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Wikipedia's conflict of interest rules are slightly more nuanced than "no contributions", thankfully: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest - the important part is "Editors with COIs who wish to edit responsibly are strongly encouraged to follow Wikipedia policies and best practices scrupulously. They are also encouraged to disclose their interest."

Wikipedia also encourages editors with COIs to write on the Talk pages for relevant articles to provide corrections, suggestions, additions, etc. Ideally your article has someone paying attention to it who would be interested in checking and integrating your contributions.

(It actually looks like one of the main editors of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._and_James_L._Knight_Fou... works for the Knight Foundation, disclosed on his user page - and his contributions look reasonable except that he didn't add sources.)

I'm a longtime editor in general and I now also fix articles related to my work, very carefully, and I'd be sad if I couldn't. I agree that Wikipedia has problems with inconsistent enforcement of rules though. Some of that comes from the relatively innocent problem of "too many articles, not enough editors" but some of it is caused by editors being grumpy and/or interpreting rules unreasonably, and that definitely discourages other people from wanting to participate.
There's plenty you could do to make a better Craigslist, simply because they're so slow to roll out any new features. As a result, there's a large number of websites and mobile apps built to augment the basic functionality of vanilla Craigslist.

But I highly doubt you could have any success grabbing market share, because none of these functional shortcomings are enough of a problem to the Average User that they'd be interested in using a service with no reputation. Not to mention the network effect.
See my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3273124
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As if you need to buy ad space to put propaganda on Wikipedia.
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This is quite off topic but because of how well known 'The Game' is, it should never be used as a how-to as it once was but more of an inside look at what such a life entails. Quite a few girls have read such books, and actually look out for such tells to identify frustrated chumps--and well the "chessyness" and the hyper convoluted dating approach of that time just doesn't cut it anymore (I've seen some old techniques done, and successfully, but it's not advisable haha--but again a lot of these things are built upon psychological understandings), and it's a big reason why that field has really had to evolve in the past few years. Simple common sense and psychological and biological foundations seem to be the way to go.
Yes that's how it works, the FAQ is out of date.
Honest question, how would you have them get paid for your use of their service?
The actual results were 7:6. On what planet is that "consensus"?

Oh wait, another WikiMagicThing is that only some votes count and some votes count more than others and what votes count is completely up to the arbitrary decision of someone who has no accountability for their decisions. Right.
> I ask honestly: why should it be easy to participate?

Because the alternative is massive systemic bias.

This issue has been discussed to death and I won't argue anything here, but the point is that having a thick coat of process encourages a _certain kind_ of editor to participate in Wikipedia. Thus, proponents claim, the largest reference work on the internet is biased, in a very nonobvious way.

This wouldn't be an issue if Wikipedia was some niche forum where "facts" are taken for granted to be opinions. But for (what I suspect is) the majority of people these days, Wikipedia is the de facto source of truth. Therein the problem lies.
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I haven't seen this particular agreement but in general the clock starts ticking on the day of the IPO. Basing it on the date of the prospectus makes no sense. There's no guarantee that the IPO will even happen within 180 days.
In my opinion, several steps in your chain of reasoning break down.

> 1. Amazon is --- probably, and for the next 18 months or so --- going to have the most popular Android tablet on the market.

In the US market. Until and unless Amazon changes it the Kindle Fire (like the Nooks) are irrelevant internationally. In addition, making the Kindle Fire international is easier said than done. With a few exceptions, Amazon needs to secure rights to sell movies and music overseas (books are taken care of, for the most part). A further complication is that Amazon's Cloud Player currently relies on recent court decisions codifying fair use rights (with respect to media storage and streaming) that may not exist in other countries.

> 3. Android developers are going to be compelled to deliver software to Amazon users, because Amazon is going to supply a plurality of the entire addressable market for Android apps.

The only plurality Amazon has a chance of capturing in the foreseeable future is "Android tablets in the US". An interesting slice, to be sure, but one of many.

> 4. To supply Amazon users with Android apps, developers have to use the Amazon market.

