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Startups aren't fighting for credibility, startups are fighting against nobody caring. It's good if someone reads one story about you and then reads another one a few months later. Even if they get mad at you for changing your story, that's much better than them not caring, at least they've heard of you.
I'm currently reading Job's official bio, and from what I can tell from reading the book, the whole idea of locking down software on the iPhone and iPad was so that he could try and control every single aspect of the user's experience from end to end out of his perfectionist ideals.

I think the iPad and iPhone platforms will inevitably become more open as time goes on, and I think the next phase requires it (an awful lot of the apps are completely underwhelming compared to the possibilities of the devices), and as far as their computers go, they're sufficiently open enough for me to do what I want to do (which is linux based web app development and sysadmin type work).

As mentioned in other comments, Jobs did champion the iTunes Store as DRM free, and he got that in the end.
That's a really cool idea and a great way to easily implement a ruby version of an API client. Thanks for the tip!
Many times it doesn't matter if things are free or not. Even if thins block people doing things, after a short hiccup, people find a solution to their problems.

Stallman's ideology is, at the end, just about preventing hiccups...
I think the hardest part would be trying to discern intent just from someone up-voting one of these honeypot articles, given the loose definition of what's considered on-topic here. You'd be stuck between being subtle and catching false-positives, and being obvious and driving people away / generating useless discussion with obviously off-topic stories on the front page. I'd argue against this for that reason, and because you'd probably alter user's voting behavior to try to "avoid the honeypot" rather than simply evaluating the article.

I'd take a different approach, and argue that most users are capable and willing to filter articles that they think fit the guidelines, however I'd bet that most people don't leave the front page when considering what to vote on. This self-imposed filter bubble of convenience seems to create two separate areas of content, with more pop-culture-leaning tech news on the front page with tons of comments and votes, and a graveyard of dead/questionable/interesting/technical articles without any feedback on new.

I would experiment with adjusting a user's per-article voting power, either silently or with feedback in the form of a voting power average similar to karma average -- however, I'd adjust it based on where the stories are and/or how much feedback they've already received when a user votes on them. I'd discourage voting on already super-popular stories and encourage voting on stories that haven't gotten much exposure (from "new"). You're also forced in the latter case to evaluate an article on its merit, before it has any comments and few points, similar to how you evaluate comments now without seeing comment karma, which seems to have helped with comment quality.

TLDR: Front-page stories with 2k votes don't need another 1k - we know it's a good article. Those 1k votes would be better served picking out gems and interesting "smaller" news from /new and other areas. Disincentivizing voting only on popular stories and incentivizing voting on new/unfiltered new ones would better serve the community than trying to catch people with honeypots.
another facebook-only login... seriously guys, enough of this.
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As an iOS Developer, what I could see the value in was getting access to older development version of Xcode/iOS SDK for short periods of time. 30-60 minutes at most. I'd pay a small amount for that.

Another opportunity is for academic classes to teach iOS Development. It's cost prohibitive right now, but it's something to look into to.

The problem is that I don't see the business being one that has long term clients. If anyone is developing for more than 4 months, they'd probably have obtained a machine by then.
Indeed. And even at Google scale where 'good enough' is an art form, ECC memory is deemed to be worth the money. The paper you cited does its study on Google hardware, and I can confirm that it's still used today.
Is there an advantage to this for someone who owns no Apple products and has no iTunes account?

EDIT: Looking at http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless_compa... it looks like the only clear advantage ALAC has is iTunes/iDevice support. FLAC has faster encoding/decoding speeds, and it's unknown if ALAC has error handling (which FLAC has). FLAC also supports RIFF chunks, has pipe support and is ReplayGain compatible, and has some support for embedded CUE sheets.
I use PC too...They don't do so well with some things, like bank drafts, particularly in USD. You have go through a CIBC branch, both banks charge a free (even though PC is run by CIBC), and you have to deal with 2 bureaucracies.

I admit, compared to other Canadian banks, PC is not bad. In the US though, you don't have to choose between branches and no fees....

Also, it's worth keeping in mind that if you keep a balance (to avoid fees) you are still paying a fee. One part is loss due to inflation (any interest rate below inflation is a negative return), and the other is opportunity cost....
I think it is more and more becoming clear that google's approach is the best way: your ideal first page has to be personalized (when you are looged in, Google personalizes your results with location, previous searches, +1s, and even who you follow on twitter).

