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They can be hidden via CSS very easily. .dsq-options { display:none } Boom, gone!

Their implementation is very clean. Especially compared to past implementations, which were rife with buttons and links and all manner of interface foolishness. Every comment has only a few elements to it now: A user header, the comment itself, a like button, and a reply button. The reply screen is fantastically simple and can be further stripped down via CSS if you would like.

I don't get what you have against liking comments. It's the same thing as what goes on here, just without a downvoting mechanism. It surfaces quality content to the top in a democratic way.

Look at it in the context of the whole page. TechCrunch, like a lot of blogs, has a ton of "stuff" going on throughout the page. Compared to the ads on the article, the Crunchbase boxes, and the multiple areas of navigation on the site, the comments are relatively benign and simplistic. They've done a great job packing a lot of complex functionality into a clean package. I think it's already the killer app.
Giants I wouldn't be so sure about. They don't even HOLD the wild card right now. Plus the Rockies are surging in one of their wonderful late season runs.
I just use a couple extra tags and filter certain messages to them, archiving them immediately. I only have this for my mailing lists right now, though.
Would you call his college level courses (high school in some countries) high school level lectures? He doesn't really skip rigour compared to any other college math course at that level.
I'm not sure if this is identical to Gmail's filtering, but Google has SaaS spam filtering:

http://www.google.com/postini/email.html
Oh I already have :)
Well, that kills my idea of creating a commercial service based on my fast classifier to do automatic labeling of messages in GMail.
We work hard to improve our default theme offering, Narcissus, with every release. Narcissus is designed to look good and perform well in all situations. A consequence of this all-encompassing approach is that in some situations the look can come across as a bit cluttered.

However with only a few lines of CSS you can transform Narcissus to fit the needs of your site--just like Engadget, Thoughtbot and many others have so eloquently done.

Saying this, we hear you. There is definitely a need for a minimalist theme at Disqus and we have some time set aside in the near future to make it happen.
Security risk in what? Users not paying attention to the URL bar?
What is causing the frustration?
Had a bit of time to kill. So quickly put together a quick re-design. Would love to get thoughts. http://screencast.com/t/MWMyNzRi
What you are also seeing there is HR departments competing with each other for rankings in "best graduate programme" tables in the press. Which they may be incentivized to do by their own bonus system.

I totally agree about Google - they are basically the same model as a law firm, highly talented fresh graduates working long hours, but with one glaring exception: it's still possible to be made partner in a law firm. Google isn't minting any more millionaires this long after its IPO.
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> Every time I try to learn programming, it feels painfully slow compared to other things I've picked up.

It's probably slow because you're not having fun with it. You're probably not having fun with it because you're not solving a compelling goal.
Ask yourself whether you're learning "just to learn it" or are you trying to solve a problem and this particular language/api/compiler/implementation will help you achieve that goal.

I might be presumptuous here (and I apologize if I'm wrong) but the times I've found myself stuck "learning" have been when I was just going through the lessons for the heck of it, without a real goal in mind, without something to accomplish.

Also, have a look at this: http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2010/01/12/i-have-no-tale...
I found it inspirational.
Really good demo. I see multiple business ideas in there.
He teaches a good chunk of first and second year math college courses. Especially the more popular ones applicable to a broad number of majors.
First, calm down.

Second, realize that the way people find their content online is through search engines like google. Adopt the attitude that by helping google find, index and highly rank your content, you are helping people who search for relevant content discover you and help themselves. Finally, figure out legitimate ways to do this from sites like seomoz.com and others.

Good luck.
Definitely has potential for the live support market
Hopefully this will be available for Google Apps hosted email.
On the other hand, the accounting degree is solving a problem that you won't, unfortunately, have unless your partner becomes motivated and productive quickly.
I think its making server-provisioning social. Like a github for server stacks.
"This post is spurred by seeing the Hacker News guidelines this evening"
I assume they just do it to track clicks.
As others have mentioned, tr and cut are extremely useful. Although I had overlooked them in the past, expand/unexpand are also very useful! They convert tabs to spaces, or spaces to tabs. Of course there are other ways to do that, like substituting with sed, translating with tr, or printing tabbed data using $1/$2/etc. with awk... they just aren't as simple.
There is a HR joke about mail. He send a mail request not relevant and the first one to answer is fired because it means this guy is not realy busy.
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Professors have four jobs: fundraiser, researcher, teacher and tester. They're evaluated in that priority in most universities. They have a few assistants for their various jobs, but it's mainly on their shoulders. A university professor's job should really be separated into four separate jobs, and universities can provide much better services in each area. A teacher who can just concentrating the best of teaching, a marker who can provide flexible final examination services so people can take their finals on their schedules, a fundraiser who's actually focusing on fundraising and not being miserable doing it, and a researcher who actually just researches and is not hired by a corporation.
You look at forums as a good example?