False. The Kindle Fire permits side-loading (and it is no harder than side-loading Amazon's Appstore onto a typical Android phone). Alternative app stores (e.g. GetJar) are going to promote themselves and give even Kindle Fire users incentives to install them (e.g. GetJar's time-limited exclusive. Beyond that, prominent open-source software available for Android (e.g. Firefox, Connectbot) isn't in Amazon's Appstore, giving users another incentive to sideload.

> 5. Not only will developers need to use the Amazon market to address Amazon customers, but off-brand Android users can (and may) also end up relying on Amazon's market.

Off-brand users are most likely getting an app store by side-loading anyway, so I don't see how they're going to end up relying on one store to the exclusion of others. It seems more likely that each store will have its pluses and minuses and off-brand users will choose between them on that basis.
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Your first example is a little dated; Wikipedia hasn't had one article per Pokemon since around 2007, at the latest, when they were all merged into a handful of lists. Since then, a small number have been spun back out into articles on individual species or evolutionary lines, but only after careful consideration and considerable effort put into finding sources and establishing notability.
I don't have to define it, it is in the law books in several states - even the fed food stamp program has its own version which I mentioned is problematic.
If Wikipedia let Search Engine <strike>Abuse</strike> Marketing experts decide what is worthy to be on wikipedia, Wikipedia would end up being as relevant as ehow.com and experts-exchange.com.
> I ask honestly: why should it be easy to participate?

I agree with you, though I've also experienced the encouragement to participate as nowarninglabel has:

>> When I meet wikipedia people here in SF, they say, "Get involved!" Then, when I have tried to get involved, I get endless bureaucracy and everything eventually deleted.

I think this is where the frustration stems. Wikipedia, understandably, wants participation. But it's not just any ole participation. It wants, and needs, _quality_ participation. Unfortunately, quality is a subjective measure; what one assumes is quality is rubbish to another.

I sympathize with the huge task Wikipedia has in trying to police an enormous amount of content, though I think it's entirely understandable that there are many people who are unhappy with how that policing is being done, rightly or wrongly.
That's so weird - me too! I use it to find icosahedrons, perfect circles, and other essentially platonic things. PM me for a great story about this one time I thought I had found the Form of the Good.
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We go out of our way on Wikipedia to make everyone feel welcome to edit anything. If someone makes a good faith mistake, more often or not, you are sent a welcome message fairly quickly by either a vandal patroller or an admin. New users will get hit up after their 2nd or 3rd edit with a Welcome message too.

I have tools that help me help new users out quick in my dashboard. It's part of what I do. No body should feel afraid to edit Wikipedia. Ever. It's a public resource.
You can combine limit() with count by passing true to the count function. So if you only care about counts greater than, say, 10000, you can do db.collection.find({criteria:'123}).limit(10000).count(true) and you will only get back a max of 10000. This puts an upper bound on waiting for some large counts to come back.
I can play a few Megadeth riffs and I've written two very shitty songs. This does not make me a musician or a songwriter. It makes me a dude who can create noises that resemble music.

The OP groks the basics and has learned how to use Django. This does not make him a programmer. It makes him a dude who can create code that resembles a program.
Postgres is notoriously bad at count. MySQL seems to handle it quite well, though, for some reason.
I've found the law and programming to be quite different. In programming and engineering in general, you are often working towards one particular goal. The optimum is in the distance and you are on your path to achieving it. In the law, you are often weighing two opposing viewpoints and trying to find the best way to advance your particular view. Perhaps the closest analogy to a large program would be with international tax law, an area that is statute driven with many complex interactions.

For me, there was no shortcut. I first learned to program with Abelson and Sussman's book, SICP. Depending on your background, the mathematical bits may not be that useful and are easily skipped. From there, learning the languages du jour are quite trivial, the only exception being low level coding in C or assembly for which the C book by Kernighan and Ritchie and the first volume of Knuth's TAOCP are quite useful.
> I would prefer an entirely separate score for [personality].

passionfruit, that does exist on OKC. Some of the tabs to the right portray personality aspects like messy, experienced, old-fashioned, indie, geeky, thrifty.
As part of the measures to increase the efficiency of transmission, a new coder/decoder was developed to add about 2dB to the SNR to the transmitter.

