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For what it's worth, I'd like to point out that Dassault Systemes makes the only free (not OSS) 2D CAD/drafting program that is usable on an equal footing with the big commercial software in the industry (Autodesk etc).

I'm having a hard time imagining what a free-market court system would look like and how it would operate. Can you elaborate on how the system would look like?

I understand how law enforcement could work (and in some ways, it does, for example public transport officials that check if you have a ticket), but leaving arbitration to the "free-market" seems far fetched.

Can you clarify?

Sorry mate, flagged this for two reasons:

- It's not October

- There is a username that automatically posts these posts every month http://hackerne.ws/user?id=whoishiring that was made a few months ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828

I am looking forward to the blog post. Please post it on HN when it comes around.

Until I read to the third paragraph of the snippet, I was thinking "this is just another polling website", but the innovation that is proposed could result in some interesting results.

After reading the snippet, I was excited to go visit the site, expecting some thoughtful discussion on current affairs and politics. I was pretty disappointed with the activity on the site.

I understand that currently the site consists of the core functionality, but you should make that clear. If I was just a standard visitor I would have no incentive to come back in a few months when the app actually has some meaning.

A final note: when I vote in elections, my vote is anonymous and private. On hyperarchy I can see who voted on a topic, in 'real life' this information is not available and I believe that many people would not want it to be known what they are voting on.

Unfortunately, this is not a new issue: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=unknown+or+...

It has been discussed as far back as four years ago.

Not a sysadmin at a HFT, but am in personal contact with many of them. The only thing that I can tell you is that getting any information out of anyone in the industry is extremely difficult. Every variable (hardware and software) is considered something that can be turned into a competitive advantage.

To get an idea of the sort of platforms that are dealt with, check out http://www.stacresearch.com/

Here you go: http://xorswap.com/

The search I did to get there: http://searchyc.com/submissions/interview+question+overflow

I would also point out that there are some good magazines out there. Harvard Busines Review comes to mind. Browse their website and see if it is to you liking. If you a find an article that fits what you are looking for, chances are that person has also written a book.

No SMS reminders as I have a smartphone, which brings me to THE essential feature: the ability to sync with a phone. By sync I mean that it should either have a standalone application or use a built in application on the phone (Exchange), being accessible via the phone browser does not count.

Most people have a phone on them all the time, making it the perfect device to keep a calendar.

I'm also in the smooth writing apparatus camp.

I see why you would go for fountain pens, but insead I would recommend to go with a simple soft pencil (anything beyond 5B). Smoother than anything with ink in it.

I realise that you might be wanting to gain users to your project, but I do believe that having half your recent submissions being liks to tagmask.com is a bit excessive. I haven't counted, at least 8 times in the past few weeks.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pankratiev

Requesting Franz Kafka and David Foster Wallace (including footnotes).

Saying that the "head" has to be the CEO is taking it too far.

In most large companies, you are only aware of the behaviour of the two levels of management above you. If you see your boss or your bosses boss behave in a certain way, you will think that this behaviour is acceptable.

For example, the CEO of some bank might be very long-term, risk free, investement oriented, but if the boss of the trading desk only cares about the next paycheck and is willing to take risks to get his bonus, chances are all the traders will do whatever it takes to get good results without more than a year ahead.

"I'm interested" sounds a lot better than "Like this" to me. Like this suggests either: facebook, or that you would like to see more results like this.

While I was on the net before, the first time that I would have left a fingerprint would have been when I got into online gaming. I would have to dig deep into my memory to think of what my usernames were, but I'm sure that some of those old Counter Strike, Diablo and Starcraft rankings and match results are somewhere.

Perhaps you could tell us what you are interested in? There is at least one noteworthy publication in each field.

For general reading of good, longer pieces I can recommend: New York Review of Books (not only a book review magazine), Foreign Affairs (although I don't agree with their interventionist political stance), The Atlantic (popular with HN readers) and Harper's. I'm sure that you would find something in interesting in each of these, but again, please post what your particular interests are.

