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Reminds me of a company I worked for back in the dot-com boom days. MostChoice.com planned on being some sort of meta insurance company, but that failed and the hundreds of pages of content they'd generated about insurance and financial planning, etc. stayed on the web. I would check on them over the years (to laugh at the fact my code still existed) and it seems they made more money as a static site just on AdSense clicks than they did with the original business idea. Insurance clicks are very nice.

It looks like they've redesigned the site now and taken down much of what I wrote. Too bad. I was a sophomore in high school and it was exciting to me to have my financial planning calculators out there on the internet.
All else equal, the difference is that taking drugs (may) harm the user, and only the user, while taking a slave obviously involves another person.
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Needs more "next" buttons.
>I put myself in a position where I had no room to be lazy or complacent. I think above all else that made me work 10x harder. I didn't play video games, I didn't watch TV, I didn't sleep all day. All I did all day every day was code, hack, program and develop.

That's the great thing to do. Just shutdown the door to outside world and focus on things in hand.I have done that once.Would love to do it again.(Past experience http://giis.co.in/LFY.png )
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Right. But it is useful to know, not so much because of the VCS aspect, but because of the security aspect. Hg/Mercurial BTW works in the same way.
The closest thing I can think of is the GitX clone gitg.
Consideration != equal treatment :)
Kaminari should suffer from the same issues; it's still invoking count() on the scope (at least, it appears to, from the source), which is going to trigger the problem. If you're counting the whole collection, it's going to be very fast, since mongo will just return the number of records in the collection, but if you're viewing a subset of the collection, it's still going to iterate over each record and do a value comparison.
there's a difference between a market leader and the market leader customers are satisfied with. myspace was shit and everybody knew it. there was plenty of room for a new entrant. same thing with yahoo. even with google, there is still potentially room for new entrants in the search market because search is such a complex problem and there are many ways of approaching it.

classifieds, however, is a very simple market, and craigslist does an exceptional job of serving that market. you can't beat them on price or reach, and there are no other important features. the only hope of success in selling classifieds is to launch into geographical areas or languages they don't serve. it's also a fairly low-margin market, and the primary customers are cheapskates.

why would you attempt to enter a market like that when there are underserved, lucrative markets to be exploited?
Fun, little, and mind-rewarding. That's just how hacks should be. I found what I'll be doing this afternoon.
Definitely a darker shade of grey IMHO. Reminds me of the SourceForge ads shown on the download pages that have a big green "download" button. The ads usually display before the actual download button appears, and more than once I have accidentally clicked on it.

I end up angry and remembering NOT to deal with whoever was responsible for the ad.

However the difference I see to patio11's tactic is that in his case, people are searching for something educationally related and he gives them something related. That's different than me expecting to download a Java library and getting an anti-virus software page. So, still deception and therefore dark-grey, but not as blatant of deception as the ads on SourceForge.
His "genuine effort to contribute" consisted of proudly ignoring instructions and refusing to read documentation, being mad that his "expert" opinion didn't carry the weight he thought it deserved, and dropping excessively long drive-by rants in various inappropriate locations, including the talk page of an editor whose only offense was volunteering some (sorely needed) advice with a (slightly) wrong link.

Contributions to Wikipedia aren't reserved for people already involved, but following prominently posted instructions and reading some documentation are requirements, for good reason. This is not the story of a mature and reasonable person whose hard work was unfairly dismissed by the secret Wikipedia cabal. This is the story of a temper tantrum thrown by a self-proclaimed "expert" when his ego was damaged.
You're asking the wrong question. If someone could do it, they would have. Ask yourself why hasn't Craigslist been cracked. What does Craigslist not serve and how can you step through, via iterations, a product that's disruptive to how classifieds are done today.
It should be noted that the author of the article has moved to Japan; this may complicate any enforcement action, unless his company is incorporated in the US.
Because a far higher number of people know about and have an interest in Buffy The Vampire Slayer than this Jessie person?
I haven't seen them, but if I do that's going to be the last time I go to youtube for a very long time.
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Domains for large organisations are exceedingly complex webs of power and politics in most cases. Stanford is pretty big in an organisational sense (I don't really know, I am just assuming based on the amount of money they have in the bank). I wouldn't be surprised if they are using generic domains because it is easier than trying to get other departments, powerbrokers and administrations to all agree on something.
I use adblock for one reason: Youtube started playing audio ads without user interaction, on tabs that had been open fo quite some time. Every other site is collateral damage, I'm afraid; it's not worth my effort to figure out how to switch chrome adblock from a whitelist to a blacklist model.
Yeah, Stanford thrives on HN Karma you know.

I think its because they just want to decentralize the system.
It's too bad that this still won't help inform people about what an egregious invasion of privacy that this and other "metrics" of their usage of online services are.

