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You're right.

However, if "The Dark Knight" bumping off "The Godfather" was all that was happening, that wouldn't be a problem.

What's happening, though, is that the release of "The Dark Knight" made "The Shawshank Redemption" have a higher rank than "The Godfather". This means that the ranking system has lead to the rating system being used strategically.

The implications of this for approval voting would be an interesting corollary. The polls could influence themselves.
I have to wonder, what do you do during a blackout? Do you just sit there giggling?

On second thought, I probably don't want to know.
for crying out loud CUIL doesn't show up on cuil. it sucks. we get it.
Can't name names, but I would say - take a hard look at the amount of square feet the CM has. The larger the manufacturer, the more they can scale. The smaller the manufacturer, the more they care about your business. It would seem like the 2nd is the one you want, but it is not, go with the large one. Look for a CM with "new product introduction" expertise, and their experience and size will pay great dividends.
http://freemind.sourceforge.net

FreeMind is the best product out there because of its speed and its emphasis on folding. The latter part might not make any sense until you play around with it for a while and start making really big maps.
Oddly, over half my consulting clients have never met me. Some have never spoken to me. All of them seem reasonably happy.
I like the nice clean lines - above the fold anyway, then I think it gets confusing as you scroll down and the main articles move left, and what I think are less popular articles (thinner items) move into the center.

Your eye doesn't go smoothly down the page.

Also, as you probably know, most people won't customize the news sources, so maybe do that as an accordian or something like that. That would also make the 'people in the news' section move up the page nicely.

It may also be more interesting if you could add images to the article listing.

Good work, and good luck.
You know, my first reaction was the same as yours. But now I'm thinking "nifty hack" now that I've taken my Pythonista hat off.

Exploring stuff like that is what hacking is all about. I'd strangle someone who wrote a library like that for my project (and checked it in), but there's nothing wrong with experimenting now and again.
I just tried it out and I love this thing already! Although this might be because I have a fetish for hypnosis-inducing flashing images :) Would love to see a Firefox plugin.
I don't think that there would be any additional advantage to doing that under the model Cuban is proposing. Business owners would still pay tax on their personal income. The actual dollar amount of tax paid by a one person company that pays all profits to its owner/employee would be the same with or without small business taxes, since the business always has a profit of 0.

Business owners may prefer contractors for various reasons still, but this wouldn't add to it. Did business owners in Romania also get a break on the money paid out from the small business as personal income?
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Ok, I am having so much difficulty to get this across, cause I am coming to understand that we come from very different places. So I am gonna keep trying. and then more.

"That requires him to mind you and cater to your lifestyle", when I said that my vegetarianism springs not from conscious thought, you should understand that its no longer a choice for me. Now if this guy stands for his food, I will show you an architect who thinks large obvious parking spaces with blue paint smeared on them makes his beautiful beautiful building look bad. Would you consider going back on disability laws?

Now I am not going to stand and say this is how all vegetarians are. But the fact that I exist and many many more like me, should make you reconsider.

Can't passion for your food, and compassion for a fellow human being co-exist?
Motivation to stay indoors 6 months of the year?

As long as you don't really hate the cold - and enjoy winter sports, the winter is bearable. (yes, that was for laughs, and yes I just thought it up now)

It does make it harder to get focussed right now when the weather is delightful.
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Most of the time when I hear about pains of DVCS, it is when they are attempting to use it in a non-distributed way - without first having learned how to use the framework.

Learning git or hg as cvs/svn++ is REALLY bad. I've personally lived through Flock using hg for several months only to abandon it for SVN (hg was version 0.6 and would eat our commits...) I've also had to help friends at companies who jumped on git without knowing how to use it, and hearing horror stories about everyone rebasing/rewriting history combined with a central repo.

Honestly it makes me not promote git as much since I don't want to deal with the "svn++" mentality.
Get some contract work within the US, and be making a good American salary while travelling/working. Don't take too much work on so you can relax.

It is something I have considered.
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But it only takes 1 spoiler to publicize the results to ruin it for most everyone else.
Generations from now our scholars will be lumped in the same category as alchemists and geocentrists---much to their discredit.
I upmodded your post because it already had +9!
Okay, "nothing but notes" mode now hides the toolbar as well.
Note, I didn't say that immigration is impossible. All immigrant needs is to be profitable for the country he wants to move to. If he has really good skills in a priority area and if purposed country has a lack of qualified workers in that area, he has a chance to get a work permit. In this case all depends on his skills. And it's not "pessimistic" point of view, rather it's realistic.

