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I was excited to see that the chart had an Intel 800MHz, but when I clicked the link, it was to a AMD Sparta 2.3GHz. There might be other mislabeled products on here.
While not a transcript, this article from 2008 contains the same arguments as the linked video:

http://thebivouac.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/economist-peter-s...
RE: private schools, assuming you're referring to primary/secondary school as opposed to universities (where private schools thrive).. do you know how Charter Schools work? Ever seen some of the state laws regarding those? In many states, charter schools actually get to operate with a financial advantage over the public schools. I used to be in public office and watched a Charter school take advantage of the laws to siphon a ton of resources from our public school (which was already cutting teacher headcount year over year because of healthcare costs), and then to add insult to injury we had to pay to bus the kids there.

Anyways, back to the larger point.. I put a very high value on the idea that anyone in America, if they have a little talent and put in some work, can get a college education and make their own destiny.

That particular dynamic has way bigger implications for American competitiveness than moderate price distortions in university tuition -- I mean, if we can fix those, great, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater, and burn our house down afterwards for good measure.
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University of Phoenix is open 24 hours a day, go for it.
It does seem to me that those vital first 10 minutes disproportionately affect a submission's life expectancy.
In an attention economy, this is shoplifting. An upvote should mean "I genuinely think this is interesting and worth reading". If I can manipulate you into upvoting for any other reason, that's scarcely better than cracking your account and pushing the button myself.

I want "how marketing works" to remain on topic here, but why must that always attract the unscrupulous?
Asking your friends to look at something you posted is fair and expected. They will do so because they're your friends. But then further leveraging your social standing with them and explicitly asking for a vote is, I think, detrimental to HN.
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I honestly think you missed the point of the post. The main point I tried to make was that I get pitched by people all the time who are still in their day jobs. I understand hedging your bets on your startup. I'm just trying to point out (rightly or wrongly) that most VCs will see this as a red flag.

How is that self congratulatory bull-shit?
> something I didn't know about and that the manpage is silent on

It's specific to GNU Coreutils mv(1).
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I know this is beating a dead horse, but encrypting your user's passwords is one of the most important things you should be doing. Failing to do so shows a complete lack of respect for your users, and demonstrates that your site/service is probably not worth using.

There should be a list of companies/sites that don't encrypt passwords, so we know what services to avoid. That way, next time you use the Forgot Your Password feature and they email you your plaintext password, you can add them to the list to warn others.
Which works fine, but is still not atomic. To be clear, saying something is "atomic" means that there is no way for another process to see the process in an intermediate state (in the example in the article: a missing or incorrect symlink to a deployed web application). Underneath the hood, the /bin/ln program still needs to call unlink() on the path first, so there is a short period of time during which the desired link isn't present. So software written to assume that the link is always valid (for example, because its author was told that the update was atomic) will have hidden bugs.

This kind of tool merely runs really fast. The race condition is still there.
So, you and your friends are free to make your own site then, where you play according to your own ruleset. Where bringing your friends along to rig the vote is an accepted part of the game. But to use some backchannel to manipulate HN in order to have a louder voice than those that refuse to cheat is really beyond the pale.

If you think that there is stuff that ought to change you can petition PG about it and maybe he'll listen to you, maybe he won't, it is his site after all.

Essentially you and your buddies are hijacking the site for your own gratification.

How many times do you do this?

Do you really think that because the end justifies the means it is ok to cheat?
I'd like to see tags here.
I doubt that there is any really deep explanation for this. It's probably just that engineering is a popular course which is easy to get onto.
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Don't forget Intel generally uses less power than AMD. That cost can add up as well.
That is assuming CPU is the defining factor in the speed of your computer. For vast majority of users, this is just plain false -- a 60$ Athlon II dual core with a 200$ SSD massively outperforms a 950$ i7 975 that is paired with a traditional HD in nearly all of the use cases a normal desktop user encounters -- And if you are into gaming, that same 60$ processor paired with a 300$ HD5870 high-end graphics card easily outperforms the same i7 paired with HD5850, the next-best model that costs only 50$ less.
He asks, "who are the people who care about this information?" - but forgot that CUSTOMERS often care, too!

I never considered publishing financials until the dot-com-crash when so many companies were going under, we started getting daily emails from our customers asking, "Are you guys going to be around? Everything OK?"

Then I started publishing the info once or twice a year to show that everything was healthy and fine:

http://cdbaby.org/stories/02/06/04/5349389.html

http://cdbaby.org/stories/03/03/11/2873136.html

http://cdbaby.org/stories/03/08/12/6186390.html

Many customers told me that's why they chose to do business with us. Because we were so wide-open with our numbers.
The Zune is not an indication of "how well they'll stack up," because by the time they released the Zune, Apple had already sold about 100 million iPods.

