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Emacs.

I consider Aquamacs's stated goal to be a worthy goal, but Aquamacs does not actually change Emacs's behavior to be more like an ordinary GUI app in situations I care about.

For example, in Emacs, if you use the pointing device to select an extent of text then hit the right (left) arrow key, the selection is increased in size by one character to the right (left). In contrast, the vast majority of GUI apps on Windows, OS X and Linux inactivate the selection leaving the insertion point at the right (left) edge of where the selection was (and you can get the behavior that Emacs uses by modifying the right-arrow key press with the shift key). Aquamacs chose the Emacs way of behaving here.

In summary, most of the choices Aquamacs made for when to do things the Emacs way and when to do them the standard GUI way differ from the choice I would have made.

P.S. In the situation examined above, the behavior of Acme (tested on plan9port on OS X) also differs from standard GUI behavior, but in a way different from how Emacs differs: Acme inactivates the selection, but then moves the insertion point one character to the right of the right edge of where the insertion point was, which makes some sort of internal logical sense (if the selection is considered to be a sort of insertion point that has temporarily stretched to be n characters wide) but is a poor design decision for Acme users that have to switch back and forth between Acme and other GUI apps.
This is exactly where my thoughts went when seeing the name, as well as the title on this submission.
> What I really hope it will achieve is abolishment of roaming in any particular form

I'd also like cross-EU number portability, I moved country a few years ago and had to change my mobile phone number, that was annoying.
What's that you say? Vice is using insubstantial reports from one side to create a sensationalist narrative? Why I never!
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Sorry, didn't mean it wasn't going to have porn, just meant no one seemed to care about HD porn on discs.
I hope the Chinese didn't find evidence for weapons of mass destruction in the US. Otherwise ...
Non-recurring engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-recurring_engineering

Basically, the one-time cost, time, and effort to develop something. Putting in funds so a product/service can exist in the first place.
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Yup. 30MB for £15 a month! Wow, thanks Orange. >:(
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Since Heroku runs on EC2, as long as OP kept his servers in the same availability zone as the DB, latency shouldn't be any worse than running it himself. But yes, in general I'd be wary of a database far away from my app servers.
Thoughts on Yahoo's acquisitions under Marissa Mayer
'Supercapacitor' could fully charge your phone in less than 30 seconds
machine learning techniques, which tend to be assumption-free

ML should be a rigorous exercise in Bayesian and classical/frequentist stats, computational methods, dataset integrity, visualization etc, if you've been thru the texts by Murphy or Bishop. It often happens that people a couple years out of their last stats class only retain that high R-squared, p-, t- and f-values are what they're looking for, and heteroskedasticity and sphericity are just big words.

My evidence that ML is a rigorous exercise: the free texts listed (Barber, Mackay and Smola's are excellent, ESL not as accessible)

http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/good-freely-availab...
Presumably in that scenario you would have a contract specifying these things. So, in that instant you've either got what you signed up for, to have a breach of contract on your hands.

Even more so with selling businesses to businesses. I am assuming they would at least consult a lawyer. If not have the whole deal directed by a team of lawyers.
obviously worth a 'congrats' for a 7 year old company which build a pretty great community...

Does an "all cash" deal imply something about Yahoo stock valued as bearish?
I dunno, good question. Maybe something like this: there's some cases where I'll prefer cookies to session data, esp if it's non-volatile data that I can take or leave, like convenience values for the user on the js side, "last selected item" or the like.

I don't necessarily want that data in my session, or as a user attribute that I have to migrate the DB for. If it's a pkid or something that isn't necessarily sensitive, but I also don't want it to be too easy to get at, I might use a signed cookie.

Now, I've never actually done this... ;p
If you are your business, the likelihood that your business will be lost in a conglomerate is relevant. On the other hand, what happens to you as a person after Yahoo acquires your business is an entirely different matter.

Those mentioned in the article have had a life after Yahoo acquisition. A little Googling provides anecdotal evidence that getting purchased had a significant long term impact. Likewise, passing through a Yahoo buyout helped create the arc of Paul Graham's career.
This kills the deal.
That's actually, honestly, a bad way to do it. It's fine to pre-load an instance with source and application/package dependencies. At this point though, you really should be backing those up with it being deployed by Puppet/Chef.

Essentially you pre-run a puppet manifest and have it do all the first-run processing and then store THAT as the AMI/instance. This way you have an instance that only needs a few seconds to get itself ready while also integrating configuration management (which really you should be doing these days). Just some suggestions from a sysadmin.
Its a skinner box reward training system rather than anything else. Like a MMORPG grind game but with real food. I'm talking about the timestamp delta between "I'm hungry (or bored, or its a habit, or whatever)" and "I'm eating".

