skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only company even remotely in a position to kill google is google itself. If they mess up badly enough in the eyes of their users then there would be a mass exodus, as long as they keep doing what they're doing now they will outlast all of us.
Getting the C shims right, and ensuring that it really implements elisp as emacs does -- to the point that elisp programmers can't tell the difference. The C question is much more difficult, though.

The goal is for Guile in Emacs to be the obvious, no-brainer choice. Hopefully that will be the case, but there is some hacking yet to be done.
You could use a nonce when you have two password boxes, so that the two boxes match, but the hash cannot be reversed by someone who just sees the sequence.

However, this would mean the hash is different each time, so it would be no good for confirming your password is correct before you login. For the registration case, just show a tick when the fields are equal. Or just wait for the round-trip, it's not that bad.

Frankly, the last month's talk about improving password fields is boring: it doesn't need doing. I type passwords without thinking, about twice the speed I type normally, and I don't make mistakes.

Something I'd like to see a password plugin/script that hashes my password with the site URL, so if they lose my password, its not my password they lose, its a site specific hash - anyone know of one?
Yeah, I'm using terminus now, too. It's awesome! I went through a great deal of pain to get emacs 23 and try out some new fonts, but then discovered terminus and now it's relatively useless :)
perhaps the dead links on the new page should go completly away to leave more room for the news (currently over 5 of the spots are dead)...
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That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom

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Credits for slides confused me. Why not do it based on the average number of slides needed for a class or presentation?

$99 gets you 1 presentation, $149 gets 2, $399 unlimited for the year.
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User definable time based filter - e.g. show me just the stories posted yesterday.
" We cannont solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"
--Albert Einstein

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery"
--James Joyce

"Where will you be when you get where you are going?"
--unknown

"We are not so much anti-capitalist (...) We're fortunate enough to have built a very healthy business, even though we haven't attempted to. All we have done is stop short of trying to become insanely wealthy. We have met billionaires and it sounds funny but it's not necessarily a bed of roses to have that kind of money. (...) Their life becomes about figuring out how to employ all that money either by philanthropy or other means. So we don't consider it that revolutionary to have stopped short of that."
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In your profile you can set showdead to no which should hide all of those dead links.
I have no problems with large files - using Emacs 23 from http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html.

The file on the screenshot is ~156MB took several seconds to load but after that all operations on it are instant.

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9108/emacslargefile.png

The blacked out parts are work related - sorry.
In a utopian world. I'm not saying that's the way I'd like it to be. I'm saying, as things are, it's something every reasonable person knows is likely to happen if you're belligerent with authorities.
As I alluded to below, I think with that large a project, that's done almost entirely by volunteers, one year just isn't enough turnaround.
URL bar spoofing vulnerability (Firefox)
I ran a couple servers at home using "business class" cable a few years ago. Real static IPs, my own DNS servers, etc. It absolutely sucked as far as the network. We never got close to the outbound bandwidth we were sold. I could have lived with it being 50% but it was often so slow and laggy that it was unusable.

The worst part was the almost complete lack of support. We had about 1 short outage a month of an hour or so, but about 1 long outage every 3-6 months. I was down for 3 days once because some cable installer screwed up inside the junction box out by the street. No matter how I screamed, I couldn't get someone out quicker than their usual residential "whenever we feel like it" schedule. I did however get 3 days knocked off my bill. That didn't make a dent in my pissed-off customers though. That's the day we started to move to a bargain colo. (That wound up sucking just as badly except they were on the other side of the country.)

And remember, that's all with "business class" officially sanctioned hosting-grade cable. If you host on the sly, with dyndns and sneaking it in on your residential cable, I know how the story will end. You'll grow for a month or three then one day they'll cut you off or block port 80 on you. You'll be down for days as you scramble to get hosted on a real server and get the DNS updates out.

You can do it, but you need to plan for that eventuality. It would be great if there were some matchmaking service for really small startups where they could share a VPS or a full-blown colo server.
Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Agreement on Search
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It doesn't -- it's someone forgetting the no flamebait rule.