This time they're both starting from zero, so it'll be very interesting to see who gains more market fighting on equal ground. (Perhaps the first time we see them in this situation?)
Link with product video - http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsof...
Egads that is crazy to me. What happens when/if they go down for several hours/days? What happens when their web host gets knocked offline? What happens when they get DDOSed? What happens when/if they get acquired?

Wow - I can't imagine using a web company of individuals I know nothing about to store something so important.

And besides, I wouldn't post what password solution I use on the internet anyway.
The ultimate problem with this is there is it invites more gaming, which invites more rules.... and so on.
The justification is that the new page moves too fast. We like to think that merit matters, but it's random and arbitrary whether or not something moves off of the new page with that initial vote or two.

I openly admit to having previously colluded with nickb to do this for an occasional story. Just a few submissions in my years here. There is no front page sculpting among the top users here like on Digg. Edw and I actually talked about this in a mixergy interview we did with Andrew Warner.

Still, if there is something I really, really want to give a chance at getting on the front page, I will not feel bad about making sure it gets 2 or 3 points in the first couple minutes. 4 points would be too many. If it doesn't get any more upvotes, it will fall away quickly.

Since nickb and I upvoted stories that we felt were on-topic and deserving of being on the front page, where is the moral problem? And, if it is decided this is bad, how can it be stopped? Should you really only be able to upvote a friend's story if you innocently see it on the new page? Most people don't browse the new page, giving a small minority of users the power to choose what is seen by everyone else.

The supposed democracy of the new page is not something wonderful with this naive integrity we must maintain. It's a flawed system we have to work with. Asking friends to vote for your stories is a slippery slope, but when they are stories they would have upvoted anyways, there is no moral dilemna. It's a long slope from nickb and I colluding once every 6 months and people paying me hundreds of dollars to put their acai berry affiliate marketing site on the front page.
> I don't think anyone here would blindly upvote a submission if asked to

I wished that were true.

> Also for me, the ASK HN: submissions are the most interesting. Often they get overlooked and buried. It'd be nice to have a separate page for ASK HN submissions IMHO.

I fully agree with that.
Did you read my entire post? Is it really nothing more than a "shortened regurgitation of a steve blank book sleeve"? Do you at least see what I was trying to do?
He makes a valid point and personally I think he is probably at least partly correct, and it's something that needs to be debated. However his argument is flawed because he focuses on the correlation between the government programs and tuition rates without giving any evidence of causation. His entire argument is based on "This then That, so This caused That" which is rarely the case. I can't think of any good examples of this so if someone else understands what I'm saying please help me out.
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If it makes it that high it won't be there for more than a minute or two anyways. However I agree that the algorithm is probably weighted too extremely for upvotes during the first minute or two of a story's existence.
More regulation isn't a panacea for regulation. The heart of the problem is that it's now a common belief that everyone must attend college, even for things that don't require a college education like communications or Fashion Design. The increased demand inflates the prices. Because of this, the government has made it easy to get loans for college, which acts to further inflate the prices. A better solution would be encouraging people that do not need a college education to not get one.

A financial advisor I know wrote a really good article about the value of a college education. It's available at http://financialtales.com/financial-tales/young-at-heart/a-t....
Don't use C-style return code checking in Perl then; use autodie.
Did you read the article? It addresses that point.
Note that it's newLisp web framework, not a new Lisp web framework.
Timing is everyhing, and apparently on HN by being able to influence the timing of the first few votes you get a very large amount of control over what makes it and what does not.

The end result is that those that play by the rules don't stand a chance versus those that cheat, just like on digg.
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Well, I am not YC alum nor applicant, but those headlines catch my eye, because they are invariably good and worth the read. They are the core of the content that I look for when I come to HN. And quite often I like them enough to give them a vote.
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Here is my modest proposal.

1. Fix student loans to give sane amounts of support to students. (Cost of living has gone up in the last few decades, but the estimated cost of living for your parents they use in the formulas haven't been adjusted. That's ridiculous.)

2. Only offer government supported student loans to students whose university tuition levels are in the bottom 70% of accredited universities.

The first change fixes the problem where a lot of people who need support don't get it. The second change gives universities an incentive to not just automatically bump tuition 10%/year "because everyone else is doing it".
Read the article. I think the explanation it gives makes a lot more sense.
Engineers are biased towards practical results.
The liberal arts are biased towards ideas.