By acquiescing Carrier iQ has made sure that the public will stop hearing about this, and the noise will die down until someone else discovers a further breach of trust and privacy.
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The DistroWatch numbers don't measure installs, active users or downloads. They only measure hits to informational pages about each distribution on DistroWatch. So anyone quoting them and calling them trends of actual Linux usage, doesn't know what they're talking about. It's like quoting the W3schools browser numbers and saying the represent actual browser share (they, too, only measure visitors to their website).
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I guess because most people don't care about some ads left or right (not Bonzi buddy or full-screen 'click to continue', just Adword style).
If it's so obviously true, then you should have no problem providing a citation, right? I wouldn't mind if you violated Godwin's law either :)

The reason why I'm asking for a citation is that I live in an ex-Communist country. I know how censorship looks like and it ain't nothing like what you describe.

Otherwise I ask you to cite support for your assertion
that "a material is either forbidden or not forbidden"

Providing a citation for a personal opinion which I marked as such? Fine, I'll give you a famous example of real censorship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_19...

Related to that event, over a period of 15 years more than 130 journalists and Internet users have been jailed, including Internet webmaster Huang Qi that has been in jail since 3 June 2000 for having allowed articles about the Tiananmen Square massacre to be posted on his website, which was hosted in the United States after being initially banned in China.

I'd like to point out we have courts deciding
whether laws apply and whether something is forbidden
or isn't covered by a specific law.

I also like to point out that your First Amendment does not refer to Google, being applicable only to the actions of your government. It's not within your right to distribute whatever information you want through a private media outlet. It is in your right however to distribute that information by yourself, as only the law can stop you.

So yes, thanks for pointing out the obvious - content is either forbidden or not forbidden.
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I don't follow AfD closely. I'm a programmer. But I just had a look through the latest AfDs and I have to say there's little I disagreed with.

This one was sponsored by a very prolific Wikipedian, though, who has a particular affection for the rule that one event doesn't make you notable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

Which is totally outrageous. It's tempting to conclude the nominator was just an idiot, or possibly pursuing some conservative agenda. But by Hanlon's Razor, I assume that the nominator was just less aware of this story than others. Maybe it's a good thing that such articles can be challenged. I wish it had been speedy-kept though; it's embarassing to have the deletion templates on the article.

There is unanimous agreement that the article must be kept, so far. So, the system is working. Kind of.
Not directly, but you can use git add -p for that. Although I don't think you get to review it first.
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No, it's not "presented in a way that makes it obvious [that this is what the user is looking for]". It is pretending to be curated and endorsed by the site where the ad is shown, and it is displaying a fake rating pretending to be from the users of this site.

For comparison, Google ads are displayed in a right column by default, and you can't simply buy your way to the search results column. Google displays the ad there only when it considers the ad as relevant as a search result, and relevance judgement is something you already trusted Google for.

You are supposed to know this, aren't you a SEO / AdWords expert?

In Google's case it's also much more obvious that they are displaying an ad and not a regular search result. If you claim otherwise, why don't you copy the yellow background and "Ad - Why this ad?" text in your advertisement and tell us where the CTR goes?

I've seen you say that Google is evil and claim a moral high ground a number of times, and now you are justifying something with "but look, Google does it too"? Even if you were correct, which I've shown you aren't and you know it, this would means you are just as evil as Google.
Part of the problem here is getting developer time onto fixing up such an issue. a) I don't think the Foundation employs a UI expert and b) the community actually requesting serious feature enhancements has a history of taking. absolutely. forever. :)

(although; I agree, improvements to certain processes would be very handy)
Plus if you make a patch that doesn't apply it will just error out and you can try again. And if you add anything extra by mistake you can easily back it out with something like git reset HEAD <file> or git reset -p
Good point. So there would be a set of things that infringe on others' rights, are therefore illegal and therefore support high profits, separate from those that don't infringe and could therefore be legalised.
I'm interested to see how successful these courses would be as you start moving out of programming related areas. ML, AI and DB would interest many programmers and has been a success but anatomy may not generate the same kind of interest. Kinda how the activity is high on stackoverflow but comparatively low on the other stackexchange sites.
Possibly related:

I sell a shareware app. Google has been helpfully suggesting the suffixes 'crack' and 'keygen' for years. Today it isn't - wonder if it's related to the original topic or if it's just a blip.
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Back when I was a young lad, there used to be these things that had sort of the same issues. They were a stack of 'paper' (pressed wood pulp) sheets that content was 'printed' on (a black substance called 'ink' was sprayed on them). People used to write for them during the day, they were produced ('printed') at night and teenagers would deliver them in the morning so that people back then could still read news reasonably fast after it had happened.

Anyway, they had the same issues about ads and editorial independence, yet somehow they seemed to be able to continue to be trusted despite having ads. And get this, even though they had ads, you still had to pay for them, too! Those were some strange days...
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The comparison to Google is incorrect, as I said elsewhere.

Google ads are displayed in the right column by default, and you can't simply buy your way to the search results column. Google displays the ad there only when it considers the ad as relevant as a search result, and relevance judgement is something you already trusted Google for.

Patio's ad is pretending to be curated and endorsed by the site where the ad is shown, and it is displaying a fake rating pretending to be from the users of this site. It's also way more similar to the non-ad text on that page.
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The courses from different universities vary drastically in quality. I don't mean the professors are not good, I mean the online versions are often include incomplete materials and I haven't seen other classes that take advantage of the medium like Stanford: with integrated quizzes and automatically scored programming assignments.

