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It sometimes affects what I write, but not in a bad way. If I see a comment that I wrote has poor karma, or a critical response to a comment I wrote has high karma, I will often go back and flesh out my argument better.

At least on Hacker News, it seems to be a sign that my comment was poorly written rather than against popular wisdom.
I didn't read the original article completely but your reply is just a "No True Scotsman" fallacy: Positions you don't agree with, are "no true Libertarian" positions.

But how do you know what all Libertarians truly believe?

For instance, you say: "The real Libertarian point is that we should have only the laws that are absolutely necessary to keep society functioning." This sounds fine. However, this is so general that probably even, say, a Marxist would agree. He would just not agree on what "functioning" means or what particular laws are indeed necessary.

One could argue that even apes have functioning sociaties and they have no laws that we know of. Is this the ideal we as humans should therefore establish? It would fit your definition as well.

Also, your argument that the government "returns significantly less wealth back to the economy due to waste" is weak, for you don't know what value the returning money creates. That might easily trade-off any existing "waste". For instance, what value is created when streets are build by the government? What value was created by the ARPANet investments in the Internet technology?

That's the problem with political ideals: One often defends one's own ideals althought one doens't really know what they mean.
Why not fight back? If people are saying negative things about him, spreading rumors then he should be countering them. Maybe start a personal blog. Rebut them. Make your point be heard loud and clear. Not tough for a person who's in media already.
I agree with you that some people downvotes others because they don't agree with them, and that's a shame. I personaly downvote one-line-and-2-smileys comments and upvote comments that teach me something.

I really don't feel the need for 2 little arrows, it would just be confusing, and users would hit the wrong buttons, etc.

Instead, we should just encourage the "new guys" to read the guidelines : http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One skill that I'm growing to appreciate as I become more experienced is the ability to find a problem and determine if the best action is to do a minimally invasive change, a workaround, or a full restructuring. I don't always make the right call but I'm getting better at it.
Advertisers can also track click sources, and eliminate those with lower-than-average conversion rates. There are plenty of reasons they would want to do this outside of click fraud.
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Agreed, and see my other post for the numbers I could find with a quick Googling.

And it's true that anecdotal evidence has limited utility, but: My high school's shop teacher? Missing fingers. My wife's father, a former carpenter? Missing fingers. What does every shop teacher fret about, constantly, out loud? Fingers. I don't think we're talking about saving just one child, here. These injuries are not that rare.
> I didn't read the original article completely but your reply is just a "No True Scotsman" fallacy: Positions you don't agree with, are "no true Libertarian" positions.

Is there such a thing as a Meta No True Scotsman Fallacy? If I say "George Bush proves Communism is a failure," is it ok for someone to point out that George Bush is not a communist? You can play the "No True Scotsman!" game forever, but at some point, words and ideologies have meanings. The linked article does not accurately reflect current mainstream (or otherwise) libertarian thought, and the parent poster is correct to point that out.
The fact that a lot of your friends are not happy with the existing solutions should be an indicator that there is potential for a new photo sharing site. I think, "photo sharing" includes a lot of different, sometimes very specific use-cases implying different devices that could be explicitly supported. The answer is clearly: yes!
Cocoa Touch does require Objective C. But the environment blends very well with C and C++. The beauty is you don't need to worry about calling conventions, or go through some native code invocation API. So you can write the GUI code in Objective C and other parts in C++ if you wish. Though, other than to reuse existing code/libraries, I doubt most people will want to do that.
Why Craigslist needs to die
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Personally, I think that would be an immature opinion. The language you write the application in has little to do with the outcome. I know of at least one company in town who moved from Ruby on Rails to ASP.NET recently. They were looking to hire new .NET developers to convert their code.

The issue is that the stack is expensive. Windows licenses, SQL Server licenses, hosting... It all piles up, and a start up cannot afford that out of the gate. MSFT has been making strides to inject into that market. Visual Web Developer Express is a good example. They are giving the IDE away for free.

That said, for start ups, certainly a Linux based stack is far more practical. I just think that discounting an entire language or stack because the company behind it isn't 'liked' by a minority in the community is off base.

Heck, one of the lead developers of PHP quit randomly. It happens, and the community plows ahead. If ASP.NET support just died, entire industries would have to rewrite but what they had already written will still work as is. Likewise when any new version of anything comes out there are rewrites. That is just the way our industry works.

