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Concerned Parent, Teacher, Human, Friend - DirtyPhoneBook must be stopped
Dear Readers,

My name is Stephanie and I am a high school teacher. I am writing to you because I am extremely concerned about a website that is becoming alarmingly popular among young adults in high schools and it is troublesome to say the least.

In the beginning of March, a new site came out by the name of DirtyPhoneBook.com. This site allows users to comment (anonymously) on anyone’s 10 digit phone number. The founders claim they are building a social network website based on freedom of speech, a place where users are able to voice their opinions about anyone and everyone without censorship; similar to a Yelp about people, written by people, organized by phone numbers.

There have been numerous articles published about the site, all of them negative but that doesn’t seem to be slowing its traction especially among high school kids. It is gaining popularity everyday and has become a main topic of discussion.

Michael Arrington, writer for TechCrunch, wrote an article about it this past Sunday and interestingly doesn’t seem alarmed by this overnight trend. He is actually supportive of the site and predicts that sites like this will be very successful in the future.
Is this what the Internet is turning out to be, the platform for DirtyPhoneBook and Chatroulette, instead of an educational tool?

After some digging, I was able to find one article that attempted to defend DirtyPhoneBook by pointing out how DirtyPhoneBook can be used to societies advantage. It can aid in preventing schemes that currently exist on craigslist and eBay, expose the telephone numbers of scheme artists and local criminals, etc. DirtyPhoneBook even goes on to declare for themselves the benefits of their site and the potential good it can do but upon exploring the content for myself, I beg to differ. The overwhelming majority of the material was offensive, racist, judgmental, and just all out vile.

I bring this to light because I am sure the young adolescents using and posting on the sight do not fully understand the long term consequences of their actions. They fail to realize that their behavior on the internet affect real people with real lives. The information they post will never go away, forever sabotaging the reputations tied with it.

Sincerely
Stephanie
fsck? (It probably needs it.)
I don't get this idea of "just works". My blackberry died last week, and I decided to try out an iPhone as a replacement.

Just works? As in I can get my email to sync more often than 4 times an hour without jailbreaking it?

Just works? As in I can install the grooveshark iPhone app without jailbreaking it?

Just works? As in I can listen to pandora and browse the internet without jailbreaking it?

Just works? As in I can stop the screen from rotation while I'm trying to use the thing in bed without jailbreaking it?

Just works? As in I can use my google voice app without having to resort to the workaround the google coded up?

Just works? As in I can use any song or sound stored on the filesystem as a ringtone, alarm, or alert?

The iPhone might "just work" if you're looking for something that is slightly worse than a netbook for updating your twitter status, but as far as seeing the iPad be anything more than paying $600 for the privilege of then paying to run apps from the iTunes store, well, I don't see it.

Maybe this will change when I get my hands around an iPad, but I very highly doubt it.

Although perhaps I'm just a tad bitter about how absolutely dreadfully horrible the iPhone is at just about everything I've tried to do on it. (Okay, that's a lie, my niece really enjoyed playing with the guitar chord app I downloaded)
No idea why you got downmodded there. Rockbox enables you to organize your music this way on lots of different devices now. You aren't required to rebuild the database, though if that's what you prefer you can push a couple of buttons and do that too.

Directories are, in a sense, high-maintenance indexes, but some of us find the existing tag system utterly inadequate and need to fall back to this solution.
Some parts of the leaked anti-Wikileaks document don't seem too objectionable. For example, one of the main recommendations that Salon highlights, and appears shocked by, is that the government should deter leaks by identifying and firing the individuals responsible. Isn't that totally normal and expected policy, though? If some CIA or Pentagon documents get leaked, the obvious response is going to be them trying to figure out who leaked them.
they incur some pretty massive legal fees, afaik. i saw a thing where they justified the numbers, at some point, but i can't find it. will edit once i find.
Its overpriced on some items unfortunately, but its trickier to track some other shit down so the convinience is worth it
Without the freedom to tinker, the internet wouldn't have happened. There wouldn't have been such an incredibly rapid evolution of technology. Open source ensures that this kind of freedom remains in place.
I'd like to hear your thoughts, especially on the structure and the examples. And also on what specific ideas from philosophy you think I'm missing.
Take a closer look at a plastic bottle. The goal is to enclose the largest amount of soft drink with the smallest amount of plastic meeting specifications such as having a drinkable top, resisting falls from a certain height while filled, and punctures of a certain strength. As a result the strength of the plastic varies greatly over the surface of the bottle (any areas that are likely to hit hard in an impact are much stronger) and the optimal design is far more complex than people realize.

