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Yeah, quick everyone, ACT SERIOUS.
> In fact, I've never seen an Emacs user who hasn't customized his keybindings.

Here's one. I only make 2 minor additions (no customizations) to the default key bindings. By now, the defaults are pretty much hardwired into my hands.
In my experience, you get sales people from your network. If you're starting a company you should have a network. If you don't, start building one.
It's not very well presented in the demo (there's no need for the Confirm inputbox), but the point is not for password creation, but for login. From the author's github page (http://github.com/mattt/Chroma-Hash/tree/master):
Chroma-Hash displays a series of colored bars at the end of field inputs so you can instantly see if your password is right... Your password will display the same sequence each time, so you can learn to expect "blue, red, pink", for instance; if you instead see "green, purple, yellow", you'll know you typed it wrong.

So the chromatically-impaired will not lose anything over current functionality, they just won't get the benefit.
I once went to a sales presentation by a lawyer selling his product, a CD full of legal forms he had designed. Then entire presentation was just 4 stories, people who should have, but didn't, use his forms. All 4 lost fortunes by forgetting to include important clauses in the contracts.

This sounds like another "Don't let this happen to you" case study. $6 million for dev, but they saved $2,500 on legal fees and almost lost their business. Someone should be whipped.
Statements like that set my alarm bells ringing.
another one for the list: minority shareholder lawsuits, that can be used two ways, either to force a sale or to block one.
When someone says "it can't happen" in a scientific context, I don't take it to mean "I believe it is impossible to happen." I take it to mean "according to our current understanding, it's not possible."

The implication being that while it's possible, if it were true it would require fundamental changes in our understanding. This is so unlikely to be incalculable.
Like when your phone is off or not in a cell service area.
"M-x butterfly (see [[%20http://xkcd.com/378/][ http://xkcd.com/378/]])

I'm still waiting for M-x kill-it-with-fire.
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This could be due to a lot of trash submissions. I just checked and our web analytics put the number closer to 10%.
I guess my point is that MS hasn't been able to make much of a dent in Google's hold on search, working on it pretty hard for the last few years.
Wow, that changes everything. So now I have a security-compromising solution to the problem I currently solve by using a keychain or knowing how to type, and all I have to do is remember my 3 magic colors and figure out if that shade of blue is the right one.
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I'm with edw519, I think email MadLibs would be a blast.
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We can agree to disagree about the nature of the intervention being suggested.

As to testability, you have to remember that I believe we're still in the abduction stage of climate science -- finding the patterns from the data. We haven't even reached the hypothesis stage. So the 1500-year and solar-input theories are all about pattern-spotting. If a pattern is spotted, then I'm sure we can begin talking about hypotheses.

That's just where the science is, at least for me. That doesn't mean that it's "full" or "mature" science. I guess I'd call it honest science.

Yes, it does seem as if the political language has shifted away from "warming" to "change". Perhaps because warming is actually something you could conceivably measure? Whereas "change" is what, exactly? One of the signs that something is not science is when it gets stretched to meet incoming data that would normally disprove it.

One does not have to deny anything. Indeed, the onus is on the scientist to prove a connection, not the skeptic. You're getting it backwards. Perhaps we just don't understand how the climate works, and won't for another 500 years. Ignorance is the default position. It's up to science to move us from that. "deniers" have nothing to do with anything.

If the problem seems to go away - the Arctic starts freezing again -- why is the arctic thawing a "problem". Because sea levels will rise? And because some people can't move out of the way quickly enough? You see, we go immediately from observation to guesswork to moral outrage to political action. Something wrong with that. From a political standpoint, I find it odd that we have some idea of what a "problem" is. When I ask about this, I've yet to get an answer that makes any sense to me. It all sounds so much like "Man changes environment. Man is bad. Therefore, change is bad" If a thousand sheep run across a mountaintop and ruin the tundra it's natural, but take a thousand people with cameras doing the same thing and it's a travesty.

These are aesthetic considerations, not scientific ones. I agree with most people's view of beauty in these areas -- who wants a ruined mountaintop or dirty air? But the devil is in the details here.

Science is self-correcting. I'm a hug fan of way science works. It's the intellectual light we have in the darkness. In practice, however, it's done in a very political atmosphere. People hang on to old ideas for a long time after they've been disproven. Not all new ideas are subjected to the same skepticism. Scientists are very cliquish. Science propagandizes itself to the masses -- scientists are always pure and noble. Progress always happens in a straight line.

