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>My beef with Wikipedia is the squeaky wheel gets the grease problem: a vocal minority easily drowns out the more rational but less rabid. For example: why does the article on pregnancy need a naked woman on it? The talk page dismisses all arguments of "why is this necessary, what's wrong with this other photo of a clothed pregnant woman" with "we don't censor".

The irony is palpable. Upon reading this, I went to the Wikipedia article on Pregnancy and looked at the talk page. I found a lot of surprisingly decent and rational discussion about the choice of the image, including some gems:

"There is no profanity in any of the later 3 images. These images depict the natural condition of pregnancy (external manifestation, physical changes, etc), to which image 1 alone would not be able to do justice."

"Someone recently used the phrase "adolescent glee" to describe the attitudes of some editors who argue for the most prominent possible placement of nudity, and that resonates with me. Just because we can (and IMO should) include this image somewhere in the article does not mean that we should make it be the first and largest image—or that we should have zero images of pregnant women who aren't in a state of undress. If you want to present pregnancy as a part of normal life, then showing exclusively images of women who are undressed isn't the way to go about it."

Regardless of whom you agree with, both sides are putting forth legitimate arguments. Your intentional misrepresentation of the discussion raises questions about your motives.
Similar to this idea, Steven Spielberg established a foundation called the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to interview holocaust and warcrime survivors. According to their about page, they've done over 52,000 video testimonials so far.

You can check it out on the University of Southern California's website here: http://dornsife.usc.edu/vhi/
Since I use the RSS I only spend an hour at most a day reading stuff on here, but I work a ~40 hour week usually.
I couldn't disagree more. Publishing and promotion is so easy and cheap these days it should be the default option of every musician, book writer, etc. to self-publish.

Sure, it'll take some work to maintain a blog (or tumblr), use twitter, reply to emails, use facebook/g+, etc. But if you do it right it'll just be a very natural way to keep in touch with your fans and it'll be a rewarding experience on its own. The benefits are too huge to ignore. For one, complete control of your music and your career. For another, vastly increased profit margins enabling you to avoid having a day job at a far, far lower threshold than if you had used a more traditional publishing model. And ultimately a much more significant and meaningful connection between you and your fan-base, making your "work" all the more rewarding for both you and them.
Actually, we did bail out banks in 90s.

However, drawing parallels to current situation is not necessarily relevant as Finland's economic crisis happened in quite unique conditions due to collapse of USSR. There was no Western European (in political sense) country which was as depended in exports to USSR.

Situation in Japan in 90s seems much more relevant to situation that US and Europe are currently facing. A few hours ago I HN-posted a link to an interesting video where Mr. Koo explains how Balance Sheet Recession (Japan in 90s, US now) is different than traditional recession (he is in favor of fiscal stimulus) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2846561
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Sounds sort of like StoryCorps:
http://storycorps.org/
This implies that Netflix one-for-one replaced Blockbuster. How can you ignore Redbox, iTunes, and the rise of On-Demand offerings from cable and satellite providers that all took place within the same time frame?
Thanks -- FYI you can scroll over by dragging the timeline around.

Edit: Added a 25 year zoom level to the timelines, which makes this timeline (and I'm sure others) fit better.
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Talking with friends at Google, the perception there is that the cost of a false negative is larger than the cost of a false positive. The catch is that you need to have an agile hiring process, AND actually let go of people who don't carry their weight. Most companies fail at both points especially the second, until hard times come and investors demand rolling heads.
Thanks so much for that link, this was the course I took some years ago. It's excellent.
Purported iPhone 5 spy shot reveals sleek, slim design
Where's the answer "No, never heard of it"?
Three cheers for the science journalism in this link. The reporter clearly conveys the facts of the announced findings, includes images of candidate flowing water on Mars with captions as they appear in the original paper in the journal Science, and does a Q&A with a third party scientist who gives knowledgable further analysis. Anyway, this is really exciting.
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The Matt Damon looking guy is fifties game show fixture Bill Cullen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cullen

and he looks less Matt Damonish in higher resolution.
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I've read your website and watched your preview video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvYH_Qdp1Q) and I still have very little idea what your iPad app does exactly. It seems that it displays pictures from Facebook?

I'm not trying to rub dirt in the wounds, but I don't think you're doing a good job of creating a value proposition for many people.
Personally, I'm a physician with an undergrad in physics, played with logo and basic as a kid. I picked up SICP and got to chapter 2 or 3 on my own time last summer but set it down to go learn Python as it was pretty obvious Abelson and Sussman expect you to either be a bachelor's degree candidate with a lot of time to work on this, or you have a substantial background understanding to bring to bear.

