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I don't see how a system like this would improve comment quality.

In my opinion, high comment quality is strongly related to the atmosphere of respect on HN. Making comment scores private helped with this.

Creating complex rules, or rules that mysteriously favor the votes of some users relative to others, leads to the perception that HN is a caste system, even if status is earned over time... and nudges the atmosphere more toward competition than friendly discussion.

The one feature that I think could be useful would be some way to merge stories that are essentially identical. There is a karma incentive for people to post lots of stories about topics that are "trending" at the moment. The more users we have, the more thorough the community will be with this, and it's both a good thing and a bad thing. The upside is deeper coverage of important events, the biggest downside is a fragmented discussion, but in addition the homepage is often filled with 4 or 5 (or more) highly similar stories.

Adding "merge" would improve the s/n ratio, reduce redundancy in the discussions, and make it easier for someone checking HN at the end of the day to get up to speed on what happened and to (perhaps) leave an insightful comment or two.
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There is a debate on the list published on his blog post (check the comments). The list seems to be an automatically generated IP/netblock to ASN description. As an example, Team Cymru ( http://www.team-cymru.org/ ) is named in the blog post but they asked for more information about the data collected without success. Maybe the false positive rate is quite high but it's difficult to say until Brian Krebs publishes some details on how the list was generated.

From the Team Cymru page:

A recent blog post appeared to draw the unsubstantiated conclusion that more than 760 organizations were compromised with some of the same resources used to hit RSA earlier this year. Team Cymru was one of the organizations named in the posting.

We have no evidence of compromise related to incidents at RSA or anywhere else. The source of the report, and those who revealed and posted it, didn't take the time to contact us, or to share incident details with us. Thus we are unable to investigate further. We hope that those who gathered this data will responsibly disclose it to the potential victims.

Please note that without more details on the methodology used to determine the list of organizations, and a scientific review of the same, it's not safe to assume that an entry on the list means either "victim" or "false positive". We've seen no data or methodology description that would support either case.
> Why should they?

Because others already have FLAC?

Isn't it similar to the kid offering to share his bicycle, to his neighbor, with the hope of friendship, knowing fully well that it will do no real benefit since his neighbor already has an equally good machine?
If investors took ethics into account when picking startups, they would make decisions in the opposite direction from the one you are hoping for.
Most enterprises have a very strong culture of maintaining status quo as extensively as possible. Especially in IT departments. Even big software enterprises rely on 5-10 year old infrastructure software (such as Exchange 2003) which was released during the era of Windows domination. It doesn't help that some of the software is web based because even that is often made for Internet Explorer only.

Nevertheless Mac's are actually spreading in enterprises. Not from top but from bottom. Officially unsupported, but with a help of VM software such as VMWare Fusion there are no problems using legacy stuff.
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> This stuff is delicately mastered in the studio

And football is the sport of delicately manoeuvring your opponent onto the grass.

And heroin is a drug that delicately shifts your brain chemistry.

And a chainsaw delicately tickles tree trunks.
If you're interested I knocked up this to make some playlists to listen to ... pretty crude but works. http://fmix.heroku.com Enter artist or artist & track name.
That's what I do. The point of lossless is to have a stable archive that can be converted into the convenient format and bitrate of the day. It's great that Apple is finally open-sourcing their codec but it would have been far better if they'd just thrown their weight behind FLAC in the first place and avoided this completely gratuitous and consumer-unfriendly fragmentation.
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> My point is, why are there laws that exist to prevent the sort of absurd things I propose? That is, why isn't "if you don't like it then don't buy it" sufficient in those cases?

Because goverments like making up new rules and regulations.
He did provide PE ratios for competitors as well, and HP is the largest PC maker. He isn't valuing them the same as Apple, just that the PE ratio should be similar.
You can't have a telescope with that resolution. The data is simply not there, not in a manner that can be reconstructed with a telescope smaller than several solar systems at least.
That's a legitimate concern, but I don't think HN is quite that homogenous. I also don't think we tend to downvote out of disagreement, which would be required in order for groupthink to set in. You occasionally see a thoughtful comment expressing an unpopular sentiment get downvoted, but not often and usually not for long.

For groupthink to be a serious threat, it's not simply enough to have the top-rated posts express a given view, you also have to have contrarian views be buried. I don't think that a group of people that pg would be likely to pick would a) upvote all the same things, or b) downvote posts they disagree with. As the supervoter bit would be passed to people who voted in generally the same way as a reasonable number of the superusers, it would be unlikely that people who downvoted out of disagreement would get the bit. Further, I think there's a wide enough range of views amongst the people pg would likely select to minimize the likelihood of a single viewpoint gaining dominance.

