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delinka (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3282503 )'s response is the first one that comes to mind: if you need to monetise your review business, and if people are (rightfully) suspicious about your company accepting money from the companies that it reviews, then why not ask for money from the reviewers?

Of course, the obvious answer is "They won't pay"; so why not ask for money from the consumers of the reviews? OK, it's still pretty idealistic, and people will still go for free, but imagine a whole gamified review platform: to read reviews, you need to spend credits. To earn credits, you can either spend a small amount of money, or leave reviews yourself. This offers an incentive to leave positive reviews—it gives you access to more of others' reviews. Of course, the big problem with positive reviews is that people usually can't even think of their positive experiences; so prompt for a small amount of personal information: "Where do you live? … OK, people in Chicago are looking for reviews of Thai restaurants. Have you been to a Thai restaurant lately?", &c.

Your review will be decorated with an Amazon-style "This review was helpful" thumbs up / thumbs down button; and, the more helpful reviews you leave, the more weight your later reviews will be given. (The main problem that I have with review sites is companies posting spurious reviews of their own products.) Have comments be the last word, or allow threaded discussions (without moderation, or with moderation only for content violations); I'm perfectly happy with allowing businesses to respond—there are definitely unreasonable companies out there—as long as the whole exchange is out in the open.

Sure, the revenue stream from people willing to pay to read reviews is fairly small, but, if you build up a trustworthy review site, then surely people will come to it in preference to the current crop of useless ones out there, and the ad impressions will start to mean something.
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You aren't taking into consideration the vast amounts of concrete and steel that go into a nuclear plant, nor the mining and refining of the uranium, nor, for that matter, it's disposal.

Further, I think you are overestimating the impact of building and deploying wind turbines. They may require a lot of land, but their physical footprint is pretty small, and most of the land around them can be used for other purposes, like agriculture.
I agree. I was looking for the irony in that message where Linus didn't follow his own style guidelines...
How would you objectively determine the usefulness of a commit message, though? While it might contain all the necessary parts, there is no way to determine if the sum of the parts adds up to a useful whole.

Also, badges are done to death. Everyone's got badges these days - so much so they're like ads. Personally, I've developed a blind spot to most of them.
The submission text was right, though. It would have been a comma instead of colons if "Linus" were in the vocative case.
I am not sure if it is only for this book or it is common - Looks like the entire book is there on amazon, for free, if you click on "look inside". Is it a bug, or is it common?
>You know some Android sets don't even use Google for search.

That's why I said influence, rather than force.
Why does "having difficulties firing people" have to have a "root cause" other than "you think of yourself as a fairly decent guy and understand the effects getting fired has on somebody"?

This is just pop psychology mumbo jumbo.
Isn't the head guy pretty much allowed to ignore style guidelines in his own project?

I'm not saying that's a good thing, mind you.
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Good post, but it's a sad reflection of code's failure as a medium of expression that we need 50 lines of Python to express one line of math.
Hope the DVD is released, its definitely not anywhere else - YouTube took it down for copyright issues.
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> You can attempt to chip away at this by creating reputation systems, doing outside validation, or charging an entry fee, but even then those systems are also subject to being gamed.

> There are no good solutions to this one

I think that saying there is no perfect solution (which is undoubtedly true) is quite different from saying that there's no good solution; each barrier in the way of gaming the system makes the reviews slightly more, though never completely, trustworthy. I know that, in the end, the decision is mine, and I have a chance of making the wrong one no matter how many reviews I read; but I would prefer an imperfect review system to a completely busted one.
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Although many studies have shown that people given a placebo will often behave as if drunk, this doesn't prove that the effect of alcohol is purely psychological. Although people will begin to behave as if drunk, my understanding is they will tend to behave in a manner which they would normally feel slightly inhibited from.

When someone has actually consumed alcohol they will be more likely to perform actions which there is a high (rather than medium as with the placebos) social pressure against.

I can see the coffee example working for both consciously using alcohol as an excuse for socially unacceptable behaviour and the type of results seen when placebos are given but not the more extreme responses associated with higher intakes.

Old paper but a good one is The Psychology of Drunken Excess (http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/48/1/18/) but afraid I don't think it's available without paying.
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Can you place a piece to put someone in check?

