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This reminds me of how Slashdot allows unregistered users to post under the monicker "Anonymous Coward" (AC), and by default gives all such posts a score of 0, while the posts of registered users start off with a score of 1.

Combined with Slashdot's default filtering (only comments highly rated comments are visible by default) and the huge flood of comments that popular stories get, very few people ever read the posts of AC's.

I've never had a Slashdot account myself, and have always posted anonymously. I haven't posted a lot, but I feel the posts I did make were all carefully considered, polite, and contributed to the discussion. But, because of Slashdot's discrimination against anonymous comments, they were rarely upvoted (and therefore rarely read by most users, who have thier comment filters set to only read higher rated comments).

Which is kind of sad, when you consider some of the utter garbage that gets upvoted there all the time, and considering that every comment (no matter how awful) made by a registered user starts off with a higher score by default.

Now that's not to say that Slashdot doesn't have good reason to rate anonymous comments lower than the comments of registered users. There are plenty of anonymous trolls of Slashdot, and that's one way of dealing with them.

That's also not to say that on HN, giving lower default ratings to pseudonymous comments than to comments left by authenticated users would necessarily be a bad thing.

But it should be noted that there are many high quality pseudonymous comments on HN right now (as only a relatively small minority of people use their real names here), and I'm not so sure how the HN community would react if the people who've revealed their names started to dominate the discussions, or if the comments by pseudonymous users were penalized by default.

I suppose that as long as pseudonymous posts weren't censored (as AC posts effectively are through the filtering mechanism on Slashdot), then it wouldn't be so bad. But I have a feeling that such filtering (and effective censorship) will inevitably come to HN sooner or later. And then pseudonymous users would become even more second-class citizens. And to that I'd really have to be opposed.

There are better ways of dealing with the decline in comment quality than penalizing pseudonymity.
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Surprised to see Netflix on there. I'm assuming you're referring to the streaming version. Considering Canada received it first, and the streaming version's only problem has to do with issues beyond Netflix's control. Basically, if you are going to include Netflix, you have to include every retailer who deals with digital distribution of copyrighted goods like Apple and Amazon as well.
He said he had lived in Asia, not that he was currently living there.

"I've lived in the Mid-East and Asia, and I know what real poor people look like."
Even our wars are outsourced. Obama has continued this trend (as well as declaring war all by himself against non-imminent threats which is specifically against the constitution and illegal).

To fight simultaneous wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration had decided to outsource virtually every facet of America's military operations, from building and staffing Army bases to hiring mercenaries to provide security for diplomats abroad. After Bush took office, private military contracts soared from $145 billion in 2001 to $390 billion in 2008. Federal contracting rules were routinely ignored or skirted...
That sounds like extremely productive HN'ing. ;)
> a lot of things in life that appeal us but we’ve got no chance (for geeks: most obvious example is dating a hot lady!)

I resent that! It's downright mean and untrue.

But anyhow, the whole article smells a lot like a concept I developed a few months ago that ideas are a process. You start doing something and on the way you get better ideas as you gain a better understanding of the problem. Just sitting on your arse will never get you a killer idea. Never.
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Bigness is relevant, CL advocates still cite the size of its standard library as an advantage:

http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html

The library is large and supplies several hundred highly flexible functions

How many do you get in a "batteries included" Python, Tcl or Perl? How many in Java or .NET? It may be that the CL ones are "better" but that's subjective...
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The book is for people who are not already programmers so it seems unlikely to me that Zed's reputation would be any sort of factor.

I agree that charging anything for it would have reduced the download count to about 10% of whatever the total is.
Joel, great post

I think we are all a little afraid of saying "it's finished" because we have no comeback when someone says "it sucks". I guess its that fear of rejection, whereas if we say its unfinished we can always claim the "yup we know, and the next release will be better".

Surely this is why the fad of slapping a Beta sign all over the products started, just to let people know that "it has some bugs an we know about them" What we really wanted to say was "It has some bugs, which we have no clue about, and we want you to help us discover them" :-)

As for the blogs, I agree, way too many , and any review is a good review.

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Please get in contact with Matt Haughey, he's the best possible person to talk to about this, having run Metafilter for over a decade.

Be warned, he's going to strongly advise you to set up a backchannel for public metadiscussion. Jeff Atwood resisted it vehemently at first when another metafilter moderator was a guest on his podcast, but they did eventually set up their meta subsite in the same vein.
Or what is the first day that is not known for anything?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
I wonder what's so "sophisticated" about that. This tutorial is definitely below the bar for HN.
>>That is not exactly correct

Why is it not correct ?

