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The most chilling part is that even if they could swallow the cost, determining what a court would find infringing is hard. Of course they can filter out the obvious cases.

I have a two year old son. He loves Thomas The Tank Engine. And he loves Youtube and will frequently ask for "Thomas on the laptop". Most of the Thomas related videos on Youtube are actually re-enactments using the toy trains rather than copies of the TV show. There's apparently a whole community around this - with movies ranging from shaky clips of a kid playing to elaborate productions trying (though usually failing badly) to get close to the production values of the original series.

Some of them use snippets of the music from the TV show - how much is too much? Some use music I can't place - copyrighted or not? I can't tell. Some of them re-use dialogue. Some use text from the books. Others have invented their entirely own stories (but might still run afoul of copyright because they use the characters). Some has as their only similarly that they use the train sets as props.

The question is, how many of these would a court find infringing? (how many should they find infringing in a reasonable world?).

The end result is that to protect themselves legally, they'll need to reject everything that even has the appearance of being infringing.

This will likely throw out a massive amount of non-infringing content as well as a lot of stuff that is in a grey area legally but that the public will find ridiculous that they have to block. Vetting it will be far too hard

Of course, this latter part is perhaps the biggest light at the end of the tunnel: The chilling effect on speech are so strong and so far overreaching due to the lack of legal safeguards, that I can't imagine SCOTUS not throwing out substantial parts of this law.
I've wondered that myself, for quite some time, and refrained from asking it publicly because I knew it would be interpreted as a personal attack. It's not. I'm genuinely curious what this guy's credentials are. To name two other people on HN who write stuff on the web that gets read here: We know what Paul Graham has accomplished, business-wise, and Jacques Mattheij. (And if you don't know up front, it is easy enough to find that out about either of them.) That's why people are interested in what they have to say on their personal sites. That is their credential (in terms of "why should you give a flying fuck about my personal opinions on X topic?").

I've gone to the HN profile and the About page of his blog and anything else I could find for Sebastian and can find no enlightenment as to what he actually does for a living. I can't find that information in spite of spending some time trying, which is one reason I typically do not read his blog posts. Again, it is not intended as a personal attack. If he's for real, this is an opportunity to enlighten us all and self-promote in a positive way. It's only an ugly thing to ask if he is essentially full of hot air.
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How do these courses work? Are they free? Are there limited places? I've signed up for one, but I've no idea what's going to happen. Has anyone done this before?
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I get easily excited about education-related topics so I may be over-reacting, but I think these classes will jump-start an educational revolution, and that people will start to fully appreciate just how inefficient traditional teaching methods are.

Some people like to say that this is nothing new because video lectures were posted on the internet for several years now (for example MIT Open Courseware etc.), but I think this misses the point entirely. There is a huge difference between low-quality video/audio recording of a prof mumbling for an hour and post-processed, perfected snippets of videos presented in a coherent fashion, and most importantly with supplementary materials that encourage people to actually apply their knowledge and get feedback. In addition, the fact that many people take the class at the same time also enhances the experience for everyone, and we've seen study groups form everywhere around internet.

Full disclosure, by the way, I'm a CS PhD student at Stanford and I am a (voluntary) co-creator of the programming assignments for the current ML class. It is a lot of work, but the way I see it, we only have to put great assignments together a single time, and thousands of people can enjoy them and benefit from them for years and years to come. That is what I call time well spent.

I hope all these classes go well, and I'm looking forward to telling my kids about what education used to be like in the old days. I have a feeling that they'll find it hard to believe me.
Spot on :) I'm currently taking both the ML and AI classes and the difference is disturbing.

