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It is part of a larger conversation, and references the other parts of the conversation; blogs used to do that a lot, and the folks who've been doing it for a while tend to still do so on a regular basis. It definitely made sense to me. It can be hard to follow IRC chat logs, since there's so much said between the lines in such an environment (any insular community will tend to develop shorthand and a pidgin; IRC is probably an extreme example of that)...but I thought it was reasonably well explained, if you don't try too hard to understand all the trollish undertones and in-jokes.
URL shorteners in general or this specific observation?
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Is that the video in Atlanta where they drive side by side around I-285 at the speed limit of 55 mph? It's an interesting social experiment, but I'm surprised none of them were driven off the road. Traffic on the left on 285 generally moves at 70 - 80 mph here.
This only brings me to ask: Why was asdgasd acting like a weird-boy in the first place?
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.. but will still be allowed to use all other protocols besides HTTP(S).
The (former?) troll was described as a 'rather likable fellow', not 'really a good person'. If the latter was the case I would agree with you :)
"I could see both lanes continue to flow in my review mirror."

Heh, you didn't happen to learn to drive in, say, Massachusetts did you? It's called the "rear view mirror", but I've found that due to the accent, many people here in Boston have always thought it was the "review mirror".
Just because you graduated from MIT doesn't mean that you're smart. I find that school is usually about how much you can cram in your head rather than how much you actually know. Most students can parrot back that a quicksort is an O(n log n) algorithm, but fewer will actually be able to explain why or what that even means.
It's not enough for Wikipedia. References need to exist in some form of media, so if necessary, readers are able to check them.

Wikipedia Policy: Verifiability
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
No more yes. It's either hell yeah or no.
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OMG the meatballs look like poop.
Thanks for the quick lookup. I did some dig on some sub-domains as well. Indeed looks like they have a wild card for sub-domain mapping.

I wonder then what is the extra advantage/feature that om and cbs are getting. Anyone can brand their bit.ly shortened url with or without bit.ly's consent
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But the Civil Rights act took every vote, even if he didn't personally craft the bill. He was a vote for the bill, and more, he was a vote for cloture. And that's no small thing.. At that time, cloture hadn't been achieved in 40 years.

And even more, it very nearly killed him. The plane crash on the way out of DC after staying late to vote on the bill left him in a hospital bed for months.
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Still, I don't see how "webhooks" help? Isn't it equivalent to having two webservices, one having a method for registering URLs?
Cool design, but it seems like something that should be done on a municipal level...

A simpler and more compact design that should get a big bang for your buck would be to use excess shower water for toilet flushes. A very simple filter (chemicals from soap/shampoo can stay in, but just get the muck/foam out) and a tank that can handle 4 flushes should make a pretty big improvement. I wonder what my shower:flush ratio is...

Ideally, though, all toilets & landscaping should be using low-grade reclaimed water on a municipal level.
I think it worked under http://awe.sm if it helps
hi mitko,
I'm the person behind the tetris challenge. I've thought of doing a challenge that sends every client the same 1000 or so pieces. This is why the API has been designed to be 'stateless'. You are right, right now the same client's score can vary by a huge amount just by the luck of the pieces. I've sat down to draw some round robin challenge that matches up pairs of clients to challenge them with the same pieces - but unfortunately I haven't had any time to code it! :)
"Each adult is free to make lifestyle decisions without the intervention of the state." I agree in principle, but the reality is people's lifestyle choices can impact the state - whether it be they turn to the government health systems to help break their addictions (I write this from UK where we have socialised healthcare) or crime rates go up, and the state has to increase the police force. There are so many issues, but it's interesting to see a government taking a more progressive attitude towards casual marijuana use.
My company, as far as I know, has no restrictions on either internet or computer use. I'm pretty certain I could use the pirate bay while at work if I wanted to (though I've never wanted to at home either, so that's unlikely to happen).

But, and this is a big but, I'm a computer guy. I understand how to keep my computer secure and running well. The chances of my computer getting messed up by anything but a hardware failure are slim to none. This is simply not true for most employees in most companies. People click on pop-up ads and install fake virus scanning spyware all the time. I'm sure you can think of other examples.

