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The question about comment points is "do I think HN works better if comment points are hidden for all users", not "do I want to see comment points myself".

And to the second point, HN is PG's experiment with the programming language he's developing and the community for his company more than an example of modern web design. The point is probably that tables were quicker and easier.
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According to Twitter, it's not possible to innovate on clients any more; glad to see a company willing to prove otherwise. This is why I'm always against a platform company saying "don't build x" whether it's Twitter saying don't build clients or Apple saying don't build web browsers.
screen + irssi works OK. vim probably does too.
One day after a visit to the Computer History Museum, my SO and I got to see the live demo of the analytical engine they have there. We watched the gears turning and stopping to add up numbers, saw the complex mechanisms to handle carrying digits, and she asked me how this would work if it was binary and I just said "much more simply". Then she admitted that, even though she has been working as a developer and manager of developers for years, she never learned binary.

When we got home I got out a pad and pencil and got her to write down 0, then 1, then asked her, if you only had two digits, what would come next? Tentatively she wrote 1 0. THen I asked her to add 1 to it. We more or less carried on the way this transcript went, except instead of using aliens with two fingers I introduced AND, OR and XOR 'boxes' that 0s and 1s go in and come out. I hadn't planned any of this but by the end of it she was just about drawing the circuit diagram of a full adder with carry bit.

I'm sort of thrilled to see that what I was doing is precisely the socratic method. I love teaching, never really did much of it until I gave a course in Unix and shell scripting at an old job but for a week I had more energy at work than I ever did just programming or in meetings.
The problem HN is facing is a human-interaction problem of which hiding or showing points on comments won't solve. Sooner or later, problems with user experience will come about one way or the other.

I saw some other post about the Whirlpool Moderation forum (http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/wp_modfaq) and thought the transparent moderation policy they have is pretty amazing. PG et al should at least research it and consider implementing something similar.
Interesting to see others doing this. I'm working on a similar project at Brown right now with a few friends. We're lucky - the Registrar's office agreed to give us anonymized data to bootstrap our recommendation system.
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1. The only moved the search
2. A lot of code is in scala not java
According to the readme, it's based on an open source engine called Voxlap, created by Ken Silverman (the guy that wrote the Duke3d engine). Here's a link:

http://www.advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm
90% of startups fail, give or take.

You're going to need either a much firmer definition of startup or a much more defined range to make this have even the slightest bit of credibility.
Doesn't work on Android / Nexus One CM7.
A lot of comments seem to be squabbling over details, but your startup is almost certainly going to fail, and the longer you haggle over splitting proceeds, the more likely failure is. Just split it and start working already!

If your company is a success, great, but is it really going to matter if you're worth 50 million vs. 60 million in the infinitesimal chance that it pops?
Any Indie developer with experience on Steam sales to light up this issue?

Seems to me that the arguments of IGDA sound very close to the arguments of the RIAA and real numbers will show a very different outcome, specially for the smaller devs.
Note that, even without points displayed, you can gauge the relative points of comments by their order on the page. While very new comments can appear briefly at the top, the comments that stay there have high points.
Although I used to be a huge Amiga fan, I think that Amigas of the time lagged behind other systems for gaming. PC's having chunky display formats (as opposed to plainer (planer?) on the Amiga) meant that PC's could do far more 3D graphics than a equivalently powered Amiga, and Amigas were often underpowered anyway. The Amiga kicked ass at 2D games, but could not hack it in 3D.

At the end of the day, had the Amiga been a viable business, $10M in patent fines would not have killed them off.
Make a counteroffer. Initially, they just want to make a profit. Unfortunately, since you've expressed an interest in the domain, they'll probably renew it. If your site becomes popular, expect to pay much more later (or let it sit parked forever, you'll be in good company). FWIW, I've obtained parked domains by doing a command line whois (DON'T use a registrar or other web-based tool) to check the expiration date, then patiently waiting until they're available again. It seems risky, but it pays off sometimes.

