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We're omnivores, not carnivores. Hence the teeth and intestines. Cecil Adams had this to say in 1990, I'd be interested if others would provide an update:

"Like the hard-core carnivores, we have fairly simple digestive systems well suited to the consumption of animal protein, which breaks down quickly. Contrary to what your magazine article says, the human small intestine, at 23 feet, is a little under eight times body length (assuming a mouth-to-anus "body length" of three feet). This is about midway between cats (three times body length), dogs (3-1/2 times), and other well-known meat eaters on the one hand and plant eaters such as cattle (20 to 1) and horses (12 to 1) on the other. This tends to support the idea that we are omnivores.

Herbivores also have a variety of specialized digestive organs capable of breaking down cellulose, the main component of plant tissue. Humans find cellulose totally indigestible, and even plant eaters have to take their time with it. If you were a ruminant (cud eater), for instance, you might have a stomach with four compartments, enabling you to cough up last night's alfalfa and chew on it all over again.

Or you might have an enlarged cecum, a sac attached to the intestines, where rabbits and such store food until their intestinal bacteria have time to do their stuff. Digestion in such cases takes place by a process of fermentation — bacteria actually "eat" the cellulose and the host animal consumes what results, namely bacteria dung.

The story is roughly the same with teeth. We're equipped with an all-purpose set of ivories equally suited to liver and onions."

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/674/are-humans-meat...
I suppose it is still possible for their content to make the front page either via indirect self posts, or references by blogs. So I doubt this will be the last I find an article by one of these guys.

To me, i'm more concerned about comment quality. The issue here though is a lot harder, many subreddits (especially /r/politics) suffer from people voting based on agreement rather than quality.
I don't know if this changes anything but I think recently they moved up in the pecking order to be sister companies with CN.

However banning competitors outright vs banning competitors that spam are two different things.
> Preprocessors evaluate CSS and the cascade so there's nothing stopping them from adding local scope or specificity to variables.

That cascade depends on the structure of the document, not just the CSS. For instance, consider the following (contrived) example:

:root { var-accent: black; }
.someclass > :first-child { var-accent: blue; }
.otherclass { background-color: var(accent); }
.anotherclass :first-letter { color: var(accent); }

The value of var(accent) for any element depends on whether the ancestors of that element include the first child of an element with class="someclass". For a preprocessor to duplicate that effect on the server side, it would need to construct all possible combinations of the selectors for the variables and the selectors depending on those variables:

.otherclass { background-color: black; }
.anotherclass :first-letter { color: black; }
.someclass > :first-child .otherclass { background-color: blue; }
.someclass > :first-child .anotherclass :first-letter { color: blue; }

Now consider that with a dozen variables and a hundred variable-dependent rules.

> On the other hand, if you can really edit variable values with Javascript then that would be client-side only, although I haven't seen anything that says you _can_ do that - for all we know Javascript may only allow getting/setting of the evaluated value, not the variable expression itself.

The CSS Variables spec talks about dynamic variable updates via scripting.
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Matt here: I work on a lot of our JS here at Olark - would love to dig into any loading issues you saw! We spent a lot of time ensuring that our latest stuff loads async (http://www.olark.com/spw/2011/10/lightningjs-safe-fast-and-a...) so it'd be great to ensure that we're actually succeeding there :)

Feel free to come on over and chat, or shoot an email to support[at]olark.com
Yes, agree on all your points. I have a colleague who buys Macs purely because their build quality is so high and less likely to break. I'm sure Apple could have designed a new connector for the RAM, and not glued the battery in such a way - it is Apple after all, just look at the innovative products they have already come up with, this should be nothing! It will be interesting to read why they took the decisions they did.

Having said all that, it is a lovely machine, and if I had a much higher disposable income or I was a Mac user (never have used one!) then I would buy one... could install Windows vbut can't get over the lack of right click :D
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This -- on a good day my brain's running mostly on ketones
I would have to go for official Redis HA support. Restart time is painful when your Redis instance is large.
Roger. That's the same reverse engineering that other people are doing, thanks.
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Fedora 17 added support to provide gnome3 support even with software rendering.

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome_shell_software_...
Or some other per-session authentication token is cached.
It seems to me that if a publication really wants to beat the system, banning users can only work to a certain degree. If you really want to stop them from trying, banning a whole domain seems like a good way to persuade them as long as the bans are temporary.

