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I've been thinking about your response for most of the day. A rant follows.

I'm having real troubles seeing how torture is the direct result of a distributed, decentralized government based on the Magna Carta and the rule of law, and even greater difficulties with the idea that one man who happens to be the fucking President of the United States and a Constitutional scholar who promised to make America live up to its honor can't somehow induce the fucking military of which he is the Commander in Chief to shut down an illegal torture facility that is in blatant violation of our treaty obligations. That's not sweeping the implications under the rug, that's what I consider to be, you know, kind of the point of having a government. Or America, really. You want to call Nazi-lite a natural outcome of a distributed decentralized government, you just go right ahead, but we might as well just ask the last American out to turn off the lights on democracy if that's so.

</rant> God, I hate politics.
I read this and wondered "how significant is a million pageviews on Flickr"?

I've got 637k pageviews (http://flickr.com/photos/ckindel/stats).

Does anyone know if there is a way to list Flickr users by the # of pageviews?
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I don't believe there is, but you are missing out on some good content in iTunes U.
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Maybe there should be a comment rate limit based on your avg score. The higher your avg score, the more comments within a certain time period you can make.

This depends on current data for avg karma vs rate of comments which is not publicly available (to my knowledge). This also depends on whether users with the highest avg score actually give great constructive comments but I have not been able to find a way to list those users -- http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/20612/list-users-...
Evan Weaver (systems engineer at Twitter) put together a great list of distributed system papers as well. His list is categorized and every paper in it is awesome.

distributed systems primer:
http://blog.evanweaver.com/2009/05/04/distributed-systems-pr...

distributed systems primer (update):
http://blog.evanweaver.com/2010/08/12/distributed-systems-pr...
They're not independent cleaners though, they're cleaners that applied to work for Cherry, went through training, and were sent portable sprayers and vacuums to do the cleaning with. There's a November article saying they hired 20 cleaners in SF.
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Basically no non-Apple first-party apps support iCloud in any meaningful way. 1Password, Chrome, ... Plenty of third-party apps support Dropbox API.

GoodReader has great iCloud support. And iCloud has only been available to the general public for all of three months. GoodReader's support for iCloud is way more meaningful to me than Dropbox support in any other application has been, except perhaps 1Password's.
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I tried to take the screenshot, but when it's doing the blurry-loading thing it doesn't let me take the screen shot, and when it does take it, it's right after the page loads. So I guess it's "freezing" while it's trying to adjust the page.

While trying to do this, however, it just crashed Safari twice. I tried the same on my wife's 3GS, crashed Safari as well trying to read the Google Plus post.
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wow this is fantastic! thanks for sharing.. bookmarked.
Looking through his comments after reading your comment feels just like watching the Sixth Sense. Has ChuckN really been commenting for the past two years without knowing nobody can see him (well except for the few that enable showdead)?

And now, maybe today, ChuckN will read your comment, the first person to acknowledge him after so long, and he will playback the last 2 years of his HN involvement in a montage in his head as all of the pieces start to come together ... why does no one respond to my comments? why do my comments always get downvoted? could it be true? am I really... dead?

This is quite a remarkable story actually.
I would call myself a long time lurker on HN and have recently started commenting on stories. There's no real reason why I started, I think I just finally felt like it.

That said, I have been reading the comments for some time and I think the quality has changed when it comes to items that crack the front page. Beyond the first 30-40 items I think the discussion has remained far more useful than not. That's not to say that discussions worsen as stories move up, I think the volume tends to increase which invariably brings less helpful comments. This is not hard and fast, just my anecdotal observation.
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PO boxes are not a legitimate solution for someone needing total anonymity. Anyone can fill out a request for boxholder information form to find out the identity of the person who registered it.

edit: The USPS will provide this info no questions asked, no subpoena or court order required.
If the top 0.1% do indeed manage to destroy the US economy, and, say, China becomes the preeminent economic superpower, does anybody happen to know if China's financial system would be able to resist the same sort of abuse? (If, indeed, it's not already too late.)
It is unfortunate that the content isn't available outside of iTunes.

Thought, if you're interested there are some other pretty good intro probability courses online:

Math and Probability for Life Sciences (UCLA): http://www.academicearth.org/courses/math-and-proability-for...
The course doesn't cover as much material, but is still fairly detailed.