Also, before contacting anyone about purchasing a domain, make sure you've purchased the name under any other TLDs that matter to you, or you might find them scooped up and held hostage based on your interest. To check availability, always do a DNS lookup before a whois lookup, and don't ever look it up at the registrar until you're prepared to buy it on the spot.
Good Calories, Bad Calories (by Taubes) is none of those things. It is not a diet book, it is a book about diet. Any layman who picks it up to read it will almost immediately put it down due to the very dense text full of medical jargon. I thought it was a very thought provoking book. I really don't know how one is going to become insanely rich by pedaling a book like that.
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Adobe products have been the standard in web and print design for a number of years, particularly after they bought out Macromedia (and took over Dreamweaver and Fireworks). But Adobe products are also very, very expensive. So expensive that many new (and even experienced) designers have little choice but to use pirated copies, or turn to less-polished, less-powerful open source alternatives. Neither one is an ideal solution.
It is curious that there haven't been any prominent developer blog posts about how well an app has done on Amazon's store. Where are the developer comments?
Is Boxcar as good as the official app's push? Official app pushes as soon as the mention appears in my timeline, which is great
Yes, that's essentially implied by the Church-Turing thesis. :)
Considering that nginx has no concept of a .htaccess file or per-directory configuration file (they kill performance) I'm not sure what you mean here.

nginx itself reports clear and easy to understand errors on it's configuration files. If you simply want to test the config (without actually starting/restarting nginx), just pass it the '-t' flag; similar to apache's 'configtest' option.
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I'm looking to have a small, straight-forward, data-driven web application and mobile optimized site/application developed and was wondering if it wasn't too premature to do something like this in nodejs. If not, are there any consulting shops or developers on here that would be interested in such a project?
How about packages in PgSQL? Package state can be so damn handy.
CMU is big into big robots (as opposed to e.g. MIT's Randy Brooks' little robots), and in one book or article on their program one of their CS undergraduates who was "perfect" at welding stainless steel was mentioned. "I don't think we're going to let him graduate", one of his professors said in jest.
After about a day of thinking on this, I think I've come around. I still don't think I would have pulled the trigger on this, but I respect the people that did.

And, again, I absolutely love CoffeeScript and support it 100%. I'm less infatuated with HAML and SASS, but it may simply be that I haven't used them enough. SASS in particular looks very useful.

Regardless, I agree with DHH's tweet yesterday [1] that Rails is a curated set of ideas/technologies. Pretty much by definition it's not one-size-fits-all. I think this is the first time I've found myself on the opposite side of a Rails technology switch decision, which is pretty amazing. I'm looking forward to giving it a chance, and I can always switch back, if it doesn't work out.

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/dhh/status/58286524151775232
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/a_is_for_atom....
If the app being free for a day is their choice then yes, they will pay 20% of the minimum list price in that period (as 0.2 x List will be more than 0.7 x Free).

If you dare give your app away for a day or allow another marketplace to do so, and sell your app via Amazon now or at any time in the future, you must permanently reduce your minimum list price at Amazon to $0.00 meaning that from this point they could give your app away for free as often as they like and give you nothing (0.2x0.00 == 0.7x0.00 == 0.00).

Essentially this means you can't give an exclusive offer to anyone other than Amazon, including via your own site if I'm understanding correctly, without also giving Amazon the option of the same offer (meaning is isn't much of an exclusive) and not just now: they have the option of running the offer when-ever and how often they like now and at any time in the future.
I think part of the explanation is that now people are focusing more on the usernames they recognize instead of the points that the comment already has.
HN doesn't want either comments-solely-for- or voting for agreement or disagreement. Yet that is what a lot of people want to express. Perhaps it is more useful to have agree & disagree buttons, and the comments interest value is the total votes in either direction. Offensive/troll comments could still be flagged to separate them from comments which are largely disagreed with.
You need to take into account what you get in addition to what you pay.

In American those taxes provide a strong military. Most of the rest of the world are very poorly equipped by comparison. Other countries get health care and education.
Why would anyone compile to Java when it is much easier to compile directly to JVM bytecode?

A lot of languages are doing exactly that, like Mirah, Clojure, ABCL, Scala and many more.
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CoffeeScript's golden rule is "It's just JavaScript". You need to learn JavaScript (or, more importantly, understand JavaScript) before moving on to CoffeeScript.

JavaScript is a weird language, especially if you're coming from a backend language (even dynamic ones like Ruby). Without understanding why things happen in JavaScript (such as: a block doesn't create scope; functions/lambdas do), you won't understand why things are happening in CoffeScript, either.

Debugging is CoffeeScript's biggest weakness; you'll often have to dig into the JavaScript it outputs in order to fix bugs, and (for the moment) you won't necessarily know what line of CoffeeScript maps to which line of output JavaScript. ( I believe this is actively being worked on: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/558 ).

Here are some good resources that have helped me:

http://yuiblog.com/crockford/
http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html
http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/#1
The designs for the Space Shuttle were publically available - the Russians started from them when building the Buran.
"you get periodic free testing, enhancements, and bugfixes from your users"

The amount of this is miniscule, in my experience; not only that, but the level of testing and quality of bugfixes is usually so low that it's more efficient to not bother reading emails like that at all. I guess it's different for bigger/other projects, although the dozens of mailing lists I've been on over the years haven't shown many differences.