Trying to be everything to everybody means there will be people left with sub-optimal results.
You ask the founders from previously funded startups to help you out. PG mentioned that most applications are a clear no. That should weed out 85%-90%. The rest deserver a closer look.
America has been discussing the lack of females that code for some time, but I've never seen women show more interest in programming than when they discover this site.

They're really onto something and I wish them success!
>leaked video evidence of a Chinese fishing vessel trespassing into Japanese waters and ramming a Japanese Coast Guard vessel twice

The Senkaku Islands are a disputed territory and from the video, you could easily say the Japanese coast guard boat cut in front of the Chinese boat, thus causing the collision.

Let's lets not forget the 2008 incident where a Japanese coast guard rammed a Taiwanese fishing ship and Japan had to pay compensation as a result.

I don't see why you must take sides when the matter is murkier than it is, probably due to your own political bias but I digress.

In summary: a title of 2010 "Senkaku boat collision incident" should be appropriate. There is no need to simplify it if you can't keep a neutral point of view because it detracts from your main point.
The idea sounds pretty cool, you should make the "uncertainty" of the purchase clearer. I would also drop the word "preorder" and use a different word. Also you should consider displaying how many purchases more are required for the product to become available for sale, that might get your users to push for a product a bit more in their social circles.

Good luck with it!
That's a fair point. I wrote the post as a reaction to an off-topic article that I saw on the front page. That's not to say that the overall quality of HN isn't superb, but I was just particularly upset that a glaringly off-topic article was so highly upvoted.

This is a general system, however, and certainly addresses a problem which many other social news sites suffer from. I can imagine reddit implementing something like this, for instance. Thus, I think even if one believes it may be overkill for HackerNews (at the moment), it's an important contribution to the question of how to properly and automatically moderate social news sites.
Since the honeypots are not actually being prioritized, I believe this could be addressed by only testing new or controversial users. I.e. a user with a good h value should rarely or never see honeypots on their front page.
Of course its not amazing, but it is a feature they have that would have made the transition to dedicated easier.
It seems to me that most of the issues are caused by too few ideal HNers watching the "New" page and up-voting quality content. Instead, primarily controversial submissions manage to garner the necessary number of up-votes to make it to the front page before falling off of the "New" page.

I don't believe that the proposed honeypot solution would address this.
I did not know that. My provider counts inbound which sucks because that's most of our traffic but we run at about 6 out of 10 terabytes per server per month so it's not a problem... for now.
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No, I can't; and I wasn't claiming that I can. However, as I stated, if I use an MP3 or AAC in a remix, then compress my remix using a lossy codec like AAC or MP3, the result will sound like crap. It's similar to working with JPEGs in Photoshop (rather than RAW), then trying to re-compress to JPEG: you usually get artifacts.

I've been playing classic violin since the age of 3, and I'm very sensitive to details. Just because you don't find a particular genre of music "subtle" doesn't it's not susceptible to the compression artifacts I'm talking about.
:-) would like to, but as I don't have a Mac I haven't done enough iOS work to answer any questions yet. Sounds we're at about the same level now.
This is really a fantastic idea. Although there was an article on HN recently about not dropping out, I have to say I feel that computer science is a field that requires no formal education to be successful (economically, and intellectually) in.

Also I find something detrimental about college to the individual, and I'm thinking in a individualistic sense.

Anyways, I'd love to see sites like this pop up, and micro grant programs around them to help encourage individuals to build something great.
> Well, maybe, but you're going to need to do
> better than say cross my heart and pinky swear.

Are you for real? Is he supposed to personally show up at your house to sign a contract in blood now because J Random Internet User isn't convinced?
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The problem lies in the definition of "new" and "extreme". Both are very loose.

In the standard Techcrunch definition of "new", and "extreme", "new" is "new" and hasn't been done successfully before (or at least in the reach of the startup in question).

And "extreme uncertanty" usually means: you have a burn rate which forces you to rapidly achieve product-market fit, pivot, get more money, or give up. The above definition of "new" adds up to the "extreme uncertanty", as you are not sure what you are currently doing is something people want, and even if you pivot into something else, you will not be sure about it as well.

Therefore, a new old' fashioned bakery is a new business, but it is not doing something "new", neither has "extreme uncertainty" attached to it.
This is how I classify articles (loosely based on a famous quote by Eleanor Roosevelt+):

-Articles on ideas: +1. Examples from current homepage include "Why we moved off the cloud" -- and that's kind of stretching it.

