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Yes, you need some amount of karma. This was 200 at one point, but I seem to recall that it's ~500 now.
The trouble with wind is the variability. And even if you assume that there is always good wind somewhere, the energy grid just can't handle shifting power back and forth so quickly.

It takes time for the other generators to change output levels, so during high speed wind turbines tend to get disconnect from the grid because of the harmful effects they have on it.

The net result is that they don't produce out as much energy as expected.
And where is Number Theory?
That is not a very valuable comment, though. You may have received a better score if you posted a not-so-valuable comment defending a popular position, but that doesn't mean that well-argued defences of unpopular positions receive the same treatment.

Being downvoted has a much higher emotional impact than being upvoted, but it does help with sorting comments, obviously.
The person you replied to might not be a native English speaker. Demand shares a common ancestry with the verb "to ask" in some languages. Take French's "demander" and you might see why someone could use "demand" in a way that sounds confrontational in English but quite normal in another language.
Not with certainty, but with probability. Mexican immigrants vastly outnumber Russian, Indian, Chinese, Korean, and Persian immigrants. But the entrepreneurship ratio is lopsided in the opposite direction. One group creates jobs on net, the other is a net tax recipient. And other developed countries like Canada and Singapore routinely distinguish between skilled and unskilled immigrants, so it's really not that hard a distinction to make.
It's not oil, it's coal that is the main source of CO2.

And green energy does not exist, so good luck switching to it.

People tend to assume "it will be fought every step of the way" because they refuse to believe the truth: it does not exist.
Just curious, how is climate change falsifiable? What we have is a lot of data and a lot of models. We don't have any way to test this data and models, no? Furthermore, we don't know if we know everything about the subject, although we would appear to know a lot.

So the only way to falsify it is if new data comes out? But for something so complicated, future data is likely a crapshoot? We can only estimate future data based on current models, which may or may not be able to model reality well, given how complex and nonlinear the entire system is?

It seems really difficult to falsify the idea of global warming.
Thing is, whether or not climate change is happening has policy implications. Just settling it was never gonna be enough.
How about a limited amount of down-votes allocated to each member to dish out? Possibly tiered based on karma level? Perhaps a member that down-votes a comment loses karma if the comment is then up-voted by other members (ie deemed an unfair down-vote by others)?
I'm optimistic that most of these hacker groups are willing to make movements against human rights issues that one assumes they care about. You're right though, they aren't the ones who will suffer from it.
There is "flag" for stupid comments. If I turn the steering wheel to the right to make the right turn I'd expect to make the left turn when turning it to the left, not stopping the car. Symmetrical controls imply symmetrical actions.
There's a difference between "int i = INT_MAX + 1 is legal C" (appropriate but factually wrong) and "fsck off, you moron".
+1 to the VPS for small (early) web apps. These VMs can handle more than one normally assumes. Especially if the load does not come in bursts.

Running my app (https://addresspush.com) now since 9 months and the smallest slice with Apache and 2 balanced nodes works perfectly. 1 unnoticed down-time for a few hours. I bet that happens with cloud services as well (hi AWS!).
It does help in sorting, but i'd suggest it sorts by popularity, not by quality as we tend to assume.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm here to read interesting perspectives on interesting topics. I don't really care to reaffirm a popular opinion, irrespective of quality or substance.
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When I browse to your site, here's what it redirects me to:

http://app0.zabibu.com/z/

I run with Noscript on and I'm not about to enable javascript for that. Redirecting my url seems fishy. Redirecting it to that url makes it seem scary - that specific url pattern is very spammy to me. Something like http://www1.zabibu.com/ is cool but http://app0.zabibu.com/z/ looks creepy.
"Popularity, not quality" is the big problem of any social site. However, removing downvotes doesn't help: "anti-canonical" opinions won't gather many upvotes either. [EDIT: well, hopefully they will. But the trend is that they increasingly don't.]
I remember seeing it, and remember thinking - well, that's pretty content-free.

I simply stated that climate change prediction was
uncertain due to the number of factors involved.

