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This is interesting, and there's a lesson to be learned. Your profile shows that you've been a member for 352 days, and yet you don't quite understand the karma system. You've also spent some time trying to figure out how it works, but haven't succeeded.

Most people take the karma system for granted, and think it's simple. But if you haven't encountered it before it clearly isn't as your post shows. Many people come here from Reddit and thus have an implicit understanding of the arrows and the karma system. But if this is your first experience using such a system how are you to know?

Founders should look at their own software with this post in mind - things may seem simple once you understand how they work, but do your customers really understand your product? If they aren't you are probably missing some big opportunities.
Just curious, why do you believe Scandinavia is more equal than the US, UK or Australia?
Curious: Why would you want to accept only a tiny subset of those? What do you gain by that?
karma at hn is broken. ignore it.

some quick example, taken these from my own history just because that's what i know (but you can see examples everywhere):

- voted down for no reason (it was a useful, informed comment) and no explanation - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190927

- receiving no votes despite being (closest to) the correct answer; a nerdgasm of technically correct but irrelevant info gets 9 votes - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1194538

voting helps introduce "real world" social pressure into an online community, but here the feedback loop is way too strong. the result is an echo chamber, because people like affirmation, and because it's easier to vote on whether items "state the group consensus" rather than actual useful content.

things might be fixed by not displaying karma, or not displaying vote counts, or making voting "cost" karma, or similar, but the people who run the site don't have the time or inclination to experiment.

in short, as i said, the best thing to do is ignore karma.
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Thanks for posting!
I've been out of the loop for the last year and a half. If you reference me to a succinct overview of what I'm missing, I'll definitely read it.
Here's the quick summary:

Don't post in agreement with someone, click the up arrow to vote the comment you agree with up.

Don't try to be funny/witty in your comments unless you're REALLY good at at and/or can make a particularly insightful joke. If your comment even remotely looks like a rehashed Internet meme you'll probably get knocked down to -4 within the hour.

Try to add something of value to a conversation. It doesn't have to be a post filled with academia and algorithms, but it should in general be something that has a value at least slightly above the time someone will spend reading your post.
Which is among the reasons an engineer might balk at moving from San Francisco to Olathe, KS.
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cool , saw this being demoed at FOSDEM

I believe in addition to running linux, the complete hardware design of this thing is open source so you could in theory build one yourself.
Define a threshold of "worthwhileness" and measure whether the results are statistically significantly larger than that.
have you thought about automatically updating the quotes every 10-15 seconds?
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Online-only strategy, lack of traditional advertising, lack of carrier choice, US-only availability.

If you did a real survey asking what 'Android' or 'Nexus One' are, I'd be curious to know how many knew (I'm guessing about 10%)
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There is also quite a bit of noise/male_anger/general_kaka in the comments, but clearly also quite a few quite insightful and intelligent regulars.
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you are still doing it. Avoid these "Ah ok " type replies. This isn't chat.
Company you've never heard of - doesn't that apply for most companies? I still don't think that risk is comparable to losing the family fortune.

Anyway, it is all in the upfront negotiation. If engineer is unhappy with the conditions (ie not enough stock options), he should leave. To complain afterwards is lame (oh, they made a shitload of money - if only I had negotiated for more stock options...).
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Good to hear, thanks for replying.
Don't worry about karma. Post replies that you think give something to the discussion. Many of your comments seem to be one-liners (but not funny ones) which I think is the issue. I don't see hardly any comments from you that teach me anything, make me understand your viewpoint, make me ponder your question, etc... Stuff like "sigh", "cheat", "please don't", etc.. don't really add to the thread. This isn't AIM or IRC so the bar of minimum usefulness is higher.
Actually, I think that would be a terrible study. It's too hard to control for other factors that may differ between the groups. For instance, vegetarians and vegans in the U.S. are on average more educated. You can add that into a model, but this kind of study- where you test people before, during, and after creatine addition- is really much better science.
The only time I didn't have problems keeping my weight down was when I cycled to work - roughly 10 miles, uphill and into the prevailing wind in the morning and easier back at night. In summer I'd often take a detour through a local range of hills for an additional couple of hours off road fun.

