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Slashdot does this with moderation, and I have a few problems with it. Namely, I don't know which of the comments I'm currently reading are the top 5 comments that I'll read that day. Perhaps it's a slow news day in the morning, and I spend all of my moderation points on comments that are "good enough". Later in the evening something big breaks, and insightful comments abound everywhere - suddenly I have no points to spend on those comments.

I think that instead of creating an atmosphere of better comments, this will instead create a site that has higher rated comments in the morning, and is stale later in the evening.
It's a feasible workaround, but it's vital that content owners start to recognize the importance of a more rational licensing scheme. Different release dates for videogames depending on which hemisphere you live in, entirely different sets of content (Pandora, Netflix, etc) because you're a couple degrees north or south. It's such an antiquated model for a modern world in which the global cultures have shrunk the distances between each other.

On the other hand, things like this make me slightly amused. It's good to see the corporations run into self-imposed problems from the same institution they otherwise typically profit from and prop up.
If I recall correctly Instant Domain Search is using DNS queries to quickly check availability (which can yield false positives, BTW). Hopefully he's also using a trustworthy name server...
Good call, I had no idea.

Looking into it, apparently the CRTC believes that internet audio and video broadcasting services are under its jurisdiction, but it has exempted all such services from regulation. The notice is at http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1999/PB99-197.htm.
By reading their FAQ it appears that they use DNS NS records (not WHOIS) to check whether a domain is registered or not. That's relatively safe from leaking.

They are showing suggested alternative domains for sale through BuyDomains.com. It's possible they have a database of available domains, but they may also be using an API which would leak searches.
Bad craftsmen blame the tools.
This type of bribes already occur through taxation, traffic fines and other processing charges. These allow public servants to earn a bonus on top of their normal wages.

This is the effect of bribery tainting everybody up the chain. However, if bribery were to be legalised only at the highest level, then the highest leaders will have no incentive to accept bad bribes from their subordinates.
Fab.com recently talked about their successful splash page/beta approach on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351894
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If web design is a skill that can't be made with a degree then how do you learn to be good at web design?
From what I understand, it's not an easy process and you can't download important stuff, like your social graph (I think you only get plaintext names, not email addresses, etc.)
Microsoft doesn't have unpaid internships, nor do they have internships you have to pay for. Nor does Google. Do you have any examples of technology companies with great reputations that charge students for internships?
You can also apply the same ideas to design. Oftentimes you can make a crappy design look decent by just aligning things to a grid or to each other. The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams is a good intro to the whole idea.
Working at home may not solve all your problems or be beneficial. It can become a tremendous distraction. And with your financial picture in critical status, I would not recommend risking it to start a new company. Rather I would recommend finding a better paying job if your skills really do justify it (lots of places are hiring devs) and work on stuff on the side from home to see if you can gain traction.
Hand out short-term (up to 24-hour) mandatory noprocrast vacations (i.e. bans) freely, visibly, and arbitrarily. If somebody makes a stupid comment, they get asked to leave for a while, and everybody sees it. Simple and unambiguous. It also puts the onus on the user to modify their behavior in a way that lengthy meta-commentary threads about just how bad their comment was tend to not.

One problem with this is the perception that being banned (however temporarily) is a severe punishment reserved for major infractions, and that people might react strongly against that perception. To some extent that's the point: you want to drive away the people unwilling to change. On the other hand, you want to give those who are so willing the reason and opportunity to do so, and I think the occasional "time out" provides that.

It may still be an indelicate instrument for addressing the problem, but I think it's justifiable when the status quo is that known-good people are leaving voluntarily.
I think an online form would be nice if there were a way to ensure we weren't getting duplicate applications. Unfortunately, there is no unique identifier, so we would need to go by heuristics, which complicates things enormously.

If you do online-only and only 75% of people are online, you have to hand-count 25% of the population, which means you'd need about a 70% response rate with the people online to match what you have with paper forms. That's not realistic, I don't think. Plus, the people who aren't online tend to be in remote areas, which are much more expensive to hand-count.

The Census is inefficient in a whole lot of ways, but one thing that makes it really efficient is standardization. Every one of the ~700k enumerators gets the same exact kit, every manager gets the same boxes, and everything is basically made so an idiot can do it. There are two reasons for this: the first is that it's cheaper, but the second, more important reason is that the data is consistent from place to place. If people in NY respond online and people in North Dakota respond by mail, you'll get lots of little statistical differences that make the data less easy to work with. This the big reason they need to homogenize everything.

