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http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com.

In your blog, you write:

> And I expect explanations, if I am downvoted. Yes, I have checked FAQs; I don't think I am abusing the facility. So, I still don't understand when does the HN community downvote?

Obviously, you didn't bother to read the guidelines/FAQ very carefully or
you would not have made this submission to HN.

This submission of yours is meta-discussion (discussion about
discussion) and as such, it is "not interesting" to many. In fact, many
consider it outright annoying. If wasn't in an unusually benevolent
mood, I'd flag it.

It seems you know HN well enough to realize that "Ask HN" posts (i.e.
submissions that do not have an external URL) are weighted differently
and drop from the listing quicker than submissions of external URLs. In
other words, from an outside perspective it seems your choice of using
an external blog post with a follow-up submission to HN to ask a
question is intentional manipulation. Whether intentional or not, it
either makes you look like an ass or makes you look like you're too lazy
to figure out how HN works.

Your expectation of receiving explanations for down-votes has no basis
in reality. A down-vote means different things to different people. It
could disagreement with your opinion. It could be a hint that you're
acting in a way that makes you seem like an ass. It could be your tone
is a bit too sharp. You may have poor writing skills or rushed your
response and failed to write clearly (happens to me a lot). You might
have failed to consider the international aspect of this forum or
realize civility can be quite different in different cultures. You might
have had a bad day, or wrose, a "bad typing day" --When I have a bad
typing day, my text looks like it was passed through ROT13.

Though there is no prohibition on humor here on HN, be very, very, very
careful with it. One-liners, memes, and similar humor-only posts are
considered by many to detract from the discussion, and hence are
discouraged by down-votes. The safe bet is to let your sense of humor
add spice to your attempt of adding to the discussion in a positive way.
No, I'm not smart enough to take my own advice, so yes, I can admit to
occasionally posting relevant and original one-liners... and of course,
sometimes I pay dearly in down-votes for letting my sense of humor get
the better of me.

Regardless of the reason for any down-vote or up-vote, the fact that
someone took the time to give you feedback, positive or negative, is
something you should always appreciate. Feedback helps you learn what
other people consider to be useful, beneficial, and civil/polite
contributions to a discussion.
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I wouldn't call it preternatural - they've had a few flops which have seemingly been conveniently forgotten by people. Give the man his due, but let's not imply that he's some sort of force of nature.
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Thank you for posting this. Like Barbara Sher points out about doing what you love, its not running a restaurant with all the food ordering, hiring, firing, pressure, etc. It's the desire to cook for people, so join a soup kitchen. Postpone the noose, and really think about what you want, or want to get rid of.
This is Pacman in Clojurescript: https://github.com/mjg123/pacman

This is Pacman in Javascript (I couldn't find one in Coffeescript): https://github.com/macek/google_pacman
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The implementation in racket/base.
Given that the author writes the same physics-based app in both - it seems you're disagreeing with the author.
Different calling conventions. The calling convention for my target (32-bit x86 Mac OS X) says that all arguments have to be passed in on the stack. For your 64-bit target, the arguments go into registers.
Replace MP3 player with any of these: all modern desktop metaphors, the smartphone, the concept of an app store. I'm sure I'm missing some.

You could even go with the automobile, the assembly line, the light bulb, the telephone, and any number of frequently misattributed inventions and innovations if you need to move outside modern technology to see the point.
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found this link on slashdot, allows you to write python in your web browser..
I don't think there's any way to filter out

How so? Do you mean that you don't believe a filter as I described is technically possible, or that it wouldn't solve the problem for you, or...?

Not making a judgement as to whether it would be better than a private forum for you, merely responding to your comment that you wish there was a way to change HN.
That is an excellent point indeed and I agree wholeheartedly with it. Civility is essential to productive discussion anywhere. Just because I found Alex3917's comment utterly ignorant and offensive does not justify my response in the same vein. Period.

if the entire point of your comment is to inform everyone else on HN that you think another HN user is unworthy of our attention, you should rethink posting the comment at all

Thank you for putting my feelings into words. I wish I could have just silently down-voted what I found so offensive instead of flaming out and coming across as being uncivil, but then again, that is a privilege not yet afforded to me on HN.

Clearly, a silent down-vote conveys much more than a thoughtless reply here.

What I do find confounding is the pile-up on my comments, instead of any voice raised (or down-votes) to the comment that started it all!

Is the messenger's tone more important than the message to folks on HN?
"Luxury" is relative.

McAfee is cited as saying, “We are the ultimate consumer society. If you succeed within that culture, then you’re simply more bonded to it.”

