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But there ARE people out there who do have enough leverage, by dint of fame, connections, history (what they've worked on), experience and exclusive experience.

Not at Google. This may arguably be a shortsighted move, but Google often walks away from the table even after they've spent months wooing some luminary.

The prima donna attitude is usually a fast way to get a NO HIRE. Pretty much any employee at Google feels perfectly comfortable saying NO HIRE to absolutely anybody. This attitude is encouraged at the highest levels.

I guarantee you that if Linus Torvalds himself were being interviewed, some jackass would still be giving him questions about missionaries and cannibals crossing a river. And if he didn't get it, they'd write "not mentally agile enough" on the interview report.
...but there is a little pride when you are able to "put hands into" any OS.

This is the way always is and expected to be ....
It'll still be faster than IE8 though, even with the "patch" :D
Repeat after me: you cannot have a system with points and expect people not to play games with it. Just accept it as a given and try to work around mob voting in other ways. Perhaps there is a way to make the system work against it's own mob tendencies.

The entire point of using karma is that it means something -- it has value. Heck, I bet to some folks it has a lot of value. I'd further bet that it has so much value to some folks that you could monetize it. But that's a discussion for another day.
I also considered that a feature. I have 3 choices: -1, 0 and 1, and almost always I choose 0.

I do think that people make too much of karma and comments scores. But I don't understand why pg thinks this particular aspect is an improvement.
this is weird and surprising to me, but it's causing me to look at news.yc in a refreshing new way. so i guess that has to be a good thing.
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Your Flickr account security probably matters to you a lot more than you think. Plenty of people thought the security on their Facebook accounts "didn't really matter", then 4chan got hold of a bunch and used them to totally destroy people's reputations with their real-life friends: http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2009/08/22/4chan-hac...
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Multiple phony names and email address just to give a Big Boy illusion. Works.

Cold call one day "on behalf of your VP of foo", get the details of the contact person, wait 2 days, call as "VP of foo".
I think you hit the nail on it's head in the later part of your comment. I think what is killing reddit is that funny attracts 10x votes when insightful attracts x and lately that is exactly what is happening here. But I don't think this experiment is a solution at all. The thread as ordered by the HN algo is definitely not the right order to read a thread.
"If a study, significant at p=0.05, is replicated again at p=0.05, then the odds of that happening when there actually is no effect (assuming independence) are the product of the two (0.0025)."

I think that must be approximately right, but I'm not sure it is precisely right. Imagine you do a very large number of studies and suppose the null hypothesis is in fact true. P will always be less than 1, maybe slightly less than one - or suppose that it is 1 occasionally. This is because P varies from 0 to 1. Now go ahead and multiply these Ps, and if you've done enough studies, the product is going to be very small even if all the individual Ps are close to 1 and even though the null hypothesis is true.

So I don't think a simple multiplication is exactly the right formula, though it does seem as though it must be about right.

I googled the question and found a formula for combining P of two independent studies, but it's not simple multiplication. You start with the Ps, find the corresponding Zs (I do not know what those are), then add them and divide by sqrt(2). This is your new Z, and then you take the corresponding P. Also, it requires that the Ps must be one-tailed, so it is not a fully general formula. I do not understand the Zs but my point is that if it were simply a matter of multiplying the Ps then why go to the trouble of adding Zs? I found it here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=nxOFMQYMIlgC&lpg=PA527&...

As for why it doesn't match exactly the familiar formula for combining independent probabilities (i.e. you simply multiply them), I think the answer lies in the nature of P. P is not really "the probability of that result" but "the probability of a result that is at least that extreme", and this subtly different meaning results in a different way in which the individual Ps must be combined.
Of course it's a game. But it should be a game that fosters insightful comments and interesting threads, not one-liner jokes and inflammatory outbursts.
Same problem when upvoting the story on its comment page (e.g. here). It seems to be the javascript: the score is increased if you reload the page.
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:Ex is a very useful command. And at first I thought that doing 'vim foo' where foo was a folder was just a quirk of UNIX, but eventually I figured that it's a folder browse view.

