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My mind went straight into the gutter...
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Yes, it's the average of recent comments, with the top and bottom discarded (pg said this somewhere or other). The averages of the top 100 (by abs karma) is interesting: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders (accessible via "lists", frontpage bottom).

BTW: edw regularly has amazing averages - all the avgs are much higher than usual now, I suspect because of karma inflation due to not seeing scores (this happened last time pg experimented with it).

And yes, it influences the ordering of ones comments. When I said "approximates", I really meant it. ;-)
I think the scores should appear to a user after (A) that person votes

What stops people from voting just to find out the score?
I have a catch-all account for my domain. If I sign up for a service I use their domain as the user on the address I give out. E.g. facebook@mydomain.com.

The result is that all email that isn't personal nor directly related to my business gets sent to an account that I check once a day.

If an address gets spammy or, like the Epsilon situation, a service provider gets hacked I can block my account without consequence.
Yes - which is why what webapps do is only authorize AND charge when something actually ships. Most payment gateways (including Authorize.net's other products like SIM) support this workflow.

The reason is because, to do something like AIM or CIM, payment gateways need to store CVV numbers as well, resulting in a very expensive level of PCI compliance.

I'm not extremely well versed with fraud semantics, but IMHO placing an authorize on a card reduces the risk of fraud, refusing to pay, etc.
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Can't help feeling a little sad. The same feeling when the Concorde was retired.

Its not sad that these awesome machines are being phased out. Machines/designs become old and obsolete all the time. But in this case, there is simply nothing better to replace it. It is as if this was as far as mankind could go and have to turn back.

Here's to hoping that some day there will something more ingenious that will be a worthy successor.
What about disposable email address services who offer exclusive domains for paying customers? Are you going to characterize those addresses as "fake"? I see you are actually doing that now!

I know these evil disposable email address users and they are not the abusers you think they are. In fact a lot of them have been more abused by the sites you are providing a service to than vice versa.

There are better ways of combating abusers then just banning a domain, and would cause a lot less grief. A central repository of "fake" domains inevitably will cause false positives on a large scale and will cause a whole lot of grief to everybody.

Full disclosure: I came out with the first disposable email address service, as far as I know, and I'm quite certain I even coined the term "disposable email address", as obvious as it may seem, it wasn't at the time, and I can't imagine what you think of me!
Every ship needs a captain. The three (or two) musketeer approach is a recipe for failure
The quote from Newton is particularly apt. Open Source contribution is a lot like the collaborative/competitive model of scientific discourse that we've had since the Enlightenment. While that may make it sound academic, much of pre-20th Century science was carried out by amateurs, even by entrepreneurs. OS the new form of something quite old and very well-proven.
No, they ran. I'm forever alone now.
XOR patent ended CD32, and Commodore-Amiga
You're right in that this is a new engine, but the fact that minecraft's engine isn't open source doesn't necessarily come into play here. There's closed-source engine licensing happening everywhere.
Igen.:)
I went back to the post where pg asked for advice on how to prevent decline of HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

He wrote, "The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted."

To help along the thinking process here, as we digest our own personal experiences (each from a different subset of threads, I suppose, unless several participants here read HN exhaustively), let's think about those issues:

a) After the change, are mean comments less likely to be upvoted?

b) After the change, are dumb comments less likely to be upvoted?

c) What is the general character of highly upvoted comments after the change? Are comments with the highest number of upvotes after the change usually helpful, thoughtful comments, or flippant comments that don't gratify intellectual curiosity?

Over the next few days, it should be possible to look at some highly upvoted examples. The bestcomments view of HN content

http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

still shows highly upvoted comments, although right now it shows them without explicit comment scores. How do those comments look to you?

