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This could be exactly what the OP was referring to. It's great that you've had success, but you turned this conversational thread into a self-promotion.
Just like watching TV, except you don't even have to press to see the next channel. Also, no ads, no reruns. Great.
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Do what the politicians do: take credit for successes, blame failures on others/environment. Jokes aside, read Fooled by randomness (or another book treating about randomness in everyday life), perhaps you'll find something there that will lessen your focus on yourself.
Well, you know who does mention Sir-mix-a-lot? Jonathan Coulton: he does explicitly state his song is a cover. He wrote a new melody, which the Glee people used but did not acknowledge. I'm not sure what Glee's position is, maybe they claim they are covering Sir-mix-a-lot and happened to make the same arrangement and write the same melody that Coulton did.
I just went to see if I could find the "2040," but it seem the lowest-end I could find was the v3140. Am I missing something? Older model?

Anyway, when I went to see what these appliances' specs are and what they would sell for, it was obvious why they failed at the consumer market:

These high-touch sales models where one is required to talk to a salesperson, and there are a ton of configurability options will not work in the consumer market.
Yeah, watch this for a few minutes and you really get a sense of a planetful* of people doing stuff

*=ok, the smartphone owning subset of the planet, but thats growing.
The article misses the fact that there is a roll over cost associated with room occupancy. So booking all rooms no matter the price can actually cost the property money. One has to factor in electricity use, housekeeping costs and complimentaries (as well as some other more hidden items like prorated taxes) on a per room basis and then tally a minimum rate for profit, 100% occupancy at any rate can actually be less profitable than 80% at a staggered rate with all %80 being profitable.
> Unlike some of Facebook's services/apps, Google does not automatically share your activity on some news feed every time you do something on their sites

This is not really correct. In fact Facebook publishes only the activities "share" and "like". But not only that, Facebook gives me full control over who will see this.

G+ is really dubious in this respect. Sometimes when I google search I see "xyx also goes to this page". Damn, so now I need to use Incognito every time I search for Christmas presents? Or what happens if I search for a different employer, will my work colleagues see that?

Since one or two years Youtube is bugging me to be less pseudonymous. Yesterday they asked this weird question, at least this general bugging stopped.

Sorry Google, if this is really only about Single-Sign-On, then keep a more clear separation of your services. Google+ sounds like a pretty heavy-weight Single-Sign-On solution, right?

If this is your competition, you will lose your customers to competitors like Mozilla.
I like the idea, but am more reluctant about the keybindings--I use `s` almost every day. More importantly, I'm infatuated with the marriage Vim has between motions and actions-over-a-range, and think it's very weird to have motion commands that are only available after {d, c, y}.
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I would argue that Twitter is bad example. I prefer the Twitter site over the apps. Reeder vs. Google Reader is a different story.
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MVC isn't just a good idea for making development easier, it's also the natural resting state for most applications. In the future, well just be distributing the models, views and controllers across multiple machines and networks, just as was done on the past.
I was born and grew up in Ethiopia. I went to college in India. I came to the U.S. to do grad. school and I think America is the place I will call home.
The OP says Facebok asserts that I is requiring his documentation of certain users with a high number of subscribers...but it seems possible that they'll turn this on any one who has been flagged for having a non real name, or when there are similar accounts (I.e. nearly all the same friends, except one is the person's "fake" account) on the same computer
Was it? I didn't mean it that way. The first part or the second part?

I just wanted to show that the community has found such discussions valuable in the past, how it can be done, and what kind of results you can get even from a mid ranked book in a small niche.
Interesting, but I am not willing to surrender a basic key binding like `s` with what can be done with /. It is only an extra key to do the same thing.

You should lower your ambitions and just make this a function one can key bind to a char of their choice.

Have you tried submitting this to vim as a patch instead? I doubt it would be approved, for a good reason. Nice work though.
35 years was the maximum under the laws he was originally charged with. 50 years was the maximum after the supplemental indictment that added additional charges. Under the sentencing guidelines a judge shouldn't, but still could have sentenced him to the maximum.

