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This is pure whining. If you don't like the articles on HN

1. upvote articles you like

2. Submit more articles you like

You have submitted just 3 stories to HN (excluding this) http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dag and frankly the story about warren buffet is not HN material and the fashion article is also not hard core HN material.So you want others to find articles you like and upvote them and not do the work yourself.

I would have given a point by point rebuttal of how many stories you have marked as insignificant was in fact interesting but it seems like you have already made up your mind. So good luck. Try joining/making another community
Your comment is extremely disrespectful, and I believe erroneous.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics , "There is no academic consensus on the exact definition of "Politics" and what counts as political and what does not. Max Weber defined politics as the struggle for power." I found that definition applicable.
Does Arrington need help tarnishing his name?
I'm sure that's exactly what everyone else on Digg/Reddit would say. Now, why don't you actually take the time to formulate your thoughts on why HN fails to meet your expectations and what could be done about it. Until then, please stop contributing to the problem.
Are you saying 50% of the links on the front page (btw, a sample set of 1) are very interesting to you?

That's a damn good batting average.
Recent news items related to Apple makes me feel that "Apple is making their good days bad".
He does have a point - today was especially full of politics. The Schmidt stories are not politics but certainly the blue state blues and german story are.
For those who are curious this is the "suggestions" made

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=90944

Inclusion of every new post or exclusion of every post from a particular website at user's discretion. Regexp based? Just to prevent the site from effectively becoming an RSS reader.
These articles that you think are useless put the technology we love to read about into a social context. I personally think this site has a great balance of low-level programming topics and high-level context articles. If the site ONLY had the articles you deem as "useful" then it wouldn't be so damn addictive and wouldn't be nearly as popular. I'm sure you'd love a small community so that you can feel special that you know about something no one else does - but I think Y Combinator is probably trying to build a popular site that they can potentially make money on some day. To that end they're doing a hell of a job so far.
The nice thing about melatonin is that it's not addictive. About three days, and the body finds its pattern. As the article mentioned, fasting during the correct times would work but that + a low dosage of melatonin 30 minutes before the desired bedtime would probably work even better.
I think the author is just trying for some publicity by rehashing popular YC memes.

His post about PHP and security is flaming a line of example code extracted from an article on an introduction to Javascript.
I disagree. Salts are not secret. The passwords are. The idea is that it just prevents massive pre-computation attacks, where the same set of precomputed hashes can be reused. At the point there are salts introduced (different for each user), there's no way to precompute a huge rainbow table and use it.

So from my un-trained-in-cryptography eyes, the username approach is solid.
So does this count as wishful thinking, or public outrage?
Yeah, since he's been saying Eric is 'dead to me' for quite a while. Still one of the best tech 'gossip' blogs out there.
Also suggested was a killfile, which I think is the better suggestion.
I find it hard to imagine a company genuinely putting their research and development on hold and just sitting there twiddling their thumbs whilst they wait for Apple to announce their new product. If they are, then all credit to Apple, I say - when you can make your competitors stop dead without actually doing anything, you deserve to win!
Clojure, the REPL and test-driven development
I may be the least qualified person to be giving you advice here, but one thing that jumps out to me is that your first could was on discrete math. If your local business wanted to hire software engineers and you're a very small country, perhaps you should begin by focusing on something more practical and general. Doing so would bring a more immediate benefit to your investors. Then once you had some basic courses in place you could begin offering higher-quality education, and more theoretical classes.
Sometimes, I find the "new" stories more interesting than the frontpage. If I upvote a new story, it shoots right up on the frontpage...

...thus restoring the balance (for my likes, anyway).
Reading about the case again, it's certainly sickening. As a whole, it's a relatively tame instance of what a government has done in the name of "national security". It's the government after all, their job is to kill people. I wonder what was really going on here? Why did this guy report the theft at all, perhaps some actual security breach occured during the robbery? If not, why did he admit to it and admit to being gay? I mean, I understand the value of telling the truth and all but if something is unjustly illegal in your culture and you get caught, isn't your primary goal getting away with it? Especially if you have security clearance...
Rails doesn't do anything password related for you. The common authentication libraries (plugins) do salt the passwords for you.
Yeah, it's the politics of a technology company's board of directors... and here it is on a site for people interested in starting technology companies.

What, exactly, is your point? This article is a lot more interesting and relevant to entrepreneurs than the one about hacking the firmware of keyboards that you did not highlight.
Yes you are correct. I'm not sure what I was thinking there.
You misunderstood file structure as document structure I meant it as in logical organization on a drive.
It doesn't sound like there's anything wrong with your model; you just need to continue your funding negotiations.