P.S. There is a lot of speculation in this thread about how comments are weighted, how users gain karma, etc. As far as I know, except for possible details of the current experiment, the source code for this site in ARC,

https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc

which was mentioned in an HN thread a while back,

http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1307128

tells any code-literate user most of the story about how karma is allocated and how users gain karma. (Please note that I am NOT a code-literate user here, not in ARC, and I have never attempted to reverse-engineer any aspect of the karma system here. I simply empirically observe what happens to my own submissions and comments after I submit them, which I can still do during this experiment by viewing my own followed threads.)
This is starting to feel like an arms race. Next, there will be undetectable disposable emails, and then automatic detection of undetectable disposable emails.
But vc works really well too, when committing single file changes.
Out of curiosity, what kind of evidence would you accept?

The concept of the personal GUI workstation, the object-oriented database, and many other things you take for granted were introduced on Lisp Machines. Does this fact convince you of anything?
THIS IS MADNESS
Do you use viper-mode? What are its benefits, over and above just using vi? I switched from vi to emacs many years ago and I never bothered with viper-mode; I just invested an awful lot of effort into learning Emacs's commands and keystrokes.
I get a bunch of warnings when compiling it, but it runs.
FOLLOWUP thinking more on re-nesting, slashdot detaches high-scoring comments from their logical nesting (and you have to follow parent links to find the post to which they were replying). I think slashdot knows much of this - I wonder if it would be helpful for cmdtaco and pg to chat (even, a voting-site conference)... or is it still too proprietary/competitive?

Another way is too hide a comment if it has lower karma than a reply (using reddit-style [+] so it can be unhidden - or perhaps just omit it, and just use "parent" to see it).

The key benefit is that comments that only make sense as a reaction (e.g. criticism) to another comment won't be as interesting, and (hopefully) will get downvoted. This might lead people to change their voting behaviour, to also vote the parent up if they think it does contribute after all (it's a problem that interesting questions don't get voted up, only the interesting answers, because then it's lost down the page... and interesting questions should be encouraged/rewarded, IMHO). A downside might be that people will try to "win" the thread.

I really like this idea.

tl;dr: don't display parent if a child scores higher (still accessible by "parent" link), so they rank higher. Like slashdot.
That's pretty funny: giving a sold out talk and then feigning surprise that it ends up in the geek news outlets.
50/50, but one of us get "the last word".
I think that visible point counts make it clearer what the norms of the community are to newcomers and reinforce them for other users.

Comments that fail to attract points (but are not downvoted) send a clear signal that something is not right. +1 would be an appropriate HN score for borderline snark, for example, that adds some insight, but doesn't aid the tone of the discussion. This sort of subtle signalling is lost when points are hidden.
10% for the first 4 employees (paid?).

Anyone has example of a startup that actually did that ?

AFAIK the total employee pool is rarely beyond 15% total. And that number is for a few layers ahead.
Folding Notebook
Sort of unrelated feature request (is there a better place feor this?): a small piece of JavaScript to warn before you submit a title that starts with a number between 3 and 15. There are about five articles on the front page right now that break the "remove useless numbers" rule.
I can't agree more. Regardless of whether you force your customers to use a real email address or not isn't going to change the fact that if they don't want your emails they aren't going to read them.

If you force the emails on them they are only likely to become annoyed at your company and reduce their interactions with you.

Do two things. Make the email address optional. Make the email content so desirable that the customers provide their real email address at their own free will. It's the best of both worlds, now you only have email addresses in your list of people who are genuinely interested in seeing your content.
hi josh, I understand and you are not the first to find our design bad! the whole site is template based and we did some things in the very beginning, we regret today. but the message reached us from different sites of the web and we will try to solve that issue during the next weeks ... it is just a question of skill, less of will :->
"They would rather spend time improving the optimiser in future versions". OK nice idealistic thinking. Meanwhile on planet Earth, I’m trying to convince management that they need to redesign their app that hasn’t been touched in years because of some gradual growth in the data that screwed up PostgreSQL into thinking it should run the queries in a sub-optimal way.

