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>In short, I personally don't see an issue with YOU submitting each post, but I wouldn't post just to comment and would be disheartened if it became a standard way of providing discussion about your posts.

hm. well, in that case, maybe I shouldn't do it? I mean, really, what I want is to outsource the 'community management' stuff. As far as I can tell, hacker news has (for now) has the best community of any similar site I know of.

I could set up my own community site that other bloggers could use for comments... but that would defeat the point for me, as I wanted to outsource the community management bit.
A way to multiply the speed by 1.4x or 2x would be amazing. I mean, without using a Flash video downloader and then viewing the downloaded videos in VLC at higher speed; that's too much trouble for something that should be nigh-effortless.
While I agree with treating drug abuse as a health issue - and Especially not a matter of law enforcement, I'm not sure it directly addresses homelessness. Drugs tend to be an escape, as are addictions to said escape. Most people I've known with drug issues have far deeper issues, the pain of which their addictions tend to alleviate if at least for the moment.

Sure, some find peace in work or family or friends or creative endeavors or what-have-you, but some tend to find solace in the ability to not think or more specifically not dwell on the pain of living - especially living a life unkind.

The best you can do is replace one drug with another (eg. methodone), but the inherent problem tends to be mental - and as of yet there's no cure for the human condition.

If a dependency on a drug is abolished, what comes next? Someone who has fallen beyond of the reaches of society due to escapism isn't going to suddenly become a productive member just because they no longer crave a substance. A person will continue to deal with their world as they know best.

Drugs don't make a person give up on society, they just make it a little easier to live with not fitting into it as well as everyone else seems to.
And don't forget the magnifying glass that comes with it.
I might be interested, do you plan on open sourcing this ?
Sorry, I am not really a surf guru. I do know some people who used to surf off of the Sunset, but I think they were beginners so I have no idea of the quality. I do hear that the Sunset is essentially covered in fog for most of the year though.

You might try padmapper to get a sense of what things cost to rent by area in SF. You can always guess a location, find a job, and then move later once you have more first hand experience with the location.

I personally like the mid Peninsula. It is warmer and sunnier year round than SF and centrally located for work in the north and south bay so I don't have to move around so much. Most of my single friends prefer to live in SF.

There are a ton of kite surfers and wind surfers in the bay and on the north edge of the city if you are in to that sort of thing.
Taxpayer bought stadiums probably don't hurt profitability either.
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Actually I don't hold a CS degree either but I started programming at 12 and it took so many years to become a programmer.
links loaded into memory - how does that work? Can you please explain?
I think it even works to some extent, even among people who don't officially care. Here in academia we're not supposed to care about materialism, and many people actively make an effort not to. But conference organizers still put in things like lavish conference banquets, not because they enjoy wasting money and raising already-high registration fees, but because they've noticed it seems to make a difference in what kind of paper submissions and attendance numbers they get. I'm not sure what part of it is cynical versus subliminal, but it seems to work either way. I imagine some professors actively like the opportunity to spend an extra $100 on "conference registration" if it means they get it back in an off-the-books lavish banquet, while others grumble at the extra $100 of their already-tight grant money being wasted. But either the latter category are outnumbered, or the wining-and-dining subconsciously works on them anyway, by making them remember the conference more positively. Possibly there's just something to lavish entertainment making people well disposed to you, even if they know that's what's going on.
This will make me very, very happy. It matches almost exactly with my workflow for using email: certain people (customers) get written back as soon as I check email, other people get responses as time permits, and then I get some notifications which I don't typically act on but do appreciate having surfaced somewhere (e.g. "You sold something" or "Here's your receipt.").
>So what? If you think that karma means something significant, you're doing it wrong.

I find it interesting that expressing this opinion is one of the surest ways I know to gain a negative score for your comment.
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Anybody else got the auto-playing music? For a while couldn't figure out where it was coming from, then I saw the red sign for the new Priority Inbox and at first selected "No thanks" but that did nothing, and not until I accepted to turn it on did the music stop.

A bug? or some Google's programmer idea of being "helpful" or "funny"? I did not appreciate it.
To expound upon this, we have no reason to believe the jellyfish even knows what's going on, let alone cares. They don't even have a central nervous system- WORMS and FLEAS are more likely to have an opinion on the matter than a jellyfish.
You described gender as "cultural conventions". Which sort of assumes an answer to the nature/nurture debate; thus my reply.
Can someone explain what "social server-provisioning" means?

