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eli_s, not an answer, but if you upvote that article, it's in your saved stories:
http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=eli_s

(from your homepage, 3rd link from the bottom)
I just think. I first strive to understand a concept, and then I put myself in the shoes of the actors affected by the concept. It evolves in my mental vision, and abstractions flutter around, interact, and connect in appropriate places. Eventually I have a pretty complete Vision in the abstract, the interesting implementation details mostly worked out and the uninteresting details glossed over.

This is often most effective in the course of a shower, kinda my meditation time under the water, allowing my mind to drift and play with interesting problems. However, I use the same approach for problems at the workplace or pretty much any problem I encounter in life.

I believe less in random brainstorms and more in looking at the big picture. Also, I do not mind trying things out, even if they seem improbable, just to see if they work anyway. There is a certain limit to dreaming about things. I balance the practical with my problem-solving.
Thanks! that was quick!
As far as I can tell you are using the chromeless player. I've been using this for two years now at Totlol.

Can you elaborate at a technical level what is it exactly that you "drop"?
I've seen this a handful of times in my feed over the past week.

Since not everyone is seeing this happen, I imagine that it is a new feature test. I had a friend get the newest Facebook design 4 months before anyone else she new with no explanation whatsoever.
Searchyc is at least as reliable if not more reliable than HN, I think you'd be in pretty good hands there.

In all the time that I've been using it I think I've seen it down only twice, HN over the same period numerous times.
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Easily!

First, I'd stare at the Clojure webpage, and try some examples in the REPL. I'd feel like I'm not grokking idiomatic Clojure, so I'd try some Google searches, but find nothing compelling. I'd hit random Clojure links on Hacker News and Reddit for a few weeks, but give up and move to a language with a more active community.

A year later, I'd accidentally find it at the bottom of an unrelated post and yell "If only I had that a year ago!"
Unfortunately the other one got a bunch of comments and wound up dead, while this one is still alive with only a thread about how the other one is dead.
I always thought that a pair of video-glasses would be great for coding -- Any HNers here who've used a Heads-Up-Display? Do you think they're good enough for coding yet?
See http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-device/ -

"This specification defines the HTML device element, to enable video conferencing from HTML applications."
I think the confusion stems from the fact that the button at the bottom reads 'hn search'.
Looks nice, but it suffers from the typical "page with too much JavaScript + fancy features" sluggish scrolling issue (I'm only talking 8-10fps vs a more regular 20-30fps here, but I'm sensitive ;-)). This problem is reduced, but still present, in Chrome, even. Good start though.
What does this actually mean on a technical level? How can anyone disable features on my TV?

Or does it just mean that at some point in the future I'll be able to buy a TV which is capable of streaming movies at the cost of having its video outputs disabled for the duration? If that's the case I can hardly see myself getting too worked up about it.
What you don't get is that attention is a zero sum game. There are an infinite number of minor things that would be pretty good to do that would "just take a minute." The only way to do good work is to ruthlessly blow them off and to focus only on the few things that matter most.

Ironically, this thread, though a complete bike-shed waste of time in itself, is not entirely bad, because it's also causing me to spend time thinking about the kind of problem I should be thinking about. One of the big questions I've been mulling over is what to do about points on comments. I'm increasingly inclined not to display them, because an upvote or downvote is equivalent to a very inarticulate comment. And this subthread is an argument for doing so, because the only reason I felt obliged to respond to you is the number of points your comment got. If points weren't displayed I wouldn't have felt I had to respond.

Basically, points exacerbate the "someone is wrong on the Internet" trap.
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I'd love to see something along those lines which is exactly why I kicked some money to the Diaspora project: http://www.joindiaspora.com
I guess I thought you really wanted a vote. It just seemed like the simplest way to hack it.

It seems pointless to say why: the reasons are obvious, and stating them is not getting you anywhere. Why is a whole bunch of people showing that they want search not a compelling 'why'? Even if popularity contests aren't the best decision, the results of a vote in a small community seems like a reasonable signal to want.

'Why would I do that?' Jeez, why does downvoting cause such a kneejerk reaction? Even if karma means something - which it does not! - PG has plenty of it if anybody does.

I was just trying to help you. I wasn't really thinking about search before you posted, and now I'll go back to doing that. Whatever..

Update: deleted baiting to downvote which is apparently also bad form according to the guidelines.
Is it just me, or does this sound like an article from The Onion?
Thanks! Yes, Scribd never worked well under linux before.

