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Interested!

This has some of the same qualities as Slashdot, where you tag one of several reasons on your moderation.

EDIT: I just thought of a more user-directed mod/metamod system along the lines of Slashdot, but this way would be more Web 2.0. (As opposed to web 1.99a like Slashdot.)

Have a choice of pre-defined tags (about 10), each with a karma score attached to them. These tags would be long the lines of: "Funny" "Interesting" "Insightful" "Logical Fallacy" "Troll" Users could choose to either moderate a comment, which would be attaching 1 or 2 tags to a comment and thus altering the comment's visibility rating either-or meta-moderating, which would be voting on the fairness of moderation. So you could see what tags are attached to a comment and vote fair/unfair on each of them.

Now here's the rub: you get Karma by fairly moderating. (And lose it by unfairly moderating.) So while moderating changes a comment's visibility, only meta-moderating affects Karma.

Karma would be rewarded by the number of tags one could apply to a comment.

EDIT: More ideas. Users should be able to define their own tags, but only the admins would decide what point score should be attached to them!
ssh yourserver -t "screen -D -RR"
doesnt't allow you use screen from multiple xterms

if you use
ssh -t yourserver screen -S main -xRR -p windowname -q
as was used in the post, you get to use, multiple xterms all connecting to the same session.
1.) SteerMouse - tweak the mouse acceleration curve. If you're coming from a PC and you feel like your mouse doesn't move right, this will help.

2.) SizeUp - size and and position windows with hotkeys. For example, quickly set two windows to use exactly one-half of the screen each.

3.) Expandrive - mount S3 buckets, ftp sites, sftp sites as network drives. (Works great with textmate)

4.) Miro - excellent video player and torrent client with rss built in. Sort of like a torrent TIVO.

5.) Warp (http://www.ksuther.com/warp/) - adds some new methods for switching spaces. I have mine set to switch if I drag the mouse to a screen border while holding command.

6.) Also, if QuickSilver doesn't suit your tastes, give LaunchBar a try. Getting used to using one of those two apps pays huge dividends.
This is exactly why I'm really hoping that OpenCL takes off. While a good read, to me the article shows why you shouldn't necessarily continue with the status quo just because "it works" (granted, the article was written back in '02 when there was no other real option). We have tons of insanely cheap hardware now that handles SIMD better than any CPU, it's about time we start making use of it.
Heaven forbid that the Internet lets people be more than just mindless spending machines.
Why does anyone recommend Quickisilver? It's suffering from massive bitrot these days. Most users report frequent crashes, hangs, problems waking from sleep, and general slowness compared to Spotlight and LaunchBar?

I really wish it wasn't the case, but Quicksilver seems to have had its run and no one is stepping up to the plate to preserve it.

Most everything else you list is awesome though (although I think Evernote is far from essential and I'm not sure "free" is the right word for it ;)
Here's a related thread from last year:

- Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=131241

My earlier list http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=131263 hasn't really changed but I do find the recently posted Black Tree Visor http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465334 to be very useful.
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LOL! Yeah, Google is like 20,000 people now, and most of them joined when Google was a "safe" career choice. A Google party is probably much like an IBM or HP party now.
What's the error on your estimate of how hard what he's done is? Several hundred percent? A thousand percent? What are the alternative ways of making $10m that you casually assume to exist? And how do you know how hard each of them is?
If you're consistently the smartest person in the room, you probably need one of two things: new friends or a reality check. Possibly both.

The best advice I ever got about picking friends was that you should hang out with the people you want to be like. In your case, you seem to not want to go directly from a strip club to a social establishment and get crunked. Well, there is a fairly simple solution to that...

(UrbanDictionary tells me my usage of "crunked" is wrong. This is what I get for not spending enough time around people who are simultaneously drunk and stoned, I guess?)
or, macvim (http://code.google.com/p/macvim/)
As I expected, it also takes an Amazing amount of CPU. Also, the caret flickers like mad.
Oh! I am an introvert and I don't care. Happy all alone which would give you a scare. Maybe you're an extrovert, I still don't care. Unless your also Swiss, with long blonde hair!
I'll add my vote for Things! I was designing my own app to do this then Things came out. If you've ever been inspired by GTD - Getting Things Done, by David Allen, Things is an indispensable app, My third most used app next to Mail and Safari. It also has great support for syncing with the iPhone so you can take your lists on the road and store your tasks or ideas wherever you are.
"soy/cow milk"

I read that as "soy sauce or cow milk" the first time. Yuck.
I think what is happening to you is pretty normal. My advice to you is to be more honest with yourself and with your friendships. If your friends are boring you change up the conversation or suggest doing something exciting. If your friends seem dumb then keep trying to talk about intellectually stimulating things.