If you've got two lecturers, what are the major expenses? Salaries, and rent for the classroom? How big is the gap between (enrollment x tuition fees) and expenses? What kind of enrollment would it take to get "ramen profitable"?
That's what happen when community shape in to a normal distribution :)

PS: I noticed sin curve of _goodness_ I see in HN content. Should be something related psychological patterns.
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Public outrage.

Had I written a long article about the good times at early Reddit, young Startup News, or even the newly rebranded HN and written about how we should strive to return to those days, that would be wishful thinking.
"somewhat patchy" is an understatement. it's probably the buggiest software I use on a daily basis. That being said, I use it on a daily basis and wouldn't dream of going back to doing things the old way.
> If a government signs a treaty, then when they lose power, the next government is under no obligation to honour that treaty.

From http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/tasters/w201/objects/d2225.pdf

"According to the traditional view Parliament can, in effect, make laws as it sees fit, but it cannot bind its successors by entrenching laws (that is, by making laws which cannot be repealed)."

> To begin with, states shouldn't have to pay the debts incurred by previous governments:

You write this like it's a bad thing.

Given the horrendous effects of govt borrowing, why should lenders be protected? It's like returning the getaway driver's car.
When people start doing something with a website of mine that I don't want them to, I just give them some other place to do it. So with a blog on a particular topic, if people get more social and off-topic, I'll create an "off-topic forum," and direct everyone there.

There is definitely an influx of politics into HN, and it will probably continue. Why not create a HN: Politics site?
Wow. I'm so glad someone posted this. I generally hate pie charts, but I spent a while trying to figure out what that chart was actually telling me before my "I actually really don't care" sensibility kicked in.
The weakest and central part of the article:

"More readers are better than fewer, of course. But those referring links -- while essential to our current business model -- aren't doing much, ultimately, to stop our potential slide into layoffs and further contraction."

Not financially helping--arguable in itself--the Washington post is not equal to financially hindering it.

"Worse, some media experts believe that Gawker and its ilk, with their relatively low overhead, might be depressing online ad revenue across the board. That makes it harder for news-gathering operations to recoup their expenses."

This is simply conjecture--a shame since this is the crux of his argument. I could equally say Gawker may be giving the WP article more page hits (something he admits), and thus revenue, and certainly more general public exposure. And in return for this service, Gawker gets ad revenue itself.

After these two weak points he then goes on to ask how we can save newspapers from online blogs and non-newspaper news sites, without proving these are hindering newspapers.

This whole argument seems very similar to the music industry's argument that online piracy is destroying music. Studies have shown, however, that piracy can actually increase music sales. And so it's not clear cut that blogging and non-newspaper news sites are hindering traditional newspapers.

We need to prove blogs and non-newspaper new sites are causing newspapers' decline before moving on to ask how we should stop these menaces to traditional newspapers.
"Going Google" with Google Apps
Not exactly the most eloquent criticism, but I do see what the OP is getting at. For me, HN has gone from a daily read (too much noise, hit-or-miss quality), to a weekly scan of http://news.ycombinator.com/best - which is generally pretty good. Techmeme is my daily scan for news, which I can go through in less than a minute with Instapaper as my procrastination shield.
Not really, just the fact that I was eating later in the day. The hunch is that the energy being used to digest food while sleeping is now being used to re-energize my brain. I rarely need an alarm clock anymore.
Could be. Possibly there is some real problem with being on the board of directors of a company that is now directly in competition with the company that you are CEO of.

I can't imagine Schmidt was very happy when Apple turned down the google voice application, but at the same time I don't think he was surprised.

Also, this could be the prelude to Google suing Apple over this.
This works for smaller amounts of data, but hierarchies are still needed to sort very large amounts of data that have to be accessed at any time. Yes indexing/searching/filtering is an option but when you have 1GB of pure text, searching "the company" is gonna get you several hundred hits. Google excels at this because they've created ways to dynamically optimize their results via user input. However no one is gonna do that for your private docs.

Personally krunner like gnome-do is useful but not for searching my files, because it gives no context. Someone needs to create a good kde app/plugin for context able searching through strigi.
Entirely agree. I flag such submissions.
yeh I feel the same.

I vaguelly remember a drunken conversation with an ubuntu "high up" saying they were either working hard on gnome-do or an alternative, and that there would be a lot of focus on it for one of the upcoming releases.
This reminds me of the "Flintstone House" (we called it the barba papa house as a kid) that's right off of 280 in Hillsborough

http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?articleid=24784&pa...
To be honest, A lot of people are blaming Apple for the whole Google Voice thing - I'm pretty sure that Apple were pressured to remove it by AT&T. Skype only got away with being published because it only works for calls over wifi.

