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Not sure why you are being down-voted, since your points further the discussion.

Anyway, consider Buckminster Fuller as a counterexample to some of your points. He definitely had the spirit of a producer. Here is a quote from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/automobiles/collectibles/1... :

Fuller was born in Massachusetts in 1895 and died
in 1983. He was admitted to Harvard twice, and twice
expelled. He went from job to job until he was broke.
After illness killed his young daughter, he had a
revelation. He determined to make his life “an
experiment to find what a single individual can
contribute to changing the world and benefiting all
humanity.”
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It was an April Fools' Day RFC, which they do at least one of every year:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_RFC
And if death were inevitable but we got to pick the average live expectancy, what would you vote for? 80 years? 100? Perhaps go for a more natural 60-but-with-high-infant-mortality thing? Or perhaps if we push it out to 200 years, that would be more fun. Or 2000 years.

When do you think the ideal death age is?
Word of warning if that video is still up when you visit:
There is a man with half of his lower face missing. It really is NSFL.
Breast feeding is a natural thing and should be accepted in public by society. However, the people flagging these pictures are most likely the woman's friends. She should speak to them instead of protesting at Facebook. I would guess her friends don't like pictures of her breasts showing up regularly in their News Feed. If you are using a public computer for instance and the pictures show up it could land you in an embarrassing situation.

Personally I think it is a case of over sharing. I have nothing against public breast feeding but I don't need to see dozens of photos of you doing it. If you think it is a mundane activity that should be more socially acceptable don't share it on Facebook, you're sensationalising it.

And if it matters to you that they can share any content without risk of it being pulled, start a blog. This is a case for the open web I guess which there has been quite a lot of talk about these last few days.

I hope that doesn't come off as a rant/rude but it seems like something blown out of proportion.
"If the club decides to ban something, its their right. Just like stores can refuse to serve customers."

Not categorically. One could argue that this is sex discrimination. "mothers can come in, as long as they do not behave as mothers do". Replace "mothers" by "gays" there, and you get "don't show, don't tell"
I think the review process is manual, it is just that it is still very much a black box. Someone determines the outcome (that someone is probably pretty far removed from the product) and tells you that you have either been successful with appeal or not, no more details.

We had an adwords account recently auto banned with a generated email with no reasoning for the ban. To play it as safe as possible we spent the best part of a day submitting a comprehensive document going into far more detail than needed on why the ban was a mistake. We got unbanned last week but as of yet haven't received a single correspondance from Google past the initial automated email from Google.
This: http://zacharymaril.com/HN-Visual-Comments/

Wanted to learn d3.js

HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555877
> TCP hole punching avoids the need to bind and listen

You still need a bind.

This greatly improves the chances of symmetrical TCP open actually going through as planned. Also, you will need a central server to coordinate the setup, because, again, this further increases the precision of hole punching.
Coding: http://zacharymaril.com/HN-Visual-Comments/
Thread:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555877

I don't own a TV and don't really care about pro football so I thought I would learn some d3.js instead.
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That raises an interesting question. If a business positions itself as a public service, SHOULD it retain the right to make up its terms?
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2752553
Have you people even tried VS2010 for js? That thing actually executes your js in real-time so it knows the exact type of variables even after re-assignment and can offer type info/auto-complete that is 100% accurate.
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FWIW, I managed to get two clients, each behind its own HTTP proxy, connect to each other using symmetrical TCP open. Not browsers, and with the help of a coordinating server, but the clients did end up with a direct connection between themselves.

People tend to think it is hard, because no one does it, and no one does it, because everyone thinks it's hard. Catch 22. Just try it, damn it. It's trivial :)
3 years later, Facebook still can't delete photos correctly
I agree with the "start a blog" approach. It scares me to think that social networking is getting closer and closer to: "but my genitals are the most fundamental aspect of my humanity, I should be allowed to post a picture of them on my wall".
The solution is probably to make "flagging" into "tagging". Instead of pulling a photo down when it's flagged, tag it as "breastfeeding" and make sure to only show the pictures to accounts that are opted in. That way, people aren't unexpectedly presented with something they may dislike. Conversely, if you're not offended by anything, don't add any tag filters.

