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I really think you are fighting a strawman here. Your argument is all over the place too... Is the math supposed to be clearly explained in text or just the starting conditions from which the rest of the formulae just tell the story for you?

Moving on to DNS having security holes and other problems with protocols made with reference implementations -- how is this relevant? Lots of scientific papers get published that later turn out to be wrong, whole fields of study sometimes look really good and push our understanding of the world but ultimately go away as "the wrong approach". This is just progress, not a fundamental flaw in putting making code available.

When you say the "knowledge of a paper" should stand on its own, without the need for the circuits, code, etc to understand it -- this is true of many fields, but not true when the paper is about the circuit, the code, etc. Then that very thing should indeed be presented, otherwise no amount of text will properly explain it, other than a 1000 words where a picture would suffice.

As for your famous lab scientist -- why is it ok that he wants to make notebooks and other lab stuff available, but when we ask for code to be put in a public repo when reviewing papers we are suddenly breaking knowledge?

An finally, about your last sentence -- supplemental code is not an attempt to transmit the knowledge with the knowledge of a research paper. The word supplemental means "in addition to", the paper should still happen!

A last, slightly tangential thing: No matter what you say about text being the only way to transmit knowledge, there are plenty of occasions where a simple digram transmits much more meaning to me than reams of text, I am visual thinker and learner. Similarly there are times when a few lines of code can tell me as much as paragraphs describing them. There are times when I see an equation and get what the paper is trying to discuss. There are also times when the text is invaluable, and without it I would be lost, no matter how good the diagram or equations or code. The methods of knowledge transmission are many -- to be stuck on a single type as the "true way" is a bit absurd and/or pretentious.
I had to create a facebook account to allow my wife to have a 'married' status (not allowed to be set alone).
Felt pretty much like a damned if you do damned if you don't situation
Well, back in the day, it was stuff like setting up blogs that linked back to your site, making somewhat-relevant blog comments elsewhere, submissions to directories, issuing 'press releases', making forum posts (especially with signature links), making somewhat-relevant contributions to wikis, 'contributing' to bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, providing somewhat-relevant answers on Yahoo! Answers, you get the idea. If you could stick a link in it, you stuck a link in it.

For all I know any or all of these tactics could currently be the search engine kiss of death - so don't do any of them without doing your research first. Search engines have probably gotten a wee bit smarter.

The other, more ethical way to do it is to produce great content (reviews, tutorials, photo shoots, etc.) that people might actually want to link to of their own free will, but this is time-consuming and hard to scale up.
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If you're referring to that last line, yeah I totally fat fingered that. I fixed it.

I'm advocating moving to an absolute system. As in an absolute width, measured here, measured there, measured anywhere. This can then be scaled to mimic the appropriate absolute width based on viewing distance and other parameters such as screen real estate.

I know what you're thinking. "But pixels are an absolute measure...". Actually yes, and actually yes. Pixels are an absolute measure in the sense that they state that I want something to be the absolute size of a single pixel but the pixel is arbitrary and now your absolute measure is relative to the actual size of the pixel. As mighty as this sounds, it actually turns out to be not all that useful in design; as screen resolutions vary so will your renderings. This is why CSS pixels are different, they're for all intents an purposes interpreted as 1/96th of an inch. So, great they're absolutely 1/96th of an inch, they're absolute! So why should you stop using them? This paragraph is why you should stop using them. I didn't like writing this paragraph, and I'm gonna guess you didn't like reading it. Pixels are confusing and pixels are * liars. Use points.
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http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html

...

> When you type URLs or queries in the address bar, the letters you type are sent to your default search engine so the Suggest feature can automatically recommend terms or URLs you may be looking for. If you choose Google as your search engine, Google Chrome will contact Google when it starts so as to determine the best local address to send search queries. If you choose to share usage statistics with Google and you accept a suggested query or URL, Google Chrome will send that information to Google as well. You can disable this feature as explained here.

...

> If you navigate to a URL that does not exist, Google Chrome may send the URL to Google so we can help you find the URL you were looking for. You can disable this feature as explained here.

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> If you enable the optional AutoFill feature, which automatically completes web forms for you, Google Chrome will send Google limited information about the structure of pages that have web forms and information such as the arrangement of the form so that we can improve our AutoFill service for that page.