There's enough contrarianism built into the basic personality of most HNers that I think we'd be fine.
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There are actually 91 errors described in the article, but number 90 looks nicer in the title. The article is intended for C/C++ programmers, but developers working with other languages may also find it interesting.
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You can read the article: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0077
An interesting point. Is it more interesting to do the work, or to pay for the work? I'd come down on the of doing the work, though I guess if you pay for the work, you can be present for the fun bits and absent for the hard slog (the majority).

The problem with doing is that it can be hard to make end meet while doing interesting work with long term payoffs. The options I can think of are:

1) Get an interesting job.

2) Fight tooth and nail to the top of the career/academic heap in a boring job and hope you make it to a position of being able to set your own interesting work while you still have brain cells.

3) Find an angel or patron who is prepared to pay for an interesting long shot.

4) Say hang it, and do interesting work while keeping your lifestyle within the modest remuneration you can scape together.

5) Part time work, with interesting stuff making up a full time load.

Can anyone suggest other options that might work with dependents?
She was working on a cooking robot, right?

As long as she is working on cooking robots that stay in the kitchen, women should be welcomed in tech.
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>I'm sure there are some billionaires exactly like that.

The Rothschild family is thought to have a net worth of a few trillion or thereabouts, so yeah. Of course, they do things with it.
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Interesting theory, and with the history of this HP board, this is actually a very minor possibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard_spying_scandal

You've made me wonder if the quality of the algorithms used for trading make it near impossible for the SEC to track these sort of criminal activities.
PG, what about coding up the thing, marking a few articles in the archive as "honeypot articles", then rerender the site (locally) and see how it performs?
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> They collect every single thing you send them and process it as they like internally.

No, this is wrong.

They are not allowed to do whatever they want with it. In Europe there are laws on what companies can do with your data. For instance, see the Data Protection Directive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive
Agreed, but there needs to be a mechanism to tell me how to use it. I like the idea of flicking around to browse, and this is not something I would have guessed without the info boxes.
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The line of reasoning applied here escapes me. In what way are the hardware and consulting business lines distractions to one another? It's like saying a car company's manufacturing business is going to get distracted by the company racing team, because it's possible to draw up different P/E ratios for the two. This overlooks the fundamental and inextricably interlinked business relationships between the two. And it casts aside all kinds of follow-on benefits, such as market & mind share, the halo effect, cross-pollination of new business ideas and seeding of innovation.
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I think it's a pretty good idea. It'd be easy to come up with articles that are very clearly about politics/current events or otherwise quite off topic, yet 'hot topics'. Let's see: Occupy Wall Street, Republican primaries, Drug Legalization would all be ideal targets.

If nothing else, it'd be very easy to run as an experiment to see if there's anything to be seen about how articles like those get voted up and / or flagged, by who, and whether actually utilizing the honeypot data could be put to good use.
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I take your curtness as being a bit harsh and you're suggesting that this isn't a business model that should be promoted??

Fred does acknowledge that this isn't new, and I suggest it has been around LONG before 2006.

This is Fred's favorite, it doesn't have to be yours, but he provides a good description of why he likes it.

Of course, it doesn't apply to all businesses. Note that he didn't suggest that Twitter should have used this model, though that actually may have worked quite well for them.
We are using a lot of signals too. GPS is the only one we talk about :)

You're right, it is a very delicate line between catching as many cheaters as possible while avoiding false-positives. We like to err on the side of false-negatives as much as possible.
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FYI, text submissions are penalized in HN's ranking algorithm. You'd probably be better off submitting as a URL, especially given that most of your explanation should be apparent to someone visiting the page.
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I think the most important bit is

'The best examples of this business model are when the customer implicitly understands why the paid service has to cost money. More storage costs for photos or virtual storage are good examples.'

If your customers are paying for their 'usage', but it don't understand how it is actually a cost to you, they can feel ripped off.

I'm surprised he didn't include Angry Birds in the list.
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The Swedish company Craft made an "ice glove" for triathlete Torbjørn Sindballe who had trouble from the heat when running in Hawaii...
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Nice one - looks good! Hope it works out well for you.

But, just to chip in:

1) Does your target market know that a Google Account is, effectively, a Gmail address? They might think the barrier to entry is higher than it is.

2) Homepage says:
>No credit card required. No sign up required. Just log in with your Google account.

Which sounds great. But when I hit the FAQs, I see:

> Do you support any payment methods/services other than PayPal?
> Not at this time. Maybe Google Checkout if there is demand.