I'm sure things will improve in the next iteration, though, and after all I'm very grateful that all these courses are publicly available for free.
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Read his latest blog entry (or don't - it's quite a waste of time). Money quote is this:

> "I’m cyclothymic too. Like Nieztsche and Byron and those guys. Albeit, much less talented; I’m just saying I got the same affliction. [...] What’s a cyclothymic? It appears that we feel emotions more strongly than other people, and cycle through them. I’m fucking awesome when I’m manic [...] Cyclothymic mania is when the SPIRIT OF GOD is within you. [...] It’s pretty fucking awesome when it’s going on. SPIRIT OF GOD WITHIN YOU. Imagine that, eh? [...] Jut one rub – it’s a Faustian Bargain – crashing is… well, “hell” [...] when a convergence of bullshit strikes, then I crash hard and I’m fucking useless for a while. It’s a real bummer, I’ll tell ya."

So yes - manic depressive. And a little too taken by it, if I may say so.
> -Why isn’t Critical Thinking ready to ship?

> -What’s wrong with it?

Well, it's 17,000 words a day of this . . .

> it was kind of something on the back of my periphery of my mind.

EDIT: they asked for 50,000 - 60,000 words, and he's written nearly 180,000.
What a douchebag.
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I couldn't agree more. For connected web based games this is a requirement. https://www.switchpoker.com/client makes use of asynch calls to give the appearance of an extremely responsive UI.
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You could tell it's a bad policy if everyone was infringing, and there were obviously grave negative consequences.
Readability's code is a little bit old (2009), but seems no other better (opensource) alternatives...

And thanks for suggesting Diffbot, will try later.
Slightly off-topic: Thanks for ViewText. Seriously. The barrier to entry may be low, but you are the one who developed it. It works flawlessly, it's fast, it's a delight to use on a mobile device and on the iPad, it doesn't attempt to distract me with ads or premium offers and it's free.

If you don't me asking, how much does it cost to run ViewText?
This would perhaps have more impact if you corrected the mis-spelling of teacher :)
I disagree. The dream of getting a higher level picture of code is pervasive. E.g. UML was born to do exactly that. However, our modules usually do not compose cleanly, so you cannot visualize them as connected black boxes.

One common followup argument is that functional programming is great for this, because pure functions can be treated as black boxes. Sorry, but the problem is on the algorithmic/business logic level, which cannot be solved by the choice of programming language/paradigm.

Example: Remove data from one database and put it into another one, transactionally. At any point in time any other process must see the data in exactly one of the two databases. You can not merge the databases into one.
I remember that feeling well. Took years to shake even after the first time.

Without writing a novel on the subject, it helps to take a perspective lifted from evolutionary biology, and embrace your inner beast. It's possible to be too much of a nice guy.
For me it took 3 or 4 hours a week per course. It doesn't sound like much, but pre-arranged plans made it hard to find a decent sized piece of time (>1 hr) in which to do the work.
I think we are bumping into a limitation of what can be easily managed in "unstructured" (I would say "dead") text files

Yes, I think so too. There are many kinds of relations between entities that we cannot specify just because "dead" text files make them hard to express. Also, it makes that language "wars" focus on shallow concerns such as syntax, instead of semantics.

It would be great to be able to put constraints and relations at the abstract syntax tree level, or abstract semantic graph level (cross references and such that are automatically updated if entities are moved/renamed).

IDEs sort-of work around this by parsing the code and trying to bolt on features, by handing the "dead" text files intelligently. But all this work is lost as soon as you close the editor, so it does not allow the programmer to retain changes at this level.

But I'd love to work on a project that examines different, new ways to represent source code. Which could aid static/dynamic code validation, documentation, code comprehension, refactoring, cross-cutting concerns, and would allow for rendering the source code in any style and syntax that the developer wants.

Of course, this also would present challenges in the area of scm systems, because those are really focused on 'dead' text files. One idea I've had is to represent code as a graph, for example, in a graph database.
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Hmm, I interviewed recently at a pretty well-known startup and crashed and burned because I didn't know uncommon HTTP codes and request/response headers off the top of my head. I aced most of the rest of the questions, and I think I got along with everyone pretty nicely.