I tried Ruby but didn't like the flavor. Too sugary, too much stuff. My goal is really to add math to my diet, I don't need a job. I see Python as a good starting point to get some fundamentals under my belt, access to a large community with a lot of running software, and then get back to more lisp-like languages, R, and functional programming. Perhaps I didn't give Ruby a fair shake, I'll probably visit it again.

Lutz's Learning Python and Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way have been a great combo for me as an independent student. Lutz does a great job of hand-holding in the beginning, which can be critical for the solo learner out there, but I wouldn't be the first who started getting impatient half-way through. Which is where LPTHW takes off. However, I have also gotten good use out of the beginnings of a lot material. A few notables:

* Brian Harvey's Scheme lectures at Berkeley (of all things) were absolutely critical to understanding recursion conceptually -- unfortunately they're gone now, which really makes me sad. http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=...

* Little Schemer -- I admit, I didn't see where it was going, shelved it, but loved the puzzling presentation. Will probably pick it back up after I finish LPTHW.

* Real World Haskell -- Some great introductory conceptual materal, but assumes a huge amount of prior knowledge. A noob can't pick up this book and learn programming.

* I just want to make mention of the fact that Windows hit the scene when I was a freshman in highschool and dominated my computing life for 15 years. The intellectual cost of that obstruction to the efficient use of my time can't be over-estimated. I have a visceral disgust for Windows that defies any logic.

* Conversely, my Cr-48 running Ubuntu has a wonderful study partner. It was quite wonderful to be reading LPTHW in Calibre, look to customize Calibre's buttons a bit, and find out it's written in Python. I have a visceral gratitude toward Google and the FLOSS community that defies any logic.

* Finally, Shaw's Advice from an Old Programmer is the best career advice, in any field, I've ever read (having done physics, military, and medicine). Read it or be square: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html

[edit]: for anyone who reloaded the page and found this comment elsewhere, my apologies. This part seemed better as a stand-alone comment.
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Only if they were under the same government.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/740 the paper
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Based on the 1930 classic pulp stories by Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian is the surface of seemingly simple story. Conan is a fictional young boy born in March
My wife is a hobbyist artist and is thinking of displaying some of her art work in online shops. SHe was talking last week about a technology such as this that would enable her to demonstrate her artwork in its intended environment, in the same way as this project for the TVs. I knew this could be done, just didnt know how. I'd be curious to learn how this is achieved, or if there are any services out there that provide this service?
I think a few of the commenters are misinterpreting the message he was attempting to convey (or maybe I am!).

What I took from that article was that, as a musician, spending too much time making youtube videos - posting stuff up on myspace music, keeping up with soundcloud track comments, &c... (those are my own examples of what I think he meant by online social media) harms your ability to focus, to create, and to ultimately cultivate a fan base that has a deeper appreciation for your music than the fleeting thousands that skip impatiently through a youtube video then go onto the next artist's video.

I fully agree, publishing yourself using social media is crucial - but so is doing live tours, shows, showing up to a random small beach party and playing some music (that will win you some fans), and spending time on your own creating...

That's what I got out of it, at least, please correct me if I misinterpreted.
Yes, 2 is the best choice. I have recent experiences. We have the idea (3 founders), we started our works but suddenly we are having face some problem. Two is free and one is busy with something else -- it started happening frequently. Two are technically skilled and one is business guy. But over our before to born our startups, we had to close everything. Because, it's not the way. Also, see the history, the million dollar companies like Google, Yahoo, HP and so on companies. Also, checkout youtube.com (3 founders) there were communication/ jawad has time issues) -- though it was million dollar company, just becuase of the dedication of two others founders :). It doesn't happen all the time.
Seeing the title, I thought this was like SnapShop (http://www.snapshopinc.com/), where you hold your iPhone, point at the wall, and you see the picture with the TV added, as in virtual reality.

Could you make it like that? It would be so much simpler than having to take a picture, upload it, etc...
I'm a bit more optimistic. I moved out to the country a year ago, for cheaper rents and the necessary solitude to get some work done. I've got broadband delivered wirelessly so I can still stay online all day if I choose. But it's nice to get outside for a run or have a laugh at the cows. I think people can adjust easily enough.
How about Google.com or Facebook.COM?
Thanks for sharing the Amazon logo timeline. I have never seen that before and am surprised to see how much it has evolved...
It would be nice to be able to copy and paste the code snippets without the line numbers. Otherwise great job!
I completely agree. I've got a linode instance and use it for server side stuff, but I hate doing server side stuff. This seems awesome, but I'm going to hold off until I know I can afford it.
This looks awesome - but I'm curious to see how much overlap this will have with the new stuff in iOS 5 (cloud storage etc.).
Sections 7 and 8 of this paper [1] discuss inducing memory faults and potential countermeasures. Specifically they indicate that many desktop PCs shipped without ECC hardware at the time of writing (2003). I'm not sure to what extent that's still true, but I imagine it could be a problem for the masses of cheap/old hardware in use around the world.