As the other commenter said, the social security number only works for people who are citizens, but the intent of the census is to count everyone who is regularly living in the area at the time. It's a tricky thing to define, and I think a silly one, but it's what the constitution says to do so we do it.
As much as there's ways that computing could be (and is unevenly) used to increase retail-level government, there are good reasons to continue to include human beings in the governing process.

A few notions to look into:

* Condorcet voting systems
* Mechanism Design Theory
* Parliamentary systems

Finally, consider strongly the problem of the influence of capital on any system. In the US, there's the issue of campaign finance, for instance. But if you were to program a government, the problem would be worse: you'd only have to buy off the development team once, rather than bribing members of government repeatedly over time.
"can" bit was tongue in cheek - sorry!
You do realize that exponential decay actually translates to always-declining but relatively stable behavior as you approach the limit, right?
It would be interesting to determine how much of the dark side of the Earth is heated by leftover warmth from the daylight, and how much is geothermal.
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I indeed have read Rossum's blog posts, but I haven't been following Python 3 at all, and only found out about annotations after looking at Pytyp, so that's definitely interesting and helpful, thanks.
Brilliant post. Thanks for getting my point across much better than I could. It really is like Animal Farm.
I'm a fan of computer interfaces in film across the board. From the intentionally tongue-in-cheek 'Hackers' to the downright unintentionally awful and the occasionally vaguely bordering on something close to reality.

I haven't seen this movie, but I'm actually impressed by what I see in the article. It raises the question, however, whether it's something that actually pays dividends. That is, when you employ any sense of reality in this specific domain, does anyone who isn't intimately familiar actually notice? Is the subset of people like ourselves who notice even worth catering to in such small ways? I know my mother, sister, grandmother, and most of the other people in my life wouldn't recognize if it was accurate or not and I suspect 95% of the audience falls into that category.

On the other hand, small things can make a big difference, when you catch them. They're like seeing a loose thread on a piece of clothing that you can't unsee again. Or a stuck pixel on your LCD. For instance, I was watching a marathon of Roswell on Netflix this week (hey, shaddup -- I've never seen it before and wanted something awful to go along with feeling under the weather!). At one point, a guy says to another who is holding a revolver "you might as well just fire every bullet in your chamber!". Of course . . . a gun only has one bullet in the chamber at an time, as far as I know. Most certainly only one in a revolver. And it has bugged me ever since.
What if you let teams select from internal security teams, internal scaling teams, etc?

You can run a wide range of things on EC2, but I'd be willing to bet certain sets of things dominate.

If the solution google has internally really is the best solution available, let it compete. It'll win until it's no longer the best.
Did you watch the video? While I don't play violin, my wife's a composer (and plays viola & cello), and that 'electric violin' portion of the video was probably the most cringe-worthy part of the video.

Never mind that it sounded like a an old Roland Sound Canvas patch being played on a keyboard. The subtitle of "An electric violin you can actually afford" is just a bad approach for that particular instrument. Cheap electric classical instruments have been flooding eBay over the last few years, often times direct from Hong Kong.

A quick search just now shows me several models available for $50 + shipping. If you can afford a Wiimote or two, an iPhone, and the app, you can afford an electric violin. And no matter how cheap that electric violin is, it will sound better than what you can do with that app.

Edit: A longer look at the search results show that the majority of electric violins available for purchase on eBay each cost less than an iPhone under contract, never mind a standalone iPhone.
I'm surprised of how little potential geothermal has as a sustainable energy source. The total heat flow from the earth is 42 TW, and wikipedia says world energy consumption in 2008 averaged at 15 TW. We'd need a better then 30% global efficiency to use geothermal exclusively long term. This pretty much makes geothermal non-renewable...

Solar energy on the other hand clocks at 173 petawatts (of which 30% is reflected, so that makes it 120).
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I actually have noscript blocking facebook.com and fbcdn.com and facebook cookies. I really don't feel like I've missed anything. The times I've read facebook comments, it felt like they were on the level of people giving "I propose a toast to..." speeches at dinner parties.
Paul, what about using StupidFilter to filter out trolls?

http://stupidfilter.org/main/
I came here to say this and can't believe I had to scroll down so far. All you need are accurate tags and a way to filter by them. There is no point punishing people for submitting or voting up something the community is not interested in. Just make sure they tag it correctly so that it can be found or ignored according to reader's preference.