Unfortunately, the international payment restriction is totally a legal issue, not a technical one. What country do you live in? We are finding ways around the legal issues country by country.
If it was trivial, there wouldn't be so many questions about how to search the site :) But thanks.

Edit: Or maybe if you're the type of person who can't figure it out, you're not the type of person who should be posting on HackerNews in the first place?
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If your page has references to base64_decode, zettapetta, or indesignstudioinfo in the source, I'd be worried. For a fix, see http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/simple-cleanup-solution-for-l...
A crude solution: Google "site:news.ycombinator.com QUERY-STRING".
Hawking is great. Not because these types of articles are particularly detailed or illuminating, but because this is the kind of stuff that lures young people into becoming rocket scientists. Go Steven!
A vote would have been fine with me, but PG is well within his rights as the owner of the site to ignore the outcome.

To ask people to downvote or upvote others is really bad form here.
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How did you send it using gmail? I just sent two via the web interface, one to a gmail account and another to a non-gmail account, the originating ip is 209.85.221.175 (a google ip address) and my current IP doesn't show up anywhere in the headers.

Edit: it doesn't show up base64 encoded, either.
I wonder how many people laugh at inappropriate comments here and then vote them down.
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>> I would be suprised if there was a single user who'd left HN because it lacked search.

While I agree with you, I think you're looking at it the wrong way. No user will leave HN because of search-issues, but a lot of users will be very happy if the site had good search.

imo it makes sense to do a trivial thing and make a lot of users happy. So while you're correct in saying that "quality of the submissions and comments" are more important, I see no reason why quality of content should preclude a decent search feature.
Also it's much more socially awkward for one person to have to specifically ask to pay for everything than it is to go the other way.

Besides, "one person pays for everybody" is an important social bonding ritual. I'd hate to see it become the exception rather than the rule.
Found using searchyc.com:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=740983

(google doesn't work well when you search for words in the UI of HN)
They hired Charles Jolley, founder of Sprout it, which developed SproutCore. The framework itself is open source but is sheparded by jolly at apple, along wih his team.
Original: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1269288/STEP...
Since this is after all a community of geeks and hackers, we can probably expect people to comment here from the party. Elsewhere, it would be a social faux pas, but here, it's probably a sign of not being there only for the booze and hors d'oeuvres.
I like not having a search option. It keeps me learning things at random. It keeps the site simple and constantly fresh.
HN handles considerably more traffic than SearchYC.
I don't see my IP in the headers of mail sent from GMail, either. I also tried sending via my phone and got the same results.
Course he'll ignore it. You think I wasn't aware of that?

"To ask people to downvote or upvote others is really bad form here."

Apparently. I can't argue with that. Thanks for the tip.
TVs have been capable of streaming movies since they were invented. The proposal is to retain that feature and add a defect, not to add a new feature.
I think this is a rather weak argument for the following reasons:

-If God is not real, how can we explain the existence of so many counterfeits?

-Most of the 529 gods that theists or Christians reject, for historical, scientific, and philosophical reasons, do not have a sound or rational basis for belief, such as Zeus or Thor.

-Many Christians are familiar with the competing claims of other religions, even as espoused by those faiths' most well-reasoned and ardent adherents, and yet still reject them.
The answer you're looking for will not come from others.
Very cool. I thought about pursuing an idea similar to this after spending nearly 2 hours (it felt like 10 minutes...) on http://wimp.com the other day.
Do you use the web the same way ?
The problem with sub HNs is for those of us who use feed readers to read HN and other news sites.
I REALLY don't want to have to add ten extra feeds to my feed list, as the idea of sub-HNs implies.
I, for one, am fond of the way this is currently set up, it works well with how I have my feed reader set up, and my desire for knowledge at all hours.
I'm just... not concerned? Anything you do online leaks your IP address. If a friend embeds a photo from Flickr into their feed, and you load it, consider your IP leaked. etc, etc, etc
excellent point. u totally saved me from making yet another dumb comment.
Depressing and not surprising.

Why is it that so much about the state of human behavior and society is summarized by those four words?
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I recently got a taste of this kind of social tragedy after seeing the housing conditions some families would live in months after their homes were foreclosed. They were squatters in their own homes.
Or - that confirms that it's 32 bit number that when represented as a dotted quad appears to be an IP address.
"think the argument is fairly sound"

No, it's a fallacy. There is an absolutely enormous number of possible humans that could exist, but don't. A presumably finite, but enormous number. Neither of us believe they exist. I also don't believe in your existence (for the sake of argument), but you do. The difference is, you don't believe in 10^1000-1 humans, but I don't believe in 10^1000 humans.