If you feel like all hope is lost, get out of your bubble. Try a new activity. Go travel for an extended period of time. You have to be fun, exciting, and interesting yourself before you start attracting the same types of people.
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There are many ways how to eat healthy and stay on the low budget at the same time.

One of the first things here is to be smart when you shop. It takes time to find good places, and I'm even commuting 20 miles every two weeks for some grocery shopping, but I can buy high quality food very inexpensively. 20 miles sounds like a great deal, especially, when you'll think about the average total in the receipt (rarely less then $150-200).

And the second thing, organic is a buzz. Buying organic doesn't automatically mean you are buying healthy food. Buying non-organic labeled stuff, doesn't mean you're buying crap.

Whatever, eating habits are eating habits, and I'm not here to change minds. :) I still think that $500/month for a family of three is pretty much enough. However, I can't argue with the fact, that you can spend unlimited amount of dollars on food -- sky is the limit.
I don't know about LaunchBar, but Spotlight doesn't offer the same things that Quicksilver does. Sure it does application launching, but Quicksilver does more, not to mention Quicksilver's recommendation algorithm is, in my opinion, better.
Personally, I try not to say things like "dumbing down". It's presumptuous to assume that I'm smarter than other people; I don't need that kind of ego boost.

I tend to think of it as people having different interests. Many people have a familiarity with celebrity gossip that rivals my familiarity with programming. They're just choosing to use their brainpower in a different way.

I'm sure many people on HN disagree, but that's how I see the world. Intelligence neutral.

I choose to hang out with people who are interested in things that I am. I have a natural filter -- I continue to talk about things that I think are interesting in all company, and when conversation moves in a direction that I don't like, I disengage. That's not to say that I don't try to take an interest in things outside of my realm of experience, but people who know me learn pretty quickly that if they talk about football, I'm going to get glassy eyed. Or worse, start talking about the use of graph theory in tournament scheduling.
I only use it because it lets me define app-starting hot keys Command-F1, F2, etc. Mac OS X doesn't, as far as I can tell. Is there any other freeware app that will let me do that?
Most modern browsers can also increase the size of the image with the text.
you strike me as an arrogant tool, probably only half as smart as you think you are
I just bought chicken for 2$ per pound, while the bulk granola was 4.45$ per pound. I'm thinking they don't feed the chickens bulk granola.
This post might be useful:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/110065/must-have-tools-fo...

It listed all the userful tools that would be relevant to a programmer.
Reminds me of the Bruce Sterling novel, "Heavy Weather" where the bad guys that work for the government have Rolex-like watches that have explosives in them permanently clamped to their wrists.

In the novel, when a force 6 storm goes through, they hang out in a bunker and one by one try to remove the watch/bomb so that they can then be free of coercion and also, untrackable in the future.
Generally speaking you only eat fruit from the time you wake up until you eat dinner?

Do you ever get the feeling you're getting too much sugar in your system from it? I'm not saying it contains too much sugar, because I don't know. I'm genuinely curious. Some days I'll brew up a smoothie for lunch which contains a ton of fruit, some oatmeal, milk and a nut butter; I really like it, but someone who knows way more about nutrition than me mentioned that it might have an unhealthy amount of sugar (I'm not adding any, she was just referring to the quantity of fruit).
I personally like cooking quinoa and egg in my rice cooker. I add some sliced habanero (de-seeded) for some kick; it's a nice snack.
> Personally, I try not to say things like "dumbing down"

I know exactly what you mean. That's why I put in quotes. It just makes it easier to talk about.

Usually, "dumbing myself down" in my case means suppressing knowledge that I have. I can't fault other people for not knowing things that I do because as you say different people have different interests, and beside that I spend much more time on the internet that what they do, so I'm more up to date with current affairs than they are.

But whether you take "dumbing down" to mean suppression of knowlege, skills or intelligence, the end result is what I was referring to.

> I continue to talk about things that I think are interesting in all company, and when conversation moves in a direction that I don't like, I disengage

This is part of what I mean. Maybe other people have a higher tolerance level (or maybe I do it too much) but this kind of behaviour has really taken it's toll on me.
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I think you guys are being a bit harsh on this article. Its not as if it was saying "ssh to remote and run screen" was something new. It does provide some useful hints on .screenrc setup and while running a script to connect to the remote screen may not be for everyone it is useful.
http://fi.bemmu.com/demo/
> My family is pretty health conscious (we are all vegetarians, and my mom is pretty much vegan)

Vegetarianism is not healthy.
I felt like that until I was 19. I joined Mensa, and found people who loved puzzles, knowledge, intelligence and discussion.

When I moved town and did my PhD I found the local Mensans complete prats, but the university gave me the stimulation I needed.

