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I wish people would save down-votes for "comments which should not appear on HN".

I wish people would leave some kind of comment about down-votes.

Downvote based on disagreement causes unpleasant environment.

Perhaps a different mechanism for "agree", "disagree", "doesn't belong here" and "obvious spam" could be found? Because at the moment there is confusion over "disagree".
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Eh, are you saying that's why it's important not to downvote comments just for disagreement? So they don't get grey (and eventually dead)?
>For that matter, this shouldn't just change at 50% either - having parties representing 50% + 1 dictate policy still leaves half the population subject to the whims of a narrow majority.

One should also note that even if one party in Germany were to have more than 50%, they still don't have a very stable power:

Each member of the parlament could vote against his party. So for a stable gonverment, they would need to have a bit more than 50%
The clothes people will be selling is probably stuff that has pretty close to zero value to the owner to begin with. Stuff they would have gotten rid of a while back if they'd just had the incentive to do so. For example I just packed up and donated two large bags of clothes charity, had this service been available to me I might very well have sent them some those items just to try it out. If it worked out well enough I think of a few more items I'd happily send off as well.
The idea is to empower worldwide collaborative software development.

People get too hung up on what other employees are being paid, which is used as the benchmark for the valuation of their contribution to the project.

This tension blows projects apart, and explains why there are no prior GPL based business models (either the code is contributed gratis by individual contributors, or a non GPL based corporation releases code in support of their primary revenue stream in the sale of services, consulting, ustome development, sale of hardware).

By focusing on reasonable expenses, this levels the global playing field, and disables the compensation friction.

In the end, it is the consumer which must feel satisfied, that they are getting value for money spent. And it should therefore be left to the consumer to decide which persons to award higher compensation in a bonus.
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A lot of the responses here seeking a modern alternative to this experience seem to be focusing on hardware. In a way that's not surprising but I think it's a bit of a shame. That's because I think we have a platform today that can rival the ease and immediate feedback of those early computers: the web browser. There are probably a couple things needed to complete the picture.

1) A nice basic library that can serve as an immediate stepping stone to the UI. There's probably some out there already that are very beginner friendly.

2) Some kind of REPL/IDE like browser extension to make it easy to dive in right away. Something a bit easier for kids to wrap their head around than the developer tools of today, but also incorporating a basic editor so they can edit in place, save files etc.

I'm not really sure about the form of (2) or how vital it is, but it certainly wouldn't hurt.
The intrinsic value of a company is unknowable, the only thing we can know is the market value.

For some companies I do think the value could change 29,000 times per second, if it didn't the stock simply wouldn't move . You can see this in the juniors where HFT is rare if non-existant.

I do think that it's a good idea to have an exchange that doesn't allow HFT, or perhaps only allows trades every day, and for it to be able to compete with exchanges that do allow HFT. If this system is better then companies will list their stock on that exchange instead of exchanges that don't allow HFT.

However, what I disagree with is the idea that people should be put in jail for trading stock too frequently.
A cultural note: Most online petitions are worthless useless spammy nonsense.

UK epetitions are different, because with enough signatures (currently 100,000) the topic becomes eligible for debate in parliament.
Of course there are, but they are sometimes subtly but importantly different or incredibly different.
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Loved this line...

He’s also a limited partner in Khosla Ventures, Vinod Khosla’s fund, and Gates jokingly referred to Khosla as “the pay master of crazy people — some of whom we’ll declare sane,” in the future
The downvote button should be replaced with a "flag" link (the two arrows are too close anyway)
4) Powershell! Sweet mother of Scripting Gods, Powershell! As a language it's what Bash should have been. Bash is better in some usability senses like tab completion, but Powershell operates with pipelines of .NET objects instead of pipelines of text.
Check out Andrej Bauer's Programming language Zoo for some simple languages implemented in OCaml. Although he focuses more on the implementation/runtime semantics than on syntax.

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No. I really dislike that downvoting is used merely for disagreement. I think it hurts the discussion by discouraging or even silencing unpopular views, the worst thing that can happen to intelligent discussion. There's probably some sort of solve by reserving downvoting privileges for thjose with karma or some other proxy on "understands what makes for quality discussion".
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Pull together lists of webinars, articles, online courses etc? Have a SmartRank (patent not pending) to prompt them in a similar way based on interests. This could teach you how to invest also, not just giving hot tips.
Definitely a case of Less Is More. A program should be no bigger than it needs to be. First rule of engineering anything - bridges, dams, roads, software.
Exactly.

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Hopefully they open shop in the US soon. I've been waiting.
Reading into the article I got a huge urge to re-read the Foundation series (and maybe get into that prequel I never got into).
Currently working on something in a similar vein (design wise), and can't get enough of http://subtlepatterns.com.

Used to very good effect here.
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But downvoting has materially different results (disappearing text, banning). I downvoted you not because I disagree with you but because you matter-of-factly made obviously false comments.
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There is a reasonable size market, but a vast supply of old lenses so making new ones not very profitable...
See http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-... for a detailed exploration of precisely the issue with icons and real-life examples of how smaller versions are actually different images (eg a large 3d image with drop shadows gets gradually flattened to a simplified 2d version).

