skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad advice, look at your stats first and then decide. If IE6 represents less than 5% (or whatever your threshold) then treat them like Nutscrape 4. However if it's the majority of your visitors it's not a great idea to piss them all off.
What you you building that requires you spend 80% of your time fixing for IE6? I can't even imagine.
Opinions on tag line?

COMMUNITY-DRIVEN ADVICE or,

BRUTALLY HONEST ADVICE (original tag line)
looks like audacity was able to remove the high pitched noise :)
I've found Mollom http://www.mollom.com very effective at preventing spam. It was super easy to add as I was already using Drupal. But it will be more work to add to pligg. Maybe it would be less work to convert to using drupal/drigg http://www.drigg-code.org ?
I'd think it would work this way:

1. Use a commenting system that is a bit different from the standard, so the bots can't use it. Wordpress comments already is well known by the bots, so it has to be a bit different
2. When the spammers figure out how to do it, or do it manually, one just has to delete for a few weeks manually
3. When enough users are on the site, one can then make the comments sign-up only.

But in my experience, if you write a custom comment field (or change the IDs), the spammers don't come for a very long time. It's always just bots who monitor RSS feeds broadcasters.
I read the article quite closely, thankyou.

I'd rather have people opposed to a correct understanding of the idea than embracing a caricature of evolution.
I also suggest taking a look at three of my articles:

1) Working Effectively in Bash Emacs Editing Mode

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-emacs-editing-mode-cheat-s...

2) Working Effectively in Bash Vi Editing Mode

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-shee...

3) The Definitive Guide to Bash Command Line History

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/the-definitive-guide-to-bash-co...
Great little story, I wonder if they cut back health benefits for injuries related to "hauling ass" if it would re-balance.
Mod me down, the only thing worse than these posts are meta-comments. It's just noise on top of noise. My only excuse--and it's flimsy--is that I was trying to give you a laugh.
FPS requires your users to have amazon accounts which introduces a similar break in the checkout process as PayPal.
I use and recommend www.merchantplus.com
Uhh please factor in total cost of ownership. Contracts from AT&T aren't free.
I hope you're not paying $100/month to host a Pligg site with almost no traffic.
Heh. Skewers several of the "tech blogosphere" it-people. Too bad they'll think it doesn't apply to them.
I don't care how obvious the purpose of the site seems to you, I don't care how much you don't want one, but the EASIEST thing I should be able to find is the "About" section, whether it's a 2 line blurb ont he front page or a separate page.

People need things explained to them and leave if you don't.
History of Badminton
Do you have any idea how old the badminton game is? The history of badminton can be traced back to ancient Greece. The same game was found in a different format in China during the fifth century where the shuttle was kicked. I didn’t expect it to be such an old game until I read about its history. In the later version of the game a racket was used instead of the foot. The latest version of badminton which is played now is known to be an improvised version of a game called shuttlecock or battledore. I
Here ya go:

http://forums.pligg.com/8774-post16.html

http://forums.pligg.com/pligg-mods/6844-setting-anonymous-co...

It will take a while before the spammers find you. When they find you, start working on that problem, till then, handle your more pressing problem of gaining users.

If you go to Yahoo Answers and point to a relevant link on your own site to the question being asked, I think this qualifies as marketing, no longer spam.

In any case, realise this:

The users of fluther and Yahoo Answers are your CORE audience. You may also take a look at the ask.metafilter.com users - if you sign up for a $5 account, you can post a link to your site under the "Projects" section. You'll get about 200-400 hits, but it's a relevant audience.

Otherwise, you'll have to use a gimmick. This is not ethical, but if you are interested in relevant traffic, then do this:

Post a troll. Target this troll towards christian fundamentalists, teenage girls, or housewives. Then visit a site where these groups are, like a christian forum, a youtube posting of Avril Lavigne or an advice site like flylady. Link to this troll of yours, and watch them get in a hullaboo about it and create links everywhere.