I understand that the interviewer probably works with them every day and has them memorized, but really that's something I could have looked up in 10 seconds. I don't think people should be penalized for following Einstein's "never memorize what you can easily look up in a book" philosophy.
No penalty implies a moral / ethical stance that is different from even a $1 penalty.

The underlying argument being that the majority of the population finds the current laws to be unjust not in measure, but on principle.
Maybe I'm actually a terrible coder and don't know it, but I search through documentation way more than once a day. Saves a ton of time.

I always thought a great interview would be something like "Here's a dev machine, make me an app that does this. I'll be back in an hour." (coding test), followed by a code review and "Let's go to happy hour." (personality test).
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Now I know what am I doing next spring. :D Sweet!

Thanks for everyone at Stanford working on this and making it possible. What an amazing collaboration between teachers and students (as the current ML, DB and AI classes show as well).
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Somehow I doubt you're paying $1 million a year, which would be 10x market pay for a good engineer...

That said, if you're paying even high-ish market rates and your people are really partners with significant percentage interests in the company, then I do retract a lot of what I said, and apologize if it was too harsh - I have had some bad experiences in startup-land with CEOs that demanded miracles from underpaid near-zero-equity employees, and I'm definitely biased by that. It's very likely that I've misinterpreted what's going on in your case based on my experiences, it's definitely more reasonable to expect serious commitment from equity partners that are well compensated for their time.

That said, I'd still think hard before posting stuff like this publicly - it's got a dirty laundry smell, and I think that's what a lot of people are reacting most negatively to. Did this really need to be a public blog post, or could it have had the same effect as an e-mail cced to the involved parties, without inviting the rest of the Internet to comment on it?

I know if I was one of the "lazies" called out, I'd be a bit pissed off about how public this got, and I'd probably be retaliating with any other side to the story, if there was one...
FYI: the "CS-101" course is a really really basic introduction to computational thinking. If you want intro programming you probably want CS106A, which hasn't been put into this format yet.

101 is taught by Nick Parlante, though, who was one of my favorite profs at Stanford.
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Thanks for the great exercises, you made them really fun! I think the course is absolutely stellar.
The homework and in-video questions are what keep me involved. I have such a busy schedule that its difficult to maintain the discipline to simply keep up if there were only videos. However, having external deadlines and practical things have encouraged me to make the time (and I'm very happy about it).

I agree that this is potentially revolutionary. Before these courses, I couldn't have imagined doing a 'distance-learning' course. I suspect there are many other folks that feel the same.

Also, thank you for your work on the ML programming exercises! I've found them fantastic in getting my head around how to practically 'encode' the things from the videos. Much appreciated.
For me it was maybe 5-6 hours per week (for AI course).

It was quite intensive thinking, though, really requiring concentration and effort; the courses themselves (ie just video) were maybe about 1 hour per unit, and there were two units per week.
This was already mentioned a couple of weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3153377
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I'm currently doing Machine Learning by Prof. Ng. They are totally free. You'll watch videos of lectures (not lectures in a class, lectures are made specially for this). There are weekly quizzes based on the classes, and programming assignments. I don't think places are limited but, they don't allow people to sign up after the last date.
The fully generalizable things you can teach would be communication, consent, and respect. But really, a standardized curriculum for sex sounds kind of weird. People would think they're dirty perverts for coming up with something that isn't in the standardized curriculum.
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written a lot of brilliant code that's running the guts of a couple businesses and maybe even an East Bay school district still.

Even without revealing your identity or violating your privacy, this is more substantive information about your career accomplishments than I can find about Sebastian. Maybe it's there and I'm just too stupid to figure it out. In which case there is a simple solution: You (or anyone else) can simply point out the obvious and make me look like a fool. I'm pretty comfortable playing the fool. He's your chance to get your licks in on me and fight the good fight and all that.
Really? Come on, can we have higher standards?

Seems a lot of kickstarter stuff is just premium takes on infomercial products.

"Hey look, it's a light you can put anywhere and you just touch it to turn it on!