If the goal is to change the law and the argument is that the penalties are absurd, the fact that the penalties are absurd is very relevant and not an exaggeration.
> In fact, I think Python is becoming the secret weapon behind every good Javascript application ;)

My recent experience says this is not true. Python is so widely used as a backend that it is in no kind of secret weapon - at least not in the way Lisp was a secret weapon for Paul Graham with Viaweb. Every startup I've dealt with recently is building their backend in Python, Ruby or Node. I think the real story here is that compiled languages are on a major downswing in use for startups that build web apps. I haven't run across a startup building their backend with .NET or Java in a couple of years, except for one payment application that built the business logic with C# and MS SQL Server (they still built their web API with RoR).

Recently I tried to go back to compiled languages for a new web project. I really wanted to try something fun in Haskell that wasn't just data processing (what I normally use it for). I picked up Snap, Yesod and a few other libraries only to find that it was just too much of a pain.

Dynamic languages remove so many little annoyances with web development that it's hard to justify going back to a compiled one when you could just cheaply spin up an extra VM or two to deal with the performance differential between dynamic and compiled languages.

Maybe I'll try Go next...
Totally forgotten.
It can't, and it doesn't have civil rights (or other capabilities) to defend itself, which is why the government likes to sue it—it's an easy win for them.
I'm surprised vineroulette.com wasn't the chosen URL for this
If this is all they found on him, I think he's likely more credible than many of us :)

On a side note, it is a known tactics in politics - discredit your opponent early, for when he talks, nobody will listen. As an added bonus, it diverts attention from the actual matter (leaked materials) to a character debate.
Thanks for the feedback. I know remapping a basic vim key is pretty drastic, but to justify seek's speed I needed an easily accessed key--though I do plan to allow setting it to another key in your vimrc--and substitute quite fits the bill. I'm already using 1s instead of lone s without thinking. And for higher counts it doesn't get in your way.

Regarding the motions with d, c and y, just to clarify the seek motion is available anytime. As for the others, they work similarly to iw, i" &c, and I think these operator pending motions add a great layer of flexibility to vim without needing extra base keys.
Of course it was. And if you don't see it as such, I think the takeway for all of us is "He's clearly delusional." Seriously, man, do you really not know between "the first part or the second part" which one he's talking about?
It work both ways: you probably wouldn't need to say "Boston, USA" to save people from making the assumption you meant the small town in Lincolnshire and not the New England capital, or "Melbourne, Australia" to identify that you meant the cultural capital of Australia and not a small market town in Derbyshire.

Cambridge is more or less the only exception when it comes to Anglophone cities with the same name and similar levels of international fame
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You appear to have misspelled 'marketers'.
While I'm normally of the opinion that 's' is almost begging to be remapped, I don't think that this is different enough from '/' to warrant a first-class place. OTOH mapping the Easy Motion trigger from '\\' to 's' might be worth it.
No, I didn't. Normally I'm pretty self aware, but we all have our gaping blind spots. No need to be rude.

I can just delete the comment if the whole thing reeks of self promotion.

edit: I typed it out on my phone, which makes it very hard to review the whole thing.
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What concerns me is that I doubt the average user will understand the potential ramifications of entrusting a copy of their ID to a third party. If these documents are not well-protected or the user does not bother to or is not capable of covering up information that can be used for the purposes of identity theft, this could be catastrophic for some users.
PG has talked about how "real real life" aka Justincam type things were coming for TV. This is literally a video based channel that I'm going to come back to and watch pretty consistently if it stays active and this interesting.

Vine is clearly a big idea and vinepeek is awesome.
I actually used to use the single 's' keypress a lot. But at the same time I wasn't happy about that habit, it was often lazy-thinking, instead of using things like cf{char} or even cw, ce. So I committed to use '1s' when I really needed the single substitution, and it worked really well, so I felt I had gained on both sides. Just try and see what you think, you can always remove. And yes I will make it customizable, but I especially wanted to release this first opinionated version exactly to get feedback like this. Thanks.
This sounds very similar to EasyMotion, which is an amazing plugin that I hope everyone tries.

EasyMotion allows make any movement, say "w" for forward by word, and will then highlight the beginning of every word on the screen with a "target key". Pressing that target key will take you to that word. Similarly, doing "<EasyMotion Key>j" will do the same, but with every line down from your line (j=down), making jumping to any line, anywhere, as easy as "<EM>j{letter}".

I have EasyMotion bound to the "space" key, and I use a fork of EasyMotion that automatically highlight with 2 letters instead of one (the default is to higlight with one, and if anything is ambiguous, after pressing the first key you'll get another key to press. With this fork, you never have to "press a key then wait", you always press the two keys that appear).