No more feeling around folder structures with ':e'!
I actually don't think that free software has been mired by rigid views. It's simply been a terminology war from the beginning, that the FSF has generally lost: every time they coin a term, its meaning is completely confused by something else.

Just look at the hijackings. How many people really know that most of the components of what's called Linux have actually been destined for an OS called GNU, which has a different kernel (HURD)? How many people think free software refers to $0.00? And most important of all, how many people must still think that free and open-source are the same thing?

Free software has earned the undeserved reputation of being incompatible with businesses, when the reality is that it doesn't prevent anyone from selling anything. I suppose, like any gesture of trust, no one wants to be first: which business will "risk" opening up all its code for competitors to essentially learn from without reciprocating? The reality is different: not only would the business be able to tap into thousands of GPL'd projects without having to write its own code, but it would be able to benefit from code reviews, fixes, and new contributions. If any competitors did steal the code, the GPL requires the competitor to open everything up in return. These restrictions are really not that unreasonable for software companies, who you'd think would want to produce high-quality software for the lowest possible cost.
"10 points by ivankirigin" is actually quite misleading. It looks like "ivankirign" gave the comment 10 points.

We are having the same problem on how to show it correctly on GraffitiGeo. We ended up using "by ivinkirigin, points: 10", which in my opinion is still not perfect.

Any idea on this?
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That might work for a while, but eventually someone is going to figure you out.

I would never work with someone who played sleazy games like that.
I agree.

I wonder if you could just have three buttons/widgets: insightful, funny, and troll.

Then just click what you think of the article, and insightful articles rise to the top.

Heck, you could even make it a user preference whether to sort insightful first, funny first, or troll first (why you'd want to do that I don't know, but some might)

It would involve just one more graphic element than the current up/down arrows, and would give people release to say the funny things when they feel like they have to instead of having the site self-police.
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It was only intended to solve one of the problems, as the other 'problem' is exactly what removing the names would seek to address: a person's authority/history influencing the weight of their comments within a thread. It'd really benefit people who've earned a negative following, but I don't see such a mob mentality on here as opposed to certain aggregators in which biases become apparent in just a few threads.
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I'm horrible at choosing lines, and it aggravates me to no end.

As in most endeavours, the vastly more important factor in determining efficiency is the person doing the job. i.e. the cashier or the programmer, not the type of line, or the language.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. I think that any hardcore specialist will be missing out somewhat on the synergy that knowledge of the various parts of the universe provides. But given our educational advancements we're much more well rounded in terms of education than people a century ago. So in that sense we're all polymaths. And having a general understanding of a variety of topics can still produce some synergy towards increased understanding of the universe or any specific topic.

Our intellectual capabilities haven't changed but the amount of knowledge we know amasses. So eventually, which is happening now, we'll reach a point where it is no longer possible to be at the head of multiple (at least scientific) fields because there is too much to remember. Part of the reason for this is because people have specialized terminology and field specific nuances that must be learned ( as opposed to having concepts described in common language).

Art is an exception, because it does not advance quantitatively like science. So we should still be able to excel in specialized knowledge and be able to artistically express ourselves. This is also why, as the article mentions, lots of people write. It's a form of expression. Anyone can write as long as they have a good idea, and anyone can paint or compose since the difficulty in doing these things has remained constant.
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Great idea.

(This one is going to go down, but that's all I have to say.)
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I can see why the change is for the better: my vote (-1, 0, 1) should not be skewed/altered based on past events (others voting). Also, an "appropriate" total vote count is not something that an individual should be determining; it should be a collective thought. The only thing an individual should decide on is whether to award the comment a -1/0/1 purely based on the comment, nothing more. This change removes everything else (or so we assume: but considering the fact that the position on the page is still modified, it's not perfect, but it's close enough in my book).
I think it would be very informative to collect data on whether or not that sort of mob effect gets diminished by removing display of the comment-votes: will it keep "cute" one-line jabs from soaring to top of page?