IMO, forums are the first thing that needs to be fixed. Stack Overflow/Hacker News have shown us how much better information is when it's organized using tags, comments and the like. And yet, every day, I stumble into some old phpBB, which is terribly organized and impossible to find information in! Splitting up a forum into 10 different areas is so terrible - before I even start seeing information, I already have to understand how everything works and is organized, etc.

I've been waiting a long time for some startup to implement a modern forum system that actually works.
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I can see the solution in my head as a picture, not words. Maybe I need to practice framing problems more.
A lot of community colleges consist of just teachers, being disconnected from the need to do research. All they do is teach, and often just have a masters. I've usually also found they are significantly better at teaching their subjects than universities, especially in mathematics.
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Suppose I send you a link to a page I own. I start this thing on said page and track what you do with the rest of the session on the off-chance that you do something sensitive with it. It's like a single-tab key/screenlogger. Combine this with traditional phishing methods (which already work) and you might get valuable data. It's going to be at least as effective as current phishing methods, with the added advantage of not asking for personal data on the landing page as well (so users don't get scared off).

A similar attack would be to override the back button. You know those sites where the back button takes you to a redirect that takes you to the same page? Take one of those, but on the redirect page save the referring URL. Then when the user hits back, have the redirect page start the session sharing and redirect to the referrer. Sounds plenty dangerous to me.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/04/consulting-isnt-about-...

How about having someone to blame?
After watching this, I spent an hour browsing around google maps in the area I grew up. Brings back lots of memories :)

It's amazing how far technology has come in 20 years. Gives a very different perspective seeing an area from up above. Trying to decide if I would have wanted this as a kid - I probably had more fun exploring in person.
Anything that has been accessed within the past x amount of time and hasn't fallen out of cache yet. For more info, check http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc around lines 1485, 1550, 233.
I've had a similar feature (without the training part) in GMail for a while now. GMail Labs has a feature called something like "Multi Inbox". It shows other searches/labels of your choice on the front page. I set it up to show Drafts, Starred and a "To Do" label and have been running a system much like this shows, just prioritizing stuff on the fly. Given you can see drafts and such stuff, this might even be a better alternative for some.
Much of SEO is built around authority - eg people referencing your site back on specific topics / subjects.

This is where the human element really comes in, and from your description it sounds like your site's non-specific focus could be the root of the problem: jack of all trades, master of none.

In my experience white-hat SEO is a hard fought battle of link-trading, guest posting, methodically submitting to social media & search, and building an audience around a specific topic.

Beyond that, you've got to embrace the fundamentals - a very solid (free) guide was posted @ SEOMOZ back in June ->

http://guides.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-op...

and more specifically:

http://guides.seomoz.org/chapter-7-growing-popularity-and-li...
There are many things I disagree with in your comment.

Firstly, TechCrunch is not primarily about the TechCrunch community. It's unlike Hacker News in that way. Hacker News exists to talk about interesting articles; TechCrunch is a newspaper - it exists to write them. So for them, commenting is a commodity.

Secondly, I think your views on CMSs are a very bad strategy (a classic case of "not invented here" syndrome, which is bad). They're also wrong - I don't think CMSs looks are generic at all. At least not with a decent CMS, which you can theme. Wordpress, for example, can be made to look completely different from one site to the next.

Lastly, I think you're missing the obvious tradeoff involved. Sure, you're more limited by creating a site using a CMS, but then it's also a lot harder.
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I am amazed at how google has created a virtuous incentive cycle in which experts are competing with each other to give away the best information and gather the most interest.

Compare that to television, radio or print advertising, do you get the impression anyone is competing to provide the most useful information ?

Lying and misleading people is wrong, but that doesn't seem to be a huge part of most SEO activity.

The most common activity I see is people saying "hmm what can I put out there that other people will be interested in", that's an absolutely amazingly positive result.

