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The thing is that this article isn't about how the public was wrong, it's an example the rampant corruption in mainstream science. And it's one of hundreds of examples of how the current states of science, peer review, and publishing are horrifically broken.

Let's look at the facts of this case. The author didn't cite his financial connections, but the journal failed to catch this. The author made up data, but the journal failed to catch this. The public demanded an investigation into the vaccines, but the government refused to start an investigation or even answer their questions. When the government finally did start an investigation many years later they did it behind closed doors, and the public wasn't even allowed to read the transcript of the conversation for several more years. The scientific establishment has been in the wrong here at literally every turn, and yet you're spinning the story and trying to use it as an example of how the general public shouldn't be allowed to make their own medical decisions. Yes, the anti-vaccine crowd was also in the wrong for putting excessive weight on this study in the first place, but this apologism for the scientific establishment is completely unwarranted.
If someone just has to make up his mind, then he needs to be neither intelligent nor reasonable. I suspect you mean that a person can come to some sort of opinion that would be "good" in the sense that they have chosen the one that most likely prolongs their life, prevents illness, etc.

Perhaps that is true, if "enough consideration" is equivalent something like 2 years of basic medical education and 2 years of clinical experience. Instead, most people have to make do with their own trusts, biases, limited information, etc. I think it's unreasonable to think that an untrained person is going to catch up enough after reading a few articles that they are going to make an informed decision. That's why we have doctors, to help us make informed decisions about our health. We can use their synthesis of education and experience to guide our values to make decisions that are not only self-satisfying but also reasonably accurate.
What are good resources for looking into converting photos into 3d object models? I'm really impressed by Shapeways but would like to take current real-world objects as a base rather than building them in a 3D tool etc.

I've seen the laser scanners but they're relatively expensive. Is there anything like a mount that takes two iphones, and software that can take those two photos to create atleast a projection?
By the way, does anyone on HN have hands-on experience with the Pandora console?
I appreciate your point of view, and the picture used was provided by Josh himself, so perhaps he wishes to promote a more fun/"silly" side.

I am in no way trying to hurt anyones reputation, quite the opposite in-fact.
Lack of support for third party codecs (FLAC specifically).

Lack of auto conversion support when transferring to devices.

"Genius" Playlists never work for anything obscure

Ping is terrible

Lack of tagging support (no autotag feature)

I use mediamonkey (i'm on PC), once you switch you can never go back. I can organize my collection exactly how I want it from in the software, i can browse my harddrives to preview music before I add to my library. It supports pretty much every codec under the sun AND will convert it to compatible versions for whatever device i'm syncing to.

There is also a plugin for discogs tagging support (one of the best online discographies in the world), a plug in for "autodj" (based off last.fm).

I realize that not everyone in the world is as anal about organizing music as I am, but for the job, itunes can't compete.
On the one hand, DNSCurve's cacheing impact is a big deal... on the other hand, every endpoint is going to run a full validating DNSSEC stack?
Could Yahoo be preparing Flickr for a sale to Microsoft?
The upcoming Flickr apps for Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 tablets runs in Microsoft Azure. Could this be the first step moving Flickr off the internal Yahoo architecture stack?
Couldn't they just force you to type it in in a private room?
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In fairness, they might not have implemented it yet.
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Niche-oriented marketplaces. Etsy is a good example, along with Flippa and the Envato marketplaces.
You have to love the irony.
I went to an engineering school that is ranked high in that department.

Many will disagree with me on this point, but I truly believe that "college education" is a scam.

College was sold to me on the premises that 1) I would be taught my job related skills there and 2) this experience would provide me with a job / or at least prepare me for a job.

Neither of these things turned out to be true. Not even 20% true. But rather 0% true.

Nothing usable was taught and by the time I was a junior in my computer engineering curriculum I doubt 50% of the class would be able to hook up a couple of batteries to produce the correct voltage needed.

Huge classes, 60 point curves, theory and mathematics without practical application, no hands on works that deals with real world use/cases.

Get them in, get them out, take their money.

I'm not saying college is useless, just that what is sold to you is not what is delivered.

I run my own business now.
Does it come with a free visit to the chiropractor?
In my experience the rate of flattr donations is not very bursty month over month. Even before they allowed to subscribe to continue re-flattring a Thing each month.

And of course I have lower volumes than wikipedia would, so I'd expect it would average out even more for them. :)

One thing is for sure: If Wikipedia managed to handle their funding through Flattr, Flattr itself would be making a killing with their 10% cut.
There are, of course, exceptions but most people are better off if they finish college. Yeah, I know... "Bill Gates", "Mark Zuckerberg", "<insert-any-one-in-a-million-tycoon>", so what?