To simply say "give them training" is ignoring the fact that it takes YEARS to gain this kind of computer proficiency. It's also ignoring the fact that most users just don't care. They just want to use their computers and have someone else (either a person or a software package) watch out for them.

It's amazing how often people fail to think like an owner when writing things like this. If I have to give 500 employees 50 hours of computer training, that's 25000 hours of training. If my average employee earns $50,000 a year (about $24/hr with a 40 hour work week), that's $600,000 of lost time, not to mention the cost of training. And I'm giving a very conservative estimate of 50 hours of training. To get to the average proficiency of the average HN reader would probably take much, much longer. Since most large companies need an IT department anyway, the additional cost of having them administer content blocking and virus scanning software is much less.
Keeping the stack low is the easiest task in the game. Tetris scoring is designed to reward the risks involved in building a high stack.

You can't give 100% repeatable inputs as that opens the door to a fixed, hand-optimized placement pattern. If this is an issue, sample 100 runs and take one from the best, worst, and median cases.

What could be improved is to add some amount of "next piece" data. More data = more ability to use planning instead of probabalistic AI.

Initial configurations with garbage filling the bottom are a good way to test AI robustness, so I would recommend adding a mode for that.

Last, the most prestigious test would be to include the two-player modes. Like C-Robots or Corewars, but with Tetris :)
From TPB's point of view it is oppression. In this context, (asking why the sale isn't the end) that seems to be what is relevant.

That aside, I agree with you that calling this oppression is too much.
I think that by web access he meant internet access. This can be confirmed searching for other posts of the same news ( like in: http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1742440/uk_proposes_... )

Even if it was just HTTP access, that would be bad enough already!
I can't decide whether this really is about troll hugging (which is what it's about in the beginning and at the end), or a shameless plug about Pugs and himself (which fills the middle of the story).
I wonder what would happen if google.co.uk included a hidden iframe containing an "illegal download", such as a short story or newspaper article. How would the law treat that?
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What if a car is in the passing lane doing the speed limit? Asking them to move out of the lane so another driver could pass by speeding, breaking the law, doesn't make much sense either.
Why is this here? I'm a US citizen and I still don't think it ought to be.
I'm happing to see this is maybe becoming a trend (Mexico sort of decriminalized marijuana for personal use recently). The war on drugs has done much damage already.
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seriously, the first thing such a site need is a ton of users. and you'll get them faster by removing the obstrusive ads. then it should be rather easy to monetize the site -- doesn't even have to be google adwords...
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Didn't see it mentioned already, but <username>.bit.ly redirects to bit.ly/user/recent/<username>. So "pplante.bit.ly" redirects to "bit.ly/user/recent/pplante" which contains the list of my recent shortenings.

This must be an undocumented feature to allow user accounts to brand their links if desired, since it redirects to the account's recent list. I am curious if many twitter clients would properly recognize "<user>.bit.ly/xyz" as a shortened url and try to expand it via the API, my guess is a few out there might see this as a long url and try shortening it again. What a unforeseen mess that would cause.
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I'm working on something similar but in a different direction, we should talk. I think we would compliment each other very nicely. my email is stevenpwalsh at gmail dot com
It still works:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=786924
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One very minor suggestion: When you search for a dish that doesn't exist you should lead the user to a page that says so. I put in tepanyaki and while the url changed, it appeared that nothing had happened.
"Personal use decriminalization" is a farce. Imagine if possessing a cup of coffee remained perfectly legal, but anyone found with a box of coffee beans were presumed to be a dealer and sentenced to hard labor.
Yes they were using services of http://awe.sm to to get their own shortlinks at http://tcrn.ch. But lately I am seeing that they are using bit.ly and not tcrn.ch
The specific one of course ;-)
> Cool design, but it seems like something that should be done on a municipal level...

It is already in some places - see reed beds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedbed#Treatment_ponds
If you have a misspelling like http://www.recipepuppy.com/how/?tomake=eggg

You get an Error:

404 File Not Found

You should try to add something like

Did you mean: egg
twitterfox that I use as my twitter client does not recognize "<user>.bit.ly/xyz".

If it is an undocumented feature, it is susceptible to link hijacking. I can take a url shortened by you (pplante) and brand it as my own mayank.bit.ly/xyz. That will not be cool...
The year you were born in can not be an excuse for ignorance on any level. Yesterday it was 'the holocaust was before my time', now this.

