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You're putting together a collection of false dichotomies in this thread. Let me muddle them up for you:

CS departments are not all ivory towers.

Consider the following opportunities in my department:

(1) TA or grade production-quality software classes taught by Google engineers, with discussion on version control, code style, scalability, etc.

(2) research and implement algorithms for diagnosing hospital patients more effectively using ML techniques,

(3) push the frontier of computer vision in concert with former telecom engineers.

Software development contains a large set of cool, non-trivial problems. Without formal CS training, you will not get to access those problems. This might change someday, but it is not close to true right now.
Do people think that shutting down the site prevents prosecution? I don't.

My assumption here is that they, and possibly others, have been told to shut down or face Megaupload treatment.

I wonder if we will see few others make the same "decision".
The point is, nobody has made file sharing in general illegal. But the government is going after sites that primarily enable illegal file sharing. And some sites that do this are shutting down voluntarily.

Where's the injustice?
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What if you don't have any resources and your situation and skills aren't suited to bootstrapping? That's true for the vast majority of workers in a capitalist system.

I'm not saying traditional investment isn't valuable. Maybe it's the best way of amortizing risk, for example. I just think that it would probably be better, even from a purely consequentialist standpoint, if, in general, there was somewhat less ability to control things in perpetuity just by virtue of having money at the beginning. And maybe that sort of thing actually does partly occur with stock dilution, stock options, etc. I don't know.
Ah, I just made the same point, ish. Should have read further before posting.

I think this is a reaction to megaupload and perhaps an unofficial nudge. This might be the first of a few, or many. The "authorities" are simply scaring people off the web.
And of those two, cache invalidation is easy.
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Isn't there a way to create a database of torrents without using http protocol, by relying only on peer2peer network? It would be much harder to shutdown each peer individually.
I think Elance (and others) are a great proving ground. In a very controlled environment, you can experiment with what works and what doesn't.

Over the last year I've been part-time freelancing on Elance. I've religiously documented everything I did. From the way I do my sales process to time tracking in 10 minute increments. I now earn about $1000-1500/month with small $400 projects

You do need to give it a little time. It's a very competitive world out there. But in the past 3 months I've done virtually no sales. All of my projects have been previous clients or invitations.
That's part of the point. Zynga is disrupting the risky, hits-based game industry by attempting to remove as much risk as possible from the equation, and this extends down to (game) design by data.
You've probably heard something similar to the adage that it take minutes to become a bad businessman and years to become a bad engineer. In other words, one can be bad at business but there is nothing physically stopping someone from making bad decisions, pitches, purchase, contracts, hires, or whatever else a "businessman" does. The CS guy might get lucky if the economics are in a forgiving phase or everybody wants what he is trying to sell.

On the engineering side, there is a hard barrier where quality simply can't be traded for time. Yes, anyone can pick up a book and put together a simple application, but a simple application isn't going to be valuable. Each new feature is likely to take weeks and there would be little improvement as each challenge would be its own technical journey. Need to use a database to do something complex? that's a month of trial and error learning. Need to integrate? another month of learning web services and networking basics. Need to think about security? another month, and on and on. If the MBA turned developer doesn't put in the time, it simply won't work. There is no duct taping together some code snippets to get something of value. Granted, anyone can put together something simple, but they will quickly hit a point where further progress is not possible without lots and lots of time.
I'm talking about the certification aspect. I finished college 29 years ago, and in all that time I've never had the issue of showing some kind of certificate come up when being offered a job.

Doesn't this proof of certification happen the moment Human Resources asks for a resume?
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There are only finite resources available to pursue prosecution. If the choice is between prosecuting the owners of a site that continues to operate versus one that has ceased operation, I expect the choice would be to go after the one that continues to operate.
These binaries will run on your OS if you install the corresponding runtime (DosBox or similar actually).