CS 798 Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking, Fall 2008, University of Waterloo: http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/mediawiki-1.4.7/index...
This is a really great course that covers a broad set of topics, and is some what similar in structure to the Stat 110 course. Beyond the basics of probability, you also can learn a good deal about statistical inference and stochastic processes.
The page that was on the front page a few weeks ago was just a respond to K&R's C book from the author itself.
I don't really see how 30% better is going to make a qualitative difference in the utility of text on the web.
Unfortunately I think this will only always be a small percentage of shoppers. The lowest overall price + convenience trumps all for most people. This is why WalMart is so big, low prices. It is a great thing to support local businesses, but I think for the majority of online shoppers unless they can beat or match the price + convenience + speed of large online retailers they are not going to be looked at as a viable alternative.
Hey that's pretty neat...

I made a cute little animation of a glowing halo... not as fancy as many of the submissions on there - but if you think it appropriate I'll whack it up.

http://camcorderheaven.com.au/halo_demo.html
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Why doesn't Flickr have a revenue model similar to YouTube based on views to share with users? Or even let you overlay links to other sites (advertising) on your photo?
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I think get a .com - I'm not a big fan of your .in domain.

Like the people have said, I don't like the idea of letting you post tweets for me or update my profile. Until you're a well-known Twitter app, this just makes it seem like you want to use me for spam.
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That seems to be the state of a lot of coverage on tech companies. Age first, service second, quality third.
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I certainly don't have a hard time with that. Perhaps reread the comment I left.

"unless they feel it will provide them some decent traffic and strongly support the product/company"

Not sure you added anything to my previous comment.
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I believe the primary cause of comment degeneration is celebrity. Which is to say the more 'popular' something is the more likely there will be people saying things just to have said something that they are sure someone else has read.

When I was competing on BattleBots I was amazed at how it magnified people's immaturity in their efforts to 'be on TV'. That really made me stop and look at the folks around me on the other teams, and at the show, and there was a very large difference between people who didn't care that they were possibly going to be on TV, and those who mostly cared that they were possibly on TV.

I tend to think of it as the 'celebrity' effect where someone gets their gratification from others noticing them. They troll popular newsgroups (back in the day), they make outrageous comments on community web sites, they seem to be trying desperately to prove somehow, someone, will know they exist. There is a lot of anger there too.

So they come places like here at HN and they comment poorly. They are particularly vocal around topics for which there are no definitive ways of measuring correctness, topics that are more emotion than reason. They are emboldened by anonymity.

Mostly they seem to want to be heard, to know that someone heard them, and ideally to be acknowledged as being heard.

Keeping them isolated, in their brokenness, makes for a better experience the community. But it also makes the broken ones more bitter and angry. I cannot see a way, in an anonymous, or psuedo-anonymous community with little face to face contact, to bring them through their insecurity and into a better place.

It is a problem worth solving though.
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I think this is unconvincing and the wrong approach.

You can teach a program to recognise basket balls, faces, kiddie porn etc. You can (and Google etc do) filter that out.

How do you train a program to recognise copyright infringement? What's its defining feature? Oh, it looks legit, its indistinguishable? And how do you prevent punitive malicious take-downs? Oh the bills don't really cover that bit convincingly?

The moment SOPA/PIPA passes, everyone should file spurious claims against everybody else, good and bad, and so the Internet collapses.
I think it is appropriate. Maybe spice up a bit and add vendor prefixed version of various CSS3 properties and add it to the collection. Good Luck!
I'll just say your second link is a completely illogical response to my comment.

Note, I'm not necessarily advocating barefoot running. I do run on my forefeet, so I run in Newtons, for now.

Two things though: (1) Heel running is less efficient, results in higher impact forces and leads to more injuries than forefoot running. (2) The only reason most of us heel run is because we started running in sneakers from a young age.

Again, your second link, did you even read it?
tl;dr - hobbyist spends $50 on a flickr pro account, makes $100, and has spent $8000 on camera gear. He's had a great time.

The camera gear is a sunk cost - he's not buying it to make money. He's buying it because he loves taking photos, and wants good gear.

He's a good photographer. But photographers don't make money, unless they are being paid to be there (i.e. for a wedding, or by a news outlet). OK, you can try to sell photos after you took them, but the world is saturated in good photographs.

To make money, you need to create value then find a way to extract some of it. Or you need to con someone. There's few ways for a photographer to make money after creating the value, because there's likely to be so many alternatives to their photo.
I had no idea this was a tech start-up! Tried their d/t SF location twice. Both times they managed to get the order completely wrong even though I was the only customer there. The sandwich was decent though
There are some pretty big differences between the way the US and Chinese ISPs and societies are organized. In order to make net censorship work, you'd have to turn the US into China in the process. No thank you.