One thing you can do for patching SVG is to have multiple versions of images/shapes and use CSS rules to select just the most appropriate one to show depending on a class you add to some root or parent item - hiding the other until needed.
I haven't tested this, but wonder if the browser would be smart enough to prioritise loading of the different images depending on the visibility.

Otherwise you could generate those parts of the SVG as required, and use the load event to only swap the display to the more appropriate version of an image once loaded.. hence as you zoom the display, you first get the "core" image/shapes etc simply scaled by the browser, and then as background images are loaded, these scaled versions are replaced by more appropriate versions.

This would match the way that zooming works with tiles in apps like Google maps - when you first zoom in you simply get the base tile images scaled by the browser, and then replaced by the more detailed versions as they're loaded.
I tend to agree that using a down vote to express disagreement eventually isn't constructive. I've seen a number of posts that didn't say anything objectionable or controversial, nor were meaningless in the context of the discussion, and yet were down modded.

My theory is that while the risk of being down modded on HN is a helpful factor in keeping discussions more courteous than on an out-and-out anonymous forum, the same cannot be said of down votes, which are in fact anonymous. As a result, users tend to be more careless or perhaps even callous in the use of down votes. I'm not sure what the solution is though: making down votes transparent might help in creating a bit more discreetness in their use, but might spill things over into flame wars into the comments themselves when exercised. Still, I think it's the total anonymity that causes its over use.

@DanBC: I think your suggestion for agree, disagree, etc. provides better granularity to the process. Strong up vote for you.
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For one, it's a clever, humorous phrase, since the conventional wisdom is that the universe IS the biggest place, so there would be no reason for "perhaps".

Second, it also entertains some doubt: perhaps the universe IS NOT the biggest place. Maybe the conventional wisdom is wrong. Maybe other places exists, from the mythical and spiritual domain (like paradise and hell and Valhala etc), to the scientific domain (multiverses, many worlds interpretation of QM, etc).
Stockholm syndrome.

Try Visual Studio for a month. At first you'll be like "get out of my way stupid intellisense popup" and then you'll be like "holy crap that just saved me 60 seconds... for the 60th time today." And then you go home early and use that free time to have sex with your wife.

Point being, it'll change your life for the better.
I would like to suggest an algorithmic alternative to the "buttons" virtual currency for the assignment of the dresses. It may not be monetizable in the same way, but it could be interesting none the less.

Let's say every user of the system has karma points. Karma points cannot be bought with real money. They are gained mostly putting unused dresses in the system, but also reddit-style, via comments, reviews, helping people and generally being a good citizen of the community.

1) Let every user list the dresses they would like in order of preference.

2) Suppose that every dress has a list of favourite users, based on karma.

3) Assign a dress via Gale-Shapley algorithm[1] or a variation, generally solving the stable marriage problem.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem
Interesting thought. I wonder, though, what makes those places separate from the universe? The universe including those other places, metaphysical and scientific, would be even bigger and more mind-boggling.
That's a very elegant way to put it.
Damn, you nailed it. This is exactly what I think, we are wasting so much brain power into stupid and superficial things it's a shame.
Well, it is a documentary film. But a very, very good one. Herzog's films usually are.
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Insightful - I agree, completely

Informative - I agree, but you may be full of shit

Interesting - I agree, stick it to those other guys

Funny - I agree, either schadenfreude or grits

Idealistically, humans would only vote based on content quality and not their personal opinions. But Slashdot is certainly the counter example on why this doesn't actually work
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I sort of agree.

Many softwares have confusing interfaces. They are aimed at professionals who work with them all day and who will be trained to use them. Either they should have a "New to this program? Click this and we'll hide everything but the essential tools while you work through some tutorials" feature; and perhaps that could be a free version of the software.

What ideas do you have for tools to empower people?
Isn't this marker also used by healthy cells? So what is to stop your system basically attacking itself massively?
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Not sure I value the positioning of ones face on currency as many do. But I do love the man and while I'm here I'll leave this peculiar bit of foresight from him which reminds me of Siri:

"One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning."
I wouldn't say that most online petitions are worthless. Rather people's signatures are useless if the petition is targeted for UK (as in this case) and people from USA sign it.
Surely we could just eventually breed microscopic dogs, and, you know, train them to sniff out and destroy the cancers?
Buildcraft[1] and Industrialcraft[2] are also good for teaching automation, logistics, and resource management. For example, buildcraft+redpower will let you build a machine that digs a giant hole in the ground, smelts the ores, incinerates the useless cobble, and sorts everything into the proper chests for easy access.

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The number one reason for these little things, I suspect is that most programmers come to understand that whether or not these tiny errors creep into whatever they're creating will have zero bearing on the ultimate success or not of what they're creating.