You are right though, .NET is generally considered an 'enterprisey' solution. It does however help on a resume. Usually boosts your going salary by $10k or more. ;)
If you break someone's jaw, you go to jail. If you break their heart by verbal assault, you don't.

That is not necessarily true. Commission of verbal assault can land a person in jail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words_doctrine#United_...

The fighting words doctrine, in United States constitutional law, is a limitation to freedom of speech as granted in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In its 9-0 decision, Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942), the U.S. Supreme Court established the doctrine and held that "insulting or 'fighting words,' those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are among the "well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech [which] the prevention and punishment of...have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem."
...and if that's the world's best customer complaint letter, I've got to start writing more complaint letters. It was somewhat amusing, but that's about as far as I'd go.
Choosing what to say so you can rack up karma points is just trolling in reverse. Nobody you care about cares about karma.
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And groupthink we have.

It would be a fun experiment if pg turns off for a while displaying the current karma of comments and/or posts. Ranking would still give some hint what is popular, but that would be much more subtle and I think groupthink would be discouraged as a result.

Even funnier, he can split the users in two random groups (one seeing the karma, the other not) and actually measure how groupthink affects voting.
Hmm, interesting idea. I would have to post-process the generated images to add the text.. easily down with a GUI tool, would require some mucking around on the command line.
The title is incorrect: The plant was to produce the new 1.4-liter four cylinder engine

(The engine will now be made in an existing European plant)
Let's not jump to conclusions here. Maybe they are just saving money to make their own web 2.0 todo list app, so they can finally get rich.
"Before TechCrunch I assumed most people were essentially good, and assumed that an individual was trustworthy until proven otherwise. Today, its exactly the opposite."

Most people are trustworthy until there's a large amount of money on the line, as in startups. Then you really never know who is. You think "oh, we've been friends/coworkers/brothers for years, he'd never screw me". Then 6 or 7 figures become and you find out what people are really made of.
The Ad Council is my least favorite government agency. It takes billions of dollars from the public. In exchange it produces such necessary propaganda as "if you smoke pot, you'll kill babies on accident".

Meanwhile, no Ad Council advertisement has ever been shown to make a quantitative difference in the social dynamic it was meant to address.

Every time I see an AdCoucil ad, I can't help but thinking that they could have refunded a few thousand people their tax money instead of providing me with this "public service".
TAC 2009: Extracting Wikipedia infobox data from text
JQuery: Acting on specific key events
Meh, I was down modded for asking who here likes the writing of Maureen Dowd and Bill Kristol.

Apparently asking that simple question bothered some people.

In no way can you let anonymous up or down modding affect you in any way. It's not like you can exchange your karma points for cash.

Let your honest opinion represent you, not your efforts to stay popular.
I think you're reading too much into the analogy -- or misreading it.

The analogy isn't, "web business are just like pizza shops!" Rather, the sentiment that I think Allen was communicating is, "in _any_ business, there is always room for competitors and new ways of doing things."

I wish I could remember the link to the podcast so you could hear it in the exact context.
This fellow has no idea what the Libertarian ideal is. In his first paragraph he starts building his straw man ("tend to have less contact than the average person") and then it just all goes downhill from there.

Murray Rothbard would have torn this guy to pieces.
Nobody you care about cares about karma.

Karma is used as part of the YC-applicant vetting process. http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html

You can tell a lot about the users of a site like this from the the links they post and their comments in discussions. There are a number of Reddit users that I know only by their usernames, but I know must be smart from the things they've written. We're counting on the same phenomenon to help us decide who to fund.

In our new online application form, you literally apply through your Y Combinator account, so we'll recognize usernames that have been thoughtful contributors to the site. I'm not saying we'll simply fund whoever has the most karma; that would encourage abuses. But we will be more likely to fund people we know are smart from their submissions and comments.

http://ycombinator.com/w2009.html

We're more likely to fund people we know are smart from their submissions and comments on Hacker News. In fact, that was one of the main reasons we wrote it: so that we could get to know people before they applied.
> Then 6 or 7 figures become and you find out what people are really made of.