Note this discussion is exactly akin to deletionism on wikipedia – if we can categorise information effectively, why reject any of it?
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It mentions playing MP3 files. Is this just going to call out to a 3rd party service or is it do with the fact that MP3 patents (for decode at least) are supposed to be running out soon. Or will Mozilla pay the licence fee and provide a free plugin, similar to Fluendo's plugin for Linux, in anticipation of the patents running out. Will they add support in the audio tag?
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Happened to me in the .com.au space. Searched a variety of options and made a shortlist. Sat on it overnight and then returned the next day once I'd decided which ones to grab - they (8-10 unrelated domains) were taken.
Article misses one point: the later release of the Japanese version of Super Mario Brothers 2 as Lost Levels in the rest of the world. Available on Virtual Console, I believe.
I don't have a "temporary" work email. I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting.
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Anyone else avoid getting into gov contract work simply because it feels like you almost have to break the law to get major contract or deliver on them?

This isn't the first time I'm reading a story and thinking to myself but wait, I thought all successful gov contractors pulled strings like this.
Hm... the groupings contain 1, 2, 5, 11, 23, and 47 pixels. With the exception of the start, the number of pixels is 2n+1, where n is the number of pixels in the previous group.
Ryan Block did the same a couple of years ago. I'd have guessed gdgt.com would have more users than it now has.
Sorry, but this is such an oft-applied aphorism that I feel it needs a corollary:

A good craftsman has the wisdom to select the right tool for the job.
Your family and financial limits could make being part of small founding team of a company with no initial revenues and a high chance of failure too risky.

But, your current job isn't challenging you or offering a way forward for your career, so you have to leave.

I recommend you find a youngish but not brand-new company, with healthy revenues or funding, that allows you to expand your business and technical skills.

You may be able to find one that offers the flexibility/work-at-home options you want, though note that could limit the skills and relationship-building that would improve your options of moving to an even smaller/earlier/more-ambitious project later.
How about a rotating group of admin users? Every 30 days a new batch of X users with greater than N karma get to bury/downvote/ban poor quality submissions/comments. This group would be forcibly rotated so that you don't get the "entrenched elite" problem.

It would encourage admins to be wise and for others to respect their wisdom.
What about making the points of a comment be multiplied for a factor depending on you karma?

That way comments from users with good reputation having comments with more points by default. I know this makes the rich richer, but that's the way PageRank works too. If your karma/reputation doesn't make you to be heard more, what's the point of karma anyway?

This isn't really a reputation system, or if it is, the reputation is comment-based and not user-based. I don't see the karma of a user when they comment. I would need to click on the link of their name, what I never do.
In the guidelines, ask people to write titles that try to summarize the content of the linked page. Think of titles as micro-abstracts.

You could even change the 'title' field in the submission form to 'description' (with its content limited to fairly small number of characters, of course. e.g. < 100).

Of course I'm just speculating about the potential value of this, but it might indirectly help a little.
That is not a mistake. It's a large corporation. But I repeat myself.
What impressed me is how they overcame their age and the size of their business to compete with the big players, through meticulous hard work and unscrupulous social engineering.

With better ethics, I would love to have someone like that on my team:

"Diveroli knew how to win them over with a mixture of charm, patriotism and a keen sense of how to play to the military culture; he could yes sir and no sir with the best of them. To get the inside dirt on a deal, he would call the official in charge of the contract and pretend to be a colonel or even a general. "He would be toasted, but you would never know it," says Packouz. "When he was trying to get a deal, he was totally convincing. But if he was about to lose a deal, his voice would start shaking. He would say that he was running a very small business, even though he had millions in the bank. He said that if the deal fell through he was going to be ruined. He was going to lose his house. His wife and kids were going to go hungry. He would literally cry. I didn't know if it was psychosis or acting, but he absolutely believed what he was saying."
It's interesting to see Skynet posting on HN! How about a government where all citizens get to vote on all bills in real time by texting/tweeting/facebook "liking" yay or nay?
I don't think this solves the problem.

It just restricts the site to those people who can/will pay.

