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Darklight. A darknet which trades scalability and reliability for invisibility by masquerading as HTTPS, SFTP, SSH, and other cryptographically secure, common Internet protocols.

It's such a blindingly obvious idea that I assumed for three years that somebody had already come up with it and I just hadn't found it, and I think that it's not worth a dime because it's obvious and also the kind of thing that the open-source movement would have jumped onto immediately.
You learn a lot by writing code, but what you learn is not the same things that you had learned if you went to school instead.
The other reason it's shortsighted is because you learn a lot from seeing the consequences of your decisions. Usually, the only way to see the consequences of your decisions is to write code. Nobody else is going to do it for you.

There's something very different between looking at the consequences of other people's decisions vs. having to weigh the evidence yourself, pick a course of action, commit to it, and then deal with the results.
Once of the reasons Gawker moved away from hashbangs is that they weren't well supported by Google, despite this being a "Google specification". Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker, has some interesting tweets about the use of hashbangs over the past few months:

Nick Denton: "Dip in uniques largely because of drop in Google refers. Pageviews (which are driven more by core audience) less affected." -- http://twitter.com/nicknotned/status/61152134929981440

Nick Denton: "Google does not fully support "hashbang" URLs. So we're eliminating them rather than waiting for Mountain View." -- http://twitter.com/nicknotned/status/61465859079671808

Nick Denton: "Yeah, I'd advise against hashbang urls. Will kill search traffic -- even if you abide by Google protocol." -- http://twitter.com/nicknotned/status/62595141927583745

So here's a high-profile failure of hashbangs when it comes to being indexed by Google. Which means if it's search indexability you want, hashbangs isn't it. The Google spec just isn't mature enough, or well supported by Google search itself.
Yep, you learn little by "writing code", you learn a lot by developing an ass kicking product/service in a very constrained environment, working with great people and pushing yourself to the limit. It's about the people, the [human] experience not just the code.
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Yeah, but judging comments based on the order is almost impossible with the type of threading the comments have now. The top rated comments are also often not at the top due to the algorithm often favoring new comments.
I'd prefer it if 'voting' went away entirely. I think you should be able to flag a comment as being hateful or abusive but that's it. The point of this site should be to read interesting articles, not focusing on the interaction of its commenting users.

In fact, i'd like it if you stopped displaying usernames too. Perhaps then people would actually consider all the comments instead of taking what one user says as gospel.
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I am a 16 year old kid in 11th grade in israel.

this year i started getting really interested in web development, got 2 websites off the ground and a third (and the first one with hopes of profit) within the month.<p>the issue i am having is that i started off learning PHP and MySql, and im doing great with those. but ive learned that to really make your websites not looke like its from the 90's, you need some nice javascript in there.<p>thats the issue. im having issues learning anything new. not that im slow or anything, usually im a great and fast learner but, for some reason i just cant get out of my boundaries of php and mysql.<p>ive tried starting to use JQuery but at the end of the day. i was almost always just googling for other people scripts.....<p>any advice?<p>thanks you
I'm not entirely sure, sorry. Just that I think security through obscurity is a flawed practice at its very core.

If you're interested in looking into it yourself, I'd suggest looking at the Arduino, which has been pretty much taking the home-electronics world by storm.
If you count programmers who're acqhired, the top end is easily around $5M/year.
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yes they are, but that doesn't mean that you as a user can extract any meaningful information from them. Where comments show up on a page is a function of time, scores and average karma per post of the poster. The main trunk of a debate will be somewhat navigable by this metric, but the subthreads won't.

I did a back of the envelope calculation here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569997 that shows that there is no way to assess the scores of around 50% of the comments.
My work is not in a place that is more expensive to live than where I am currently. But I live in an university town and really think this is worth the commuting. I got a comfortable car for commuting and I am usually listening to political news and humoristic podcasts that entertain me much the whole way. All in all, I think this is quite livable, even if driving brings some stress. I notice an impact on my social environment as described by the article, but I think it would be even worse if I lived near where I work. It's just not the kind of environment I'm searching right now.
Lots of people have complained that without comment scores it's harder to pick out the good comments.

That's a key thing for me. I believe I can distinguish between the cases when a popular person gets upvotes because she already has 999999 karma on HN and when the comment is genuinely useful because, well, it is. MYSELF. Please let ME make the desicion. Thank you.

