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The more direct response to the OP would be to limit downvoting based on whether a user has already downvoted another post of the same user already. But even that gets silly.

You mentioned in your essay on this that you wrote a sign-up program for it. Just out of curiosity, did you use Arc? If not, why not? If it was written in Arc, I'd guess that it was much simpler than HN in terms of complexity.

(Blatantly copied from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=659520)

You can do that using the best list at http://news.ycombinator.com/best. This is the best recent stories, for some value of recent (I believe 10 days).

The prize committee did declare that there was "no suitable living candidate" the year after Gandhi died.

I am under the impression that Lua is widely used for video games.

I do just the opposite of this: I click links from the bottom up on the front page, and often only look at the comments.

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Might you be thinking of Ruby x Agile? http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/ruby-x-agile

How is this any more appropriate for Hacker News than President Obama's speech to schoolchildren (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810399)? It seems to me that both are a national leader saying basically common things.

Defining abstractions is a form of optimization: it is the optimization of code readability. "Never optimize without profiling." "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

This reminds me of rush tickets http://www.kimmelcenter.org/planning/tickets.php

Not again...

That's who decides in home-schooling, and it's not limited to "tracks".

The second of those links was where I first heard of the OP.

Unfortunately, I think I was unable to find the first of those links, so I re-submitted the website.

Thanks for the comment.

I am not a lawyer, nor have I ever published code under any license, but I believe that, to let anyone do whatever they like with your code, you say that it is in the public domain.

If men lived forever, earth would be hell.

This one of the funniest things I've read all week!

http://hnstartups.com/ was started to list the startups of HN users. However, it does not check that a submitter really is a HN user, so it's mostly spam now.

Just across the Delaware from.

I was wondering what the lisp version (if any) of become: would be. Thanks for saying it.

The confusion between problems with hardware and problems with software is one reason why Apple only sells packages of the two.

I upvote comments that are factually wrong, but where the phenomenon of someone on HN saying it interests me.

I personally think this could be worked out by comparing the sender of the email with the unsubscribe link with the recipient of the unsubscribe request and if they aren't related at a certain level, the unsubscribe request wouldn't go through.

Off course, there are probably problems with this, too.

I wonder if this has been part of the rise of Linux on the desktop for the last year or two.

It is interesting that this, the top rated reply, is not about "With what will this compete?" but "How will this kill competition?"

I voted twice in the poll, for different sides of my family. Is this okay? The original post asks only for shortest generational distance to an immigrant, but does not specifically ask for no double voting.

I was impressed with their interactive graphic of the Buffalo plane crash[1]. I'm pleased to hear that such graphics are common.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/02/13/nyregion/Buffa...

I wonder whether Arc will end up in effect maintaining mutable-cons mzscheme. If this happens, I hope that Arc's focus won't shift to the implementation details.

Both falling asleep and using the bathroom are similarly unusual because they don't really involve anything except staying still. So I'm not surprised that you think well in the bathroom.

A common theme here (which I agree with) is to use paper (whiteboard, sketch book). Paper allows two-dimensional organization of text, whereas computers force text to be one-dimensional. This linearity, which allows only two branches on a single idea, is too constraining for my creative thinking, during which two ideas branching out from a single original idea. You can of course use lines to implement two dimensions in plaintext, but I find this clumsy.