Its not that it takes 3 hours of work to make bread, its that it takes 3 hours from "I'm hungry and I'm going to do something about it" to the reward of gulping down fresh bread. So its harder to get fat off homemade bread, than, say, a can of corn syrup soda. 20 minutes for bolognese sauce (only outta a can I'm thinking, unless you're an iron chef or something) vs 3 minutes for a chocolate bar and a can of coke from the vending machine.

I'm not arguing its right. I have a totally different diet and I mostly raid the fruit bowl and eat an apple or banana or some nuts or fresh grapes or berries or generally speaking something vaguely paleo diet ish as much as reasonably possible. But people consider my diet to be really weird and un or outright anti american so I don't count. When someone opens a drive thru fruit stand (now there's a startup idea?), then we'll see how much weight I gain.

This is an important part about the debate. Obesity is not about the food. Some slightly more intelligent dietary changes and we'd be complaining about Americans being fat because they go thru the drive-thru wheatgrass juicer fast food joint every day for a snack and the drive-thru fruit stand for lunch every day and eat a whole package of dehydrated bananas outta the vending machine and a whole pint of blueberries all at once while watching TV on the couch or whatever. Americans would in general be a whole lot healthier, but still just as fat, and we'd still be listening to psuedo-dietary complaints about rich corporations screwing us over, because its really all about the latter economic part of the story rather than the dietary former part. Roll the presses with "They are intentionally addicting us to dehydrated blueberries!!!"
I actually think it does a good job at giving a sense of scale for a petabyte in terms of video hours. "13 years of HD video" does a lot more for me than "1 million gigabytes," which was basically my frame of reference before. However that's only if you can actually interpret what it's trying to say.
As Antirez says, VMware were formerly a sponsor of Redis, and he now works for Pivotal (as do I), who are the current sponsor of the project. Either way, I'm highly skeptical that anyone at either company did such a thing.
Probably want to avoid that as well - https://sifterapp.com - #1 Google result for sifter...
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Believe it or not, not everything is a corporate conspiracy. Iceberg lettuce is pretty useless, but there are hundreds of thousands of leafy green plants that are edible by humans. Romaine is a better simple alternative, but again there a vast amount of edible leaves. And you don't need to put any toppings on at all. Eat it dry.

>The most revolutionary thing you can do is just eat an apple or gnaw on a carrot or bake a potato.

Not if your goal is to lose weight. Those three plants are extremely high energy (carbs). If you want to do something "revolutionary", grow your own. Raise your own chickens. Pasture feed them. Eat their eggs. Butcher them. Feed them your vegetable scraps. Plant some apple trees. Eat a dandelion. Your brain is trained to rebel against these companies. All they have to do is encourage you to eat right and soon you'll be eating unhealthy just to "piss them off".
I'm going to assume a vi vote is a vim vote. -1 for vi if that is not the case.
Your speedup is kind of a logarithmic curve which maps the total time spent optimizing to the speedup you get. So the first hour will be very, very efficient, but after a day of optimizing, things start to get gnarly.
Reddit has been pretty un-fucked-around-with by Conde Nast's parent company since its acquisition. (It's been split off from CN as a separate business entity, but even during CN's stewardship, the messing around was very minimal).

It's debatable exactly how much money Reddit makes, and whether it could be considered "in the black." But it's a success story in as much as the site's userbase and traffic have grown, and the core service has not been tampered with.
I can't wait to try this out on my cats. It really is something I need.
Where is the pragmatism to build (in a rather closed manner) software like unity, upstart or mir, in an open source ecosystem that has viable alternatives? I am confident that Linux will be a better system if efforts are combined and focused and not split up. And thus, i think that Linux would be in a better state today if Canonical would have chosen Gnome Shell, systemd and Wayland (for example). Thus, my voice/vote goes to systems where i see the future.

Besides i wasn't using Unity anyway and i have learnt and used Debian far before Ubuntu, so it's not like i had trouble switching.
I'm actually surprised the president of the company showed up, instead of a HR middle manager. But yes, I wonder how much Dave put into negotiating the contract...if he asked for concrete terms and was negotiated down, or if he negotiated in good faith without pushing hard enough?
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Essentially roaming disappears for everybody within the EU. Either because (i) if you are a large telco and your network has merged with other ones; (ii) if you are a small MVNO your network agreement subrogates to the new merged network.

Still, there is some lobby going on in the EU which wants to detach operators from the network, and make the network independent from everybody. NetCo + OpCo != TelCo.

I really hope this last scenario happens. But it's a bit of a utopia.
Gambling is a hard business.
You mean the internet doesn't just magically provide me with everything I ask for? ;)

I appreciate the work you've done here. It's also a little sad that this level of examination is so rare.
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I wonder how common this is amongst retail investors: buying things they have no business buying. Whether it's an IPO or an options contract, there's a great deal of complexity behind many financial instruments, and just because your brokerage gives you the opportunity to pull the lever it doesn't mean you're qualified to do so.