Without that degree, it still is the case that many doors are closed and you have to work much harder and longer to get to the same places than those with a degree.

And anyway, whatever happened to education for its own sake? Not everything has to be vocationally/income centered.
Your edit is interesting. Google seems to actively reject the idea of doing things that aren't automatic. That's why you hear the horror stories of people getting blocked from adwords (frequently with google taking their balance back, too). Until they were legally threatened, google didn't have great tools for youtube copyright notices, either.

They are a company that does not like to do things that require 2 way communication, because (in my view) it doesn't scale. My guess is that they are focused on revenue/employee, and adding a call center will decrease that significantly.
The implicit assumption is that prices of existing applications will be forced lower. Considering that the app store gives new comers a leg up over traditional channels and puts them on equal footing with established products, there is reason to be pessimistic about the prospects of some pre-appstore products. Particularly when existing products may not conform to the technical restrictions required for appstore approval.
Digikey (now) has ads on Octopart, as well as an image in the search results instead of their name in text the way other result sites are shown.
As an initial impression: None of these example seems even remotely conducive to your idea of an optimal provider search. There can be no optimal provider of unique goods.

But, that gives enough information that I can think on your initial question, so I'll post a separate reply when something comes to mind.
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> I could have received a better education from my local public library.

And printed a diploma, too.
As you know, they've apparently already ported Office (or are at least well on their way).

The carrot in this case is battery life. And I think the markets will turn out to be different ones. The ARM machines will largely be tablets and netbooks. The Intel SoCs will have poorer battery life, but better perf. That's where you'll have VS and such.

Of course .NET apps will run across both. And the Windows Marketplace will largely be .NET apps.

They failed at this before, because there was no motivation to succeed. Alpha, MIPS, Itanium, were all DOA. But they did help ensure that the Windows kernel was portable.
Looks like a lot of people are assuming a solution would some sort of voting system like stackexchange, etc.

Why not allow individual users to hide sites from their own search results and save the info in their google account? For example, provide a "hide this site from my results" link next to each result. Each person decides which site they don't want to see and SEO and global results remain unaffected.
yeah that's what I use
It would provide a way to compare that 10k people liked article A, while only 3 liked article B. In many ways that is a more interesting part of Flattr than the money itself.
Apologies for going off topic, but I just read the articles on debunking the MMR <-> autism link. I misread your open paragraph to be:

"It's important to note that (as far as I can tell) the author doesn't actually debunk the existence of precognition, only the claim that studies show precognition to exist."

Yes, but quite vacuous. The author can't prove the non-existence of evidence supporting the 10x claim. He was critiquing our folklor-ish belief in this 10x claim, without evidence, and our gross indifference to this fact.

Let my try another tack, proposing: excluding some bottom <10% that are incompetent, and those with less than 5 years of experience, all programmers have exactly the same 1x productivity capability; all apparent levels of difference are really either ramp-up on new technologies or flaws in development processes and tools. <citation of irrelevant study on something else> <citation of myself, citing the aformentioned study>.

... do you now believe in this 1x claim? No? Hmm, perhaps I need to get it quoted more and then you'll believe it?

The author's point is that "quoting it more" and "it seems reasonable" are the only basis for our belief in the 10x claim. But neither are scientifically, empirically relevant. We should follow up with further studies to confirm the effect, and then investigate the cause. But we don't. And because we have not, we don't have any scientific basis for believing this 10x claim.

This isn't a matter of "dismissing all of our research based on it" -- there is nothing to dismiss. There has been no sufficient research.

Oddly, my initial misread is inaccurate. There are far more studies supporting the existance of precognition than supporting this 10x claim. ;-)
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A longer treatment of these issues that's still relevant today is "A Note on Distributed Computing" by Ann Wollrath, Geoff Wyant, Jim Waldo and Samuel C. Kendall:
http://labs.oracle.com/techrep/1994/abstract-29.html
Do you have any plans beyond just taking the interviews?

This idea's been done a few times, and I've interviewed for each site, but the sites never went anywhere and virtually nobody read the interviews.

You'd have to convince me it's worth the time again.
If Digikey doesn't have it, no one else does either.

I don't think that is really true. Digikey does have an impressive inventory, but there are plenty of brands that they don't stock aggressively (first thing that comes to mind is Lattice).

Digikey ships things out extremely fast. Not many other places offer overnight shipping

Digikey's major competitors, like Newark and Mouser, offer essentially the same shipping options. All 3 can get things shipped out late in the day (say 5:30PM) for next-day early AM delivery.

If you are doing real engineering and not just screwing around in your basement, you don't really care that much about price. The last thing you want to do is order from multiple vendors because it eats time and is more expensive in the end because you will be raped by shipping costs.