(I stopped voting anything at all on HN because the scores are no longer displayed).
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here's a more readable format:

http://m.io9.com/5805244/what-would-a-teaspoonful-of-neutron...
We seem to be in agreement. The poor don't work because they don't need to work in order to consume and instead prefer to engage in other (non-work) activities.

We also seem to agree that "a lack of dignity [or other minor disincentive] is probably insufficient to push more than a few people over the threshold [towards work]" (as I said a few posts up).

I'm always glad when I can convince others (including others with whom I share different values) of the correctness of my pet hypothesis. It suggests I'm on the right track.
How about two options:

- Agree/Disagree buttons/links

- High/Low quality buttons/links

This way it is easier to separate if you upvote because you agree or because you think it is a high-quality contribution (even if you maybe disagree). Karma (if kept) should probably just be based on quality score, not on agree/disagree ?

In addition, showing a score in percent/color relative to the other scores in the same discussion ?

Edit: You should probably also separate between "article/submission" karma and comment karma, as some submissions of old articles get lots of karma, while the relative karma of quality comments often are much lower ?

Yes, it is very important that quality articles are suggested, but this is much easier than contributing quality comments (which is time-consuming, especially for non-native english speakers)
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>>You seem to believe that people don't value ideas enough and therefore are testing them.

Kind of. While I am a programmer myself and agree with the fact that ideas might have little value compared to execution; this is more of a case where the person with idea does not know how to execute it. If the person is executioner himself, then I think that ideas are equally important.
Because the VSI doesn't use the pitot tubes? IIRC, it uses a gyroscope. [Confirmed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595230 ]

Not really confirmed.

Even that post says (read carefully):

The attitude, turn, and heading indicators rely on gyroscopes that are propelled by a vacuum pump and/or electric motors.

Airspeed, altimeter, and _vertical speed indicators_ rely on a pitot-static system. The pitot tube must be exposed to the air that is uninterrupted by the plane's passage. The static port(s) must be positioned where the air is calm and undisturbed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variometer
Hint: you can just run Apache twice; once with a mpm_prefork config for your apps, once with a mpm_event config to handle client connections.
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Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592671
- Computer programmers -- $74,900
- Software developers, applications -- $90,410
- Software developers, systems software -- $97,960

The "computer programmer" / "software developer" differentiation, with the associated difference in status, always amuses me.
Ask HN: Exciting thoughts when you grab a new domain name for some idea
What are those exciting thoughts or zeal of that moment when you proceed to grab a new domain name for some idea.
Well, it does since apache 2.1 ('event' mpm module, replaces worker)
You're not giving the internet enough credit, I think. See what we are doing right now, writing comments on a news site? That's called "public debate".

Do you think we would be trained to do public debate if there was not internet? I think most of us wouldn't be.

My point is, the internet gives to an unprecedented number of people the power to argue smart. Sure, smart arguing isn't nearly enough, but it's a much needed catalyst.
Surprised to see no mention of Woot in the article. They've been using editorialized humor to sell a single heavily discounted product each day since 2006.
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This isn't quite the case. There is also a time component, so that new comments have a chance to be seen. So something at the top might be very highly rated, or just the latest addition.

Absolute numbers are most useful in the case of lone responses, but have utility any time there aren't a lot of comparison points. They also separate out the time issue.
pg: Have you analyzed voting patters before and after the change? I would love to see a histogram of number of votes over percentage of comments in the two periods.
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High intensity, singular focus, product/market fit (http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4), and determination (http://paulgraham.com/determination.html).
Would it not be possible to have comment points in the page, but not visible, and then have them shown as a personal setting (or maybe only with the help of an extension / greasemonkey script)?

This way only people who really want them would have them.
We use it in our product. It's incredibly easy to set up, and the entire focus is on tracking events happening in your code.

I.e., we have an event for people pressing the login button, another event for people actually logging in, an event for posting a message, etc. Very simple to set up, and now gives us real-time analytics (and funnels) on how many people press login vs. actually login, etc.

And those are just small examples - we have a huge range of events that we track, things we care about.
Not sure if that has been suggested before, but how about showing the comment score only after the user has voted? This keeps most of the benefits of no-score mode (less voting because of bandwagon-y stuff), while making it easier to see which comments are good. Basically, you have to make up your own mind first, but then you can see what the general consensus is.