Ultimately this doesn't push society towards being more open, but at least a small group of normal people can interact without being harassed by a bunch of prudes.
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This video is pretty graphic, I'm not even sure if it really belongs here on Hacker News. If it really is authentic, then it is horrifying that the Syrian military is still doing this to their own people. May justice be served.
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Yes of course, you have to select the battles you'll give. Some kids are more quiet by themselves, you're lucky on that part. Happy parenting.
Do we know if Facebook has an automatic system which tries to detect inappropriate images, and if it is part of the issue here? Or are they relying completely on having people flagging images? If the latter is true, aren't the friends of the women to "blame", and should be the ones being told to tolerate the images in question?
The horror that has been going on in Syria for months is beyond comprehension. I personally don't know what to do but pray for the people.

Tensions are electric in the Middle East. Rumor is Isreal will strike Iran soon to stop their nuclear program. Syria and Russia may have something to say about that. All hell is going to break loose.
It depends on your definition. Something like one in a couple thousand is probably reasonable, or a few million.

If we're talking competent and capable of independently producing professional-grade output, you'll see another reducing factor of around 1:100 or more...so already down to a few tens of thousands. Once we start breaking that down into subfields like data mining or computer vision, the number of people in the field can get rather small.
My wife isn't shy about breast feeding in public. The closest we've ever had to awkwardness was the waiter at a middle eastern place who tried to give her an extra napkin for modesty. But we live on the west coast.
Of all of Facebook's behavior online, the advertising, the tracking, the privacy snafus.. this is probably the one that bugs me the greatest.

How this was not made a priority zero, drop-everything-and-fix-this-crap-yesterday internally is beyond my comprehension. I hate to think of the condition of their internal systems if they can't even get files deleted from their CDN in a timely manner.

3 years is not a timely manner. A month and a half (their target, FTA) is not a timely manner.

A few seconds to a minute would be great, thanks.
The minified/gzipped jQuery on that page is 32.8k.

The gzipped turn.min.js it comes out to 6k.

It's like half of this comments page is filled with people TRYING to come up with something overly critical to say. What a negative site this place has become.
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You're equivocating painfully on the word immigrant. An immigrant is someone who immigrates to America. It is not every foreigner who may want to immigrate. Yes, immigrants have contributed to the efficient operation of America. Those immigrants are here reaping the benefits.
While I support causes, I don't think gore pictures are the way to spread them. It reminds me of driving safety videos posted to automotive boards, with similar images of heads cut off, eyeballs falling out, etc. I mean, yeah, people die, people get injured, it IS tragic, thank you for spreading information. But do we have to get into details which body parts were flying where? Does it make any sense at all or is it to satisfy some wicked curiosity?
I hope the Kindle Cloud Reader uses this. One of the things I like about iBooks is the turn animation that makes it feel so familiar.
How can you simulate something you don't completely understand?

Many medical diseases are reasonably understood, at least at a level we know to associate symptoms with tests and treatment processes.And there is real simulation software that being used in teaching med students, so it must have passed some quality assurance.

Yes , simulations might have a hard time replacing human interactions, but as far as i understand , you learn patient interaction in an environment external to the university(a hospital). There's no reason well educated online students won't have access to those experiences.
Definitely, and in those situation we should welcome them with open arms. I was assuming (perhaps erroneously) that he was speaking towards completely free and open talent-immigration, as in simply hiring an immigrant because they're cheaper and are are completely dependent on you for their visa.
As a researcher myself, I do not use the web as a means of content discovery. I do use google scholar, pubmed, and citeseer, but these are only useful because they restrict the search to just peer reviewed journals (and optionally patents in google scholar case).

Trying to use general web search is often far too noisy. Often times I find interesting papers on page two, three, or four of google scholar. In a general web search these same papers might be on a much later page, or perhaps buried so far that they don't come up at all.

As others have said, there is also much more to peer review than discovery. Peer review is additionally intended to help authors improve work that isn't quite up to standards. Academics do peer review for free because they recognize the value of it and because they are asked directly by the editors to do it. In your model, what would be the incentive to look for new papers and give reviews? How would you handle old versions of papers with mistakes or papers that are of insufficient quality? The peer review process currently filters these intermediate stages of paper writing. In your proposed model, you would potentially have many versions of the same paper that a user would then have to filter through, in addition to a very great many papers that are of very low standard.

