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Under ideal circumstances he would have "known" the article was great and really important; he would have heard it got deleted; he would have gone to wikipedia and found short simple clear advice about what is included and what isn't included. Preferably in one place. Then he would have realised that the article was not a good fit for Wikipedia, but he would have met some people who were not fucking wingnuts and who encouraged him to contribute and he would have found some other articles where he starts making gentle contributions.

Instead, that information is scattered over a few different pages (and thus there's lag between them when there's a change); there's differing standards for different things (Elected national politicians are automatically notable because they're elected, Olympic athletes are not notable.) Deletion process is incredibly bitey; I don't care that people doing deletion have floods of shitty articles to plough through, they should realise that destroying (even justifiably) someone's work is going to be hard for that person and is not going to encourage them to contribute to the process, and that this is an (a tricky) opportunity to get new editors.

Combine this with weird rules about other stuff (The software stops me creating this name (which means some things are hard coded), so I read the rules, and create another name, and get newbie-bitten by some over enthusiastic 17 year old who claims that my real name is offensive or that the pseudonym I chose instead is "confusing" or whatever. My name goes in front of how ever many different username discussions they have now, where I argue my point and am "allowed" to edit.)

There are huge differences between things like the five pillars and the rest of the obscure processes.
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Now all they need to do is make an advanced paid version. Find some grad students to run the thing so they can grade more complex assignments, and answer questions.

It does make me wonder if this is a beta for a real online degree program.
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> I wouldn't cite it in any remotely academic or meaningful forum

Even wikipedia suggests you don't cite them, but use the cites given in the article.

That's why good quality citations are so important.
This is the question everyone wants answered. There are two possible answers.

1) This is a decentralized system. Stanford just circulated a memo (or in a lunch discussion, lets not obsess over how this happened) that prof Ng and Prof Jeniffer have done this amazing class where the world participated and everyone is happy. Now everyone is encouraged to use the site source (they haven't even changed the contact page or layout) and start the class of their own. Nobody knows for sure who is planning to put it up and it is highly decentralized.

2) Stanford is rolling them out slowly so every on of them gets their share of twitter/hn/reddit/fb time. Nobody steals the limelight.

We can know which new courses are going to happen if someone makes a whois program which does the search for -class.org where is any 6-7 letter word.
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I checked up on it too. The more notable Pokemon (like Bulbasaur) still have a page to themselves, just like most major characters in popular TV shows[1][2][3]. Minor Pokemon are indeed collected into lists[4], just like the GP said.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kutner_%28House%29

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Hiatt

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Quinn

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_%2852%E2%8...
Thank you for writing an informative reply to my question. It's a lot to think about.
Agreed, PadMapper.con does a really good job of this.
I have the same problem, I have shit tons of ideas yet I don't know how to begin. I am a programmer btw.

All I know is that my preferred domain is skill acquisition / coaching / e-learning / personal development.

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This article reminds me of what I like to call the 'Ernie loves Skittles' story.

My childhood friend Ernie loved Skittles. He ate them at lunch every day.

But he would get so angry if someone at our lunch table ate any other type of candy. He'd say things like, "Starburst candy is stupid. Skittles are better." Or, "Why are you eating Smarties? Are you stupid?"

Eventually we just had to say, "Ernie. Relax. Skittles are great but there are other candies, too."
What I think is great is that he learned enough to get an 'in' in a relatively short time. Obviously getting from knowing some Python and being able to work with Django to being a master developer will take years, but it is so much easier to do that if you already have a fulltime programming job.

If you're trying to learn all the skills that a great developer needs in your free time, you'll realistically be able to spend no more than 4-5 hours a day at it over any sustained period. If your fulltime job is software development, even if it isn't hardcore by HN standards, then you will grow your skills so much faster.
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Nice attempt.
I had created http://mustwatchvideos.com couple of years before (still running great), just to filter the wheat from the chaff. It is very difficult to find really good videos from the thousands out there on the net. Most of the popular ones are either some tv shows or albums, but the real gems though small in number are really gems.

Edit:
One thing to watch out for is the spammy and porn# submissions that you need to moderate each and every day. Its a huge effort specially when you accept user submissions.
What are they going to do for labs/dissections?
What are they going to do for exams (or equivalent)?

This is still a very interesting idea/class and I hope it succeeds 100%.
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"Be sure to watch a video without ads" - well I'd love to but I did not find the "watch without ads" button in the Youtube UI.

As long as all the videos I come across still ask me to install Flash although I have activated the html5 thing, I fail to see the point...
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Blind spots are hard to see and probably that's why they are called "blind" spots. I have found time and again that discussions with my mentors brings forth some blind spots to the forefront. Mentors have an uncanny ability to notice things that we should be noticing. They may not have all the answers but the probing questions they ask can make us aware of at least some of the blind spots.