Interestingly this runtime happens to be way smaller (2MB) than Firefox, Chrome or even Safari.
Fortinet has a similar feature for the Fortigates. You can have the SSL cert (ex: secure.yourcompany.com) be presented from an IP bound to the firewall and be able to read all communications between the client and server. I'm not sure if the same applies to a certificate you don't own (ex: mail.google.com) for the same purpose.
No, they can not run their services as they see fit. Without the law Google as a corporation would not exist. The law on which their existence and the validity of their contracts depends is based on certain legal and social standards and assumptions. One such assumption is that as long as you do not violate the terms of a service agreement, the other side will continue to provide the service.

If Google is incapable or unwilling to present credible evidence in case of alleged contract violations, they are in breach of fundamental social assumptions that will reassert theselves one way or another.

Google certainly knows that. Their calculation is that automated first response is a way to make their service scale, because a high percentage of what they think is click fraud will be click fraud and most of the fraudsters will not fight their decision.

That's fine, but it doesn't mean that people who have not committed click fraud shouldn't fight Google's decision. If Google isn't completely stupid, they will improve their appeals process to filter out justified complaints or regulators will strike them down, and rightly so.
I agree. The point I was trying to make was that his question is not unanswerable, although he makes it out to be. "Who knows, maybe what I'm doing is alright after all?" Studies don't have to be conclusive in order to make him more informed about that.
I don't find the comparison nonsensical (and I do ruby/coffeescript all day :-) - we have at least to take into consideration that the abstraction here came with an amazing cost nonetheless.
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Does every company have be evil/mean/douchey to become successful?
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In a few months/years, while everyone else moved to some other platform ... If this takes more than 1-2 months they will effectively be ruined.
I use Fabric for my deploys. The process is something like:

* Check out to clean directory

* Run tests

* Zip source

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* Backup existing (in case of needing rollback)

* Deploy static files

* Run South db migrations

* Restart

It's very easy to get started with Fabric and once you're using it, everything can easily be automated.
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Are those figures just from USA? As article doesn't mentioned it I assumed they are worldwide which makes your observations misleading. IPhone is available to "unlocked" purchase in many countries (and it is really expensive phone then[1]) and even if you buy it with contract it doesn't get that cheap everywhere. So in many countries, the premium is very visible.

1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/choreographics/4836719813/sizes...
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Funny, because I work in the content industry and don't regard myself as being ripped off. Box office & DVD sales pay my rent.
A grand jury indicted MegaUpload of racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit copyright amongst other charges.

As someone once said, you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.
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You really think women switch in and out of wedding mode over a short time period? You gotta meet my wife, our my cousins, or my female friends: they all have been interested in this since as long as I remember and don't see the fervor fading.
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I'm relatively new here and don't have any friends on Hacker News (unfortunately). Of the 4 articles I've submitted, 3 have made the front page (albeit one only very briefly). In my experience I was able to make the front page after receiving only a couple of votes. I'd say it is definitely possible to get traction by submitting relevant/quality content without gaming the system.
Yes, but the CDN is not going to cache 90 billion photos indefinitely. Clearly photos being on their for years after deletion, presumably being accessed very rarely, are going to be prime candidates for flushing. In all likelihood these photos are still on the origin server.
You are attacking the man and not his statement. Would you care to elaborate on why you think he is spewing BS?

For the record, I don't think he is very clued up either, but I do think there is some truth in his statement that google search is hurting. In fact more and more of my non-geek friends are getting into the mindset that internet==facebook. (Yes, this is anecdotal, unfortunately this is all I have --- maybe the head of Google SA has seen some actual data that confirms this?)
With a pseudonymous identity model, you could simply maintain separate identities for separate areas if you wanted. You wouldn't even be able to manipulate the system that way (say some activity = "being evil"), because as long as you confined behavior that generated reputation for being evil to one pseudonym, the positive reputations for your other pseudonyms that don't mention being evil would actually be entirely correct.
For a lot of people, myself included, OSA causes almost continuous dreaming.

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I'd dream almost night. It was exhausting. Worse, I apparently run out of things to dream about and my dreams become boring.
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I think the key to get upvotes is to be part of the RSS feed of HN. Not evey article shows up in my Google Reader. But once an article shows up in the RSS feed it will get upvotes from anyone. The key is to get over the hump and show up in the rss feed. And that may require a little help from friends. :-)
Class action lawsuit anyone? That'll bump it up the priority list.

