When the intel OS X first came out I spent 3 days trying to set it up on a Dell machine I had. What a joy when I got it running. I subsequently bought a MacBook Pro and it has been a great machine - I run Windows and Linux on it also via Parallels. OS X is a lovely oS (coming from a Windows background) and I'd suggest playing with it - you might be pleasantly surprised
I second that! I don't think its the human body thats nsfw, but those two weren't hot enough and in my circle of friends if I'm caught looking at the ugly chicks then I lose the small amount of credibility I had
Well, it happens that I also think that this could be an interesting approach to a social news website. It could also help us avoid the inevitable problem of large user bases and abuse from more vocal (annoying) minorities - such as Ron Paul supporters.
There is also one more problem that I'd think could be addressed: language. I'd like to see a website where the user could have links in any language that s/he can speak or read. When reddit was still interesting, half of its user base was non-american. I bet that more interesting people would hang around in reddit if they could also send links in other languages.
So, with that in mind, I started working on a side-project, and it is precisely what inovica is describing: a social news website that could use Bayesian filtering to score links for each user. Check it in http://news.communick.com. For lack of a better name, I'm calling it SmartNewz.
I just started, and it is only a side-project. The site, as it is, was done in a weekend. I hope I can also use this as a means to learn how to develop applications for facebook and OpenSocial. But those are only ideas.
The part that I believe is interesting is open sourcing the filter, as well as providing an API for those that want to implement their own filters.
So, if anyone is interested in such a service (or if you indirectly want to help disqus have more users), please, register at the website, check the filter project repository at http://code.google.com/p/smartnewz, or the trac wiki for more information, in http://trac.communick.com/news.
Sounds interesting. Please drop me a line to talk about the filter concept further. My email is on my profile. I'm also interested in exploring the idea of porting this type of applications to Facebook, and therefore I'm arranging a weekend event to get a lot of developers together in once place to rapidly build Facebook Apps and learn from each other.
