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" More of my customers presumably use Yahoo (you should see how many @yahoo.com email addresses I have in my database) "

tangential, but I use my yahoo email whenever I need to enter my email id into a web form from where I could possibly get spam. The yahoo spam filters are terrible anyway. The gmail id is reserved for friends, family, programming mailing lists, project members etc.

This way I rarely have to check my yahoo account and work in my gmail account.
I don't see how this follows -- the colours are changing with each keypress (just as an md5 digest would change if you added a letter to the message) but surely you cannot know the key pressed without brute-forcing / breaking the hash, which is computationally impractical?

He's also scraping the hash for a run of 6 hex characters, so surely there's quite a few colour collisions for different hashes, making it even harder to guess which keys have been pressed?
Apple doesn't use stock icons for their product icons, and the Xcode icon has been in use in similar forms since 2003.
Are the comment-less postings the result of a problem with job postings with comments? I don't recall anything like that. I've always found it annoying to not have comments to ask questions, or for people involved in the companies to add a detail or two. If people can't be respectful and courteous to YC companies (even if they're not enthusiastic about what they're doing), then we have bigger problems.
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I wish I got email - that is, instead of phone calls.

People still call me for non urgent items, like calling me on the weekend to remind me to do something on Monday.

Even worse, phone calls with list of feature requests and bug reports. I'd be so happy if these were all written down in an email - even better if they were entered directly into the bug tracker.
"Was there ever a "X killer" that actually killed the X?"

I would think Dell, Amazon and Wikipedia would this idea.

That being said, I would define "X killer" as an organisation that completely dominates it's field. In all of the above cases, they managed to beat their competitors in price point and range.
Even if they had comments links you couldn't flag them.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729032
Oracle's been around a while and their stability and security have been battle-tested, or at least that's the perception that makes a prospective customer trust them.

Interesting that there are other closed-source MySQL storage engines. I wonder how big a piece of the pie (among paying or willing-to-pay users) they have compared to MyISAM/InnoDB.
Sphinx is awesome. On a database where MySQL answered full-text search queries in 20s, Sphinx builds indici in 2s, and queries are instantaneous for all practical purposes.
Nice work. A great idea well executed.
It would be worth it.
I completely agree with IM; I avoid it if at all possible. There's too much of a time lag between responses so it seems slow, but because it's live it's very hard to turn my attention away. Email I can at least deal with on my own terms.
Is there an example of the busy party scenario? It is difficult to see what you mean from the video on the home page or the video on the about page.
I guess one could game this approach by spamming twitter. So it's possibly not very safe.
all the attempts to provide "richer" results have failed pretty badly though. that should be telling.

I prefer googles "raw" results - it leaves the processing to my brain rather than a computer :)
> ...having to spend time to read, process, and deal with text content sent by others.

Not doing so wouldn't be ditching email, that would be ditching communication.
What you're describing sounds like sousveillance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

Inverse surveillance is arguably a good way to combat authoritarian systems.
Ermm, bollocks. Very high quality education has been provided free to students by religous, charitable and philthropic foundations for centuries, in most cases far better than what the State (with its obsession with equality over achievement) could provide.

Not to mention that in the UK it's been shown that private and State education actually cost about the same per student... If the government just got out of the way, everyone could afford a good education for their kids.
Well, there are basically two problems:

1. There's enough variation in normal proxy usage that it's difficult to provide a "one size fits all" or even a "one size fits most" solution.

2. Even if you have it set up so that it matches what your proxies do, there's no guarantee that other proxies between yours and the remote user won't mess with stuff.

The second one is the real kicker, because it's easy to be lulled into thinking that all you have to do is worry about the proxies you set up yourself. That's not true, of course, and the information you get is still completely untrustworthy.