Actually, my first thought was of the car (Jeep Cherokee).

Audio only on that page. I have to admit that the first half is not so good, but the discussions with the audience (start about 2/3 of the way in) are worth listening to.

Click the "share" button (underneath the add to cart box). It's their shortner that gives permalinks.

Congratulations on finding a technical solution to a handling problem.

It seems to be quite common for posters here to invent elaborate ways to limit their environment as a result of not being able to limit themselves.

Sorry for the off topic comment, but this might get your (lotusleaf's) attention: Please stop submitting 50% of anything that gets published on Engadget: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lotusleaf1987

We all read it, there is no need for you to repost it here. Many of the articles you subitted do not warrant any further comment.

I believe it changes over time?

I used to be able to downvote as I hit the 200 mark, but now I am well over 300 and can't downvote.. Perhaps it is related to the time spent on HN?

I flagged this entry.

I fail to see why you submitted this as an "Ask". You could have just as easily submitted the original link. I'm not against self promotion, especially when it leads to valuable feedback (as most Show HN posts do), but this just seems overly vain.

This is most unfortunate for those looking for scripts, as that entire portion of the website is unreachable.

If you know which you are looking for, you can most likely find it on the github mirror: http://vim-scripts.org/

Please don't take this in an offensive way, but there are other communities where such a question would be more appropriate.

As a starting point, I can recommend you check out lesswrong.com, you can find their "introductory reading" here: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences the first item on the list deals exactly with the question you have posed:

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth

Happy reading!

I agree that it's a well written article and provides a very good overview. The tables are especially helpful.

However, there is one rather large oversight:H.264 is an open standard

This is not necessarily correct. As a citizen of the EU, I have to disagree. One of the EU pre-requisites[1] for something being qualified as an Open Standard is: The intellectual property - i.e. patents possibly present - of (parts of) the standard is made irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard#European_Union_de...

Hi Alex,

Like you, I've tried using various TODO list applications but got stuck in the same predicament: creating the list, laying out steps, ticking them off when done, setting deadlines is just impossible to integrate into my workflow. Maintaining lists seems often seems irrational and always feels forced to me.

I have taken a different approach: instead of planning my life, I like tracking it. I like writing documentation for my work to be able to come back to it or transfer it to others in my team, I like keeping logs and recording thoughts. I've integrated some high level overviews of what to do into logging what I have already done, or, to put it more simply: I've stopped maintaining a list of TODOs and started maintaining a list of "things to write about as already done".

I guess I am just fooling myself, but it really helps me to realise that by doing this it will help me in the future wheh I have to re-do certain procedures, tell stories to friends, remember my life, and from a professional perspective: hand over parts of tasks that are not interesting to me to somebody else. Keeping a log makes it that much easier.

Call me paranoid, but I find it difficult to believe that two out of the three existing comments on this article are genuine.

Uzair: the only comment from this user is the one posted in this entry. The account was registered 1 minute prior to posting the comment.

GamerzGirl: the only comment form this user. The account was created on the same day that the previous time the Game Mechanics Wiki was on HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1958728 ).

Seeing how both comments are extremely useless yet positive, I am drawn to speculation. Is somebody trying to "game" HN?

Not trying to provoke you or anything, but as I am somebody who has not given this topic much thought I would be curious to hear of your concrete examples and arguments about bad policies?

I am somebody who can't see himself as contributing to wikipedia, but some changes might make me reconsider. What would you like to see changed?

It took a while to realise just how serious this site is, at first glance it looks a bit like a domain park landing site.

I should be able to click on "Latest Infractions" "Highest" etc to go to the full ranking.

In firefox: hovering over the links in the grey bar you have under your logo, the hover background image (light gray box) is larger than the normal image. Makes all content below it move when I hover over the links.

Over all, I think the site is too muted, either make it less grey or brighten up the red. Since you are dealing with transparency here, why not go for something more clear? eg, blue?

I think it's an awesome project though, and wish my local government was more open.