If asked how to end US or Israeli occupation, the liberal arts major would probably say: convince them with good arguments or vote. The engineer would say: make it very expensive for them to continue occupation.
Are you meeting them in America? If so, selection bias.
Let's relax a bit and cut the dramatics.

I do it mostly, and not all that often, to increase the turnover rate on the front page. And when I say 'I do it mostly', I mean upvote others' submissions without giving them a proper read. Stories sit there for days in a row with 100s of points and so many comments while others asking for help aren't given any attention. What I loved about HN was that I could visit it in the morning and read and engage in one set of submissions, then log in at night and jump into a completely different one. That's not the case now.

I've been here 3 times longer than you have, although I haven't quite engaged as much, so to accuse me of trying to hijack the site for my own gratification is kind of offensive given how long I've stayed here, which should show how much I enjoy the community. I care about the quality here as much as you do.
FTA: "The simple explanation is that engineering happens to be an especially popular field of study in the countries that produce violent radicals. But Gambetta and Hertog corrected for national enrollment numbers in engineering programs and got similar results. Even among Islamic terrorists born or raised in the West, nearly 60 percent had engineering backgrounds."
what the article doesn't state is which segment of their comapny this applies to. engineering? management? i'm going to guess not janitorial staff.
Cool post, I never new about newLISP before this; just checked out the language and it looks really cool!
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I don't know if radicalism is something you just get recruited into. You need to be dedicated enough to commit suicide over. The question is why are there so many engineers, not why are there engineers.

What made engineers more in that pool of frustrated people? They could come to the US and recruit all the engineers they want. They wouldn't be very successful, and even if they do get an engineer, it wouldn't be because he/she is an engineer.

Why the pool of engineers were frustrated is a likely cause, but because they know how to destroy things doesn't make them more likely to join radicalism.
Those also get buried faster than other stories because self posts are downweighted.
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pipe(&pipefd);
assert(len <= PIPE_BUF);
write(pipefd[1], buf, len);

Also, if a file is opened O_APPEND, the seek before every write is atomic, but since writes in general aren't atomic I'm not sure what value that has.
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There's an article?

m0th87, thanks for the advice, but I already read the article. I was simply providing a possible hypothesis, as were the suggestions in the article.
maybe not a rocket scientist, but i'm sure flying a plane into a specific building a few hundred miles away from where you hijacked it (not to mention in a slightly different direction) isn't exactly as easy as driving a car. There's navigation, speed, elevation etc.
yes, let's relax a bit. A community that I care about seems to have a very undesirable element where people that pretend they are ordinary users collude in order to change the atmosphere from something good in to the exact opposite.

Again, I can't help but notice that your comment has an upvote within a 10 second window from its submission.

Tell me you didn't ask someone to vote you up?

Are you capable at all of simple discourse without resorting to cheats?
MongoDB has bulk updates as well by setting multi=True in your updates.
"Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too."
a good read
i prefer to use "global climate change" instead of "global warming" to avoid confusing people with only a cursory understanding of how climate works.
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How about a page that shows posts that are "about to die"?

Or, even, the ability to resubmit/revise one of your own almost dead posts?
Take it easy with the accusations. I voted his comment up when it was at 0 minutes. I wouldn't know kyro from Adam, I don't think I've ever had a conversation with him about anything, let alone some sort of voting cabal.
PROJECT 880: The Avatar that almost was
I really wish they had made _this_ movie.

>For those who don't want to read this all, some bullet points. Read the entire piece for in-depth description and analysis, but these bullet points are the main, stark differences between
Project 880 and Avatar
- Earth and its environmental problems are explored

- We see Josh Sully's Avatar being born

- It's revealed the Avatar program exists to train Na'vi to be an indigenous workforce for the Corporation, since it's so expensive to send human workers

- There are more humans, including a bioethics officer on the take, a video journalist, a head of the Avatar program and a second military dickwad

- There is an Avatar controller who is burnt out because his Avatar died with him in it. He committed Avatar suicide because he had fallen in love with a Na'vi girl who had been killed by the military

- The Avatars have a Na'vi guide named N'Deh, who is sleeping with Grace

- Grace survives the soul transfer

- Josh Sully gains the Na'vi trust by being a member of the community. He also excels in a major hunt

- Josh Sully shows his leadership not by taming a dragon but by leading a raid on Hell's Gate to rescue prisoners

- Josh Sully isn't the only Na'vi to ride a big dragon

- Pandora is a living entity and it sees the humans as a virus; it has been mobilizing the plants and animals to attack all along because it wanted to force the humans out

- There is no unobtainium beneath Hometree. The military just wants to wipe out the local Na'vi to send a message to all the tribes that they must be obeyed.

