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No worries about it sounding like the prima-donna comment was aimed at me. I've certainly fallen into the category of people you've applied it to.

At this point I'm sure I'm not remotely fit for The Enterprise, though I've worked in plenty of them. It's not that I've ever thought that the rules put in place don't apply to me.. it's that I've placed a higher priority on other objectives of the company (like getting work done).

IT policy at most corporations I've worked at is completely inarguable. In my experience it's very difficult to get a reasonable accounting of cost/benefit when it comes to making almost any change in policy... in part because productivity benefits like the ones I feel I get from my choice of tools are hard to measure, and in part because I don't think I've had the experience of working anyplace where the IT department charged themselves with making other people's jobs easier/better.

I think job function matters too. Programming is a craft. Good craftspeople are ridiculously passionate about their tools. If you walk into a nice auto-mechanic shop, the racks of tools against the wall are owned and paid for by the mechanics. I imagine that's not the case at the Jiffy-Lube, but you're we're probably talking about people at a different skill level. Good craftspeople in any industry end up in a relationship that's closer to independent contractor, or even peer with the organization they work for. That's happening in our industry, and I think it makes sense to look at functions that provide friction for those people, because it will become much harder to hire them.
I have seen Aaron spam mailing lists for FaceCash. When I search his name in Gmail, I see a few of gems like this:

"Aaron, this is not an appropriate posting. This is not a list for advertising."

Pot meet kettle.
> Unless I completely misunderstood your article, you are suggesting the admins put out links to things they do not approve of to see who screws up and upvotes them.

Great! We now know that you did not completely understand my article. :)

The whole point of implicit honeypots is to leverage the fact that articles are already making it to the front page that violate guidelines (e.g., politics, religion, etc). The admins can then flag these articles, so as to not have to spam their own site.
and it's a good move of twitter who force you to use their website if you want to follow tweets.
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Anyone know the URL for the repo? It looks like they're using Subversion, but I don't see any svn:// links anywhere.
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That is because it is non-obvious enough to be worthy of a patent, right?
We've been using 100TB exclusively for over 2 years now and absolutely no problems. Their support has been top-notch in my opinion.
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Afaik FLAC this days uses an ogg container, which is where the metadata goes, so support should be as good as for Ogg Vorbis.

In practical terms, I have a huge collection of FLAC, and never had trouble with metadata, sounds like a bug in whatever player you were using.
Even more complicated would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering, increasing the weight of votes from users who vote like I do.
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I haven't noticed any huge decline in the front page recently, although I do think that many stories scroll off the new page way too fast. This is still a huge problem for longer articles as well as lectures and podcasts, and basically prevents anything but short pithy content from making the front page.

As far as comments go, I think the main problem is that there are just too many comments that don't really contribute much. The other thing that bothers me is there are a handful of commenters who contribute very little of value and yet are some of the fastest rising in terms of karma. I've always been fairly non-sensitive to mean-spirited comments, so whether this has gotten better or worse I have no idea.

edit: Maybe there the new page could be changed to some kind of queue system for non-breaking news, where it would be limited to 30 new stories per hour.
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Sure. I totally get that and think it's a great area for future exploration.

A couple of points though:

1) You are not technically giving any reinforcement, because the agent in question (i.e., the user) does not perceive any change in the environment.

2) The possible pageviews that HN can drive may offer sufficiently positive reinforcement for people to continue violating the site by creating link-bait articles.

3) Honeypots are merely a fail-safe to prevent degradation. In a healthy community, one would expect that very few people would ever actually have a sufficiently low h-ratio as to be ignored.
Do you really think you could hear the difference between 256kbps AAC and Lossless? Even if your hearing is way above average, most audio players and earphones aren't that good.

(Also, given the less-than-subtle music you linked to, I doubt that it really matters.)
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Yeah, it's just a really weird coincidence that someone who made a couple hundred thousand dollars spamming in college later used the same techniques in a new business? Well, maybe, but you're going to need to do better than say cross my heart and pinky swear.

