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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2067768

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Miscarriages of justice happen. The real crime is that there seems to be no follow-up, no detailed reports, no proposals for making sure the same mistakes don't happen again.

That's the tragedy beyond the individual cases. It will happen again, in exactly the same way, for exactly the same reasons.
How much is "tons" ? If only articles that are linked then that's about 200. I don't know how many articles there are in total in this blog but it looks like there are between 1800 to 18000. Thus original content is between 1% and 10%. Of course I might be wrong and I will leave anyone to give correct information but not my rough estimates made in 1 minute. At the moment I see it as content farm with some original content.
Windows often requires restart, which is annoying, but let's face it, not that important. Linux seldom requires restart update (after kernel update mostly), but than again, do we really need 100% uptime for a desktop?

A major difference, and really a big fault on Windows, is constant nagging to reboot, with window that pops up every 10 minutes or so. Ubuntu has really good visual cue (power off applet turns to red, see upper right corner) but allows the user to make that decision to restart when convenient.
I don't want to be mean, but, I just read through several articles on that site, and regardless of weather or not it is a content farm it feels a little like one. That is to say we can't know what the Google algorithm is doing for sure but it's safe to say it isn't able know what a site authors true intentions are. So while the author probably means well I won't be to heart broken that this particular site will be a little further down in the Google ranking; farm or not.
one of the problems with the justice system that I rarely see mentioned: the literacy level of the public has declined to what? an 8th grade level?

You can not tell me that the logic employed in building court cases is at that level. 12 angry men? In real life there is no juror #8.
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> sites and pages ought to be ranked based on quality,

Unfortunately, that's very subjective - e.g. I consider almost all programming material on MSDN to be of very low quality, yet I expect results there when I search.

Furthermore, assuming an absolute content metric, having several sites with the same "quality" should give the original a high score, and the others essentially zero (unless the original cannot take the load). Algorithmically, you can figure out who the original is by noticing where updates appear first. But that's not a measure of "content quality" - it's a measure of "content farminess".
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Its a cliche, but its true. You can't fail until you've tried.

I started a project a while ago on the side, I was about 90% through until I got burned out from work (and trying to work on the side) and lost steam for both work, and my side project. I've since regained at least most of my energy. After I got better though I didn't pick up my side project, I had forgone a conclusion that it was a failure. Yesterday I opened the old project back open, and it hit me. How is it a failure if I never even released it.

So I went through the project, and made a list of things that I need to do/fix. Than I made some estimates, and put together a timeline. The new schedule is less aggressive, I should have breathing room for work and my home life. So by March 25th I should be done with my MVP.
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We have reached the limits of human hearing, to believe that tweaking the sampling rate or bit depth will improve audio quality is foolish. We should use the 16 bit we have better – that’s the real problem. 24 bit won’t help with that.
I don't think that budget needs to be publicly declared. It's just rubber-stamped by some senate committee (IIRC), and the numbers are never released.

So effectively, yes, it's free for the people who do it.
The problem is collateral damage.

Determining who in the hundreds of people who may have touched upon the case, is at fault and was intentionally distorting evidence is difficult.

The majority of people, given the knowledge they had at the time, were likely just doing their job.

We, the public, would have to pay for the enormous investigation, which likely would be inconclusive (it's not obvious DNA evidence like exonerated him).

You could, for example, tie certain people to this standard (say the district attorney) but that would cause other consequences - every case that wasn't a complete slam-dunk guilty might get ignored, even if there was sufficient evidence.

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"Another example is PHP (tool) for webapps (task). Worked for YouTube and CDBaby. -- Honestly, I think the concept of embedding commands in HTML is brilliantly simple, because the program is largely isomorphic to the result, making it intuitive to reason about. [disclaimer not a webapp developer]"

Simple until you have to come in and maintain it. There are many levels of simple. What is often simple for the original writer is horrible for the person who picks it up later on and has to extend and maintain it.
i came here to post about the catch-22 situation. like the author, i actually enjoy bugfixing and improving old, crappy code - but when i have to fix one very specific bug because they can't find a workaround for it, but be careful not to touch anything else, because of the whole network of workarounds and kludges in place, things just get depressing.
You forgot - halted the search for the real monster, because you already found a guy who looks kinda similar.