Any item in your possession or service that you command that exceeds your functional needs of it is, for you, a luxury. It's not just about the rich. Can you truly claim that you need that 60" television to watch your favorite sporting match?

Have you seen Independence Day? I found the movie highly ironic. Talking to my father about the movie sometime after watching it, I remember remarking that what separated us from the aliens bent on annihilating us to consume our planet for its natural resources was one thing: time.
This is not a circle of friends. Nor is it (any longer) a village. It has grown to be a city. There are still circles of friends, or the closest thing to it, but HN is no longer a small community where people come to know and respect each other's opinions and differences.

It's a city, full of strangers whose faces you might vaguely recognise because you see them semi-regularly, but who you don't really know. And so people will down-vote you based on a whim. They don't know you, and never will, so they'll just express their opinion in the easiest and fastest way possible and move on.

They don't want to get involved.
The "Why would I want node.js to run on Windows and IIS" bullets, if they're meant to compel you in the context of other platforms, I don't get:

I'm guessing/hoping it has something to do with native HTML5 apps + javascript + windows hooks for native "Touch first" apps coming in Win8.

Add that to native Kinect support on Win8, and you have a pretty kick ass gesture / touch based UI on a PC.

We'll find out more at BUILD in 2 weeks.
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great example. thanks.
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I'm not really a fan of moral relativism. I don't think it's unfair to claim that certain applications of engineering are objectively more valuable to society as a whole than others, or more rewarding to the person doing them. It's fair to disagree with me on the particulars, of course, and argue the point, but it's not fair to say such judgements are impossible to make in the first place.
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A very interesting perspective that could span disciplines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Murray_Schafer
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Is there a way to make it display only to people logged into HN?
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This is an admirable post and I appreciate you making it! I think if more people thought through their actions as you do, the world would indeed be a better place (and we'd have better games to play as well :))
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Yes.

The "message" in this case is a totally pointless and off-topic digression about the liturgical significance of yoga.

The meta-message we are engaged in is "how shall I conduct myself on HN to best support the norms of the community".

Because one hopes you'll be contributing to discussions far more relevant and important than yoga, it's worth taking the time to explain how to better calibrate your tone.
On the other hand, sometimes being slapped in the face to think about what your working on and it's larger purpose can be like getting dunked into a pool of ice water for the first time.
The way this button works suggests to me that it would be easy to use CSRF to get people automatically upvoting your articles if they happen to be logged into HN when they come to your site.
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Bitcoin already has users and Flitcoin doesn't?
> it sounds like the pilot was quite confident that pitching the nose up further would get him out of the stall

I don't think it was confidence, just a semi-reflexive action (if too low, pull up) when there wasn't enough thrust or lift to manage that.

If the training was such that the appropriate response to any cognitive overload/panic situation was to mash the panic button and reason things out, it would save lives.
What about Web Workers? It seems that would isolate JS from several security holes.
> I find Arthur Whitney's journey from APL to J to A+ to K/Q quite interesting

Arthur Whitney didn't do APL or J; those were from Kenneth Iverson with Roger Hui helping out on the later. A+ was Arthur's implementation of APL, from what I understand. K is entirely ASCII (none of the special APL characters) and q added reserved words plus the integrated kdb+ database.

> How did you learn Q?

I learned q as a quant for a trading desk that used it for most tasks. I've been using it ever since because it's very expressive and has great performance.
Pitot tubes, even when jammed, are not the only instrumentation a plane has. In this particular case, whatever gyroscope device is available would probably signal that the angle of attack is completely wrong, tubes or no tubes.
So, marketing? Ok! I'll just run a 2-for-1 sale on Flitcoin.

Less snarkily: why are people using Bitcoin? What's the intrinsic value they see in Bitcoin? Based on what evidence can they predict that Bitcoins purchased today will be convertible to gold, dollars, or even toenails at any valuation? You've begged the question.
The Samsung prices are in the link in tis topic. I got the MBA prices from the German Apple site. I got the Z prices from the German Sony site.

I only looked at preconfigured 13" systems. I was only looking at the basics too. CPU, RAM, SSD capacity. The Z is faster for sure, but I am not convinced it's worth the premium that they are selling it for.
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More important things like making webapps that find restaurants in your area?

Get over yourself. Your web/mobile apps, as cool as they are, aren't more important or any better for anyone than video games unless you're feeding starving children or freeing people from tyrannical government.
Ask HN: Who's using Lisp today?
I know that in the past several companies like Viaweb and Reddit have used Lisp for their production services. After reading Hackers & Painters I've been motivated to deepen my Lisp knowledge, so I'm wondering, who's using Lisp in their production systems today?

