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I'd very much hope it's not just like Slashdot.

Any strict voting/counting based system is going to be biased to highly popular (vs. interesting) articles.

A Likert-scale ranking system (vote on some scale, usually 1-3, 1-5, 1-7, etc., occasionally even (to exclude uncommitted median votes), and including a multiplier (log-based) for popularity) seems to be one of the more reliable ways of meaningfully indicating general interest in content.

Tracking the variance / standard deviation in votes is also helpful in identifying whether an item is of low interest (or disliked), vs. polarizing.
Opa translated from Dutch to English means Grandpa ...
IIRC, Rusty moved on to help with DailyKos, which later used Scoop (the K5 commenting/moderation system).
Please talk to the layer to understand liability for your particular business. As a officer of a company you are still personally liable for some things and D&O will not cover it. In other words, don't think incorporation will make your private assets 100% safe.
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I think Gruber has the ability to write exceptionally well, but in this case it seems like he was trying too hard. This piece comes across a bit like a James Lipton parody.
What would you want it to do? I may know some people that could change it...
yep, this is cause and correlation misconception. are good programmers more likely to study computer science? or does studying computer science make you more likely to be a good programmer? my unqualified hunch, and what i think you're suggesting, is the former.
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I had my first contact with Linux around the same age. I had nerdy friends. (Don't know where they got it from in the first place. Probably nerdy parents at some stage.)
I had similar thoughts. I figure Sony opened up PSN because they have less leverage. Microsoft is in a position where they can dictate terms, Sony is not.
What's the most orthogonal programming language?
I don't get how the crowd-source option is at all attractive, though perhaps I don't understand enough about how the gold markets work.

If I was physically based in Venezuela and owned X gold bars in my physical possession, why would the same amount of gold bars + 2%, in a foreign distant country I have no connection with, be preferable?

With gold in my possession I have instant liquidity. Gold in some foreign country, and in an inaccessible vault to boot, gives me limited liquidity. Even if gold is a long-term investment, I still want ease of liquidity at the appropriate time.

Finally, presumably there are fees associated storing your gold in the Bank of England's vault? Well, as a British citizen I certainly hope so as I'm not able to store my (theoretical) gold there.

EDIT: So one of the child comments is implying that the way the gold in being held at the Bank of England means that it is available to be traded on the London Gold Exchange. I had originally interpreted from the article that the gold was simply being held in a vault, ie with limited access and availability.
I'm reasonably sure nobody at Matasano has a CISSP. I'd be surprised to hear they have certs of any kind.

At the high end of information security, these things do not matter at all.
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This was exactly what I was getting at. I found that I didn't learn a lot in the classes that I wasn't interested in.
It's a signup page. I'd be interested in trying out a live demo when that's available.
That, sir, is truth spoken.
As a national student at UofT, it comes out to about $27K over 4 years. About $5K for the first year, then it goes up to about $7K once you choose your specialist or double majors. This is not taking into account any scholarships or grants (which are admittedly harder to get than in the US). International students are more expensive.

Compare this to Stanford, where your base tuition over 4 years is expected to surpass $150K.
A free vacation and a free ulcer from dealing with the stress of transporting 680k worth of gold. Whatever you do to mitigate the stress is going to cut into your vacation money.
In general Microsoft doesn't allow free DLC. You can ship bug fixes and there's a tiny amount of title update space you can shove content into, but large amounts of content are meant to be deployed through paid DLC. In part, this is because MS pays for the bandwidth, but it's also because many of the vendors who use their platform would get angry since it would destroy the level playing field they've got going right now.

Part of the reason Sony gives you more freedom and control is that they do way less than Microsoft does. They charge you for bandwidth for the services they do offer (like demo downloads from the store), and you have to do a lot more of the work in terms of netcode and servers. Microsoft also runs XBox Live games/services behind a VPN while PSN stuff runs out on the open internet, so a PS3 game can hit a regular HTTP server but a 360 game can't.
This happens with every community that becomes popular. As it becomes more mainstreamed.

I suppose Reddit has fixed this issue by creating subreddits, but if you look at the main page, it's turned into cat pictures, memes, and stupid jokes. I don't think this was the case when the site started.
I believe that the people who succeed most at becoming great programmers are practically pre-programmed to be programmers. People like "hackers" that are interested in learning how things tick from young ages, who are constantly trying to learn new things, who have that thirst for knowledge. I've met people throughout my short career who have asked how they can do what I do. The easiest answer is you can't, if you don't have the inherent ability to search out the answer to that question on your own, and figure it out on your own, you aren't fit to be a programmer, or..a hacker...