Exactly - you didn't really add anything useful to the discussion. We all know it's complicated. We all know there are lots of factors.

I didn't down-vote it, but I can see why others did.
In that case, why do you care about the voting? You will always get the group-think out-voting the carefully reasoned but unpopular. All you need to do is read - perhaps simply skim - all the comments. Find users whose opinion seems to be worth reading, and then seek out their comments.

Removing down-votes won't help the problem you've identified.
And where is Canada in per-capita measures of wealth when compared to Luxemburg?

In my opinion, the United States is the modern Rome, though , of course, way more powerful and advanced than Rome ever was, and will be so for the foreseeable future.
I live and work here right now. If I want to wire money to my home account, I have to prove I paid the tax on the money first. No such restrictions on bringing money in though, of course. :D

So I imagine it's a bit more complicated for some rich people who acquired their funds through ahem certain means. Of course, if they've already been playing that game, I'm sure they have tricks up their sleeve.
I read that as saying that Europe found out that they had to strengthen border controls to avoid ruin, not that they were already ruined.
...but then, what is the difference between an opinion you disagree with (a "dissenting view") and one that you believe to be factually incorrect? I feel like downvoting the former "factually wrong" comment leads to the behavior that ColinWright is describing: where people downvote anything they disagree with. (One might even argue that this is a fundamental bug in having downvoting as a mechanism.)
I have been to concerts by myself ... I have been to the movies alone.

yep, me too. I find there's a huge difference, to do with what's expected of you. At a movie or a concert, there's no requirement for social interaction, so it takes a lot less energy than, say a party at someone's house. The presence of lots of other people does not in itself make the situation tiring. In fact it can feel liberating to be there but not have any expectations put upon you.
That's what I increasingly find myself doing. The downside is that you get less and less exposed to new material; "old" HN would usually surface e.g. tptacek's comments, but there would also be some highly-voted and insightful comments by relative nobodies who were experts in the particular field being discussed. This still happens, but reading the highest-voted comments is becoming less and less worthwhile.
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No, flag is for spam.

The moderation is not symmetrical - it only goes to -4, but has no limit in the other direction.

And it doesn't matter what you think it implies. The reality is that the custom here is not to downmod comments you disagree with. It wasn't always so, even pg at one time thought differently. But experience shows that the discussion is much better when this custom is followed.
"When we started I didn't know his abilities." - why not? This makes me question you, not him. Were you a poor interviewer? Were you inexperienced? Who signs on with a co-founder without knowing what the other person brings to the table? Did you not look into his prior work, interview employers, etc?

You also don't give me enough background about you/him/situation to give me any insight that could be truly helpful. Are you a great programmer thus able to tell that his output/work is not up to snuff? Or are you the business guy and just unhappy that he's not giving you what you want as fast as you want? Hell, for all we know he's kicking ass working through some insanely hard problems that no one else could have done in half the time.
I'd like to see it disappear, personally. The really bad comments tend to sink to the bottom of the page anyway and increasingly downvoting is being used capriciously and vindictively to ding opinions people just don't happen to agree with.
I do genuinely believe that a lot of the reporting and comment on climate-related issues is a form of frenzy by the people involved - not rationally thought-out but a tendency on one side to claim that nothing's wrong and everything's fine (for optimists) and on the other to claim that everyone's going to die and terrible things will happen (for pessimists). The debate is too polarised to be useful, or even interesting, any more. Mixed-in with that, there are politicians, corporations and pressure groups seeking to distort the issue so as to create more power or profit.

I'd love to see more promotion given to sustainable agriculture that's tolerant of temperature drops or rises, city-structures that re-use the heat that they give off for something productive, research into how to build and live effectively in regions subject to hurricanes or earthquakes that don't come down to rebuild-everything-every-30-years, flood defences that are something more than 'build-a-wall', etc. I'm not saying that these things don't exist, but we spend so much time talking about how to change societies (unfeasibly, in my opinion) so as to mitigate climate change and not very much on what to do to mitigate that change into sustainable habitats.
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People do down-vote anything they disagree with, and there's nothing that can stop that. You can't change people's behavior.