Also, stop being a bullshit artist. Let me rewrite your second paragraph for you in a truthful fashion: "Yeah, we spammed people. Our sales team went through craigslist and emailed listings we wanted to poach, even if they'd said they didn't want to receive such emails. We're those assholes. But please, let me write about this in the passive tense and distance ourselves from it. What I'd really like is for none of you to hold our admitted conduct against us because, well, that would be really convenient. For us, that is. Further, please don't judge our current conduct by our past actions because, well, again, way more convenient if we can just say random external contractors <bullshit bullshit bullshit> and start over with a blank slate."
Google+ was never presented as a Facebook competitor. They tried social networking with Gmail with Buzz and that failed miserably. I don't really know what the problem is. The uber bar is more than sufficient.
If this is for the "warfighter" is shredded document reconstruction really a commonly encountered problem in the US's current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? Its seems that in Afghanistan, for example, they don't even have electricity in the majority of the country let alone paper shredders.
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Except MapQuest is yucky.
> And this is my real beef with stallman's brand of free. His freedom is a narrow-minded ideology, abstracted from what freedom means in the real world. In the real world the only freedom I care about is the freedom to spend my time the way I want. From that perspective, jobs did a lot to make me free, because the switch from linux to apple "freed" more of my time than it cost me.

This is one of the 'worst' qualities of him and his cause. He, and others, seem so thoroughly convinced they've stumbled upon a perfect understanding of what the world needs and don't have the ability to humour themselves with the possibility that maybe others (Apple, Microsoft, ..) are onto something good.

I've noticed that with many of these 'causes' they have a good ideology yet simply lack any actual teaching skills in order to get it across to others especially those who would apparently most benefit from it.

If something is inherently good/true it will stand by it's own characteristics and not need others who prove them though often they need others to teach others. Also, if the masses choose something 'bad' then that is what they receive.
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> ECC checking memory

There is a balance, and I don't feel that throwing out ECC memory is necessarily the right choice for the majority of server applications. Low hardware cost needs to be achieved with an holistic approach - simply buying the cheapest possible components is unlikely to lead to the lowest cost unless your software and datacenter designs are really specialized for it.

DRAM errors are rather common in real systems[1]. There are two big hidden costs to this. The first one is the risk of silent data corruption. Unless you are willing to write your software in a way that is very careful to check all calculations, you run the risk of getting the wrong answer. The other hidden cost is operational: memory errors are often difficult to diagnose and you have to pay a highly skilled human to do it, as well as lose the use of the server while it is being done.

It may be that buying ECC RAM decreases the cost-per-page reliably served of your entire operation. If you are Google scale then that may not be the case, but for nearly all smaller operations it is.

'Enterprise' type hard drives are another potential long-term saving by spending more up front. Having a human replace a disk, and having the server down for the time it takes for a disk to be replaced, is expensive. If you have a large number of disks, especially if you are sensitive to small numbers of IO errors, it may be worth paying more up front.

Using an external view of Google's architecture to say 'cheap hardware is always good' is too simplistic. Yes, there is good evidence that single-host reliability mechanisms like RAID might give a poor ROI. Yes, redundancy is a powerful way to get reliability. But, before you take this to the extreme, you need to have carefully designed applications, carefully designed datacenters, and extremely low per-host operations costs (probably through aggressive automation). Unless you have these things, the optimal cost-per-request server design for your company may be very different from the ones Google, Facebook and Amazon chose.

[1] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Ebianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
I think you're right on the money when you mention submission of low-quality articles. These articles end up drowning out the good stuff on the new page, especially with all the linkbait headlines. The honeypot approach would help, but the drowning out of good material on the new page would not be solved with honeypots alone.
Something about this bothers me. Can't put my finger on it.

I think the assumption is that there are articles so bad that it should be obvious that they are off-topic. In the past, I've submitted things on the border. I imagine many others have too. I've always counted on the groupthink to correct any errors in submission I might make. This seems to assume that there are hard guidelines. Watching the board over the years, I'm not sure that assumption is accurate.

Put differently, if you had a cache of really bad articles, shouldn't we see them? That way we'd know not to submit. But if you already know they're bad, then what's the point of voting or flagging?