Sloppy convictions are only good for the guilty.
Sounds like you want Fireworks, which was designed for web design and prototyping.

As someone who is actually in the web design industry and uses Photoshop everyday, I know quite well that Photoshop was never intended to do web design, even though my colleagues and I try. Certainly better than web designing (i.e., creating exportable assets) in Illustrator...
We did reach the limits, or nearly, but then we backed way off from the limits, and stayed back. 128kbps MP3 is most certainly NOT reaching the limits of human hearing, for instance.

So to the extent that a push for 24-bit files will result in higher sampling rates in the kinds of files most folks are listening to, yeah, it could be a big help. Especially if you are talking about my field, classical music, where the dynamic range involved is much wider and the variety of sounds involved is much greater.

Will it be the 24-bitness that causes the improvement? Not directly, no.
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Any HN readers who like books with vampires in and also enjoy "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" might want to be aware of Luminosity (http://luminous.elcenia.com/all.shtml) and Radiance (http://luminous.elcenia.com/all2.shtml), which bear something of the same relationship to Twilight as MoR does to Rowling's Potter (and are written by another prominent LessWrong'er). They contain both vampires and werewolves, and a certain amount of fighting. I haven't read the Twilight books myself, but my understanding is that although most of the characters are taken from Twilight canon the plot and style are distinctly different.
Does anyone distribute 24bit content anyway? iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc. I don't think any of them do.
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Maybe, maybe not. Either the jsnes site has been boldly ignoring takedown notices for some time now, or Nintendo doesn't really care that much: http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/
My guess, text books, IT support, and admin.
Not yet. That's the idea; they will begin to. Apple is apparently already talking about doing so.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/22/apple-reportedly-looking...

http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/22/apple-24-bit-music/

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-02-22/tech/24.bit.music_1_highe...
I meant to say I agree with you saying doing one thing well might be a better choice for your product.

I liked what I saw in jMockups, I like how it works, and it's pretty fast. But I wouldn't use it as a tool to create mockups that I have to present to a client (that doesn't mean somebody else has the same kinds of clients or same needs as me), for the reasons it looks too real. Like I said, Balsamiq's greatest feature is that mockups look "hand drawn", what you called "low fidelity", one might call it almost childish.

You said jMockups and Balsamiq are less comparable than jMockups and Photoshop. I agree. So maybe you shouldn't pivot from focusing on high fidelity to low fidelity but excel in what you already do.
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I master my songs to 24-bit 192khz - a single master and every multitracked track. Even with 20 tracks at that resolution, each song fits on a DVD-R.

As to why I need that resolution, my ancient analogue synth can sound good at that high resolution.

As for distribution, I just post FLAC files to my website.
"RingTFA" is not in my 'Webster's'.

For teaching for test scores, as in

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2267851

that's fine: What the tests are asking for is little enough.

That article was JUST politics, pure and simple.

For 'education', see

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2267851

Now you've gotten some 'education'.
My girlfriend tried to design an icon for an open-source app she uses, but the experience hasn't been really great. I think the way developers in open-source projects communicate doesn't really work with designers.

She sent the photoshop source file and a png to the mailing list, but was told to send in a patch instead, which meant she had to learn how to use git to check out the repository, add the icon to the repo, and then generate a git patch. Only after that, she was told that they couldn't use the photoshop source file because they didn't have photoshop. Finally, one of the developers imported the file into the GIMP, changed some stuff on the icon without discussion, botched the output and then added that to the project. That was enough for her to not try doing something like this again.
Pay them.

Don't -ever- expect anyone to contribute for free. When they do, treat them special instead of taking them for granted.

That seems like common sense, but that's what I see all the time when it comes to programming projects, open source or not.
i think he meant it in the context of the long function names really making a difference when you have to tap each character out in morse code with your knee.
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If you don't think they are lost now, then take a look at their absolutely hideous public debt numbers (which was incurred when the government transferred private bank debt on to the public balance sheet and built the original bridges-to-nowhere to unsuccessfully fight deflation).

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This seems like one in a million. I don't think webdev's are all like that but I see your point.
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Interesting, the hype around 24bit could kill off the CD, since CDs can't really compete with that and DVD-Audio and SACD failed to reach the mass market.