I also have the letters to use mapped to something like: "asdfghjkl", e.g. the homerow keys in order, because if I mistype one of the keys, EasyMotion will take me pretty near.
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Yeah, if there's any such thing as a "Normal" person.

When discussing the salience of possible referents context is the major determinant, especially with things like geographical proximity to one of a possible set of similarly named cities.

If someone in Columbus, Ohio (as opposed to Georgia) is discussing travelling to London, there's a non-trivial possibility that they were talking about London, Ohio, rather than London, England.

Traveling Southwestern Ontario provides similar circumstance, given that the British decided to name the entire province after England. London (Ontario) sits at the fork of the Thames River, an hours drive from Stratford, which likewise rests on the Avon.

So sure, maybe if you live in Europe, "normal" people always use "London" to refer to the UK, but "normal" people in Toronto, probably mean the city in Ontario when they use the name.

tl;dr: you're being a cultural imperialist.
"Do any of you have any experience with this?"

Yes.

But I've been through it before. I see the value in what I do have. I see the changes in my life since I was forty. Since I was thirty. Since I was twenty. Since I was ten.

Last year I realized that I missed my chance to sport a mohawk. I won't star in a porno with cougars. I'll never be a FIFA referee. These are my missed opportunities.

Otherwise I've got forty years of creative life in front of me and no excuses.
HN has a voting system, so what appears on the front page are articles HN readers want or find interesting.

If you have a problem with a front page article, you should know that some people found it interesting and that after all, you can't agree with everybody on HN.

What you are suggesting is a matt2000'ing of HN. (matt2000 being your username.)
Good luck.

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If calling for resignation or a firing is bullying, then democracy is dead.

Next, the power she wields is magnitudes greater than an on line "lynch mob". There for the words like bullying cant apply. She is not a lonesome hacker. She is a very powerful person who can destroy lives.

My problem is that focusing on this person misses the entire point, which is that the system allows, no, encourages this sort of thing.

In short, even if she is fired and marched out at gun point, others will just do the exact same thing, over and over again.
One up. I was thinking the same name too!

Isn't there a potential challenge for vinepeek? How would you prevent pervs streaming penises and see-me-jerk-off clips? Especially, when this thing grows in volume.
One thing I worry about with something like this, is that if you hide the detection and fixing behind layers of automation, things that are actually broken (or at least buggy in my example below) might get missed.

For example say you have a simple service, however every ~2 weeks it needs to be restarted because of a memory leak. If a human is in charge of this after having to go in and restart the service a few times every 2 weeks they'll know that something isn't right here. If it's automated though, the computer won't have this intuition. What if it is based on the number of requests served, and your traffic is sporadic, so the first time it is 2 weeks, then 3 days, then a month?
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You must have hit a bad run, I was impressed of how few breakfast & baby clips showed up!
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I should have mentioned EasyMotion in the readme! Or should I.. I should right? I love it, and also recommend everyone to try. But there's just one thing about it: you need to trigger it first to see what you have to press to get to your target. By creating seek I was able to literally make it a three-keystrokes action, I don't need to wait a split second to know what I need to type as the target, I'm already looking at it before I hit even the first key.

So I find EasyMotion great for getting across lines and around the screen, but within the line I think seek is a more fundamental solution.
You're right-- I am libertarian and will vote for the candidate that's stronger on economic issues even if they're a social conservative.

Here's my reasoning:

Social issues tend toward liberalization on their own. Except in a few cases, social issues are part of the culture war, and culture changes generationally.

Economic rights are different. They need protection because once lost, they never come back. Once you have the precendent of government intervention, that helps justify the next intervention. Once you use the Commerce Clause to regulate marijuana that is grown and consumed w/o crossing state lines, it's open season on all forms of regulation.

So my calculation is that socially retarded candidates will do the least harm.
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Yeah, the format really works! I saw a few really well done stop-motion clips just now, too!
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One suggestion: below the fold, show a list of the last 5 vines, just in case I want to rewatch or bookmark them, because I envision myself just sitting back and occasionally jumping to the keyboard/mouse when something really interesting comes up and then disappears
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Ah, I can already smell the class action lawsuit for massive ID theft down the road.
Aha! "Unsolicited" was the missing piece in the Google puzzle. It's actually not common law. It's 39 USC § 3009: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/39/3009, and was passed in the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970.