It's been at least a couple of decades since I've played bug house, so my memories are pretty hazy.
I was preaching the same words you preach now. What changed? There is really, f*in slavery, child work, forced prostitution, gambling additiction + loan sharks and so on. I couldn't believe it until I was there. Now, that I feel connected to the people and the deep culture there, I can't say anymore "give them time". It is time for a change and that change will come. Chinese people themself have enough of it, although I think it will still be 5 or 10 years until they really start to fight.
`Highly-parallel network code` was the problem erlang was designed for. Haskell would also be a good fit.
Fred: Redo that plot substituting gold, a currency going back to biblical times, for dollars. Do you think there is still a chance bitcoin will follow the Gartner hype cycle?
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Hmm, you might want to consider a different name for the project, since there is already a well-known handlebars.js: http://www.handlebarsjs.com/
Yes, that is exactly how my experience in China is different from what I read in this article.
>Can you place a piece to put someone in check?

Yes you can. Very often the game ends when a player uses a new piece to checkmate.

More details here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess
Mutual respect is merely a social norm, and a desire not to break "mutual respect" is a reflection of the natural human pressure to avoid breaking social norms.
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Bitcoin is also a technology. It can do more than just being money. For example, the technology is used in namecoin, which help facilitate the rise of a decentralized DNS system not subject to government control. After all, the DNS record is contained in every namecoin blockchain in the world. (OF course, the bigger issue is how the heck will namecoin get adopted as de facto DNS?)

I even wrote an article on unexpected technological niche outbreak of bitcoin: http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/technological-jailbreak-bi...

I think in time, we will start seeing Bitcoin technologies adopted in more areas and more areas that have nothing to do with money or our financial system.
Basically, your git log should read like a blog about your project.
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recently there was an article about this comparing between email service and social media. Does anyone has that link?
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Perhaps it would be more clear if the quote was in quotes.
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I'm curious about this:

please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about 74 characters or so

How come word-wrapping is left as a task for humans here? Is there a technical/stylistic/cultural reason why lines can't be wrapped automatically to any desired width by the log presentation layer?
I don't know. I'm going to have to disappoint you and just admit that I have no clue. I can take a guess though.

My comment wasn't for or against self help. Well, it was a little against it but all in all, the way I see it, you just go out and try something and hopefully you find so,etching that works before you get tired of beig burned by bad self help.

I think the first thing all of us should do, especially if we need help, is admit that we know nothing and that theres a good chance there are no answers to your questions in any book, blog, or seminar.
What you say is correct. I can't give an objective view, either. The truth is, that you can't understand China, if you don't go there for a long time (>6 months at least). For me it was really a schocking experience, because even though I saw such things in cinema before, deep in my sould I couldn't believe that this can really be the true daily life of people on this planet. If you life in a high quality, European country it is just not possible to imagine that human rights are not a natural thing to be, that police could be feared not for a speed ticket, but for putting you in jail without reason, for stealing from you, beating you, raping you and maybe even killing you. Or that quite normal people never went to any doctor, or that there house has neither electricity nor flowing water. Experiencing all that in a short time was really a shock for me and I am sure that overexagarate. I just can share my experience, how I experienced it.
I think it is a lot easier for the people to remove a ruling party, than for that ruling party to remove a software application that the people want.

What made email catch on? Did it put the post office out of business? Maybe the future is an online currency with <$5000 transactions used by smartphone users and somehow baked into the web like email, a server app. Apple, Google (or really the banks) should be onto this.
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If you look at the code, it's more like "write an ARFF file parser in 40 lines" and "do a NB classifier with add-one smoothing in 10 lines".

If you use a better-adapted input format and code things more concisely, you'd probably end up with two functions of 3-4 lines each; conversely, if you wanted to do things properly, you'd separate out ARFF file parsing and the Naive Bayes functionality.

All in all, the blog post wouldn't make me want to recommend their group for prospective (undergrad or graduate) students.
Your dermatologist and cardiologist may offer opposing opinions.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/26/us-vitamind-heartd...
I think most peoples' distaste with the self-help genre is that the books often feel more like a distraction or a tease than a source of change and improvement. People read the books and start to feel productive and like the solution to their problems is within their grasp. Then when the book is finished, almost no change in behavior or thinking result and you quickly lose the "high" you had while consuming the book.