So Django's dropping the middleware, and going forward you'll have to supply your own gun before shooting yourself in the foot :)
I agree, it is irritating.
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I hope they won't mess with the API.... I use that for langpop.com and some other things, and have found it quite pleasant to use.
I wonder what will happen to Yahoo's webmaster tools (especially Site Explorer). Those are a good deal better than Bing's...
I think he's too obsessive about his inbox, whatever it is to make it work. If you can't deal with your email inbox then I don't see how switching to another kind of inbox is going to solve the problem. It's a self discipline issue, there is absolutely nothing wrong with email, if used well.

Prioritization would go a long way to getting the problem solved.

Stuff that's urgent I take care of when it reaches me, stuff that is to be taken care of goes on the back burner until I have a spare moment, some stuff I never get around to. That's life. It applies to just about everything from maintaining a house to managing your communications.
That's completely in-line with my point -- that 'ditching' email isn't necessarily getting rid of the time and effort involved in dealing with others' communication
If you know the digest after each keypress, the search space for a brute force attack is roughly alphabet size * password length, which is trivial.
This sounds pretty similar to Drizzle?
The idea behind this program is probably not to show you when your passwords 'match' but to show you whether your password is correct.

E.g. If you see the colors of your password everytime you log in, you will probably learn that your password is correctly typed if you see the colours purple-green-olive.

Whenever you spell your password incorrect (and thus see 'blue-pink-black' for instance) you will notice it immediately, without pressing the 'login' button and being presented with a (not so nice) "Invalid username/password" screen.
You mean lexically bound variables perhaps? There is lexical-let from 'cl, but that's not the same thing.

OTOH Guile's elisp compiler does compile lexical bindings efficiently. It's a complementary tack to the lexbind branch of Emacs proper.
Because you can see the color code at each step, it's easy to compare results very quickly, even by hand. Did I get letter 1 right? Ok, move on to letter two, try each key until the colors match the recording. Do this for each step. At most, you have to try about 64 key presses to crack each letter.

Also, because each step is only 1 character different, it's very unlikely that you will get collisions, even with a truncated md5 hash.
I don't think the point is to see the two fields' colors match. Based on the run of similar posts to HN, this appears to be an attempt to solve the "you shouldn't mask password fields" problem. That is, once you've set your password, you'll have a three color combination that is memorable. That way, the next time you go to log in, you would (hopefully) notice if you had typed your password in wrong because the colors wouldn't be the familiar set of three. (i.e. You wouldn't be attempting to edit the password field, just clear it and re-enter.)
Edit

Actually, our Justin.tv page demonstrates what processing of high-motion videos looks like (source vids are 5mins long):

http://www.highlightcam.com/justin.tv/

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The About page video is 60 minutes long, with motion for maybe 30 minutes. The highlight video is 50 seconds of the most interesting motion.

http://highlightcam.com/about/

The threshold adjusts automatically, so you'd get just under a minute for both one rabbit twitching its ears, or 30 rabbits getting a bundle of carrots.

Yeah, we should really find a good non-confidential party demo :> Maybe we'll film a party this weekend?
The rules of war have changed drastically in the course of history, in the sense that despised heresies become orthodoxy. Think about the pike, longbox, crossbox and musket - these are just a few examples that come to mind - they were despised as they allowed peasant footmen to take down aristocratic knights with impunity, and the last two, without much training. As such, they were regarded as heinous and unjust weapons that threatened the social order. Of course, pragmatism won, as it always does, and they became part of the traditional arsenal - and changed the social order. Who needs knights when they cannot win a battle ?

It could be that what we today call terrorism will become part of orthodox warfare in several generation. Military theorist already call it 4th generation warfare. Basicaly, it's just a strategy, very similar to guerilla, that allows a poor unequiped militia to keep in check what we traditionally perceive as the strongest best equipped army.
Congrats on the launch!

Feature requests:

1. You should have a more complex timeline control or at least annotate the video with the time you're currently looking at. I need to know when the highlights are happening (when did my baby cry, is my baby crying at some regular interval, etc.)

2. There should be some visual cue showing the switch from one continuous segment to the next. You could potentially incorporate this as part of the fix for 1..

