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although I share your hope that people would think more about the implications of their online actions, I'm way more pessimistic even if this is covered in popular main stream media. the numer of people really thinking about such things out of the very few actually reading this in the media, I sadly suppose, is/would be insignificantly low.
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The obvious disadvantage is that if you do hire a really good developer for a short project, they will have to start looking for their next contract almost straight away, and so you are likely to miss out on converting them to full time. By the time you've figured out they're good at what they do, they have another offer (at contracting rates).
Maybe its about time HN had a CAPTCHA on their submit form.
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And they are also hiring a CrunchBase Manager. So it really looks like they are putting resources on it.

http://www.crunchboard.com/opening/detailjob.php?jid=8800
Hello!!! Has anybody hacked the site yet? Perhaps it would be nasty to delete all database tables but at least some sort of update would be funny?
I agree with some of this article, even though it seems it's fairly tongue-in-cheek.

The problem isn't accessibility - the problem is (mindless) venture capital. There are people with money (and low wisdom / experience) who have learnt that you can invest in tech and make a huge return - in some cases, this has taken the focus away from creating sustainable and useful businesses.

Perhaps hackers are simply the cogs in the wheels of modern finance?
it's great! I follow from Hungary!! THX!!!

(I missed right now... is there a problem with streaming?)
There is a really simple solution to the problem that color tries to solve: Put your phone away, go to the group of people you want to interact with and say Hello. This is something that can be practiced and improved over time. You might feel like an idiot for the first 5 times or 10 times. Or even 50 times. Who cares? I can go up to anyone and talk to them, so can you. It's a matter of practice.

Hiding behind a stupid app that lets you see pictures of the people around you doesn't solve the problem of social interaction in any way, because you are still separated from them until you walk up and say Hi. What the app really does is make you complacent in your comfort zone.

It's kind of funny that the author talks about proximity, since proximity truly benefits the most of having real people around you and interacting with them in the good old fashioned way. Talking to the guys, flirting a bit with the ladies. There is really no need for an additional layer of abstraction (like the Color app).
Why does HN give karma points for submitting articles?

That's never made any sense to me. All it does is encourage this kind of behavior, where you submit everything you can find in the hopes of gaining points. You haven't really contributed anything valuable, since good articles tend to find their way here on their own.

Karma for comments makes sense. You can look at somebody's average and it gives you a sense of what sort of things they're posting. It actually measures something.

If somebody posts a cheap attack on one of your comments, you can click their username, notice that they have a 1.9 average, and go about your day knowing that they're probably just angry with the world in general. On the other hand if they have an average score of 8.6, you might want to read what they said again and see if they were actually right.

Karma from article submissions, on the other hand, tells you nothing useful about the submitter. Any chance we can disassociate upvotes on articles from user karma?
Seems pretty awesome, I like it! I don't suppose you would consider making something similar for us go players, would you? ;P
Not a bad collection. Another good resource I use: http://www.iconfinder.com/

Smashing Mag also posts good stuff from time to time.
Ask HN: Is there an Angel List for acquisitions?
Or put another way, is there an efficient way to get your startup onto the market for acquisition.

Some background. We've built a 3d browser-game service that is monetizing well and has great new tech. We have about 0.5M users so far. Unfortunately our cash window is running low and want to reach out to acquirers in addition to investors, which is going slow. I'd guess our value around few million dollars as a technology/service play for web/game companies.

Any recommendations?
Not sure if you're still following this thread, but another major factor is that only a very small percentage of hands actually have much monetary significance. At a full table in limit Hold 'Em, a strong player will fold ~80-85% of his hands preflop, and of those that go to the flop, only ~40% of those go to a showdown, and only a fairly small percentage of those are medium to large pots.

Luck on these bigger pots has a huge impact on overall win rate, but in a set of 100,000 hands, you may only be involved in 2-3000 of them, and you may only expect to win something like 400 or 500 (very rough estimates). Maybe that helps explain why there's more variance than you might expect in a seemingly large sample.
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It might be interesting to hide total karma score from users. I guess that if we don't know our total karma score the karma harvesting will stop but keep the points for submissions and comments so there's still the incentive to contribute good material (the pride of seeing your comment/submission being upvoted).

What do you think?

edit: the first version didn't make much sense, I got interrupted in the middle of the message
C++ cannot be explained fully with simple and safe C code. For example, theoretically one could implement the most basic usage of templates with macros; it would however not be easy to work with (error message in the wrong places) and it would still not emulate e.g. template specialization.
What I found is that passion is one of those things that always seems excessive in retrospect and insufficient going forward. When I reflect on my periods of professional exuberance, I am always struck by how much I missed out being with my family and friends. Likewise, in the times of lull I am always guilt tripping myself about not being passionate enough, or not giving it my all.