Was much faster than the bus and I didn't have a car at the time.

Now I have a 25 minute walk to work - but it's not the same.
The tour pages are really well put together content wise; When trying to decide if a program is worth a downloading, I usually scan the screenshots page and make a quick decision based on first impressions. Comes across as easy to use but with some nice power features.

The landing page screenshot has been poorly resized however. I'd make that a bit bigger and prettier, and you could even go so far as adding slick little javascript tooltips to explain different tools. Could help your conversion rates maybe? Also perhaps consider using the same shiny green 'Try It Now' button on the bottom of the tour pages, instead of switching to a text link. Small grammar nitpick, 'How it works' is not a question.
Yes, simple and straight to the point. Good going matey
The raw numbers I quote here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1198362 suggest that indeed "Japan is finished".

Although much of their attitude has got to be a reflection of Japan being in it's 2nd lost decade ... but such a thing can be self-fulfilling. I.e. it sounds like there isn't much in the way of Keynes' "animal spirits" there.

And this is reflected in a "lowest low" birthrate ... Mark Steyn says no society has ever recovered from that....
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Just because your body CAN produce creatine doesn't mean that all it needs to produce enough is its building blocks.

People here seem to be acting like our bodies have perfect feedback loops for every nutrient, but if in our recent evolutionary history we always got enough, that might not be the case. You have to remember that were one of only three mammals species that has completely lost the ability to synthesize vitamin C. If we lost synthesis of one necessary nutrient, don't you think it might be possible that we also lost some mechanisms for regulating the amount of another?
I think the most important thing you can do to make exercise a persistent part of your life is to make it a social activity. At this point, I don't run to stay fit. I do it because it's a great way to hang out with my friends while doing something fun. Physical activity doesn't have to be medicalized or mandatory -- it's actually much more enjoyable as an activity you share with others. Going for a comfortable run with a few friends or going rock climbing with a buddy is addictively fun -- I just wish I had the time to meet up for it daily instead of only 1-3 times per week.

If you're in Boston and thinking about starting to run, I've had a great time running with The Most Informal Running Club Ever on Saturday mornings -- http://informalrunning.com . Nothing beats getting together with 30-60 new and old friends, running by the Charles at a distance and pace of your choosing, and then hanging out with them all for a potluck breakfast.

Our culture for some reason thinks exercise is prescription medicine that should be taken in secret. It turns out that exercise is just like food -- best enjoyed in a convivial group.
Well, glad you're paying attention, but that's not correct. Play escapes everything for you by default, just as Rails 3.0 does now (http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.0.1/releasenote...)
I spent some time living in Japan, and I recognize a lot in this article. When I came to Japan I was surprised by how people are really not computer savvy in general. Most families have a computer, but only one, it's in the kitchen and nobody is very good at using it. This is strange, because people are quite tech-savvy in general and not at all techno-phobic like many non-geeks in the west. Japanese mobile phones have been awesome for years and there are plenty or really cool mobile web services. Non-mobile websites on the other hand frequently look like a mid-90s abdomination, only with more colors and animated gifs. Perhaps that is just a different preference in layout style though.

Computer gaming really doesn't exist in Japan. It's all on consoles, handhelds and phones. Few Japanese have even heard of World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Quake, Counterstrike or Civilization. I think there are some erotic games for PC because the console makers will not give them licenses. So the few who know about computer gaming think it's for perverts.

The authors explanation seems reasonable to me. Japan simply took a different direction towards appliances rather than general-purpose computers, and has continued on that path. Appliances are easy to use, but are far less suitable for hacking.

This means you really don't find many "hackers" in Japan. There are plenty of nerds, but few of them are into programming. Similar to my impression of China, software is seen as a branch of engineering like any other. Software companies will actually hire developers with no programming experience, as long as they have a good engineering degree and seem like a person that would fit into the company. They didn't lie on the CV either, the company fully expect to put them in front of computers with "Perl for beginners".

