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Do you not see the irony of linking to some blog with the same Photoshopped image that this post is talking about?

--wazoox, 2011. I guess these are more 'facts' out of the sky.

That's a pretty strong statement without any proof to back it up. What is this satisfactory proof that this "has been disproved years ago"?

I don't know what else to expect from a thread with an editorialized title taken from Reddit and ZeroHedge of all places.

HN is full of spam and has been for years. There are more spam submissions in /newest than non-spam. Thankfully pg and the other moderators are swift in implementing tools to blast spam accounts and urls.

This recent Facebook smear campaign is interesting to watch on HN. Is it the work of an organized group, or just the hivemind's gobbling up of anything anti-Facebook? Either way, it's poor form and not news, this plugin and its more broader 'disconnect' sibling have been linked before several times.

Nb: I have no skin in this game, I personally don't have a Facebook account, but it's not because I'm some anti-FB zealot.

The frontpage of HN has been very disappointing in the last week with non-substance links littering it, and even less worthwhile comments accompanying them. Let's try not to upvote such frivolous and low-signal links.

Why?

Didn't start as Anonymous, started on Reddit[1] but seeded by AdBusters[2], a liberal "anti-consumerist" outfit. They're supposed to camp out on Wall St in New York for reasons that aren't really clear at all. It's basically every delusional Redditor on /r/politics slacktivism turned into reality.

They're supposed to be protesting something about banks, bailouts, corporate personhood, jobs, and other assorted /r/politics common whining points.They apparently weren't aware that very few of the evil big banks are actually on Wall Street and that the NYSE is just a vestige of history by now. The only thing that will happen is a lot of tourists will flock down and the street will get even more clogged than it is for traffic and some arrests. People try to protest here all the time. It's nothing new. Stick the word "Anonymous" on it though and for some reason people take it to be a big deal for some reason.

This is the coming together of the most extremist Chomsky acolytes and reactionary redditards all in one with some V for Vendetta masks. Huge parody potential except for the fact that they're doing it for themselves already. Quite hilarious.

edit: this sort of reminds me of the 2005 Greenpeace attempt[3] to stop open-air trading at the International Petroleum Exchange by flooding the floor of the exchange with loud buzzers and bells, but getting beaten back bloody literally to the curb by all the angry traders. This was right around Kyoto.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbusters

[3] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article515384.ece

jjp9999 is poster who submits pretty much exclusively from theepochtimes.com (a Falun Gong site, not good to see on HN frontpage) and techzwn.com, connected to theepochtimes.com

I'd highly recommend this url be added to the blocked spammers list.

I also disagree with the downvoting as it goes against all the rules and very spirit of HN, but this whole area is kinda touchy. It's probably the biggest amount of beef ever in HN history. It spilled out into outright brawls in the comments more than once between pg and idlewords:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982832

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048849

Kindof hilarious actually. idlewords finishes by calling pg a "weenis".

Great tumblr fodder guaranteed to be healthily reblogged for the next few months. Don't see how it's (and most other infographics) pertinent to HN though.

Waaay ahead of you there partner: http://lifehacker.com/5837900/rent-out-your-toilet-with-cloo

All we need now to cover all the bases is a rent a my wife for the evening sorta site.

Edit: I love the comment by DoJo* there, very germane: "We're all clear, right, that there is no possible world in which this does not lead to someone advertising a bathroom and then filling it with 63 hidden webcams and selling the videos on the internet? We all aknowledge that it would be impossible for that NOT to happen, right?"

I don't think they put it purposefully; it's in the <title> of the page. They probably submitted with the bookmarklet.

The `vi +154` bit is new for me, thanks, I learned a new trick that should make debugging even faster now. Also, I forgot about grep -i. Very cool.

PHP has been mirrored on github for awhile already if you want to follow it and stuff: https://github.com/php

I don't see what difference having a git.php.net repo vs a github one will make. It's the same vcs...

Why?

The trolls have already got in, there's some guy who's screaming PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS all day.

I wonder if this new activity of the weighting algo noticed all the rapid upvotes for new posts originating from #startups on freenode? That place is a regular source of 'please upvote my story here guys: <link>' even from the channel ops, two well-known HN-ers.

Video of it in practice with practical explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTFBYEq9UgE

This is probably it, I block all social widgets, addthis, share me, and advertising in my hosts file.

What scroll bar? (Chromium 12, Linux)

/r/politics is thatta way for the extremist Chomsky acolytes out there.

Something like that. You're not the billionth person who's asked or anything.

To be pedantic, Rome wasn't in ruins in 400AD. The Visigoths wouldn't sack it for another decade and the Vandals plunder and raped the city proper more than 50 years later. The last nominal imperator was dethroned by a barbarian in 476AD.

Why are you so sure it will? Can you give me use cases or examples where a restaurant owner stands to make money from his site anywhere other than booking reservations possibly?

Yes, during the Roman Triumphs[0] during the Republic and heavily during the Roman Empire there purportedly was a slave who held the wreath of a victor over the head of the Imperator or who ever else was being celebrated and whispered phrases like "Respice te, hominem te memento" -- Look behind you, remember you are only a man and "Memento mori" -- Remember (that you are) mortal.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_triumph