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Meta thread? Awesome... the mods love those.

Remove the penalty for stories which have more comments than upvotes.

Remove the visual censoring for downvoting until a certain threshold is reached (say, three downvotes) so the effect is more likely to occur on truly offensive comments rather than for mere disagreement.

Keep karma, since HN more or less runs on it, but remove the ability for users to see it, because it doesn't really tell you anything useful and just provides a number for people to play games with.

Remove the fading of text posts by default. If people abuse the privilege that's what downvoting and moderation are for, but there shouldn't be a penalty for people who actually want to, and are capable of, writing a reasonably long and high quality text post (which is the sort of thing HN should encourage, rather than discourage.)

Fold threads by default.

Add a title attribute to comment links so the entire title can be viewed when the link itself has been truncated for space.

Better typography - more than anything please increase the line spacing and the right-hand margin. And why can I change the color of the top banner but not change background color, font color/size/etc?

Thread merging - threads about the same topic could be grouped in a similar way to /new. Also allowing grouping on the frontpage would take the pressure off of those precious few slots, when popular topics are displayed as the latest post in the group, rather than individually. When someone submits a post on an existing topic, or link, they could be prompted to perhaps comment on an existing thread instead.

Indicate when a comment has been made after a parent comment has been edited, or don't allow comments to be edited after they've been replied to.
Sure, but it's crap that gets those Enterprises from A to B.

What I want to know is, what better crap is there that offers the ease of use that webforms does? If there's nothing better then this is the best crap we have.

It's kind of like how gas-guzzling, environment-ruining automobiles in general are crappy, but what practical alternatives exist that actually cover all of the use cases?
That's called 'projection' and I know what you mean. If you're put into a Prisoner's Dilemma with someone who believes that people always cheat, it's not hard to understand what they will do.
That is one thing I have to give to Hyderabad (India). For all its faults, you could safely walk on the side of the streets around the office park during the day, and drivers gave you space instead of doing the ugly American "I'm gonna mow you down for daring to enter my road!" thing.

Walking around at break to the street vendors was pretty cool, even if digestively perhaps risky :-)
Classic anti-$TOPIC hitpiece; link $TOPIC to pedophilia, then discuss the "controversy" of $TOPIC afterwards.

What a surprise, a pro-banking website tries to discredit a technology that can kill banks. Perhaps we should ask Monsanto what they think about organic farming and heirloom seeds?
> "How can you not spend 20k or more when there are 200 or more guests?"

The short answer is: don't do the expensive things people normally do at their weddings.

It's not required to have a meal at a wedding; some American subcultures expect cake and punch only. It's not required to spend thousands on a single-use dress; my grandma still brags about getting her dress on clearance and being able to wear it for multiple occasions. It's not required to have thousands of dollars of flowers; at my wedding, my mother-in-law and her friends grew flowers in their gardens for us, and my sister's wedding (one week from today) will use the church's silk flowers. You can actually have a wedding with 200+ guests and still come in under $1000 if that happens to align with your priorities.
Im getting script error as i block google-analytics in my firewall. Is it really needed to play the game?
Yeah that would be great, thanks Yoric. (We love Firefox by the way!)
>China's 'reserve army of labor' hasn't necessarily been exhausted yet. Wages in the inland provinces still lag those found in the coastal provinces, and

Inland province wages lag because building a factory in backwater China guarantees that you will be cut off from China's industrial infrastructure and your shipping costs will skyrocket. Hence no jobs there. If you want a job, you move to the coast.

Those regions really can't compete with places like Vietnam or Bangladesh that have access to a decent port AND have the same level of wages. Their best hope for rising wages is still from migrant workers funneling cash home.

>government policy is at least nominally trying to encourage investment and development there in an effort to close the gap.

I don't think it's really working. A large proportion of that investment (if not most) is being blown on useless projects and siphoned off by corrupt local government officials and their cronies. Worse, it's (nominally, at least) debt driven investment, too, so the provinces will need enormous bailouts or stimulus at some point if they are not going to suffer a crippling depression.

This happens in coastal China too, but the corruption and level of malinvestment isn't nearly as bad.

I think on some level inland China will always be very poor. I can well imagine quality of life in coastal Chinese cities overtaking the US and Bangladeshi/Vietnamese cities moving to first world status while dire poverty still exists in the Chinese countryside.
It should be!!! I believe people like you are the future of higher education - project-based learning where the students can actually see how the skills they're practicing might be used in the real world.

There are, unfortunately, too few of you but at least you're not alone. One of my favorite classes involved solving a problem encountered at a real business. It was free for the business - all they had to do was supply the problem. The students submitted suggested solutions and the business was free to implement the solution or (if they were being generous) tell the students why the solution wasn't used (and if they could, what the chosen solution was).
I've been hoping for a 'restore folder to date X' for a long time too.
where can I get them? lol
Funny how we feel the need to do statistics and draw charts to figure out what makes a good marriage, when all that's really needed is a little common sense.

