the Animals section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_with_fraudulent...
I think I see what he means. Viper is really... strange.

When I originally moved from Vim to Emacs, I found Viper /harder/ than just learning regular ol' Emacs. I assume "Moving parts" refers to exactly the same problems that I had. I could explain more, but it would take time, because I need to figure out some examples instead of explaining my vague impressions of a few years ago.

Point is, as an avid emacs user, I totally get where he is coming from.
You end up needing to be willing to commit to learning a hell of a lot about an industry, and that's time you won't be developing. The tech, in most cases, is secondary to understanding the business needs and workflow of an industry. One of the most successful guys I know as a small business software guy took a year to take mortuary classes and work in the funeral industry to learn their needs before developing services for them.
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+1.
English Wiki - 3M articles
German Wiki - 1.3M articles
French Wiki - 1.2M articles

The French wiki is the 3rd largest, beating Spanish & Japanese (while there are far many more Spaniards & Japanese than French)
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I'd be interested to know how much of the stuff presented in the article is actually present in plain vi (not vim). If you mean vim, then say vim, not vi. They are two different things.
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Half serious comments and snark often get downvoted - particularly when they add nothing to the discussion, and almost inevitably when they are appear intended to take the discussion off track by baiting partisan disagreements or fanboyism.

Downvotes should be considered editorial feedback - either you didn't make your point clearly, or your comment is considered likely to derail the discussion.

Use the "edit" and "delete" links, respectively if you are concerned about the karma score of a particular comment.

<additional meta>
It is bad form on HN to complain about downvotes.
Wrong question. The right question is "What would allow you to switch from Facebook?" For me, the answer is "if all my friends and relatives would move someplace else". I suspect Facebook will work hard to prevent that, blocking data liberation tools and things intended to synchronize your data across multiple social sites.
Basic kindle is $113 USD in India and $79 in USA ?

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http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wi-Fi-Ink-Display-Screensavers/...
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Contains a "List of lists of national institutions and symbols" - listception.
No google has been found guilty of not being a French company - or not employing the right grads from ENA whose "Papa" went to ENA with the right people whose "Papa" also went to ENA

Same way it was the was non french companies that got raided over the 35 hours working time laws
Verisign was hacked, doesn't know what data was stolen
5 or 6 years ago, it took a single power failure to basically screw up my filesystem. From the comments on the article, it seems it's not really a solved issue (or rather, people don't consider that an issue).

I'd think again before using XFS on my desktop.

(I've had power failures on quite a few other occasions, with all sorts of other filesystems. I did lost the occasional file, but at least I could still boot those systems..)
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I like kiwi much better https://github.com/allending/Kiwi
I've been learning Colemak off and on and am a bit worried about using it with Vim.

What mappings do you use (particularly for hjkl)? My first instinct was to map them to something more comfortable, but lots of other apps use those keybindings so I feel like it might be better to just learn to use them as-is.
I didn't know 'per mil' had a sign! 'Per mil' is one tenth of a percent(%), so 1% = 10‰.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mil
Of course not. (1) it is wildly overvalued; (2) the IPO is being structured so that individual investors will not have a chance to purchase shares until after institutional investors with good relationships with the big investment banks have already wrung out as much profit as possible.
They could do a deal with Microsoft's Bing.
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I use vim a lot, but I only really started using it for most of my work in a job I had after switching to Dvorak -- was primarily an Emacs user before that.
It will never stop so why waste the money. Cisco has had their OSs ripped out of their image files and placed onto cheap Chinese switches and routers for over a decade now.
The problem is that terrorism is a strategy that America also uses in war. Calling the terrorists evil because they blow up civilians in another country is calling war evil. Its the double-think and hypocritical nature of the word I don't like.

What makes the planes into the world trade center more evil than the hundreds of thousands of bombs used to blow up suspected enemy hideouts in iraq, Iran and Afghanistan?
We only enabled CloudFlare for two of our subdomains. These subdomains only serve images, no HTML or script files.