Perhaps I'm just mentally adrift here. Honeypots make sense to me when we are talking about boolean things: a website visitor is either harmful or not. An email sender is either a spammer or not. But I'm not sure at all that this concept applies to something like an essay. Seems like if it would, you could just use the flagging behavior mentioned to rank the articles and dump everybody else's votes. Right? This is like verifying the voting behavior by setting up some completely different system to rank quality detectors. But if you could rank quality detectors, why keep the old system? And if not, how would you separate which parts of which system are useful and which are not?
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That is what I was thinking. It is as easy as opening the phone app and taking a photo. Maybe the vendor prints a new QR code every day?
You only need two computers for every employee if you expect an event where all employees will need to swap out their computers at once. On a personal level, you would need two, but on a company-wide level you don't need that absolute redundancy.
Only one deserves legal punishment. Hate speech should be punished with verbal attacks.
I develop non-free software for a living. My lively-hood, my standard of living, my hobbies (all very nice, and very expensive), all depend on it. 100%.

And yet RMS was and continues to be a sort of software demi-god to me. I'm an atheist, but I'm expressing it with religious terms, so I don't use those terms lightly. RMS really is what I look up to and strive to achieve. No, I don't want to be him, but yes I do wish to match his philosophical purity.

So when I say I think that people who knock on RMS because of their profession are in error, I'm also not speaking lightly.
It's weird seeing a Google product with "SaaS pricing": http://getpunchd.com/pricing
The overarching trend that I've noticed in my time as HN member has been people complaining about the decrease in comment quality, not article quality. While the honey pot idea seems really cool, it doesn't solve the issue that people seem to complain about the most. I don't know enough about how comment voting and flagging works, but would it be easy to apply the same principle to comments instead of articles?
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Velocity analysis. Sounds complicated. Wonder how well it actually works.
For what it's worth, I totally agree with you. I'm presently trying to extricate myself from a large enterprise.

I'm not necessarily a gung-ho "startup good/big company bad" kind of person, but purely from an "asymmetric effectiveness" standpoint, it's easy to see why people think large enterprises are a relic of last century. In many ways, it seems like they're designed to just continue treading water until the lake evaporates, rather than trying to swim to the other side.
Do you really think you could hear the difference between 256kbps AAC and Lossless?

All the people who claim to be audiophiles and think that thousand dollar wooden knobs make their music sound more rich certainly do.
How do you tell that it is categorically illegal to send unsolicited emails of any type?

Of course, you realize that could, at an extreme, mean that you cannot send a personal email to someone else you have previously not corresponded with.

Spamming refers to sending unsolicited email. Sending unsolicited emails isn't illegal; sending unsolicited emails that do not adhere to the law is illegal in America.
I have a paid account. It only identifies specific people if those people allow that.
ALAC is used in AirPlay streaming (it was first announced along with the AirPort Express in mid 2004). This might be a plan to make AirPlay audio streaming more ubiquitous.
Cool stuff. I assume you wrote this for your own personal gratification and not to compete with Nginx or something. What was the coolest thing you learned in putting this together?
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Seems like a bad idea, that isn't even necessary. I went and looked at the guidelines, which I admit to not having done in some time, and it says:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Of the 30 items on the frontpage as I write this, none fit this characteristic. The closest might be the one about Google not removing police brutality videos. But that hardly seems to be a seriously negligent submission.

This what you say is on-topic:
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

While there's a lot that may not qualify according to these guidelines, IMO, I'm happy to leave it up to the voters of HN to decide. Clearly people thought these were the 30 most interesting stories right now (based on how voting is done).

I'd argue that better content needs to be written, more than I'd argue that we need honeypots. Maybe some way to promote a really indepth and insightful comment to a front-page submission or something.
The generally reputable wikiquotes has the following in the "sourced" section:

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

With numerous paraphrases.
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Google actually fought so they don't have to give the data of that Wikileaks guy, but I think they had no choice in the end.
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One difference is that Stallman is a reasonable man. If you could put together a watertight argument that proprietary software is better than free software, I think Stallman would become a proprietary software advocate. Is Stallman being uncompromising by rejecting hand-waving arguments, or merely following a logical conclusion based on stronger evidence?
If the h-ratio of a user is greater than an admin-specified threshold, we flag the user as detrimental to the overall quality of the site and their upvotes would either be discounted or ignored entirely.