The quality of content on the web and its curation is a very poor standard to compare academic literature to. Many users are happy enough to be able to filter out obvious spam pages let alone judge quality to the level needed in academics.
But he also paid High wages.
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Does the animation really add much? Would it just become annoying quickly?
Ooh got all giddy seeing Rob Northen's name again -- memory lane!

DRM's bad sides not withstanding. But I have to say, back when I was a young one, a new release of Rob Northen's copy protection had me (and a lot of others) all excited; rushing to get a copy of the original to crack it.

On the Amiga the protection (of the loader) itself was a tracing (encrypting instructions around current instruction), self-modifying mess that probably broke on any CPU upgrade (68k -> 68010+). In all honesty, I had quite the respect for Rob Northen as an inventor despite the authors grudge.

The actual copy protection was primarily just long tracks that was pretty difficult to duplicate without custom made hardware. But once you had unwrapped the loader it was a matter of memory dumping and saving.

As for what broke the author's disk, I don't know but I always considered the "long track"-trick a bit of a fragile beast, but that can very well just be in my head. I never did touch any of Rob Northen's code on the x86, but a quick Google confirms that it was pretty much the same.

I guess there's some take-away from this, but I'll be damned if I know. Perhaps that copy protections are entertainment too? For some.
"You think Linus goes on reading blogs and watching movies all day?" I think I'll just make it my motivational quote this month. :)
This motivation trick used to work for me, it doesn't any more for some reason. I expressed it as "Action precedes motivation", since it's a recognition that once you have started working it's easy to keep going. I know some people who intentionally leave their source tree in a broken state before leaving for the day so that they have something simple to work on the next morning to start the action-ball rolling. (Or using the OP's language, make the first producing action easy to achieve.) Unfortunately it's not a guaranteed trick, it was nice while it lasted.
There's also a reason it is used. A typical magazine layout does not translate well on an vertical scrolling page. This is one solution to a conversion problem. There's not always a "BEST" solution to that kind of thing. There are trade-offs no matter what you choose to do. However, providing different ways to view the same information is usually a good practice.

I wonder what is the "user" perspective on this. I am not sure everyone hates it - since it feels familiar in terms of structure.
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That's simply not backed by evidence. It was Charles Babbage who most likely wrote the first "program" not to mention he created and thought of them without any help from her. Her role is greatly exaggerated and usually baseless. It's like if you credit me about with the invention of search technology if I say something like that will power the search of everything.

If she were a man, I doubt we would be mentioning her, just like the man who her set of notes were based on (with the program done by Babbage in the appendix). Either way, it's not all that important as I don't think anyone in computer science was influenced by this work, Babbage included. He is a historical interest and ahead of his time.
He and his wife. Serious. In the two years I worked there it had a turnover rate of 400%.
If you think Google wouldn't spend some considerable time with a lawyer in preparation alone, then I have a contract to sell you..
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Khan also has tutoring section built in for interaction. You can also do active exercises rather than just watch videos.
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So this proves yet again that Apple products are ridiculously priced :)
I would think that unit tests have nothing to do with Dijsktra's notion of verification. I even seem to recall he had a horror of software testing. If you can prove something, why test it?
Man, when I tried to do this with Tower Defense a few years ago I had the devil of a time reading the screen. I did end up managing to do everything but good OCR on the digit status displays, though - then lost interest.

I'll bet everything would work better now...
Sorry but I think you have no idea about Steve's personal life. Or you didn't understand what is being a consumer.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Gates fan, I love Apple, I have 9 apple computers at home.

Before 90s he was a cool geek, famous millionaire guy, consuming too much clothes. He had always trendy fashion look. He bought one of most expensive cars when he was in his 20s. A Porsche then Mercedes. In his dashing days at Apple and NeXT, he weared the most expensive Brioni suits. He had a Plane. A super expensive plane. Do you know why? He said: "What I really need is a plane where I can take my family to Hawaii on vacation, go to the East Coast." He loved to stay in expensive resort hotels. Consumed too much there. Sorry but for me staying in a resort hotel doing nothing but looking to the sea 20 days is one of last things what would I do before I die.
I'd fine typing 'turnjs.com' easier than finding the QR reader and scanning, personally...
In a separate thread, I have posted De Millo, Lipton, and Perlis' 1979 argument against formal methods

What separate thread was that? This is a marvelous and colorful paper. I had not seen it before.
Like all good advice this one is repeated again and again.