Psychological and behavioral problems are highly individualistic and can be quite complex. Say you have a problem with procrastination. Maybe you have ADD? Maybe you are depressed? Maybe you are tired? Maybe you are afraid of failure? Maybe you hate your work? Maybe your mind is focused on other problems you need to address? Maybe your work is too difficult? Etc. We could go on listing hundreds of possible causes. Well, using a tomato timer or implementing GTD isn't going to fix any of those problems.

I think that the few well written and researched self-help books that are out there can give people useful strategies if they already have their shit together, but for most people they end up as a dud. That is if these people even finish the books to begin with.
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Horribly misleading title and text. "Besides vapor, ice and liquid, a fourth form of water may exist." At least 15 crystalline phases of water exist, including Ice IX. I think this is the relevant paper http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp2051867 but it's behind the ACS paywall. In any case, it's based on computer simulations using the TIP5P water model, and not experiment.
> but it's actually only fairly recent in history that we use fiat money.

What do you consider to be the starting year of fiat money?
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git-log and friends indent the commit message by four spaces on the left, so wrapping at ~72 chars gives it symmetry on 80 column terminals. By wrapping it yourself, you decide where line breaks should be, not the presentation machinery.

The optimal human-readable line length is something like 66 characters. It's much easier to quickly scan a log message that's 72 characters wide vs. one that is 200 characters wide.
Fred's post has an hidden agenda.

There's no clear message in the article -- except expressing a strong believe for Bitcoin or related tech. So, I guess he's trying to get some heavy co-investors on board by creating some hype on Bitcoin again. Any other ideas?

Besides: I love the Bitcoin idea and I'm sure it's not over yet (I still have Bitcoins).

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I am not into bashing Fred -- I just want to get the real message behind his post and to raise HN readers's awareness for influence by media (media manipulation). Before happily discussing a new topic by a VC celeb we should ask why is HE now posting about Bitcoin. Look: Fred and his blog have a strong reach and influence, so it should be legitimate to question his actions. More on this topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_manipulation

Edit2: just read another reply in this thread (which is downvoted as well) about that he just want to give the Bitcoin price another bump.
I'm not sure about the partnership, does this means it will be the default search engine for Linux Mint?
A friend on mine who has Multiple Sclerosis mentioned to me that it gets much worse for him in the winter, and then gets better heading into the spring and summer. IIRC low vitamin D is believed to make MS worse. He was going to try tanning beds this winter to see if it helps (usually tanning beds are bad news due to cancer risk, but in his medical case his doctor recommended it). Disclaimer: All anecdotical.

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Vitamin D is synthesized by your skin from sunlight using UVB rays. This is interesting to note, indicating that being far from the equator does not mean you cannot get enough UVB rays from sunlight during the winter:

The assumption that vitamin D levels in the population follow a latitude gradient is especially questionable in view of surveys which have shown that UVB penetrating to the earth's surface over 24 hours during the summer months in northern Canada equals or exceeds UVB penetration at the equator. Accordingly, there is sufficient opportunity during the spring, summer, and fall months at high latitude for humans to form and store vitamin D3.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Production_in_the_ski...
- http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=13050&page=104

Perhaps if true, that means when it's cold out people stay indoors and wear lots of clothing when outside, effectively limiting sunlight exposure, meaning less vitamin D production in the winter...
I personally wouldn't be bragging that I turned someone away for their poor writing skill by using an excerpt from a rejection email that includes a comma splice. Real hypocritical. I can only imagine that the publication he referees has the reading level of your average YouTube comments section. Or maybe "getting things done" drunk, like coding drunk, also doesn't work for the author -- but being drunk, he believes it does.
This is a good article, linked in the comments:

http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.com/2011/11/air-guitars-an...

