skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you need to truly defeat this sort of spam is personalization, AKA recommendation,

If the top news stories are personalized to your interests, it is more difficult to game the system.

In particular, consider this scenario: I get a news result from a voting ring, and it ranks high because they all voted. But then I downvote the article because it is not interesting to me, Afterwards, the voting ring's weight is diminished in my personalized news feed. Hence, they cannot artificially rank articles for you,

I would argue that without some personalization, it is impossible to 100% avoid spam. Because if you treat there as being one objective lense, it is hard to discriminate between legitimate overlapping interests and colluders who share their authority.
I suspect that the article portrays the handpicked most bizarre 1% of the visitors, while to the other 99%, it's no different than people booking a trip to Paris because they've watched "The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain".
Maybe they're Buddhists.
> competitors in a bicycle sprint who deliberately ride slowly at the start so they can follow whoever breaks first.

This generally happens either in track racing (where they have a small oval track to race around) or in small groups. Usually the track, though - in the small group, the guys who are not good sprinters will try and take off before things get too slow. If there's a big group, there'll be guys working to pull their sprinter to the line going as fast as possible.

Tactics in road bike racing can be quite complex and are part of what make the sport more interesting than a simple contest of athletic ability.
Is Drupal's cron.php being hit every hour? If yes, my guess is that it's related to an errant Drupal module. You can try isolating this by grepping for hook_cron in your contrib folder. When you have a list of likely culprits, you can check their corresponding issue queues on Drupal.org or just dig into the code.

Either way, it's likely a bad Apache configuration. Try posting in the Drupal.org support forums. You're likely to get the help you need without being charged for it. The Drupal community likes to help its own, so I suggest posting in the Chicago group at groups.drupal.org/chicago, too.
Challenging project for sure, I'd actually be quite interested in the data mining techniques employed, but I guess that any private company who'd even research such a thing would be considered as evil as they go...

Say what you will about google - at least they provide an opt-out option...
NoScript is a symptom, not a cure. I haven't yet figured out a good name for the disease though.
To be honest I wouldn't mind a bit of management, something like team leading - the 60/40 technical / management split. It's the 0 / 100 split that's getting me down.
I think it's all in the freshness. My parents grow their own fruit and vegetables which taste amazing. The ones you buy in the shop, having probably been left in cold storage for who knows how long, are dull and uninspiring in comparison.

I speculate that the varieties are different too. A carrot grown for a supermarket has to have properties that its home-grown cousin needn't, for instance a uniform size and shape to facilitate packaging, and not shrivelling after a week in storage. These probably win over taste when it comes to selecting the variety.
Equality and Access are two important factors behind Twitter success. Unlike Facebook and other social networking platform, I do not need permission from a celebrity to add him as friend, before I can send him message. It also doesn't stop me in following anybody. Without that permission, everyone is at same level. So reiterate, Equality and Access are two important factors behind Twitter success apart from some other points discussed here.
Does YC have a standard template for the convertible notes being used this round?

Would you mind making it public, as you did with the Series AA documents (http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html)?
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They also break the "scroll one whole page at a time" paradigm that many are used to.

EDIT:

I just realized that Chrome devs have apparently already decided that it's not worth fighting the idiotic bars, so Chrome scrolls less than one page.
It's interesting to me that Kuro5hin in its heydey had relatively few problems with voting rings, despite having a purely voting-driven front page. There are probably some reasons involving community size and dynamics, but my guess is that the biggest one is the fact that the site was organized around submission of original articles to Kuro5hin, as opposed to submission of links. That raises the buy-in stakes beyond what people only interested in promotion are willing to spend time on, as well as lowering the potential gains from promotion (you got your article read, but directly on k5, not via traffic to any monetizable endeavor of yours). The fact that all votes were public may have had an effect as well, making any sort of collusion easier to spot.
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As far as I can tell, Scribd's primary business model is monetizing pirated content.

I agree completely.

The entire system appears designed to take advantage of the fact that users will upload just about anything, and the rights holders have to actively monitor the whole of the internet for each possible infraction to protect their rights.
Facebook is algorithmically deleting fast growing applications
Just last week I found a research paper I published while at Cornell on Scribd -- no attribution at all, no permissions, etc. It's a paper that in normal circulation costs $50 to purchase (and has been purchased a few thousand times -- whether $50 is reasonable or not is a discussion for another thread, of course).