Actually I don't know much about NZ immigration policy, but in some countries(CZ for example) you can find a job on the spot, in other countries(for example in Australia) you have to prove your skills via some tests and only after you have appropriate number of points you get a work permit.
The loopholes would be too big. The solution is actually quite simple: cut government spending and lower taxes. Jobs and companies would insource instead of outsource. Anyone who thinks the government is effectively spending tax dollars is out of their mind.
This mob mentality, brought on by a significant event (in this case, the release of The Dark Knight), causes a total breakdown in a system that is otherwise fairly accurate, useful, and trustworthy.

I wouldn't call this a "total breakdown in the system". I would call it a minor blip. I mean, ultimately the system recommends what movies to watch. If someone isn't going to watch the Godfather now that it's ranked #3 instead of #1, then the person is flawed, not the system.

Otherwise, this was an interesting post. I have been astonished that TDK is #1. Didn't realize people were also downvoting other movies to keep it there.
Link text has been changed now. And I sprinkled "sign up for free" in a few other places as well.

Thanks again.
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If restaurants were required by law to serve vegetarian dishes, you would have a point. But luckily that's not the case. I don't eat sea food, so if friends are going to a sea food restaurant I either opt not to go or make arrangements to eat before or after. It's not a big deal, I am not going to try and have the kitchen whip up something else because I can't deal with their menu.

There are people with serious food allergies, so much so that they will die if they eat certain foods, but restaurants are not required to make available optional dishes for all possible patrons (for you it's veggies, for someone else it's gluten for someone else it's peanuts, etc etc etc). No one can please everyone. If you can't eat the food, just don't go.
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Its entirely possible that you got down-modded because we got the humor.

Wierd Al -> Digg

Monty Python -> Slashdot

Randall Munroe -> HN
Not just simple proxying, but also a bit of questionable privacy practice. Granted, most users don't care about their privacy, but might it have some sort of legal implications? Also, latency starts to suck if two people far away from the proxy are trying to use it.
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Thanks - this is good advice. Looks like I'll be posting on the Techshop bulletin board.
You can renounce your citizenship but it comes with serious consequences. It is not anything anyone should do and you can't undo it once done.
If that is not the right way to launch, what does the author think is the right way to launch something that competes with Google?

I suggest there is no such thing, that absolutely everything and anything you try will provoke someone's criticism. It's not like the author was comparing Cuil to Powerset, for example, and illustrating how Cuil failed where Powerset succeeded.

Sure, the service seems to have a ways to go. Fine, and there's nothing wrong with saying so. But the title is the worst kind of armchair quarterbacking, all criticism with absolutely zero objectivity.

I'd say the author has shown us how NOT to write a review: failing to compare Cuil to other startups competing with Google and failing to suggest what they ought to have done instead.
Facebook outage.
I think we're probably getting the same page - I get:

* YouTube - Leopard gecko and royal python eat mice!!

* FS: 2 captive-born Mali Uromastyx - via auction (gargoyle python gecko boa) Reptiles. ...

before I get:

* Re: [pyxpcom] Python web crawler using Gecko :: ASPN Mail Archive ...

I'd have thought, given my history, the reptile versions would come later.
Fail whale.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/02/24/75-threatening-to...
The point of top-k rankings is to put items in the proper order. As far as the crowds are concerned, this is no failure. Sorry your favorite movie lost its spot.
You're acting like risk is binary. It isn't.

You can't fully trust code unless you've created it entirely yourself.

That doesn't mean that code you have not fully created yourself which is available to scrutinize has the same level of risk as code which you have not created that is secret.

Nor does Thompson say it is in his article - read it again.
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well i am going to india in september for 3 weeks to check out the startup scene!!

gimme a buzz if are considering India :D:D
The flaw in the system isn't that The Godfather was bumped down. The flaw is that people are rating the Godfather down to the point at which it changed its ranking with respect to other movies.

And you're right, it's not a major flaw for a movie ranking system. But let's suppose something similar to the IMDB system(which would be an approval/range voting system) is used in an election, and the first place gets President, the second choice getting Veep. With an election, you don't have real-time rankings like IMDB, but you have something similar--polls. And that's even worse, since there's a few points of inaccuracy. Strategically worded polls could change the results of an election.
"If restaurants were required by law to serve vegetarian dishes, you would have a point."

It wasn't a law to have large obvious blue parking spaces before some one pointed out. Did they not have a point before it became a law? Is anything that is illegal at this point in time pointless?
Brilliant on one hand, unethical on the other. By using their application, I consent they use my bandwidth to carry other people's phone calls?
OK, you may have me there :). All power sources are dangerous, but we need fewer of a more efficient one.