It was called the Big Viterbi Decoder, or BVD for short. The noted information theorist Ed Posner, who was on the design team, quipped, "I've worked on hardware and on software for space systems, but this will be the first time I've worked on underwear."
That's not actually a rule of Wikipedia. You absolutely can contribute to Knight Foundation articles. However, because most people who contribute to articles on subjects they have a vested interested in are not good faith contributors, you may find yourself dealing with more friction than you'd like.

Don't oversimplify, though. This isn't a simple problem, and we have no right to expect it to be. There isn't a Wikipedia rule preventing you from writing about your company or the organization that funded it.
Why do you need algorithms to be a good problem solver? Must of sucked to solve problems before the 60s given there were no good problem solvers :(

In fact, how did mathematics and physics even develop at all before then, without knowing what was hard, or how to solve problems.

Seriously, a lot of software doesn't require complex algorithms, sure there is a subset that does and that's cool. But saying someone isn't a programmer because they don't have a deep understanding of computation and algorithms is disregarding a large population of quality programmers.
The effect of the lockup expiration is generally overblown. Since it's known information, the impact is priced in days or weeks before the actual day. While the expiration results in a temporary imbalance, the stock usually closes at a reasonable price.
My undergrad university sends me begging letters - the place I did my Phd doesn't. They don't consider it worth the postage cost given what Phds earn!
That's awfully handy. It unfortunately doesn't solve the pagination problem, though. :/
... which is completely ridiculous, for two reasons. One, Wikipedia is based in America, and so naturally its English should be consistently American. Two, modern English as spoken and written in England has grammar problems -- e.g., the insistence on using plurals for singular objects, such as corporations ("Shell Oil have announced ..."). Therefore, American English is obviously preferable.
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Summary: Throughput of a mesh asymptotically approaches 1/7th of the non-mesh link rate. This is using the 802.11 MAC, but recent softMAC chipsets could be run in a more mesh-optimized psuedo-802.11 protocol (that has not been invented yet AFIAK), so you might get performance as good as 1/4th.
What I meant by a native implementation is one with no underlying infrastructure. Freenet (protocol) would be running directly on the hardware. Set up a mesh of (media agnostic) point-to-point links and use the Freenet protocol to route traffic and turn them into a network. A big caveat is that Freenet might not scale as required.

One problem you are going to face if you stick to an IP based network is: who is going to administer the address space? The same is true of any centralised function. In the "glory" days of community WiFi networks, most fell by the wayside because of this issue.
> some topics have more .. coverage than others

I've noticed that too. There seem to be a lot of repetitious questions all aiming at or around faith vs atheism. "Do you believe in fate", "Do you believe in miracles", etc are talking about the same kind of thing.
For things like leaderboards, I'd recommend looking at Redis over Mongo. ZRANK is perfect for this sort of thing. http://redis.io/commands/zrank
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I don't mind that - I object to that it's ONLY engineers that are 'professional', science PhD = janitor.

In fact I don't think engineers should be allowed to use any of mechanics, statics, thermodynamics, solid state electronics, etc without getting a professional physicist to approve it.
I think it depends on your locale.

Spearfish, SD versus Brooklyn, NY for instance -- the Brooklynites could benefit more from algorithmic improvements.
There may be ways to overcome the limitations of mesh networking, as outlined by many people here, but you will need to think outside the mesh, so to speak. It is probably best to think of the mesh as the "last mile" component rather than the backbone.

One idea: a $5 laser pointer can be modulated at well over 100 Mbit/s. Everyone in an urban area who can see one side of a building can bounce laser beams off of it. (Data recovery and collision resolution are left as exercises...)
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I too like Wikipedia - and its chock a block full of good stuff - so it seems some folk have taken the time to learn the rules and add to collective knowledge contained within.
Yeah, I was just kidding around.
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I downvoted the first clause (unwarranted and baseless), not the second clause.
Consensus cannot be found in votes alone. Don't over simplify things.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus

and:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:!VOTE#Straw_poll_guid...

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what about 'airline mode'?
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I would really, really love to see this. Even with the core MediaWiki platform too.