Notepad++, really? If that isn't bait I don't know what is.
Tell HN: 3 words and 2 years
Usability 101: Give ME MY data
Do Not Use Design Patterns Upfront
The 'truenumber' microformat: A plan to make all engineering numbers into links
Time to delete?
Also make sure to use lists, citations and images in your posts. Last but not least don't make your text all bold. Yours is. Underestimating the formal aspects of readability can render a compelling blog post useless.
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mate++ :)
Startup uses flawed contract with consultant, has to go to court to stay alive
I personally don't like terminus, so this anti-aliasing is great for Deja Sans Mono :)
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I used streetview for a trip recently, I had the whole neighborhood around the places I was going mapped out in my mind from day one. It felt like I returned to a place I already knew. Pretty cool. Paths will only add to that.
Here is the article for those that don't want to hunt down a login:

Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo announced on Wednesday that they had agreed to collaborate on Internet search and online advertising, a deal that should create a more formidable to Google Inc.

In a statement, the companies said that Microsoft will now power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.

Under the deal, Microsoft will get a 10-year license for Yahoo’s “core search technologies,” and Microsoft will have the ability to integrate Yahoo search technologies into its existing search platforms;

Microsoft’s Bing will be the exclusive algorithmic search, the companies said in a statement.
There's no way it actually does that. What does it actually do?
I'm more than happy to see these job ads - one alternative would be to see normal advertising which I think we can all agree would be more annoying. With these, it's something which someone in the community can potentially benefit from (lets face it, finding a job in this economy isn't easy), and YC companies get the benefit of some free advertising. Better to see a few job ads from YC companies than some AdWords ads trying to sell me something.
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This is exactly the opposite of how I operate.

I love email. Why? Because I'm a programmer and I don't want to be interrupted. I like to keep the day-to-day things simple because my work is anything but simple.

I use gmail and everyone I know has my gmail address. It has excellent spam filters and it's easy to manage. Best of all, it never bothers me. When I'm ready for a break, I check and manage my email. It takes 5 minutes, just enough time to eat an apple.

Family, close friends, and some business associates have my cell phone #. They know not to text me because if I'm working, I will not respond. If I'm not working, the only response they'll get is "ok". If the phone rings, I know it must be important to talk. Usually not for long, then back to work.

I do not IM. I do not Twitter. I can't imagine worse ways to ruin productivity. I IM'd for 3 days. I got nothing done, so I emailed everyone to never IM me again. Email me and I'll respond when I'm available.

I surf my favorite sites (especially hn) during breaks. When the break is over, on go the headphones and up comes my text editor. See you in an hour or two. Not before then.
YouTube - Virtual Windows Demo (very cool multi screen layout)
Sometimes I think that if you removed all the blogs about blogging, there'd only be 7 blogs left.
I wouldn't change it a bit. Especially feature creep is deadly for a community. Simplicity is key to the current success of HN.

I've been on Mixx before and they really messed up the site in the course of a few months of perpetual changes and adding new stuff all over the place. In the end you have a myriad of features nobody uses and the most important things Mixx was designed for initially got buried below those.

HN has a clean straightforward, no frills and timeless kind of design and functionality.

The only thing I'm missing is to be able to display my submissions in a row without the pages I voted for.
Ahh, I did not realise, I will do so in future. Thanks for letting me know.
But it's so shiny
"There is something fundamentally wrong with Apple."
The Case Against the Case Against Google
I would put my phone #, email, etc. into my profile, but conditional on the reader having, say, 100 karma.
Aside from the political nature of this article (davidw, where are you?) I thought the author took up the mantle against conservatives a little too easily.

I'm a libertarian, and I support that "be nice to the guy with the gun" stance. I know liberals and conservatives both who agree. I think it probably has more to do with having some kind of experience in law enforcement or the military, but I'm just speculating. It's definitely not just a conservative position.

No matter who you are -- even without one person having the gun and authority -- being polite is always a good strategy in any discussion. If you're ugly to people, they're most likely going to find a way to be ugly back to you.