There are history books aplenty out there.
Depends. For cancelling your reacting time you only need linear speed. And if the vehicle in front of you has the some breaking deceleration as you can achieve, that's fine.
Just reread the post after 15 months and it still amazed me. Especially the happy ending hack is of tremendous practical use.
Presumably him shooting himself is incidental? I'd guess he was charged with discharging a firearm without lawful purpose (or something along those lines), endangerment, carrying a concealed weapon without a license, being a moron ... oh scratch that last one, that's not illegal.
And much outrage would there be if they had started with the Polish version, and changed it for the US to make it more culturally diverse, instead of the other way around?
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In Germany manual transmissions are the norm. I heard people drive more aggressively than in the US. Might be a cultural thing, though.
Ah, but one does not need deciding between the two; when you hug someone, you are also fulfilling your own desire to be held. :-)

IMHO, one needs not feel shame at saying one wants to be noticed, understood or remembered; that is what makes us human in the first place, and only by communicating we can "unplug" the inhibitions that prevents useful communication.

I've been out of the blogosphere for two years, and only recently began re-familiarizing myself with the various communities formed by aggregator-forums, so naturally there will be some contextual drifts.

But I do try to form real discussions when I was involved in building the blogosphere, which involves telling part of my life-story, then listening to the other person's life-story so I can understand why they made their comments.

So... jvdh, what is your story that prompted you making that comment? I'd be glad to listen, if you would like to share.
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On modern cars with manual transmission, the motor is powered with some gas when it is not engaged. However when you leave it engaged an just don't push the pedal, no gas is needed. (Although the motor brakes somewhat. I don't know which effect is stronger.)
That's great when you have the luxury to make that choice. Most of us don't.

"Hell yeah" would be spending the remainder of my days in my villa on hawaii-beach, throwing pool-parties.

Oh wait, I don't have a villa on hawaii-beach.
Well, the 1984 Video Recordings Act has been declared unenforceable in the UK so better get downloading so you can get all the movies you want before they create a enforceable new law.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandor...
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If you want to be super accurate, real tetris lets you move the piece as it's falling, even for a short time while it's touching the ground. But whatever.

This is an awesome idea, though Tetris may not be the greatest choice for AI, since it's really a twitch game. I suspect Hickson's score is already close to the upper limit.

This is my favorite programming competition:
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It shouldn't be, but politics is a religion for many who lean left. One of the biggest liberal names just passed away, so it's here. My comment is way out of line, but so is this submission, but that's what happens when politics is introduced.
It's browser based iirc. You don't have to install a client.
Occasionally idiots pass on the outside.
Speed limit on an Autobahn?

(OK, there are speed limits on most patches of the Autobahn. But there are some without.)
Hmm. Lets see. Holding tank, gravel, sand, plants.. sounds a lot like our septic system. I just use grass instead. The reclamation phase just takes a little longer as the water seeps back down to the water table and into our well.
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Expanding the cafeteria seems like a no-brainer. And if they can't do that, they should raise the prices. Any time you have more customers than you can handle, classical economics says to raise the price. Doesn't have to be by much. Has the side effect of (maybe) making the store less appealing to those who are least likely to buy the furniture.
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Also check out the authors notes on selling the pistols: http://woodgears.ca/jenga_pistol/selling.html
Seriously, their response was to disable spaces in the form?

There is no legitimate reason for anything other than \w to be in there... how about a real filter? Twitter has been lazy and generally pathetic in just about every area since they began... talk about getting lucky with a good idea.
What prompted me in making the comment is that the title suggests your post is about troll hugging. But in describing that whole story, you do some large side-stepping, that in my mind are not related to the subject that you gave the post.
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Sounds like manic depression to me.
The example of refining the search for a good candidate is wise though - but it can be explained less dramatically. No candidate was remarkable, though some were good, and he re-advertised the position.
Dunbar's number gets a slight boost.
Ouch, I didn't even notice those crappy paid links before. Yeah, very bad style.
If you break faster than most other cars will often get rear ended, it's not just cushion for you but also the car behind you. Try to break from 70 on an empty road after 2 second reaction time and see how long it takes and how far your car travels, and then consider what would happen if someone was tailgating you at the time.