But the next feature they work on instead of tracking down all those little errors... might.
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Old lenses are often sharper in the centre of the field than modern ones, but much less sharp nearer the edges. Trade offs in design, overall sharpness is what people want now.
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You'll just make the spread larger by the amount of the tax. Why is this a good thing?
Writing less and elegant code take more time... I used to spend more time in perfecting my logic in as less code as possible.. But if the code is for an MVP then it should be quick and dirty.
Maybe you'll be hearing from them soon. :)

It sounds like they would facilitate some sort of transfer to another US based incubator.
Yes. At least for me, the value proposition of reading comments is that I get further (and propably different) insights from reading the comments on the topic.

If there is just one opinion in the comments (because everything else is greyed out) why would one bother to read them at all?
Interesting. I can see that working but they would need to hammer that message much more consistently. Plus this should be really hard to get across as most people's experience with the Microsoft brand might be originating from desktop software/OS. And the experiences from that area are most likely contradicting the efforts of developing a "speedmaster" position.
Agreed. I think we could do without "disagree" and merge "doesn't belong here" and "obvious spam".
Slave is not a good worker - with tedious manual tasks you can force someone and measure his performance - but I cannot imagine how this could work efficiently for any professional work.
First thing I thought when clicking the link: "No, that's the wrong hat!"
I disagree with a couple of points...

First of all, even handhelds will have thousands of CPUs.

Second of all, it's not necessary to scale to this level. Rather, we will run more concurrent, independent tasks. Servers with thousands of workers will be common at home.
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I'm not a hardcore scrum proponent, but "Scrum compensates for lack of X, and hence works less well for people who have X" is not necessarily true.
Being able to swap the product backlog can help correct planning errors, but it doesn't make planning skills obsolete. What it does, though, is to assign an exact responsability for planning errors (sunken costs through unneeded functionality are the product owner's fault, changes in plans that are not realized yet are not realized).

Many important things in a Scrum process can be achieved through the definition of what is "done". If you know for sure what parts need to be optimized, then optimizing them may be part of getting them "done". If you don't, then there is no point in pointlessly optimizing the whole system where only a fraction of these optimizations will be useful and the rest of them just make the code less readable.
During the cold war it was cool to be an astronaut, now it is being the CEO of the next mobile social local photo sharing startup

, in Silicon Valley.

Believe me, it's a very local cultural thing. If you live there and read HN, which is basically projecting said culture into the world and attracting the few outliers elsewhere who feel the same, it's easy to think that the whole world is like this. It isn't.

Or, at least, where I live, nobody thinks it's cool to be the CEO of the next mobile social local photo sharing startup.
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This is very interesting -- is there any hope to get video of the talk?
Less selfishly, I care if HFTs are diverting society's resources away from the effective producers the market exists to support.

Unfortunately, there's gold in them there microseconds.
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All you really get with a UK e-petition after 100,000 votes is it being sent to some low-end bureaucrat who may (or may not) forward it to the 'Backbench Business Committee'.
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Right... because we don't have any jargon in the tech industry.
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It is perhaps sad from a nostalgic standpoint, but otherwise it is quite possible to closely approximate all characteristics of an old lens just by post-processing an image taken with an accurate modern lens (e.g. the Hipstamatic app), so it is little wonder that the market for old, stylistic lenses is so small.
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When is this from? It talks about "the end of the first decade of the new century" as if it's not in the past.
> ... a virus that will be targeted to attack all cells of a certain type ...

The trouble is that living things are basically made of fancy Jello. There is no programmable interface to say "go here".
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And Redhat sells lots of software they don't pay a penny for either.
What's the limitation that causes this?
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I completely agree. There is far much downvoting purely based on 'i disagree' even if the post brings up some interesting and valid points.

It makes you think twice before providing constructive criticism.

Why not just remove the down vote altogether? Have a 'flag as unconstructive' or something.

I'm not even so sure the upvote should only be for things you agree with. If someone makes a good point, even if you disagree with their conclusions, I think that is worthy also.
>So how can we go about writing code that is least coding? In general, when one works out the design (as has been apparent many times from personal and anecdotal experiences) well in advance before writing code

Can't agree with this advice. Figuring out the design before writing code is not going to work because you simply don't understand the problem well enough before you try to implement the solution. It is that first prototype that helps you gain knowledge, discover practical use cases, prioretize features, etc. The design that you "figure out" without writing any code will most likely be inadequate.

The thing is - you want to minimize the amount of code you end up with, not the net amount of code you write along the way.

PS. Two exceptions:
a. your problem is trivial;
b. you've solved a similar problem before.
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Her contributions are core foundations of a theory of commutative rings -- one of the most important properties we usually want from a ring we study is for it to be Noetherian, which means that it satisfies certain finiteness condition, which lets one apply finite and computational methods to study it. Many important theorems in abstract algebra state properties of Noetherian rings, for instance famous Hilbert' basis theorem states that the ring of polynomials over Noetherian rings is Noetherian itself. Other important theorem, Hilbert's Nullstellensatz is frequently proved using a tool called Noether normalisation lemma. Because of that, Noetherian rings, algebras and modules are crucial to many subfields of algebra and algebraic geometry.

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