I think this article misses the difference between political theory and practical human experience. In theory, I should be able to hurl profanities at people I don't like. In practice, they have a tendency to punch me in the nose. I'm all for the theory -- in fact, as far as the photographing of police, it should be a felony to stop someone from videotaping a police officer in the line of duty. But in practice I live in a world where politicians have passed so many laws that are so open to interpretation that if the cops don't like you, they can find some way to mess with you. That's just life.

I don't like the current state of affairs, but that doesn't mean I should be blind to reality either. Instead of whining on about how the real issue should be control of police powers, I think a more practical position would be to single out certain areas (like the videotaping) where small changes can have a big effect. This turns a rant into a call for action.

But we didn't get that.
Thanks gods we finally have a security-compromising solution to the world-stopping problem of typos in passwords.
that's a good one!

Maybe even set a karma price on the reveal of your contact info :) (so, you can get my contact info but it will cost you)
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Not to be pedantic, but mattt: your h2 font family is "Palantino". Otherwise, this looks pretty nifty.
Steve Yegge's JS2 Mode Now Packaged with Emacs
I'll give him a chance. He might be shooting too far, too soon with the one post a day stuff, but I'll subscribe and give him the chance.
I'd like to see a link to just see the Ask HN type posts
A Karma bartering system for virtual (and real) goods.
Every time I read about scheduling, prioritization, and focusing on your top tasks, I think of the movie "The Exorcist" when father Karras briefs father Merrin:

KARRAS - I think it would be helpful if I gave you some background on the different personalities Regan has manifested. So far, there seems to be three. She's convinced-

MERRIN - There's only one.

If you're a programmer, forget about scheduling, prioritizing, and focusing on multiple things. Work exclusively on the #1 thing. Nothing else has made me more productive. See how simple.

pg even talks about it in his essay "Good and Bad Procrastination"

http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

"What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?"
Think on that statement for a moment. If you wanted a particular set of colors for your password, and then you could turn around and actually come up with that password... see the problem? Hint: 'non-reversible'.

This idea, in its current form, sucks. It's not as bad as what you're suggesting, but it comes close - as has been pointed out by many others, if you can watch the colors change with each keystroke, you can pretty much trivially recover the password.

And it's just unnecessary. Password typos are not some huge problem begging for a solution. If you need quick confirmation of matching passwords, just compare the two fields directly, raise a warning icon if they don't match and a checkmark if they do, and be done with it. You'll even save your users a few brain cycles comparing colors.
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Read: MS can't get traction, Yahoo devolved their homepage away from usability years ago and now neither of them is strong enough to be a player by themselves.
Um, what? The old method is a warning symbol or a checkmark to ensure the password fields match. Replacing that nice, intuitive, more accessible feature with this would be, excuse me, retarded. And it's not just colorblind people who would suffer. Do you really want to spend brain cycles trying to figure out if you're looking at the same shade of blue?
Think about the asymmetry here. The cost to the community is that one of the front page slots gets taken up by the ad, we have to scroll more it takes some seconds to read, realize it's an ad, and move on. The benefit is that there's a pretty good chance the kind of people YC companies want to hire are reading this site, a match is made, and for at least one person there is a big payoff.

In the cost benefit analysis I think the job postings win hands down. If you want a news aggregator rather than a community site there are several really good ones elsewhere.

A different point put metaphorically is that this comment is like enjoying the snacks and drinks at a party and then vocally complaining that the Russian tea cakes taste like crap. You might be right but maybe the more tactful thing to do is just avoid them.
This was interesting because it wasn't so much about how to craft compelling content, but about the business of producing content consistently.

I have several blogs that are pseudonymous, a couple of which people here have probably read. One thing I've noticed is that my popular articles fall into two categories:

1) Crystal-clear how-to articles
2) Counter-intuitive or controversial insights

Maybe I should write a step-by-step guide to forming opinions against the status quo. I'll be e-famous!
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My question is, how much of the speed-up is due to RDB being append-only and how much of it is due to specialization to SSD.
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So the big win of this feature is that users might get their color combo burned into their head, and submit fewer bad passwords to the server when they bother to manually enter their password and take the time to look at and process the given colors.