(end excerpts)

Could you give us more information about the AutoFill feature? Does it send the URL along with the listed information? Does it do this for every URL that contains a web form?
I'd like to hope people continue to respond into the work week, so we'd get a better pool of people. Should I just ask again later on?
I can most proudly state that I have never used Facebook. Screw social networking.
Well, in my case, besides distracted reading, it's that Facebook has done crap like this before (I mean, various privacy surprises) and I suppose I'm just primed to assume the worst now.
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Yeah, I too felt a bit swizzed at the end. But if it wasn't for that last paragraph teasing more, it would have felt fairly substantial. Although I don't think you get to say things like "[The Milo Criterion] is the dominant dynamic for successful products." without a hell of a lot more evidence.
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I think the parent was referring to anonymous chat rooms like MSN. Those don't really exist now, yet they were extremely popular fifteen years ago.
My worked started blocking it, which totally pisse me off at first. And when I get home, there are so many status updates I can barely follow them. So I mostly stopped using it, and you know what? I hardly notice.
Not quite. More like, instead of pressing the 'like' button on each story you want to share, there will be a "share what I read on FB" button which acts like a switch-it doesn't start sharing until you opt-in, but then it shares everything automatically until you turn it off.
Exactly. If I look at the recommended friends page, people who defriended me are often near the top (probably because of the high number of mutual friends).

In this case, "he" is a "she", btw :-)
> If a firm is responsibly underwriting its own risks, the firm's accountants will determine which assets are suitable and which are not. However in a heavily regulated, heavily subsidized financial system like the US, firms have an incentive to take the maximum risk allowed by law, with the expectation of below market rate loans or other bailout assistance if the practice turned out (in hindsight) to be too risky.

And yet there were systemic failures before the financial industry was heavily regulated (that's why there is regulation in fact!). It turns out people are greedy and left alone or regulated will still make risky decisions to try and squeeze out more money.
Are you talking about chat or instant messaging? Those two are different in my view. We use IMs a lot at work. Probably even more than email. Chats get created every now and again, but realistically, it's much less used than IM.

The only place I see chat as really being useful, is for support on websites and applications. However, again it's mostly one-to-one, so it's basically a temporary IM.
"It's not pretending if they've muted you, you're being ignored."

But does FB tell you when somebody mutes you?
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Or just not care enough about Facebook to keep track of the number - which is the case for me.
I am excited to see how the timeline performs for 800 million people, because maybe I'm very wrong about it. It feels pretty sleek, but I found it laborious to curate. Perhaps that will bother few people.

I truly am sorry I wasted your time.
Why the hell am I at -1?

Do enlighten me how can I file a bug report against Chrome if I don't have and don't want to create a Google ID.
Thanks! I write them all myself, but I use a lot self-written software at this point to streamline the writing process. And yes, 100% ad based. Adsense actually probably pays us the most we could get for our traffic with the least amount of intrusion.
You can't like to do something unless you can play with it without worrying about the consequences. This is the exact reason why I didn't want to do PhD... and I am glad I still like Physics, Statistics, and Mathematics - because I play with them whenever I want to.
I guess you scrape websites of retailers to populate your database? Have there been any retailers which said you are not allowed to scrape their site for gathering product info, pictures and prices? (I can imagine that certain retailers only want their products to be showcased in the context of their own site)
I spend a good portion of time logged into Facebook (in Chrome, which I don't use for anything else, and is the only place Flash is installed on my system).

It started with old friends from high school, which was sort of nice, but obviously if I'd have really wanted to keep up with these people, I would have made more of an effort to do so.

But now it's the only way that the majority of my friends communicate. None of them use email anymore, almost none of them have blogs, or websites.

I can totally understand why nerds find Facebook's popularity confounding (as they were already doing all of the things that it facilitates in a more customizable fashion without the lockin of one company), but for every single normal person I know, it's the de-facto way they use the internet.
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Same here. However, after a few months of not using it, she didn't care when I deleted it :)
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I'm surprised and somewhat saddened to hear that most of your friends only communicate through facebook.

In my case, we still mostly contact via phone calls, resorting to text messages for less urgent messages and email for longer and more persistent messages
Their privacy issues are really starting to bother me, enough for me to consider deactivating my account.

The one that has really gotten my goat is when you tag a photo with your friend on it. Even if you have privacy set so that only your friends can view your photos, if you tag your friend in one of your photos, ALL OF THEIR FRIENDS CAN NOW SEE IT.

You can't change this setting. It's called something like "Friend of friends can see tagged photos." You have no control over this, and the only one who can change this is your friend that you tagged.