When I click the search button, it takes me to the GoDaddy site. Did you really try clicking the Search button on instantdomainsearch.com ?
Our company is based in Denmark, which means we can't use Authorize.net or the real PayPal services, or any of the commonly recommended services.

However, we're using a local bank, a local payment processor, and a local payment gateway, and it works just fine. We can do recurring charges on the major credit cards in whatever currency we want.

The one thing that doesn't work is AMEX, for some incredibly stupid reason we were only allowed to charge those cards in DKK which didn't make any sense to us, so we promptly cancelled that contract.

So my advice is to investigate your local options as well. Ask your bank what processors there are, and ask your processors what gateways there are.
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Your cover is well done and fresh and sounds natural; the original version sounds like some dull radio music without any taste or color to me... post-production didn't let them any chance :)
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I'm sure most people who pick up this book to learn how to program do so on the recommendation of someone who both is a programmer and who knows who Zed is.
"I know my mother, sister, grandmother, and most of the other people in my life wouldn't recognize if it was accurate or not"

I think each knowledge domain has it's set of experts that will spot mistakes in their own areas of experience.

Every mother I know, when watching an on-screen delivery, will retort "that's not a newborn" when the babies face first appears on camera.
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Sorry, I meant SQL Server 2000 on Windows 2000. I can't remember whether the necessary bits for NT were included in the worm.
dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2375104

Thanks for reposting.
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If you look at see what SunOS version the Grid is running, when Sam sits down at his dad's old workstation, it doesn't match up with the timeline.
It was harder than I expected and it would exceed the time I had available for the task.

I have no such excuse for the Apple II simulation. I even have MAME configured with a couple different Apple IIs.
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PayPal and 2Checkout seem to be the two popular options.

Depending on your country you can probably find a local merchant account that will let you bill in USD, Chargify have a list of non-US merchant account providers which they've worked with in the past.
Imagine if he had made people sign up to his mailing list in exchange for the free download. Even if it reduced downloads by 50%, he would still have 168,000 people on his list that are actively looking for programming material.

His next book that he's charging $1 for? 168,000 prospects to start the ball rolling.

Or he could set up an auto responder and ask for donations a set amount of time after the download.

Your mailing list is one of your most valuable assets! Don't ignore it :)
This. The choose-your-own adventure element to Wikipedia is what makes it so immersive.
"Doesn't this apply to every voting system ever designed?"

Indeed. That's why HN is struggling with this problem, because HN chose to build its system around voting. So now it has to deal with one of the inevitable downsides of voting. Namely, that popularity is not necessarily indicative of quality.

"If you want to avoid this problem, what can you do apart from get rid of voting in the first place?"

Read through this thread. There are many suggestions.

"Without voting, what will be left of HN?"

Comments, articles, and community.

But I should note that I am not suggesting we get rid of voting.

"isn't that [a populartiy contest for comments] what we have right now?"

Yes. That's why I said your proposal was "just another way of staging a popularity contest for comments".

"I'm merely suggesting a way of improving it."

I'm not so sure it is an improvement as much as it is a different way of getting the same result, as it doesn't change the fundamental dynamic of the lack of quality in highly rated comments.

"This gives those who reduce their activity due to quality an equal voice rather than a lesser voice."

I suppose that's true. But why should less active users have as much of a voice as more active users? Would that necessarily lead to an improvement in comment quality?

To me it seems the only thing your suggestion would lead to is that popular users would become more popular, and the voices of less popular users would be drowned out even more than they are now.

"People shouldn't be writing solely to seek popularity."

But plenty of them are. That's part of the problem that having a karma score at all or rating/sorting comments based on votes at all. People will write to be more popular (which karma is a measure of).
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I agree that there are too many comments. Perhaps a fix would be to discourage users from commenting by asking them politely not to. For example, the "add comment" box could be removed from the story page, and you might need to click on a link to add a comment, just as you usually have to do for a comment reply. Then a note could show up every time reminding the users that they should not comment if they do not believe their comment will add something valuable to the discussion. I would think that most users come here because they enjoy the quality of the discussion, and if reminded that their actions are reducing that quality, they might hold back on commenting. Many times I read a comment after writing it, see that although it does add a little, it does not add enough to the discussion, and just close the tab without posting the comment.
Since apparently somebody missed the point, the comment above is a joke.
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This is a huge factor in uptake of SaaS at smaller firms. Project management software existed before Basecamp, for example, but Basecamp is one of the first packages which put it within the reach of e.g. firms with size 1 ~ 10. It is quantitatively and qualitatively a different experience than the bespoke consultingware monster PM solutions that e.g. a division of Toyota might use, but Basecamp customers can still have LTVs in the four figures very easily.