As for all the other GV apps, I'm pretty sure they were only removed because AT&T became aware of them as a side effect of the official app being published.
Uhh . . .

Dude, I don't know if you are from Houston or what, but @stcredzero is right.

I live in the Museum District right outside the Medical Center by Sunset. Yes, I am one of the rich b@$tards behind the gates driving up all of the housing prices inside the 610. I can tell you categorically that the medical center is built on "oil money philanthropy" and bonds. Both of which have taken a hit recently triggering literally thousands of layoffs in the Medical Center. Not to mention a few canceled hospitals . . . yeah I'm looking at you Baylor. US$300 million PISSED away. They're not the only ones though.

The Med Center was supposed to attract higher quality residents to Houston, which it did. The problem is that, because of plentiful finance via the philanthropy of leaders in the energy industry, it was funded without respect to economics or the market. My how times have changed.

You are right about one thing though, there are a lot of little pigs at the government funded trough that is the Johnson Space Center. I normally don't like how much waste they have going on over there on my tax dollars, I mean really, would it be so terrible to share a secretary or administrative assistant? But in times like these I suppose it at least keeps people employed.

In summary, yeah, Houston doesn't have an economy, it has a local oil money leak along with a lot of pigs sucking on the government teat. That will need to change if Houston is to survive economically into the future. The good news is that many local leaders know that oil is the past, not the future, and they are trying to make changes. The bad news is that changing a place like Houston is difficult.

There are a lot of people here who don't see the duplicity in demanding cut throat capitalism, but working at the Med Center or the Johnson Space Center. I have always been reminded of the famous farmer in American literature who is subsidized by the Government to NOT grow corn. Consequently, he would hop out of bed at the crack of noon to ensure that his corn would NOT be grown. Additionally, people would come from miles around to seek his financial advice, as he was a man with an extremely healthy income and was therefore wise. This is a fitting description of Houston.
Thanks to the green revolution hunger is now solely a political problem. We have plenty of food and plenty of capability to grow more were it needed. But we can't even get the food we already produce for the hungry to the hungry because of the political machinations of our fellow man.

So the point that livestock require far more resources than comparable amounts of vegetables is irrelevant to the question of whether we can/should/must move toward a vegetarian diet.
everything that humans make is designed to profit something somehow. disparaging a school as being for "profit" and not education doesn't make sense. profit is how you know that people want your service. your anecdotal experience at a crappy trade school has little to do with the economics of educating people.
You know, I've been here for over 2 years now and have certainly seen this link but never made the mental connection to use it for just a weekly checkup.

Excellent idea! This will keep me from getting caught up in time-wasting comment wars and cut down my daily habit of scanning through everything.

There's no real need for no-procrast with this link... Simply logout and set it as your new HN bookmark.
i think chatting is complicated on face book caus even though my friends are on line and both of us try to chat togther but its imposibble and my laptop isent crap i have tried it on many coputers my friend to
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. There's certainly moral problems with being on a competitor's board, but it's definitely advantageous for business purposes for as long as you can get away with it.
Ask HN: Have You Heard Conversations in a Constructed Language?
A year ago there was an interesting HN submission of newspaper article about conlangs (link to appear in comment to this thread), and I'm wondering how many HN participants have heard live conversations in a constructed languages. Some constructed languages, e.g. Volapük, are constructed to solve practical problems of worldwide communication, and others, e.g. Klingon, are constructed initially for entertainment but also as frameworks for investigating the nature of language in general. Some fans of conlangs investigate quite a few different conlangs and discuss the differing characteristics of each one. Have you ever heard a live conversation in a spoken conlang? Have you ever engaged in correspondence in a written conlang?

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the most I have heard of any conlang is one sound recording of a poem in Esperanto (one part of a much longer recording with samples of many world languages) and one Internet sound file of Klingon from an online reference webpage. I have participated in live conversations in English (goes without saying), German, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Hakka, and (barely) Spanish, have overheard conversations in several other languages I was able to identify by ear and others I was able to exactly or approximately by the setting of the conversation. I think some of you here on HN have greater experience with conlangs and I would be delighted to hear about it.
The whole thing boils down to "Use right tool for right task."
i think your right too
> your distinction isn't relevant, because the record company elected statutory damages, thereby eliminating the need to prove an actual damages from "sharing."

a) The plaintiff is not a "record company", it is: SONY BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Bros. Records, Inc., Atlantic Recording Corporation, Arista Records LLC, and UMG Recordings, Inc. If you can't even get the basic facts of the case right, how can you be trusted in your opinion as to whether the damages awarded are constitutional, or anything else regarding the case, for that matter?