Nit-picking here, but I suppose tansey meant "If the h-ratio is smaller", rather than "greater", since you'd want to ignore upvotes from those who upvote honeypots too much, rather than flag them too much.
Yes, I have a white paper, 'Uniformity Considered Harmful' which addressed some of those issues 'in the large'. The interesting bits are two fold, one is where you draw the lines around the 'meta-computer' and how you approach balancing flexibility about provisioning, around utilization in production. I'll see if I can get blog posting up on this stuff.
The app looks great! Definitely makes reading HN on android easier
"Removed from the only source of software" might as well be "removed from existence" when your platform is iOS.
The thing is, upvotes are a function of what shows up on the front page. So it makes sense.
My occasional check of the 'new' page shows that most stories fall off the end of the page and are never seen again. Seems overcomplicated to rig a page no one pays much attention to (I could be wrong, but my anecdotal experience over time backs this up).

Wouldn't a simpler metric be how many times a specific user's story posts are flagged? Combine this with a karma threshold for submitting (much like the down-vote threshold) and it seems to me to be a viable option.
Ah, but only if the honeypots are chosen to match the explicit and stated guidelines -- which are currently often ignored. Should that drift, the tone of the site will change slowly, invisibly and inexorably, and the old guard will be automatically shifted out with a silent coup de grace.

The honeypots become a way for moderators to upvote or downvote the whole tone of HN and do so without telling any of the users.

I look forward to the bot- and crowd-based tools that will evolve to watch the front page of the site and try to guess which articles increase or decrease your HN influence. It's a mathematically interesting problem.
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I don't think that was a direct quote.
I would argue that you are probably the exception from the norm -- most users have only one account and would probably consider it a major inconvenience to have to log in multiple times across different Google properties.
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I have to say, I tend to partially agree with both of you: admins shouldn't be submitting articles that won't add to the discussion, so I would drop the first part of your proposal.

For submissions that have already made it into the site and are detected to be honeypots, those votes and flags would be used to punish users.
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> you are creating an adversarial premise for a wide-band community with varying maturity and motivation.

I really have to disagree here. There is this misconception in these comments that somehow my system would let people get these massive egos and encourage them to harm others. That is simply not true, for several reasons:

1) You will never know if you are a super flagger, normal user, or ignored/penalized user.

2) Super flaggers gain no power to move things up or down for a specific article. They are merely there as a proxy for detecting if anyone is consistently upvoting improper articles. If the top 10% are super flaggers, the next 80% are normal users, and the bottom 10% are ignored, then that means the super flaggers will only account for 1/9th of the upvotes on average. And if they flag an article, it will not get removed faster than if a normal user flags it; rather, it will simply increase the chance that the article will be used as a honeypot in the future.

3) A single super flagger has little leverage, assuming you choose a large enough pool of super flaggers. One person will not do much to push the honeypot threshold over the top.

4) It's a moving target. So even if you were to ascertain that you are a super flagger and you decided to try to flag articles inappropriately (in the ever-so-small amount that you can do damage that way), you won't be a super flagger for long. Rather, you'll quickly be drowned out by your own noise and you'll fall off the super flagger list when the next update is performed.

That's not to say this system is perfect. I suppose one could manipulate it if:

1) You were somehow able to determine that you were a super flagger (non-trivial).

2) You were able to get a bunch of evil buddies together who also were super flaggers.

3) Your group is a sufficiently large portion of the total super flagger population, say 30%.

4) The admins did not include some oversight to periodically check up on what was being made into honeypots.

Then, yes, you could go to town flagging things for a while. It's certainly not fool proof, but if you had that large of a coordinated group on HN, you could wreak havoc in much more efficient and straight-forward ways.
In addition to iOS playback as mentioned by other posters, ALAC is also used when streaming AirPlay audio. I would have killed for this code a few years ago.
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Codecs like AAC apply psychoacoustic rules that were only correct for the overall piece being encoded, not samples taken from it. If a song has two overlapping sounds and the human ear physically can't hear both, a lossy codec looks for that and conserves space by completely omitting the sound that was masked, leaving you with no way to recover it if your postprocessing takes away the sound that had been masking it. A lossless codec preserves the sounds you might be able to hear after sampling or remixing, though of course it takes more space to do that.
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