That is a very nice place to be as a startup -- you can potentially acquire and service customers at a place in the solution space where competitor's cost structures make it impossible to enter. (e.g. if a large competitor needs a sales rep or custom programming, forget it, $2k of LTV is impossible for them to address -- but break that into $50 ~ $80 per month and it is within the authority of a single decisionmaker at the client firm in response to a low- or no-touch sales process.)

Also, when the competition is non-consumption, sometimes your value proposition can get just amazing, because the delta in experience on even a minimally featured software solution versus paper or "we'll just deal without" is substantial. (I've got a client who says AR practically pays for his mortgage. He's, understandably, quite happy.)
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I agree that a simple increase in framerate isn't enough of a wow factor. It might be if it's also accompanied by a massive increase in resolution?

Either way, I'm looking forward to any improvement that doesn't involve 3D. Ebert's other guest author the week before the Maxivision one was an anti-3D article by Walter Murch, probably the most famous film editor and sound designer ever:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/post_4.html
This only gets you access to free apps, right?
Maybe some independent hacker finally got sick of it and decided to send the hosts some kind of shutdown code?
Wow, that is impressive. Only 2 companies died since 2007? I think a lot of people would read a long post on the Seedcamp history, success stories, companies you guys are particularly excited about etc.
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At first I also thought that he was using Processing but I don't think he used it for this film.
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My friend recently came to me stating that he wanted to learn programming. I directed him to Zed's book.
If I am not wrong, Chrome behaves in a similar fashion too, right?
Great point.

It took me some time to learn multiple desktop spaces in Ubuntu, but now it comes naturally to me.

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That's true for any non-linear system crossing a threshold. Actually, drop non-linear, even moving on a linear scale creates qualitative change.
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By voting patterns, what do you mean? Features like how many times the user has voted in this thread/hour/day? How many times the comment has been voted, the replies have been voted, and the story has been voted? I didn't try those; maybe they'd work, but I have no intuition saying why they should.

Using ML to provide feedback is a bad idea. Most ML techniques latch on to surface features of the text rather than the deeper structure, so it'd just make it really easy for people to reword their mean comments ("this is just stupid" becomes "What an incoherent piece of gobblydegook" or something like this, which might make things funnier but I doubt it would help).
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to add to that i would also say that if you dont put yourself out there,go out meet people and the ideas(in the context of this post) will flow.Sitting at the office or at home waiting ideas to flow wont help one bit.
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Any chance you'd be willing to share that 36 point review email? That sounds fascinating.
Personalise the front-page? Add a weighting that pushes up contributions posted by users whos previous contributions I have upvoted, on the basis that there's a chance we share similar interests if I consistently upvote their contributions. It could also push up articles that users I've previously upvoted have commented on.
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If you look really carefully you can see that it is actually running "SolarOS" not "SunOS".

I paused one of the trailers at 1080p and captured the workstation desktop and I've been using it as a desktop background - quite a few people have told me that I really need to clean my monitor...
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Contrary to the cynical ... ummm ... wit of the previous posters, bioremediation is a useful strategy for managing environmental contamination. As it is often presented as some kind of panacea in the popular press, a lot of wide-eyed misinformation follows the field around. That's a shame, but it is a common problem with the popular science press.

The point of bioremediation is to control the chemical state of the target element (strontium in the case of this article). Most elements on the periodic table can commonly exist in more than chemical state. Typically, the higher valence state is more soluble and therefore more mobile in water systems. Thus, when water become contaminated with the high valence metal, the contamination is quite mobile -- it will spread far beyond the point of the original contamination as water moves on and below the surface.

Bioremediation is a strategy to encourage certain microorganisms to flourish. As part of their metabolic cycle, these organisms can chemically transform the target metal from a high valence state to a low valence state. In the example of the algae in this article, doing so also cause small crystals containing strontium to form. The advantage of this is that the lower valence state is not soluble in water.

This does not mean that the resulting strontium is somehow not radioactive. Nor is it somehow not poisonous. But it is much less mobile because it is no longer soluble in water in its new chemical state. This doesn't fix the problem, but it does reduce the scope of the problem dramatically by keeping the contaminant in place rather than wandering away with the ground and surface water.

Would it better not to release radioactive strontium into the environment? Of course. But once a problem exists, bioremediation is a much more useful tool than well-practiced cynicism.