So I guess we're circumventing their monetization model and will be kicked anytime now?!
What's the biggest OS distribution that does not have vi mapped to vim by default these days?
Maybe in US, not elsewhere. In Poland, we already had some nice anti-ACTA protests on 24-26 of January, pushing our govt into panic mode, and if word spreads we will kick butts again on Feb 11.
True, which is why I said "CDN-like functions" because, for smaller web applications and websites, having paralleled downloads would increase performance (without having to use a CDN service).

Also, what about hosting your static scripts and style sheets on a service like Google Code or GitHub? Would that give you a "CDN-like" performance increase as well?

I'm advocating non-CDN services through other techniques that can provide increase performance for smaller web application and websites.
Great! But it does not recognise matrixes. Matrixes are the hardest thing to write in LaTeX, it would be wonderful to write them by hand and then having the LaTeX code without problems.
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I don't see any mention on the Junglee page of the "special offers" (aka ads pop up on your Kindle when you're not using it) deal. I'm guessing that the potential advertising revenue in India isn't enough to make a big difference, so they don't have that option. This would mean that the $113 Indian Kindle is equivalent to the $109 US Kindle (no advertising).
I imagine the mnemonics make it work reasonably well, but what about hjkl? Do you really get used to having those spread around?
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Google could have side-stepped this at any point, simply by charging 1€ per year.
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I had the same experience concerning XFS, I experienced repeated data loss on power failure about 4 years ago. These days I just stick with ext4
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A couple of notes:

In Chrome if I expand the window past its max-width the area to the right of the "Create" button on the dashboard is not colored properly.

I wasn't sure how to view my task index; maybe something more obvious than clicking on the links found hyperlink?

All in all it worked nicely, seems like a useful tool.
Those ex-soviets are mostly jews who finally seized an opportunity to live somewhere else, outside of iron curtain. Many of them also showed up in US, see Sergey Brin.
It's not just about prices. It was only about prices, then there would be McDonalds everywhere and nothing else. If farmers were to open their own stores, they could still manage to have reasonable prices, and make their point on "best quality", "organic food", plus offering some plants / species you would never be able to find in a big supermarket. You can't go head to head against Carrefour by just providing the same service. They would have to differentiate. That's how free market works. There are always needs that the big competitor will not be able to cater to.
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Irony is that the video is hosted on Google's service.
It would have to be some sort of network that starts out as an extreme niche and slowly builds network effects.
why would they spend insane amounts of time and money on brokering horrible laws? Even if these laws did pass today, they would surely crumble in a few years?

Why would they work so hard, to gain the hatred and displeasure of the very public that pays money to watch their work, and makes them rich in the process?

As the parent says, may be they enjoy being the villain in this whole drama.

If they want, they can kill netflix overnight. heck, they can charge 50$ a month, and many people would gladly pay (I know I would) even if the movies come to streaming a full month later than their theater release date.

How long do you think they can keep playing this cat and mouse game? The only real winners in this entire shit, are the lawyers.
I want to throw in another XFS data-eating anecdote. When I used it, I found it had a tendency to zero out files which were open for writing during a system crash.

I've been using JFS now for 6 years or so and have never had files go missing on me. JFS routinely takes second place to XFS in various benchmarks but still far outperforms ext3 and the like.
thanks. that actually surprised me when they released the tool to export your entire profile. Thought it was kind of a mistake to give that feature to the users.
No one doubts that IPs coming from China log-in-with-stolen-passwords into Gmail, hotmail, and mail.yahoo every single day.

Or that there are attempts to steal worthy information and data through other means.

Some of these attempts are state-sponsored, some are corporate-sponsored, others are crime-sponsored.

Russia does this, US does this, and just about every other player does this.

This happens every day.

It's nothing new.