Also this may be off topic but colleges are businesses, and a business has one goal - to make money. I do not believe in the higher education system that the U.S. has. I believe that higher education should be a not-for-profit industry and that our current system is highly corrupt and is quickly becoming unnecessary. The amount of $$$ that will be spent to go to college is rising while the amount of $$$ you will make after college is going down. The end result will be college costs too much to be a viable option.
I'm glad they mentioned NeXT and how much of a failure it was. There's a meme developing where people treat Jobs like he lived a charm life of constant victories but that really isn't the case. When I started High School people were telling Steve Jobs jokes in Usenet. He was the fallen genius who never lived up to his potential (the Mac was all but dead at this point and Apple was licensing the OS in a desperate attempt to save it)

In that way I think the story of Steve Jobs is one of the most inspirational for people. Almost everything people associate with Jobs today are things he did after his 40th birthday. Even the Mac (OSX is really NextSTEP repackaged)

In an industry that obsesses over people in their 20s there's a lesson to be learned there.
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Did you type that in by hand? THanks a lot..
See this: http://blog.precipice.org/youre-the-ones
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May be filing law suits is how it survives.
And where is digg today? At least Slashdot is still somewhat relevant.
I'm going to disagree with you there. Occasionally I watch "old media" and for a while Chat Roulette dominated both traditional and comedy news shows as well as late night.

Many people on the street know exactly what it is: penises.
I had to Google what CISSP meant. Which perhaps answers the question?
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For those interested, node-ldapauth covers a very small, specific set of use cases. I had to heavily modify it to work with my LDAP server. ldap.js looks much nicer and I wish it existed 6 months ago.
I suspect at least a part of increased tribalism is that, without visible comment scores, people aren't being shown as clearly that "that's not the HN way" and "this is the HN way".

On the rare occasions that a tribal comment gets downvoted to gray, this is often misinterpreted as "tribal downvotes", and therefore the tribe responds by upvoting (a power even new users have). As long as the comment gets back to 1, it appears the same as comments at 5, 10, or 100 -- so the tribe doesn't see how differently tribal and non-tribal comments are treated, and therefore doesn't learn the community standard.

I think visible comment scores would help. I also think it would help to aggressively flag such comments, and to respond to such comments with "this sort of tribalism doesn't belong on Hacker News" (especially if that response was, visibly, upvoted to 10 or 20 points!)
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Maybe you have enough money to buy one?

The trip cost is nothing to worry about. If you just need to put this thing in your baggage and get 2% on top on the other side, don't you think that it would be

a) interesting. exciting. fun. (yeah, got the money)

b) lucrative, if it works out (and what are the risks?)
Opa is Argentinian slang for "retarded" :-(
Am I missing something? Doesn't look that different from other PCBs I've worked on.
It is not open because it is not portable. You can't take wordpress-on-dotcloud and deploy it on any other architecture or platform outside of dotCloud.
Am I the only one who really likes behind-the-scenes videos? Sometimes I enjoy them more than the actual products/movies.

Anyhow, it's great that Google is making constant improvements to its search but lately, I feel like the results aren't as good as they used to be because of SEO spam and people gaming the algorithm solely for profit.
Hard question to answer because 17 is such a transitional age.

When I was 17, the only things I had passion for was baseball & girls. So, I guess I would have worked harder at the first.

I can't really say "I would have done X" because that's not who I was then. BUT I do have a 17 year old daughter ... so, if you're asking what I would tell her if she took a year off college, I think it would be: (a) don't get a credit card, (b) pick an art/technology/cooking skill that can be learned in 3 -6 months and do it, (c) then either travel to a 3rd world country and live/volunteer OR volunteer/intern at a startup
Me too. Try bogus@gmail.com instead.
> Compare this to Stanford

Why compare it to Stanford? Stanford is an international private university. University of Toronto is a public university, like SUNY at Binghamton. SUNY Binghamton is cheaper.
One thing that StackOverflow does really well is penalize you for downvoting: http://stackoverflow.com/privileges/vote-down

Each downvote costs you karma. You have to have "X" karma before downvoting is enabled for your account. This incentivizes you to downvote cautiously as it costs you. That subpar comment you're clicking the down-arrow for must have really earned it.
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Opa translated from Portuguese to English means wow, or whoops ...
Also grandpa in german.
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I thrived on Slashdot for years - definitely the first large, tech oriented news forum I was into. Really, one of the first blogs - but you rarely hear Malda quite take credit for his unique place in internet history. He's refreshingly humble.
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Go read Felix Salmon's article again and read some Wikipedia articles about how commodity exchanges work.