My $.02 of course.
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It's not about agendas or conspiracies, it's about a disconnect between the people who make the big decisions and the people who are building wikipedia. Different perceptions and motivations can lead quite easily to people making decisions that are deleterious to the community and the wikipedia project, even if at every step they are acting in what they perceive to be good faith.
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Me neither, that is why I am asking.

I am building my github profile (https://github.com/kfk/proj00, to polish a lot), but I noticed it is a slow process. When I can talk with people with knowledge, even for a short time, it boosts a lot my learning.

Maybe is more something like a mentor I should look for. Don't know.
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"""The quality of technical articles on Wikipedia are second to none. """

You don't really read many quality technical books, do you?
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I haven't had the same experience with my mom. She tried for a month to get along with her iPhone, until she gave up.

The touchscreen is great because it can expose only the controls relevant for the action you want to perform. However, the UI's organization is not flat anymore. Instead it's a tree. And older people that have problems coping with modern devices usually rote learn the path they have to take for the common use-cases ... and in the case of iPhones or Android phones that complexity has grown exponentially.

The touchscreen is also quite annoying for me at times. On my older Nokia I could dial a number or answer a phone call or hang-up without looking at the screen. Now I have to look at that screen every time, otherwise I need extra help, like voice recognition, which doesn't work so well for me as these things are optimized for people who's native language is English.
You're that typical someone that chimes in with the worst possible thing that they imagine could happen if censorship is not enforced. Then when it's pointed out that censorship is still undesirable, that typical somone retorts "Well what if <horrible thing> happened to you/your mum/dog/gerbil?!".

There's a balance between being afraid of your own shadow and being reasonably careful/safe. Think about that.
It seems I was not the only one to say ``antigravity''.

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What you're effectively saying is that contributions to Wikipedia should be reserved for people who are highly involved with Wikipedia already. Outsider? No chance. Why allow every peasant to add stuff, right?.

I derive this assumption from your statement that his contribution, effort and attitude was "wrong", "minimal", and "poisonous". I don't see any of that. I see a rant following a genuine effort to contribute, a contribution worth considering, and an attitude that started off with the best intent but got punched down in the process. Who wouldn't turn sour after such an experience? It's called cause and effect. Of couse you'll be pissed if something as ludicrous as this happens to you.

Unless you're so caught up in your little world of the 'inner circle' that you don't tolerate outsiders. Unfortunately, that's not how the world works. That's also not how Wikipedia is supposed to work, I hope. That doesn't sound like the spirit that Wikipedia tries to portray at all. It sounds like the exact opposite.

On your "consensus" argument: since when is a 7-6 vote a consensus? That's a nearly even split. Please.
I think you can do fine without dissections. I don't think very many intro to anatomy classes are going to involve everyone getting a human hand to play with.
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Authors of html minifiers should be interested in and potentially take advantage of these rules --- but that's not very many people, and I agree that most html producers should not try to get clever about this.
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I agree with your primary point, but your follow-up example isn't the greatest... Flossing your teeth can have a real impact on health -- gum disease (which flossing is an excellent preventative agent against) can cause all sorts of serious health problems like increased risk of heart attack and stroke. People with periodontal disease have a 2x greater chance of coronary artery disease than people without periodontal disease. That's a pretty big deal.
I don't understand people moaning about "why don't they show us ads already". I am using wikipedia a lot and I think I got a lot of value from it. Admittedly I was using it more as a student, but now I can afford to give something back for that. I have no problem with donating.

We have ads everywhere, some are scammy some are annoying, advertising companies track us with them. Why would you want to put them on wikipedia when you can prevent that by just sending a couple of bucks?
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Also, messaging users and discussing pages should work more like messaging or discussion sites, and not exactly like a content page.
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I'd be surprised if those numbers weren't even more skewed--- high-profile entrepreneurs like Bill Gates are surely outnumbered by the vast hordes of MBAs, engineers, etc. Recall that 10% of the American working population is around 13 million people! And the cutoff is around $100k in income. A large portion are white-collar office workers at the upper-end of their companies' pay scales, or not even that upper end for technology firms, and people with no degrees aren't commonly found there (take a look at the top 500 employees at Boeing, Exxon, or Goldman Sachs, for example).
Wow, I was just in the IRC channel and people there are saying they don't want exit nodes because of "liability". Completely ridiculous.
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Cool site. Thanks for the tips and advice.

I tried to challenge myself to keep things as simple as possible and to minimize click count.
It bothers me a little bit that all these classes have their own domain names, all of which border on spammy-sounding (e.g. generic-prescription-drugs.com).