1. Communicate your feelings instead of bottling them up.

2. Be selfless and stop focusing so much on getting your wants and desires, and trust that your needs will be met.

3. Be realistic, expect that you won't always get your way, things will go wrong sometimes, and you just have to do your best.

4. If you make a vow that your marriage is going to be forever, try sticking to that instead of thinking divorce is even an option.

5. Stop focusing so much on pleasure. Even Plato got this one right. Life isn't about maximizing your pleasure and minimizing pain, it's about doing what's right. Obsessing over getting pleasure KILLS marriages. It's what gave men the stereotype of being sex-driven and what gave women the stereotype of lying there in bed just waiting for it to be over.

6. Stop believing the media. They completely get marriage and sex wrong, in every sense, in every place. Turn off your TVs and think for yourselves about what it should look like and be. Sex is a wonderful way to celebrate the most intimate union of your marriage, but it's not this amazing thing everyone should obsess about getting all the time.
Those pretty much have to be correlates for something, but I wonder what?
So, no evidence, then.
This, a million times. I'm a bit further down the abstraction chain but I am thoroughly glad I sit there all day writing C/C++ for Windows native (win32) GUI applications.

I know once I've tested it on one machine it's going to work fine on all the other ones. It's the most stable API and platform I've ever seen. Code we wrote for Windows NT4 works fine on Windows 8.1 and behaves exactly the same.

Compare that to our poor web guy who spends at least 50% of his time trying to get everything working on a selection of browsers going from IE6 to the latest Chrome while necking red bull, using the F word a lot, smoking and going bright purple.
I haven't used onedrive in a while, but when I did it would take a lot of resources and syncing tiny changes tended to take over 15 minutes.
What makes Man In the High Castle a classic is that the idea of an alternate history was a novel concept as the basis of a science fiction story...one that Roddenberry recycled unrepentantly a few years later.

What is interesting is that VALIS [I've only read the first one] extends that notion in a Faulknerian ["The past is never dead. It's not even past."] way: "The Empire never ended." Though the triumph of the Axis is still more disconcerting than the persistence of the Romans.
Sounds very logical, but marriage usually carries a great deal of emotional weight with at least one of the people in the relationship.

There are also some legal advantages in case the relationship ends with regards to income, assets, and child custody.
...so long as you build sufficiently quiet apartment buildings.

Comparing my apartment in Boston to mine in SF is like day and night. Here, I feel like I have my own place. It is a tad bit like a hotel room, but I don't hear much neighbor noise compared to the racket in Russian Hill.

Having a continual uneasiness due to random loud noises or having your own life impacted (listening to TV at a whisper, for example) is not human-friendly.

I think apartments get a bad rap because they are built with paper thin walls. It is more expensive to build with bigger spaces and proper noise control, but it has made a giant difference in my standard of living.
Is this 20k+ number in the original data? I might be reading it wrong, but it kind of looks like the opposite correlation is there.
>I put the A-team resources on Longhorn, not on phones or browsers.

Hilarious. It wasn't the lack of an A-team resource on browsers, it was the lack of any team. Microsoft just left browsers there and did nothing.

Microsoft's other big sin is counting on its hardware partners. They could have preempted the iPod, for instance, but they just hoped Creative and others would deliver a great experience, while they sat back and wrote the software and cashed in on licenses. Same for tablets. Tablet PCs were great in the 00s, and I loved using them. Except, they were clunky and had little mass appeal. Once again, MS just counted on its partners and never gave a thought to the full experience.

Also, the fact that Windows still is touch/pen unfriendly outside of Metro just shows they Don't Get It. Instead of working on some tech to make Windows work well across all its apps, they ditch everything and hope Metro will work. It's hard to imagine that anyone could be so myopic.
Ekman is no less of of voodoo priest than polygraphers - an entire so-call profession of witch doctors. He has cashed-in magnificently on a government and population willing to buy empty high-tech looking boxes from a dowsing practitioner to detect bombs.
We don't measure it - I don't see this turning into a scientific study. I'm not suggesting that one party should be subjected to continued suffering when they're bound to a selfish person either. This is a definite down-side to societal pressure.