On a side note, I really don't like the western HR buzzword bingo either, where having exactly the right acronyms on your CV means more than your aptitude and actual ability to program. Is there any country in the world that strikes the right balance in general?
Using interrupts on an AVR chip, I managed to get almost 100% utilization of the ADCs and UART, rather than each waiting on the other. The throughput was increased by something like 1200%.
Incidentally, isn't it kind of odd that a GPS device company is somewhere with so little... well, "geography", in the sense of mountains and other features. I would see them out west somewhere.
"The new gTLD system is expected to allow a company name, brand name, geographic region, or service type to be used as a gTLD within website and e-mail addresses."

So I guess we can expect more of these soon. Probably a few years of super expensive costs before the floodgates are opened.
I think that's the point. The Japanese are great at making a product better, but not very good at innovating an existing product. They may have made a music player that has the same specs as the iPod years earlier, but they never would have made the mainstream version.
I read all shallow financial blog posts in the context of stock price manipulation. Right after the article there is an ad for how you could have made 300% return by following their "under $10" stocks.
Look dude, no offense at all, but I'd wager your still in high school, maybe younger, or fairly new to online communities. The thing about Hacker News is that people here are very blunt about who they vote down or vote up. Most people here have been on the internet for a very long time and don't want to be bothered by "me too" posts. If you are interested in tech and want to be a part of Hacker News the most important thing to do is read other peoples comments for a long time before trying to get in on the discussion. For example, I waited 200 days until submitting something to Hacker News.

Lastly, if you get blasted or down voted don't take it too personally. You're going to forget about it within a couple of days, so why stress so hard now?
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This sounds like institutionalizing on company/sector wide scales non-productive programmers for something like a decade, instead of some programming teams being dysfunctional.

Japan is very short on young people; how easily can it afford to waste a decade of their career? Especially when other countries don't do this?

It's also got to be ... suboptimal for the spirit to work for a decade knowing that you're not accomplishing anything that affects the real world, at least compared to other countries where young people accomplish real things and get positive self-reinforcing feedback starting at the beginning of their career.

(Even if your company doesn't succeed, you've still produced something, or at least tried to and hopefully learned some lessons along the way.)
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This is disappointingly content-free.

"An industry analyst" who declines to be identified in any way shape or form says that the estimate is significantly lower than the actual figures and then won't even anonymously comment further on what he thinks the numbers actually are, nor how he arrived at his conclusions?

I think the logic behind the original statement of these as optimistic figures is more sound, that being due to the fact that the estimate was made by the difference between web order numbers in a given period, which almost certainly included many more products than just the iPad, and the methodology for restricting that down to just iPad numbers was not clear.

Full disclosure; I'd like the iPad and it's ilk to die in a fire.
Most people that visit a site called hacker news probably like to understand the inner workings of things. Your comment seems a bit dismissive of someone just trying to figure out how the site works instead of viewing it as a mystical black box.
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Google was obviously marketing to other people who are like Googlers. We all knew about the Nexus One (because we keep up on new tech), prefer T-Mobile (because they were the only carrier to refuse to cooperate with warrant-less wiretapping), and love to buy stuff online (because we hate going to the mall).

But we're a pretty small portion of the market. If the wanted big commercial success, they had to market to people who weren't like them.
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Really strange! I'm a complete noob when it comes to clojure though, so there is a chance I did something wrong.
I'm kind of surprised hardware and software interface wasn't really addressed in the discussion about the iPod. It compares very favorably with the engineer-designed UIs that many local manufacturers release for consumer electronics in Japan and elsewhere in East Asia, and I think has helped drive its success there, as well as the success of the iPhone/iTouch.
Why is this still on the front page of HN? This seems like such a non-story.
With the caveat that opposing answers sound obvious to different people, this answer sounded obvious to me when I heard it: The entire system, as a whole, is intelligent; the separate components are not. Like Vizzini, Searle has made an error common even among the intelligent, and overlooked an important possible combination of location.
Ruby mostly. Rails and Sinatra are my specialities. And I've done a lot of work in Python a few years back.