I know HN does, but is there any other known website currently using it?
In what sense does "Web Workers" insulate cryptography from the hostility of the JS runtime?
@jcr agree. If you have to ask, then you probably won't stick with anything that anyone suggests. Doing development on an open source project is like another job, and if its not something you enjoy doing or is a hobby for you then you will end up not sticking with it.
Even following best practices, the top priority of the project should be to fulfill the players' expectations and realize the designers' vision. That's not as compatible with technical excellence at every stage of the project as you'd hope it would be.

On well-planned projects, best practices of development help achieve that priority throughout the project. However, the more problematic development becomes, the more things come into conflict with that top priority. And in practice, planning is almost never good enough to prevent that as the project wears on. Project management that can push back the day when that vicious cycle kicks in is invaluable.

Usually, in reality, the top priority is to ensure the short-term viability of the project or (worse) the studio or (much worse) the studio management. It's like Robocop's hidden directive, sadly. That diversion of focus, especially early in a project, is totally poisonous.

If anything, MMOs are more susceptible to these kinds of existential threats than most projects. They're incredibly challenging feats for even a massively skilled development team. The ability to produce an MMO is actually a fairly good way to measure how well-buffered a development environment is from this kind of insecurity.
It's a fine line. There are cases where we actually know that pilots listening to the computer would have saved lives (as in the Überlingen crash)
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Microsoft?
Enterprise software. They still own this area

HP
Excellent quality servers and network hardware. It's hard for that to be sexy because it doesn't have a touchscreen, but just because the masses don't know about it doesn't mean that they're an also-ran.

Dell
Perfected mass-marketing of PCs, bringing computing costs waaaay down for everyone.

Lenovo
Meh, they bought IBM's line of laptops only a few years ago. I notice that you studiously avoided the "so, what has IBM invented that's significant?"

Samsung
Dunno, I'm sure someone will come up with something.

Sony
Yeah, Sony have never pushed the envelope with things like the Playstation. Combined with Microsoft's Xbox, these guys have pretty much created a massive market where previously there was none. Not to mention the bunch of other stuff that the multi-tentacled Sony has done.

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I was unaware that we were looking to service providers to change the way we use computers.

The reason why people denigrate Apple is because Apple fans invite it. They keep on about the company like it's something amazingly special and everyone else is somehow daft for choosing something else. I've seen this referred to as "the Apple Smug Field". You've done it here by saying (or strongly implying) "Apple is awesome, what have those other guys done? NOTHING!", which, of course, is monumentally self-centred and irritating.
But without Pitot tubes, what indication of airspeed does one have? And without airspeed, I would think that it is the computer that just hit the panic button.
I believe you are a troll at this point, but it's hard to tell given how fanatical some Apple fans are in their historical revisionism. I would suggest you watch what Jobs himself has to say on the GUI.[1] And read some of the other links that have been presented to you, you have been factually wrong numerous times throughout this thread.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdrKWArr3XY
>You've begged the question.

No, you just asked a different question.

>What's the intrinsic value they see in Bitcoin?

Well, free transfers, for one, and not being subject to having your money frozen by online payment companies (e.g. Paypal).
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Email would be a dead technology without the existence of RBLs.
If it was last year, the market penetration of the device was probably a big part of the reason. In the longer term, you might want to look at multi-platform tools like PhoneGap.

It runs on the Nook Color but with display issues. It only fills 1/4 of the screen, centered in the top half.
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It sounds like that it's not a "Panic" button that pilots need, but a "Filter" button. Where if you've got 10 alarms going off, the "Filter" shows you the 1 or 2 alarms that matter most and need immediate action. Certainly the computational horsepower for this already exists onboard!
"Free transfers" isn't an intrinsic value of Bitcoin. It's a benefit you get by supposing that Bitcoin has some intrinsic value.

What's the intrinsic value? Why is Bitcoin unlikely to be worth $0 in 10 years? Because it is spectacularly unlikely that gold will be worth $0 in 10 years, and similarly unlikely that a dollar will be. Virtually any trader in the world would take the other side of that bet.
Elegant is subjective.

I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who honestly believes a Thinkpad to be more elegant than a Macbook Air.