For example, you could write:

"My girlfriend just admitted to me that when Snoop Dogg was in town, she slept with one of his bodyguards. Should I break up with her?"

"My wife has herpes, and our gardener also has herpes. Is she cheating?"

"My sons girlfriend is 14 and he is 18. Is this legal?"

That's linkbait, but you need to target it correctly. The jaded crowd here will immediately see through that, but the groups I mentioned above will believe it immediately.

Yes, unethical I know, but it's just ideas. Pick and mix as you wish.
Ugh.

3 more months of "How Candidate X is the best/smartest/most clever/wisest technology candidate"
And of course Wired leaves out the most important part of the story:

http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/demonsscr.htm
Yes, I'm paying $100 a month and have 30 days to decide if it's worth it. Meaning, I have 30 days to drive traffic to it at which point I'm not going to invest much more time into the site, scale back on infrastructure, and let the site grow via search.

I'd rather be prepared than scrambling.
I'm still not sure how I feel about the F.U.. There is something incredibly leap-out-of-a-cathedral-window-and-fall-to-the-ground-hitting-a-power-chord about it, but at the same time it seems incredibly judgmental and hopelessly hostile to newbies.

There's definitely something to the idea though. I remember the last CodeCon I attended with great fondness, and CodeCon is to some degree and exemplification of the F.U. ideals without the hostility.
Doesn't it say something specifically about not wanting marketing pitches?
The one-liner is available for non-registered accounts on the rectangle image to the right of the site... the big letters read WTF? :)

We're working on the formal About / Tutorial stuff this week.
There are two numbers that are missing, one is the $70 you pay for the first month and the other is the $36 activation fee. That in addition to the Early Termination Fee and the cost of the device would be the total minimum cost.

http://gizmodo.com/5021186/dont-buy-an-unlocked-iphone-from-...
Don't forget your target! It's not this crowd - go to fluther and read the quality of the submissions there. That's basically who you are targeting, so customize your text for them.

Add a button to send this to your friend. Take a look at "AddThis", it's easy to integrate and will take care of that problem for you.

I like "Community-driven advice", as brutally honest sounds a bit scary. Teenage girls are sensitive about this stuff, it's the WHOLE world.

It still sounds a bit technological, but I can't think of anything better :)
Both. But at this point I have the upper hand over the spammers in the sense that most spam is killed by software.
Adding to the above question:

1. Do you use the flag feature to decide whats "dead"?
Great thanks! I found those same threads shortly after your first post and have an email out to someone that has supposedly authored a mod for version 9.x to handle the anonymous commenting.

Will take some of your advice on marketing the site next week, after addressing feedback from HN and making some last minute changes.
As soon as I heard about the text messaging campaign I thought to myself: Harvesting.
Esono.com - Poetry Visualization
If you like this sort of stuff, also:

The Usborne Book Of The Future
http://www.pointlessmuseum.com/museum/usbornebookofthefuture...

It has excellent illustrations and is, as far as I can tell, a lot closer to reality than this other one.
Yes, both editors and software use it.
People watching the presentation get to ask questions and try to trip up the newbie.

If that's what it's like, I wouldn't want to be either the newbie or the tripper-upper. I get that this is all intended in fun, but making that a founding principle seems like a mistake to me.
Well there goes parts of my life I will never get back.

Using the past to predict the future works. But using the past as the ONLY GUIDE to predict the future is mad raving idiocy. Did anyone else get about half way and think "What the fuck is this guy going on about?" He is clearly over analyzing it and failing to see the big picture.

Poor guy doesn't even know that he is rambling.
That's hilarious. I think the best part is where it points out that since particles have positive and negative charges and 1 + -1 = 0, then the universe must have been made "from nothing". Astounding.
This is why I love Silicon Valley.

