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Ask HN: Are There Any *Active* tutorials for VIM?
I'm extremely tired of text based tutorials for things that are about actions.

I want to learn vim, but the read a guide --> try it learn-flow does not work for me.

So are there any active tutorials, that are interactive, possibly something like editing in a console and it tells you if you are using the correct keys / navigation.
> if you distribute something with GPL code, you must make the source available to anyone that requests it

That's only true if you're operating under section 3(b) of the GPLv2: explicitly offering source via mail order. If you offer GPLv2 source via mail order, you have to honor mail order requests from anyone. However, you aren't required to offer the source via mail order at all, as per section 3.

In the GPLv3, the analogous section, 6(b), is actually further constrained: if you explicitly offer GPLv3 source via mail order, you're only obliged to honor requests from people that have the object code in their possession.
I believe you can send money to someone using Stripe Connect, but that would require them setting up a separate Stripe account.
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My favourite line from that linked blog post from 2009 is this: "We're aware of the current stability and performance issues, and we want to let you know what we're doing about it." - issues they were having nearly 4 years ago are still happening unless the problems they've faced lately are completely different.
The part about written in C was just added on. My point was "better or faster". If you say "faster is better" I'll have to agree :)
You know, a reactionary living in 19th century might have said "because democracy works so much better right? People are so envious of the great freedom people in France are enjoying." With the memory of the French Revolution fresh in their mind, they probably would have been reasonable to say so.
After the 3/11 quake, I did a lot of thinking about what would happen if Tokyo became unlivable .. It, basically, freaked me out. There's a lot of Japan stuck in just one spot..
that successful apps often provide a new kind of data structure, that makes them suitable for many purposes

And I'd argue that that is also a major reason when apps fail: they force people to change their existing ways of thinking and aren't able to "recruit" enough users/customers.

Frankly I wasn't that big on trello and still have major issues with it. For example, when juggling multiple boards, I still don't really know where to begin my workflow. I still don't really know how to see casually what all has been going on across my boards...a lot like a facebook feed. These are critical features that keep me from really engaging with it.
Since its inception? There is a massive amount of case law defining what is and is not protected based on religiosity (and numerous other classes). Determining what is and is not constitutionally protected is one of the primary purposes of the judicial system in America.
As an addendum to this, we (finally) were able to release OpenXC just now.
I'm done with it, and all my current and future employers know it. But I'm in a pretty privileged position to be able to meet my needs working part-time.
Yes, I'm sure. That's why I'm taking the time to read this paper. Go back to reddit please.
And if there isn't, someone please build it! :)
not necessarily. usually if i am on stack overflow i am looking for an easy-type answer. usually if that is not one of the first two, i move on.
Warren Buffett Just Bought The Largest Solar Energy Project In The World
What makes you think you can't be truly innovative by using somebody else's construction? There are new things to be done by building off of somebody else's work or by starting from the ground up. If you attempt the latter, you can almost be sure that your work will be less fruitful, unless you have some truly unique perspective.
> if you distribute something with GPL code, you must make the source available to anyone that requests it. Not only to your customers. And you can't put any kind of filter on reasons for the request.

That's patently false for both the GPLv2 and GPLv3. For v2, see section 3. Only one of the three compliance options requires universal fulfillment of requests for source.

GPLv3 has no similar requirement. The closest analogue to v2's section 3(b) has its scope explicitly limited to "anyone who possesses the object code."
That is their public, shiny face. But they do a lot of intelligence and paramilitary work as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Stratfor_email_leak
For a young, single, healthy person, independent health insurance is not an issue.

Once you have a whole family living under your umbrella and multiple medical history trails 10 years long to explain on your application, it can easily become your largest recurring expense.

Barring personal catastrophe and unless they fall into the consumption pattern described in the article, most continually-employed professionals are entirely capable of reaching a cash-only, everything's paid-for state by the age of 50, sooner if they don't go the marriage/family route.

Health insurance isn't one of those things to ever check off though. Your age increases your risk premium and all rates inflate every year so it costs more and more until you reach the Medicare age, and even then, it still doesn't go away.

If the US matched the rest of the civilized world with respect to healthcare, you can bet we'd see professional people more mobile and retiring sooner.
I guess then, assuming the appeal works, schools cannot force students to wear arbitrary things. Would that be so awful? On the contrary, a legal precedent like that would be ideal.
You make a lot of really valid points. We allow our testers to summarize their videos with written comments prior to uploading their video. Many of our testers write very thorough critiques to be submitted alongside their videos.