b) While it's true that downloading is all that is "needed" for eliciting statutory damages in a case like this (being a form of copyright infringement), it is not true to say that the "distinction" isn't relevant. As you ought to know, the jury is left considerable discretion in its decision of how large to make the damages. The nature of the infringement has an impact on the damages awarded (this wide leeway for statutory damages exists precisely because the impact of copyright infringement is hard to measure and varies widely according to circumstances), so it is ridiculous to claim that Mr. Tenenbaum's sharing of the files had nothing to do with the damages awarded. Just to underscore this point, look at Judge Gertner's order granting the plaintiffs' rule 50 motion on liability:

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Judge Nancy Gertner: Electronic ORDER entered with respect to reconsideration of rule 50 motion: The Court has reviewed the transcript of the defendant's testimony, which had not been before the Court at the time of the earlier ruling. The last question asked by Mr. Reynolds on direct examination was Question: "Mr. Tenenbaum, on the stand now, are you now admitting liability for downloading and distributing all 30 sound recordings that are at issue and listed on Exhibits 55 and 56 of the exhibits?" Answer: "Yes." Notwithstanding the protestations of Tenenbaum's counsel, Tenenbaum's statement plainly admits liability on both downloading and distributing, does so in the very language of the statute (no "making available" ambiguity) and does so with respect to each and every sound recording at issue here. Thus, the Court reverses its earlier ruling; Rule 50 motion is granted with respect to infringement. The only issues for the jury are willfulness and damages. (Gertner, Nancy)
</snip>

Note that the order specifically mentions "distributing"; not just "downloading". You can find the instructions for the jury at http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Lawyer_Copyright_Intern... . The nature of the infringement is mentioned in the instructions, as well as the financial impact on the plaintiff. How could sharing the file possibly be irrelevant to this?
> First, the "attacks" have been uniformly non-violent. They've been expensive acts of vandalism, not actual attacks on people.

Okay - then you'll have no objection if someone empties the residence of someone you like and levels it. After all, that's just an "expensive act of vandalism".

> Second, the article is wrong. These are not concentrated in the richer, more upscale areas. They've been targeted at luxury cars in the alternative, bohemian districts.

Oh - then that's alright then....
This is a great thing, and it's wonderful how they're embraced it, and it's making a difference.

But it makes me wonder: what prevents people from coming up with such inventions on their own? Is a lack of raw materials (steel)? A lack of technical mechanical engineering expertise? A lack of an inventive mindset? It seems there are so many problems out there that could be solved, with a little effort and ingenuity sustained over time.

Actually, I think it is probably as simple as when you are struggling to find your family's nest meal, you just don't have the capacity to invent. Not the spare energy, not spare resources, not resources to invest in learning - and no buffer to make it reasonable to take risks. What's my excuse?
Somewhat related: Don't use colors that are similar. I'm red-green colorblind and have great difficulty distinguishing some of the colors in the word chart. It's a very common mistake, that affects a large percentage of the population. Around 10% of the male population suffers from red-green colorblindness.
I'm dubious about what the "Flame Retardant" can actually prevent. In my past, Polystyrene has always proven to fall in the "very, very flammable" category.

I'd like to see a video of someone experimenting with progressive intensities of open flames to one of these prefab pieces before I consider it a viable opportunity as a habitat.
The encryption type is triggered by the salt argument.

So if you want Blowfish, you'll need to supply a sixteen-character salt. What exactly do you mean by "this password is the lack of a password"?

Edit: is http://search.cpan.org/~zefram/Authen-Passphrase-0.006/lib/A... what you're talking about?
this is quite like how I would like to search

press s + SPACE / TAB, then start typing, it matches on 1. directories, 2. google autocomplete results,

if I pick a directory, then I tab to enter a phrase to search for, if its google, then the search is performed.
Flagged. Whining about not liking Hacker News is not Hacker News. Your post adds to the problem you're complaining about.
> At that point, they didn't need to prove anything at all other than "infringement," which would include his own use of the music and of his making them available to others, regardless of how much infringement there really was.

Your logic is wrong. While it is true that all the plaintiffs needed was unauthorized reproduction, that doesn't mean that finding additional infringements won't cause a jury to award higher statutory damages: indeed, the jury is specifically instructed to take into account the nature of the infringements.
> The insurance companies for health care should be non-profits with set salaries for all the employees.

IIRC, Kaiser is non-profit.

If you think that you can do better, why aren't you doing it? You'll do incredible good for everyone, you'll drive the evil companies out of biz, and I'm sure that we will cut you some slack and let you get rich by whatever standard you deem appropriate.
Checking out of 'Hotel America'