Maybe it's just me in my nerddom, but "just log in with your Google account" combined with "no credit card required" made me expect Google Checkout to be the default payment method, or at the very least supported.

May be worth adding a nod to Paypal somewhere earlier on, or an FAQ towards the top of the list explaining what payment methods are supported (and why the customer should be happy about them/it, etc, etc). Would help you avoid the negative, "No, sorry, only PayPal" vibe of the current answer.
I am not sure if I got what you are suggesting here. Codify is in no way breaking this rule, the author had to modify and resubmit the binaries a couple of time as Apple refused sharing the code using iTunes Sharing. So we have the sandbox in codify, however one can always copy paste the code from emails, web sites, etc (inputs) but there is no way to compile or use it further (outputs) at this stage.
According to the HN guidelines, titles like "90 errors in open-source projects" should just be listed as "Errors in open-source projects", or perhaps rewritten to something else.
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I knew people who worked on these sorts of thought-leadership concept videos, and even some working advanced prototypes, at Microsoft back in the mid-2000s. I did work to get a team spun up to actually bring some of it to market.

I haven't watched this video (life is to short), but I can say, based on what I know, I doubt they'll do any of this stuff until Apple (or someone else) does it first. The best they'll do is bring out some timid, watered-down version and price it too high, miss-market it, or both.

When I was there, almost everyone was too risk adverse to actually try something that could fail, which means they were too risk adverse to try something that could succeed spectacularly. Anyone actually willing to take that sort of chance, and smart enough to make a decent go of it was smart enough to figure out that they'd have a better chance of succeeding AND profit more from success if they left the company.
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I like that comparison, yes it is like the old Z80 computer programs, where if you did not save the code on to a cassette you lost it. So the other way was typing lines of code from magazines with checksums to make sure that the code was perfectly fine and one did not miss any thing.

Codify is at this moment similar to those 8-bit computers... I had a ZX Spectrum 48K
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Start a business that generates a passive income source, in the same vein as patio's BCC. This would obviously require a large amount of work up-front, but within 10 years you should be sorted.

I was really surprised to realise that my living costs are only about $130 per week, or $20 per day. If I could earn $20 every day, I could do whatever I want in the other 23 hours.
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I heard from the guys that work for Apple that Apple has accepted Lua as a language for many of the apps and realise that it can be sandboxed, so do expect that before approving it. Yes Apple is comfortable with Lua.
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The purpose of my curtness was to be concise; no editorializing was intended. I just thought it was customary to include the year when an old essay is posted to give you the right initial lens for reading it and to help you know if it is the original or an update for a topic.

I actually enjoyed the article; the thoughts behind this were important for the last startup I joined and I'm thinking about how I can apply them to what I am working on now.
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Network IO, Disk IO, scheduling, locks etc.. all trigger context switches and not only mode switch because only the kernel is allowed to manipulate data structures related to mbufs, vfs, and whatnot.

When I said epoll/kqueue doesn't affect the accept rate, I was replying back to a specific request of writing a program to just accept/reply/shutdown. In this case you are passing one fd to the poller which won't matter much what poller you are using.

My original comment is that you are measuring the wrong thing and it's not against hellepoll. requests / sec can be much higher than reply / sec because they get buffered waiting for you to accept them. Once accepted, then a request is counted. What matters though, especially to the http client is how long it takes to serve the connection from start to finish, hence reply rate.

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I read a comparison months (if not years) ago where one voluntarily flicked random bits and erased portions of files in FLAC and ALAC files, and the result was that ALAC was way, way more resilient than FLAC.
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I just read the original paper (http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W11/W11-1202.pdf).

As far as I can tell, the article by theregister is complete nonsense: the researchers suspected a simple substitution cipher and used statistical analysis of the distribution of (co-)occurrences of the text symbols. Once they conjectured that the source language was German, they were able to use letter frequency information from modern German texts to derive likely mappings between the symbols and letters from the German alphabet.

This has nothing to do with machine translation. MT does not typically operate on the level of letters. The only time the researchers mention machine translation in their paper is on page 6, where they piped the partly deciphered text into a German-to-English translation software to see where their mapping was incorrect.

The remarkable fact is that apparently none of the researches speaks German, so they used such software to check if it could make sense of the sequences of letters deciphered so far. They might as well have used an old-fashioned dictionary to achieve the same result. On page 7 they talk about finally talking to native speakers of German (quite late in the endavour I think), to help them with the remaining problems.

The register article gives the impression that the researchers sort of pasted a transcripted version of the original document into an MT system which then magically produced a "translation" into German autonomously. That is not at all what happened.
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