Are you making server-provisioning "social" or are you provisioning a "social server"?
I published a technical book at the age of 21. While I didn't make much money, the publisher (who has since been bought and sold 3 times I think) certainly wined and dined me at every conference and event that I went to. Great meals and all the free booze I could drink. Not to mention the chance to flirt with the always really attractive editors they sent out to work these things.

It sure made an impression on 21 year old me. There didn't seem to be a lot in it for the publisher (other than keeping their writers happy I suppose). It wasn't like my book was very successful. Hell it wasn't very good at all. At 21 I had the knowledge, but lacked the work-ethic to really put the time into it.

I always wonder if that's all this really is. Folks who have the money looking for an excuse to spend it (and make some kids year). I'm not sure it's a big plot to make them dependent on the job. I really think that people, generally, like to throw money around.
Actually, we do track your game state along with everyone else's. Thanks for playing!
Very high on our list of post-competition features. Not just for the usability; we also think the game board would make an gigantic, amazing poster. ;)
Ask HN:  When does programming start to make sense?
How long did it take before you could write code on your own? Every time I try to learn programming, it feels painfully slow compared to other things I've picked up. Maybe I'm the opposite of a natural. I took C++ in college and studied Ruby & PHP on my own.
I've just tried to watch one video -- Carnot cycle.

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/carnot-cycle-and-carnot-eng...

I've read the first book of the Feynman lectures during the last six months, only for fun, to compare the insights of Feynman with the education I've received during my school time, twenty years ago.

In that lecture Khan was ALMOST right, but I think it's not good. He mentions in one moment "the energy given to the system was the higher potential energy of the rocks" which is wrong. There's no the same amount of rocks, so the energy of the remaining (less) rocks is the same as the energy of more rocks before in the process he described.

Feynman's approach to actually understand that the energy transferred was to "speed up" the movement of the gas molecules is right, this is not.

He also "derives" the formula with delta U = Q - ... where he should have just written Q = ... because that was what was intentionally done.

So I'm not satisfied, I believe Khan was able to deliver much better lecture had he first prepared himself a little more. Maybe using some simpler book as the start but using Feynman for the insight to be able to explain what's really going on.
Heh. That was from my misunderstanding of the rules of that, er, other tile-based word game. I'll fix it post-competition when we can deploy changes to the app. Thanks for playing!
You are misinformed. At the vast majority of college/university-level schools, the faculty incentives run strongly toward research and weakly (or not at all) towards teaching. It is definitely not the case that the grants-and-papers types gravitate to "scientist" positions in preference to "professor" positions.

Put another way, if you are someone who is primarily interested in teaching at the college/university level, and are not as interested in research ("grants and papers"), there are very, very, very few stable employment opportunities for you.
Can you show what you do? Is this VM provisioning or is it something that runs scripts on my server or is it a dependency management program like Apt/RPM?

I need screenshots and more explanation (without having to apply for the beta program)
Can you define what you mean by 'on your own'?
I think you have touched on something here. As you mentioned as well, what ultimately frustrated the individual who posted IAMA, is not that the content was hastily put together or is even inaccurate, in fact it was very carefully crafted with the intention of being interesting. As such, infographics have become a viable medium that people like and share, and the sum of the message/information is easily shareable on blogs (which is why most on the web are long and skinny)...most people wouldn't grab an entire article to repost on their tumblr or whatever, but a whole graphic looks cool on their site. Like you mentioned, this is the simple formula, but in itself isn't malicious anymore than realizing that people like big photos and funny videos and link to controversial/inciteful headlines.

That said, these campaigns have been tremendously successful even using completely irrelevant topics to gain links back to sites for very important keywords, and the content is not showing them to be an authority in their niche, be it financial or insurance or travel or gambling...they have shown that they can attract attention very well, that they are VERY good at SEO, and that they can (some of the time at least) design decent looking content.

I do agree with the individual answering the IAMA that it is an example of the internet being broken, and I found myself wondering if/hoping that somehow Matt Cutts would have a dream that would allow him to teach the Google bots to crawl a .png file to determine if the content in the graphic was relevant to the term in the links (or hello, at least the freaking title?). I am a co-founder of a company that creates infographics along with written content as part of an overall social media strategy and we spend a great deal of time finding the balance for each client between content that has mass appeal and content that relates to their core customer base/readership. You have to bring in new people somehow, but as many people have learned, irrelevant content doesn't convert, which is why so many people either craft content with no intention of converting and simply say 'social media traffic doesn't convert' or rank sites to sell them to someone who knows how to monetize them down the road (assuming these SEO rankings hold up).