I considered letting my editor know about it to see if she wanted me to request it be taken down, but then I figured I'd rather more people see the paper anyway so left it alone.
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So is it end days for the app economy? I quit developing mobile apps (J2ME) when it became clear that to make money you had to be endorsed by operators. And operators wouldn't even talk to you if you weren't a multi-million Euro company. Maybe it is inevitable that any market turns into that after a while.

So good-bye to the idea of the indie app developer...
I have no doubt that for what it is this is a well designed piece of software, but, I'm gong to stick my neck out and say that purely for reasons of scalability a web server written in Ruby just doesn't seem like a sensible choice.
The iPad app works in 'layers' in the sense that each time you drill down into something (a tweet, a user account, etc.), it shows that on top of what you were doing before, but still shows a slim strip on the left so that you can go back to where you were.

There's no mixing around, and everything's entirely linear. That's different from a windowing system, in which several different things are clamoring for your attention and mixing together.
This is one of the HN's best thread ever. Thanks, thanks, thanks to everyone for sharing.

As Gabriele D'Annunzio used to say: "I own what I've given away."
I respectfully disagree, Paul. Startups going through your program are rated "Grade A Prime" because of your vetting process. Any angel worth his salt in the Valley will talk to a YC company, if for the only reason of not to cheese you off.

A lot of the guys attending Hackers and Founders aren't quite so luck. If you're starting from scratch and going from two guys in a garage, through, getting introductions and meetings with individual angels, and raising a round that way, I it tends to take a lot longer than a couple of weeks. That is, if you are able to raise money at all.

At least that's my birds eye view from the guys attending Hackers and Founders.
The problem, of course, is that you should've been the one making the decision in the first place.
http://www.khanacademy.org/#Finance

I understood all of it since I had watched these videos for the past 2 days.
I thought it was mainly C?
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Mongrel2 isn't written in Ruby. It's written in C: http://mongrel2.org/doc/tip/docs/manual/book.wiki#x1-110002
Is this a quote from someone else?

Also, "does seem like a sensible choice"?

Apart from that, it's completely written in C and uses language-agnostic ZeroMQ to pass "requests" back to the handler than can be written in any language with a ZeroMQ library (pretty much all of them).
I saw a demo of Mongrel2, and it's really slick. Lots of new concepts to get behind, which is both scary and exciting.

There's no way I can use it for anything remotely close to production but I have some hobby ideas baking...
A little idea to resolve special m:n relations a bit different with MySQL
An approach to resolve many-to-many relations without an additional table.
Several diet books I read actually advise against carrots (maybe they are high in fructose? forgot the reason), so I was expecting this to be serious.
Sorry, I don't actively use dribbble myself. I recommended it based on the opinion of a very good graphic designer, who swears by it.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1655387
I'm strangely disappointed - I have no idea who the guy is (hoped it was an F1 legend or something), and he was apparently our noses the whole time (appearing in a number of episodes)! Weird that he would out himself though,
There was times where the digit was written, other times where the digit wasn't. Only some people got the password then by word of mouth.

Ward was really willing to do something that could work for blind people as well and there wasn't really audio captcha at that time.

In my mind it didn't work really well as the community was too large, and as a wiki require a great deal of people to have it maintains such a large wiki it essentially collapsed under it's own weight and word of mouth never arrive to me (I was just a lone french with no connexions )

Not knowing whether you were going to be able to modify or not modify it at a time was also very annoying.
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mediawiki it also a very complex wiki, and as it somewhat became the standard, non programmer got afraid by it and didn't want to edit anything by fear of breaking something or not knowing how it work.
Indeed, though that would only fix it for the small percentage of users who are (a.) logged in, and (b.) vote things down.

It wouldn't work on me, for example, because I hardly ever vote on anything here. In the 3 years I've been around I can't imagine I've actually voted down more than a half dozen times.
The comment was on Twitter, I think: http://twitter.com/paulg/status/22551773068

Makes me want to look at the HN source, as I find this problem very interesting. Or hoping for a "plan for voting rings" article :-)
In contrast, since we develop all implementations of Silverlight, we can ensure that it renders the same everywhere.