I think I heard it for the first time 10 years ago from Brian Tracy :
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Although I am sure that others mentioned it before him.

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I wonder if a distributed algorithms, as used in web based currencies (eg. bitcoin) or incentive based systems (eg. bit torrent), can be adapted to the peer review system? The currency being traded would be academic credit.
Breast feeding is a natural thing and should be accepted in public by society.

I think you want to re-think your logic here. There are a lot of natural acts (e.g. defecation, sex, dying of tuberculosis) that aren't generally accepted as public acts, and that arguably shouldn't be. I don't care one way or another about public breast feeding, but your argument seems broken to me.
You know, this is the first time I've actually ever heard of anyone getting unbanned through the ostensible review process.
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To be frank, Adsense is the best ad network in terms of EPM (earnings per click) . Even my 50 visitors-per-day sites generate a modest income. But, other large CPC networks like chitika pay in pennies for that same traffic. That sucks.

If you rely too much on Adsense, then you are doomed when your account is banned. Better to go for paid advertising on your website itself.
Really, I'm wondering what other angle it would be. It's as insane as blocking pictures of feet because someone has a foot fetish.
Man up, move to Australia, and sue the bastards.
Urinating, defecating, masturbation, and sex are all natural too, but I don't want to see you doing any of them in public.
In the same genre and likewise in Haskell, I recommend Exploring JPEG:

http://www.imperialviolet.org/binary/jpeg/

On the decoder side, for someone who has basic familiarity with compression and signal processing, the obstacles in understanding MP3 are polyphase filter banks and the mixed discrete cosine transform, which are not much explained in this article. They both take advantage of alias cancelation properties (in the frequency domain for the filter bank and in the temporal domain for the MDCT) that in my opinion are pretty subtle. The rest of the components in an MP3 decoder have close analogues in image compression (e.g. joint stereo is a decorrelation transform that is analogous to going from RGB to a luminance-chrominance color space), so they shouldn't be difficult to grasp.

For those trickier signal processing parts, Pan's IEEE article A Tutorial on MPEG/Audio Compression is a great place to start:

http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/e6820/papers/Pan95-mpega.pd...
Great read! (although I admit I'm not completely done it)

I think the whole process of taking something audible and "real" (like sound) and digitizing it is simply amazing.
You're completely right. I worded that badly. I didn't mean that it should be accepted because it is natural. But that it is natural, not obscene or disgusting, and should be acceptable in public.
> Yes, immigrants have contributed to the efficient operation of America. Those immigrants are here reaping the benefits.

And you'd rather they weren't allowed to do either.
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If enrollment was high enough, local meetups for some classes would go a long way towards solving this problem.

What I would like to see eventually happen is for learning and credentialing to separate.

I'd like to see a university that was more freeform. What if instead of just offering 4 year degrees, you could take a 6 month AI program, or a 3 month probability and stats course.
I think the point they're trying to make (through this admittedly condescending questioning) is that when the institution is fundamentally wrong, elongated experience can only pervert rather than further skills. Or f it does further, it is only furthering a perversion of some concept of what's right. I think there's a degree of truth to that but but it's oversimplifying a bit.
he suffers from Gruber-syndrome.

Which is to say, that he will argue till the cows come home that market share is udderly (sic) irrelevant...

...right up until Apple gets a market share lead in something, when he will whip out the megaphone and start screaming about how "we" are winning now.

He's almost as bad as the people who - in complete disregard of the facts, keep slamming Apple no matter what they do.
I'm currently an undergrad in Computer Engineering. As an engineer we are taught to look ahead when designing software and to do it with the "good of society" in mind.

I find it VERY hard to believe that Facebook did not plan ahead and implement an efficient method of photo deletion. If they truly did not, I seriously call upon their skills and insight in creating software for the public.

Come on Facebook ... it's deleting a damn image! This should be top priority in the modern age of personal privacy.