Viewing profile — b3eck

One suggestion to try: for a young comment whose score has not stabilized (i.e. high recent variability), then no score is displayed except for an indicator for users whose recent …

During the experiment of not displaying points on comments, was the voting less volatile, with smaller voting swings? If it was, then hiding the points until a few minutes or hours…

The reason not to put your all your eggs in one basket is not the usual one, which applies even when you know which basket is best. The last paragraph of 7 has an extra 'your' (but…

If you're trying to prevent the wrong sorts of attractions, you might also try it on a selective basis. For example, if a thread hasn't received a vote in the past hour or day, or …

As scott_s suggested, LyX is a prominent LaTeX WYSIWYG editor. I use TeXmacs ( http://texmacs.org ) on Linux because I input a lot of Greek characters and do a lot of Maxima comput…

I've been using this program to update my Debian Lenny system for the past month or so, without problems. The status page says that the total number of users in the distributed has…

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but here's a guess at a Mac OS X version of the commands: sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80 sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 500Byte/s

Yes, fortunately they're still up at port 6881 and have a ways to go to get down to 80 :-)

Glad you didn't procrastinate this time around...and glad I wasn't the only one to think of it :-)

Yes, my router provides access restrictions by day, hour, website, and keyword, but I wanted a throttle for my own computer that wouldn't effect the rest of my family. If you're th…

After reading your comment and others', I realized that iptables might be able to help out here. I wrote up an Ask HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=192953 ) which shows my …

After reading the comments on today's Disconnecting Distraction essay by PG (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=192654), I realized that I wanted to throttle my internet usage, no…

How about time-regulated voting for a)? ( see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=147383 ) Presumably, people who go on an impulse voting spree do it without much thought and would…

"Once again the top story is an embarrassment to News.YC. And unfortunately it is mostly the recently arrived users who voted it up. Maybe it's inevitable that I'll have to turn on…