Finally though - if it builds a site's reputation for being a relevant resource for interesting and useful content that does do the job of educating, it is ok if it looks pretty and does it with chart junk no matter how many purists out there say they would rather just pop open the .csv
Ask HN: how do you decide when to quit, stick or pivot
The single hardest question in the startup world for me is, when to quit/pivot/stick.

1. Stick (keep pushing forward; it's too early to quit)
2. Pivot (change the product, but stay in the same industry)
3. Quit

I'm thinking of putting my recently relaunched startup iSound.com back to side project status - which essentially means quitting (at least as a business).

Most great companies take years to build, so is moving on after a few months myopic?

The numbers tell me to move on and so does my gut.
I've been doing startups for 6 years with some success so it's not a work ethic thing. I actually have a problem (to a fault) quitting before something is "done."

How do you personally decide when to quit/pivot etc?

PS: The book "the dip" by seth godin and is about this, but I didn't find it helpful.
There will almost inevitably eventually be an enterprising district attorney who uses "The defendant's computer is configured to automatically prioritize his email by his interests. We obtained a warrant for, and received, the contents of the defendant's inbox. The subject line of his most important email of the day: Lurid Kiddie Porn."

It will probably be used against someone who actually has bona fide interest in child pornography. Probably.

After all, cache contents and network logs are used to help convict people all of the time. Most of them are factually guilty, but the legal system probably does not see eye to eye with technically inclined members of this audience as to whether cache contents mean that someone intended or attempted to view the cached content.
I was actually already using my inbox as todo list with the Multiple Inboxes lab feature, using labels "Need Reply" or "To Do" for the emails and use filters to address them to the multiple inboxes.
You should change your idea when you (a) have new one you're convinced is better, and (b) it won't cost too much to switch to it (e.g. because it overlaps a lot with your current idea).

Harder to say when to quit. I suppose you quit when you can't take it anymore. Which means deciding that depends less on the product than on you.
Thanks for the detailed comment. Here are answers to some of them.

1. You can forward emails too - we process those emails and setup documents for them. Right now that feature is very raw but we are working hard to get it upto the mark.
2. We do setup online account for services. Not all services are yet setup but they would be soon enough.
3. There are status indicators for online services. Not sure how you missed them. Perhaps lot of work needs to go into getting UI right.

Great suggestions for future developments, surely we will look into them.
I KNEW that nick looked familiar. Though this probably isn't the place for it, I felt the need to tell you that your "Advice for Grad School Applications" essay was my bible for apps last December. I just moved to palo alto and will buy you a beer any time you want.
It took me a long, long time until I became reasonably confident that most problems would eventually succumb to my programming ability. Probably almost twenty years from when I wrote my first program, or a few years after college.

I can't write code on my own, though -- unless the problem is trivial and the APIs I'm using I know like the back of my hand, I need an Internet connection to do it.

Part of this issue is possibly that competent people are disproportionately stalked by the worry that they're secretly incompetent.
Yeah, I've been doing something similar myself as well http://cl.ly/96b0317654f02721b1bd
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Ask HN: How to be successful online without SEO bullshittery?
This is a hot topic near and dear to my heart.

I create a site 4 years ago that I've been writing on every since... there are probably near 2000 articles on it. Everything from fixing your MTU settings on your Q1000 modem to Java framework tips I find handy to years worth of game and movies reviews to hilarious cat pictures.

It's just anything and everything I've ever found interesting written in a slightly more professional manner than "stream of thought" with a small amount of attention paid to titles and internal links only when appropriate and valuable (I HATE how sites like Engadget inner-link every keyword for Google sake).

My understanding was always that "If I wrote it, they will come".

4 years later and that's not the case at all... I seem to be hitting a goddamn glass ceiling that I cannot figure out for the life of me why it exists or who is imposing it and I want to scream.

This topic on Reddit recently:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_game_digg_using_infographics_voting/

Got my ire up... then combined with typical junk search results I see on Google in any given day for a legit topic I'm searching for and I'm coming to the conclusion that you just can't win online unless you are an SEO-douchebag.