On the other hand, it's hard to work up sympathy for the woman in the story. Yes, she wasn't privy to behind-the-scenes details. But it sounds like she put less research into her $200K "investment" decision than she did with the last car she bought. The Atlantic may have left out the details of her late-night scouring of web pages for information, but as a proxy for retail investors in general it's probably accurate.

Here's the only thing a retail investor needs to know about IPOs: FB isn't the exception, it's the rule. Buy an IPO on opening day and the vast majority of the time you're going to lose money. Why? (And I wish I could bold and underline this.) Because the IPO isn't to make you money. Stay the hell away from them unless you know what you're doing. And you probably don't.

EDIT: maybe I'm mis-remembering, but didn't the problem of mobile users and ad revenue come out before the IPO day?
VIP, but in this case, the "I" doesn't stand for "important."
very interesting , thanks !
My app is pretty highly trafficked, there isn't a 6 hour window of inactivity anywhere from my logs. What about it running out of RAM?
IIRC some asteroids are even less delta-v away than the moon is. It'd be convenient to have one in Earth orbit, but not necessary.
There is a typo on the Braintree company information page. Right at the beginning.
Is your ec2 instance in the exact same zone/region as your rds instance? An ec2 instance in us-east-1a will have extra latency dealing with an instance in any other zone, even us-east-1c.
What do you suggest, he writes a new title it will get flagged because it does not have the original title (or it gets reverted).

Suggest you undo your flag or write a better article with a better title.
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Not to mention that a large factor in crime is an (apparent) lack of legitimate avenues to find work. Just the fact that one has set foot in a prison eliminates the vast majority of potential career paths. If our goal is to reduce crime rates, jailing anyone and everyone is the exact opposite of what we need to do.
In fairness to your point, the original article and my post - My title was edited b/c of the HN 80 character rule and the original title includes the word "potential".

Full Title: Teenager invents revolutionary device which has the potential to charge a cell phone within just 20 SECONDS
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I really want to use Salt for something one of these days given I work with Python quite a bit... but basically at this point my investment with Puppet is relatively significant, so I'm not sure if the pain of switching would be worth it. I'm sure eventually I'll find a use for it though! I like what I've seen before.
Yeah my trouble was that they referenced "how much is a petabyte" and "videos nonstop for 13 years" but failed to say "one petabyte of videos related to how big one petabyte is would take 13 years to watch".

I think that explanation makes more sense.
No problem, you're welcome.

I see you made a few changes! :) I think at $9 per e-mail that's pretty sweet. I can see myself becoming a customer of yours soon!

I've got a few other suggestions but the main ones were -

1)In your bullets you've got a few run on lines with words orphaned which interrupts the flow reading the great features.

2)Your sign up buttons should be (without a doubt) GREEN!

3)The "No credit card required!" can be just text underneath so your button can have bigger text & stand out.

Hope that helps :)
You can definitely get a title into a contract, that's easy. Getting something in that makes the other party take the title seriously is harder. How do you require someone to respect your opinion?

You could try something like demanding X number of reporting employees or Y execs who agree to attend your meetings, I guess. But the other party is going to reflexively resist getting down to this level of detail in the contract, even if they're completely sincere about the promises they've made to you, just because no business owner likes to have their hands tied operationally in such a way. Not to mention that even those types of clauses can be worked around -- you get a guarantee that the COO will attend a weekly meeting, and then he makes a big show each time of answering email on his smartphone rather than paying attention to what you're saying. Might seem unfair to you as the acquired party, but everyone else in the company will be rooting for him against the "outsider."
In my opinion "dumping a child in front of a screen" should really be the last option; only used with a good excuse and balanced by extensive investment of time. (It's of course easy for me to talk like that, but I see one of the greatest responsibilities of live in raising your children properly. Which for me includes spending a whole lot of time with them.)
In case people read the comments instead of the link, that quote is not directly related to any interaction with Marissa Meyer or Yahoo!.
Because the stock market is not a store. The price of a share of stock does not include the cost of running the market and its infrastructure.