I believe this was originally in response to shoe manufacturers mailing people shoes and then invoicing for them if they weren't sent back.

As for whether it applies to non-USPS shipments, I have strong doubts. The law says "mail", and my understanding is that because the USPS is a protected monopoly, non-USPS carriers are explicitly not mail services.
I thought you were supposed to learn you a Haskell for great good.
cramer's apology does imply that he didn't apologise properly the first time, and it was his lack of communication that did it.
of course that could just be damage limitation
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It shouldn't be just legal concerns. I've come to observe that working with personally close people (girlfriends/relatives) is just bad judgement, period.

There will come times of interest conflict, and it will hurt either your business or your relations. If someone works with his girlfriend (or people hook up with someone from workplace) and get a painful breakup, it tends to poison the working environment for the whole team. If there are relatives on-board, then people will be angry with a feeling of nepotism no matter if it's there or not. It just doesn't work out.

So - don't encourage your GF/BF, spouse, mom or nephew to join your company, spread out. I know a couple of married couples that first hooked up in the workplace - but it all started to be nonproblematic only after one of them quit the company.
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I'd be surprised if the same economies still apply when choosing between one employee working 90 hours a week or two working 45 though, assuming we're not talking about people with the acumen and incentives of startup founders or law-firm partners.
It takes just about ten seconds to verify that a sprinter is world-class, but it takes hundreds or thousands of hours to train that sprinter. Colleges are in the "sprinter" training business. They throw in the verification for free. (Colleges charge for their courses; the exams come included.)

Colleges are just delaying, not avoiding, their end by focusing on the verification. First, because they don't have the cost structure to compete effectively on verification. You don't need to spend $40,000 a year just to take a few tests. And, second, testing is not a stable long-term strategy for colleges because once they lose their status as the best place to learn, they will also lose their status as the best place to be tested. That is, I suspect that once Udacity becomes known as the best place to learn computer science, Udacity will begin offering certification tests that will have more prestige than colleges.
1st - Change your username.
2nd - I'm positive that If you don't change your mind, the thing you'll regret the most in the coming years will be the way you're thinking right now.

There's still a lot that can be done. Lots of people succeeded after their 30's.

Hugh Hefner started at 26: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Hefner

2 videos for you:
- 8 characteristics every sucessfull person has (based on a study) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6bbMQXQ180
- Steve Jobs on Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw
Generally speaking, how was this done? Backend scripting or javascript? Not asking for code, but in plain-talk i would love duplicate the concept for a conference site i'm building.
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I think things are still moving in the direction we expected.

Java applets and ActiveX were horrible experiences, that's why they didn't survive, not because desktop apps are fundamentally better. And DHTML is just a different name for webpages that use Javascript - that was doing pretty well last time I checked.

Google Docs and Gmail replaced traditional desktop apps for me a long time ago. Sure, not everyone has moved, and it will certainly be a long time before the enterprise sector throws out their desktop apps, but in the consumer space many people just use web based mail clients. According to year old Litmus stats [0] 31% of email was webmail (and how much of the outlook traffic is from office workers?).

Xero have done an amazing job of pushing into a space dominated by and old desktop app (Sage). People are moving, slowly but surely.

I know that desktop apps are not going to vanish soon but it's not fair to say that web apps haven't gained much traction.

Any issues you're seeing in the experience at the moment will be smoothed out. There's mind boggling amounts of resource being poured into making web apps faster (V8 etc) and the emerging frameworks for rich interfaces (Angular etc) are going to enable a whole new breed of web app.

[0] http://litmus.com/blog/email-client-market-share-stats-infog...
I just got "Quora for programming" which is already a thing, it's called "Stack Exchange" and it's a massively big deal of a company making a ton of money that saves my life every day at work.

Sooooo actually picking one of these may be smart.
Before the internet, before the PC, before even ENIAC, there were writers who made money writing what sold rather than literature. They were considered hacks.

The quintessential person banging away at a keyboard is a writer not a programmer.
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Brilliant! But here's the thing - iPhone users can't accept files with other normal bluetooth users, except other Apple devices. So I suppose this app has found a way to overcome this limitation?
Got to wonder how long it will be until a Facebook account is a form of valid ID in itself.
information that can be used for the purposes of identity theft

Agree. Scanning a drivers license over the internet seems ...