- Some of the humans and the Avatar controllers rise up in the final big battle

- Josh Sully tells the Earth that Pandora will give any humans that return a disease that will wipe out humanity
True, but it doesn't invite any more gaming than the existing system. That is, you could game the "clique" system by registering new accounts, but you could game the existing system that way, too.
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Very interested. Very.
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I really wish they had made _this_ movie.

For those who don't want to read this all, some bullet points. Read the entire piece for in-depth description and analysis, but these bullet points are the main, stark differences between Project 880 and Avatar
- Earth and its environmental problems are explored

- We see Josh Sully's Avatar being born

- It's revealed the Avatar program exists to train Na'vi to be an indigenous workforce for the Corporation, since it's so expensive to send human workers

- There are more humans, including a bioethics officer on the take, a video journalist, a head of the Avatar program and a second military dickwad

- There is an Avatar controller who is burnt out because his Avatar died with him in it. He committed Avatar suicide because he had fallen in love with a Na'vi girl who had been killed by the military

- The Avatars have a Na'vi guide named N'Deh, who is sleeping with Grace

- Grace survives the soul transfer

- Josh Sully gains the Na'vi trust by being a member of the community. He also excels in a major hunt

- Josh Sully shows his leadership not by taming a dragon but by leading a raid on Hell's Gate to rescue prisoners

- Josh Sully isn't the only Na'vi to ride a big dragon

- Pandora is a living entity and it sees the humans as a virus; it has been mobilizing the plants and animals to attack all along because it wanted to force the humans out

- There is no unobtainium beneath Hometree. The military just wants to wipe out the local Na'vi to send a message to all the tribes that they must be obeyed.

- Some of the humans and the Avatar controllers rise up in the final big battle

- Josh Sully tells the Earth that Pandora will give any humans that return a disease that will wipe out humanity
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Couch and Mongo are optimized for different use cases.

CouchDB is pretty much the only (open-source) game in town if you care about offline replication. It is also designed for extreme reliability and concurrency. CouchDB's programming model is designed to scale from a smartphone to a datacenter, and ops teams can scale it strictly in the HTTP domain.

MongoDB trades robustness and concurrency for faster serial performance for single clients. MongoDB's programming model is closer to MySQL or redis, so it isn't as big a leap for developers used to traditional 3-tier architectures.

I expect to see a lot of apps move between the two platforms as people start to find the sweet spot that they are interested in.
Fair enough.

I'm reasonably pissed of about this because I see HN as one of the better communities on the net and I'm really upset that there is a 'let's game the system, because we're doing it it must be ok' group active here.

When I first saw this I thought it as incidental, but in fact it is a lot worse than that.

If PG has the votes timestamped I'm pretty sure that there will be some interesting stuff found in there.
Is it just your comments, or were you trying to reply too quickly? In April, PG added a delay on the "reply" links for deeply nested comments in order to prevent flame wars.

Announcement: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#29apr09

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585507
Maybe you could use one slider with 2 directions. E.g. the slider button starts in the center, and you could slide it right to unlock and go to the home screen, or slide it left to go straight to the phone screen.
Also, related question - is asking your friends to flag a 'flaggable' article ok.
Except that in many of those searches, the person is looking for something hateful.
I'd like to point out that the Call of Duty series is not famous for its single-player campaign (especially the critically-acclaimed versions).

Its call to fame is the multi-player aspect where the level of difficulty can be as hard if not harder than what's available at the hardest difficulty setting for the single-player campaign (veteran difficulty).
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Ideally should not be done. But disclosure: I've done it before. And I've done it before because the first 10 minutes of submission seem to be very very important for the life of the submission.

Ideally: it would be awesome if we could hide the entries we've already read from the front page. And these entries are replaced by "new" entries. This would give the new entries a fair chance - and people wouldn't resort to gaming the system.

Also - giving points to people to visit the new page is a good idea.
'Microsoft is a software company.'

They're less than that: they're a client/server software company. Their web applications, for all the Windows/Office revenue thrown at them, are still less mature than their competitors.
I agree with the general sentiment, though not the absolutism. We're a long way from the unfairness of Digg.

I think this is the last statement from pg on the matter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196783

Friend upvoting is not recommended, but isn't outright banned. I'm not sure that there can be a self-consistent guideline that bans asking friends for upvotes. We can certainly discourage it though.