Disclaimer: I have no idea how effective the user banning methods are, but I assume they can be outsmarted more than domain ban.
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It's not about the site being "spammy", it's about site operators actively spamming reddit with article submissions.
If you look where we started ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4076559 ), I'm not trying to feed the regex pattern to grep via stdin, but I'm trying to feed the input stream to be searched for the pattern to grep via stdin.
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Ask HN: Are people willing to 'sign up' also willing to pay?
I've done some basic A/B testing with a landing page for my product. My google ads are getting low click-through rates, around 0.15%. However, of those viewers 10% are clicking on 'Sign Up'.

There is certainly an interest/need, but how do I know if people are willing to pay?
Interesting. Is this implemented similarly to "hellban"? Which is to say, does it appear that the votes are valid to the voting rings, or are they shown something else entirely?
It's exciting, though, because hipmunk's story shows that even more resistant industries are capable of being "hipmunked" by tenacious, smart recent-college-grads with no industry connections.
Hmm. I worry that gamification does the opposite.

Anecdotally, my exposure to a constantly available stream of shallow stimulation (reddit, etc.) has decreased my ability to stay focused on initially unrewarding tasks. This seems like an effect that could be captured with a controlled experiment, so I'd love to know if it's been investigated.
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Do you really want to override browser functionality? I could imagine more people being frustrated by that than the additional sales it may generate.

From the demo, they offer a rule based on referring and current URL (you may be able to use this in order to determine if a user has already pressed back). Nothing I can see regarding closing the window, your best bet may be to use the given example: "number of seconds user is on page".
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Prepare for hellban.
Do mirrors still work? Like posting the google cache instead of the original article.
I got my account banned from posting for favorably comparing a post to Moby Dick, possibly the greatest piece of American literature of all time. The post was plodding in its pace, and intentionally so as the point was to demonstrate how one can become bored in their own startup. So it was with Moby dick. BANNED!

I'm not complaining, I'm just saying the moderators are funkay sometimes.
you just need to ask one question: who is the most important customer of imagination technologies? hint: it's not intel and it shows.
It wasn't the async stuff. It was more like olark##.olark-server.com not responding randomly which would cause my page load to block waiting for the server to respond. Probably just a server down or temporary outage, but it was enough to shake my trust a bit and just remove it since we were just starting out with it.
I tried Olark once long, long ago and had multiple problems with it -- if there were more than 10 simultaneous visitors on my sites, which there usually were, the whole thing would get wonky and send me the wrong chat info or overlap conversations from different people... I don't remember the details, except that it didn't work. And that wasn't with trying to talk to more than 10 people at once, just having more than 10 on the site.

I switched to SnapEngage, which also has a proactive chat feature that lets you automatically initiate chats on certain URLs and such. It just worked and, I think, was cheaper too... been using it ever since.

I don't actually spend many hours online available to chat, so most of the time the little widget in the corner of the page says "Live Support Offline" and clicking it pops up a contact form instead of a chat. I get mails from that every day, where almost nobody used the contact form built into the websites. It's worth the $19/month just for that.

I'm assuming Olark has long fixed those issues I ran into, but I've no reason to want to switch back now.
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This story somewhat mirrors a similar RMA experience I had with Newegg a year or two ago.

I bought several high-end Cisco access points. One needed to be RMA'd, so I boxed it up and sent it back.

The problem was that I inadvertently used the box from one of the working APs. The remaining boxes were discarded.

Newegg refused to take the RMA because the serial number on the box's label didn't match the serial number of the unit inside. All of the original parts were there, still sealed in the original plastic. The RMA'd unit's serial number was on the original invoice. The sticker on the box bore the same part number and was in every way identical to the three others that were shipped to me, but the box's serial number was apparently worth $600 and the RMA could not be processed without it. I escalated my issue through several levels of management, all of whom were insistent that there was nothing they could do.

I posted about my experience on a couple of reviews sites, and within 24 hours Newegg relented and agreed to accept the RMA, conditional on me removing my negative reviews.
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It's not evil, it's just lazy. Atom is a low-cost chip and they can't spend zillions developing it. They needed a small GPU and it was much cheaper to license PowerVR than to design a new GPU. (I guess Intel's GPU is not that area-efficient or something.)
I use Redis' Lua scripting pretty heavily, because it's amazingly useful, and here are the features I would like most:

1. LuaJIT. The extra speed would open up a lot of new possibilities for doing fancy things with Lua scripting. A big enough quantitative difference in speed is a qualitative difference.