As a bonus to Apple they will take more space, especially if they use FLAC, so people will buy bigger iPods and iPhones.
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Since you didn't mention it explicitly I will -- you also need to pay particular attention to the Intellectual Property Rights policies at each of the school's you are considering.
>by age 18, to be able to (A) read with understanding materials commonly encountered, (B) write clearly, e.g., as well as on HN, and (C) know basic arithmetic, percentages, areas, and volumes.

Nah -- you aren't being radical enough!

For example, it isn't necessary to know the multiplication tables in order to read mathematics at university.

The argument about basic knowledge (also known as 'gateway knowledge' i.e. stuff you need to know in order to learn most other things), is back-to-front.

If there's something you're interested in, you will learn whatever gateway knowledge is necessary to learn it or learn it more fully.

e.g. football -- you will learn to count in order to keep score

e.g. multiplayer games -- you will learn more language in order to communicate with other players

e.g. harry potter -- you will learn more english in order to read the books

e.g. selling goods at market stalls -- you will learn multiplication

In each case the learner will learn more quickly and more efficiently than in the classroom. He will learn whatever it is 'just in time' and he won't be burdened by stuff he doesn't need. And he will remember it, as required, with no testing and no exams.

So, it isn't necessary to force people to learn basic stuff. We're almost certainly wrong about what constitutes the basics, anyway. (Curricula change very slowly, according to fashion, and are shielded from criticism.)
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Thanks. I'll have to look into Fireworks. I think I actually bought it in a bundle a while back, but haven't tried using it. (I'm not really a designer, so...)
Yes, version control definitely seems like one of the biggest gaps. The communication between developers and designers have to improve, and the developers will have to realize they can't ask every designer for commits, but they can probably ask them for .zip files.
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The entire damn process should be changed, I sincerely hope these are not actual quotes because some of these questions are so incredibly leading, it's ridiculous that they're allowed especially with children involved.

You get a child to admit to anything with the right words and authority, surely everyone knows this!
> Finally, one of the developers imported the file into the GIMP, changed some stuff on the icon without discussion, botched the output and then added that to the project.

Isn't that part of the "contract" of FOSS? You relinquish copyright of your contributions to the project as a whole. (I can see how this can bite designers who don't know much about the FOSS movement.) I suppose in this situation it's a good thing they use a version control system for designer contributions.

It certainly is bad practice to change something major with no discussion, but when you contribute something, expect it to be changed.
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I agree, developers and designers must learn to communicate and work together. I dont think this problem only applies to open source, i think a lot of companys have the same problem internal.

It would be great to have some type of easy non tech integration to git (github?) for designers to use.
I was talking about 16 bit, 44.1 kHz, not 128 kbps MP3 [0]. Oh, and the sampling rate has nothing to do with the bit depth. 44 kHz gives you frequencies up to 22 kHz, that’s at least two kHz better than great human hearing. I don’t see any possible reason why a higher sampling rate would be necessary.

I also would like to know what you mean by 24 bit causing an improvement indirectly. How so?

[0] I attended a university lecture with one of its main inventors and he told us in no uncertain terms that 128 kbps MP3 is definitely not CD quality and also that MP3 has certain artifacts (castagnettes are its enemy) that cannot be remedied by simply picking a higher bit rate. Lossy audio compression is still extremely clever and cool.
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But the probability of discontinuing a project is higher when the language is a less popular one.
SACD failed to reach the mass market, partly, because most music customers didn't really care about 24 bit audio. At least, not enough to pay more for it. I don't think it's different this time.

Music quality is not an issue for most people. If it was, low-quality mp3 and players with crappy headphones, and crappy computer speakers wouldn't be that popular.
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Open source works great for developers for many reasons. On the flipside, rarely does it benefit a designer (although not always true).

1. It exposes a programmer's code work for all to see. If it's bad, you get more than just critique. Others can point out what is wrong with the code but even better, they can correct the code or help you see what is wrong. If it's good or great, it makes for an amazing addition to any developers resume for hiring purposes.

The same can not be said of designers. Sure they can get feedback and people can often point out what's wrong, but these feedback are often more vague. Rarely do they get a walk through tutorial of how to do things better, actually having someone go in and show them how to fix their design flaw (something that happens a lot on the coding side). Pointing something out and having someone help you solve your design problem are not the same thing.