You need to find people with whom you can be yourself, but equally, you need to learn how to get on with people in general. I learned a lot from Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." It's almost a manual for how to problem-solve your way through the challenge of social interaction. Recognise that others have needs and desires, and sometimes that means you shouldn't try to educate them. There are times when it's of no value.

Recognise too that sometimes others are just as smart as you, but in different fields of expertise. Learn to learn from them.

Stay true to yourself, learn to interact with people generally, respect people as individuals, ...

Seek out those with whom you can be yourself.

They do exist.
Wheels alone don't do much good. You also need roads. I could imagine those where not very common in the jungle and the mud. (Might be that in some places, like deserts, roads are not necessary, but still).
I didn't say the advantages always outweigh the disadvantages, just that there are usually more advantages that you'd expect.
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
http://news.cnet.com/Create-an-e-annoyance,-go-to-jail/2010-...

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Perhaps you should check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperHappyDevHouse ?

If you don't live near one you could help start one in your area.
It is still under development though. http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list

The original author has been hired by google and is working on google quicksearch box http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com
Thumbs up for Fluid. I use it for Google Reader and BBC iPlayer. Reader in particular works well as Fluid has built in support for it: it tags the Dock icon with the number of unread entries (à la Mail.app).
If you're going to argue that Northern Basque communities near Southern Basques communities is diversity, then a "little Korea" next to "little Manila", each with more people, qualifies.

It's not a "monoculture" so much as a dominant one. Yes, one can live within the monoculture, but the ability to make that choice doesn't mean that one could choose to live in a large number of cultures within the US.

And, both monoculture and dominant culture overstates things significantly. Even if one thinks that NYC is one culture, it's not the same as upstate NY's culture, let any of the ones in Texas.

Yes, there are lots of places in the US where one can find very similar cultures, but again, that's a choice. (Ever hear the term "don't Californicate Colorado/Oregon/Arizona"?)

You'd think that folks who claim to value diversity would actually practice it given the choice.
"Do you ever get the feeling you're getting too much sugar in your system from it?"

No. I guess I forgot to mention 2 pretty important things: I exercise every day, usually before I eat anything, and I never eat anything else with fruit. Uncombined fruit is a very clean burning fuel; its sugar only becomes a problem when combined with other more slowly digested food.

"someone who knows way more about nutrition than me"

Sometimes I wonder if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I'm no expert on nutrition, but I know that this guy is:

http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Revolutionary-Formula-Sustain...

so (most of the time) I do what he says.

This is also my favorite programming book. You're not going to write much good code if you're not well.
Heh. It isn't the case here, but you have to "act outgoing"? If you had practice, you don't have to act.

Yes, I'm an introvert, too, and I understand exactly what you're talking about. The diff is that how much I'm "drained" depends on the group of people. I have quite a few friends with whom I'm close enough to just be myself, to not "act". They don't drain me at all. I just eventually run out of things to talk about, unlike the extroverts who find more to talk about.

A group of co-workers? That is tiring, because it takes a lot of effort to act that nice.
I can imagine a non-lethal version of that could be pitched to prisons in the future assuming it could be made to be reliable. No need for giant walls and several layers of perimeter when you have a virtual walls to keep the inmates from escaping.
DoubleCommand works great for this as well, even in Firefox 3, and includes a lot of other handy key-remapping.
Lots of excellent pointers from others...I'll add a few I haven't seen posted:

- InstantShot: nice little screenshot utility (I use it daily)

- VueScan: swiss-army knife of mac scanning apps if you need to hook up a scanner. Costs a little, but you get lifetime upgrades. Well worth it.

- LittleSnitch: network monitor. tracks what kind of network activity your apps are up to. Costs a little, but also worth it if you value your privacy.

- JollysFastVNC: fast and free VNC client (I've been using it over Chicken of the VNC).

- OmniDiskSweeper: Disk utility shows you which files are hogging up the most hard disk space. Free. I also recommend many of Omni's other products. Omnigraffle (not free) is also excellent for diagramming.

Also, not mac specific, but the sqlite manager plugin for Firefox is also very helpful.

I don't know where others go to find different Mac apps, I usually hit macupdate.com (and sometimes versiontracker) these days, mostly out of habit, but would love to hear other recs for this.
You're complaining about having two sets of friends? I think I'd settle for one.

But I won't dumb down.
Signal/noise is another good way to express the 'valuable' axis -- terms with a long history in net discussions.

I would still like to be able to agree/disagree without giving a 'signal'/karma boost. A comment might be true, but trivial/superfluous/repetitive -- that's an agree-but-no-signal. (In the case of snark or offtopic trolling, I might even say I agree-but-that's-noise.) Similarly, something that's both a rule-transgression (noise) and egregiously wrong (such as dangerous misinformation) should get disagee-and-noise.
I'm not a journalist, but I am in the industry (developer for metro daily).