Gold in your possession is less liquid than gold in an exchange approved vault in Manhattan or London…
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I understand what AppFog does. I don't understand what cloud foundry does. Are they the same people?

I get what the tech does. I don't get what the support, reliability, chance to be in here 5 years, etc stories are.
Indeed, the author notes in another post (http://startuplawyer.com/incorporation/accountants-heart-llc...) that the LLC is a fine choice except in situations when you expect to "(i) raise capital, and/or (ii) issue incentive equity compensation". Most posters here are probably thinking about that kind of start up, but not every new venture needs to worry about raising outside capital.
I was aware that Xbox Live was pay and PSN is not, and that people are generally more satisfied with Live than with PSN. I didn't realize that Live prevented free DLC.

But, still, there is a middle ground where Microsoft could allow free DLC, but not open it up to other systems like Steam.
Think of it this way. More compile time errors = fewer run-time errors. You can still have bugs of course. Most my Haskell run-time bugs are because I defined a partial function. Many standard functions are partial too.

I find that changing a working Haskell program to add new features is easier than other languages I have used. You pay a price (understanding your problem better) up front to get there, but the dev cycle is very fast after that.
> If I was physically based in Venezuela and owned X gold bars in my physical possession, why would the same amount of gold bars + 2%, in a foreign distant country I have no connection with, be preferable?

Are you serious? The Venezuelan upperclass despises Chavez and fears him. If any had those gold bars with them in Venezuela, they would take that offer in a heart beat! They trust the Bank of England far more than Chavez or local Venezuelan security, for that matter.

(You can find all this in the media or even ancient books like Chua's _World on Fire_, but to toss in a personal anecdote - My little sister spent a few months in Venezuela with members of the lower bits of the upperclass; she remarked on how fortified and how much razor wire there was on the compounds there.)
I don't know how best to moderate or otherwise encourage better HN participation (or how to improve forums, or mailing lists, or tweet streams, or whatever they invent or rename tomorrow), but I have a thought.

Can we apply a "who cares?" ethos/filter to our comments? I.e., if I am about to post a comment, before I do so I ask myself "who cares about this comment?" If the answer is Probably Nobody, then I don't post it. Simple, right?

I do this all the time. I probably write and delete five comments for every comment I post here.

A second question to ask the question is, is my comment adding anything to the discussion that isn't already glaringly obvious? If it's obvious, but I want to nitpick or clarify...maybe just sit on it for a while and see if the urge to comment fades?

With smaller communities, we don't have to apply such harsh filters because hey, who cares, there's 10 of us. We can hash it out amongst us. But with a huge community like HN, if 9999 out of 10000 subscribers resist the urge to comment but just one does, that makes what, 50 comments? 500 nowadays? 5000?

What I'm saying is, I think HN comments would be a great deal better off if everyone just sat back and said "hey, do we really need yet another armchair CEO quarterbacking on Monday (I'm not going to bother getting those idioms right) about Steve Jobs' legacy and the future of Apple, from the wizened perspective of another college student (or in my case, .NET dev)?" Even I'm following the Book of Graham and disagreeing properly and writing well-formed sentences and generally making my points clearly, am I just adding noise? Does it matter if anyone reads my comment?

HN would be better if everyone just, just resisted the urge to comment and let the real experts talk. Most of us already do, but there's just too many of us now for "most of us" to be good enough.
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Ok, but you didn't, really. You gave an implementation difference between the two, but what is the conceptual difference?

Also, the implementation difference is just, well, an implementation detail. If you need to worry about whether a value requires calculation or not, you are likely about to mess things up anyway. Consider the following:

f = (a long calculation of some sort)

main = do
doStuffWith f
doMoreStuffWith f

The compiler may or may not decide that the result of f should be cached, meaning that after the first evaluation of f, f will from then on be a plain value thunk.

Given that evaluation order in Haskell is complex (and something you should try to avoid thinking about as much as possible), this distinction does not make conceptual sense.

Further down in my program listing, there is:

bob = f

Is bob a value, because it takes no parameter? Is it a function because f happens to be a function? Is it really a function but practically a value since f has already been evaluated? Is f so trivial (5 + 2) that its result has already been evaluated and inlined by the compiler?

These questions can be answered, but they shouldn't. Their answers are not obvious from the code, and also subject to compiler decisions.