The other somewhat related topic is abuse victims. Even without societal pressure, they'll often convince themselves they deserve it and stay with their abuser.
From my experience, the happiest marriages are of people who don't just "go" to church, but actually try to "live" their church's teachings in all areas of their lives. Churches usually promote selflessness, sacrifice, honesty, gentleness, and sincere love. So it's a recipe for happiness inside or out of marriage, but especially inside marriage.
To be fair, this pretty much ends after you have basic rune pages and hit level 30. I mean, ok, maybe you don't have the perfect runes because mana runes were good on Ryze (and terrible on every other champ) or something, but even with max rune pages, you can't really account for every champ very well (and believe me, I've tried, as I ARAM with everyone...)
I think what I'm trying to ask is, has any successfully merged forked projects? What would be required to reconcile everyone's issues enough to make everyone work on one codebase?
I think quicken did this very early in their history. They would look over a new customers shoulder to fine any parts of the product that were hard to use.
It's very cool, gets back to using the power of the simplicity of UNIX. I found though, that X middle click paste doesn't work.

I made a directory at /mnt/mccomsoft then ran Firefox and didn't see it which is good. :) Then I tried mounting that using your HttpFS with:

mount http://www.mccomsoft.com/index.html /mnt/mccomsoft

It gave me:

Cross-origin request denied (check if psty is running)

Which is also good. :) If I load Pigshell from my domain though then it should mount fine.

One user commented below it's like the Internet was a shell and you've cracked it open. I agree.
> These days, rather than dealing with that mess, many companies just go for an off-the-shelf hosted solution that sort of fits their needs, such as Basecamp, or Jira, or Igloo. The existence of these products is a sign that we've gone off in the wrong direction somewhere

No, its a sign that the web has enabled easier application delivery with greater reach at lower cost; Access is still around, after all, and most businesses have it right at hand, so if the alternatives were worse, they'd still be using it.
> Friends of mine that come from family backgrounds with a lot of divorce have the same view that you do.

I come from a family with a history of long, strong marriages. My parents are another success story. They have learned to tolerate each other, and we (my parents, my sister, myself) are all better for it.

What do I base my opinion on?

1. My parents fought on occasion. Screaming matches, passive aggression, shit-talking behind each others backs. It was rare and not nearly enough to threaten the marriage, but it gave me a point of comparison.

2. I had friends whose parents did this constantly. Rather than fighting 5% of the time, they fought 95% of the time. I saw some of it first hand.

3. I had friends whose parents were divorced. It wasn't ideal and it created more than a few miscommunications, but the kids got the attention they needed, they didn't complain about their parents trying to take their anger out on them, and things generally seemed to work out OK.

By "filling in the blanks" in my friend's description of #2 with my own experiences of parental fighting (#1), I believe #2 is a considerably worse state of affairs for all involved than #3.

> projection

Right back at you.

> cheaters, liars project

We are in complete agreement on this point :P

I think we would both agree that there is a "you get out what you put in" effect in marriage. More tolerance and more commitment from either partner greatly increase the strength of the marriage and are generally a good thing. My contentions are that there's a turning point where this stops being true and that contract verbiage is poor at determining this turning point and providing appropriate guidance.
You are not providing for the security of those that own the content, either in the case of a movie studio or in this case the taker of the photograph.

If you choose to have root, fair enough, but that decision does mean certain applications should cease to work. Simply banning all those applications from being allowed isn't really a solution at all.

Personally, I prefer to carry separate devices which are rooted and not, and this strikes me as the only viable way forward.

Some of your tech details are wrong btw. It is quite possible to get images on the screen which can't be accessed by the CPU, for example. Phones are not architecturally anything like as simple as desktop PCs.
I agree ... in college you don't have to do 1, 2 or 3. The ability to do them is however a necessary skill (e.g. "I was (generally) allowed to eat, use my laptop as I saw fit." - but if you browsed the Internet during the entire class period, you'd have completely missed the presented materials).

So college classes don't force students into these behaviors like high-school classes often do, but the ability to self-regulate those same behaviors are needed for success.
I completely agree. I feel like these type of interviews are biased towards developers who have just graduated and still have data structures fresh on their minds and have the free time to actually study for interviews. I also think that this is an incredibly inefficient way to hire developers for both sides of the process. I mean, having 4-5 developers spend a one hour meeting for each interviewee who has a high chance of not making it is such a waste of time. And on the interviewee side, having them take a day off just to interview? That's a lot to ask especially if they are interviewing for several companies. Again, this is a bias towards younger grads who do have the time to take a day off.

Personally, if these algorithm interviews are nothing more than a fancy FizzBuzz test, why not just provide a take home coding problem? And if the interviewee doesn't pass them, then at least they just didn't waste a vacation day to interview with the company. And if they do pass, then subsequent interviews should be more open ended (like how to design/code an elevator) and more knowledge base (deep down questions about systems that they have worked on) to prove that they try to understand the entire problem space and not just do superficial fixes.

Also IMO, asking questions where there is an obvious right or wrong answers adds unnecessary pressure to the interviewee since a 90% correct solution is still wrong. And expecting an interviewee to code during a whole day interview is crazy. How many of us can think straight after having a whole day high pressured meeting?