"but secondly if you contribute it upstream your patch becomes someone else's problem"

This, too, is vastly overstated. I have contributed dozens of patches over the years that were just left in bug trackers or tracs, or were ignored on mailing lists - sometimes because nobody cares, sometimes because people just like to hack on their own use cases instead of somebody else's problems, sometimes because its against the (usually unstated) 'philosophy' of the software.

Not to be negative, there are many useful open source projects, and I use many. But they're usually run by one or a few highly committed people.

I too have a bunch of projects in local repositories - I don't see any reason to open them up. A bunch of projects out there with no activity for 3 years looks quite bad too - once you start advertising your public repos, you have to keep up on them. The trade off is usually not worth it for me (for new projects, that is - I keep the ones I've worked on in the past on the web).
log(votes/views of your comment) is better than log(votes/max votes in thread) because the latter puts people who post early in a thread at an artificial advantage, whereas log(votes/views of your comment) does not.
I upvoted your comment, as that's what I was going to say.

For example I just created a small script that synchronizes my photos on Flickr, but that also takes care of duplicates (that were tagged with a machine-tag representing an md5 of the file).

I could just keep it on my computer, and even lose it in case my hard-drive breaks, or I could improve it a little and release it on GitHub -- after which I'd have a backup of my script and maybe even some fixes for free.

Then somebody else might want to do this synchronization in reverse and add his own stuff to this little script.

That's how open-source happens, besides companies throwing projects over the fence, or doing it for the free publicity.
Instead of sending out a newsletter, the company just adds an item to its feed.

Interested users can add the feed to their feed-reader, and can unsubscribe at any point by removing it again.

It has all the benefits of the OP's suggestion, but it is already available. I guess it is debatable whether having it in your feed reader or inbox is a pro or a con (I personally don't want mass email in my inbox).
Just wait folks..remember most device users have do one extra step to get these apps..if we pressure Amazon enough these terms will change..

In my own case I am going with:

1. Android Market
2. SlideMe
3 GetJar

..when Amazon changes the terms as it should be pricing only
at their market pricing at other markets should not bear on pricing at theirs..its a anti-trust potential violation via the collusion implications of anti-trust law..
At the time AOL really thought they were going to be the savior of traditional media. The sky was the limit and they were no where near the top. The next place everyone would go to get their news, entertainment, and world information would be "web portals." The idea was to cram as much stuff as possible on your homepage were people could see everything and amazed at the sheer amount of information. AOL did it, Netscape did it, Yahoo did it , etc.
Amazon does however have an incentive to maximize revenue and there is a lower bound to what a developer gets (a percentage of the list price), even if Amazon promotes it for free, so Amazon loses money on that.

I think Amazon is better at optimizing pricing than most game developers are, so I expect this to improve revenue for both Amazon and the game developers. But only time will tell for sure. Panicking is not the right response.
Why do I open source? Because of the licenses of the (freakin awesome) libs I'm using. Will commercialize the "add-on packages" (aka the Real Meat) later on though...

It's still all market-driven. 12+ years ago The Ecosystem for the majority of developers was MS-supplied. These days The Ecosystem is the open source web stack (or -- iOS). Back when MS provided "the grooviest platform", that's what coders built on. Now the grooviest platform is built by many indie lib coders, the majority of whom open source. Since it would be too cumbersome to strike individual commercial-licensing deals with them all, the path of least resistance is open-sourcing too. Then figure out commercializing via hosting services, support services, value-adding extra packages ... the whole freemium.
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Okay... expanding on the critical grumble.

1. You sound like the guy with the 40%.

2. Concentrating on making a profitable product to the exclusion of a 5 minute talk about ownership is illogical, when there are quite straightforward ways to create fairness using cashflow waterfalls.

2.1 I think your line is manipulative. Are you the manipulator or the manipulated?
Is the finance industry sucking up too many of America's brightest minds?
Perhaps a view votes button would solve this.
I have very good experiences with both namecheap and gandi... Gandi is by far my favorite but they are a bit pricy...
Also in some markets / niches, open sourcing a substantial portion of your offering is rather beneficial for driving initial user adoption... but all this is nothing new and I realize I'm not even relating to the core contents of the OP here. =)
When patio11 mentions literary criticism I take him to mean what goes by the name English major today. We can be pretty sure than what those two did in their majors in the '20s to very early '30s was very different than what many if not most do today.