I feel videos are far superior to written feedback because I pay very close attention to what users DON'T do when navigating my website. I think that's just as valuable as watching what they actually do (if not more valuable). And you just can't get that from somebody writing their feedback mostly from memory.
HN headline: "The only way to make the HN front page is to make incorrect generalizations."
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I think you're exaggerating somewhat disingenuously. I commute over the bay bridge and it generally flows well, "stuck for hours" just isn't realistic. It's already $5-$7 which seems quite enough given that I already pay local taxes which are supposed to be for infrastructure.
I realize that key == nonce in my post. My point was against the statement "emailing password reset links is bad and not best practice." You need an password link to make use of the key/nonce. The point of the nonce isn't to eliminate links. It's to make the attack surface that much smaller by limiting their power.
An adult isn't required to carry/produce an ID unless they are operating a vehicle. Will that still be the case in five or ten years?
I guess some people have different expectations of freedom and privacy we allow our kids.
Livefyre, the provider for their comment service, purports to provide (for their enterprise solution) "authentication, user management, and user profile solutions. It’s also compatible with third party or custom products to deliver your users a seamless social experience." I'm surprised that FP didn't integrate the service with their homegrown login system, given that it seems to be possible. But despite the kinks, it's almost certainly a more flexible and reliable/scalable system than rolling their own comments pages.
You're absolutely right that the pricing doesn't make a whole lot of sense right now. I am still experimenting with price points. Some of our competitors are charging $39 / test. I plan on increasing the pricing in the near future, so buy up for cheap now while you still can ;-)

As to your second point we need to do a better job of marketing the fact that we do get "average joe's" to review your website. Not everyone that tests websites for us is a usability expert. The only thing I make sure of (before approving a tester) is that they know how to be critical of the website they are reviewing.
It is brutal. It will be fixed soon!
The distinction is rather academic with ruby and rails. 90% of the answers to "how do I do this in ruby" on forums are actually "how to do this with rails" answers, but they never mention that little detail, because who'd ever write a ruby program without rails, right? Trying to find straight ruby answers is annoying as hell.
Clickable: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

For comparison here is data from ohloh: http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?measure=commits&p...
http://stackoverflow.com/a/3195446 - just set this up on a project the other day to have an "all" origin push to github and heroku.
I'm guessing this is because everyone's looking for the magic bullet, or a set of rules they can blindly follow in order to be successful.

Obviously, the real secret to success is to use judgement, but that doesn't make for catchy headlines.
There you have it, it's a third-party site. It's pretty rough actually, the gethifi one is tons better.
They study high traffic density, so by definition, irrelevant data is data where traffic is under a certain density, which would automatically exclude private areas (homes, driveways, etc).
And as has been pointed out for like four years now, some parts of AIG were actually profitable, and burning those employees is not a wise long term business strategy.
> disempowered classes align themselves in the partisan coalitions out of genuine self-interest, not out of false consciousness. They're just getting a disproportionately small serving of the winnings.

To quote John Steinbeck, "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
I find HN to be quite rich, in both content and discussions about said content. I don't post because I usually don't have anything significant to add to the conversation.

I have to say though, your comment deeply disturbs me. Those weren't poisonous words. And I highly doubt that his comment, which seems quite informative, comes from his "dreams of a world made of slaves".

I can tell you're American. Constantly when I travel to the US, I get spoon fed this bullshit when people find out I'm Canadian. I have literally - on more than one occasion - had people tell me how they couldn't live in a "socialist" country like Canada. They then proceed to educate me (without any indication I want to hear shit about their opinions or beliefs) on the benefits of capitalism, how Obama is enslaving America, how universal health care is freedom lessening crap, and so on. It blows my mind the level of intolerance and subtle hatred.

He's just being part of the discussion, providing opposing information and some of his opinions. Chill the fuck out.
How about informal?
I've been a Simple customer and have nothing but good things to report. As a bank, they provide pretty much all basic services, except for perhaps cash deposit (something I haven't needed to use in years). You can use any ATM out there. You'll probably get charged a fee by the ATM itself, but that's something I can live with. Most of the time, I try to get enough cashback when I get my groceries to cover my very minimal cash needs.

Where Simple really shines though is in two areas:

1) General non-sucky-ness. It's not a single feature, but rather the quality of the overall experience. The support features makes it really easy to write a textual query right in the regular dashboard or mobile app, and they usually reply within hours. There's no calling robotic phone lines and spending 30min in menus or on hold… The website itself is beautiful and extremely usable. Unlike, say, Bank of America Online, the emotion you feel while navigating simple.com is delight, not frustration and exasperation.