I think the argument here is that the Internet was invented, developed, and commercialized in the US and Western Europe (and not in China) precisely because our belief in freedom of communication provided the room for the explosion of communication technology (and all the jobs that enables). If it had been heavily regulated and litigated as SOPA/PIPA propose, it would have taken off somewhere else.

Attempts to regulate the flow of information always sound like a great idea to those who propose them. But (aside from it being contradictory to our fundamental values as a nation) what no one can predict is what future revolutionary innovations it will be killing off.
That "powerful radar antenna in Alaska" is the infamous H.A.A.R.P.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarp
Unfortunately, I have to agree that it's not very effective. Even using it on Wikipedia articles, on which it has likely been trained, doesn't yield impressive results. It would be more interesting if it worked well.
I watched for it but alas I did not see it :-(

I find the allegation of nefarious action in the Western Hemisphere kind of strange. And I find it even more strange that we don't let the Russians build a telemetry station somewhere useful over in the western half of the world. Surely an installation in Cuba could cover most 50 degrees north to 50 degrees south.
A very interesting article indeed. Not much new, though. I am curious, though .. many co-founders with very successful exits make the top 0.05% or 0.01% in terms of networth, but they're new money. They're not part of the 0.01% closed circle. What happens to them, usually? Are they accepted into the 0.01% circle once they've made enough money to afford it, or are they treated like a wealthier bottom half of the top 1%?

And for the wealthy people who have pledged 50%+ of their wealth to charity - where do they fall in all this classification?
I can't even think of any time other than raw search results that I read auto-generated summaries now anyway.

Of course, maybe if the summaries were just a little better..it'd revolutionize the whole web! :-)
Australia - the homeland of successful emigrants. And Dick Smith.

OK, before I get slammed for being a redditor ...

Australia has had some brilliant inventors and inventions. Not a hugely disproportionate number (though we'd like to think so), but we don't do too badly. But it never goes from prototype to product.

I guess Australians are used to zero-sum thinking. It's all rent seeking, con artists, and conservative hard work - farmers, miners, government, business people (hustlers) and retail. There's no real need for innovative companies.

So while we have a few good ideas, no-one really wants to fund them. There's the occasional Ponzi scheme (generally backed by a good idea, but generally over-hyped), but the actual value created by innovative Australian stuff is relatively insignificant.
People make a lot of money on wall street from doing one of 2 things either playing the lotto, or taking a modest slice of vary big cash flows. I would argue that much of the current financial system is designed to extract money from people and institutions with capital though fees and Martingale style investments. Consider, few people would trade an extra 1% return for a 1% risk of complete loss of all equity unless they only share in the upside. Yet, plenty of institutions try and 'pickup penny's in-front of steamrollers' because the people making the decisions share the same risk profile as the company.
Harvard, don't lock in your content! Other courses in many formats are available on http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative Why should this one be iTunes only?
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I don't suppose someone could be so awesome as to host the first lecture(s) as an mp3 somewhere?

I'm at the airport and would love to hear this, but only have my android tablet with me :(
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The 'one incident' was the AWS outage that brought much, much more than Heroku down, and their post-mortem was fairly impressive, as far as that sort of thing goes.

I'm not saying you don't have a point, but imo your comparison of Heroku's 76 vs. Tumblr's 42 is not apples-to-apples. I think you have to at least put an asterisk by the 76. What OP is complaining about is a early-Twitter-days-like unreliability over a long interval, not a one-time outage that has a single explanation and for which Heroku took completely responsibility.

For my part, at the moment at least, I still have more confidence in Heroku than Tumblr, 76 vs 42 notwithstanding.

https://status.heroku.com/incident/151
The video quality was poor at fullscreen but it looked like Alexis Ohanian was wearing a talkback earpiece in his left ear (does anyone else see it?)

I'm wondering whether he was receiving a live brief from his counsel backstage during the debate? I doubt he'd be connected to the production room's on-set talkback system, even the host didn't seem to have talkback in his ear.