There are plenty of people who'll gladly pay for the privilege of trolling or posting garbage. And the more they pay the more entitled they feel to post whatever the hell they want.
I got my info from here: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/12/10_heat.... which said potassium. Shrug.
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As an ex-Googler, I disagree with this second-hand account. Yeah, political infighting sometimes happens and things get shook up, but this person paints the picture of no project ever launching. Addressing some points:

1. See item 3.

2. VP changes rarely happen compared to a PM change. And a PM who comes may change some of the goals, but the focus area of your product doesn't change, e.g. your optimization tool for display advertising will continue to be an optimization tool for display advertising. It would be hard to find your project suddenly disagreeing with some "existing strategy."

3. New products that launch should have a UX designer contributing or at least advising. There should be mocks for the frontend engineers to follow, and the backend engineers are just told to make it work.

4. Yeah, there's a checklist, and it is long. SREs want to minimize the number of pages there, but pages happen because something's going bad, and they want you to have proper monitoring in place to address the pages quickly. The launch checklist also focuses a lot on addressing potential security vulnerabilities. Google is tough on security.

5. Google's all about the software compensating for commodity hardware. I don't think too many teams have specialized hardware. You can ask for what resources you need, but would have to fight for what form you get them in.

7. Can't speak for this. Why reorganize marketing?

8. While I agree that Google likes to fail fast, in my opinion some Google products probably didn't get the love or time they needed to take off. I wasn't really privy to how those decisions are made.
I was entirely expecting the article date to be April 1.
Ask HN: Apply late or wait?
Would you say it's better to wait and apply next cycle, or to apply late anyway and try again in the winter if your application gets rejected?

Essentially, are there any good reasons not to apply late?

Say for example, is it a black mark to have an earlier rejected application for the same idea? Opinions appreciated!
But they already had an hour long music video with Interstella 5555 ...
Better(actually faster on 1/3, smaller on a 1/3) then mono!!!/c# http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... , mostly slower then java -server
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. Still impressive.
I also think some varient of the honeypot might be worth experimenting with. Perhaps instead of blacklisting, pg should do something more forgiving like throttling their request handling to give them plenty of time to think about what they've just said.

Perhaps karma should be subject to gravity. Login is required to view HN. Submitting comments and links is expensive while lurking is cheap. Perhaps 5 karma points buys you a comment or submission; 1 karma/min to lurk.

Just as we [ought to] only make things customers would pay for, we should only submit things users would pay to read. While Hacker Monthly does do this in some fashion, I don't think we should have to pay with monetary currency--but in cpu time.
And then they are kicked off, and must pay again.
I went to find a domain name for personal use a few years ago, using yahoo business DNS (they were running a special on 5 year pricing). When I decided on one I liked, I noticed the .com of it was already poached (site was the usual garbage filler). So I bought the .org.

By the time I closed an paid for the DNS the .net and all other variations had been bought and were directing to those generic filler pages. I can only hope that which ever group poached those wasted some amount of time, effort, or money. I don't run a business from it, and never intend to, but I can see how this kind of shady behavior would warent paranoia from those looking to run a business around a given DNS (/corresponding business name).
You hear non-Americans complaining constantly about America's "cultural imperialism," that they're inundated with American TV shows and movies of low quality, but then as soon as they're unable to get their fix of American media, (or least not able to get it as easily), they start to complain: "Why isn't Hulu available in my country!?"
Another domain they have taken, which is an available domain, and attached an arbitrary "premium" price on is Imbued.com which they want $625 for. Which is BS.
No, it's not a black mark. There's no particular reason not to apply now, if you're ready.
Why don't you buy colorapp.com then Geoff
Yesterday I bodged together something that's maybe half as good by gluing various OpenCV components together with numpy, and that runs at 15fps on an Atom netbook. I get the impression that this is just a lot more clever with the algorithms it uses, rather than specifically relying on the CPU grunt.
Despite this, consumer laptops are now commonly 1366x768 and macbooks are 1280x800.

The recent Air went up to 1440x900, but generally I'm disappointed that the standard resolution in portable screens hasn't improved for years.
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Definitely just buy the soundtrack, it's completely worth it. And the one track with a bit of Jeff Bridges dialog isn't distracting like the trailer dialog is.
Perlmonks had that as part of the structure from the time I arrived there. Which was in the first few months.