Even if it's literary criticism, for today that's mostly done in a way that's much less broadly focused, right? E.g. who outside of academia and some narrow related circles cares about deconstruction? (Admittedly, some of that is due to cultural changes where literature has lost a tremendous amount of "market share" to modern media starting with movies and radio.)
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Front-facing ports on a laptop/notebook are a showstopper for me.
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I use to think this way, but I'm agreeing with Joel.

If the 2 founders can't make a contentious decision as a team, they're not much of a team.
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I converted some of my javascript to coffeescript last night, and the one thing that I still feel weird about is not having void functions. I have been instead ending those functions with null, but it feels weird. Is it not the "coffeescript way" to have void style functions at all? I should try to convert these to expressions?
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While doing all of the things you listed may indeed result in a better education than going to college, most people are too lazy or inexperienced to come up and follow through with such a self-education program.

I have met people who frown upon college-level liberal-arts education, and now do my best to avoid them. It isn't so much that I agreed with everything that was taught in college (I was one of those students who would often end up arguing with the professor), it's just that such willful ignorance on the part of these people is a huge warning sign in my book.

BTW, I enjoy reading your blog.
I don't find that a service for simply listening to the radio is worth paying for on a monthly basis. If I can't download it and listen to it whenever I want and wherever I want, it's not mine, and it's worth paying for.

I would happily pay a significant amount of money every month (say about £30-40) for an all-you-can-eat buffet of DRM-free downloads covering all the released music (since the beginning of recorded music) by all the major labels.

This would translate into some £480 of income from me for the recording industry, versus £0 at the moment. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone. I wonder how much money they're leaving on the table by offering inadequate products like Spotify.
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I think the headline is directed at Color.
That's not a budget, that's a cash flow statement. Budgets are expected income and expected expenses.

The problem with the US budget is that income is down and they always lie about expenses. The income is down because every budget show rosy projections for the economy which means they expect a larger tax base ("Unemployment is going to magically drop 3% in less than a year!") The expenses are higher because they add more all the time without paying for it ("Oh we need to do X, what's a couple million on top of a trillion anyway.")
As other pointed out that is payroll tax, not income tax.

The differences in tax between the US and Australia are not so much in the headline rates as in the deductions.

In the US mortgage interest on a home you live in is tax deductible.

And in the US you get taxed as an economic unit with your spouse and children.

So a home owner with a big mortgage and a spouse at home looking after kids pays much less tax in the US.
Do you see the possibility of making Computer Science PhD work as a some real product rather than just few publications?
"I think there have been good commercial reasons for decades"

What commercial reason would you have for going to the moon at the moment?
Does venture capital work in India?
is that actually easier? I know its probably way more efficient in the long run, but i really doubt you could write a bytecode compiler as easily as this was written.
Is it possible to cut the screen in half like that ? I mean, wouldn't there have to be a space between the two halves when in "full screen" mode ?
Wow. The article lost me in the first sentence, when it referred to Silverlight and Moonlight as "Silver Lie" and "Moon Lie" respectively. I decided not to stick around for the inevitable "Micro$oft." Time to grow up, guys.
I feel so privileged.
Graduating in two months. Payed about 5000 Euros for 5 years of engineering education.
Got about 25k from the government for living expenses. More than half of it as a grant - independent of my grades, as long as I passed.*

I'm European, too. Of course, if you live in Scandinavia its even better than here in Germany. And yes, our system has lots of mistakes und isn't very fair in many cases. Still, I feel especially sorry for this, apparently super talented and hardworking kid. He can't even be sure that the fees won't rise while he is in college. I really hope he finds his way!

*Only requirement: Don't have rich parents, don't save money, don't earn to much with side jobs and fill out tons of paperwork about every aspect of your life.
> plainer (planer?)

Planar.

Bitplaned graphics was definitely an impediment to efficient rasterization. But when you look at what demo sceners have done with 3D on the Amiga, it's hard to argue that was its main downfall.

What killed the Amiga was stagnation in both technology and marketing. It also never had much of a foothold as a non-gaming machine in the home.

The IBM-compatible PC was the focus of innovation from many different companies. It wasn't a one-vendor platform like the Amiga. That is the ultimate cause of its demise. If the fate of the PC had stayed tied to IBM, it would have suffered the same end. Apple had a similar problem with the Macintosh in the 1990s and it almost killed them. If Apple's stewardship ever wavers, that is sure to happen again. It will take a lot more before it can become an immortal (undead?) platform like the PC.