If you want to invest without fees, find a no-fee mutual fund with low minimum investments. At the scale where $7-10 fees are onerous, I find it highly unlikely you have the money or sophistication to be investing in individual volatile securities.
Considering the US and China are both on the security council, nothing with teeth will ever come out of the UN. And if it did, no one would care because of how difficult it is to prove attribution.
AirDroid is a _very_ nice piece of software.
When exactly do you bake a new AMI? On every Soundslice deploy?
Good. Now I can finally decode what the fuss about the shoebox is all about.
spell correction is somewhat of the most popular and easy to understand problems where machine learning can help. For example: several user enter a misspelled word and then correct them in the next step. If this happens often enough you might infer that the second word is most probably the correct version, especially if the second word has a small levenshtein -distance to the first.
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Mere 'formulas' without theory are dangerous.
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Odd, just minutes ago that was the title (and was the only reason I clicked on it). I refresh and now it's shortened. I don't know about "link bait", though, as the title is now less appealing to me personally.
If there wasn’t any roaming, you could simply keep your old contract?
I'd certainly be down. I love talking about this entire arena, specifically where it falls on its face.
What would you build if you could hack the human body with a REST API?
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You can also look into aws beanstalk. It does all the autoscaling/deployment stuff in a gui/easier api
Thanks for the reference, I hadn't seen that. I really believe, though, that the solution to interoperability is to use protocol buffer schemas directly; not to introduce yet another schema language.
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The goal of a business is to make money. However, individuals have their own goals. Sometimes a cofounder's goal is simply to create value by making a product or service that people enjoy.

The home was bought, but the occupants still want to see the home flourish.
I just thought of this one.

Ebay << Paypal.

I think this is an interesting one, and somehow extra satisfying, because its both a vertical integration and a complementary product.
Anyone wanna speculate on what Yahoo's going to do with Tumblr?
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Yeah, it would be a bit much to call what I have so far a startup too, but I'm hoping to do a lot of work on it over the summer. Hit me up on IM or email at anon754268@gmail.com.
Exterminators need roaches, too. Just because someone stands to profit doesn't mean there isn't a problem.
I see where you're coming from, but you're just wrong in this instance. If shows like "Good Luck Charlie" are sophisticated morality plays that are designed to make people more empathetic, ethical, and pro-social, I'll eat my Mickey Mouse ears.

Sometimes dreck is just dreck.
Welcome to the web, where you get an easy hosting service like Heroku without paying a dime and then complain about how you need to put some effort to hack the system so you can continue to pay nothing.
Really? I would think at the table you could say, 1. here is my concern, 2. here are examples of it happening to people in the past, 3. here is one idea I have have for addressing my concern, please share your thoughts...

If a reasonable concern kills a deal just by discussing it, the deal must be very fragile. Even if terms are not added to the deal, I think bringing up the issue could be beneficial.
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How has the reddit acquisition worked out for Conde Nast?
Actually, SVG can use "classes" just like CSS, so it could be easily recolored in SVG too.
Articles like these are inspiring to me.

We see acquisition articles and startup success stories on this site that frequently range in the millions, and they're sort of like the rock stars of the bunch, where your chances of success have to do with a creative idea, hard work, and not a small amount of luck.

But cases like this, where Jon's managed to make (at least ramen) profitability off of a product he's made and shipped to people who enjoy it -- small scale stories like this -- are great.

Reading things like this makes me think, if you have some idea and you want it to come to fruition, then DO IT.
Definitely. The large company I work for talks and talks about innovation, but the truth is very little actually happens. The big flexibility that comes with a new company is what creates disruptive technologies.

It's worth remembering that large companies don't always ruin their purchases. There will inevitably be a painful culture merging process after an acquisition (normally at the expense of the purchased company), but sometimes that process doesn't kill the purchased company. The resources and experience that a large company have can often take an almost-product the extra lengths required to be marketed.
As no one clearly gave you a concrete response. YES I would love to see a blog post. What's your url?
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> ... I should move to silicone valley. Things seem much easier out there.

The repeated references in this thread to "silicone valley" and the context which suggest that that reference might not really be what is intended lead me to point out that "Silicon Valley" is a region in northern California so-called for the predominance of computing-related tech firms (from the role of silicon in computer chips) and "Silicone Valley" is (as well as a not-infrequent misspelling of "Silicon Valley") a common joking name for southern California's San Fernando Valley that is a play on northern California's "Silicon Valley" and on the SFV's concentration of firms in the adult entertainment industry.
http://community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/coops/index.htm...

According to this site there were 724 purchasing co-ops in the US in 2009. Those would be stores like REI or food co-ops where the consumer is part-owner.

The total number of cooperatives, including worker-owned business like Land o Lakes and ACE Hardware, credit unions, and utility co-op (25% of US power generation is publicly owned) is 29,000 with revenues around $625 billion.
Yes, but there may also be some sort of local operator with more interesting prices or offers.
What is your quarrel with Einstein? You're not adding much to the conversation in this way.
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My point is simply that we should treat Feynman's algorithm as a magic bullet. You have to recognize that it fails a lot more than it succeeds.
But it's not solitary confinement in that way. You are allowed to see your lawyer, you interact with staff and you are allowed to go outside every now and then.
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I think non-recurring expense?
It's not unlikely they got a bunch of (unjust) flags.