2) Goals and Safe to Spend. When you open either the app or the website, there is a very visible balance amount. The trick is, it is not your actual account balance, but rather what Simple calls your Safe-to-Spend balance. Simple has a goals section, in which you can set up goals you wish to achieve by a certain date, as well as reserved funds (eg. an emergency fund). Simple takes all of that information into account, as well as recurring bills such as rent payments and subtracts it from the money it considers safe to spend.

It's great, it has really had a positive impact on my finances. I've never been good at budgeting, but through the way Simple handles Safe-to-Spend, it has kind of forced me into better consumption patterns.
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The strategy that works for me is:

- read the book and write down the key points (usually a full book will be reduced to around 10 pages)

- read the notes, and try to do the examples

- rework the examples a second time, refer book and notes
It warms my heart to no end that there's another Braudel fan here! =)

I didn't intend to come off as wholly dismissive of Marx--it's very fair to say that he's one of the great thinkers of political economy and sociology. But relying on 19th century thinkers when they've been surpassed always strikes me as unfortunate.
Basically workers create $240 of wealth every eight hour work day, but are only paid $200 a day.

But workers don't create that much wealth in a day by themselves; they need plant and material to create the product or service that is sold. The buildings they work in, the machinery that they use, the raw material they consume, are equally important inputs to production and it is these which are supplied by the capitalist.
Less people are living in poverty now more than ever:

http://www.worldvision.org/news/worldwide-fewer-people-live-...

Its just that wealth is being more evenly distributed and the U.S. is feeling some of that pressure.
This is why I should deploy using git (via github), right? I can always rollback if i break something...
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Things you may not know about jQuery (2009)
Are you just making this up as you go? You're completely wrong. Getting in/out of Manhattan is painful from just about anywhere. It's usually a minimum of hour door to door. If you're working 10-12hr days, you'll pay for the easy subway commute. However, there are plenty of very successful people that do commute from NJ, CT, and Westchester.

The solution to expensive Manhattan real estate is better mass transit. Imagine getting on a train 30 miles from the island and arriving at your office 30 minutes later. What kind or a miracle would this take?
Project Nashorn - lightweight high-performance JavaScript runtime in Java
You're missing the point, which is that the the maximum carrying capacity of a road is a function of the skill exercised by the drivers.

The issue revealed here is that even a small number of unskilled drivers can do terrible things to the flow of traffic on busy roads. In other words, crowded roads have a very low tolerance for bad drivers.

Since the number of disruptively bad drivers is so remarkably low, and their negative effect is so stratospherically high, a program designed to improve their skills could save astonishing sums of time and money.

So it's not about "calling them the problem and calling it a day." It's about actually fixing the problem. And you don't need to single people out to do this. Rather, you set the bar for licensing at a level that they'll need to do additional work to cross. Given how few of them there are, this can be done with no disruption to 99% of the drivers on the road, and major benefit to 100% of them.
Japanese researchers discover giant Takoyaki in unprepared form.

Why is it always the Japanese researchers that study these yummy species like squid and whale? Is it that kind of research that ends with shipping the study probes to a high class restaurant at the end?
Understanding Risk: What I learned building a successful startup
This is unlikely to change as long as one side is willfully determined to remain ignorant of finance. If you want to write effective regulation, you'll need to understand the industry. Until then, the insiders will continue to run the show.
> You disagreed with the idea that society can have objectives based on philosophical grounds.

I objected to the idea that an emergent phenomenon can be assumed to have objectives. Society wasn't "designed", it simply is.

Teleology is the name for assigning human-like motives to things. For example, saying "the hamstring muscle is designed to flex the knee and extend the hip" is erroneous. There is no designer. It evolved; we discern these functions independently of the system.

While subsystems may have designed elements, generally these too go on to have complex, emergent properties. And they're subsumed within the larger system anyway. Laws, stock markets etc are all emergent from human interactions. Nobody sat down at the start of history and designed the system we are part of today. It happened without any one guiding intelligence.