MediaWiki is open source BTW. I would do this if I could, but alas, my UI skills are not quite there. Are there any sharp UI designers who want to do this? It would be a hell of an addition to one's resume, not to mention the world :)
Does either an engineering degree or mba or CS degree count as a professional degree for BLS ?
Author of the article here. The count caching solved the problem for most practical production purposes (CRITICAL ALLITERATION), but it's still uglier than I'd like. However, if the use case is pagination, then "faking it" once you reach a certain size works well, and is unlikely to be noticed by the user. If your counts are on relatively static pieces of your dataset, then keeping counts manually somewhere (via $inc) will get you that performance back, but obviously at the cost of having to maintain it all manually. Incremental map/reduce isn't a bad idea, but again, depends on the complexity of what's being counted.

All in all, it's something of a sore spot in an otherwise very enjoyable development experience.
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Hybrid network is fine for now, and maybe even desirable to get it off the ground and make it usable for most people. Just try making it work as well as possible with what technologies we have now, and as they improve in the next decade or so, it should become easier to achieve a true mesh network.

Take a look at Super Wifi for example, which should allow for greater distance between points:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Wi-Fi

Wi-fi 802.11ac should also help with that bandwidth problem, offering speeds up to 1 Gbps:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20030964-264.html
I don't see an 's' in your equation
Your attitude speaks to exactly what is wrong with Wikipedia. You seem to think it should be difficult to participate, such that only the elite who have busted their chops should be able to do so. If you wish to end up with a dead community (which is exactly what is happening, the number contributors is stabilizing not growing), then fine, but if you wish to actually expand the wealth of human knowledge available there, then you're going to have to drop the holier-than-thou attitude.

It should be easy to participate because that is what is being asked for, it is after all "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit."

However, I am being asked to contribute, and asked to encourage others to contribute, such as noted here: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/wikipedia-loses-contr... Or more directly, read the statements from Jimmy Wales here http://www.firstpost.com/tech/wikipedia-in-india-we-needs-mo... where he says Wikipedia's interface needs to be simplified and asks for more regional language contributors. I've tried to turn on Indian friends/co-workers to editing Wikipedia, but they found it extremely daunting.

This is in sharp contrast to open source projects I've contributed to, such as Drupal, which I'll note I have quite a few contributions there, so I'm certainly no stranger to putting in a lot of work to participate in something.

The difference with Drupal is that there are very clearly defined rules for how to participate, clear instructions for how to do so, and new contributors are helped along in the process to get their code right, rather than being told their contribution is worthless, which is the attitude I get anytime I try to contribute something on Wikipedia. And that's not to say there isn't attitude in the Drupal community, there still is, but at least there one can still contribute despite it, whereas at Wikipedia, it just becomes a lost cause.
I think a fairly important point is that BuySellAds requires the site owner to approve the advertiser. So in effect, the person providing content on the site has agreed that Bingo Card Creator is not so reprehensible that they cannot accept money for what is then essentially a paid/guest listing on their site.

OTOH were this Google adwords instead, and there was no human approval, I have to say it would be pretty sketchy.
> But there is still information to be gathered other than "Apple won, give up".

There most certainly is more information.

Namely, how it was that Apple won and how it is that another company could maybe come close to trying. That would be a more useful analysis than "Hey, so, this guy has half a percent more of the market than this guy, but let's pretend that the iPad doesn't exist and say it's actually more like 6%." Pretending that fighting over the table scraps is a viable business is hardly impressive, here.

And then you get little chunks of just straight bullshit, like this. "PC manufacturers are dominant in the tablet space."

No, they aren't. They're selling handfuls of units. The dominant players in tablet land aren't commodity PC manufacturers.

This is about as useful as saying I'm dominant in my run for the presidency when you only count polling from my friends, family and coworkers.

NPD doesn't get off the hook for writing something absurd just because their title matches their thesis and they turned it to their homeroom teacher on time.
They do have (or did have) some sort features with names like "Grey Goo" and "Special Blend" which might minimise some fancy loss function.
For what it's worth, I had used MySQL on a table with ~20 million rows and doing a count on an index would also be extremely slow. I put in triggers to do counts which worked perfectly for 99% of the sites, but there was some issue (either a bug or programmer error, never figured out which), but a handful of rows on this count table would claim there were a negative number of rows for a given query. (Any row with a negative number was typically zero a count of zero in the real table. In the cases where it was not zero, it was very close to it).