- Articles about events or claims: "meh" Examples: Batch is the best photo editor, google+ now available for google apps, etc

-Articles on other people, current events, activism: Flag Examples: Google police brutality, Vimeo bans game videos, etc. This is more slashdot material, nothing interesting.

*The E.Roosevelt quote is something like "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss other people"

EDIT: I realized after I edited my answer that it doesn't really apply to your comment. I meant to say that given this method of classification, it's noticeable that the quality of articles has decreased, and would love to see more ideas than pointless "they're taking our rights" articles.
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I used to fight it but it's a lost cause. The cloud is officially a buzzword and can be used to describe any hosted solution.
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It should be part of G+, because it's cool and google usually does cool things. But it is indeed useful only for the top % of users, because the average user doesn't get that many reshares.

PS: yes, I would really love to be able to build apps/games for G+ the same way I can for Facebook. If G+ would do that I bet developers would jump on the opportunity. It's going to be like .. Android vs the iPhone all over again
Before the app tries scanning anything, it gets a location lock to verify you're at the business. Which is a little annoying because my phone has flaky/slow GPS (thanks HTC Thunderbolt) so I end up standing there at the counter waiting to get a punch when they could have just stamped a card.
I don't think you need explicit honey pots. Just give a select few special up/down votes that mean "this should never be flagged" and "this should never be upvoted". Then use this labeling of the data to compute a metric for vote quality. (And I'd recommend these moderation type votes be retractable).
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I can... easily. And it matters to me. My hearing is average, and I have HD280Pro Seinheisers which are pretty standard headphones. Maybe it has something to do with the music genre that I like - techno, trance, dubstep, elecronic, etc. This stuff is delicately mastered in the studio and I can tell when the sound isn't reconstructed well upon playback.

I'd love to do a blind hearing test if you can set one up - but you have to do it with a song that I enjoy. I suppose I could even set one up myself as a study. It would be pretty interesting.
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"You seem to not know anything about this, so I'll cut you some slack even though your wording is slightly offensive."

If these really worked and made sense, we would have more worker owned cooperatives as opposed to corporations. I haven't heard much about them because they are in the slim minority..and there's probably a reason for this.

"I never said that I wanted to make corporations illegal, just stop using tax dollars to subsidize them, while taxing them in order to balance out the extreme wealth redistribution that they engage in."

Which translates to: taxing the hell out of them so it's no longer profitable to start one. I'm cool with worker owned cooperatives as long as they are taxed exactly the same as corporations.

"It seems eminently sensible for a country that likes to call itself a democracy to promote (or at least set up a favorable regulatory scheme for) economic democracy rather than the techno-feudalism that corporate capitalism resembles when capital becomes too concentrated."

It is a democracy: you can start your own company at any time. You want to prevent someone from having too much money, even if they've earned it honestly. I don't want anyone to limit my success. When this happens, I will either leave the country or become a criminal.

"Good question. Why should a rich investor that spends a tiny fraction of his money own the product of the founders and workers who actually create the value? Why should capital own labor, rather than the other way around?"

Because the rich investor is risking their money. The founders can bootstrap. Many companies do. I personally wouldn't give up that much control to anyone. Most workers don't understand what it takes to run a company. It's more than just collecting a larger paycheck..

"re:bitcoin: what?"

Never heard of bitcoin?
For those downvoting: Please share your thoughts. If you disagree, I'd love to know why.
I would structure the lecture like this:

- a bit of evolution of programming and why OO was so huge (re-usability of encapsulated and independent code pieces/modules/libraries)

- fundamentals about OO - encapsulation, polymorphism, inheritance

- How to design - UML, class diagrams.

- Python code examples from biology would be cool. (Tell you class that they shold imagine to be god. They now create an entirely new planet with all its animals and living creatures on them). Have them designing a UML, then present/share/discuss. How does the inheritance look like (chimp -> monkey -> mammal -> living organism...)

Let us know it it went :-)
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FLAC has been around longer and is also part of the Xiph.org project along with Vorbis. If Google wanted to add a lossless codec, they certainly could have before now.