My 2 cents.
What experiences led you to this assessment?
On a plus, you are now entitled to moan about how the site is turning into Reddit. Happy Anniversary.
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When you have a team of people who do the same work, if there is one person who consistently writes half as much code as the rest that could be a reason to look deepen into that person's performance. When you have for example a new project, you split up all task to be done in several-hour long chunks and you assign those chunks to all team member in a way so that the work is comparable (roughly equal parts GUI, algorithm implementation etc.), it's reasonable to expect that everybody would product about the same amount of code (or checkins or similar). If someone is 2 or 3 standard deviations from the median, that says something. Maybe it says something about that person, maybe about the way tasks are allocated, either way it says something.
I feel for you... There's the general problem of when to call it quits and then there's your particular startup.

I would have to say that in my opinion working in the music industry is a tar pit. (I used to work at a major label) Because of the legal issues surrounding copyright law, the upsides are limited. In the case where you are successful, you will usually get shut down by either one of the labels, all of the labels and/or RIAA. Look at Muxtape if you want an example.

I usually use the analogy of a concert... you want to be close to the stage and you see an area really close that's free so you start making your way over there. Once you get there you see there's something wrong with it. Either it's behind a pillar or there's people sitting on the ground there, or someone's puked there.

This happens to music startups all the time. They see the need in the market and they go to fill it in, but the lawyers have puked all over the ground there.
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I support your idea of supporting raw_input through a pop up. You may run into problems with the browser supporting them. For one thing it will not be the result of a user action. If it isn't an acceptable experience, perhaps a dynamic inline form in the "output"?
Hackernews is a special time in a girl's life where she can kick up her feet and read blogs written by ugly people, for ugly people, about topics no one in the world could possibly care about.

How am I supposed to choose a cofounder? How am I supposed to implement some worthless app in the fewest number of lines? How am I supposed to be enthusiastic about javascript? How am I supposed to get the latest benchmarks run with absolutely zero rigor? Hackernews is here to help.
This is a BRILLIANT feature that I hope stimulates somebody on HN to build around Outlook.

GMAIL hovers around 5% of email client usage.

Outlook still owns somewhere between 35 - 43%.

MSFT was moving in this direction and had a decent solution out a few years back called Email Prioritizer.

Of course, they tossed before it made it out of labs.

Xobni is too complex IMO, what's so compelling about Google's system is how simple it is - it just works, it fits right in. Nice job.

http://www.officelabs.com/projects/emailprioritizer/Pages/De...

http://visibleranking.com/2010/05/most-popular-email-clients...
I'm sorry, but that meant absolutely nothing to me.

Your final line was:

> I think it's best to stop estimating and start shipping.

My point is that when I need a broad plan of what to implement, how much scope to include, when something will be ready by, and how many people will be required, I need to estimate. Sometimes I need to do that before I get down to the nitty-gritty of the real design, real implementation and real details, so I need some rule of thumb to let me give broad ROM estimates.

One of our major customers recently asked for a feature and my sales colleague asked how long it would take. We didn't really know what the customer thought they wanted, so I went into a huddle with my lead programmer and together we sketched a reasonable feature that seemed to match the requirement, and estimated about 4 days of actual coding. I went back and replied that it would be 5 weeks of work on this feature (4 x 6 days) and that, given other commitments, that would be about 3 months elapsed time (one programmer working 1/2 time). So that's 5 weeks NRE on this feature, 3 months to delivery.

The feature was priced accordingly, and when the customer upped the priority we put a programmer on it full time. It was delivered to site and signed off 6 weeeks later.

Sometimes you need to estimate.

So, what was your point?

ADDED IN EDIT: I am, by the way, quite serious about that question. For me, in my circumstances, I really, really need to estimate in broad outline and get it roughly right. I'd like to see a clear exposition of why you think what I do is wrong. Could you perhaps write a more considered piece on your blog and link to it?
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>are you saying that science, math and music are areas where rote memorization is a problem? i think most definitely that these are three areas where creativity and critical thinking are far more important than learning a static corpus.

I'm saying that's how they teach them in China.
I used to love reading Aarons seobook.com blog, back when it was just selling an e-book, but I am curious these days about worth of the $300 a month tag for "joining" a community.

I would have thought one would need to do well over low 6 figures to justify such an expense.

Edit: I see Patrick is a moderator, so I assume it is a "barter" deal.
I was thinking through something like this just last night, after reading up on Smalltalk and system images. Are you loading each domain in an iframe? How did you manage to overcome Twitter's clickjacking protection? Using the new sandboxed iframe attribute? High five!
Can you explain how have you tried to learn? I have learned by books. Yes, it took long time, but reading a good book is both fun and productive way to learn. Unfortunately I can't recommend any of my books as they all were in Russian.
Taking this decision depends on the context of the question. Do you have customers/revenue? What is the feedback you received so far? How does your P&L statement look like? :)

My take on this:

I stick if I have "some" customers/revenue and "some" positive feedback.