This is one of the more clueless and wrong headed set of ideas I've seen. I'd be preaching to the choir explaining why I believe that here. So, instead I'll make some important points that often seem to be forgotton.

Talking heads are not the newspaper industry. I don't believe the papers I'm involved with would agree with any of these ideas.

The AP is not the newspaper industry. Many papers despise what the AP is doing and are considering dumping them. (fear of that is causing the AP to freak out and do stupid shit)

National Big Name newspapers are not the newspaper industry. They get the attention cause they're big and have household names. But by far most papers, most circulation and most readership are small metro and community papers.

Newspapers are not the newspaper industry. There is a wide range of owners, ideas, and plans amongst newspapers. Some of the ideas are good some are bad. Some papers will shutdown, some will thrive, some will no longer be newspaper companies.
Canadian Tire seems to uniquely have the ability to correlate specific product purchases with repayment behavior. BoA knows that I shop at WalMart, but they don't know what I buy there. Perhaps this is one reason that WalMart wants so badly to get into the banking business? Finding a way around paying 1%+ on merchant fees is probably the more compelling reason, though.
You sound like a socially-uncalibrated egotistical person who blames his short-comings on other people.

I don't really see what the problem is with "switching modes" depending on who you're talking to. Everybody does it. It's natural. You don't want to be the guy that yaps about the research project he's doing during the department social hour, and which is coincidentally the only thing he talks about before and after social hour as well.

Even though I can follow a conversation about graph theory and computational biology, I still avoid the guys at social hour that won't talk about anything else.
Linux - disk usage (du) human readable and sorted by size 
This is quick tip to fix a problem that has always bugged me - When showing disk usage in a human readable form (KB, MB, GB) for each subdirectory using “du -sh *”, how can you properly sort it into size order?
I know that most things are strangely distributed. Even the normal distribution is far from uniform. So I was carefully phrasing my comments in terms of quantiles. Quantiles are evenly distributed by definition.

People think themself "better than the typical guy" i.e. above median.
> In your case, you seem to not want to go directly from a strip club to a social establishment and get crunked.

I don't mind the partying, but even in a club, a lounge is usually more intimate and people tend to strike up conversations more easily. If a few people out of the group do it it's easy just to say "fuck this bullshit let's party!!!" and you can be relatively sure that the others will agree and the conversation dies. There are times though that people just want to relax and have "serious" discussion (especially if your life revolves around partying). And it's usually these times that I just want to turn off.

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Oh and in case you were wondering, I don't usually go to strip clubs. One of my friends who owns a club was invited to check the place out and a few of us tagged along.
People are social animals. I think as analytical people we forget this aspect of our humanity a lot.

So you need to feed that social part of yourself without doing, time-consuming and mostly pointless things, like getting drunk with the guys and watching naked women dance. If you dig naked women dancing, get HBO. Or just surf the net.

As a consultant, I go through phases of alone down-and-working hacking, when I'm not on a big contract, and working full-time with other people trying to help them when I am on a big contract.

I've found that both of these lifestyles have something positive and negative about them. I need social interaction, yet I crave just doing my own thing and being left alone also. I've found that since I don't value my social needs, I sometimes end up taking just whatever comes along, instead of actively planning. This spontaneity is cool when you're 20. But it gets less and less cool the older you get, for some reason. (Usually after you end up with a decade of spending your free time and you've in the same spot, with the same people, doing the same things you were ten years ago.)

In the past, this has sometimes led to be hanging out with people who are, or at least think they are, exciting. If I were you, I'd find something bigger than yourself to believe in and get involved with it. Church, Boy Scouts, civic groups, environmental groups, politics -- something that you find both intellectually stimulating and where you have a lot of social interaction. Make yourself do this, because you will not think that it will work until you actually do it.

And give up the I'm-so-smart routine. Trust me, you're an idiot like the rest of us, just in a different way. So you have lots factual recall ability? Aside from a promising future as a game show contestant, who cares? People with a great recall ability can be some of the most annoying people on the planet to deal with. Trust me, I'm one of them! Meet people where they are, and relate to them in an honest manner that you both can handle. Sounds like you've got a big of overly-done self importance thing going on. Once again, finding something more important than you and humbly trying to contribute to it could make you more of a person that really is smart and interesting and exciting people, like myself, would want to hang out with. (grin)

Life is about you putting stuff into it, not sitting on your ass waiting to see what comes out of it and then criticizing what you get by default. Sorry to rag on you so much -- you probably don't deserve it, but geesh, you're 30. Get a better attitude and lifestyle already.
I would use uTorrent for a bitorrent client now. I find it's just more effective as a BT client. NetNewsWire is a good RSS client. And I would use VMWare Fusion as a virutalization software vs. Parallels.
Or ExpanDrive. It's alot cleaner than MacFuse + sshfs.