Therefore, "f = sum [1,2,3,4,5,6]" and "f = 21" are completely conceptually equal. The distinction is not important when you are programming. It may be important from a performance perspective in some instances, but that is usually a sign that you should defer some code to C.
The fact that none of the apps are linked gets my spidey sense tingling. 3 of the 5 are google apps, btw.
I bet there are many undergrads who would like to end up between WordPress "gluer" and JIT programming language author. (Personally, the thought of computer research seems extremely boring, so I'll let someone else have that fun). For these people, a degree in Math could be a good alternative to a CS degree. In my case, I had terrible CS professors but not enough money to move away to a better university. Luckily the Math program at my university is composed of excellent professors with extremely challenging content. Proofs have taught me how to think in different ways, greatly aiding my critical thinking abilities. Additionally, a degree in Math could help you become a more specialized programmer in an area such as finance or biology.

TL;DR If you're a CS undergrad thinking of dropping out, give your math department a chance.
Perhaps it's a local bias, but U of T seems to be a fair bit... better... CS school than SUNY Binghamton.

(I'm a grad of another Ontario public university.)
Thanks for the list. It's been a while since I've spidered HN into another good daily read, but I've got a good candidate in http://www.corante.com/, via 'idlewords.
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Everyday, that % is going up... not always because we're discovering new ones everyday, but because everyday 300 species die off because of the destruction we cause.
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No, I pulled it out of a pdf version I have. My physical copy is at the bottom of a box in one of the cupboards somewhere.
I guess Linux will be hard to repeat, exactly because it is so successful. There's simply no similar itch left to scratch for hobbyists. There are still people writing general operating system kernels from scratch, but they are not driven by the lack of a decent free general operating system.

Linux lacks in real-time features. That could be an angle to get in a new operating systems.

There's a saying that Unix stopped serious research into operating systems. Whenever somebody writes a new system nowadays, one of the first things they port is the Unix infrastructure.
The Venezuelan upperclass despises Chavez and fears him.

Well in that case, why would they trust him to make right on his promise to deliver them the gold + 2% in a foreign vault upon the physical surrender of their own gold? Why would they even want to indicate they had such gold in their physical possession and thus open up potential further scrutiny to their affairs and net worth?

You're probably right that they don't trust him, but that just further makes this idea untenable.
> Would you rather talk to an expert on a subject matter, or post a question on SO and hope someone has had a similar experience?

Personally, I would rather that people post their questions - and then receive the answers - somewhere that's easily searchable, so that when other people have the same questions they can easily find an answer. There is certainly value in increasing the number of experts, though, so perhaps that's what you were pointing at.
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Well, Systems Engineering at the UTN particularly makes you lose a bunch of time teaching you dated ways of solving problems like using the Rational Unified Process, with diagrams, and a whole documentation framework that is completely outdated, instead of teaching you the basics.

They teach you _their way_ of solving problems, and their way is the only way that exists for them. I found this particularly disturbing.

I don't know what year you are attending, but third year left me with a bitter feeling of lost time, that I had to recoup by myself learning outside the uni.
In contrast the `fork-happy' BSDs use different kernels, but their userland is closer to each other than the Linux distributions are.
I was hoping that the OP would use that post as a chance to discourage "disagreement downvoting".

To my fellow Hacker News contributors: Use downvoting on comments that are in bad faith, do not add value, are ad hominem or are otherwise low quality. Do not use downvoting to disagree.
Actually it was Hacker News that directed me away from /.
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Is it just me, or do the two faces paired in each image on the homepage all look oddly similar?

If the software were to enforce this, I wonder if I would have a more enjoyable/didactic/narcissistic experience speaking with my Chinese mirror-image...
I chose UofT because that's the school I went to and I know it's in the Top 3 CS schools in Canada. I chose Stanford because that's the data I had on-hand and I know it's in the Top 3 CS schools in the US.

What I mean to say is: Compare the costs of attending the best Computer Science schools in Canada to the best Computer Science schools in the United States.

Or even compare international adjacent ranking schools. Here's a ranking list I found, you're welcome to find another: http://universityreport.net/world-university-rankings-2011-c...
In the sense that the building blocks of the world are the same, yes. But it's changed my world - I haven't lost anyone's phone number for years. I take pictures of things. I go running more. I interact with distant friends. And I type faster than ever. I have access to the vast amounts of information in my pocket any time. That's amazing. And my 83 year old neighbour understands that she can touch things to see more information about them. That's amazing.
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