No amount of stacking up non-existent things proves anything about any given thing, up to and including whether or not that thing exists.

Incidentally, this doesn't address any of your other arguments, which aren't really "in support of 'the (n-1) gods' argument" so much as their own independent, free-standing points. I just want to point out the (n-1) argument is a rhetorical device, not an actual argument of any merit. Perhaps "good rhetorical device" is all you meant by "sound", that would fit with the rest of your message, but I do prefer to reserve the word for its actual logical meaning; if we give that up we don't really have a replacement.
If you submit a duplicate link, it counts as an upvote. That is assuming the url is exactly the same.
Yep, it's the chromeless player. We grab videos links from twitter, then we use the youtube data api to drop videos where the embed access control is disabled.
You know this is from September, right?
It's really quite atypical, but all things considered, that problem is quite difficult to get around in this case. We do, however, plan to put significant effort into optimizations.
Well, that's a difficult one: Either PG is right and nobody needs search, then we'll find it doesn't matter, or I'm right and we do need search and then the searchyc guys will need to beef up their system.

But then at least we do know for sure we need that search.
Apologies for the frankness. I keep trying diplomacy but I suck at it.

A less informed person might think that since you got your clock cleaned by popular vote, you seem much more inclined to discount popular vote than you did a month ago.

I have lost much of my admiration for HN. But I have an awesome appreciation of what you think is important to spend your time on. I have to admit I am mostly wrong and I am still trying to learn as much as I can from you, but why the hell do you think here that Jacques is giving you a bad requirement for your site? You sound pompous and disconnected.

EDIT: And am I to understand you monitor the voting records on HN? That sounded crazy, but I just heard it via email. The internet is crazy. Can't be true.
WordPress is easy to learn. Technologies that are easy to learn tend to attract a lot of people. Once the people learn enough that they are no longer beginners, then they want more features, more abilities. Rewind the clock to 1999 and you could say the same thing about PHP. It did well because it was easy for beginners to learn.

I think a lot of the people who read Hacker News are people with considerable experience in the tech world. As such, it is easy for them to underestimate the importance of having some technologies that are easy for beginners to learn. It is easy to make fun of a beginner. But everyone starts off as a beginner. More so, technologies that are easy to learn tend to have a resilience that complicated technologies lack. There will always be some version of BASIC out there, even as other, better languages are forgotten.

I do most of my development with Symfony. As such, there is a part of me that thinks application frameworks (Symfony, Ruby On Rails, Django) should be used for all projects. But the application frameworks are only for experienced programmers. I would have felt overwhelmed if my first exposure to computer programming had been Symfony, or Ruby on Rails, or Django.

WordPress does a fantastic job enabling relative beginners to achieve a lot. It deserves praise for that. It offers people a smooth path to move deeper into programming, should they wish to move that way. I've had friends who first learned PHP dealing with WordPress, and later became good PHP programmers overall, and more recently I see them learning other technologies. In another era they might have learned with Visual Basic or Hypercard or Applescript or any of the previous attempts to build systems that enabled beginners to program. But for the last few years, WordPress has occupied that niche in the world of programming.

More so, WordPress is a great platform for web designers to work from. For the intelligent designer who does not want to become a programmer, WordPress lets them do a lot of customization, without knowing much of the technical details of what they are doing.

It is easy to curse WordPress for its security flaws. For that reason, it is important to remember how good it is at the things it gets right.

I agree with elidourado: this is an opportunity for entrepreneurs. The popularity of WordPress, and its occasional problems, provides a good market for services that help designers and other programmers achieve what they wish. Darren Hoyt and I started one such service, a paid question and answer site focused on WordPress:

http://www.wpquestions.com/

It is also worth noting that WordPress is one of the larger categories on eLance:

http://www.elance.com/skills_directory

It is appropriate to complain about the security flaws in WordPress, but entrepreneurs will also think hard about what kind of services can help all the people who need help with it.
We agree, and we're working on making the streams personal and more meaningful. But Twitter popularity is an interesting proxy for overall popularity, and we've seen some stuff bubble up much faster than other video sites. It's a work in progress.
Trevor Blackwell did something similar a while ago (and he is a founder of YCombinator too): http://tlb.org/eunicycle.html
I upvoted it because I worked on a similar idea with abossy and randomwalker. I agree with abossy's comment above: this is a great idea, I wish them all the best and I hope they kick ass, but the business side is difficult. So long as you rely on YouTube for videos, you are at the mercy of changes to the YouTube terms of service. You can look for other sources of videos besides YouTube, but this is challenging.