The more this becomes public the more likely it is that stories will surface about how "my life was destroyed because FB didn't actually delete the photo and now I need to be compensated" and there will be a whole bunch of lawyers waiting in the wings to take up their case. They may wait until the IPO has been completed...!
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I've looked at Fabric but decided that, for now, it's a bit heavyweight for my needs since I'm only deploying to one machine. If my deployments get more complicated, I'll definitely take another look.
On the other hand, in the "Talent is Overrated" by Geoff Colvin it says, that any task thats gotten automated (on subconscious level) is not getting you better or even bringing you one step down.

Simply putting, if you are coding without stretching yourself, if you don't put much thought in it and do it almost subconsciously you are not learning anything.

He suggest to avoid acquiring habits for the things you want get better at. He supports his words with real life examples. I could relate it to myself, and found his techniques useful in my life. Overall it is a nice read.
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I've replied below a few times, but I need to respond directly to this comment:

It's only a matter of time before the rest of the world catches up to my way of thinking.

What's so special about this way of thinking? Do you really believe in the existence of brilliant MIT or Stanford grads who have produced nothing during their 4 years in school? Further, do you believe these hypothetical underachievers are getting hired by Google, Facebook, Apple, Intel, or any other excellent company?

You're populating this thread with straw men and false dichotomies. The two spectra you're talking about -- autodidactism versus traditional education, and real-world experience versus theory -- are not mutually exclusive. There are students with strong theoretical training who hack on projects at AT&T Labs over the summer, and there are autodidacts who take night classes at their local university or college.

Please stop spouting off about "people who get stuff done," or these pseudo-sheeple you've dreamt up who go to Caltech, get degrees, then do nothing. Everyone gets stuff done in one area or another.
I really appreciate the hard work you have done, like I said, it is something I want, and I haven't put in the effort to do it. I know how annoying it is to log JSON, I made a tornado app the logged JSON through the logging module, and it was really annoying that the logging Formatter pickled objects into strings.

I'm not sure what the issue is with MongoDB. But if you aren't aware there is the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository for RHEL and CentOS. It's a semi-official and safe repository run by the Fedora Project to add addition packages to EL. MongoDB is in there for EL5 (pretty old) and EL6. Also, easy_install is available for Red Hat and Debian in the 'python-setuptools' package.

I know it's common for people to install things form source on their own systems, but I feel that if you are doing something on someone else's system you need to extra careful. And that means ask permission before installing, use package management, and if you can't use package management suggest ways to resolve the dependencies (easy_install, pip, gem) without actually doing it. See the Homebrew install script as a good example (https://gist.github.com/323731). Another thing is following convention. The way you are using /usr/local is how /opt is supposed to be used. If you use /usr/local the files should be in /usr/local/{bin,etc,lib}. If want to create a package directory and have things like 'bin/' in it, use something like /opt/amon/{bin,etc,sbin,var}. http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html

Jordan Sissel, who created logstash, also created fpm (Effing Package Management) (https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm). It makes it easy to package things. It might help avoid bash script hell.

Create an rpm from the files in /tmp/install:

fpm -s dir -t rpm --name amon --version 0.2.0 --depends mongodb --maintainer "Martin Rusev" -C /tmp/install etc/init.d/amon etc/init.d/amond opt/amon

Create a dep of tornado from pypi:

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People have the right to decide whether they smoke cigarettes, too. But most people can see it's a harmful addiction and that it is plain unethical to profit from it. And yeah, I think World of Warcraft falls into the same category. Why don't they put hard play-time limits on the game? Because they don't care if you waste your life in front of their game.
I have little sympathy for Google. The company should be regressing website engagement data against search queries on a keyword-by-keyword basis. If they can tell me how long visitors stay at my site after finding it with various keywords they should be able to use that data to order search results.

