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Of course you are mostly correct and I've expressed this same sentiment to Rachel several times. She understands it, but she doesn't "get" it yet. She's a great target because she does that stress panic thing some people whenever this guy starts messing with her. I'm sure everyone here recognizes that as a maturity/self-control thing, but it comes easier for some than others. Especially in people who have dealt with traumas it can be difficult to stave off an amygdala's hijacking and not freak out.

On the other hand, this guy really does go out of his way to harass people on his list. He still randomly mails shit-o-grams from throw-away yahoo or gmail accounts to my old email accounts. I just learned to ignore him and forward the lulz back to the abuse department of his provider.

Unfortunately Rachel, when faced with this guy on Kickstarter, thought she needed to tell her supporters what was going on. Kickstarter interpreted that as if she was responding directly to the "spammer" and turned their back.

What you say about her learning to not let him under her skin really is a critical step in making him go away. If the squeeky toy stops squeeking, it's no longer fun.
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I had a similar story. I once sped through a traffic intersection and a cop car coming from the other way perpendicular to my heading. He turned immediately and chased me down. After stopping, he ordered me out and said I was doing 110mph. I was like there's no fucking way I was doing 110. The car felt very different going 110 than 60. He was saying I looked like going very fast. The only thing that ran through my mind was to get a lawyer. Amazingly he left me go after lectured me for a while. I guessed he wasn't sure exactly how fast I went.

I was wondering how can he misjudge the speed so far apart. This article explained the phonomena.
Charlie, while I basically agree with your article, from my perspective Amazon has been good for you: I bought one of your books for the Kindle platform after reading a comment you wrote on HN, liked it, and have bought several more. If the whole process was not so quick and easy, I might not have done the impulse buy and bought the first book. Sounds like a nice town to live in.
What kind of undergrad CS curriculum doesn't have a compilers class? I thought that was a fairly common part of most CS curriculi.
The CISE program at UF is profitable, so it shouldn't matter how much we spend on our program.
Oh thank you. I thought their stuff was lost forever. Ever since Sonique and its hundreds of skins and visualization plugins where taken off the internet a few years back I no longer trust anyone to archive anything. I literally download my favorite YouTube videos as well, as many disappear over time.
I'm also a UF student, and would gladly pay more in tuition if it meant saving our department.
>How about karma Avg. then?

Step one: Make new account

Step two: Post Techcrunch or similar article guaranteed to hit the front page of HN.

Step three: Use newfound insane karma average to upvote crap submissions.

Step four: ???

Step five: Profit.

I actually like "Remove submission karma.". That should stop the linkbait articles from people who have to have their play money.
To me, wikis just seem 'lazy'. Projects that use wikis as a primary form of documentation make users feel like the project is un-cared for, and not worth documenting.

I have absolutely no stats to back this up--but having officially written documentation gives projects a really good 'feel', and makes it a lot simpler for users to get started (IMO).
> Regarding screens, I honestly don't know that making the screen better makes for a better reading experience.

I have several Android devices (phones, tablet) and an iPod Touch. They are all useless for reading outside (in the shade) because the screens are too reflective. Indoors they are all fine. I do most of my reading outside so this turns out to be a big problem.

I can't get a Kindle for technical reasons (I do not support Amazon and their DRM) and for financial ones - they do not charge sales tax, so I would have to do so on my tax returns which incurs large CPA fees as well as an audit trigger (California hates self employed people).

I also do not want a single purpose portable device. I prefer my portable devices to be multi-function - gps, games, web, movies, music, books etc all in one rather than carrying one device for each purpose.

Once someone figures out how to make general purpose Android tablets and phones with usable outdoor screens then things will really be better!
Maybe the solution is to let each user choose how articles / comments are ranked. A PHP programmer will just have different interests from someone who has started three companies or who has written a petabyte sort.

This is all written in lisp right? Maybe advanced users could contribute ranking schemes and people could try them out.

Separately: I'd love to see a ratio of points given to points received. And a separate count of total downvotes.
Interesting... on the one hand, $1500+/month seems like crazy money for a CMS to a hacker (particularly when you could, of course, build at least 90% of any given page fairly easily - though I'm not so sure about the "studio", infrastructure, etc.)

BUT - to your average BigCo (which, at least judging from the Customers page, is the target market), a few $k/month is a rounding error in the coffee budget - particularly when compared with the labor costs for a "webmaster" whose job often consists of 20% content production and 80% helping the Marketing department use Wordpress.
Honestly, more and more people with big data problems are turning back to solaris kernels over linux because of how many issues there are with linux when you are really running it hard. ZFS, dtrace, and the Solaris kernel on new hardware is really a compelling argument over Linux.
Please do. One of the goals of writing the contemporary HTML spec was to make it easier to make a Web browser by actually defining all the difficult things that browsers have to do. (It used to be really hard to make a browser because literally half the work was reverse-engineering other browsers.)
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To implement such an approach HN users should not be made aware of the fact that more weighting is given to rare-voters.