Poor little Moonlight.
@rem is Remy Sharp, a UK JS developer and organiser of Full Frontal conference.
Since many people have dynamic IPs, I think tracking geolocation patterns of the first 10-ish votes would be enough to distinguish suspect cases and eventually put them 'on-hold' (HN dosen't really need to get stories on the front page as soon as possible, it's not exactly a breaking news site).
Don't give up so soon. There are more potential indie developers than there are mega companies. If mega companies block us from reaching our users we'll find a way to route around them.
No it's not, but this is not a feel-good club either.
In which case I am remiss, although at time if writing it says here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongrel_(web_server) "Mongrel is an open-source HTTP library and web server written in Ruby by Zed Shaw.".
If you factor in the time for shopping and actual cooking, eating out could start looking like a bargain. Assuming that every minute of your life you are earning money, I guess :-)

I haven't read "never eat alone", but suppose every occasion of eating out could be turned into an interesting meeting, it would be even more worthwhile.
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I found the spam comments on the article more interesting than the content.
Mongrel 1.x is not related to Mongrel2.

Mongrel was written by Zed in Ruby. Mongrel2 is a new project.
I love your reply. This is what hacking means: you've found a bug in the system, you go fix it. Hacking is not limited to software.
Mongrel and Mongrel2 are two very different projects that have very little beyond their name, author and the fact that they both are servers in common. They share no code and have very different designs and goals.
A very important difference for me is that jslint is not under a GPL-compatible license. jslint looks like open source, but isn't.

Closure Linter is under Apache v2, which is GPLv3 compatible.
Mongrel2 is a rewrite to be a scalable webserver that's language neutral. Think Apache (without all the pain).

/this note is me sharing what I've learned from zed's tweets, I've not played with the software yet, please correct if wrong.
As far as I can tell, Scribd's primary business model is monetizing pirated content.

So basically it's YouTube, but for documents.
Actually I find that super smart people care very little about money, and more about what they're doing, so that's one reason a lot of them go into academia.

Luckily I'm not super smart so I don't have to spend my days writing papers, instead I write code!
You mean writing blub-like code in Lisp? You probably cannot avoid that on your own unless your name is Guy Steele or someone like him, but by reading non-blub Lisp code you can.
HN may have voting rings, but it still works because it's a niche site, and hackers have strong Internet BS detectors that counter spam/phishing/linkjacking/other mischief relatively effectively. People on HN may be killing time, but the majority still have some quality standards for what they want to read. Gaming HN isn't worth as much because A) there's fewer people, and B) you have to work harder to game it. Other niche sites can easily share this quality.

But for a site like Digg that wants to be the biggest social news site, it's just a race to the bottom. Gaming Digg just requires a tabloid-editor mentality where you figure out the quickest thing that will grab peoples attention and then boost it to the front page.
Twitter used to use Mongrel, but replaced it with Unicorn (uh, another Ruby based server :))

http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/03/unicorn-power.html
Considering Apple has a native way for showing UIViewControllers as windows, overlayed on top of your app, I'll have to disagree with you on that.

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Just take a look at child star actors, and how they turn out in later life!
What exactly do you like about Scribd? Every experience I had with is has been negative. Their reader sucks and to download a pdf you have to register. When somebody posts a link to Scribd I always end up searching for another place on the internet that has it. I don't see any value Scribd provides.
I guess app store updates are not atomic.

Yeah, I was able to get the iPad update by uninstalling the iPhone-only version and reinstalling it, but not through the traditional "Update" tab. Some things start to get strange at the scale of the App Store.
Ye cannae change the laws of physics -- or can you?
Link to previous discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=318827
Rather than lamenting the unfairness of it all, a more productive response might be to hack the system. As I recall, you have a blog post or two about convincing people to give you what you want. (Simplest way: convince them they want to give you what you want.) This is closely related.

All hackers should know how to network, wear a suit (or not), ask for things, make people from outside your socioeconomic background feel like they grew up with you, etc. You will be astonished how much those matter.
I'd rather say "load balancing needs SRV records" http://www.anta.net/nic/draft-andrews-http-srv-01.shtml

Is it widely implemented yet? Why not?
I kinda like the show, but is this HN material? I don't think so.
A few things I found useful:

;; fonts
(if (eq window-system 'x)
(set-default-font "Inconsolata-12"))

;; no tabs, spaces instead!
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

;; Changes all yes/no questions to y/n type
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)

;; default modes
(iswitchb-mode t)
(icomplete-mo)
(column-number-mode)
(ido-mode)
(tabbar-mode)
(winner-mode)