(And yes I realize it wouldn't be hard at all to make a mashup that just straight up shows the comment scores, but I doubt most people would feel the need to use that).
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Thanks for this page. I was putting off watching "Fargo" again until I saw that it was expiring tomorrow.
I've thought about this too. However, I have a feeling that most people will consider comments that they agree with to be of "high quality" and vice versa. We will basically get two scores that are almost identical.
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>>Calculate which mobile subscription on the market would be cheaper based on your mobile activity of previous months

Is there a way to do that? From what you are saying it is like tracking the number of incoming and outgoing calls and keeping track of the bill. Wouldn't that be a privacy issue, and also do the service providers agree to provide such data ?

>>Offer a service like square with the distinction that once a cent is converted to a online cent

I like the idea, but what do you mean by online cent? Square takes the payment by credit card, so it goes directly to merchant account. Isn't it? So where does it get converted to online cent? Correct me if I am wrong! This can be compared better to paypal; that is where the money gets converted to online cent.
Thanks. That link also works with JavaScript disabled, something the original link doesn't. Makes me shiver when a simple blog requires JavaScript in order to access the content.
Since I'm new here, I'd like to ask a question that's been bothering me for some time: Do we upvote comments we agree with, or comments we think are worth reading? In my case, those aren't always the same, so I'd like to know how you guys handle it. Thx.
That seems like an awful lot of bother. Me? I'll be off making something...
My 3 hours of commuting 5 times a week is really bringing me down? Wow never really thought about it until I read this article.
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I wonder how this poll looks weighted with by the voter's karma (even logarithmically).
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I think it would be a good idea to display the scores after you vote. That way you would know that you are upvoting a comment for it's merits, and it's not a case of mob mentality.
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1- As a heuristic, find an existing successful product (for example invoicing, accounting, crm...) and tailor it to a smaller national market (for example France, Germany...) or to a specific niche (accounting for trainers, invoicing for plumbers...). That should give you a lot of ideas!

2- a tool to conduct online interviews. Right now when recruiting companies use a phone screening before flying the candidate in. By conducting an interview online, you can (for example) have him code the solution to a problem in real-time, how he thinks about it etc. So much more efficient than phone interviews, and a much better predictor for candidate quality.

3- a service to outsource video making for webapps. people making webapps often need demos of their products, but would rather not spend valuable time learning how to make a video, voiceover etc.

There would be a lot more. Ideas are a dime a dozen :-)
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I agree with this completely. My bike commute makes up a large portion of the exercise that I get and it's always nice to kill two birds with one stone.
I'm sorry, but this sounds like whining to me.

In this case, you're not the only one building an empire on the quicksand (which by the way, was freely provided by voulenteers, which only make changes to the quicksand in an effort to _improve_ it).

The effort to keep the platform working to support your old castle will usually be shared with others, just like with the Debian project which keeps old software versions updated with backported security fixes for many, many years just so that you can sleep well each night.
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I have both, and I don't think they are too similar. Surely they've got the same form, as in large display, no keyboard, but the iPhone wasn't the first phone with this design.
Otherwise the look&feel is different.
Getting pretty tired of these "FOO is killing you"-articles. Salt kills, not enough salt kills, commuting kills, staying at home kills, sex kills, cucumbers kill, not enough veggies kill, blablabla.

Common sense, anyone?
I think that would be more polarizing rather than less: You would have an incentive to vote one way or the other, even when you feel the comment deserves neither.
It's just a press release. It means that the person or institution that endorsed it can say they endorsed it.

The Startup Visa basically got as far as John Kerry trying to put it on a bill and eventually after it stalled it was revealed that Obama doesn't support it which makes it DOA. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/30/startup-visa-d-o-a-and-star...

Comprehensive immigration reform is something that we can hope for in Obama's second term. Hope & Change 2012!
I think that is most likely completely wrong. While the kids are raging in the streets, the real revolution will happen silently on the networks.

Computers are changing the way we live and behave. What could be more revolutionary?
I walk to work but I suspect it's actually much more dangerous than driving.
I find it fascinating that people often talk about science removing the magic of the Universe. And yet, science has revealed amazing, mind-boggling, alien wonders of the Universe that are far more fascinating than any anthropomorphic pantheons.