This is the opposite of my experience. When buying for production, price is a primary concern. When buying for R&D, there are usually other orders that can by added to, so there is no shipping concern.
To the average person, being able to see the buttons is hugely important. I've seen plenty of otherwise capable people struggle with the B (trigger) button on the Wii. I can't imagine if there were more than one.

And that's besides trying to name the damn things (PS2/3's L1 L2 L3 is horrible)
I'm not sure how big of a deal this is. I mean... the entire document is unclassified. It's not even at the "secret" level. Do we know if this is a leak, or if it was just.. published.
they are all more or less the same, just make sure you get one that goes inside the door frame that doesn't require drilling.
You sound like my grandfather.

How "professional" the developer of an app looks in a photo has absolutely nothing to do with the success of an app.

Build junk people want and quit worrying about how "professional" you're perceived.
Even sadder is that they cite Wakefield being exposed as a fraud as evidence of tampering by "Big Pharma".

As much as I'm convinced this guy is scum and perpetrated a cynical fraud for his own professional and monetary gain, I have to admit this is a fair accusation if you replace "Big Pharma" by the medical community as a whole. It was done with good intentions, but the way they treated the study (and Wakefield) proves that the science is subject to non-scientific considerations. Wakefield's study was accepted and published and didn't immediately cause a scandal, so there must be hundreds of published papers just as shoddy, many of them containing fraud perpetrated for an author's professional gain. Far from ending careers and discrediting ideas, the vast majority of those papers will continue to boost careers and promote their conclusions in some small way until the journals are dusty and forgotten.

Wakefield's study was singled out for special justice in order to manipulate the public debate on vaccines. It was done in the name of truth, will certainly save lives, and didn't inflict on Wakefield anything he didn't deserve. However, it was "tampering" with the normal process, it was done as propaganda, and it was also done for PR motivations, to compensate for the impression that the medical community was complicit in Wakefield's fraud by holding his science to such low standards. It isn't sad if people notice that. It's just sad that the medical community was forced to stage a show trial to put an end to Wakefield's deadly and self-serving BS.
Or maybe it just means that the day we can algorithmically emulate human intelligence is the day spam becomes useful (or the day we get impossibly good at fooling ourselves).
Without going in to many details, I understand where he is coming from. I don't have the same history as Bill did, but I have lived through a generous amount of trauma that has left me to be diagnosed with PTSD, much as it seems he was dealing with. I have seen myself in his shoes in the past, and thankfully for me I have been able to move on and share my life with someone who understands my past, and let me understand her past which has been filled with similar trauma.

While it is a shame to see someone take their life, I can't help but agree that it is not selfish to commit suicide, but rather it is selfish to make someone live with the pain they are enduring. This doesn't make it OK, nor should people take that route, and at all costs should someone do their best to get the help they need - because no matter what, there is someone who can and will listen to you when it comes down to it. In the end though, don't hold it against the person if this is their ultimate decision - and think about try to remember them for the positive things that they stand for. When my best friend killed himself in front of me, I didn't know what to do, or how to react - I now understand and forgive him for everything, even though I think it could have been better for him in the long run if we had spent 15 minutes talking about his problems...

My condolences to his family and friends. I wish him peace and serenity - he deserves it.
"The S.E.C. had nothing substantial to say on the matter at the time"
I think you're confusing the extent of what is possible in your current type systems with what is theoretically possible with types.

Why can't a type system keep track of units? Why can't it be aware of precision? If it's possible for you to find a proof that a particular implementation of your algorithm won't fall into an infinite loop, then there is a type system that can verify that your algorithm will terminate. Of course, actually designing a sound type system with this property could be quite tricky, and I have no idea what the resulting language would look like -- but it would be possible.
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We've funded two startups that are partly aimed at solving this problem, one in the s2010 batch and one in w2011. (Neither is launched yet.)
How about decentralizing the search page? Hear me out for a bit.

My theory is that these complaints are coming from specific interest groups, not the general public. For example, spammy-content is created and targeted at a developer/programmer audience, and that is the source of some of these complaints.

So my suggestion is Google should platformize their search; and give out dedicated search instances to specific communities. The community should have enough levers to govern/influence what is spam or not. In addition, the community can promote certain high-value resources, which are otherwise unfairly listed in search results.
Invite some high-profile communities for a test-run, and let the communities make their own choices.