2. I don't know about others but to me, a designer benefits more from having their own portfolio rather than something that they may have contribute bits and pieces together for a project. As a designer, I don't see the value over my own portfolio which I can get enough critiques on without having to contribute to an open source project. As a developer, I see a need but think in terms of what designers benefit out of this. Open source designs are not the same as open source software in all cases. As an entrepreneur, I hire designers base on independent skill sets which is extremely hard to measure when people are co-designing small projects.

3. Just a comment but it would seem this is geared towards a developer who can't design and want open source designs but where is the benefit the designer is getting out of this. Surely there is a better argument. For the record, I'm not arguing that designers can't benefit at all. I just don't see it outweighing the benefits a developer would get in the same scenario.
There are a lot of counterexamples on "a good product will sell iself". Mainly in markets with a lot of suppliers, for example, think how long can it take to penetrate the market of CMS or CRM, even with an excelent product? or imagine a new NoSQL DB in the middle of the NoSQL hype.
Sounds unfair, developers don't get paid, why do designers do.
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One great thing that GitHub allows in this context is editing code files in the browser, and then GitHub stages and commits the file for you.
Is there a major music store that only sells 128-bit MP3 (or equivalent AAC or ATRAC etc.)? Amazon and iTunes sell 320kbps mp3's, and most smaller sites I know of make WAV or FLAC versions available.
Yeah, but my point was, most of us are no longer listening to 16/44.1 CDs. We're listening to MP3, AAC, etc. If we were still listening to CDs directly, there wouldn't be an issue.

What I mean by the push for 24-bit causing an improvement indirectly is, Apple (and others) aren't stupid. They aren't going to just up the size of the sample to 24 bits and leave the sampling rate and overall quality alone. They're doing this to offer much larger files, probably 24/96 files, with either lossless compression or much less lossy compression, so they can a) sell those files for more money and b) justify folks purchasing new audio players and huge amounts of storage to store all their new shiny files. My point is therefore that 24-bit will drive an overall improvement in quality, hopefully to something greater than CD quality.
Why I don't contribute to open-source projects:

I feel like a second-class citizen around developers. And I don't want to venture in to the lions den. After all, I "just make things pretty", right?

I hate politics. Many open-source projects are a power-struggle with entrenched developers guarding against change.

Design is all about visual relationships. Making a change to one small aspect to the design effects everything else. This is very frustrating in an open-source environment, where parts of the design can be changed by the masses compromising the integrity of the whole.

Our industry doesn't appreciate it. Employers don't care what open-source projects we've contributed to. It's all about paying clients.
1. Ask for help - I'm a designer that reads HN everyday and I wouldn't know where to look if I wanted to participate in an open source project. Is there a list? The problem is most OS software aside from GIMP/Inkscape doesn't make its way in front of designers often.

2. Make it discrete - What needs to be designed? The entire UI and workflows? The application icon? The internal navigation glyphs? Redesigning an entire app that has tens or hundreds of contributors can be daunting, but getting someone started with something small can be a gateway.

3. Leave it alone - One of the other commenters mentioned how a designer contributed something and then it was overwritten and ruined. Typically you don't want to have dozens of designers all working on a project unless there are fairly strict guidelines to work from. Have a working group at the beginning that can set the UI tone and create guidelines from that. Also a small review committee to review changes is smart, just as they do for code.

4. Version Control for Dummies - Put together a short explanation of how to use the version control system of choice, assuming no knowledge beyond Photoshop. Or find someone on the technical side who can be an intermediary/GIT trainer. The human part of this is very important.

Do those things and you should see prettier projects in the future. I know I'd love to get involved, but have no idea where to get started!
It doesn't have to reach critical mass this time though, people who care about quality can download the better version, people don't care don't have to.
That experience sucks indeed. I guess there are two lessons to be learned:

1) try to lift the technical burden from the designer. If the designer sends a file as a mail attachment, just add it to a branch of your repo yourself (with permission, hopefully)

2) when programmers see a small bug in a piece of code, they often fix it. Don't assume you can and should do the same with designs. Talk to the designer.
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> if I say that “we should definitely work hard on getting our proofs correct,” consider the negation: “we should work hard on getting our proofs incorrect.”

There's a logical flaw in this example. The latter is not the negation of the former. The correct negation is:

"we shouldn't work hard on getting our proofs correct."
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