So I'm hoping they succeed where I failed. Hence the upvote.
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Yeah, I didn't mean it as a conspiracy, just that the incentives aren't lined up to enact what I take to be affirmative action's main purpose. The goal is to remedy a wrong suffered by a certain group, but because of the way the stats are calculated, it serves in large part to benefit some other group (which is generally affluent and not very oppressed).
We explicitly want to mimic the TV experience; we think that the page 'o videos + ad links is a sub-optimal way to watch user generated content. Think about how much video is uploaded to the Tube every day -- something like 24 hrs per minute -- and think about the discovery problem that presents. TV + discovery is what we're aiming for.
> “This action is an important victory for consumers who will now have far greater access to see recent high-definition movies in their homes,” Bob Pisano, president and interim chief executive officer of the MPAA, said today in a statement.

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Thanks for the kind words! We're working feverishly on features, some of which are mentioned here and otherwhere on the page. Please keep checking in (or follow @nowmov on Twitter).
I don't think there is any need for condescension.
Plenty of times though, the same subject will pop out in a number of different locations, searching before posting helps a lot in avoiding getting the same content on the homepage twice.
Been working on this project for a while with a friend. Just a prototype I'm making to match people based on their resources. It's really barebones right now (full documentation should be up soon) but thought this was an organic moment to drop a shameless plug. Should be able to match programmers (or anyone) based on the required skills the startup needs.

link: http://kxs.miceswitch.com/

Hope the little guy can be of some use to HN.
I must say that I disagree with the author. I think humans get used to the experience and adapt. I remember when I used to drive a bicycle as a kid, I was scared when dogs ran across me because I thought I would run into them. Then I realized they are intelligent and they will evade me on their own.

I think when you are designing, one should not consider the user to be dumb.
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Anyone that has content that's interesting to hackers is "the type of person who should be posting on HackerNews". I love this community (and hacking in general) in large part because it's not filled with that sort of elitism; anyone who's able to contribute in a positive way is welcome.
For folks who don't deal with non-technical folks often: "Something unexpected happen, I assumed it was broken, and I immediately stopped using it to prevent the brokenness from spreading" is an absurdly common reaction.
In SF I saw some people take tickets off of other people's cars and put them on their own, in the idea of fooling the metermaid into thinking they already had tickets. You'd get a notice in the mail in a few days though.
there might be a facebook group for it...
I can see that Yahoo mail adds the originating IP address, but not Gmail.
I did one of these yesterday for myself. Great, great fun (Google for [gource]). I was hoping to blog about it but the video ended up being too gigantic for me to load into my Ubuntu VM to transcode in any reasonable amount of time.
I was playing with PastryKit for a while.

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You can grab the code here. http://github.com/grinich/pastrytweets
That's absolutely true. If there is one true God, you'd better make sure you've got the right one.
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This is interesting. I wouldn't say that atheism "denies" that spirits exist anymore than it denies that Russell's teapot exists. Besides, atheism still provides plenty of room for spirits should there be any evidence for them (subjective or objective). Since you have subjective evidence for spirits (which I'm not discounting), I wonder why you would make the leap from that to the validation of the entire Christian story, or why that leap has to involve a currently organized religion at all?
I think the points helped you gain a more accurate idea of whether responding was worthwhile. The more people support an idea, the more response it calls for.

Furthermore, an upvote or downvote is equivalent to a very concise comment.
Meta-ness is a disease plaguing the web. That aside I wonder how they are going to monetize it?
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Seems Facebook users are born in 2009 or after wards. Every email service sends your IP address with the email. The exception is Google.
If God is not real, how can we explain the existence of so many counterfeits?

Is this not the perfect example of begging the question? In order to be a counterfeit for God, a non-counterfeit God would have to exist.

Most of the 529 gods that theists or Christians reject, for historical, scientific, and philosophical reasons, do not have a sound or rational basis for belief, such as Zeus or Thor.

I realize that Christians believe they have a sound and rational basis for belief and believe that other religions do not, but I don't believe that has been demonstrated, and it would need to be.

Many Christians are familiar with the competing claims of other religions, even as espoused by those faiths' most well-reasoned and ardent adherents, and yet still reject them.

And vice versa.