2. The ability to add on third-party libraries. The modules that come out of the box are great, but there's a lot of other good code out there.

3. More convenient ways of writing a logging statement than redis.log(redis.LOG_DEBUG, "Hello, world!"). I end up needing to look up the syntax for that one more often than I'd like to admit.

Finally, a request that doesn't involve Lua: several times, it would have been very convenient to be able to iterate through all the keys in a Redis database in constant space. The "KEYS *" command doesn't stream keys; it buffers them up, which may explode on large databases. My alternate approach was to parse the RDB dump file offline, but that's tricky and kind of slow with the tools that exist now.
The discussion around the use of drones lately has risen out of the revelation that the EPA is using them to surveil cattle ranchers in Nebraska and Iowa to enforce the Clean Water Act (http://news.yahoo.com/epa-drones-spy-farmers-nebraska-iowa-1...).

The recent panic around unmanned surveillance seems odd to me given the excellent quality of imagery from low-orbit satellites that have been around for much longer.
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If he's angling for VP, he shouldn't be going against the party line so hard this close to the election. If he's going for 2016, this seems like a fine idea.
The easy alternative is to link to shared libraries by, say, a SHA-256 hash of their contents. That gives you memory sharing without letting third-parties break your code.
How will the chrome unibar distinguish between a search for the word "stupid" and an attempt to access http://stupid ?
Having a clean, easy to read commit history in upstream is, in my opinion, worth the few downsides of this approach. I care a lot less about when a commit was made, I'm much more interested in when it made it in to upstream, so having a linear history that makes that obvious is extremely valuable to me.
I really like the correction at the end of the article:

> Due to a typo, this article originally said that a 300 terabyte hard drive sells for about $350.

300 terabytes for $350? In one drive? Sign me up. =D
The biggest issue reddit has isn't the spam, it's how the site has become a "work safe" 4chan, it caters to the lowest common denominator. reddit used to be a great site and there are parts of it that still are, but the majority of the "visible" content (stuff that you don't have to search out) sucks.

The subreddit idea is fantastic but I don't understand why they aren't making this their focus. A netflix style recommendation system for subreddits would improve the quality of reddit 10 fold and give it a chance of lasting the next few years. I'm a fairly typical and regular reddit user and the sort of spam they're banning rarely (if ever) affects me, I've never seen a link on the front page and thought "what is this doing here?", focusing on this seems misguided.
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How about a blog post on why Ryan Carson consistently writes the best blog posts?
this will blow up. hopefully the bans are interim measures and something more advanced is under development.
I have an extension on the Chrome Store, but I also distribute it via bundling and bundling requires an executable. For the bundle, I use the registry method found here: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/external_extensions...

Will this method still work?

I originally had the exe simply open a window to our Chrome store listing, but the friction was ridiculous. We would get about 5 installs for roughly every 100 we were paying for.
doesn't the company that claims to have invented it first have a product in the market?
Yes, all the block does is check if the domain matches a domain that is blocked, nothing more. Using a redirect domain will get around the block, the changes are here on github: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/commit/44ebdeb378f4bf09d6bd...
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In fairness, some manufacturers actually have the serial number requirement.

Nintendo was notably one of them in the past and so were some video card manufacturers.

Newegg didn't want to eat the cost of the return; and who can blame them?

When I handled returns for the electronics retailer I used to work for, if we didn't follow all of the procedures and meet all of the requirements for the return exactly, the manufacturer often wouldn't credit us for the return and would send it back.

On the other hand, sometimes we did eat the cost because the customer followed all the rules we told them about...
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I've lost a lot of respect for reddit over this decision. I'm okay with banning users or even IP blocks from posting or voting, but banning entire, legitimate domains because you can't create a valid anti-spam service is going too far.
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Before the iPhone, the smartphone was still a very niche device though. The closest thing to mainstream is the BlackBerry, but it was mostly used for texting and email. There was already a marketplace, but the user experience was horrible. The web was barely usable. Thing is, everything has been in that state for quite a while. The smartphone market had a chance to evolve, but it wasn't really going anywhere.
Agreed; there's essentially zero correlation between real MVC (as described in papers about the original Smalltalk implementations) and web "MVC frameworks".
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How many times a day do you think successful startup founders hear "no" and get on with it?

How many times a day do you think successful startup founders say "no"?

A lot.

Learn to be successful. Say no and learn to accept no.