Apparently there is a contingent among Bitcoiners and academics that wants it regulated for various reasons, and is working to achieve that.
The question is, which web sites (not owned by Google) use SPDY? None afaik, which means it's a server-side competitive advantage for Google, and that they want it as widespread as possible client-side.
Same here. Most of the time the sites with the most annoying ads are ones you wouldn't want to frequent anyway so you rarely deal with it. To me ads are just there and I skip over them. Sometimes they catch my attention but they're really not all that annoying. It seems that adblocking is something that was more useful back in the 90's. These days ads are pretty unobtrusive for the most part. There's a bit of pop over here and there for some newsletter they want you to sign up for but it takes less than a second to click out of and they load fast and only display when fully loaded. I thought this was a lot of hyperbole too.
Like any cryptosystem, Bitcoin has a fixed shelf life. As algorithms and attacks evolve, the cryptographic hash function that forms its core will eventually become obsolete will need to be replaced. We know this.

The question is, can we build the ability to switch cryptographic building blocks into Bitcoin? I have no idea, but resiliency and adaptability are fundamental to the survival of any peer to peer system.
I think a large factor in adoption of BitCoin is the uncertainty of it's security. You have to be close to a hacker to truly understand how BitCoin works. General public has little to no chances at being able to gage how safe bit coins are to hold, and with no government to back up the investment, they will understandably be very hesitant to participate. Especially since it already got hacked.
A general piece of advice I've found helpful is "Write code like you're going to have to fix critical bugs while drunk at 2 in the morning."
May be this was his plan all along.
This is a pretty interesting article, it's sort of taboo to discuss this in engineering, whereas in business and politics the function of alcohol in getting things done is taken for granted.

Like that author, I also find it much easier and faster to deal with uncomfortable emails when drinking. I also am able to crank out dreary but needed documentation, and it's also when I generally write proposals and cover letters, things with a social component to them needed. It's very helpful and saves a lot of time, just don't go overboard.
> Our goal is to create greater service value than pirates, and this has been successful enough for us that piracy is basically a non-issue for our company.

I think there's an impedance mismatch between this guy's definition of success and that of a lot of other people engaged in business models involving materials covered by copyright. Most of the idiots in these industries think of "success" as "having the most" -- having more of the market than a competitor, having money from as many people as possible, and so on. They are so focused on a comparative measure of "success" that they are probably more willing to operate at a loss than to let anyone "get away" with enjoying what they make without paying for it or to let a competitor operate at less of a loss than them. Gabe Newell, on the other hand, seems to measure success by making enough profits for everyone to benefit, getting people involved in the industry as customers, and having a sustainable business model that is not dependent on the forebearance of the vagaries of momentary changes in circumstance. His company is working on developing a business model that is largely independent of copyright, and is enjoying great success as a result; everyone else is trying to use copyright to punish anyone who isn't buying a product through official channels, including those who are buying a different product instead, and some people who are buying the product, because to them "success" is more about who's prevented from doing what they don't want than about providing value in exchange for a comfortable level of revenue generation that isn't likely to dry up tomorrow.

I think saying that piracy isn't about price is overly simplistic. Computer performance is about CPU and RAM and efficient code and storage media seek time and a lot of other things, but in a given circumstance seek time might e the bottleneck; I think that in this case what he has identified is the fact that service and delivered value constitute the bottleneck that creates a piracy "problem" for vendors, and that price is not the major bottleneck in most cases. That's different from price not being "the problem", but it's close enough for government (or journalistic) work.
Economic growth makes a few rich, and those can do whatever they want, especially in a society with low ethical standards. The executive or judical powers are neutralized with money (a.k.a. corruption).
Yes, this is my biggest issue. I don't squash my commits like I should but this comes from our company repo and just gets imported. I tend to look at the last commit and just compare diffs for feature branch.
Agreed. Bitcoin's fundamental value is a feasible solution to the Byzantine General's Problem, or distributed consensus among untrusted parties. That solution can and is being repurposed, Namecoin being among the first. The cat is very out of the bag, and it's one of the most interesting spaces in technology right now.
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This game has been around for a while. We used to play in my chess club after people got bored at a practice session or fooling around waiting for the next tournament game. It's a fun game to play but it's much more difficult to plan ahead when your opponent can drop any piece on you anywhere. I found that it didnt really promote the deep rational thinking that comes naturally with chess and is fundamentally different.