"Oh, there's another hacker/startup meeting that goes down in that same exact place."
"If it's your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

???
It's 8 a.m. Monday August 25, 2008, you are headed to your cubicle 30 miles away. You throw your briefcase into your Camry, throw yesterday's Starbucks cup behind the driver's seat, turn on the radio to Bob and Tom in the morning. The car accelerates to 40 mph in the city's suburbs, then hits 45 mph in the less built-up areas. You lurch past endless strings of billboards and strip malls. Traffic is heavy, but there is no need worry -- it has been like this forever. Suddenly your cell-phone buzzes. A business associate wants a sketch of a new kind of impeller your firm is putting our for sports boats. You hit silent. You hate that he calls you before you get to work.

Ninety minutes after leaving your home, you arrive at your office. You silently organize your desk and then watch 30 break.com videos. You think, it's so wonderful to be alive in 2008.
leap-out-of-a-cathedral-window-and-fall-to-the-ground-hitting-a-power-chord

Did you just make that up? I like it!
I disagree. First of all, we're talking about highschool, so you have to allow for the fact that we're not going to dive arbitrarily deep into the details with this audience. For most of these kids, this is probably the first and only serious conversation about he topic they've ever seen, and many of them starting from an antagonistic point of view (as was clear in the article).

But is talking about Mickey incorrect in any substantial sense?

No.

The notion that there is a replication/inheritance stage and a death/selection stage is essentially correct and forms the core of the idea of evolution by natural selection. That "drawing" is the replication stage and Walt Disney's managerial decisions (and aesthetic appeal based on which Mickey people find more attractive) is the selection stage in place is, of course, artificial selection, but that just makes the lesson more general.

If that's all these kids learn about evolution, that's fine.

My only worry is that it puts Walt in the role of God, which plays into the hands of the creationists this teacher is trying to silence, but not that the essential ideas are wrong.
The fear of "brutal" to the youth audience was my exact concern too... However, I liked brutal because some people just don't understand when they are in a bad relationship, and need a reality check.
I must admit when Microsoft first introduced the .NET Framework and called .NET-code "language independent", I thought it was a bit of a grand statement and chuckled away, since that pretty much involved C# and Visual Basic .NET.

Right now I think even Microsoft is impressed with number of CLR compilers and level of support the .NET Runtime has gathered. You have C++, C#, Visual Basic, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Cobol(!), LISP and the list just goes. And with Scheme now, it just got a little bit longer.

I guess even among the open-source crowd there are significant numbers of people who recognizes the good products Microsoft delivers every now and then :)
Where do you get the idea that this is for pitching a startup?

(http://freehackersunion.org/rules.html - Rule #8)
Yeah. It's like saying "Je ne sais quoi" and then hanging truck nuts off of it. ;) Or shouting "YOU ESS A!" during a wedding. Something indescribably asinine and unmistakably western but still awesome and laudable at the same time.
Kevin Mitnick Forbes Interview
I find the idea very clever and, in a sense, funny. I'm not a native English speaker and I have doubts about what "break up" exactly means. Is it limited to *friend relations or does it include married people too? If it does, there is a lot of interesting advice that people need: laws, children, compensations...

In general I find very important the evaluation of the partner's personality. There are traits that help detect annoying behaviours or even personality disorders, that are more easily identifiable "remotely" through a written report than in the flesh by the blinded-by-love partner.

The site not only can help detecting the abuse, but also help making a decision and running for the hills :-)

I would suggest: 1) bootstrapping the site with the help of professional psychologists (and if divorce is included, lawyers) to "set the right tone" and 2) putting some machinery in place to prevent bitter people that always give the destructive advice. A bad behaviour in a partner could be solved with a frank conversation. No one is perfect.

I find the looks of the site a little too "packed". It seems to mimic Digg, but Digg uses softer colours. I would add some "air" (margins, smaller icons...).
The blurb about your site with the "join now" button looks like an ad because of the placement and because it is roughly 300x250 pixels.

Cool logo.
Touche! We managed to liberate our data and computation from big blue and then all we can think about is putting it back!