This is now forcing me to never tag any of my friends, because I don't want strangers seeing my photos. It means effectively that I've lost control of my privacy on my photos, and that's something that is enough to drive me away from Facebook permanently.
One of my friends observed yesterday that "Ever since G+ came out, jdtang has been spending a lot more time on Facebook." Which is kinda ironic, since I work a little bit on G+.

His observation is true, but complete correlation, not causation. Around the time G+ came out, I started seeing a girl who lives an hour away, so I can't see her during the week. I already had her friended on Facebook. She is not willing to move to G+ (understandable, all her friends are on Facebook). All my friends on G+, I get to see in person every day anyway. Therefore, I'm on Facebook a whole lot more.

Funny how one person can make the difference for adoption, if it's the right person.
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I barely used it before, logging in once every two or three months. But with the new Lists feature, I can log in and view just the posts of family members I'm not in constant contact with. I plan to log on more often now to keep up with them.
> They take title in the sense that they are paying (although paying late) and buying a certain amount of product (after they have received orders.) A commission would be if the same thing happened and the restaurant forwarded x% of the sale to groupon.

No, they work on a commission--the product they sell is the future services/products of a company who they have agreed to sell on behalf of. It's like TicketMaster collecting money for an event and then paying the promoter in a lump sum less agreed upon commissions (and yes, TM only counts their take as revenue).

Groupon doesn't buy a certain amount of product, they collect revenue and then pay out based on receipts. No products are purchased, they're simply a third party affiliate that has an email list and sales force.

> Here's an example. You are a programmer and I send you a customer. The customer gives you $5000 worth of work. You pay me $500. So you collect the money and pay me a commission. Other way: I get the $5000 from the customer (I have the contract with them) and pay you $4500 for what you have done (and have added risk etc.)

That's a horrible analogy. A better one is you make an agreement with a programmer who has a software package. You will sell the software for an agreed upon price and then split the proceeds 50/50. Your revenue is whatever your cut is, you're working on commission. This is exceedingly common online for affiliate programs, the only difference is Groupon approaches the business about starting the affiliate program just for them.
"Let me add one carveout: for those who work at startups that write facebook apps, that time is NOT counted."

I specifically added that to make sure that people voted based on personal use. I suspect a lot of people work at startups or jobs that require use of facebook
> I always thought you had to do the whole facebook connect crap before websites could just splash your fb friends list at you?

No, you're wrong.

> Someone was petrified that fb knows and may have already revealed

Based on that someone's own mistaken idea.

> How long is until you'll be able to 'connect' to the DMV via fb?

Then just quit when that happens? Or don't let people post to your wall? Or don't friend strangers? Sorry, but these aren't rocket science and they in no way resemble an "abuse".
Or doctors see their profit-margins / wages declining, and lower the threshold level for various kinds of specialised testing. So, you complain about a mole or a lump, and instead of a quick diagnostic poke and an "It's probably fine", it's off for an invasive biopsy, "Hmm, the results were inconclusive, better safe than sorry" surgical removal, and maybe a few extra scans for follow-up.

I'm sure that there a many areas where a GP would like to schedule a follow-up, but can't justify it on the current evidence, and lets it slide.

Because there's this level of subjectivity in medicine, any increase in supply can easily be countered by the suppliers pumping up demand, keeping D/S exactly the same.

(I'm not a doctor, although I'm friends with a few)
If you have to study 100 hrs a week and you're not going to MIT, you're doing something really wrong. And unless its a technical field, no one's going to care what your GPA is. There just isn't enough demand for English lit majors to need GPA as a differentiator.

To have the dedication to study 100 hours a week voluntarily for anything, really shows you picked the wrong major. With that sort of dedication you could excel at anything, even something you're not naturally gifted at.
I was going to opine that the stupid facebook firewalls (you have to login to use a service) were the worst things I've seen, but definitely marital pressure takes the cake
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a sort of birthday arbitrage?

I wonder, do you have numbers on what percentage of your real friends are tripped up by this (wishing happy birthday on a fake day)?
You can do even better with some good network timing gear and extract the physical distance from the NAT point based on time of flight. Another way to differentiate between machines.
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This is what I like about coding. I enjoy trying to solve those small puzzles that make up a full application. The problem sometimes is that the application gets so big and the solutions take too long that it becomes a grind.