The public Google can still handle the general public. This can also bring in some transparency in the way spam is determined.
Express your emotions while coding with the fsck ruby gem :)
Ubuntu's had an app store for years (although paid apps are a more recent addition).
What do you consider a reasonable daily operating expense for the 3rd biggest site on the internet, that is running an extremely complex system built on amazing and reliable infrastructure internationally?
Build it and they will come only happens in movies. The way you present your company and app is very important in your marketing strategy.
To be fair, majoring in Marketing looks like it will easily net you six figures if you're in the top 25% (which most people here probably are)
I'm at #20 in Top Paid Music, and climbing...
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there are plenty of DIY laser scanners that give much better results than anything you could do with an iphone alone. laser, line splitting lens, turntable, hi-resolution webcam, done.
Do we really need to keep rehashing how popular jQuery is, and how frequently it is cached client-side from various CDNs?

It's not simply that it moves, it's a slick presentation of a very boring element (namely unordered lists).
To fight spam, Google Apps adds e-mail signing
I believe the Pandaboard comes with an RS232 connection. But you could also try the Beagleboard. You might want to take a look at the Gumstix Overo line and their various expansion boards, but I'm not exactly sure if they provide what you need. Also, you could try a USB->RS485 converter if you need that specifically.
What people don't like to admit about spam, is that it created value for somebody. This is why some people clicked on the ads and why others profited.

SEO Spam creates value. Unfortunately, it also degrades value for a great many others. There is opportunity here. Google or some other search engine needs to figure out how to capture the value in SEO spam. (Perhaps by finding a way to identify "original pages" like those on StackOverflow and then act to enforce their terms of service?)
how is it wrong? apple advertises the fact that they will let buyers 'even redownload' for free the app a customers bought earlier. what is so great about it to advertise? is not that normal? I dont like the fact that apple makes a normal thing sound like a favor it is doing to its customers. which part is wrong in it?
Would you really want your pee-ing prowess shared publicly? I can't imagine that would impress anyone worth impressing.
a) how much do you have saved?

b) what knowledge do you have outside C i.e. Database? Can you model an app?

c) How many years are you willing to put aside for this? At least 2 would be typical, before you give up, but quite often it's more - say 4? Doctors often have loans to pay off, but after that I find they live very comfortable lifestyles - are you ready to go back to living on beans on toast, pot noodles, and other crap?

d) have you shown your idea to someone else?

e) have you tried to get a prototype built (think £20k, USD 40K) for 2 devs couple of months in RoR.

f) learn Ruby on Rails....make the prototype yourself.

/end of random thoughts.
Oh, for sure. My wife knows what the button _does_ down into the very statistical application of it. I think in her case the issue is a UX problem: it is much easier to archive than it is to report spam. Gmail also makes it far more common to archive, as well.

Shift+e for "report spam" would be perfect. Same key, just a bit chorded.
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Two things.

1) Funny, because the app I was interviewed for worked out exactly like that. I haven't spent any money on marketing and done very little to promote it. People just like the app and tell their friends about it.

2) You're confusing marketing a person and marketing a product. Who cares what _any_ of the developers of an app look like? Seriously. People care than an app solves their problems. That's it. End of story.
It's not invalid JavaScript, and it does work, but it isn't doing exactly what he thinks it's doing.

You need the jQuery parameter to make sure the $ in your code refers to the jQuery object and not something else. Without it your code is just referencing the global $ object which some other framework could have poached for itself.

But I suspect you already know all that. What his code is actually doing is creating an anonymous function intended to provide a safe place for $-based code, evaluating it immediately, and then passing the return value to the jQuery function. Depending on the return value this may be useful or not, but I'm pretty sure it's not what he intended. His function is evaluated immediately rather than when the DOM is ready.

What you want to do is combine the second part of your example with your already-written code:

(function($) {
$(function () {
// your code to fire when the DOM is ready
});
})(jQuery);
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This leak-protection system will turn all employees into brainwashed minions who will not act in the best interest of humanity, and instead act in the best interest of the person who controls the salary.

Good citizens should leak documents to the press when they believe that grave injustices are being committed. Whistle-blowers should be praised when they expose legitimate corruption, they should be praised by individuals higher up in that same organization. Instead of being praised for whistle blowing, they are seen as the source of the evil.

After this fails, maybe they will attempt to create loyalty implants for all employees to prevent them from thinking about doing something for the good of humanity over the internal interests of the group.

I see absolutely no way that forced loyalty in every way can go wrong.
It seems like the "magic search" feature has plenty of glitches, but the data is there; for instance, Marketing didn't appear at first, but after clicking to the full list and then going back, it appeared just fine.
"making ads personalized"

At least I won't get any ads for "member enhancements" anymore :-) :-) :-)
So does Sega change their name when marketing in Italy?
No word yet on how much it will pay for the large lidless eye wreathed in flame that will tower over the new facility.