The point is that Google entered China (the #1 known player in this game of hacking and espionage), then when the expected happened, used it's PR machine to pretend they were pulling out because of some of these attempts, with the main focus (in that PR attempt) on the dozen email accounts of activists.
I've actually been moving off of ReiserFS myself. Mostly for some of the known bugs and unfixable problems with it relating to storing another ReiserFS image on it and then trying to recover data from a crash. I've run into that more than once and that made me move to something that was a little more sane during recovery (ext3 at the time, now ext4).
Ok thanks for the explanations.

"<additional meta> It is bad form on HN to complain about downvotes."

I didn't complain I just wanted explanations.
I want to use a distributed social network which no single corporation or government can control, monitor or censor. Everything should be private by default, with PKI and encryption playing a central part.

If somebody can create that, and make it easy for my mum to use, then I (and many other people I suspect) would spend considerable effort to get people to move over to using it.
You can put the list of lists of lists on your list of lists of lists of lists. Also, 'Isotope lists' > 'Isotope lists, 0-24' > 'Isotopes of Helium' > 'Helium-2' though I don't know if that counts.
For me it didn't change my behavior, but that's not the point. I think the fact that Facebook may emphasize the search functionality more does mean something. As you know there's this thing called affordance.
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What is up management?
Yep, but I have actually been to the friday protest in Warsaw, and I must admin that attendance was poor and consisted mostly of youngsters who don't really get what they are protesting against (still kudos for caring enough to get out of home at -15'C, current weather doesn't help, really).
> But it seems that for every user that complains about data loss, another does not.

So, a coin toss then? You're not helping!
Unreleased builds of Unity compile to Native Client, and the Unity 3.5 beta can compile to Flash. I saw some reference to an unfinished internal build that made Linux binaries a while back, but that's probably a ways out. Compiling to Flash is probably your best bet right now.
Last time I installed Arch, it did not. Also checking Scientific, it does not (assume also RHEL/CentOS).
I'm going through and responding to the latest set of applications now. I expect to get back to everyone by early afternoon, and Dave and I will set up meetings with everyone who seems promising ASAP.
The Solaris servers I am on all day at my job (when I'm not procrastinating on HN, that is).
XFS filesystems can be defragmented. The tool is called xfs_fsr

http://linux.die.net/man/8/xfs_fsr.
>> This is one of the situations in which free market fails to deliver the optimal (for consumers) solution.

I never considered the free market idea to be based on delivering the optimal solution for consumers, actually the oposite, it delivers the optimal solution for enterprises, specially the big ones where the real money and power is made and retained or traded.

Market does not preocupy with people, the state does (In theory. In practice the state may just pretend to preocupy or simply perform poorly or corruptly). Nevertheless, Market's only concerns are Buy and Sell, anything it says is Marketing and everything it does is Strategy.
I read it with a completely different tone.

I've been hitting CTL-ALT-DEL since the 1980's. It has only been about a year since I even realized that Task Manager is available as a right click on the Taskbar - and I still tend to use the three fingered salute in the heat of the moment caused by something going amok.

He [most likely] correctly assumes that the typical person launching Task Manager is not knowledgeable enough to have all the relevant details at their finger tips. Particularly when focusing on an immediate technical issue.

BTW, once I read about the faster loading, I realized that that is why I have been subconsciously trying to use the Task Bar to launch Task Manager.
Really-- a stiff breeze would blow me out of my roost on facebook.

But like mcherm, I am bound by my connections to my relatives/friends with whom I would likely otherwise lose touch.
In other news, data can be listed in a hierarchal manner.
I read your article a few days ago, great stuff. I agree vim is a pain in the beginning, and I only recently went to using it full time. But even after two weeks of full time use a lot of the commands are already starting to get "embedded" in my fingers.
One of the great things about vim is that even if you use it as your regular editor (I use MacVim), you tend to learn something new every time you read a new article. Today I learned about the '.' command.

Also, old discussion on same article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151637
Same experience here. And after xfs_repair, still remaining files and directories which couldn't be deleted or moved. The only solution to move the parent folder or reformat. Though performance wise, it was really fast.
SGI was munging Terabytes of data before Windows had the "hi-color icons" tickbox.