When was the last time you searched for something technical and found a CNET link and headed over only to notice it's a landing page that says "We didn't review this BUT we reviewed..." and has 97 links to other things on the site?

What the fuck.

Is this the only way to succeed now with this content diarrhea mill that is the web?
Nobody compiles Chromium that way — it has a dependency on libavcodec (ffmpeg), and everyone just links it with the version already installed on their system.

If you're a freetard running gNewSense, you'll only have support for WAV, Vorbis, and Theora in OGG containers. Everyone else will have support for every codec under the sun.
Ultra-short "Thank you" posts are basically spam. They clutter the page visually without adding any content. I tend to downvote them when I see them. If you don't have anything more than "thank you" or "I agree" or "lol wtf +1" to say, just upvote instead of commenting. Those types comments add nothing to the discussion but take valuable visual space that could instead contain a thoughtful, well argued comment.
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Correct, except that Theora (née VP3) is really a 2000-era codec (and one of the worst of its generation)
Sounds like a security risk to me. If someone tricks you into starting this they could follow you to other websites and collect data.
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Gmail is starting to remind me more and more why I like free software so much: I want the ability to hack it to do what I want. The feature I'm desperate for is to have it use specific email addresses with specific people: dedasys.com for most correspondence, gmail with family, maybe hecl.org for that mailing list, and so on. Sure you can change it manually, but it's a pain in the neck.

The reason I don't run my own email any more though, is that the real killer feature of gmail is the spam detection. That makes me willing to put up with their control of my mail.
Regarding the dictionaries it's much more easier to use them in electronic form. Even when reading normal books I'm sometimes trying to "search" a word in a text :)
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For what it's worth, it took me several years before I really understood programming. I distinctly remember thinking that I wasn't making progress, and that I was wasting my time writing silly programs that didn't do anything useful.

However, eventually things start to click (though it took me several years). You'll get to a point where things make sense, and you can fathom how you'd go about writing most of the software you use on a daily basis.
Picked up a few books, wrote basic programs, etc. When it got harder, found ways to ask people questions. I usually get frustrated when it comes to solving puzzles that aren't linear programs.
Is there some kind of limit to the number of postings an application can make on your wall? I.e. "x posts per hour"?
And again, the community of learners can be better found in for quite a few on the internet, (especially tech fields) than a random sampling of a university classroom. Plus stuff like tech can be very solitary for large periods of time.
Sounds like collaboration on Chef/puppet scripts?
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There is a happy middle ground somewhere between "SEO douchebag" and "engineer scornful of effective marketing."

Why should Google pick your review for e.g. Scott Pilgrim over every other review on the Internet? Is it better written? Who will attest to that? Is it from a better brand than Rotten Tomatoes or a more trusted voice than Roger Ebert? Is it better designed? Does it have a voice or perspective that speaks to an audience which Rotten Tomatoes and Ebert tragically ignore? If it does, why aren't people mentioning so?

Go down the line for everything else you do: is this the best cat picture on the Internet? What attests to that? Is this the best Java framework tips on the Internet? What attests to that?

More broadly, is there a market niche for someone who is a bit of a Java programmer, a bit of a film critic, and a bit of a cat photographer, and will it support you against the competition from people who make it their mission in life to do funny cat photos?

Also, is it a good idea to get into these particular niches? LOLcats are are commodity business: any idiot can make them, many do. Reviews are a commodity business unless you are Roger Ebert: I can't name another reviewer in the entire world, and if you randomly pulled sentences from your review and the 15 other reviews of Scott Pilgrim that I read because I have far too much free time, I think it is highly unlikely that I will be able to identify your review. Or anyone else's, except Ebert.

Java programming tips are, potentially, not a commodity business. You could either go StackOverflow (community, comprehensiveness, etc are value adds) or you could go Subject Domain Expert For Japanese Entrance Examination File Formats in Java. But, at the other end of the scale, "opinions about the new Java release from someone who is not Knuth, Gosling, or Alan Turing back from the dead" is a commodity business.

Commodity businesses are bad places to be if you want quality to win out, because minute differentiations in quality are essentially unimportant in commodity businesses. There are many, many IP-based businesses where minute differentiations in quality mean 100x differences in returns. If you like quality, you probably want to be in one of those instead.

"If I wrote it, they will come" is not a marketing strategy.
This is completely off-topic, but how do you format your comment to force mono-spaced font?

I haven't been able to find an instructions on what formatting can be used in comments, like to quote a previous post, for example.