;; ido-mode

;; do not confirm file creation
(setq confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer nil)

;; integrate copy/paste with X
(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
(setq interprogram-paste-function 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value)

;; scroll
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;; save backup files in this directory
(setq backup-directory-alist (quote ((".*" . "~/.emacs.d/backups/"))))

;; global bindings
(global-set-key [C-tab] 'other-window)
(global-set-key "\r" 'newline-and-indent)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-;") 'comment-region)
(global-set-key (kbd "<f8>") '(lambda ()
(interactive)
(split-window-vertically 25)
(other-window 1)
(slime)))

; switch buffer with last previous buffer
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-return>") '(lambda ()
(interactive)
(switch-to-buffer nil)))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-p") 'backward-char)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-S-p") 'previous-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-S-j") 'join-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-<prior>") 'tabbar-forward)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-<next>") 'tabbar-backward)

;; fullscreen on F11
(defun toggle-fullscreen (&optional f)
(interactive)
(let ((current-value (frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen)))
(set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen
(if (equal 'fullboth current-value)
(if (boundp 'old-fullscreen) old-fullscreen nil)
(progn (setq old-fullscreen current-value)
'fullboth)))))

(global-set-key [f11] 'toggle-fullscreen)

http://github.com/kototama/unixconf/blob/master/.emacs
And, on the other hand bacteria from Intoxicated Miner's Spit can be carcinogenic.
I usually leave a site whenever I'm forced to click through pages, unless the content is really compelling (which usually isn't). Moreover, my reading is interrupted by having to wait for the next page to load. The option for a single page is what I look for beforehand. I don't mind all the ads being there. I think the solution would be showing a preview of the article.
Appears that over at Facebook the severity of bugs decreases over time. That "push" has been going on for 1/2 the day. My guess is that the team will fix it in the morning once they feel well rested.

Does anyone actually like working with Facebook's API? I hate it.

On the other hand some APIs give me warm fuzzies like Twilio's. Twitter is also good when it's not down - but at least the company cares and engages with the developer community and lets everyone know what happened and what they're doing to fix it.
My work colleagues aren't even in the same country as my friends and family. The chances of them meeting by random chance is miniscule.
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That a universal 'constant' may vary not just over the age of the universe, but in different directions from 'here', is also an idea in Vernor Vinge's 'Deepness in the Sky'/'Fire Upon the Deep' universe. There, faster-than-light travel and more rapid computation become possible further from each galactic core.

If some physical laws are subject to graduated variation across the universe, the migration of intelligence might be biased in the direction of more-favorable conditions. Perhaps any matrioshka brains with a choice wouldn't be caught dead in our neighborhood.
I believe they share some code (http parser)
Actually it seems to me that affiliate links are the worst way to sell through your blog. Sell your own product. If you don't have a product, build one, around your audience. They like what you write, so some form of ebook makes sense.
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Congrats on the release, Zed!
Then they can sell ebooks or even traditional books through their blog, and/or get their column syndicated by a paying newspaper (as long as those exist).

Note that I'm not saying that paywalls are always going to fail, just that in general the argument "I write good stuff so I should charge for it" is pretty unsteady.
I thought http://www.sparkleshare.org/ was more interesting.
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Ouch, they shipped with a broken fixjsstyle command: http://groups.google.com/group/closure-linter-discuss/browse... Luckily it didn't break my jsfile, but that's kind of clumsy.
I am not sure I understand the issue here. Sure, the AWS ELS offering is lacking and the issues re DNS are known. But just like any of their other offerings why try and shoe horn the product into your requirements. ?

Our service required a load balanced service and just like you we identified the issues and decided we could not live with the limitations.

So we brought up a small instance and run HAProxy on it to do all our load balancing. We assign an Elastic IP and we get to retain control, avoid the DNS issues, do https etc.

Essentially avoiding all the limitations of the Amazon offering.

AWS themselves use HaProxy for Elastic Load balancing and its solid.
According to the Mongrel2 Book (http://mongrel2.org/doc/tip/docs/manual/book.wiki#x1-560005....), there is no pipelining of HTTP requests. Without testing anything for myself, I'm really surprised at this; are the perf gains from pipelining really as negligible as the book says they are?
I've always bought it in pots, not tried it from seed. The pots are really cheap anyway (like $3 equivalent). All they need are watering, and if they die off, just get another pot ...
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Another person being more important is not a "fuck you".