We can also agree to disagree about science and politics. When I see government employees who are scientists lobby for political causes that directly support their research -- and then call dissenters "deniers" "uneducated" "rubes" "shills" -- we've entered a bad feedback loop.
Does this mean they're no longer going to redirect all Twitter Search links for users that aren't logged in? I hate not being able to follow links to Twitter.
Also, and this is probably highly subjective, but do not make your blog light foreground on dark background. It burns my eyes everytime I switch focus from that to any other application or website I'm using.
The key point of the story is not "company had bad contract". It's "company stopped paying invoices for work that had been done, annoying its workers and causing them to file a lawsuit".

If you want your product to go to market smoothly, pay the invoices of the people who build it for you.
Probably a good deal for both companies. Microsoft wasn't going to organically grow their search platform fast enough without a marketshare buy. Yahoo can focus on the other services they own and maybe figure out how to make them more a more cohesive offering. There was way too much redundancy between the two companies for a straight buyout to ever make sense. I don't think Google will have much to worry about either way. People are set in their ways. A competitor that as "just as good" isn't enough. Google's biggest competitive burden is simply not screwing up.
Why not simply use http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs and not duplicate the same in the hackernews threads?
One job announcement means I agree with you. Three on the front page at once is awful. No way to consolidate the three into a single post?
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Do you use Gmail's chat, perchance? It's a nice way to quickly talk to those folks who use Gmail too.

How do you enforce your breaks? I'm still trying to beat some self-discipline into me.
Their logic is two substandard search technologies and systems combined will beat google?

If the core essence of both technologies were magically complementary, then perhaps.

But trying to beat a company, google, known for its simplicity by combining two known for their complexity seems a somewhat poor strategy.
People said similar things about Emacs (a great OS needing a decent text editor).
Such statements mostly underestimate the tools in question unless this is just an intended reference to the Emacs quote.
I use email the same way I use IM and Facebook. I've heard all three described as time-wasters. I find that ridiculous. Each is a medium designed for a specific thing; each can be abused; each can be a boon if it's used right.

Only email the people that you really have to email with, keep everybody else in a junk folder. Block all but the five or six IM names you'd care to have a live conversation with. You'll find it impossible to waste your time.
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You should keep reading... I don't think you've grokked the subject yet. Read something that has actual math in it.
Google Pulls Apple from Search Results
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Really great points about javascript everyone!

I guess I figured it was better to show how to do it with jQuery because many people are interested in jQuery, and this code snippet gives them an extra idea how jQuery works.

Thanks so much for your feedback!
Rome wasn't built in a day. The big difference this time around is that -people like Bing-. You'll have to give Microsoft more than two months to put a dent in Google, but I'm positive they will.
Statistics inflation? Please. Microsoft is simply linking popular searches into their own search engine from one of their primary properties. I see no issues here.

Is Google Trends 'search inflation' too? Or what about the popular topics links on the home page of Twitter.com?
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Huh, I actually like the YC job postings. It's not like they're taking up significant positions on the page. You're talking about a few job listings across 30 items on the front page.
I would remove the leaderboard, I wouldn't let people see points on comments, I'd start to fade out comments after -1 points rather than 0. Essentially, I'd remove everything that encourages a bullshit competition in place of productivity.

I'd also consider letting users with high karma define a block list for sites. TechCrunch I'm often fine with, but I'm astonished people still submit stories from Copyblogger here.
That space used to be used for links to articles, not for links to search results on msn search. That was just a sample, check how many links on the msn homepage pretend to be some kind of article but actually link to bing search results.
This is similar to the attack on Lotus Notes' hieroglyphics:

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4324/discuss
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MS has barely been working on defeating Google in the last few years. I think the last attempt was Live.com, when did that launch?

I believe the main issue that prevented MS/Yahoo! from defeating Google early on was their reliance on the 'portal' aspects of their sites. Not wanting to lose the revenue from all these complimentary network sites they cluttered their home pages, and focus which kept Google in the position as the lean-mean/no-nonsense search option.

Live.com was an attempt to rectify that, but it was too late to matter.
It always amazes me how _we_ control our body for the most part, and yet so much of it remains a mystery.
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you can always use firefox javascript code modules to completely sandbox your javascript code, that way your jquery version won't conflict with whatever happens to be on the page. Highly useful especially if you're modifying String.prototype or Array.prototype.
Well, it's presumably something he's figured out he can do. Not having time to dig into his previous posting patterns, it could be a bit of a jump, but ultimately if he wants the 10,000 subscribers he'll need to be offering up more than one post a day - so it's a good start.