But maybe the difference is that we're all packing supercomputer heat at home and super-extra-duper-distributed-computers up in the cloud. Most futuretalk articles from back in the day always assumed the equivalent of a dumb terminal, and even well after Moore's law was established very few people seemed to realize those implications for the average home's computing power.
Ugh. Yes, It's a Hyper-Pimped Out Toyota Prius from Sweden
I should be able to make it.
Thanks for the link. I had not realized that there were all those extra fees. Besides the $36 + $70 + $175, apparently AT&T will charge an additional "device fee" for early termination.
From how I read "the rules" it sounds like:

* demoing a product/website: fail.

* showing how something (which could be a startup product, but most likely isn't) works under the hood (code, etc.): win.

So exposure is not the point; the hack(s) that make it work are the point. At least, that's my take on it. Sounds interesting.
I like the fact that an interesting new technology, in this day and age, can still be less than 600 lines of code and reside in a single file.
"Education is a series of small lies."

My intro to compute engineering professor, after telling us that actual computers are designed with three-state gates in some places.
Someone's watched Fight Club one time too many.

Snarks aside, it sounds like a good idea. Forcing newcomers to present on the first night does enable you to know straight away if someone is for real, or just a poser.

On the downside, you run the risk of having a lot of very simple stuff being presented over and over again, because newcomers don't know that red over there in the corner presented pretty much the same thing last month...

Finally, the success or otherwise is going to very heavily depend on just how alpha-geek the environment is. If you have too many people trying to exclude newcomers because they consider the newcomer to not be up to their very high standards, it'd quickly devolve into a... less than interesting group to participate in.
WTH? "TreeHugger" Mercedes Unimog Truck Spotted in the Wild
Counting Your Big Pile of Benjamins: 5 Startup Tips for Maximizing Ad Revenue
How to Beat Latency
The group was pretty much founded as an anti-business alternative to the existing business friendly events. I don't think marketing or "startup culture" have a place in the FU. But that's just my impression from reading the initial blog post and other essays building on the idea.

See http://freehackersunion.org/why.html for a better explanation.
Lol, when I saw this post, I was left wondering how many people here even know what 'Benelux' is. I mean, I work in Paris, and if it wasn't for the fact that my company has a 'Benelux' office, I'd still be in the dark!

And besides, what have you got against the Luxembourgeois???
Ask YC: Website Monetization Consultants?
I've been running a non-profit startup for several years now, and we've picked up quite a decent bit of traffic (15MM+ pageviews a month, half a million uniques), but we have very poor site monetization and are barely keeping up with the costs. Obviously we're doing some things wrong and I'm wondering if there are any trusted consultants or organizations that are available for hire to take a look at what we've got and try to make the best of it.

Other than manually tweaking and tuning the site to generate maximum revenue & trying out the different ad networks, etc. is there any outsourcing approach that fellow hackers would recommend? Ideally, we'd just hire a company to take a look at our site, optimize ad layouts for us, recommend the right ad networks by visitor demographics, and generally improve our visitor-to-cash ratio to help us keep afloat.

Any suggestions?
My main issue is with the domain, the double k hurts. You're appealing to non-web 2.0 people and so typoed domains are not going to be that good. You should look for maybe something that is real words. Other than that, great stuff!
My point was, "Here is someone going to college that doesn't seem to be able to read the ingredients on their soda can."

Ahahahahahahaha. I knew several folks at BYU who could recite, in milligrams, the caffeine content of various soft drinks. Caffeinated sodas are left to the discretion of each individual.

I went to both the University of Wisconsin and BYU, and honestly I much more prefer the atmosphere of "Dr. Pepper as excess" to "Alcohol to excess."
Seven Habits of Highly Engineered People
Which reminds me of the Polya quote that "[m]athematics, you see, is not a spectator sport. To understand mathematics means to be able to do mathematics. And what does it mean [to be] doing mathematics? In the first place, it means to be able to solve mathematical problems."
The Wisdom of Experience, presentation by Alan Cooper on effective software development at Agile 2008
Point and Lick
Useful Firefox 3 Configuration Tweaks
From http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~rjhansen/dotnet.html

I asked Professor Abelson whether Scheme could be represented in the .NET virtual machine. His answer was a clear and unambiguous “no”. Most of the language can be; but one of Scheme’s most useful and unique facilities, continuations, cannot be modeled in .NET’s VM. It’s not that nobody’s done it yet; it’s that it’s not possible.