Ultimately, the right balance depends on your own perspective on life, which in term depends on your age, personality, family situation, etc. But the older I get the more convinced I become that you can't go wrong if you err on the side of life.
I think Amazon and Apple should just start their own record label, save a fortune by cutting out the sleazy middle-men and give artists a much bigger % cut from albums to attract hoards of artists. Why wouldn't it work?
How come they are calling so many businesses if the press keep on saying businesses are queuing to get listed on Groupon in the first place?
It's strange that I've never once heard anyone claim that the weird US phone networks have given Apple an advantage.

Imagine if your broadband provider forced you to spend at least $600 dollars on a laptop every two years. You could spend a bit more and so get a $1000 dollar laptop for "only" $400 dollars, or you could get a $600 laptop for "free", and laptops below $600 dollars simply wouldn't make sense, and neither would sticking with your current device (note you're only allowed to connect one device at time, two devices need two broadband connections). You'd be throwing away money in that scenario since they'd still charge you the $600 dollars over your contract term and it would make complete sense for you as an individual to upgrade each time to another high-end machine (even though Europeans would be completely baffled by your collective behaviour and your insistence that mid-range Acer and Asus machines are "free" and therefore "worthless" since they buy their computers and broadband connections separately, or at least if bundled they get an appropriate discount for buying less expensive machines).

In that kind of distorted market I can imagine Apple doing quite well, since their competitors would be forced to compete on their mid-to-high-end terms, on their home turf, in a market quite unlike that of other nations.
In my experience, Google was the only one.
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You could rephrase that question as: why do companies charge what the market can bear?
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No. The article states that Apple has priced their tablet $100 cheaper than the first iPad; it surmises due to high competition in the marketplace, Apple have adjusted their pricing structure to gain a competitive advantage.

This is a premise and it's also incorrect.

The iPad is being sold at the same price as the previous offering. They haven't adjusted their pricing strategy.
Will this be available online?(of course it will, I mean legally) No cable/dish for me.
Better type safety is possible in C++ than in C.
Unfortunately this model doesn't seem to work. If you look at what's getting votes it's things like pictures of girls and kittens.
At the cost of violating everyone's right to privacy? It should not be a cash cow if it's as unethical as that.
I actually like this quite a bit. Straightforward and short, but for a student like me who really loves working at startups, its a good refresher on what makes a compelling candidate for startups that are recruiting.

I've only had two positions related to Product, so the only (limited) advice I'd have to add from that perspective is that, you should understand the landscape very well and keep very up to date with the news. This will help you to have a high-level understanding of where the company and its product stands with regards to the users as well as competitors. Providing high level analysis and feedback on the spot (during an interview) speaks louder than anything you can put on your resume.
The bots are doing nothing 'wrong' as such. There are certain feeds from where >90% of the material ends up on HN. If somebody writes a bot to auto-submit items from that feed, it's helping HN be faster in accessing new and (mostly) relevant posts. What is not relevant should (in principle) not reach the home page.

The problem is that submission is winner takes all, i.e. first submitter reaps all the upvotes. Also, HN does not reward finding new sources of material more than posting from the predictable sources.

The logical endpoint of these two facts is auto-submission bots rising to the top of the Karma tables. If Karma is used as a way of anti-gaming (need karma threshold to downvote, etc.) then this is a way to circumvent that for a sufficiently motivated manipulator. They can make a bot that auto-submits from the known sources, and use it to build up an arbitrary number of accounts, from which they can then boost the articles they want (or bury the comments they don't like). For all we know, this could already be the case.

I have two suggestions that can sidestep this problem to a certain extent:

1. Reward articles from predictable sources less than articles from rare sources.

2. Split the karma benefit between the first submitter and the people who upvoted the article early (of course, this needs to take into account how selectively and successfully the user upvotes to avoid blanket upvoting 'just in case').

This all is still gameable, but probably not as easily.
I understand your intentions but I don't think that's a good solution because it will still submit items to the 'news' page that are not always 'up to standards', giving them at least one upvote. That's roughly 25% of what's needed to get an item to the homepage, so only 3 more (bot)votes and it's done, once an article hits the homepage it is likely to stay there for a while. All this would do is add one more bot to the race and thus increase the problem.

Not having those items on the 'news' page would seem to be the best solution.