I love to see people who boldly declare their goals, and then visibly start working on them; much better than looking back and saying "I did it" when nobody knew you were trying to do it in the first place! But then I'm a productivity voyeur, so..
You might be surprised to know that most everything we do is caused by some cognitive hack or another. It's better to just accept it. Or you could try overcomingbias and lesswrong.
I make no distinction between Gmail's chat and any other chat. I don't use them. For 99% of my communication, email is fine. For anything more urgent, I prefer the phone.

I don't "enforce breaks". My body lets me know when it's time. My critical path is usually eyestrain, but it could be anything.

"I'm still trying to beat some self-discipline into me."

Don't. You can't win that battle. Even if you do, it will only be temporary.

I look at it completely differently. I absolutely love what I'm doing so much that I have to pull myself away for breaks.

Do you love what you're working on? If so, discipline will never be a problem. If not, then why not? Solve that problem and discipline will never be a problem. Either way, discipline is never a problem. Working on the right thing and devouring it is the solution.

You don't worry about enforcing discipline when you're eating a great meal, partying, or having great sex, do you? Find a way to make your work like that and you'll never worry about it again.
Old news. Like, January old: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/palm-pres-wireless-charge...

I'm not seeing what Palm's page adds to the conversation.
> Their logic is two substandard search technologies and systems combined will beat google?

IIRC, Fake Steve Jobs described it as taking the number two and number three runners in a race and having them try to beat number one by running three-legged.

It was one of those similes that had the tears of laughter coursing down my cheeks as I nodded in complete agreement with the expected result.
University Incubators Are Becoming Micro Silicon Valleys
Founders often mistakenly assume that they will own the IP as long as they pay a consulting company for its work. However, while payment is generally enough to secure IP rights from employees, more is needed when dealing with contractors.

When it comes to rights in copyrighted work product, a consultant will own the IP unless a contract explicitly treats it as a work for hire or unless the rights are expressly assigned by the contract.

As appears from this piece, these rules are so fundamental that even a startup that pays a large amount of money can still be found not to own the IP resulting from that development work. Even with the litigation, the only relief obtained by the company was a right to modify the work licensed to it, not owned by it. A disastrous outcome by any measure.

For a general discussion and some illustrations of how these rules work, see my write-up at http://grellas.com/faq_business_startup_015a.html.
To what extent will a government go to protect your investment/property?

My guess is that it is better for a business to be under a common-law jurisdiction. The legal system in most of the world is of a type called civil law, as contrasted to common law, but common law tends to protect property better because property is more central to its conceptual framework. Nick Szabo argues convincingly for the superiority of common law over civil law on his blog, http://unenumerated.blogspot.com.

One of Dubai's economic zones uses common law. (They hired a retired English judge to run the legal system in the zone.) added. Bermuda and the Cayman Islands use common law, too.
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Dinosaurs mating.
for small companies, especially, the complexity matters as much as the rate. I know I've had months where I spent more money calculating the tax than I ended up paying in tax.
When I follow my own work schedule, I am very erratic. I've got days of nonproductivity followed by spurts of genius. I'd like to get to be able to work even when I'm not completely in the zone.
This post makes a good companion to a post of a couple of days ago: "Why Do We Keep Building Tightly Coupled Software" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=705863).

A common theme in the comments to that story was that there are costs associated with loose coupling. Not making loose coupling a first priority means that one will incur some technical debt; but given that one gets something that will work sooner, this is often a good call.

Does anyone know of any software teams that explicitly talk about their technical debts and that have plans for "downpayments"?
I realize what he did was bad but how is it any different than the United States's current social security system? We pay old members of the scheme with the dues of the new members who are forced by law to pay the old members all the while being promised that their payments will be paid by the new members when they're born and eventually earn an income themselves. It would be nice if the law was confined to protecting property rights and not infringing on them as a matter of course.
More information rich. The Engadget article didn't really go into any detail at all.
I guess this is a good deal. Bing is at least as good as Yahoo search, if not better. If MS had bought yahoo last year, they may not have released bing at all. Now they can merge the strengths of both bing and yahoo search, and hopefully come up with a strong contender to G. Overall this is good for users.

EDIT: it is also better than last year's failed deal because Yahoo can still stay alive, instead of being swallowed by MS completely.
Now we just need a way to map the connections of an existing brain.
Pay the invoices, using what? The company stopped paying because it was running out of money -- and the developer's [EDIT: resignation and subsequent] lawsuit threw a wrench into the company's efforts A) to launch, and B) to raise more money, either of which would have measurably improved the odds of the developer's eventually getting paid.