(My apologies if these already exist; I didn't see them in the demo video.)
For what it's worth, they do have to get upvotes to reach the front page, just like any other post. It just happens that YC companies have enough friendly folks (100+ fellow YC company founders, for example) looking at HN to where they pretty much always get enough votes.

I agree that commenting should be possible, though. I'm not sure why it isn't. If folks can't handle a civil discussion about the job posting, or if they can't be bothered to answer questions about the job, maybe a social news site is not the right place to post the ad.
It completely doable.

Its unlikely there will be a collision in the first 6 characters of the md5 hash of 'AAAx' where x is [a-zA-Z0-9] and AAA is known. That's only 62 hopes for collision out of a space of 2176782336 (36^6 ... right?)

Think of it this way, if you capture the length of password, and the corresponding 6 hex characters, for every step of the password, that's quite a bit of information!

(a quick check confirms no first 6 character collisions in a-z)
with so many people with so many different opinions about a subject, how will twitter rank each of the tweets so that the information about a certain topic is useful.
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Thanks for this. Google returned this: http://pinvoke.com/
It is a very complete set.
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I for one don't really like it or need it. My emacs looks great with the bitmap font I'm using - terminus.

The new packages in the standard distribution are great thought.
I presume that the intended purpose of this is to give better feedback for a password challenge. I'm not sure why there is a confirm field in the demo. Perhaps to show that the color is consistent.

It helps in that it lets the user know that the password is wrong the instant they've finished typing it, which might be a nice touch if it takes a long time to verify a password. They still don't know where the mistake is though, so they have to retype the entire password.
Got it. I imagine it is rather difficult to put together a demo for this kind of thing without trying one's patience. Definitely having a video of motion vs. interesting/highlighted motion would be convincing to both tech and non-tech individuals.

Yes, if this is your first TC article have a party to celebrate that.
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Great news, and about time. I am not sure about a two year cycle though... that might be a bit too long for what I want as a user. But with such a big project, anything shorter might be difficult to accomplish, too. Anyway, it's a welcome direction: it's difficult to base things on a system that's not predictable.
you need a better demo
I do think this is the right place to post such ads (aren't the people reading HN their target audience?)

I also agree on the fact that it is rather annoying and I think there should be some kind of mechanism where you could say "I'm not interested in job offerings". Maybe a checkbox in your own profile.
I'm not a big fan of email but replacing it with a hodge-podge of trendy, proprietary services is a terrible idea. We need to consolidate communication, not fragment it more than it already is coughgooglewavecough.
If a so-called productivity expert has problems with "checking email multiple times a day, of responding over and over throughout the day, deleting spam and unsubscribing from newsletters and unwanted notices, filtering out messages and notifications, deleting those dumb forwarded jokes and chain mails" then they might want to consider a career change.

I've been using email for 20 years, and I only receive work-related mail (that I read at appropriate intervals to my workflow), the occasional personal email, and specific automated emails that are filtered to specific folders (where I can give them attention when I need to). I never receive chain mail or stupid jokes, because I don't deal with the type of idiots who send that kind of stuff. Those who did send me that sort of stuff were told in no uncertain terms that I'm not interested in it, and it stopped immediately (this doesn't mean I was nasty about it, though).

I almost choked laughing when he said he was ditching email for Twitter. Twitter is possibly the least efficient and reliable Internet-based communications medium. And I say this as someone whose profession is software to make greater sense of that medium. Was this piece meant to be satire? It just seems ridiculous to me.
I stopped reading after he said he replaced email with Twitter.
Historically, they have released almost every two years anyway. Potato and Woody are the only exceptions (1 year and 3 years). So it makes sense to me to shift it.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-release...
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Why do they need the upvotes ? There is a perfectly good and working link labelled 'jobs' right on the menu bar.
I have a 1-2 weeks response time for most things. Works great to limit the stream.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.

As far as I understand, it's a decision that PG made fairly early on. HN allows YC companies to post job openings without comments, flagging, etc...