(Disclaimer: I am associated with Xiph.org.)
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Generally, awesome. But:

The 1GB for a human thing, whether or not it's off by a factor of 10, is the cost to build an infant and dismisses the real complexity of a human. The cost to build a high functioning adult is vastly higher. I don't know what it would cost to build me now (complete with screwed up kidney!), but I'm sure that it's quite a bit higher than 1GB: I've learned English, Spanish, love (or so my wife would say), loveV2 (or so my kids would say), basically every computer language, how to catch a football, how to WALK, how to have sex, how to have a conversation over cocktails, etc.

The magic of computers is that once N programs have run through the process of learning to do something, we can clone it. Getting to "how to speak English" is going to be hard; building 1e9 machines to do it will be relatively easy.
I agree that RSS is a poor way to consume to consume social news sites like Hacker News. It's a fantastic way to consume blogs, especially infrequently-updated ones. Why would I flip though 100 tabs in my browser every day to see which ten blogs have new posts when I can open my RSS reader instead and see all the new content at once?
Thank you very much for the recommendations. I'll have some time to read in a month or so. I'm taking the Stanford A.I., machine learning, and database classes at the moment so they are monopolizing all my free time.

I've also taken your advice and added my email to the about section.
A frozen yogurt shop I used to visit a lot started using Punchd back in June. The app is cute, but I'd rather just have a paper card.

After the transaction, the clerk has to pull out a QR code card to let you scan. The app on your phone won't try scanning until it can get a location to verify you're actually there. Maybe a quarter of the time my phone's flaky GPS has trouble getting a location, so the clerk ends up standing there with the card out while I hold my phone out. Then once it scans, it takes a moment or two for the app to talk to the backend and register the punch. Even if my phone had perfect GPS it'd still be a little too much effort.

The yogurt shop eventually wound up getting paper punch cards in addition to Punchd, and I started using those instead of the mobile app. It takes less time for them to just take the card and stamp it than it does to do the whole Punchd dance.

With Google's oomph behind this, I could see them start using NFC tags, which might speed up the process. But until then I've quit using this as a customer.
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Right, I was talking about my original parent's point about how to make it fair, the chart maker should have split off the ones not made by Google and just compared the Google made ones vs. the Apple made ones. But not many phone purchasers actually care about that comparison - which company spawned the better ecosystem, they care about the phone they end up with. Hence, throwing them all together like he did in comparing the ecosystems was the appropriate thing to do.
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The Xiph.org project has always maintained that if there are royalty free audio codecs available for everyone, then we've won. We never cared that they were ours, but no one else seemed to be building them.

It's a little silly that Apple rolled their own when a perfectly good option was available, but the world still wins.

I hope they try and get it standardized. That would make it even better.
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Do you have another example of him spamming a mailing list?
"Basically I’ve noticed a huge trend not only in websites moving away from RSS to Twitter and FB, but REMOVING IT COMPLETELY!"

So why not subscribe to the Twitter or FB RSS feed of their content. Or am I missing something.
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It would be nice except google plus already auto uploads? But, it only dumps them into one album. This would still be good for Facebook users though...
I was not even thinking about the mechanics of your system, which as you've reasoned above and in the article may work beautifully.. merely the fact that HN would start deploying such a methodology opens up a road that may have interesting ramifications down the track.

Am sorry if my response sounds less precise or more philosophical than you want.. but it is well intentioned.

In a democracy , one common problem is that you have to respect others that you think are voting wrongly and put up with bad content. HN as it stands now is a wide-band place.. Eternal September is always going to be a risk.

Another way to address some of these concerns would be to have sub-sections ( much like a normal web-board ) where people are encouraged to discuss some common subsets / topics .. or even have a special section for newer folks.
Sorry, I have no intention of taking sides.

I only highlight the sengoku38 event as one where Google didn't stand its ground, and how impressed I am that at least this time they are refusing to take down the police brutality video.
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It would be nice if instead of creating another proprietary protocol, they'd just use something that's already in place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_audio
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The reason I haven't uploaded the majority of those photos... is because I don't want them online. If I want to mass edit/transfer in bulk, I'll plug my phone in and transfer them to my computer.
I would like to know what videos were requested be removed.
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What he means is, on a mac when you use two-finger together in a swiping motion, it'll scroll whatever document the mouse is on.

The google stuff (eg maps) has it where if you do the two-finger swiping motion, instead of scrolling, it'll zoom.
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>If these really worked and made sense, we would have more worker owned cooperatives as opposed to corporations. I haven't heard much about them because they are in the slim minority..and there's probably a reason for this.

Wow. Circular reasoning much? Try doing some research - you might find that there are thing in the world you didn't already know.
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