Pivot should be influenced by feedback (if I have any) and by the experience of the market (again, if I have any), provided costs can be sustained.

Quit if I accomplished nothing yet and there are little chances to make any revenue/profit in an established time frame. It's hard to give up on stuff you built and invested in and it gets harder the more you invest.

PS: I have my own company for some (5) years now and I have seen good and bad times.
The NBA has a salary cap but that hasn't stopped a handful of teams from dominating while the others see a 2-year spurt of success followed by a drop into mediocrity.

A large part of the problem in the NBA is that most team managers do a crappy job of building a team (and the fact that expansion has diluted the talent pool).

The only teams that see continuous success are those that either have stellar management or have a huge market + a management unit that doesn't actively shoot themselves in the foot.

A salary cap is a good start but it won't be enough. Cheap team owners like those the Pirates have will always be reluctant to shell out money in order to advance the team.
Did the people who have achieved the success you expect do more or less work than you've done ?

"I expected at least 20 sign ups by now", "I expected at least 100 visits a day by now", "I expected at least $1000 a month by now".

Try and find out what other people had to do to get to those milestones, if you have done a lot less then perhaps you should push on, if you've done a lot more, maybe your on the wrong track.

A rough heuristic but better than gut feel, perhaps.
I must have noticed this too, because I switched my hackernews bookmark to go directly to the newest submissions a few days ago, since I didn't like what was on top.
Reading and upvoting from newest is the most effective way to change what is on the frontpage. http://news.ycombinator.com/newest

Lamenting the bad is less effective than embracing the good. As in life.
Since you've gotten us all reading this, how about a link to your site?
I dont ever see words. Sounds like you might need practice figuring out how your pictures relate to code.
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See again - where's the geek cred in a compact edition and magnifying glass? I want the 'I built this bookcase especially' kind of moment when my guests arrive, more so than the 'Wow, aren't Jacob's biceps large for such a complete nerd?' kind of moment.
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I am not prone to melodramatic statements, but seeing this I had the same feeling I had the first time I started using GMail.

It's not necessarily the DOM sharing, which is cool enough. I just think that the emergence of sockets in new browsers is going to bring in the "next level", whatever that ends up being.

Seriously incredible, especially considering the development timeframe.
I think it's a balance. The content generation mills focus on generating keyword dense, SEO friendly articles at the expense of quality. It sounds like you have generated vast amounts of quality content at the expense of any sort of marketing. Keep in mind that 2000 articles is nearly 6 posts a day for an entire year. If I assume each article took roughly 20 minutes to write, that is 666 hours or writing (coincidence I swear!). Again, to balance that writing time out, let's say you devote a mere 2% of that writing time to marketing. That would come to about 13 hours. A 98/2 split seems fair enough to me, and I would imagine that 13 hours spent marketing your writings would result in significant and sustained traffic increases. If you feel that white-hat SEO isn't your thing (which I think is highly inadvisable), just spend that time sending emails or reaching out to friends. If you write it, and you don't market it, they won't come.
It was no fun when I REALLY learned how to program, it was pure panic. I was half way through a CS degree and got a summer job, and I just had get it done no matter what so I beat my head against the problems and solved them. After that, all the theory that I'd been learning started to make sense, and now I have a more nuanced approach to coding, and a successful career.

Just trying to say, learning is not always fun. Get a job doing something you don't know how to do. Maybe that will motivate you. :)
Re: "sounds plenty dangerous to me"

Often, it's the "sounds plenty dangerous" innovations (fire, automobile, chainsaw, theory of relativity), that provide the most utility.
Not defending the content mills (I do think they're a pain too), but one thing is for sure: they know how the system works, are not afraid to game it, and are successful at it. Play their game for a little, and maybe you'll discover less repugnant ways to use SEO to your own advantage.

To win big, you can't be afraid to play a a little dirty.
Yep - their implementation looks great (at least at first glance).
I'm not sure that Google or the SEO motivation is the driver. The web prior to Google and prior to most monetization also had experts competing to put as much free stuff online as they could, and to let people know about it, with the main motivation being either people who had things they wanted to say, or some variety of social prestige. There's more total information these days, of course, but I think the proportion that's legitimate (versus content-farm) is also lower.