I wonder why they aren't all under the same domain? All the classes I've seen so far seem to be the same underlying app.

Maybe they're just doing it that way so people can farm HN karma.
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While I disagree with the arrogant label, I do wish that a standard class.stanford.edu or stanford.edu/class template was used. (Not to leave the domains open for others, but to prevent confusion later when the space gets more crowded, as I suspect it will.)
math-class.org is still available. How long before domain squarters start buying those?
Finding citations is exactly the kind of research I was referring to. Original research is not at all the same thing.
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Then why didn't GE pay it? Somebody's got their definition of 'minimum' screwed up.
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OKC does have this functionality, it's called quickmatch. I don't know how they use the ratings you give there, but I doubt they just let it go to waste.
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There is a big, big, big problem when comparing degrees: People with PhD's are older and therefore have more experience. Everything in this entire chart could theoretically be attributed entirely to experience and not education. Of course, it could also all be education, but as they say, Correlation does not imply Causation.
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I'm against crazy government control as much as the next guy, but is creating a decentralized system in this manner really the answer to this problem? I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, I am just really curious.

There seems to be a big decentralization movement in recent times (bitcoins!) but even as a person against the extremes of SOPA, I can at least appreciate the securities and benefits of a "traditional" governing body, no matter how ridiculous some members of government are--I'm just speaking as a not so tech savvy person, but to me one of the biggest psychological hurdles for a project like this is giving control to a group of people I am unfamiliar with--there is some sense of a rapport (even if there is some lack of trust) with the traditional government (just like with banks as I allude to bitcoins) that to me is a big obstacle for the meshnet growing to a degree where it becomes a true meshnet.

Either way, I love the hustle, and admire the project immensely.
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I haven't completely read the OP, But why isn't Openmesh ( http://www.open-mesh.org/ previously B.A.T.M.A.N. ) mentioned anywhere in this thread yet? I like the fact that this is getting a lot of energy behind it, but the idea itself is not new. Please don't re-invent any wheels, time is too short for that.
Even if nobody's paying?

Given the threat our lawmakers believe piracy poses to content-producers, and that they wish to suppress the production of child porn, perhaps they should actually encourage the piracy of child porn...

(I jest, of course, but the law itself is none too rational here.)
We have an entire web full of whatever unverifiable stuff anyone felt like writing. Why should Wikimedia beg for more resources to expend mirroring content that isn't reliable enough to contribute to their goals?
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He'll get a new expiry date.
Credit card companies don't issue you a new number unless they really have to (card was use fraudulently)

Instead they just issue you a new expiry and CVC - and often even update merchants who are charging you on a regular basis with the new info, or allow transactions to continue to go through even with expired date/cvc

Still a valid concern regarding the card # being replaced due to fraud. I keep an encrypted list of all my past CC #s for this very purpose: Far too many places use the CC# as a life-long immutable number (think SSN).
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Because I use a specific technique to highlight an issue implies nothing about 'me' except that I can use that technique. Your argument would be stronger if you focus on the issue, not the person.

You used the words "reasonably careful/safe", which I assume means you're not subscribing to an extremist position. Similarly, I don't hold an extremist position on this and am simply highlighting that there are grey areas that Google has to deal with. If it were easy, they'd have made an obvious decision years ago and wouldn't need to change it.
They have produced some really cool blog posts, which I enjoyed reading. The site itself is fun, I've had 2 accounts on there - 1 I used in London, 1 in Shanghai.

I got some profile views and a couple of conversations, but never met anyone through it; with the exception of seeing my co-workers on it, in Shanghai.

In each city, within a few weeks of creating a profile, I've been in a relationship, but not through the site.
There's the question: are those meditation-induced changes in the brain structure beneficial?

Experienced meditation practicioners can fire almost all neurons in their brains. In MRT it looks like epileptical seizure.

So I stay on the "don't meditate, you'll be safer" side.
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I'm waiting for class-class.org.
Even if this project isn't backed or supported by the "right" technically qualified people right now, I have no doubt that that will change as soon as the government-controlled internet becomes a noticeable reality. This is only the beginning. It will grow.
yep. demand exists, so does supply.

I am unsure what problem you actually believe is being solved by google?

What google appears to be doing now is attempting to pretend that neither supply nor demand exist at all.

The insanity of that must be fairly obvious?
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Last night Copenhagen Suborbitals put up a blog post (http://ing.dk/artikel/124393-mangelfulde-wikipedia-artikler - in Danish) mentioning that there was a lot of factual mistakes in their wikipedia article, and that morally they couldn't support editing the article themselves. They provided examples of the inaccuracies in the blogpost.

It's now up to an independent third-party to edit the wikipedia page to make it correct.

The pge is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Suborbitals

I think that's a pretty good way of doing it.