Otherwise users will change the manner in which they vote, making frequent voters want to vote less and discouraging participation
That's my repo! The "pre-ept" branch contains experimental support for both AMD CPUs with AMD-V support, and Intel CPUs lacking the EPT feature (Joyent targeted EPT support with their initial port.)

I have a hacked up SmartOS ISO from a month ago with a build of the "pre-ept" KVM module replacing the stock module. If you'd like to test it out, with the disclaimer that it might not work for you, it's here: http://alpha.sysmgr.org/smartos-20120223-jmc2.iso

If it works for you I'd love to hear about it. If it doesn't work and you can provide crash dumps or even remote console access to the machine for me to debug the problem then I'll try and help out. My goal is to get the new support tested and working on as many different bits of hardware as possible and then get it integrated into Joyent's repo once cleaned up and proven.

A lot of us hang out in #illumos on freenode (IRC) if you'd like to chat -- I'm LeftWing.
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You're right. I just did a quick search, and didn't double check the info.
Yeah, sounds totally like 2000.
Remove submission karma is a great idea. Right now the fastest way to get monster karma is to be the first to post a Paul Graham essay.
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If you are a bad student then going for more school seems like a bad idea. Aside from that, you are missing out on two more years of income while adding more debt. Academics won't make you into a software engineer, just start building.
Thank you for supplying this second link - I read it too and enjoyed it very much.

From these pieces, Caro reminds me a little of Joseph Frank, who finished his great five-volume biography of Dostoevsky when he was in his 90s and whom I got to study with for a little while.
I don't think I would ever do business with a company that would deploy these FX, it makes everything hard to use and read.
Or what about opening up down-votes to all users again, and then weighting the value of down-votes (karma level) rather than up-votes.
People looking for specific interests , for example PHP / PYTHON would get a better content at the corresponding subreddit on the reddit site.
You're supposed to turn every page

The NYT article that noahnoahnoah (who I'm guessing we can probably call "noah" for short) mentioned below includes an entertaining anecdote about where Caro got that phrase. I'm not going to quote it cuz you should read that one too.
I get that you don't think this is a relevant subject for HN, but others do. I do. And I don't believe this is something petty. This is a case of an individual who has been stalking and harassing multiple people for over a decade. The police have done precious little because they, by their own admission, have no idea what to do (other than issue PPOs, which aren't enforceable over the Internet) or how to catch him. This is the state of the art. This is an /Internet/ issue because, the giant, blazing, un-asked question is:

If we want to maintain a free and open Internet, how do we then police our own egalitarian, meritocratic anarchism without relying on big brother technologies to do it or inviting governments in to intervene? If someone approaches those with the know-how to help, asking for help, and are summarily told to fuck off, who then should they turn to?

Though I'm sure they exist, I don't know any hacker types or friends of the Internet who want to just hand over ammunition to people who want to regulate the Internet more. So, please, try to take a long view on this issue, even if Rachel can be kind of a drama queen.
And here I thought it was going to say something about gang tattoos.
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So if the web was originally intended to be a document/project management system, what would you end up with if you tried to invent an (improved) global system of interconnected computer networks?
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Another vote for ditching submission karma. Unlike comment karma, it has no direct relation between quality and score - esp. as there are no story downvotes.
+1 on making Karma comments-only.
dont do it! service businesses are a hamster wheel. find a flexible day job and invest your wages into products with long-term payback
Not sure of this is a good our bad thing, but those look a lot similar to WP7 transitions. Specially the curl one.
Even within a given discussion on mongoDB for example, there are just different levels of expertise with system internals.

For example: Upvotes and downvotes could flow through all the posts like a pagerank. So people who like "mongodb good!" comments can see those, people who like "mongodb bad!" comments can see those, and I can see posts that objectively discuss the strengths and weaknesses of mongodb.
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I'm not familiar with Locomotive but I would say that most of the time getting my environment working had to do with installing other technologies like resque, mysql, mongo, heroku, gems (devise,haml,aws-ses,rspec,cucumber,pdfkit,js-routes), etc.

I'm guessing the majority of people don't spend the majority of their time installing rails. It's all the other requirements that are needed to build out the application.
"Market at the speed of social"

Oh my god fire your copywriter this minute.