In all honesty, the place where I worked with the best developers was with this one company who only had an average level of difficulty on their interview process but was very proactive in letting people go if they don't measure up within 6 months. I'm not saying that is the correct approach (as it had an adverse effect on the company culture and welcoming new employees), but I think for me, I would gladly do that rather than go through the Bay Area interviews.
I find studies produced by the Gottman institute far more compelling because they're much more prescriptive. In particular they analyze the "four horsemen" of conflict in a marriage and how these undermine marriage stability:
http://www.gottmanblog.com/2013/04/the-four-horsemen-recogni...

The long term presence of these "four horsemen" is a strong predictor of divorce, and the recognition of their presence is a good sign that a marriage needs help.
I'd like to see how this differs from what Chris Granger's Eve[0] will be one day.

His description of Eve is still very vague.

[0] http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/10/01/beyond-light-table/
It is possible to do these analyses and isolate a single variable regardless of the correlations with other variables. I'm hoping they did this but their methods section does not seem to indicate that they did.

They have a very large variable space (one variable per question) and they want to reduce that to the ones that are actually interesting. Hopefully they did some sort of dimensionality reduction to find the important variables, and I expect a lot of those new dimensions were comprised of many variables, for example, wealth and money spent on wedding are probably correlated.
HN's audience largely supports innovation and potential revenue streams above freedom. Complaining about DRM will inevitably get someone compared to RMS.
It appears that the vast majority of popular science fiction authors are men.

http://www.amazon.com/author-rank/Science-Fiction/books/1627...

(not saying good, mind you. For example "military sci fi")
Anyone else drawn the connection to http://xkcd.com/55/ yet?
The radar and weapon control systems are "locked on" to from the aircraft's perspective - I don't really understand what you're talking about...

A particular target has been identified, it is being tracked (maybe at the expense of scanning for other targets if its an older system, probably with track-while-scan otherwise), and based on this updates are being sent to the missile in order to control its initial trajectory when it gets launched to point it in the correct direction.
Because it's still totally flawed? Nothing stops anyone from writing a program that pretends to be Snapchat and downloads the keys and images as it pleases.
Oh if it were simply at's really needed is a little common sense

None of this really bears out.
What is the economic cost of slowing everyone down?

If moving from 30mph roads to 20mph roads reduced average traffic speed, then this would be a valid argument.

However, for most urban streets during the daytime the average speed is set not by the roads themselves but by the traffic capacity of the intersections along the road. It doesn't really matter how fast you can drive along a road if it only means that you get to the back of the queue for the next set of traffic lights a little earlier!
Maybe the unnecessary part refers to keeping the IVs in the "secure" bananas file, instead of as unencrypted metadata in the DB? IVs aren't a secret.
I use packrat - so the files they suggest that I might have had deleted were recoverable (though none of them were an error).

If dropbox kept backups like you're suggesting, people would be complaining about how you can't delete damning files from them and that law enforcement was abusing this.
> Microsoft just left browsers there and did nothing.

Yes, but wasn't that intentional? Once IE4, then 6, had conquered the world, the point was to keep people from leaving Windows for the Web, and so IE dev was stopped dead.
Ask HN: Was there really a dot com bubble?
Wikipedia points out, that at the peak of the dot com bubble, "America's 371 publicly traded Internet companies have grown to the point that they are collectively valued at $1.3 trillion".

Thats about as much as the combined value of Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook today. So the internet did hold up to its promise.

Even if we only look at companies that already existed during the "bubble" - there is a lot of value. Amazon is worth 143 billion. Ebay 64 billion. If we add up all the value of the survivors, maybe we come to the conclusion that there was no bubble?
I think this is spot on the money.
Again I wasn't arguing that DRM works, just why people keep wanting to use it.
"Browser tabs will only confuse people". Ha!
> Much better for the environment, and most importantly, better for people.

Please don't put out blanket claims like this and pretend they're obviously true, and then use them as justification for your particular view of how society should structure its geography. Some people hate densely populated areas. It would be utterly detrimental to my mental health to live in one. So if I have the choice to not live in an urban area, I'm going to take it.

I have a 45 minute commute each way every day to work. Long commutes suck. Living in the city sucks way more.
Winforms is fine, not as powerful as what came before it but otherwise good. The problem with winforms is WPF supposedly deprecating it.
YC Startup School Live Notes
The problem is that happiness in a marriage varies heavily over time, and has lots of ups-and-downs.

I think a big thing that commitment devices (religion, family ...) help with is that when the going gets touch for a little while, you stay together, which is usually good in the long run.

If your marriage sucks for several years, or if there's abuse, then breaking it may be OK; but many of the issues you discard would also signal people not committed, and marriages breaking because they suck for a couple of months.
This sounds easy to game: If I work for X I send many requests when the fares are in my favor.