However, removing the ability to down-vote won't really change anything in this regard, except that it will stop people from feeling attacked when they get a down-vote. What would change is that there would be no feedback about genuinely inappropriate comments, and I think that would be bad.

The only thing I can think of is to separate "down-vote" (meaning "of little value") from "inappropriate", label them clearly as such, and have the consequences of a "down-vote" less apparent and less severe. Then you can only trust that the behavior will sort itself as the "community" decides on the meaning of "inappropriate" and "of little value."
"Dissenting view" is "Ruby is badly-engineered", "the poor remain poor chiefly because of a lack of discipline" or "PHP is extremely useful": you may or may not agree, but there are serious arguments to be made for those positions (and there is some degree of truth to each of them), and reasonable people can and do disagree on these issues.

On the other hand, "int i = INT_MAX + 1" is factually wrong, and you could link to the standard to prove it. Similarly, "the Sun orbits the earth" is factually wrong (to the extent that it's meaningful, at least).

Yes, there are edge cases, and yes, people tend to think that what they believe in is "obviously" the only right thing to believe in; but that doesn't mean that there's no difference at all.
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From my other comment:
> China's millionaires account for 0.015% of the population

0.015% is hardly skewing the other 99.985%...
How about people start actually referring to fact rather than just rhetoric...

Some stats:

36% of the population of china are below poverty line ($2/day) (2005) (down from 98% (1980)) (Little hope for improvement?)

16% of population below extreme poverty line ($1.25/day) (2005) (down from 84% (1981)) (Again little hope for improvement?)

China ranks 42 on the inequality index, the US ranks 41 (That doesn't equate to 'much wider gap')

See how some simple data just rendered most of your statements wrong.
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Nope, the AntiPatterns book defined it as something like "recurring patterns of failure, which look superficially attractive".
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I don't agree with this suggestion either, but I don't think IDs have significant speed advantage:

• browsers support duplicate IDs already (try `<p id=foo></p><p id=foo></p>` and you'll find that `#foo` styles both)

• both IDs and classes can be preprocessed and looked up using hash tables or similar

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Writing_Efficient_CSS — suggests that Gecko optimizes class lookup as well
I agree with this. It irks me a bit that people would downvote simply because they have a different view. Sometimes completely unwarranted when the view or opinion does not affect the outcome of the thread or conversation.

I would rather have downvoting removed completely as well.
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The only problem here is that you are assuming only one point of view is correct. So if I down vote you because I believe what you are saying is wrong but a lot of supporters of your view up vote then I will be punished for having a discenting (or at least less popular) view.

Is this what you had in mind?
The article only referred to individuals leaving china. Most of the capital is sitting under businesses not individuals. I don't think there is any evidence of an exodus of successful businesses from China, and thus there isn't a risk of significant capital being taken out of the economy.
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I think you have missed the point. Or if you didn't, then your statement is a nonsensical one....
Did the companies that saw you at the fair invite you for a more formal interview process, or did they make their minds up there?
I'll give you one example. Recently, someone posted a link to the new update for Python 2.7.2. At the time, on the python website itself, it stated that this was not a production release and specifically said something along the lines of upgrade at your own risk (I quoted it word for word from the site).

I then made a personal statement saying "I guess I won't be upgrading". I felt that it may help those who didn't scan the page and may miss the quote. And the specific comment I made was one about me, that affects only me reflecting the statement I quoted off the python site. I started getting downvotes for no apparent reason (at least none that I could see reasonably). To avoid it, I just deleted the comment.

If others felt like they didn't care, they were more than welcome to download 2.7.2. I never said anything about why people shouldn't have downloaded it. All I wrote was literally what I just said above.

For the record, it now looks like the site has been updated to reflect that it is a full production release.
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> In .Net obviously LINQ.

LINQ is not an ORM. There is LINQ to Objects and LINQ to XML, which query collections and XML documents respectively.