PS: please don't ask me how to quantify such data :)
I think you just described slashdot without visible karma counts :)
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That's great. Thanks. I really love this idea, by the way.
I wasn't trying to say that Groveshark did anything illegal, just most of the songs there (and all those I had seen) didn't seem to be licensed (mostly because they where available in multiple copies). I assume that the uploads was done by users, not Groveshark.
very first thing i had to do when I tried a mac mini before it didn't feel like I'd contracted some kind of motor neurone disease was install some dubious hack (If I recall correctly it was called iMouseFix or somesuch). And the default schemes pissed me off, I messed with them a bit trying to make them less eyesore-esque but gave up after realising magnifique (sp?) themes were just bad hacks also.

This whole "it just works" thing never ceases to confuse me.

Gave up, went back to linux, never again considered a return.
Interesting idea, but now old threads like this, where people voted by modding up, don't make sense:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527681
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I have no such place that I would want my identity tied to. I could run my own OpenID server but that's even more of pain

You don't need to run your one server. Just get an openId from myopenid.com. Get several. then your ... deniable posts won't be "directly attributed" to the one that's in your real name.
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A 'well known', 'experienced' and 'respected' investor would never force their presence in a company onto a company that did not want them.
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Roughly a decade ago, I had the good fortune to be present at the retirement party of my university's Dean of Business. In the requisite speech, he commented that the hardest term of teaching he ever had was when he had to go from teaching "Ethics and Corporate Responsibility" to "Introduction to Marketing" with only a 10 minute gap in between.

That said, I don't believe that working in advertising gives you a free pass to act dishonestly. Advertising should be about making people aware of a good product -- not deceiving them about your product's quality.
You know how sometimes online stores won't tell you the price of something until you add it to your cart? Hacker News feels kind of like that now. Like price, comment score is the best indicator of context, class, and quality.

I feel kind of lost.
How about putting comment scores back in for people who have been here for at least X days / weeks / months or who have a comment score total greater than Y? I've been here since the beginning and value having the ability to pay more attention to higher rated comments when I'm skimming discussions.
This is the type of thing that bothers me about mandated net/carrier neutrality. It's all well and good in theory, but in practice it ends up restricting innovation and limits freedom. If people didn't like what Google Voice brought to the table, they simply wouldn't use it. All you get when you regulate something like this is yet another way to bludgeon the competition into submission.
Sure it does. This is a community of individuals who share common interests. If the community values a particular comment, there's a high probability that I'm going to find value in it as well because of those shared interests.
I disagree: give me a cashier in their forties or fifties anytime. They are work fast and are more experienced than a young temp or weekend worker.
For me the people who are waiting makes a big difference. Couples are good, because when one is paying the other will be handeling the groceries.
Pretty good, nice balance of terse and informative. Do more!
I vote about every Django strory up ( :) ), but seriously, djnagosnippet.org? Who in Django world doesnt know and use this?
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Theory is one thing, practice another. I arrived at this after repeated trial and error; most big advertisers will not talk to a little guy no matter what. I do this just to crack the corporate shell and reach someone, after that we're on first name basis.
I believe I read about one here a few months back. Sorry nothing concrete. I know if I am ever in need more help, I'd go through networks and then ask around here.
"The only thing an individual should decide on is whether to award the comment a -1/0/1 purely based on the comment, nothing more."

exactly
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That would be a star rating system then. Supposedly they work worse.
there is no one single "right" - there is better and worse.

I think this change is for the better.
What a joke!
On top of their very bad communication and challenge management, Google has a curious opinion on what will change and improve the world.

There were different categories and it seems that only one has been retained (social, education).

They have even not published a simple list of submitted project by categories.

By the end of the submission period, they have blocked access to the original pages and now they have flushed their cache.

