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Anyway I am trying to look up what does "ramen" mean - though I found it's definetion but it did not make any sense to me when I combined it with the word "profitable".

What I found is: ramen means "A thin white noodle served in this dish."?

I am sad I won't be able to pass by and "simply break in", anyway. :(

EDIT: [About the editors, it takes an hour and sometimes more for a link to be killed, at least when I flag a link and I see it for hours - happened today. So maybe automation will help in any editors shortage]

For example, someone few days ago submitted your article "Why TV Lost", although it was already submitted, and we already discussed it! But he was able to do it, obviously because the submission detection script does not think that "www.domain.com" is the same as "domain.com", and treats them as different links.

Also if a link is submitted previously and it was dead because it's spam, then if a user tries to resubmits it again it should be killed automatically. Like Google homepage, myspace and all of these bla bla bla.

There are zillion techniques for preventing spam, and you know it better than me for sure. But there is a vision that you have about spam on this website, that I don't really understand yet.

EDIT: Also consider providing users a way to transfer their photos from their current service to yours, and to share the photos through multiple platforms... such as facebook.

Also consider letting users to login using their facebook account - Facebook connect.

Also if you require users to sign up, then consider making a small registeration form at the front page, to accelerate the signup process, and make users feel it's easy to do.

EDIT: If you are interested in learning about the user's experience, then consider adding a feedback form, that's easy to be filled.

You will find some here: http://ycombinator.com/faq.html at the first question. And you will find some here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator

Also consider searching TechCrunch for ycombinator, as they write about the startups that's funded by YC.

For example, even if Data.gov won't create API - which is less likely to happen -, I will create an API for Data.gov, and I will make a business model around it, and hire some programmers with me.

I have created API for Yahoo! Music videos long time ago before Yahoo! thinks of creating it's current music API. :)

APIs and making data accessable to others, and organizing the data and even mixing it like a mashup, is something that will help people for sure.

I know some people who don't really like to fly, and still prefer train or car in travelling.

And I am sure that you heard of kids who died at very young age]

You have a right to believe in God or not, or even make your "brain" as your own God, it's all up to you.

But it's NOT funny to make jokes about God, and I had to response to you, although I knew that it will lead to reduce my karma, but I had no choice anyway.

Well, advance of medicine and engineering?

Did medicine help prevent people die at age 5 or 6 yrs old? There is something called "fate", and I guess you don't believe in it too.

Maybe he can make a machine that lives forever, but he can't make a human to live forever. There are things that god forced in this world, and it will continue regardless if you believe in god or not. And I think that god forced humans to die, and this won't change in the future.

Here is how it works, just one of these 2 options:

1- Spammers automatically create a blog, crawl the submitted articles here to their blog, and wait for a real user to comment on it, and then submit that comment here.

Or: 2- Spammers would create a bot that crawls the submitted article, submit that article to any public social news website, and wait for real users' comments, and then automatically submit the real users' comments here, and you will think it is NOT a bot/spam, but it is.

EDIT: This is something that can be implemented these days, not after a decade!

If this happens, will you think that this is a bot or not?

Because it's spam!

In fact, the standard that any spam filter should rely on is: Is this spam or not? NOT is this good or not?

So even if the comment is really good and useful, then at least remove the link and keep the comment itself!

It could be a serious mistake if a spam-filter relies on "how much good this comment is", and this is another problem.

Google bought postini and paid for it!

But I am sure that some hackers will be interested in fighting it and making a smarter spam filters, just the same as some hackers here discuss the issue here, and they won't get any money!

This is similar to what I wrote here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506028 Users should have a history record.

But it won't be an effecient solution, according to briansmith's approach.

Spammers could hire users to comment. Here is how I imagine it: 1- Spammers crawl the submitted article.

2- Ask real users to read it and comment on it.

3- Copy what users said and submit it automatically here.

4- You will think it's NOT a spam, and you will up-vote what the spammer commented, and this will allow the spammer to submit content and the problem won't be really solved/ but reduced.

Please re-read it again.

Do you have any publications or a blog? I am very interested in learning more from you... you look like a scientist!

EDIT: But there is a point here that you did not really mention! You assumed that spammers will be smarter, but spam filters will still stupid? Don't you think that as spammers build a smarter bots, the spam-fighters will build a smarter spam filters?

we can expect comments that are generated by spammers to eventually become valuable enough that we want to retain them instead of filtering them away

What is the point? Why spammers would submit a valuable comment? Just to be kind of a door for them to enter through later, and nobody will think it's a spam?

Your words made me feel really great.

EDIT: Are you worried about the server? If you make a spam filter algorithm, then this is more likely to increase the load on the server, which increases the latency... and as a result, increases the headache?

Even I provided a significant solution to solve the problem: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506028

Guess what? I got down-voted on my comment!

EDIT: If pg has no time for it, then why does not he allow us to code a solution, and he can review it? And if he likes it, then he would use it!