But wait, it's made from a single block of aluminum, from a fair trade factory and costs $50 instead of $4."

Revolutionary!

No but seriously, $10 for something that doesn't look more complicated than a fork to manufacture? I'm all for supporting cool new ideas and great design, but this isn't it.
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Research tends to show that "celibacy until marriage and fidelity thereafter" tends to be more of a lie that people all agree to believe rather than the truth. Pre-marital shenanigans and extra-marital affairs are extremely common, the latter especially among higher-status men, who in many other cultures are openly polygamous.

There are a number of things that are cultural universals. Every culture has music, or ritualistically disposes of their dead, or has taboos against murder. Monogamy and pre-marital celibacy are not two of these.
FeNi batteries are a wonderful storage medium for things like solar cell chargers in a house, or a wind turbine setup. I never said this is going to be the next watch battery tech.

And also, the fact is that the first cars were electric: they used various chemistries. And as I said above, Leno has a still working car that uses a NiFe battery: Cheap materials, low maintenance, not heavy metal (and nontoxic to boot).

In fact the original recipe indicated making potash, putting it in distilled water, and filtering out the physical chunks of ash.
Do you get an email confirmation on signing up? Also how does this course work? The site didn't provide any information about that ― although I haven't seen the 'about course' video.

Has anybody here tried this before? Are the videos webcasts or pre-recorded video that I can download/view at anytime?

Also is it open for everybody or will the sign ups be restricted?

All in all this looks awesome and I'm very much interested in the Game Theory and SaaS classes! :)
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Anyone know if AI-Class will be running again in 2012? The links between the 2012 courses suggest not, but that could just be down to Ai-Class being different.
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Er, I'm not looking to fight any kind of fight or make anyone look like a fool.

I just wanted to point out that dismissing someone because you don't know about their accomplishments (or lack of) is probably going to mean that you're going to miss out on some pretty great people.

(For clarity: generic "you" in this case, not specifically you; and I'm not lumping myself in with "great" people.)
Thanks. This is the critical nugget of information missing from the course information pages (unless I'm just lacking in observation skills).
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As a consumer of Stanford's online classes(though not the ML class. I'm waiting for the CS 229 - vs the CS 229A - version), let me take the opportunity to thank you. Your efforts are totally appreciated. You are right, this is revolutionary. Glad to see that Stanford is keeping up (and building!) momentum rather than this being a one off effort.
Shai Agassi's patent #7,993,155 for a charging connector even references this one. Doesn't look like they consider it a problem.
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thanks, I agree with you-- there is something psychologically interesting about it that I can't quite understand, but it certainly seems like this format better maintains student motivation. It's a step in the right direction at least... just the first iteration of a gradient descent ahead of us ;)

Also, good point about the programming exercises. Especially with topics like this I think it is easy to fall into trap of thinking you "got it" if you just watch the videos. Programming exercises force you to think it through on a whole different level and, I think, lead to better understanding and retention.

Anyway, great, I hope you stick with the class!
It's very sad to see someone with such clear MH problems and no support in place.

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It is worth pondering, but I don't think being a joker is the reason. Also the attitude of "I said I'd do it, so I'll do it" could become a problem if it prevents you from pivoting and failing fast.
Does this mean I'm not alone in thinking Yegge could cut half his prose and create a better post?
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Why the downvotes? Shouldn't the capacity of our wires also be a limiting factor?
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A problem might be that "it" in the mind of the manager is a clear cut, black and white thing, whereas in reality it might turn out to have more facettes and nuances. With a bulldozer manager (get it done or get out) it might be difficult to adapt to reality.

I also dislike that kind of speeches because it sets up a power hierarchy from the start. Not a good basis for cooperation.
I'm doing ai-class and I find it just fine. After the first two weeks, all the technology worked just fine - what problems are you referring to?

The video editing is also fine. If such minor issues break your rhythm, you might need to rethink your approach to the lessons.

Given that there are still thousands of students in the class and enjoying it, it didn't "fail" at all.