edit: I found some more recent numbers via [2]. Relevant quote:
"Our ﬁrst observation is that memory errors are not rare
events. About a third of all machines in the ﬂeet experience
at least one memory error per year (see column CE Incid.
%) and the average number of correctable errors per year
is over 22,000. These numbers vary across platforms, with
some platforms (e.g. Platform A and B) seeing nearly 50% of
their machines aﬀected by correctable errors, while in others
only 12–27% are aﬀected. The median number of errors per
year for those machines that experience at least one error
ranges from 25 to 611." They were using server-class machines with ECC.

[1] http://sip.cs.princeton.edu/pub/memerr.pdf

[2] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
Yesterday I had a relevant epiphany:

I'm 43, about halfway thru my lifespan of perhaps 86. I'll have lived about 1% of recorded history.

Human history doesn't seem very long now.
Yes, sometimes on my Nokia but not in desktop
love this idea. Would be even better if it could be incorporated with some kind of rating system. So like, level 9 coders could get hooked up with level 9 designers.
Person reporting a bug often will not be having knowledge of the source code, right? So the best he/she can do is to assign the bug against a particular component. Will it help you if you can subscribe to a particular component rather than getting notified of all bugs?
"No, I don't feel it's relevant/valuable enough to make the time for it."
"The neighbors would not put up with it."

Did you see that picture of his kitchen? :-) I think his neighbors were either very tolerant or in that class of 'everyone in this building sticks to their own business and we like it that way.' kind of place.

Loved the link to the methane risk though, reminded me of the poor concert goers that tried to light up a joint under a shared poncho on the grass at Shoreline Ampitheatre before they added piping. Fortunately none of their close were flammable.
As far as I can tell, most or all of the one-bit errors on those are already registered by typosquatters.
I think it really depends. Let's not forget a significant portion of HN have already "cultivated" their talents into something worth marketing. These students (especially being at Berklee) are likely to be talented enough to find themselves to be worth showing off, but not talented enough that they should be.

If you spend a day creating something for audience, you are more likely to waste it on perfecting what's already good. When do you do it for yourself, you're likely to spend it making mistakes all day-- and IMO, that's what it takes.
I think it is the general population's consensus that there is no life on mars. With the minuscule amount of area we have explored, I think there is ample opportunity to still discover life. Considering most landing sites have been selected for their ease of touchdown and not possibility of life, I'd day we still have a fair chance of finding it. This is especially true in light of these new findings.
Yeah, i already have an idea to have hashtags supported to in commit messages and pull them into the bug tracker as comments for the defect.

Can you please elaborate how your bug tracker supports this. And also why you don't find it usable?
Say you draw a venn diagram with three intersecting circles:

1. People with technical web expertise

2. People with deep domain knowledge

3. People willing to deal with bureaucracy

You will get a very tiny population.

Wikipedia wasn't always like this, the problem is that well established editors have built a fort to keep the noobs out—not because they are power thirsty—but because they don't want to deal with noob mistakes.

As with anyone new to a job, your first week will likely be a net loss to the company: they have to show you the ropes, set up your computer, take you out for lunch, make you feel welcome, etc. The wikipedia editors don't want to deal with this, so they just build technical and policy barriers to keep new people out.

Around three years ago I decided on "donating" one day of my life to Wikipedia in Spanish. I went around areas of intest, fixed some stuff, created two new articles of well recognized designers. The next day both articles were "nominated for deletion", one because it wasn't properly formatted or referenced, and the other for copyright infringement. An overzealous editor made a search on google and found a similar article in a blog, my own blog! which I release under public domain and which shares my wikipedia handle.

I ended up collaborating one day and fighting bureaucracy three days. No wonder they're having trouble finding new editors.
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It's an introductory text. You can easily cover it in a semester's worth of time.
If you read the link, you'll see that it's a very narrow particular kind of search that is being reported upon, only a tiny subset of all the electronic searches done by law enforcement in the United States, and even in this narrow area, the reports are grossly wrong: when Verizon reports 300 requests were made just to Verizon in a particular year and the report shows less than 20, I'm willing to bet that Verizon's numbers are more accurate.