Like alcohol can sometimes do temporarily, extreme money will magnify your personality and who you really are.
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Even funnier, he can split the users in two random groups (one seeing the karma, the other not) and actually measure how groupthink affects voting.

Experiments are helpful for gaining knowledge.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
I think it encourages civility, which is sorely missing on other sites. There is almost no mudslinging and very few comments of the "Great post" variety, no "profit" or "in Soviet Union" memes. It encourages me to think clearer, especially if I have a negative opinion. OTOH it probably discourages the pithy but on target remark.
Beyond the inflammatory headline, the author lost all credibility with "Craigslist is what it is because the site got lucky"
"why does everyone think startups are doomed if they get a bad TC review?"

Who says they're not!

When's the last time TC linked to another blog in a post. Hat tips etc.?
I see nothing at all morally wrong with speculating over Steve's health (though it's often not very useful). Remember that every AAPL owner is a part owner of the company. It's not at all untoward for an investor in the company to want to know what health the CEO is in, especially one thought to be as influential as him, and Jobs has been opaque about it since the beginning. A lot of people have, collectively, over $80b tied up in the company, and they have no idea if the guy running it will live another year or two.

When your company goes public, a decision Steve himself made long ago, you know that from then on, what you disclose to owners of the company you effectively disclose to everyone. He knew what he was getting.

Speculating as to his health doesn't worsen it or harm him in any way. If anything is immoral, it's Steve's purposely hiding it and even, this year, lying about it.
You can't ask questions about:

* Marital or family status (ask a working mother about this one if you want your blood to boil)

* Age, apart from legality to work

* Sex or, in most places, sexual orientation

* Citizenship, ancestry, race, or national origin, apart from legality to work

* Disabilities of any kind

* Home address

Most questions that would be reasonable in normal conversation are OK in a US interview, so long as they don't pertain directly or indirectly to "race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age".

You are not strictly limited to questions that directly pertain to a candidate's ability to do the job. In most private business settings, you can legally choose not to hire someone for any number of subjective reasons. Not staying up late to work on open source projects is certainly one of them.

On the other hand, if you have a strong preference for someone who codes in their spare time, and you care about not being a douche, you should mention that preference in your job requirements. It's not cool to waste people's time.
Fair's fair
It's like a startup, except they have huge resources and the impact they have won't be measured in any way (while the market is brutally honest with startups).
nope I haven't ever played it.
I don't think there is a 'group think'

I've been knocked down quite hard with a karma score and had someone reply to my comment with what I had just said, and get voted up like crazy. And some days I'll get negative karma for something that got positive the day before.

HN is filled with Bipolar people.
A 5 second Google search will show you that there are plenty of jobs that overtly require US Citizenship. For example, all TSA screeners must be US Citizens.

This is kind of a diversion from the real discussion. It's unlikely that anyone reading this board can legally ask interviewees about their citizenship.
Bittorrent isn't sequential by design, but you can tweak a torrent client to ask for pieces in order (e.g., Pando, using a bittorrent-like protocol, can do this) -- though if you have a moving target in terms of the set of blocks you are interested in things a get a little more complicated -- a streaming-specific p2p protocol would likely perform better (see comments on this thread for examples).
You know, I read that before, and all I can say is that I hope that's just a tactic to get people to be civil and thoughtful on Hacker News, or maybe to drive a bit of traffic. It seems like a profoundly bad strategy for vetting startup teams.
My wife got an estimate on fixing her teeth: $12k post-insurance. Is there any alternative?
Sorry if this is not hacker news, but my wife just went to the dentist, and the estimate for fixing her teeth came out to $12k after insurance. About 8 of the teeth need post&core followed by crown/porcelain. I can explain the background of the situation if need be, but in short, she has bad teeth despite your normal prophylactic measures.

I would think that there should be research into implanting some kind of stem cell that would grow into a new tooth. Is anyone familiar with anything like this? If not, are there alternatives to this (expensive) procedure?

FWIW, we're both Russian; we're looking into the costs/benefits of traveling to Russia to do this. We're currently in US.
Who's working on Obama's promise of electronic medical records in 5 years?
There's certainly no lack of EMR software, but who's going to make sure I, the doctor, can get records from different databases and have them presented to me in the same format? No matter what hospital or office I'm in, no matter where the information is coming from, I would really like it to be presented to me, whether on a screen or on paper, in the same format. Right now the state of the farce is that every doctor spends more time learning the 9 zillion EMR systems than on the patients they treat. The frustration factor definitely leads to medical errors.