It's surprising how dishonesty permeates the financial services industries (of which venture capital is one).
Ah, how long ago? This kind stuff should be resolved in the latest editions. We load all those requests async now, and recently we started pre-loading a few of them to improve performance further. If you have any more details, shoot 'em over. Thanks for keeping us accountable!
It's not overblown if you're the one out the cash and still needing a new laptop.
But, but, UNIX command line tools are tools :D. If you enjoy learning new tools why don't you learn a set of tools that is applicable to any future task/programming language you will encounter?
> searching for a child who has been taken without authorization by a non-custodial parent.

That is going to prevent the bill from passing. If they use the "protect the children" argument
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With the News Feed becoming busier every day with third party apps, ads, etc., wouldn't it make sense for someone to develop a website + app that lets you consume Facebook as simply as you'd like to?

Maybe the default would be status updates and photos, and you could feature either all your friends or certain people. I only think of this because it's become a real paint point for me to visit Facebook and feel like I'm getting less and less out of it because of how it's changed. I think there's still valuable content in there just waiting to be surfaced, it's just too cluttered right now. In this hypothetical app, you'd still have to be able to see all the comments and likes, and add comments and likes of your own, too.

Also - if a product like this already exists, I'd love to hear about it...didn't have any luck in a Google search.
Remember, git's major strength is its distributed nature. Forking and branching are the easiest thing in the world to do. What we do here is, developers work in a fork and/or a topic branch, when they think it is complete the code goes through a review and when it's ready to merge, is rebased onto the latest canonical repo/branch before being merged in. Clean, linear history, no problems with corporate environment. Am I missing something about the perceived problem?
This is the fundamental problem with a static point system.

Up/Down votes should be personal and entirely void from the process of agree/disagree. It should be about pushing individuals closer or farther away from your perspective.

I'd like to see something like Reddit that was more like a network. As you "downvote" something or someone you push yourself away from that network. As you upvote something/someone you push yourself closer to that network.

Then again, I also think thread titles should be editable via a wiki and people should be able to submit counterpoints and they should be given equal weight to the original post (not just a comment but right next to the original author's post).
I use Olark for my hobby programming blog - http://programthis.net and I love it. Problem is that I don't have my account set up on my work computer, but when I'm home I love chatting with readers.

They've got a neat product, and this is an exciting change to see.
No, it isn't.

I was writing a long post about how we think we're really good at detecting "important signals" like if someone's lying, but that we're actually terrible at it. But the new yorker article that was frontpaging yesterday should pretty much explain it, even though Jonah Lehrer is a bit smug for my tastes ;)

TL;DR- the OP sounds like a very shallow-thinking VC who's blissfully unaware of his own biases. It might work out ok for him -- these biases usually work most of the time, and that's why we have them -- but it will probably fail in some very crucial instances where a more thorough, data-driven approach might have worked better. In fact, that may be precisely how the great VC's are differentiated from the merely ok, but that's a different story...

(link: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06...)
The problem is that the atlantic tends to post things worth reading (and their articles tend to be better than most blog posts) so really if you ban them, hn suffers.
I have lots of questions... like... what is your product? what does it do? why should I use it?

Not trying to be arsey... just getting really sick of launchrock pages that tell you naff all about the product and expect an email address..
I am not sure how long ago you tried Olark out, but we've made a lot of improvements in how the RPC servers work.

I am still a little concerned about a slow request blocking your page though. What's your URL? Do you know if you are using JSONP?
If one sleeps less than 6 hours a night, maybe there's other reasons for that, that lead to stroke, like anxiety over being deep in debt. So reducing such risk of stroke may not be as simple as getting more sleep.

Reminds me of the study that concluded that people living together (vs. married) leads to ~30% greater chance of alcholism. Maybe alcoholics just aren't as likely to get married?

Surely there's a Wiki on this type of logical fallacy somewhere. Anyone know what it's called?
Reddit has a horribly broken spam filtering system for comments and links, which frequently catches legitimate posts, and then people have to ask subreddit moderators to mark them as "not spam".

Why? Well, moderator abuse. Moderators can mark stories and comments as spam to get rid of them. But there is always moderator abuse. So the spam filter has got trained on tons of comments and links that aren't spam.

How would they fix it? Give moderators a means to get rid of bad posts other than marking them as spam.
The biggest issue is that people still think of reddit as a single community. It's not, and you can't stereotype all of reddit by looking at /r/pics and /r/politics. You have control over your home page and can remove noisy subreddits from it.