A response of, "Disregard that the design sucks cocks,"

Excuse me?
Nobel laureates have been known to crank out. No-one is safe, seriously.
I've met so many people who've got this silly fantasy that there's something 'democratic' about hosting a web server at home. It's fine for a toy web site, but if you want your site to be fast and reliable, it's much more sensible to keep your server in a data center... in most cases, cheaper too.
Please don't make snide comments and then complain when others reply in kind.
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Yes! I am 54, I started in a start up that got bought by a big company. I am still here, but feel I am much wiser and would like to try the start up dance again. Why not?
Indeed, but I tried to be open with his own criticism on my response. Helping others understand how to work with others helps everyone and I am a developer who wants to bridge that gap.

Though definitely know when to walk away like you said.

Thanks guys.
Here's a nice concrete example. You start a content/news blog/site. Instead of selling adspace you charge for your content by the pageview. Now how much are people willing to spend per pageview ? Probably not very much. Let's say < 1 cent. You start looking around for ways to charge people < 1 cent. Turns out it's ridiculous idea, no credit/online banking proposition is interested in < 1 cent transactions, it just doenst exist because of transactions costs. Hola Bitcoin. I can send you < 1 cent for every pageview I consume with 0 transaction costs.

The tools to do this are currently in the pipeline or are really not that hard to devise. This is what bitcoin offers that others don't. Forget anonymity or libertarian arguments, 0 transaction costs are extremely disruptive.
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This is an application of Bitcoin. It says, "well, people want something that promises what Bitcoin promises; therefore, Bitcoin must be intrinsically valuable". But it's obvious why that isn't true. Flitcoin promises precisely the same things.
Figuring out the precise centroid of a 'blob' has been around for at least 20 years - this calculation was used in optical research to determine where the centroid of the pupil was in video taken of someone's eyes.

To suggest that this kind of algorithm is something special and new that Apple invented for the iPhone is just plain insulting.
"Arthur Whitney didn't do APL or J; those were from Kenneth Iverson with Roger Hui helping out on the later."

I am familiar with the history. I meant "journey" as in "progression through APL and APL-like languages". Iverson showed APL to Whitney when he was only 11 years old. Whitney created the first version of J, but then moved on, leaving it to Hui.

"Work began in the summer of 1989 when I [Ken Iverson] first discussed my desires with Arthur Whitney. He proposed the use of C for implementation, and produced (on one page and in one afternoon) a working fragment that provided only one function (+), one operator (/), one-letter names, and arrays limited to ranks 0 and 1, but did provide for boxed arrays and for the use of the copula for assigning names to any entity. I showed this fragment to others in the hope of interesting someone competent in both C and APL to take up the work, and soon recruited Roger Hui, who was attracted in part by the unusual style of C programming used by Arthur, a style that made heavy use of preprocessing facilities to permit writing further C in a distinctly APL style. Roger and I then began collaboration on the design and implementation of a dialect of APL (later named J by Roger) ..." - from Hui's "Remembering Ken Iverson", referencing Iverson's "A Personal View of APL" (http://keiapl.org/rhui)

In Appendix A, on that same page, you can find Whitney's code. It shows how differently he thinks about coding, and is likely a good example of Q's roots.
Post that to the author? Maybe he can get the SURBL folks to look into it. Has bit.ly changed back end shorteners?
I will be providing a number of different versions and the one you described will be one of those.
I'd throw in Gmail too.
I have the feeling, that a social network is the exact opposite of what HN is aiming to be. I'd rather like to think of it as a community.
i'm not really worried about the intrinsic value of bitcoin, it goes up, it goes down, it doesn't matter. You don't have to store your wealth in bitcoin, USD goes in USD goes out when you want it to at usually 0.5% transaction cost ( or less some places ). And there's no reason Flitcoin can't succeed in the same places. I'm not sure why that would have anything to do with intrinsic value or why intrinsic value is of paramount importance.
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Yes, that is one of the option I am considering. I could surely take someone's help in getting things prettier :)
I'm familiar only with C++. Does Java or C# have libraries that are similar in concept to the C++ Standard Template Library (STL)? Error messages can be inscrutable, but it is very powerful.
Thanks for clarifying that. I sincerely appreciate your time and attention.

However, I am totally confounded by (what appears to me as) the groupthink downvoting going on even now!

(that too on my comments that have nothing to do with this thread!!)

So how do you (or pg) make sure that silent downvoting is applied justifiably and not just a vindictive or punitive action resulting from superficial disagreement? Or is this a non-issue on HN?

And more importantly, are you aware/concerned that such actions (of maybe a few) may make newcomers (like me) see HN as unfriendly at best and nearly tyrannical at worst.

(Needless to say, I should have been civil to begin with, but now this reply is on wholly another point.)
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