Really, people should at least read the articles they submit and judge them for content before submitting them to HN, especially when they're associated with the better known (ex)HN'ers.

Probably Sivers, Patio11, Tptacek or any one of the people that seem to be featured a lot here could write an article about 'Condé Nast acquiring HN' (in a desperate move to re-acquire Reddits' audience that has left for HN, thereby realizing the fears of all true Hackers, the proof that this would make 'HN more like Reddit' is left for the reader) (there goes my April 1 post ;)) and it would get upvoted without much consideration.

One possible (technical) solution would be to let the karma boost be dependent on the average of all posts from a domain, submit a 'below average' link and your karma will drop!
It's the 'y' sound that pronouncing 'u' like 'you' causes.

Your rule is too general though.

A uniform.
An understanding.

(note that the u in understanding doesn't have a y sound to start it)
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The difficulty in reporting on radiation is trying to provide useful information to an audience unfamiliar with the field. In my opinion the trick becomes to explain the levels in a context the audience can understand so that you don't have to first cover:

1. Differing units (grays, sieverts, rem), prefixes (micro, milli...), and rates (instantaneous measure expanded to hourly rate, hourly average, year).

2. How you come in contact with radiation (consumption/direct contact of radioactive material, exposure).

3. Alpha, Beta, and Gamma radiation.

4. The linear no-threshold model of risk applied to ionizing radiation. (And the debate surrounding this.)

5. Background radiation.

6. Localized radiation versus full-body exposure. (thyroid, radiation therapy).

7. The limited number of data points we actually have.

8. Logarithms. (Radiation typically being presented on a logarithmic scale.)

And I'm sure that I've missed including things that are useful to helping understand radiation. All of this combines to make it really easy to post alarmist numbers (100 times normal radiation levels!) that may still be well under accepted values.

A project I worked on to help try and address providing context is here: http://www.radiationinfo.org
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Hilarious as in slightly amusing perhaps.

tldr; disappointing book with too much froth and not enough content, rather like their dreadful coffee
Ah yes, I had forgotten that resubmission counts as additional votes. I agree - it's not an ideal situation if posts get on the home page purely from automated submissions.
CAPTCHA sounds like a reasonable solution.

Submitting content for sake of karma is spamming, no matter who wrote the content. Why not share with others something you think they will find useful or noteworthy? People tend to ask themselves first WIIFM and if they find the benefit, they share. Let us remember that sharing is about others.
Didn't pg admit that he uses karma as a criteria in evaluating yc applications? If so that was just an invitation to a bunch of smart hackers to try to game the system.
Their stream broke and they restarted, if you scroll a little there's a link to a video marked "live" which gets you the current live stream
In Ireland, an english speaking eurozone country, we say "a euro"
Users do have to be logged in to submit articles, so action could be taken against people (or bots) that submitted too many articles that were made dead or did not receive a large number of points.
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Surfacing good links is part of the attraction of HN. Taking away the karma benefit for link sharing would lessen the incentive to share articles that don't actually need any discussion.
why lossless formats aren't available yet?

The general public doesn't care
Work/Life Balance is fundamentally a personal thing. If you make it a priority, you can take it with you anywhere you go.

When I talk to a potential employer, I make a point of telling them that I work 40 hour weeks and I take a lot of time off. I've gone so far as to negotiate away my stock options in favor of extra paid holiday and the ability to take unpaid leave. Even when working for startups that think they're in crunch mode (and have been for the last 6 months), I make Life a priority.

Where I can, I try to spread the faith. Surprisingly, I've never experienced a case where I couldn't fix things and had to leave.

Stress is infectious. But so is Sanity. I've walked into shops where 60 hour weeks were the norm and managed to infect the team with the concept of Work/Life balance. First, you introduce the idea of "the weekend", where I'm living the back of my truck next to a crag someplace (and so should you), so don't try to contact me. Then you bring in "leave at six", then eventually "40 hour weeks". All the while keeping the rest of the team on board with the idea that maybe we should have lives apart from work.

Eventually, you have a whole team working 40 hour weeks and not looking so unhealthy. Some of whom even have stories to tell when you ask what they did for the weekend. Better still, if everybody is slacking off at a sane pace, there's really nothing that management can do about it (except notice how much more work is getting done).
I think they're trying to enable "introverts," give them confidence and an icebreaker to approach people around them. Your solution, "put away your phone" is easier said than done, especially for introverts. Personally I hate being glued to my phone in public as many people are, because it reminds me of how far apart people are by using their phone as a crutch to not interact.