All other non-YC jobs are quickly sent to the dead bin.
Its the top line growth (and not bottom line)
This is great, except I wish it was one year.

After about 1 year I start having a significant number of packages from testing, and it gets more and more troublesome. In particular security updates become hard to separate from the usual churn of testing. And most of the packages from testing are not even packages I want, but rather dependencies pulled in automatically.
Add an option to not show job listings on the front page.

People who are not looking for a job are just not interested
Sure, but stating that as a goal is quite different from "have mostly done so".
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And, in fact, none of those companies are dead (or close).
No flagging is fine, but what I was wondering is if PG made that decision based on data (people behaving badly) or on the supposition that people might say nasty things in the comments, or something else?
I've encountered more than a few people who take issue with the "us programmers are special flowers, we need weird working hours and no interruptions" line (as they see it). Everyone else gets their job done under normal conditions; why can't the programmers? This may just be more of that.
Suppose the compiler is done.. what wouild be the difficulties for using it on Emacs (apart from convincing rms)?
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Yeah, but its such an insignificant problem, why add the complexity of this solution.
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The obvious solution I see is O(N) in both space and time: just go through the numbers and mark the ones you see in an array. The one that is left unmarked is the missing number.

Reddit commentors propose O(nlogn) complex solutions. Modified quicksort ? Map reduce ? Oh common.
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since you dont know whats happening, perhaps "is Justin.tv spamming HackerNews" would be a better title.

I think comments were disabled because they generally diverged straight into discussion on the nature of the companies in question.

and I think its completely reasonable for yc companies to use their own "forum" to advertise jobs directly to a community that probably has more well suited applicants than any other around. In fact I think its more than reasonable, imo its a healthy and positive thing.
There is a horrifically easy way ofc.

Sum the array then subtract from 5050 (the sum of 1 - 100). There is your missing number.

EDIT: I didnt read the reddit thread before posting this... why would you say that is the wrong approach? (or, bleh. your being ironic.. sorry ;) too early in the morning).
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In Emacs 22 about the largest file I can edit is 27MB. From the lack of hype I take it Emacs 23 won't improve on that. This is on 32-bit WinXP, sadly.

It's a heck of a lot easier to pore thru a huge trace file with an intelligent editor. Instead, I get to use Notepad.
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See http://xkcd.com/378/ .

(Which actually says C-x M-c M-butterfly, but that doesn't make much sense.)
Maybe it is too early in your startup for this but I saw an MIT Media Lab effort that could highlight the person or car that took an unusual route. Being able to pick out novel action (rather than any action) would be a huge value add to the existing solutions.

Demo: put a camera on a donation plate and pick out the non-stereotypical motion of someone removing rather than adding to it.
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1. He probably meant complete freedom of what to do. You know as well as every other founder out there that 95% of what you do in business or consumer facing software ain't sexy.

2. Some people choose to sacrifice everything. Most startups I have dealt with do this, and many dislike their decisions, but feel it's the only way forward.

3. That's like saying every person could beat usain bolt, they just give up too easily. Not everyone has an unlimited supply of patience or funding to try unlimited ideas, just like athlete's don't have an infinite amount of time.
If it were so easy there would be a lot more self made billionaires.

4. Smart people can easily get jobs doing exactly what they want. I'd rather do what I used to (data mining, visualisation, stats) than writing tests, user interface bug fixes, build automation, etc any day.

6. You can't just claim he is wrong and then cite personal preference. A large proportion of people aren't suited to this lifestyle. I happen to love it, but many hate it.
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I know that kind of person. I think every programmer does.

I don't know at which point one's value as an employee started being measured by one's tolerance for a distracting workplace. I always thought that the idea was to create conditions that allow for people to get as much done as possible.

Though it might not be possible to give people the schedules and conditions that they need all time, it is possible to improve matters a lot in most workplaces.
Yeah, how's that working out for them?
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I thought you could type a URL executing a "flag" action, but pg uses continuations for these. So continuations on the web have some positive security implications.
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