EDIT: Talkback is the industry term for the closed radio connection between production room and studio floor where the host will receive timing cues, which camera to look at, etc.
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Having reread the original article, I see that UA did in fact raise their offer after he asked for a higher-than-previously-agreed-upon royalty:

For the next three months, Under Armour refused a
face-to-face meeting but did make concessions, raising
its percentage and throwing in a monthly advance. Hann
held out for higher numbers. He fielded interest from a
new set of investors and became more wary of Under
Armour. “I feel like the mouse dancing with the bear,” he
said. “No matter how careful the bear is, the mouse
better watch out.” In late October 2010, Kevin Haley,
senior vice-president of innovation, took over the
project from Fulks. Haley offered to put the licensing
negotiation on hold and renew the option agreement at
$15,000 per month. The implication was that this would
allow them to work together like old times.

Hann rebuffed the offer, believing Under Armour was
bluffing and it was a way of avoiding a licensing
agreement. In early December 2010, Under Armour’s
attorney delivered the news: The company decided to move
in a different direction. Hann’s work with the company
was over.

The article doesn't say whether they "higher numbers" that Hann was trying to get out of UA were the out-of-bounds ones he countered with originally or simply within the high end of the original range.

That would be interesting to know.
In light of that article it would be interesting to see a similar table for the top 0.5% and 0.1%. Bonus points for a slide-able %.
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Measurement in summarization is very inexact, and there are no standards for measuring it.

I've experimented with machine learning and haven't had great results especially if you want a small summary.

I wrote Classifier4J, and the summarizer in that does pretty well - well enough that it has been ported to C# and as a patch for Python NLTK.
does this all work based on picking up key sentences or can it rewrite content as well?
Who is this mysterious "we"?

You don't really need all that much permission to build a receiving station in the US. I bet they just don't want to pay for it.

To get data from LEO orbit all you need is a small satellite dish.
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I do not think this would work very well. I can't speak for others' habits, but my posting comes in bursts. Usually I post rather infrequently--just answering some comment or espousing my views on some moderately interesting subject. However, when I find something really interesting (like a Haskell article :)), I am likely to post in rapid succession.

However, I think that my posts on such subjects are the most beneficial for the site--they're the ones where I have a decent amount of knowledge and direct experience; I am much more likely to contribute something insightful on a CS article than on a sociology one, for example. Rate-limiting would make it harder for me to post about my strongest subjects without changing how I post about random articles.
Yes, that is true. But, how those algorithms happen, is based in graph theory; is what I meant. If you saw Jamis Buck's "Algorithms" talk, I believe there's a reference to a "spanning tree" graph in there.

That said, I do agree with your point.
This storm in a teacup fear mongering stuff has to stop.
It's silly to suggest this is locking in content, or even bad for anyone, and it's obvious why they use this distribution method over hosting the content themselves.

1. It's not in a proprietary format, the documents are PDF, the videos are AAC/H264. (I give up the h264 debate for today). Having to run iTunes to access the store is hardly "lock in". You might as well suggest turning on your computer is lock in.

2. This is on a CDN managed externally, Harvard don't need to invest in data centers.

3. Harvard don't have to pay for hosting/transmission/upkeep costs.

4. It enables harvard to provide something for free when normally they'd need to allocate budget. (And with that possibly charge for it.)

5. It's part of iTunes U, which is praised by universities across the globe for being an excellent enabler of education.
this is correct. I updated my grammar. don't punish this user with downvotes.
HN is a community, so this site is mostly about communication between humans, and empathy is an important part of that. People telling that it is not a big deal, and that the story is hyped, are I think jealous of not having been featured in the same way. It's the media, so things usually get a bit distorted. But then we have stories about panda bears dying that make headlines as well.

Even if you were a nine year old girl in Pakistan having written something that people here would recognize as valuable, something like writing a url parsing module in node.js, would you post a comment questioning her achievements? Think back when you were nine, wouldn't you have loved to hear about her? I remember that when I was nine and starting programming, I had heard a terrible hard time grasping simple BASIC programs. I went on to become a fairly capable developer, and event got my share of overblown headlines at 16. Nothing bugs me about a girl getting the same, and being so incredibly much wiser and inspirational than I was. Writing a calculator in C# at 9, studying for an exam that adults take, and then being incredibly intelligent and sensible about it is a big achievement.

There are all these threads about CS education, codeacademy, etc... on here. Well that is what they are all about.

What bothers me even more is people going all free speech when someone is questioning their post. Seriously? In their place, I would start questioning what compelled me to write such a post, and why this story caught my interest so much as to write a comment saying that earning an MCP is not worth mentioning.