PS: Thinking you have a 2+ second reaction time helps to cover when you are not directly looking at the car ahead of you. The less of that cushion you have the more you need to focus on the car in front of you.
No, but the assumption of the ignorance of others as the reason you can't reach them is passive whilst the drive to provide better evidence to convince people is active. Sitting back and saying I've got what you need but you can't understand is not going to move you forward. Pushing on to a position of greater clarity and persuasion will usually help in convincing not only the as-yet-unconvinced but also win more mindshare with the convinced.

[Was that generic enough?!]
Given the free choice of X number of years in jail or not being able to become president, I have a feeling the vast majority of people being tried for the various forms of manslaughter, murder, etc. would be thrilled to choose the second. That's probably a solid sign that the punishment is not really all that comparable in magnitude.
If he's driving at the same rate as the cars in the inner lane, he shouldn't be in the passing lane.
This is unbelievable. Even more so that they would not just disable the displaying of the application until they are sure that thing is fixed. My guess is this was just the beginning of big time spam/phish/... problems for twitter...
> "Maximizing societal value may mean moving industry to places where the government is less of an impediment to efficient value creation."

Sure. Because after all, China is a paragon of good government.
On the other hand, a lot of new experiences might be "ehh, I guess" until you try them and discover a hell yeah.
Most of those questions could probably be applied to anyone who was committed a crime.
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Or more correctly "Plenty of Fish had a staff of one"?
They're planning on bit.ly using link data to start a news aggregator, and they want to be at the top of bit.ly's charts when it happens.
I prefer how Yoda said it, "Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'"
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How odd. He's right though but still...
My wife and I run a business together - we practically live in each others pockets. The business is small in every sense and yet we still need to have [occassional] meetings.

I don't believe they don't have any meetings, maybe they moved their meetings online, but they'd still be meetings.
Yes, I think that's fair and appropriate. PHP isn't necessarily sexy to many developers for a number of reasons (not a small part of it is the echo chamber effect), but it can be rewarding, productive, and performant. If nothing else, you'll have something else to put on your resume.
And instead of nitpicking, try to see the gist of it. When you have the choice, choose. When you're not obliged, choose.

You don't have to do it like the "Yes Man".
I see. There was another half of my title, though: "My hobby" (a xkcd meme). I was trying to self-analyze why troll hugging has become my favorite pastime, so the sidesteps were mostly about those reflections.

I'll take the Judo/Aikido paragraph as an example, in an attempt to form relations between that self-plugging paragraph and the concept "troll hugging" in your mind.

The Judo meme was first introduced to me by mjd in "Conference Presentation Judo" ( http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/ ) -- and because Larry Wall and Damian Conway both practices Aikido, they sometime use those two memes interchangeably.

I was reflecting why I've always refrained from using Judo/Aikido to describe what we've been doing in #perl6.

During writing that blog post, it occurred to me that it's about the destination; Judo/Aikido tries to contain and then throw out incoming attacks by making the attacker lose balance, while what we've been doing is quite the opposite; it aims to restore a conversational, one would even say hermeneutic, balance.

So by writing out that paragraph I feel I understand the "My Hobby" part a bit better, whilst also trying to explain that reflection to people who joined in the aikido/judo meme circle before.

That is how the relation was formed in my mind. Hope it helps!
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Reminds me of Cavafy:

http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/C/CavafyConsta/GreatYes.htm

Though I think he understands the trade-offs better than the OP. And, conspicuously, the decisions described mostly rest with and affect the decision maker. This is no way to make decisions for a group.

And while I'm tossing links around:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
But Craigslist beat others in establishing theirselves as the hub of that ecosystems; they didn't just buy the domain name and have all those groups of people there the next day.
Very cool stuff. It's nice to see another fallback for IE support aside from explorercanvas.
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Agreed for the most part. It drives me crazy when people make absurd comments like "PHP doesn't scale". Besides the fact that there are plenty of examples of PHP sites that have scaled, it exposes a basic ignorance of modern software development. That being said, I wouldn't want to sit down and try to do all my development in Pascal because it also has AND and OR, but I think we all get the point.