Coca-Cola spent millions of dollars on optimizing this in the 90s. I would not care to bet that on casual inspection you've noticed something obvious that they missed.
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And in the same vein as the nginx optimizations suggested in a comment yesterday, it fails on arcitectures that don't support unaligned access.
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You're a one man spam army on this idea of Google hosting a WikiLeaks mirror... Not to say it's not a good idea, but I don't think this is the place for such pestering.
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Plastic in a landfill is plastic in a landfill.

Indeed, but in some (most?) countries plastic is recycled too (or incinerated, there's no reason to put it in a hole in the ground).
They know it is unworkable, they know it is a waste of money so as long as they don't implement it instead of a black mark against them they have the promise of "protecting children". They can then go into the election with it as a plus. This is assuming the average aussie is sucked in by this, I have major sampling bias as I surround myself with techies and left wing nuts so I haven't a clue.
Not entirely true - traffic and publicity is surely going to have impact on their SEO rankings - Alexa, Google PR, etc.

And the higher the ranking, the higher the potential revenue in the future.

Remember: you can never have too much traffic. If you do, cope with it, it's only going to help you (unless you have 0 business sense).
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Meh, there was a lot of vague stuff about improvement and empowering the learner but very little in the way of implementation. Currently the accreditation bodies are the biggest hurdles to overcome because anyone that wants to do anything innovative in education either has to be attached to a big name university or has to face the problem of overcoming a lot of red tape. Most accreditation bodies serve the interests of big name universities so anything that deviates from that model is met with suspicion and disdain.

Speaking from personal experience I wouldn't have missed anything if I had skipped the entire high school and college experience because I learned absolutely nothing in classes. All of my current knowledge was gained by either working closely with a mentor or spending time at the library.
I tend to agree with the content of the post, but good lord, could there be any more attitude? This needs to stop. It's not constructive and does nothing but throw more fuel on the fire.
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Well, this'll be interesting. I think this comment is valuable (good summaries of articles usually are), but the site you link to isn't (because other comments are also valuable). However, as I suspect you're the guys from mixergynotes, I don't think this account has a chance in hell.
Trust me on this. It's really easy to tell which students are willing to work and learn the material in order to pass and which students just want to lie their way through.

(I used grannies because that's what happens in the trenches. Nobody complains about dogs any more, thanks to technology and iTech almost everything these days is electronic so the excuse threshold is a bit higher. Anything short of death or serious bodily harm doesn't cut it anymore.)
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Anyone have an extra beta invite?

EDIT: Sorry to ask here, but after reading that, I didn't get the impression that they were planning to send out additional invites anytime soon. (I just got one from Paul, thanks!)
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What other forums have the same quality of discourse as HN had (and on occasion, still has). The topic doesn't necessarily have to be start-ups. I want a site that has, like HN's guidelines state: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

Academic Hacker News had potential for a place for a good community. Arc Forum has good discussion, but I'm looking for something more general.

I read that, after the quality of HN fell heaps, some elite users left HN for some greener pastures. Where did they go?
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This article seems to be more of a personal attack on someone than disputing the facts. I haven't looked into Ted's background myself, but just going from this article, the accusation that he hasn't worked on a large system doesn't make the points he made invalid.

A few takeaways that I got initially from Ted's post were that NoSQL isn't a magical cure for your backend problems, but instead is simply another solution that you may want to look into. Also, since most people won't be scaling at a point where the database becomes the technological limitation, it may be more worthwhile to examine your own code in the meantime.