New dangers with nuclear power may be discovered (like those that those German researchers did), but that seems to be true also of new technology in dams and oil transport etc.
That's funny, because the book which coined the term is about exactly this - how to make Wisdom of the Crowds work.
I see lots of fairly-relevant (but not great) results for [reddit].

Apparently, one of Cuil's failure modes under today's load is to return no results or poor/partial results. So to get a true feel for its capabilities you should keep trying.
There's an allowance for up to $70k or $80k where you avoid double taxation. I'm a US citizen with permanent residence in Germany and since my income has been below that all I have to do is fill out my return and not pay anything.
Correction: Nifty unnecessary hack. Why not just write a function which returns another function that performs the SQL statement? That is almost but not quite exactly what the decorators do and it would accomplish exactly the same goal without clobbering python syntax. An even better solution would just be a function that executes an arbitrary SQL query. That also has the benefit that it can be easily wrapped and easily debugged unlike the current mess.

examples:

create_sql_function(query): return a function that executes query.

execute_sql(query): execute a query.

Usage:

foo = create_sql_function('SELECT a, b FROM bar;')
zzz(self, c, d):
execute_sql('INSERT INTO ...')
Don't you mean "our media"?
I use iChat/AIM/Gtalk as my primary messenger and yet I almost always end up starting Skype when I want to send a file. Skype's amazing at hole punching.

I'm glad I don't have to deal with installable apps but if you're looking for a GREAT library that does everything Skype does, check out STUNT from Cornell:

http://nutss.gforge.cis.cornell.edu/stunt.php

It's a great piece of code and works really well.
The problem is that people discuss these concepts without reading the book and thus miss out on the subtleties. The long tail is another common victim.

Disclaimer: I didn't read the book.
I really enjoyed this book. It's a few years old and the essays are all available online. Regardless, a good book.
Specifics make this discussion a lot easier.

A full-time company would probably handle that scenario by evaluating the market and seeing how to leverage their investment. For example, if your pop-up blocker had any intelligence to it, one approach might involve building the equivalent of adblock for IE, which I suspect would sell about as well as a popup blocker pre-builtin. Then again, I'm not sure how much of a company one could expect to build around a simple pop-up blocker, so calling yourself a company is a bit of a stretch -- it's really just a hobby.

No need to apologize for being a tool, this is the Internet and it is assumed.
IIRC, the same thing happened at the releases of Spiderman and the Royal Tenenbaums. Hype does funny things to men.
Privacy is solved with end-to-end crypto and latency is somewhat solved by putting supernodes in every large university.
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Some countries, at least the UK and Australia have a points system whereby if you qualify it's relatively easy to move over. Most countries require you to have lined up a specific job (i.e. not starting a company) that couldn't be filled by a local. Understand that "relatively easy" means, "a huge amount of effort, waiting and frustration, bordering on traumatic".

Moving away from the US is a huge amount of work. I have done it and I have to say that I agree with the negative tone here -- if you're not completely determined to do it, and haven't done the due diligence to have a strong desire to go to a specific place and really dig deep into their immigration requirements, then it bodes ill for your scheming. It's just not something you can do on a whim.

As for workplaces, some are in English, especially in international firms, but usually to feel comfortable in a place you'll want to learn the local language. Aside from it being necessary for building up a social circle, say, when you go to the doctor, or need to get your utilities set up, or have to fill out your tax forms, that will naturally all be in the local language.

Setting up a new business, without a local co-founder, would be next to impossible without speaking the local language ( aside from the fact that in most countries you wouldn't be allowed to do so anyway). You need to put so many things -- taxes, incorporation, insurance, contracts, banking -- and again, naturally all of those things will happen in the local language.

And then, to top things off, for doing a startup, the US is the most convenient place to be. You can do it elsewhere, and there are a couple hot spots -- Tel Aviv, London -- but it seems best to focus on where you want to be, figure out if you could possible get there, and then figure out if there's a startup scene. Keep in mind that if you start sorting this out today, it'll probably be 6-12 months before you could move.
I think this only works for certain countries. It also applies only if you live outside the US for at least 330 days the first year, but those days don't have to be consecutive.
"Release early, release often." Rarely balanced properly for potentially high-demand, high-load applications, even if just in spikes.
Not as good as the Yegge essay "Done, and Gets Things Smart", except that it's shorter.
Have they ruled out the possibility that the people marketing the movie are gaming the system? Even if voting was restricted to established IMDB users, surely a reasonably well connected Hollywood marketing person could round up a few hundred of those among friends and friends of friends.
I've been looking for something like this for a while: currently I use Tomboy on Linux but the UI is too basic. I love your attention to detail: Ctrl+B makes my selection bold - fantastic.

Are you going to open the code? I'm sure you've used tons of other people's work: come on, contribute some back!