[EDIT: Keep in mind that the developer quit; the startup had to hire someone else to take over in order to get its product launched. What was the company supposed to do, fold its tent because one unpaid consultant -- who had also been given company stock, BTW -- decided to throw his legal weight around? I doubt many founders would agree.]

I sympathize with the developer, but in this case he shot himself in the foot just as surely as the company did.
It's certainly a shiny way of dealing with hiding password from over-the-shoulder leaks while still allowing for verification; I agree with chaosmachine, it is very worth only showing the final result, and not the intermediary steps, even though that wouldn't be as pretty.

I'd love it if my keyring showed me the color combo for my password at each site --- then if my computer is stolen my passwords don't go with it; but when I get to a site I haven't logged in to for a few months, I don't have to try ten different passwords to remember which one I used.
Yes, he submits them to HN, over and over again.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=edragonu
Of course, now people are complaining about the officer being a jerk. Flying off the handle against the officer impedes his ability to do his job because he would have to wonder if the situation is escalating. Since he, initially, was by himself, it becomes a matter of self-protection and that is why some officers may immediately handcuff a person that concerns them, even if the officer is not sure what is going on.

By all accounts, the officer was being respectful while Gates was not, yet this article complains about the officer and the police.

Of course, if Gates was white, this would never be brought up even if the exact same thing happened in the exact same way.
Ask HN: What keeps you away from starting startups? 
Just finished reading "Ramen Profitable" of Paul Graham (http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html). Asking from you guys,
What keeps you away from starting startups?
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Sorry, but this article is nonsense. Anti trust violations are wrong, even if no harm should come of them. To look 10 years into the past and say the anti trust case against microsoft was misguided is using hindsight to prove a point.

Who knows what the world would have looked like if the DOJ had not pressed ahead. We know much better how far we can trust Microsoft today because of that case in the past.
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At some point it will be 10 years away. I don't think we are there yet, but it's probably closer than you think.
Me too.

I prefer email because it is asynchronous. I can respond at my leisure. I use IM a bit more, but almost exclusively for work purposes (we have a distributed development team) and to talk to my wife during the work day--no other personal correspondence. I found that even in GMail's Chat, that if I set my priority to "Busy" or whatever, people still bugged me (which of course, kinda makes sense--if I didn't want to be bothered, I shouldn't be logged in).

Perhaps I'm lucky--between my work account, and two personal accounts, I don't get an unreasonable amount of email per day. Perhaps 10-15 personal messages, some list traffic (which I can easily ignore), and perhaps 5-10 work messages.

I've not Twittered, either.
If only there were a service online that allowed me to search for tutorials and documents by keyword... it'd save me so much time!
Or a new programming language that we haven't even heard of. Emacs (and Vi(m)) will typically have a programming editing mode long before v 1.0 of the lang comes out (c.f. clojure-mode)
Initially counter intuitive, but an economically sensible solution.
That doesn't even negate my point. The point is we're declaring a class of people criminals because we don't like them, rather than because they've harmed anyone. This creates a black market for goods which then attracts even more crime and creates more serious criminals.

If you want to see less criminals, start requiring that crimes have actual victims. Consenting adults trading goods and services, whether they be drugs, sex, or anything else, should not simply be declared criminals.

How Singapore and China deals with the issue isn't even slightly relevant to the issue.

Imagine the crime rates if we declared coffee drinkers criminals. We'd have to jail a lot more people and build a lot more prisons because you cannot stop people from engaging in victim-less behavior that they enjoy.
No, totally not. I've not submitted to HN yet. I don't know who that is.
Nothing indicates that it will gain traction.
Grats! That's a huge achievement. I remember watching Rose on TV when he interviewed Larry & Sergey many years ago.

"The average US teenager sends almost 2,000 text messages per month." wow..
that's what I was using before ;) To be honest I switched to Terminus when I bought a new laptop with 1680x1050 on 15'' and I wanted to fit more text on the screen. Terminus is really great at small sizes. For everything else there's Deja Vu.
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The company hired someone else to continue development of the consultant’s code — in response, the consultant sued for copyright infringement.
I wanted to post some available developer positions at my startup, but the rules say it should only be for YC companies.

Can anyone confirm this?
Wait, you're saying companies should be able to get away with promising to pay people for work and then not follow through? How could this ever be a good idea?

Since he sued them for copyright infringement, that means they used code they hadn't paid for. If they'd realized they couldn't pay, told him as much and deleted any code developed during the unpaid time span, he might still have tried to sue for damages based on breach of contract, but not copyright infringement.