"Design and publish websites, social pages, and mobile experiences in lightning speed with the first Web CMS in the cloud. It's built for social, so you can easily add Twitter streams, Facebook likes, and more."

And his boss.
Thanks for your tip. Is there a significant difference in career opportunities between programmers with just a BS in Comp Sci as opposed to a Masters?
That's kindof like asking, "If it weren't for this expensive building project, nobody would have ever invented this new type of hammer". If $X buys you an LHC and the WWW, you could spend less than $X to buy the WWW.

I think experimental physics has plenty of its own utility, though it probably won't become relevant to engineering for decades.

My overall point is that you should account for the value of different components properly.
Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely stupid code”
Here's a pic of the cover http://sitethree.com/phrack.jpg sorry for the twitter image link but easiest way with my iPad.

(Updated link)
Oh look, another sockpuppet.
Is this more trying to stop HN changing and keeping it the same rather than letting it adapt with the times?

The more people that come to HN the more diverse the topics (within the hackersphere). HN will bring up the most relevant to the majority of the users (mostly).

Maybe the articles brought up today are what most of the users are looking for, which is now what you aren't looking for.

Keeping with the old ways, keeps it old.
I'm okay with removing submission karma. There are also a few other options for reducing the influence of submission karma that we should also consider:

* Have a karma cap for submissions. It could, for example, only give one karma for every ten upvotes (rounded down to discourage people from posting many articles). There could also be a hard maximum.

* Reward less karma if more people submitted the link manually. This gives less karma for popular things such as Paul Graham essays, TechCrunch articles, etc. When other people submit an article, it should still reward the article itself with upvotes, but it would make sense to reward the poster less since it is likely the story would have been posted anyway.

These alternatives are better than removing submission karma in that they still reward people for posting interesting content, but are worse in that they make things a little more complicated.
>we're

So you're classifying yourself as a Brogrammer, or you're saying that people going to parties aren't Brogrammers--they're just socially aware geeks?

Geeks are awkward b/c by definition we are obsessive, and our passions tend towards topics that non-geeks don't understand.

It can be tough for some people, but once you're aware that you can't speek geek to a non-geek, the social awkwardness goes away (or at least fades a little).
It is already combined. There is only one karma number per user. (You might be thinking of Reddit where they are separate.)
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To give a sense of perspective: 2042 is 30 years from now. I'm really surprised by how much they got right. Even the earthquake warning system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_Early_Warning_(Japan...

It's interesting to note some of the subtle mis-predictions. The blog post already mentions the incorrect uses, so I'll skip that. Most of the technology depicted would be considered very bulky these days. Also, many of the non-mobile displays are small by our standards.

I wonder what mistakes our 30-year predictions will make.
And you can't page down using the spacebar anymore. That seems like a fundamental feature of the modern Web browser that Google decided not to support, and for what reason?
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Y'know, it's funny that you mention it as a single-purpose device, because for years that's why I wouldn't own one. Wouldn't even look at one. When a friend of mine forced me to play with his, I cited the slow screen refresh, the DRM, and the unitask capacity and put it back down.

Then I got one for a gift. I didn't want it, per se, but I figured I had to at least pretend to like it. In doing so, I purchased a book, and then I read it, and then I was in love with it.

> The thing about being a single-purpose device is, at least in my opinion, nearly perfect, as a reading device. I routinely recommend it to people who are looking for an e-reader, and I routinely recommend against it for anyone looking for anything more. It's as close to perfect as I've seen, though its only direct competition is perhaps the Nook (which sucks, all around, in my opinion.)

I won't dare to question your principles on DRM, but I can say that at least in practice, they've never affected me. I have three active Kindles belonging to separate members of my family -- all tied to the same account. In addition to that, I occasionally use the Android and desktop clients, and it's never once given me any flack.

The Amazon Music DRM bit me once, and I boycotted it, but never with the Kindle stuff.

Edit: added the blocked paragraph.
Typically testing client side JS is tricky thus a combination of patterns or good separation is a good enough solution (see GWT MVP pattern).
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If you need four shots of Jaeger to start a conversation, that's the definition of socially awkward.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/classic shows the frontpage using only upvotes from older members. It's usually pretty similar.
That's a whole 'nother long discussion. One kerfuffle at a time please!
Is this meant to be a rebuttal? Or are you supporting the parent? The result of this discussion was no agreement, if I'm not mistaken, leading to mosaic implementing the img tag without a standard.
easiest, but useless, since your account is protected.
I'm willing to bet any company that already relies on Salesforce for their sales pipeline is perfectly willing to fork that over on brand alone.
Here's an idea:

Have karma and voting tied together. Your Karma is basically how much votes you get to give.