Is this still true? Has .NET been sufficiently updated to allow full Scheme?
Road Tolls Vulnerable to Manipulation
I don't see it as being especially unfriendly to newbies. Perhaps a bit nerve-wracking, but "Bring something cool to show on your first meeting. And make sure it's actually cool. We'll ask lots of questions" seems like it may actually be fun. And IMO, it would definitely help keep a good atmosphere with interesting hacks alive.

You'd need to be careful to prevent people from being assholes to the noobs, and prevent things from degenerating into hazing. However, if it's done right with care to keep things polite, this could be a demanding, challenging, and therefore fun experience.

Anyone interested in starting one up in the Greater Toronto Area? =P

Edit: Clarify things a bit
While I'm not going to belittle your comment and the point made or try to derail the conversation needlessly, I find it equally amazing that something solved by this piece of Javascript is still an actual problem that needs solving.

Wasn't Javascript/ECMAScript, HTML and all that stuff supposed to be standardised? If we still need this mucking about to get a standard working, the standard or its implementation really isn't worth too much.
It appears to me that the entirety of section 3 has very little to do with OTP. What would have been far more useful would be chapters on debugging, distel, more digging into the hidden corners of OTP, and a chapter or two dedicated to mnesia. Too bad, but at least there are two other erlang books coming out in the next six months or so...
git is certainly full of interesting commands, and I'm still learning about some of them after 6 months. When unclear about a command try using

git --help commandname

I highly recommend getting used to some of the "advanced" commands in git, once you learn to master them they become powerful tools.
The hostility is undoubtedly Zed's calling card, but I feel a great deal of affinity for it. Trial by fire keeps a well defined line between FU and everyone else.

Selective permeability is how you maintain a gradient.
I'm torn between upvoting the submission and flagging it... It's blogspam - linking to the "best post on latency." But then again, that is the best post on latency I've ever read.
"When The Freehacker’s Union was originally devised, it was going to be 10 geeks in a local New York City coffee shop hanging with [hyperlink]me[/hyperlink]"

It took an effort of will to read past that.
Looks like a 2600 meeting, minus the open-minded spirit.
Too answer the obvious first: First statement was obviously false, as seen by this implementation. As for your second question, the answer is yes and no.

More specifically: .NET supports runtime generation of code, types and classes. In fact you can write a .NET compiler using built in .NET classes. This is all enabled by the Reflection capabilities built into the framework, which also allows execution of generated code. However the .NET framework and the .NET runtime has not been altered in any way to accommodate Scheme.

IronScheme builds upon the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) which runs on top of the .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime). So basically a runtime upon runtime if you like. The DLR was developed to allow for languages like IronPython and IronRuby. What the DLR does is allowing more functional languages with dynamic typing to run on top of the somewhat strict CLR.

It seems the work done on the DLR has made what your professor claimed was impossible possible, and he simply lacked the imagination needed to envision a DLR running on top of the CLR.

Edit: Looking at the linked article, this is from back in 2003. The "2.0" languages (added syntax features, new compiler) came with the .NET Framework version 2.0 in 2005. This allowed for more flexible syntax and may be the source of your professors error.

In other words: His statement may hold true for the version 1.x VM.
Managing Data in the Clouds
Lotus Made a "Concept Ice Vehicle" for Antarctica Expedition
Joel would be one of the least concerned about how incentive pay affects his profit - he spends way more than average per developer, but in the areas where he thinks it has a positive effect, like above average salary, good desks/chair, etc.

You may dislike Joel, but but that's a stupid argument.
Dealing With Denial of Service Attacks