Anybody working on this?

Edit: President mentions the 5 year horizon in the weekly address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDfpd8GV9dI
I am not a lawyer, but I believe this doctrine has essentially not been enforced in recent memory. The subsequent paragraph to the one you quoted steadily showed it being rejected by those who attempted to bring it before the court in the US.
This story is why we have a "flag" button. In fact, I think we have a "flag" button specifically to prevent stories like this.
I'm worried about exactly how that person received so many upvotes. This person does not seem to have much basis to his/her hate other than some blog posts. More importantly, there seems to be a sizeable number of people who agree with the idea of "I disagree with you and don't like what you write about, so you must be an asshole."
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Surely that's not a bad thing. Humility isn't a bad thing in a person but in business it's not a helpful attribute. At least when TC started he was the business, so self-promotion was a must.
Don't get your point...

Mine was that the solutions to machine learning problems are inherently messy (at least this is the state of the art).
One big difference is that developing a language for the JVM is not an easy task. Sure, it is easier than developing a language from scratch, but it took, if i remember right, 3 years for Clojure to reach its actual quality. Writing a language on top of perl 6 will probably be only slightly more difficult than doing the same thing on top of a lisp, and only because you have to write a grammar since it doesn't rely on s-expressions.
Do You Talk Too Much? The Traffic Light rule.
I would assume this is in reaction to some of the newer members who have just broken into negative karma today.
It isn't, but it's still worth reading. For example, this part:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups

Also:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site
I am moving away from it and making servers that have just one disk in them.

Going forward, I've also decided to stop using RAID and simply replicate across servers. One major reason is the introduction of high-quality, low-cost SSD drives. I anticipate that a single SSD will have a lower chance of failure than 2 HDDs failing at the same time.
Will old-fashioned scrip make a comeback?
I submitted it after I noticed someone getting down-modded into oblivion for something people disagreed with:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=453653
Sort of. I don't make smartass reddit or Digg-style comments here because they seem not to be appreciated. But if you say something relevant and interesting at a website like HN, reddit, or Digg, and you get downmodded, that either means that you were wrong or that the site is full of idiots and you shouldn't be wasting your time there. Either way it's just as well to know about it.
What the hell is a Senior Sales Engineer (Salesforce.com)? I have a pretty good understanding of what those words mean separately, but as far as I can tell they to not belong together.
Yes. If my karma is sufficiently bad, I won't have opposable thumbs anymore. That makes writing a drag.
At least in the french-speaking world, celebrities have gotten used to this.

Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at an authority figure, as a means of protesting against a perceived flaw (arrogance, hubris) in the target's character.

and also:

Godard was very pleased at being pied.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieing
The "if it saves just one child" problem is more of a problem when you try to force your solution and the associated costs onto other people. In a free market, where it's my own finger on the line. Well, I'd be very likely to buy a saw with this technology.

In my garage sits my grandfather's table saw. He was a pro woodworker. It's big, heavy, and runs on three-phase power. It runs like a champ, but scares the crap outta me. I use it, but am very, very careful.

Always respect your tools. Take care of them, and they will take care of you.
Friends in similar situations have used dental schools to get the work done. If you have a university dental school nearby that could be an option.

Another, as you mention, is travel. The problem with cheaper fillings though is that they can leech heavy metals into the blood stream. If you're planning on having babies any time soon, you need to be extra careful.
Ask HN: How to programmatically observe program execution?
I'm currently researching this interesting question and haven't found much material on it: How can one best programmatically observe the execution of a program, much like single-stepping it in the debugger, but wholesale and automatically?

Rigging up a debugger was my first idea, as they do the same thing for human consumption, but that doesn't seem to be a normal use scenario, and hence no APIs. Alternatively one could extend some virtualization software to capture what the processor is doing. I would settle for source modification, which would work for just capturing function calls, but that brings in other complications. Finally there's the issue of languages: I was thinking of simple C programs, although it would probably be easier in Java or Lisp, but I'd like to stay general.

Have you ever solved this or what approach would you try?
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