I've seen slides from MIT's OCW that say "This slide is removed for copyright reasons" in half the slides of a particular lesson - they are just not helpful.
"I’m a notable person on Wikipedia, as well as an expert in search marketing. So for what it’s worth, you’re seriously questioning whether Jessie should have her own page? That’s just crazy.

The page should be restored, and immediately. She’s clearly notable."

These lines make it clear enough what kind of clown we're dealing with.
Don't be too surprised or confused. There are a lot of very bright people here, but remember that being bright in one area doesn't necessarily mean they'd be bright in other areas, or nice, or humble. I guess someone who spent n years working at their craft and feels that he earned the title "programmer" might get offended when some young punk says he learned how to program in 12 days. I don't feel that way but I can understand why someone else might. I think if you had said something like "How I learned enough about programming to get a job doing it in 12 weeks", they might have been more encouraging (though it would have sucked as a title!). I think it was the title more than anything else that put them off.

And don't be too disappointed. I think the majority of the people here aren't nasty. They might have said some not so nice things in a moment of pique for the above reason, but the nice thing about HN is that most of us do try to be objective and helpful. Don't be surprised if in another thread, the very same people who dissed you here praise you, help you or openly agree with you. I usually don't even notice usernames when replying or voting on posts.

Lastly, congratulations on taking a very big step on the same path most of us here are on. The path is long and difficult at times, but infinitely rewarding. Welcome to the club.
I think that more than the content of your post, siculars is responding to the somewhat inflammatory title. As soon as I saw the title I thought, "Someone is going to be complaining about mongoDB having a slow operation, and it is going to be upvoted endlessly because mongoDB is webscale." Upon closer inspection, it became clear that this title is only inflammatory because it is on HN, and also that the title was not designed for HN: on your blog, it is simply a description of what the post is about. On HN, it becomes a honeypot.

@cheald, clearly this isn't your fault, and you don't control the tenor of the discussion of mongoDB. What follows isn't a criticism of you, but more a general comment.

I don't think that criticism of mongoDB should be stifled on HN (it clearly still has huge flaws--the lack of granularity when grabbing the write lock comes to mind), but it seems like it's a little hard to have an intelligent conversation in this context. It might make sense to encourage HN to discuss mongo in a way that it's not criticizing a performance detail (no database can do everything for everyone), eg where it can be compared against other databases. When criticizing a performance detail, it might make sense to move that discussion to the MongoDB Jira, where your voice can actually help influence decision making.
I would say don't even try, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N. is a better bet. OSLR will never work at the kind of scale that this project is aiming at. It's meant for networks on the order of hundreds of nodes.

Also, you still need an addressing system. I was mentioning one of a hundred different problems that I've yet to see one person in the organization qualified to solve. If Van Jacobsen announced tomorrow he was building a worldwide mesh network I'd drop everything else and start contributing, but until then I see a lot of people flailing around and going nowhere.
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If I hit awesome, it shouldn't load a new page. It should just vote "Awesome" through AJAX therefore I can continue watching the video.
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Uh... I'm having trouble grasping what you're getting at.

The only limitation to having an engineering degree vs. not is whether or not you can legally call yourself an "engineer". It makes no difference in any other respect - there are *plenty of software engineers in Canada who do the exact same job without the title.

There is no legal prohibition against you performing engineering work - anyone is allowed to engineer (the verb), but not everyone is an engineer (the noun).

There's also no classification difference merely based on what degree you have. The word "professional" AFAIK has no legal meaning, in Canada, in the context you're talking about.

Engineering is considered a professional degree - but that has no bearing on whether or not you're allowed to be hired into an engineering position, or have to join a union, etc etc.
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Looks interesting, but I am struggling to figure out what it actually does. Some concrete example output in the tutorials would help.
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I don't see the point of having cofounders in that case. If it's really just a bunch of guys hacking away at stuff, you might as well just hire them. I admit I'm on the fence about the whole "you have to have a cofounder" thing to begin with - my own experience with having a cofounder hasn't been that great (it's not his fault, or mine, it was just a bad dynamic in general).

> a bunch of dudes sitting around trying to solve a problem is the best way to start

I totally agree. Without a great and creative team you're screwed. This article isn't about those aspects, though, isn't it? It's about what else a cofounder should bring to the table that moves the company forward.
Measuring the effect of education is one of the most difficult econometrics tasks due to the way that most societies pursue education -- one year at a time until you're done with it. There's not enough variation.... I was about to launch into a detailed technical explanation, but I think I'll just leave it at the intuitive one.
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One manufacturer you can make that estimate for is ASUS.

NPD claims that they sold ~120k tablets in the US through October. At around the same time (right around the Transformer Prime launch, I believe), ASUS claims they have sold 1.2 million total.

Given those two data points, you'd estimate that ASUS is selling 90% of their tablets outside the US. That being said, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that ASUS is strong in Asia and that was what was driving their non-US sales.
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