Is there anything in the bible, or in any religious text, that comes close to the story of a supernovae? A supermassive star putting forth unimaginable amounts of light and heat over its few million year lifespan, transmuting its component elements from Hydrogen and Helium all the way to Iron. And then creating this extremely bizarre stuff of neutron star matter during its death throes when it flashes so incredibly brightly that it can briefly outshine the entire galaxy it resides within and can be seen by the naked eye from so far away that it takes longer than the span of time that human beings have used tools for the light to travel that distance.

And think, every single human being alive contains within them atoms that were forged in just such an event.

To me that's far more awe inspiring than any origin fable.
Tailoring it for a niche segment sounds like a feasible solution, or else it's a redo, isnt't it?

1. invoice - freshbooks, curdbee
2. online interviews - interviewstreet
3. video for webapps - can't recall the names, but I got more than 5 proposals for creating a demo for my site theaterex.com

I understand that everything has a room for improvement, but the ground breaking ideas have far more value than we see
Please consider displaying both upvotes and downvotes separately. There's a huge difference between a `3 karma' comment with +62/-60, and a `3 karma' comment with +2/-0.

The first one is interesting, but raises serious opposition; the second one is probably uninteresting.
Gmail is a free personal email service and this guy complains about lack of customer service? Boohoo. Wish I could downvote links on HN.
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I'd like to be able to sort comments by Newest on a post. If I go through 30-40 comments at first, and then later come back to see another 10 new ones on that particular post, it's hard to remember which are the new ones and which aren't, and it just makes me go through all of them again.

I'm not really sure what "Comments" menu serves, because I see it's all the new comments from all posts mixed together. That doesn't make much sense to me. I want to see the new ones on each post.
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Chomsky is someone who I am really disappointed in. He is obviously very smart. He always seemed to me like the person with exactly the right mind for the tasks he set out to take on.

He seems to fall in to the same trap as the people who aren't.
After you made the change to the site, have you seen any changes in voting patterns and point distribution? It would be interesting to see that kind of data.
The calendar in the screenshot is misleading; the power of this tool comes from: (1) being always available (who doesn't have a terminal open?) and (2) having a powerful command language.

It's the only todo tool that I actually use. It removes the friction of having to have a web-based one open, find the window/tab, click on the appropriate textbox, etc.

The devs listen to comments, and think carefully new features. I was added to the list of contributors for 2.0 just because of an idea I suggested. Very active project. Cannot recommend enough. Our startup uses it instead of a whiteboard.
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I think the transparent money idea is a clever one. Bitcoin does this although I'd say it's a side-effect rather than a feature and you have to accept a whole lot of baggage. Applying this to money would be clever. I haven't thought it all the way through but it feels like you'd get tripped up by the fungibility of money. If I use some of my tainted dollars to get a loan and then use those loaned dollars to buy something from you, haven't I bypassed your filter? (As long as they guy making the loan doesn't mind getting paid with tainted dollars.) You could try to make the loan provider tag their loaned dollars with the tag of the payment, but I'm not sure how you'd enforce it. Not to mention that fractional reserve banking means that "new" dollars are being created and destroyed all the time. Still it's an interesting idea and bears further thought.
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Given the choice of 20,000 twitter api credits vs 150, the choice is clear. Just wanted to make sure it is too good to be true.
Looking for a minimal time-sheet management software at work, I found taskwarrior. I was looking for something reasonable to use (not one of those "web 2.0" interfaces where you have to click on five different links to just stop/start a task).

Taskwarrior seems very handy especially when you are all day long in your terminal and don't want to interfere with your work for doing some "reporting". But there is a missing way to get the time spent on a task/project. It seems to be a recurring request: http://taskwarrior.org/boards/6/topics/79 but I haven't found any feature doing it. Beside that, it seems quite nifty.
Signals from brain to some part would go faster few microseconds i guess, and vice versa. And maybe few other hard to reproduce consequences.

But why assume that this is bad designed in first place? We can't only by it's look conclude that it is bad design. Most of internal organs don't look nice anyway but they do the job. (they are in fact intended to look bad so average person would get upset if it see it)
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