So frankly even in this very narrow category, the numbers ARE probably two orders of magnitude higher, and if we were were to look at all electronic searches in the USA, it would be several more orders of magnitude higher. (And then if we were to look at the "national security" semi-legal surveillance going on in the U.S., it would be another many orders of magnitude higher.)
> Isn't it much more intuitive to say to the computer "play 10 random country" than enunciate a succession of commands / menu items?

Have you ever tried to interact with one of those "natural language" telephone systems? I loath the whole experience. Discoverability is either painful (waiting for a read-through of your options) or futile (guessing blindly and not knowing whether it is your word choice or enunciation that is to blame).
okay so RESTful API support - check!
Oh, I don't mean to say the book isn't deep; my CS undergrad courses were quite deep! In any case, yes, it's quite possible that I'm underestimating the value of the book for me.
FTA: "But the evidence is, so far, weak."
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Here's a hilariously strange link for this discussion-- BABip explained, with Groupon ads plastered about.

http://www.fenwaywest.com/2011-articles/june/sabermetrics-ex...

This part gets off topic but since we're talking SABERMETRICS!!...

I'm not that great of a statistician and truthfully just pay attention to this stuff for fantasy baseball, but I always find that BABip isn't the greatest for hitters, and as great as the data is (for anyone interested fangraphs is a great resource) interpreting this data can be troubling--I mean at the end of the 2008 season people thought Dunn's BABip was an indicator that he'd just fell apart--but he did turn that around for 2 seasons... and I think that was merely a product of him going from the NLwest to the NLeast(do you think the NLeast has that good of collective fielders)--and then to the ALC where he'd square off against more often than not a top tiered defensive team where he's now struggling. I guess my question with BABip how do you interpret luck with decreasing skill level? I've looked at that quite closely trying to look for correlations with age etc, and I can never find anything that shows me that BABip for interpreting upcoming season potential is anything but a crapshoot.
wait, do you actually make that money?
Groupon Acquires Obtiva (Rails firm)
8 Ways Young Americans’ Resistance to Domination Has Been Subdued
Ah, interesting. I wasn't aware of a bank bailout. Thanks for the info/link.
Abelson and Sussman expect you to either be a bachelor's degree candidate with a lot of time to work on this

I think that's to be expected for a university course textbook.
My thoughts exactly. It's easy for them to say it's about the design after the fact.

I'm much more inclined to think it has to do with their market, connections, and blog coverage.

Also, the design suffers from a lack of whitespace (feels crowded) and overuse of color. The landing page is way too loud, I have a hard time getting through it.
> Brian Harvey's Scheme lectures at Berkeley [...] unfortunately they're gone now

I clicked around a little bit at Berkeley's site and found this: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/playlist#c,s,All,3E89002AA9B9879...

It's looks like it should be the lectures you watched.
Ah, I see. It's like emacs' artist-mode.
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Orbiter spots possible water seepage on surface of Mars
I work with Rob. I always knew he was awesome, but I didn't realize he was this awesome. Great job Rob!
You'd be wise to pull it down until the new AirBnB insurance kicks in later this month.
Real World Haskell is definitely not for beginners. Try Learn You a Haskell for Great Good first. Still not for total beginners but since you already know Python you're good.
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Communities comparison for php frameworks
In the same boat as you being a programmer. Apart from Elance for design (ew), and not having design contacts, how would one go about finding a designer to work with?
I've read about a couple of chapters based on a recommendation that these select couple sections would broaden my view of designing parsers and understanding s-expressions. It did. On the other hand, I skimmed the rest of the book and didn't find anything in particular that I needed out of the text. Thus my choice of 'No and I don't want to' seems like a fair one considering I read way less than 25% of it. Maybe a chapter count poll would be better. Let's call it a 5% for me.

I'm guessing that developers don't actually ready cover to cover and cherry pick sections until books reveal more pertinent info later?
Why conferences need a code of conduct
True but vulnerabilities are only as viable as they are economical to execute. The effort isn't very high but the yield is proportionately low as well.
How can providing the most basic level of support be under a gag order? Especially when their support pages recommend using the forums?
Does any one know of other application that this can be applied to?
Creative and Smart vs. Create and Stupid
Anyone who's interested in joining a study group, I've added a Google Doc spreadsheet: http://goo.gl/cbzUL.

Based on the lack of comments here it's hard to tell what the overall interest level is for a study group, but personally I've found them to be quite rewarding.

As the course's start date approaches we'll see how many people have signed up and take it from there.

It might turn out a better alternative to doing this in an ad hoc manner to use one of the online study groups (like OpenStudy, for instance). Personally, I haven't any experience with them yet, but I'm sure there are others who have and can shed some insight.
I love how the NASA administrator uses the opportunity to remind everyone of the goal to send human explorers to Mars.