Web and UX is mostly what I need for the apps I write. But I'm poor and can't afford to pay a designer. :-)
I like thinking of the voting arrows as a volume knob. If I like someone's comment, I turn up the volume a bit.

For me, voting doesn't have to do with agreeing with the poster. I tend to upvote comments if I believe they add some value to the parent topic, give me some insight, or teach me something new...
What makes your tool better than Balsamiq Mockups?

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The thing that concerns me about this is the thought that somewhere out there there are people allowing this and information snippets like this to influence their investment portfolios in (assumedly?) large ways. It seems utterly crazy that a person would actually adjust their investment in apple based on this post.
tl;dr the estimates are really low because I told you so.

What a terrible article. Scott Moritz is well known to spread complete BS over Apple sales figures so I'd treat this with Valleywag level credibility. When the iPhone came out he said Apple was disappointed they didn't meet their 1-million units sold sales goal. Too bad he couldn't cite anyone that had mentioned that estimate.

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Great, don't take any suggestions from here. The app looks perfect, but it would have been fantastic if you had an API interface :)

No seriously, the app is minimalistic and well-done.
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>Full disclosure; I'd like the iPad and it's ilk to die in a fire.

Define ilk: all "tablets", all Apple products or all Apple touch-based gadgets.

Because the iPad doesn't really have "an ilk" in my book.
This is pretty crazy, actually..

"If the U.S. military ranked 17th in the world, you can bet that as a nation we would make strengthening our armed forces a national priority. Yet that's just how the U.S. stacks up against the rest of the world in terms of access to high-speed Internet connections. The vital communications systems that make our economy work and serve as a platform for business innovation and social interactions are second-class."

Well, where do we stand on Education, and Healthcare, and why aren't we fixing those?

At a minimum, why are we not refocusing how the Internet was built by focusing this broadband effort on educational and research facilities, as opposed to multimillion dollar grants for Ski Resorts who need high speed Internet connections in rental homes.
Nice concept and i like the simple execution.

the font size does require me to "move my eyes" a lot to read longer phrases. i like how completely simple and to the point it is though.

it would be neat to let users submit their own inspirational nuggets - though you would probably have to review them to avoid misuse.
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Three additional points:

1) Funny one liners have to be fucking hilarious to be voted up. Best to avoid attempts at humor altogether when it comes to HN.

2) If you're going to post something, remember to make it concise. Just like in the real world, tight and digestible comments get better play than huge walls of text.

3) Ignore karma in general. People will often vote you up or down for stupid reasons so if you're going against the prevailing opinion you'll get a much lower score than anything people agree with [1]. Also time spent worrying about karma is time you could spend worrying about things that actually matter in your life.

[1] This isn't unique to HN, people naturally think more favorably about people who agree with them.
How about a simple voting mechanism which will display more popular quotes more frequently?
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Symbian is by far the most popular smartphone platform, but it's not a household name. It's just an OS - my mom doesn't even know she needs one on her phone
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Wouldn't be too sure about milk. Someone working for WW once told me that Home Brand et al buy milk which is in effect several days, maybe even a week, older than that which you get from Dairy Farmers &co.
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I blame two things:

a) "Sorry, the Nexus One phone is not available in your contry or region" message at google.com/phone,

and b) when it is available, it is €599 or (€199 + €45/mo for two years). When I saw the ad, my first thought was "great, you get to keep it for yourself". Outside of enthusiasts, no one is going to get phone for 600 euros.
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Eat normal amounts ... of carbohydrate with high GI...

You can't call that getting the basics right, as if it's some well established fact. Citation needed.

EDIT: The modern diet, with all its refined white flour, has a much higher GI than in the past. (White flour has a much higher GI than fruits and vegtables, for a start). What do you think is responsible for the rising diabetes epidemic?