I find that when I reach that point, it helps to take a break, look at the problem with a fresh mind, and try to break down the solution into smaller pieces. At that level, some parts become interesting and fun again, even though others might not be. At least you have fun in some of the parts, instead of feeling the grind of the entire thing.
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JIT. After hours, my workmates and I just started watching SICP vids/"taking" the MIT opencourseware.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
I deactivated my account after hearing about the latest changes. Now I'm very inclined to make a fake account.
My facebook usage has always been intermittent, but this Timeline thing was the last straw for me. I shut down my facebook account this evening.
Most of them were never big on phone calls (which suits me fine, as I absolutely never answer my phone), but would occasionally use text messages for something temporal (like: "Hey, I'm at the bar, where are you guys?").

I never had much luck getting most of them using email. When we all left high school, I made the futile attempt to set up an IRC channel for them to use and spent months talking them through it. This was back in 97, so our other options were limited.

Thankfully, AIM came on the scene, and that became the way that the majority of us stayed in touch.

I have no idea why email never clicked for any of my friends, but it's been true of everyone I've met as an adult. It could just be that they associate email with "work", and therefore never took to the medium.

I'm not, however, saddened by the fact that they've all standardized on Facebook. I'm actually glad that they've all picked one thing and use it. If it'd been something else, that would have been fine too, but Facebook is ridiculously well-suited to everyone I know, so I'm not surprised it's become so popular.
The only time I use facebook:

For some reason my Nexus One comes pre-installed with Facebook and it can't be uninstalled without rooting (which for laziness sake I don't want to do). I don't have a Facebook account. The Facebook app periodically tries to authenticate and obviously can't. Instead of gracefully giving up (or allowing me to uninstall) it brings a Facebook login page to the foreground.

So every day, two to three times a day, I have to exit out of Facebook which has given itself focus. To me this defines the Facebook experience and their focus on quality software.

I dislike Facebook not for all their privacy concerns (which are annoying), but because I was always genuinely frustrated using the site.
I check in weekly. And only because ever member of my family (except for the kids, oddly enough) are on it. I"d love to ditch it. But I kind of want them to stay on FB. So I can be on Google + without the family and their drama. :)
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Anyone care to do this for Introduction to Algorithms?

Been meaning to read it, but the PDF version on my Kindle is a chore to get through.
You mentioned in an earlier comment about a CT scan being 6k+ images. I'm assuming these are cross-sectional slices or something similar?

I know a guy who's working for one of the big CT manufacturers (Toshiba, I think) working on 3D image-registration and partial analysis. In essence, lining up the features from different slides and sewing them into a 3D model.

One of the big features being looked at was automatic labelling of certain gross anatomical features - I seem to remember something about cardiac veins needing to be marked as part of a scan report? By mostly automating this, it saves time for the user so they can just check they're correct, maybe move them if not, rather than having to do all the work themselves.

I can see this sort of work being much more useful, and happening in a much shorter term than any sort of AI "You have cancer" system. I wonder how you feel about that sort of thing?
As a high schooler, it has become a mandatory part of the social experience. I can count on one hand the people in my grade without a Facebook, and many real life conversations will start with "so did you see X on Facebook last night?" Although its for the most part a large waste of time and I don't really want one, I use it because I would like to have a social life. Its sad, however, that many of my friends fail to see how superficial it is.
I use Facebook regularly.

Facebook usage can be helpful to entrepreneurship in that it can make it easier to understand people outside of Silicon Valley. I have nontechnical Facebook friends from high school, college, and my local area and by following their lives on Facebook I can regularly put myself into different peoples' mindsets to think about how they use technology, what things are problems to them, how they perceive things, etc.

It is also great if you are involved in a hobby where Facebook usage is high such as dancing argentine tango in the Bay Area. All of the instructors are on Facebook, lots of dancers friend each other, and event listings and photos can be found there.
I spend maybe five minutes a month on facebook (usually for debugging some oauth integration). When I do I logout as quickly as I can. Now I find out that even that's not enough to keep them from snooping on me (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033475)
Do you know how they settled on the 2 hours on/2 hours off deal? I'm interested in alternative working hours to improve productivity and would be interested in knowing more about their schedules.
A friend tells me that for PDFs, the way to go is a Nook Color, which can be rooted to run Android, which has a good PDF reader. New it's $250 (which is what he has), refurbs are available for $180 from Barnes & Noble:

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I left FB long ago and never looked back.
Is that documented somewhere? I was completely unaware of that "feature" of the Nexus One (granted I use an iPhone anyway)
As a complete aside, the Piecework article by Atul Gawande linked from the story has now been archived, and they broke the original URL.

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Oh, it does, too. I don't know how I couldn't have noticed that. I always curse not having that whenever I fat finger "flag".
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