Wouldn't re-ANALYZE-ing the tables in question help fix this problem, where the statistics that Postgres has about the table access patterns no longer fit reality?
from different SIDES not sites... sorry
then it's worth letting them know their site is broken.
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I think there have been good commercial reasons for decades. The problem isn't inherent to the task, the problem has been legislative and regulatory uncertainty. The only way around that would be operating from a more open jurisdiction (difficult due to so many of your potential workers being banned from working with you due to ITAR) or having so much personal wealth that you can afford to take the risk, which is the path it seems to be happening on.
YC companies seem to have that social proof by a first investor from the start (ie when they are accepted).
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I am a co-founder in a non-software startup - a hair salon in NYC. A friend and I each invested $30k but keep our day jobs and help out with odd jobs here and there. My wife, however, quit her job to work it full time and is the lead stylist as well. We came up with a 70/20/10 split which has worked out well so far. We are hiring our first management-level employee this month are planning to give her between 5-10% equity, most of which will come from my wife's percentages.
Do you have experience with S3 as well? Any advice on why you might choose one over the other?
We split it 50/50 but with an extra, if any of us decide to leave the business, you'll have to give the opportunity to the other to buy your share in one year before selling out to investors and others. This way the most interested parties keep control of the company.
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The general advice I've heard is you don't ever want 50/50 splits because if there are important decisions to be made, you can often end up in deadlock, and no one is truly in charge of making a final call or being responsible. Since I don't have enough karma on onstartups to ask Joel this, I'm curious what his response would be.
I upvote comments if I am interested in reading them. I'm likely to be interested in reading anything that pg writes because he runs this site. The bar is set rather lower for pg than for any other user and for good reason.
You can embed javascript if you want:

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#embedded
I love Magit, but don't miss git blame: vc-annotate works really well. P and N navigate the git history of the buffer.
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Does eterm have all the capabilities needed to run a full-screen editor like Vim?
Asking people what they want isn't necessarily the best way to give them what they want. Remember the Henry Ford line, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would've said faster horses." PG has mentioned this before as well in response to requests for UI improvement on HN. I don't remember the exact words, but people were saying things like, "If there was any other site that had the quality of HN and better UI, I would go there," and PG's reply was that the reason the was no site that had the same quality and better UI is because he spends time worrying about quality instead of worrying about UI.
You got me, but the paralllel merge sort was my idea.

Edit: Damn somebody on reddit said that too but i didn't read it there.
have an order of magnitude less number of apps

Past a certain point, that stops mattering. Does iPhone have 1 million apps available, or is it 10 million ? I don't know and I don't care. what I do know is (assuming that I had an iPhone not android)

- 90% of them are crap. Sturgeon's law.

- I would install fewer than 100 of them.

- There's probably an app for it. For any it. e.g. Today I found and installed an app for my local airport, so I can keep track of an upcoming flight.

- There are several good twitter clients, but I'll only install one.

- Between maps, twitter, facebook, calendar, email and angry birds, there's 95% of my app usage accounted for.

And you could say roughly the same for WP7, even if there's only 10 000 apps avaialble.
One problem with a service like this is: how do I know if I can trust it with people's email addresses? How do I know that this site doesn't store the emails tested and sell them to spammers?
Yes, quite. Hotmail and gmail etc offer what are essentially disposable addresses (free to sign up). The _only_ issue with these is that there is _some_ overhead with signing up - a fair amount of personal data required, which whilst can be faked they (well hotmail anyway) does annoying things like confirm validity of zipcode.
Next week on HN, I'll unveil my new browser extension: block-sites-that-block-disposable-emails.com.

Why should I trust someone I've never heard of with my real email address? Trust is earned, and I am not going to use a service that requires a "real" email address.

Besides; I run my own email server... how do you even know I'm delivering your email to a file and not to /dev/null? You don't. This service is bullshit.
I stopped reading here:

> Douglas can explain to me why he keeps writing about object users as "attackers" and "tamperers". Maybe it's a reflection of childhood trauma that manifests itself as a pathological distrust that he's struggling to overcome.

The OP does not understand what he is talking about, as far as I know Crockford's prototype overrides were done in a safe way, they were conditionally, in modern browsers you probably have them anyway.