Oh. And I resent the term "Rails-Lovin Ass-Clown"
when are you going to remove that ubuntu logo used as a place holder?

;-)
YUI3 is much better than YUI2, and they learned a lot from jquery in making it expressive / terse. I even spent the better part of a week learning about YUI3 thinking I might use it instead of jquery. But then I found, and it's hard to explain exactly why, that I was much less productive with YUI3. I think that jquery is just so damn intuitive to use, I usually can guess how something will work. With YUI3 I was often left looking up something in the docs, or looking for an example (which wasn't so bad given YUI's excellent docs, but still, it's a hit when you can't just guess how something is going to work)
Yeah. Plus, Ass-Clown?

All these NoSQL posts are getting annoying. What I would really like to see are some real world numbers from companies using a NoSQL product and the challenges they faced(i mean other than digg and twitter, not at that scale). Perhaps even a follow up on how the solution works after 6 months of use.
It's hard to take someone seriously when they don't use capital letters... It's just not comfortable to read.
DTrace would be nice for starters.
Did you use the library mostly for their books or internet?
haha... Well I feel sort of bad doing it b/c I love google... I just think it needs to be pointed out. It might help people realize a) the silliness of Google pretending to be fighting censorship and b) that they should donate to wikileaks.
I'm willing to bet that your percentages are off. I would say at least 85% of the folks around here use Linux on their servers, with a 1-5% using a BSD and the 1-14% using Windows. Solaris (read OpenSolaris) filling in the gaps within the fluctuations above.. which is a shame, there is some really cool technology in OpenSolaris/Solaris 10.
Well normally I would say that I don't like that line of thinking, how much they deserve to keep, but this is a nonprofit. Isn't it?

I wouldn't be surprised if people don't want to pay them high salaries voluntarily.
I'm sure you already know, but DTrace is in FreeBSD.
Personally, I use Linux servers, but at work we still buy and use Solaris 10 on Sun boxes. Yes, 90% of the databases we access are Oracle. Yes it's very enterprisey.
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I tried to invite you (using the e-mail address listed on your blog), but I'm getting a 500 error. Anybody else having this problem?
Personally I've migrated from FreeBSD to Ubuntu for my at home server tasks. At work, I've seen a variety of deployments, never one of Solaris.
I'd say 30% Windows, 60% Linux, 10% FreeBSD (instance installs (host and vm's), not including embedded systems like routers) is what I've seen over the past 5 years are work.

Of Linux I've seen SUSE, RHEL, and Ubuntu widely used. I've seen deliveries of Sun Servers with Solaris installed that were wiped to be replaced with Linux.

On the Windows side, I've seen environments where it's Windows Server heavy require drastically more resources to maintain, but that's another conversation.

Of course this is all anecdotal as I've also never seen anyone deploy OSX Server in any capacity :)

What I really think it is, is people use what they are familiar with or what they can get support for. Solaris has disappeared mostly from the desktop, so people are less familiar.

Hell the last time I tried to experiment with OpenSolaris I couldn't get it booted in VMware (graphical corruption), so I never had a chance to get familar with it myself.

To bad too, DTrace and ZFS always sounded fantastic.
I think your predictions are pretty accurate. I would use Solaris because it does have a lot of cool features (Solaris zones being one of the most interesting to me), but I'm unsure about the licensing situation, so I've held off for now.
When a government employee leaks a document, a crime has been committed. The government's job in this case is to prevent its employees from committing crimes.

If instead it takes on its own propaganda effort do discredit a private nonprofit, something stinks.

The CIA is largely a propaganda organization, by the way. One wonders how many Iranian tweets are being funded by US tax dollars and CIA operations.

In my opinion it's completely scary to think that there might be a campaign to discredit wikileaks, but it's a huge relief to see that that document was itself leaked, suggesting that at least some government employees are aware of possible excesses committed by their departments.