If someone makes a good post, people upvote it, spending their precious karma. The person made the post, collects the karma and and they can use it to vote other posts.

We can limit karma by having new users start off with 0. And they only way they can vote/get karma is to contribute positively with quality articles/posts.

Now it works the other way too. Make downvoting take away karma of the OP too, thus making people put more thought into their posts. The downvoting action will cost a vote, so people don't running around downvoting everything without thinking.

Basically let Karma/Vote be a resource that can be used to promote positive contribution and dissuade useless contributions.

The tricky part is balancing the karma in the whole system. Downvoting siphons votes/karma from the system, we need a way to introduce additional karma/votes into the system. Maybe a monthly replenish method where say everyone gets 10 votes each month. But in order to qualify for the monthly bonus, you must first contribute enough (get the up votes) past a certain threshold (say 100 upvotes to your posts/contributions).
It doesn't, this is the name of the project: "Django REST Framework". https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework :) It deserves more attention, it's put together well.
> Phreaking also has become less relevant with ...

Fortress phones did not help much either. Of course now even those pay phones are getting removed from a lot of locations.
Funny, I was just checking out Derby and noticed that their examples follow this style.
Wikipedia specifically is a wiki -- for all the pros and cons. These slides don't actually hint that it's user createable/editable per se, any more than radio is. It's an online encyclopedia/news service. Aside from that, quite amazing.
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Wait, really? It seems to work for me (Safari 5.1.4 / Chrome 20.0.1096.1 on Lion).
Every time I see a new hosted CMS pop up, I wince and pray that this is not the day where some genius has revealed his brilliance and I will shortly be out of a job.

Hasn't happened yet, true, but it doesn't stop me from worrying.
If ever there was a sign it's time to short ticker CRM, this is it. The end is neigh. They have become what they set out to destroy.
There's probably some selection bias working here. I'm sure plenty of people predicted things going to happen in the future, and we only hear of either the surprisingly correct ones or the ones completely off the mark.
KVM virtualization has been added back to Illumos and is also available from Joyent as SmartOS:

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2011/08/15/kvm-on-illumos/

Hopefully the next release of OpenIndiana will add support for it as well, seeing how they also use the Illumos kernel.
Eventually it is out....woohoooo...was waiting for it for soooo long...:):)
Why the hell people are refusing to use semicolons? I don't get it
Crockford's stance is annoying purely because it's pedantic and because there are many libraries that embrace this style. We use django_compressor and found bugs from the compressor that uses Jsmin. So I have to use something else to compress them before hand.

Are there compressors that use the syntax tree rather than transforming the source?
EPT (extended page tables) which are required by the Joyent work made it that much simpler to port the KVM stuff over. EPT simply a lot of the work required and reduce overhead for virtual machines.
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In addition to the other answers you've gotten (which are right), I think the real answer is JSON. I mean, JSON stands for "JavaScript Object Notation" (I think), but it means that your query results are effectively mapped to objects immediately.

Mongo especially returns JSON as its results, so it's usually the first choice for JS-based frameworks, for better or worse.
The opposite actually, the newer KVM stuff for example will not run on older processors, Intel Core iX and very new model Xeon's are required with EPT support.

Many people, my self included, are using Solaris mainly for big storage where the safety of data comes first and foremost. There is still not good competitor to ZFS that works as well and provides the same gaurantees.
I'm sure there is a whole huge debate here that I'm unaware of, but it seems like a largely aesthetic choice to me, and on that basis, I find it really jarring as someone who is not an everyday JS author.
Is there any particular reason why you refuse to put in the semicolons in Javascript?
Well if it is all about indexes, you'll forgive me for getting confused by the term 'data set', that needs to be in memory

http://www.colinhowe.co.uk/2011/02/23/mongodb-performance-fo...

Mind you, I've also been to a Mongo seminar, where some real world website managers talked about their data needing to be in memory.

To hear it's only the index is a relief, but that hasn't been clear to me :\

So I assume creating an index is all that is needed for MonogoDB to prioritise it into memory?
if there's anything worse than crockford being a jerk, it's the self-aggrandizing asi crowd. Let's not give either any attention.
I'm sure this thread is going to be a good, old fashioned flame war. Let the games begin.
It's called forking.
Ah damn I'll switch to laptop and fix this sorry.
For a good explanation of why it's a good idea to always use semicolons in your JavaScript, take a look at: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/2/6/automatic-semicolon-inserti...
I've seen a few reasons. The main ones I encounter are: raising the skill requirement to contribute (you have to know JS better than average to never use a semicolon, and do so correctly), aesthetic (fewer characters looks better), and minimalism (don't use what you don't need).