Also if you develop web applications you always have to assume that people will want to hack you.
This is a great way to teach and Mr. Garlikov did an amazing job. It is hard work to "teach" this way because it requires student/teacher interaction (which is a lot harder than just standing there and lecturing). Coming up with the content is equally difficult.

But it there are so many more things students learn using this method.

One is they learn how to create new ideas from existing ones: "inventing". It really gets me when I hear people tell kids "don't re-invent the wheel".
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How do I know that this site doesn't store the emails tested and sell them to spammers?

Why wouldn't it?
2 concepts I think are missing from this list:

* Tramp for remote/sudo editing: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TrampMode

* emacsclient if you want emacs everywhere all the time: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsClient
really? can you expand on this?
Why not stop rendering HN pages in tables with inline formatting and render the page as a semantically structured document with a default style sheet. This will allow others to come along and restyle the site as they see fit. Don't like comment points? hidden. Post score is less than -4? hidden.

I personally don't understand the reasoning behind using tables as formatting and inline styles on a site whose content generally includes articles about web development.
Leading humanity to the stars has been limited in the name of national interest.
This scares me, because you don't have to be very "smart" to remove everything after the + (or -, for us qmail users). Then your real address is exposed.

Much better to use SOMETERMYOUFILTEROUT@yourdomain.com, or throwaway-account@mailinator.com. (I love how many sites block mailinator, but don't block its other 8 billion domain names. Wunderbar.)
This one was obsolete well before its first flight. Astronauts could be delivered to LEO with expendables for less money. Satellites and supplies to the ISS could be delivered without risking human lives and, again, for less money. By using expendables you would end-up building modular spacecraft, iterating designs and improving them on every launch. By using less money you get to build more expendables.

The shuttle is a beautiful machine, but it's even less practical than the Concorde. And many, many orders of magnitude more expensive.

Sadly, a Saturn/Apollo stack would be more ingenious and a worthy successor.

That said, the SRBs, the tank and the engines could be put to good use. I guess the tank could be adapted to LOX/Jet-1 and engines and payload could be fitted on it.

The orbiter is the problem.
If you're a developer who feels that everyone you've worked with is either an arsehole or a moron, what does it really say?

My grandfather always told me if problems seems to follow you around, you might want to investigate the gravitational center.
When I first wanted to try Linux on my laptop, it took an age just to find a distro that could recognise the display. A few weeks ago I bought some new wireless hardware, and it took longer to get it installed on Windows than it did on Linux. 95% of my time is spent on Linux now, and there are only a few programs (Flash Develop) that I need Windows for.

I don't think it will ever be the year of the Linux desktop, but that certainly doesn't make it a failure like the wonderful comments on that article would suggest.
:p

I suppose that may be the case, perhaps my first rails project having been as an intern of Hampton's has coloured my judgment.
FYI: Windows only.
Open source is a kind of post-scarcity economy. It's an economy of attention and status, and although money can be made in the process monetarism is relatively unimportant in comparison to the other factors.
It took us a couple hours to be in compliance with section C. If memory serves, we dealt with a vendor who did a scan, made us install AV software on our Linux boxes, and one or two other minor process adjustments. It wasn't a big deal.

Given Spreedly's current prices of the lesser of $0.20/transaction or 2%/transaction, this minute quantity of work is currently providing us with a return of approximately $12,000/mo. (We had over 60,000 transactions in March.)

Cost: approximately 3 man-days.

Benefit: currently sitting at approximately 1 man-year/year and growing.

It's true that if we'd gone of business within 25,000 transactions, we would've been better off with Spreedly, but given the time, energy and money that we were committing to the business, optimizing for that case seemed absurd. As such we made a small bet that we'd succeed, and that bet is currently generating enough savings (as compared to using Spreedly) to cover an FTE. Some people might say it's a rounding error on the revenue (and I suppose that's true) but I view it as a small bet that is paying off at an enormous multiple.