Challenge categories:

Community: How can we help connect people, build communities and protect unique cultures?

Opportunity: How can we help people better provide for themselves and their families?

Energy: How can we help move the world toward safe, clean, inexpensive energy?

Environment: How can we help promote a cleaner and more sustainable global ecosystem?

Health: How can we help individuals lead longer, healthier lives?

Education: How can we help more people get more access to better education?

Shelter: How can we help ensure that everyone has a safe place to live?

Everything else: Sometimes the best ideas don't fit into any category at all.

I'm now convinced that this game was setup by Google to grab or better to harvest ideas for free and take patents to make business.

I invite everyone to monitor the patents issuing rate from Google since a few months and in the near future.

As an example, I've submitted the Energy meter at the beginning of the game and 4 months later the Google Power meter was published with exactly the same features.

Very sad.
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what about not removing name completely but making it invisible unless your pointer is at location it is hiding behind? you can still find out who has written the comment if you mean it, but your main criteria for valuing comment is it's content.
> Like price, comment score is the best indicator of context, class, and quality.

It can be when the site is new and only an overall smart population lives on it, but yc is (I guess) growing, and as it grows the quality of the voting (and therefore the score) decreases: insightful comments running against the general opinion get mercilessly downvoted, useless comments matching the general opinion rise.
I will be happy to hear which was this bank so that I put my money of there if I have account. I wouldn't like my money support an institution with such poor practices and with such disrespect for people's privacy.
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z is the number of standard deviations the result mean is removed from the expected mean.

For two-sided tests there's a small table at http://www.bmj.com/collections/statsbk/apptaba.dtl
I submitted that booklet - which is a really good intro to statistics - at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=845275
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Love me some vim, but isn't this kind of old? It is awesome though - think I used it back when I was getting started with vim.
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Why not just "ivinkirigin, 10 points" or something. I think it's fairly obvious that the first word is a username.
That may open up a new revenue stream for AT&T, but I don't think it solves the cost issue in their long-haul business that they were trying to address by not carrying calls terminating at expensive LEC's.

I don't know the details of it, but it seems like they are obliged by regulation or legislation to provide that service to rural LEC's. It could be compared to Starbucks trying to close down an unprofitable rural store and being told they had to keep it open to satisfy rural coffee drinkers' caffeine addictions.
You're missing the point - my post states that it is confused about whether it is an early stage open ecosystem to benefit everyone or actually just a way to benefit a closed network of investors with their "seedcamp" fund.

As a small note, I'm a serial entrepreneur with successful exits and an avid advisor, mentor, and investor in a range of UK startups.
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We could always make a compromise where people who choose to moderate can't see scores. It would be trivial to circumvent but it will deter 90% of people, and here that's 90% as good as deterring 100%.
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The world is moving more and more towards separating storage from logic, so you don't need a lot of CPU power attached to each disk; on the consumer side there are cheap NAS devices, but they (a) generally don't allow you to install your own code without major hackery, and (b) aren't designed for server environments.
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The global production rate of quality movies is much less than 3 per week

Erm maybe. But people don't just watch new releases. I watch about 1-2 Netflix DVDs a week, and my queue keeps getting longer - not because I am watching Citizen Kane, but through normal tangents ("gee, this Edward Norton movie was fabulous, wonder what else he has done"). But I also watch documentaries and some TV series on netflix too, so maybe I am not typical. I also don't go out to the cinema, so I don't rule out new releases because I have already seen them.

I think the great thing about Netflix is that it really encourages you to branch out because it doesn't feel like any particular DVD "costs" you anything.
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A lot depends on where you sit in the industry you work in, what the industry is like (for example some large firms will have 2 or 3 recruiters and won't take direct applications) and how many players.

In our industry (Information Security) some recruiters are useful and do provide a service for both sides, but there are a lot that are like the ones this guy had to deal with. Thankfully our end of the industry is quite small and the shoddy ones tend to have a reputation that preceeds them.