It's meaningless to say "society's objectives" because there was nobody to assign such objectives and nobody can assign such objectives. Anybody who says "the objectives for society are X" is basically saying "my personal preference for the unfolding of the emergent system are X". It's a substitution error.
Check out https://www.balancedpayments.com

My co-founder posted this on HN today, you might find the comments useful:

Show HN: One curl command issues next-day ACH deposit -
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5026802
Its actually quite simple. We need a massive dose of social proofing amongst those that have already attained the peak of accomplishment as seen in the current system to change their behavior. We are no different now than when we were 6 watching our parents. You emulate those you think live right, and the people that live right in the eyes of those under the spell of the implications of the article look to fame, money and power. If those that wied those act a certain way, those new ways become the pinnacle. This solution is the only non forceful way.
I hope his analysts are better than he is. This is shockingly insubstantial analysis coming from the CEO of Stratfor.
Personally I grew up without RFID chips or video cameras tracking me at school. I never really understood the needs of parents for more control, when it is just security theater anyway.
> The central contradiction in capitalism Marx spells out clearly in Capital, although its a little too much to explain in a comment. Basically workers create $240 of wealth every eight hour work day, but are only paid $200 a day. The $40 goes to profit, to get more capital, to make more commodities.

The labor theory of value just doesn't make sense. The only system in which it does is a communist system. And even then, if somebody values the commodity more than the value of the labor that went into producing it, they'll pay that price to acquire it on the secondary market.
Just before that day comes, they've got you tagged as a potential social disturbance thanks to your comment.
See my comment to the OP. Balanced is offering a stand-alone ACH service now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5026802
Open vim in your terminal, and type :!vimtutor
Yes you are. If you are not carrying ID, they will detain you until your identification can be confirmed - if that means taking you to jail for a 24 hour hold, they have no problem being paid overtime to sit and do that paperwork.

All they have to do is pretend to terry-stop you for any reason and demand ID then. No judge will ever sanction them.
As a user, not having flash made the whole thing useless, not just the parts that actually depended on flash.
I think that the article is saying they have a disproportionate impact on traffic. They are more directionally-biased, spend more time on the road, and have a greater spatial and temporal overlap with other drivers' commutes.

All of those things apparently contribute to traffic more than people who travel in random directions at random times.

Also, it means that it is (potentially) more of a fixable problem. If you can target those specific sources and destinations of problem drivers, you can try to offer them alternatives. Even if they are replaced by other drivers, many of those other drivers may behave more randomly, and the roads will have better utilization.
We're already willfully, gleefully carrying these ID cards - they're our smart phones. A couple policy decisions here and there and your nightmare scenario will be fully realized.
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How do I down vote you? You're writing off an entire country's banking system with one personal example?

I have my own example of banks in Australia, and they're some of the best I've ever dealt with.

Banks in the US on the other hand...

There's no reason to have an account with a bank in the US when you can have one with a credit union. Unless you're really rich and don't care about fees.
Digital Wildfires in a Hyperconnected World (WEF)
This article seems to suffer from a cognitive dissonance with itself - while the theme is inherently one of speculation, the author seems to shy away from speculation wherever possible. Rather, he focuses on enumerating a list of weakly connected (albeit well-researched) parallels between 2013 and 1913. It seems he is much too concerned about protecting his words from disagreement; as a result, the words are not nearly ambitious enough.

Only about 80% of the way through the piece does the author even ask the question:

> What does any of this say about the world in 2013?

Finally! Now we might be able to see a speculative narrative:

> To take an example of one of the more plausible shocks we now face, a miscalculation in the South China Sea could easily set off a chain of events not entirely dissimilar to a shot in Sarajevo in 1914, with alliance structures, questions of prestige, escalation, credibility, and military capability turning what should be marginal to global affairs into a central question of war and peace.

And... that's it? The next paragraph is clearly the beginning of the conclusion of the piece, recapping the earlier paragraphs. As they say, "that's all she wrote."

I would have loved to see the same depth of research applied to a detailed analysis of this scenario and others. How are the alliance structures similar and different? How might world leaders react? What mistakes were made in 1913 that can be avoided today?

This article should be taken for what it is - a thought provoking introduction, but by no means a successful standalone treatment of the issue.
I've outlined in some detail a concept I've thought up for a daily deal site truly unique and better than Groupon, Living Social, and all the copycats including the most recent - Bync.

I'd love any feedback.
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Is this an homage to the Rothschilds?
Pyramid experiment, (temporarily) no Django
I came here to post exactly this. Many professional Chartbeat users spend a lot of time looking at their dashboards and get an intuitive feel for how their site typically performs. From that, they can glean many insights, even some which they can't exactly describe.

Chartbeat's UI tries to provide context. The dial shows the concurrents number in the context of your 30-day performance, the chart overlays your current performance on top of the same day last week, and the traffic sources show typical values, for example.

That being said, we are adding more feed-type features. For example, we already offer traffic spike detection on a page level in the higher-priced Publishing product. The reason many of these features aren't present in regular Chartbeat is that they require data scientists to create a model, developers to build a system around it, and servers to actually run the calculations. None of this is free. :)
Quality stuff right here.