Wow.

Is there a Nobel Prize for web design yet?
Really? To me, it seems like Microsoft finally has a compelling search product and they're trying to ramp up usage as much as possible. Nothing indicates that Bing "can't get traction".
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There is a distinction though, isn't there? All of the heresies you listed were technological innovations that changed the dynamics of warfare. The thing I find deplorable is that unmistakable innocents were used as bait to attempt to lure in an enemy that was trying to give aid. It doesn't prey upon the structural disadvantages or technological disadvantages of the superior force, it preys upon their basic empathy for people that are suffering. Terrorism in general is more about not attacking a superior force but instead attacking something else to somehow, effectively or not, hurt the superior force.

I shudder to think that that sort of paradigm would become dominant. Warplanes explicitly targeting schools and hospitals because they are the most demoralizing and disruptive targets, using hunter/killer drones to gun down anyone without a FFID, it's all unconscionable when you extend it to its conclusion.

I also really hope that you don't think it's perfectly fine on a personal level.
You need to stop that. You teach people how to treat you. You've obviously been a bad teacher 8)
The two "benefits", both of which I think are bullshit, are supposed to be: you know when masked passwords match, and you recognize that you've correctly typed your password in the future. The former case usually only happens for signup or password change, and is more easily, intuitively, and accessibly handled with explicit 'matches/doesn't match' symbols. The latter case (again, which I think is bullshit) would be completely obviated by your proposal.

This is just A Bad Idea.
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I tried switching to emacs 23, but the vc.el integration left much to be desired, for svn and CVS, and I switched back. (Yes, I know, why am I still using CVS, but there you go.)
Kind of like if you removed the comments about commenting
No, it's not the same. Even a cursory look at the issue shows that much of the US prison population is due to "3 strikes" laws. By looking only at first time possession charges, that entire group is missed.

Furthermore, police in the US have the power to seize cars, seize money, and quite number of other things without warrant, based upon the suspicion of drugs being involved. They can't do that here.
Someone at my company looked at password requests last week, and it looks like about 50% of login attempts fail.
It says "amazing physics going on..." and then claims to have successfully flipped one bit.
I saw that coming when I read the headline, but I have to say that at least one thing is really compelling about the switch: people have to be concise. When people have to be concise they put more thought into

1) The communication itself
2) Whether the communication is even necessary

That is a positive.
SearchYC has exactly that: http://ask.searchyc.com/
Um, what? It's not like you have to be an attacker to want to film someone using a computer screen. You've never seen a Google Tech Talk? You've never been to a conference?
Do you do anything in particular to promote your posts, once written?
I have been using emacs-snapshot even since I started using emacs regularly purely for the anti-alisaing, it really does feel so much nicer.
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and here is the press release, right from "the horse's mouth":

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-29rel...
BUT... they're getting press. Have you heard of them before today? Doubt it. Now you do.
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It's perpetually 10 years away. They've been saying this since the first computers started calculating.
You do know that they did actually used to spray DDT out of a firehose, right? That that wasn't just some random bullshit I made up on the spot, it's actually a case where we did wrong by taking something that's okay in moderation and trying to use it in large quantities? Do I really think url shorteners are as bad as spraying poison out of a firehose? No, but it was a fucking analogy.
well, if you compare the total combined traffic that was going to MSN search with what bing is receiving right now all that it was to date was a big 302 operation. The yahoo deal makes them a real contender. At least they won't be able to switch it off so easily. Microsoft has a bit of a history launching stuff with great fanfare only to quietly retire it a couple of years later.

search.msn.com , msn homepage search all these used to be a good bit of traffic, they now redirect to bing.

It makes good sense for them to get yahoo on board, it makes it harder to sell yahoo to some third party and they get a bunch of traffic. For yahoo it is mostly about cutting costs and not having to compete with both microsoft and google at the same time.

EDIT: I just noticed this, even lots of the regular text links on the msn homepage now redirect to bing.com, that's simple statistics inflation. For instance check the hot topics section on http://www.msn.com/