Its hard to predict how color might affect an outdoor street atmosphere, but their goals are admirable.
It's bad for the same reason that leaking a midterm you just took for the benefit of fellow students is not helpful for those trying to conduct a test.
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> Any chance we can disassociate upvotes on articles from user karma?

Or consider making it logarithmic. Something like pi * log(x) is geeky and would reward a good submission without going overboard.
Another sensationalist headline with no real data to back up a big claim. For all we know, it could very well be true; for all we know, it could be far from the truth. It probably is.

Besides, wouldn't you think they call several companies more than once? We're talking about auto-dialers here...
A nice, concise explanation on why MS keeps missing revolution after revolution.
Your two cents worth literally; although at the current Bitcoin exchange rate [1] a typical post/comment/vote on witcoin.com costs USD 0.079.

[1] http://www.bitcoincharts.com/markets/
It may not work. It's still too early to tell. If you look at other content sites that have tried to pay out to contributors (think Mahalo), their models didn't work either. Huffington post finds more success by paying nothing.
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The karma matters precisely because it can't be bought (not in any ordinary way, at least). It represents peer acclaim (or conformity to groupthink). If it was bought and sold, the basis for its value would evaporate.
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great website!

one suggestion though: as I move the slider in Siever scale, the number display isn't as smooth as it could be because the number of decimal places varies and the text is aligned in the center.
> When your house is on fire, you don't pause to fold your socks.

What if the only way to douse the fire is to convince the firefighters that your house is worth saving?
Your ideas are designed around being able to do business like this, rightly or wrongly others go into over ambitious ideas undermanned and the long hours are probably the only way they are going to pull it off.
The difference is their money comes from ad revenue not from the users themselves. Didnt huffington post sell for quite a lot of money to AOL and the people who actually built it got nothing ?
Allow me to extol the virtues of bitcoin over the current credit-card/banking based payment system.

1)Hard money, once you receive payment in bitcoin it stays with you, meaning no chargebacks(Paypal, credit cards, looking at you).

2)Fast payment, you can recieve payment within minutes of it being made(sometimes faster, but more on this in a moment).

3) Low barriers of entry, to start accepting bitcoin you don't need a bank account, or even your own computer. You can use one of a number of free(or cheap) online services such as mybitcoin.com or just go ahead and install it on your machine.

4) No red tape, this is slightly related to the above but important enough to warrant it's own point. With bitcoin there are no forms, no regulations, no paperwork. You can send bitcoin to anyone, anywhere, anytime, any amount and no one will care or track you, or freeze your account or any of the other issues when dealing with the current banking system.

5)It's the most innovative financial ecosystem on the planet and evolving damn fast. Because there is no regulation, it's easy to start writing applications that use bitcoin. Services and goods are springing up at an astounding rate.

Now you may say that payments take minutes, but creditcards are instantanious this is true (to a certain extent, at least with payment confirmation). However because of the flexibility of bitcoin, it's ease of development a technical solution to this issue will arrise in the near future(next two to three months).

Right now bitcoin is small, but it's growing fast, real fast, and faster than the growth of bitcoins themselves or even it's users are the services and goods that are springing up around it.

In a years time bitcoin is going to be so easy to use people like your grandmother are going to wonder why they ever bothered with credit-cards(or online banking) at all.

Sexy no?
This is true, but its also true that a lot of times these bots will get to these articles first, and then because they come from a well-known or respected domain, they just get tons of upvotes anyways.

There's two separate problems: too much dead content, which imo, is ok, because the good stuff will usually rise to the top - you need some junk to find the gems; and bots automatically picking up and submitting content - no human discernment as to whether the link is actually HN-worthy. I think the mindlessness is more the issue being addressed here
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No, he said that karma as nothing to do with YC application, but that if he sees an application from a user that he knows from HN to be a smart guy, he will look at it more specifically.

In other words, interesting, on-topic, and frequent comments are important, not your absolute karma number, even though of course you're likely to have a high karma if you're a frequent poster of good comments.

That's also why the average is more important than the absolute karma.
SICP covers this too: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-28.html...

The references are better than the posted link.

I have found a couple of uses for this in the past and deparately tried to port the examples to C# (unsuccessfully).
They're still obsessed with this "whole house is a computer" idea it seems. This isn't what people want. People like different devices to do different things. This thing is for calling people, this (tablet) is for reading the web, this thing is for music, this is for building software. It's what we're used to.

I've never seen a hammer that was also a screw driver that was also a level. The fact that I've never seen one I would have to assume that if anyone did try to make such a thing no one bought it.