Yet Matt Cutts repeatedly surfaces on HN to insist that publisher engagement data is sancrosanct (not even opt-in!) while it is now open season on user data up in Mountain View.
Software like that will issue per-site SSL certs signed by a company-wide trusted authority.
So why don't you put a strict limit/spend limit on the game? Because you don't care about the ethics, except insofar as it sticks to you.
Money seems to be a natural consequence of trying to scale up barter trade, and allows society to specialize. It's hard for me to imagine how a resource-scarce society can expand without some form of 'currency' (be it our 'normal' money, reputation, whatever), that would be a unified unit of value for all things one wants to exchange.
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I would question this result in almost every meaningful demographic. I've sat and watched people fail to discover non-standard navigation methods countless times in testing of products across 12-18 and 20-60 (students and teachers separately) every time one is provided as part of a supplier product. Unless there was some kind of conscious or subconscious prompting going on I would doubt that anyone would genuinely favor it.

You can easily, to the detriment of results, create an environment where people say they like something when really they like the impact the the thing had on them the first time ("oh, cool") when really they don't prefer it at all but the record only reflects their initial impression.
Social contracts and morals are not defined solely by corporations and their interests. We have a right and responsible to declare our opinions to converge on a mutually acceptable standard.
So if you consume a lot of web content in a day u sometimes get into a funk which is seriously hard to break out of. Ie you dont really want to sleep even.. Just keep consumng... Its very weird ...Has anyone else had this problem?

Does anyone know why this happens and ggod ways to stop it from happening.
What I was trying to say is that parsing exponents like that makes as much sense as parsing a+b* 2 to (a+b)* 2.
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Injustice is making people close sites and get out of business even if they are not doing anything illegal. For another analogy, this is like a pawn show deciding to close because some unrelated guys makes drug dealing inside. In this situation does governments go after pawn shops? or only after dealers? Better yet why not make drugs legal and receive taxes for this deals?
I don't think your Zynga numbers make any sort of sense.

You imply Zynga is able to clone a game before the original even reaches 10% of its expected sales. Even mobile and facebook games tend to make most of their money early in their life. I don't think it's possible for Zynga to identify and clone a game this quickly.

You also imply that once Zynga enters the competition, it takes 90-100% of the sales away from the original. This is enormous. Zynga does add some value to games, and it cutens them up a bit too, but you claim it's mostly substitutable. So why are 90% of the people who would have found and played the original game now choosing the Zynga game?

And finally, you imply that Zynga only attracts a marginal number of players, despite the fact that Zynga spends most of its money on marketing to attract new players.

I don't think your numbers are anywhere near the ballpark.
Reviewers are intentionally hidden from view. The reason is to prevent social or political backlash from a poor review. In fact, it is sometimes the case that papers reviews are double blind, the reviews do not know the names of the authors either. This is also to prevent bias on the part of the reviewers. This secrecy is a positive and important part of the peer review system. Science should not be politically or socially biased.

The immutability of published works is also crucial. It routine for writers to leave out details covering in prior works. This saves immense amounts of time on both writers consumers of scientific works. However, it also means that it is crucial that all cited works be preserved forever. If a document truly goes missing, then entire lines of work become incomplete. Papers can and are infrequently withdrawn, but as far as I know, the work is not erased, but merely marked as bad.

The way updates or corrections are made is via newer papers revisiting topics. But it remains that at every step some amount of decent due diligence is done to correct errors and not clutter up the records with incomplete versions.

As great as the web is for unstructured content, you cannot easily apply it to every area, and especially not to scientific publications. There are plenty of other examples of curated sources on the web that crucial. Map systems, curated databases of restaurants, directories of people like LinkedIn and Facebook, and even Wikipedia can be counted a curated system due to its system of editors.

Scientists have always and are still free to share data, white papers, and whatever else outside the peer review system. The main reason peer review is still here is that no suitable alternative has ever been proposed that addresses all the points that peer review does. There is a push towards open access journals to benefit the world at large though.

I understand that you are passionate about this, but I'm not convinced by your arguments.
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I don't think I yet know enough about SVMs to answer your question, but the two are quite similar. Both perceptrons and SVMs classify data by separating it with a hyperplane. I think the difference is in the learning algorithm used: perceptrons' learning method just keeps moving the plane until the good/bad points are on the right side. SVMs learning method does try to ensure that the hyperplane lies at the max margin distance from classified points. I think. :)
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