If a government agency wanted to discredit wikileaks and didn't feel empowered to simply assassinate the people running it, it could use all sorts of time tested approaches to discredit/discourage it.
Yup, DTrace and ZFS are pretty much the only things Solaris brings to the table above what Linux offers.

Interestingly I've never come across any pure Solaris shops that run ZFS, I suppose because if you're conservative enough only to use Solaris, you're too conservative to trust ZFS.
I have 10 invites. First 10 emails to p at pstam dot com get them. I only ask that you tell me what you're up to (work/startup/school) as I enjoy meeting new folks.
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You're most definitely not. Look to iTunes to see what Apple is experimenting with in terms of UI, it's typically a release or two ahead. Some things are retained, some things are lost, of course.

I think the shiny-blue scroll bars are doomed fairly soon, and looking at iTunes suggests they are indeed. The scroll bars there are a much less obtrusive non-glossy, paler base with a blue-grey tone, all heavily anti-aliased. They're also narrower, which I hope is kept. I rarely use the scroll bar, and most Mac users I know don't either; the two-finger scroll is more than accurate enough, and any specific point is still accessible by clicking on a specific location. Having a large one is unnecessary space waste, and draws your eye away from the content of the application.
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quora is one of the most impressive sites i've seen in a while. here are a few of the details that really impressed me:

* pretty much everything is real time and extremely fast. even if you have 10+ quora tabs open.

* try logging out and having a friend log in. notice how you can log out all current sessions on remote computers, and how boxes are created for each user that has logged in on that computer. logging in then takes just one click (if it was set to remember).

* have a friend look at your profile. start editing your bio or title. the friend will see these changes in real time.

* start typing a response to a question. everyone can see who is responding to a question in real time. (imagine in HN had this amount of integration of real time data)

* the site search at the top is incredibly responsive and returns results for relevant questions, topics, and people all together in a dropdown

* site notifications additionally appear on the pages to which they are related. for example, if i visit a question where i have 3 outstanding notifications, they will all appear at the top of the page. if i visit a user's profile that has recently started following me, i will see that notification at the top of the user's profile.

* they already have a complete mobile site.

* on the implementation side, the html (html5) is already compacted, the js is combined and minified, and Steve Souders' best practices are already taken into account. this is expected for major web applications, but startups and non web-app sites (like blogs) often ignore it for a very long time or never do it at all.
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The measurement is based on the work of some academics. while academics certainly make mistakes , usually academic research and debate is one of the best ways we as a society have to learn about truths.
Really? Because I thought it was a good read.(expletives and all)

What I really enjoyed was the story about Accenture because I've worked with consulting firms before and they really will tell you whatever you want to hear. Even if it isn't true.

Personally, I rather get an honest response.(I also had one of those cold showers from someone and it hurt much less than I thought it would)
"Apple has single handily convinced the industry to move away from a proprietary solution (flash) to an open standard."

Really.

Single handily.

Interesting.
Similar question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=290733

Also, http://lesswrong.com/
Just works as in does everything it does without fuss, not just works as in does everything full stop.
If I get down voted consistently then I'll stop. Most of the value of HN is in the comments so I'll link back to the original HN post in each summary.
That's because light resets your biological clock.

Full spectrum lighting may have a similar effect on you. (It is sometimes prescribed for preventing seasonal affect disorder.)
Currently the accreditation bodies are the biggest hurdles to overcome because anyone that wants to do anything innovative in education either has to be attached to a big name university or has to face the problem of overcoming a lot of red tape. Most accreditation bodies serve the interests of big name universities so anything that deviates from that model is met with suspicion and disdain.

I think it will be market-driven.

As the value of credentials relative to demonstrable skill continues to decrease, people will reconsider the proposition of taking on huge debt for a college degree. They'll look for alternative ways to acquire skills, and universities will have to compete by lowering tuition rates and rethinking education. Otherwise they won't attract enough tuition-paying students to cover operation costs. When it comes to the bottom line then administrations will mobilize.

I predict that some universities will make interesting changes (eventually) and many will fail. Just hoping none are "too big to fail".
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