The first ORM over Linq from Microsoft was Linq to SQL. This is now deprecated, and the second one is called Entity Framework (EF), which was a more ambitious but slower-moving project. In the latest release, EF 4.1, it's actually quite good.

NHibernate is still very popular, in part because over the confusion over Linq to SQL and EF, in part becuase it was there first and is very mature.

There are a whole lot of other, less-well-known .Net ORMS - SubSonic, SimpleData ... just google ".net orm". But for new work, most people would only consider EF and NHibernate.

There's even a Linq to NHibernate:http://ayende.com/blog/4083/nhibernate-linq-1-0-released

That and fluent NHibernate take some of the pain out of configuring NHibernate.
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I call BS. Do you have a statistic you can cite?

And maybe you should be a bit more thankful to the group of people who ensure you can buy cheap produce in American supermarkets. Among other things...
Deciding whether or not there is climate change and what is causing it is a scientific question.

What do to about it is a political decision.
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Anyone have a link to the BBC coverage of this story?
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Well, it was a plausible scenario, if not definitely certain. It would have been wise to reduce the worldwide emission of greenhouse gases while the science was being done, but were in a typical prisoner dilemma situation here, and convincing everyone has proven impossible (notoriously because of the USA, China, India and probably others).
I think the "canonical" solution is changing the audience by migrating to a new site...
I wouldn't say anything is working very well for Russia, other than oppressing its people.
The only way I could see it being falsified is if we got access to a new source of historical data that somehow was more accurate than all existing sources (which seems unlikely) or by waiting to see what happens and obtaining new data that way (which might give an unpleasant answer).

I'm not sure how the concept of a theory being falsifiable applies when you can't really run repeated controlled experiments.
Here's one way to think about it, based purely on what you've said. I didn't see your comment, so I don't know for sure:

Did you say anything unobvious? You quoted from the site that they declared it not to be a production release, and you said "OK - not for me." (I paraphrase)

We can easily deduce that, as it's not a production release, then not everyone will want it. Fine. What did your comment really add? It was a personal, conversational, largely content-free, throw-away observation.

This isn't a criticism, I'm merely trying to present a way of thinking that makes it less unreasonable for people to have down-voted a comment.

HN was always intended to be unlike other sites, strongly encouraging meaty content, strongly discouraging light and fluffy comments and submissions. It's been drifting away from that, so people are starting to feel that there's more space for conversational-like comments. There is something of a back-lash from some of the older hands who remember what it was like. Or what they think they remember it was like. More content, less conversation. Discussion, not throw-away remarks.
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Of course, the absolute extreme of reusable classes would be if each class applied exactly one CSS rule. Then you could mix and match them in any possible way, at the cost of having 18 classes per element.

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Why I don't like this kind of solution (yet):

I like to mess around in my CSS loads, trying different combinations, trying whether a property has an actual effect on the appearance/flow of the page, etc.

I like to then make changes that have been throughly tested inside vim, :w, CMD-TAB, CMD-SHIFT-R.

By separating experimentation and editing, I know exactly what is added to my CSS, without having to think about whether or not all in-browser changes are truly necessary for my purpose. I bet use of these kinds of extensions by inexperienced web-designers (togglers we might call them) will lead to extremely ugly and bloated stylesheets.
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I'm thinking of setting up a job board that only people who are Hacker News users can post to. I would use the same arc code that is used for HN, but this board would be open to the non-YC companies.

To authenticate your account you would need to:

1. Create an account on the jobs board with the same name as your HN username

2. Place a magic string in your HN about: box to prove that it was you

3. Have at least 200 karma or have been an HN member for more than 2 years

4. Unauthenticated accounts could still comment, vote etc., just not submit jobs.

Would people use this?
That may yet happen/be happening.
I have logged in several times in the past year, posted comments, read posts. It is a focused community website with a bit of exclusivity due to invites.

The hype confuses me. I have asked other developers and they think the same... it's too basic at the moment. It's one of those websites that has potential, but we are still waiting for it to deliver.