I'd love to run it on my laptop: since the software is truly personal, without any sharing/collaboration benefits, why would I want to keep it in the "cloud", which often is unavailable?

So... where is the code? I saw "download" feature, but it gives me HTML, not the software.
I think that the problem is similar to the eternal September problem. I'm sure that the people who had been voting and contributing to the ratings on IMDB had been involved on the site for a while. Now, there's a big influx of people on IMDB that are voting for their favorite movie. I bet that many of the people who are voting Dark Knight up have never seen the Godfather or Shawshank.

Same thing happened to my wife in film school. She went to film school because she loved the classics of the 30's - 50's. She was stunned to find out that the kids she was going to school with thought that Austin Powers was the best film ever.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/ratings is the vote breakdown.
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Agreed -- the piling-on criticism is unseemly. It's day 1 for an ambitious new entrant in a area that desperately needs alternatives.

Whatever the problems, larger and older companies have had bigger breakdowns months or even years into their operation.

Unfortunate is that Cuil's failure mode under load seems to be to return fewer or no results. Some commenters have thus gotten the impression that momentarily-broken results are in fact representative of Cuil's index coverage.

With that in mind, a specific way they could have launched better would have been via stages/invites, with Cuil slowing the expansion of invites if load problems emerged.

Even now, they could refuse some of the load in a less-frustrating way, by hiding the query box from some visitors, rather than making each submission a crapshoot -- "will I get any results this time?"

Also: they should really start a blog where they can share the story of the launch from their perspective, in the coming days or weeks.
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i upmoded you because you were +7 and him because he was +14.

CAN I HAS MOB NOW KTHXBYE
Cool.. a hardware post! I feel your pain.. We had such bad experiences we decided to do our own end assembly, and strictly source everything in the US. It's more expensive, but then again, we were a small company, and making things happen overseas is really difficult.

Are you manufacturing in the US or China/Taiwan?
Wisdom of Crowds was a good book. The sequel, Attention Span of Crowds, was significantly shorter.
Perhaps this is an advantage to Y!Hack not having a downvote button.
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Boy, this guy is pretty good.
I wonder what would happen on this site if the comments and stories were still sorted by points but the actual number was hidden (or perhaps only hidden until after you vote but I don't see why they need to be there period).
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Should be easy to cull these votes from the system. Anyone voting Dark Knight at 10 and Godfather at 1 should get nixxed from the system.

In fact, anyone voting Godfather less than 8 should be nixxed.
It is fine for "FanBoys" to push Dark Knight into number one. But downvoting Godfather to put your movie into the #1 spot is plainly wrong.
Thanks. It looks like they nailed a big part of what I like about Python. When/if I do more projects with C, I'll check it out.
Why is the U.S. innovative?
This idea has (IMO) a better name, WebHooks, and a standard place for discussion about the issues and tools around the concept: http://webhooks.pbwiki.com/

XMPP unfortunately ends up being the "heavyweight" solution; there's probably a decent argument that WebHooks are to XMPP what REST was to SOAP.

(And don't get me wrong, what I'd really like to see is websites that support RSS, WebHooks and XMPP, each has strengths and can compliment the other)
This came out of a discussion about "What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=257588
Most people read in phrases, not in words. I would think 300wpm would be baseline for most folks.
True enough. The right kind of effort, at the right time, and you get a Ghandi -- transcend boundaries, change the world. Wrong effort, wrong time? You achieve nothing but hearing the sound of your own voice complain and argue about injustice. You miscalculate your power or strategy and find your effort to be in vain. You get left behind. Life is short, and you miss out. Instead of putting up things, and actually getting shit done, you gave yourself to a battle that couldn't be won.
Do they? Or are you defining average environments as those environments in which average work is done?

The PG-recommended startup plan consists of several people sharing low cost living-and-working space and living on instant noodles, yet doing above average work.

The direction of cause and effect doesn't seem as clear cut as DHH suggests.
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Hackers, i just got an awesome book entitled "Founders at Work: Stories of Startups Early Days".

I'll soon be finished with it, can you recommend me (and us, other hackers) more?

Thanks!
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I like how the results layout. They need to work on finding more relevant thumbnails. The thumbnail shown for my own website is completely unrelated to me.
Hmm, those numbers are definitely too big to be influenced by anyone's network. Judging from the other top-ranked films, it looks as if IMDB's userbase is in the middle of changing.
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That's like going to a play and turning your back to the stage. It's insulting and disrespectful, stick to restaurants that cater to vegetarians or who don't care about the food they cook.
If it's a minor blip, how do you propose they now fix the problem? I see it is as so systemic and flawed that the only solution is to scrap it altogether.