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If you place the non-TED talk's transcript next to Hans Rosling's discussion about Global Poverty [1] it's easy to see the differences.

Mr. Rosling made a seminal talk that is one of the 3 or 4 that I think of when I think of TED. It was data-driven and multi-dimensional. At the same time, you're learning about the content -- global poverty through the eyes of a top UN advisor -- you're watching world-class data visualization.

Since their inception, TED has done a tremendous job staying on message. Most talks are given by people who are up to their elbows in the subject matter that they're talking about. This entrepreneur works in the business community, so there's relevance there, but that's pretty abstract. I would much rather this point be made by a union organizer.

The core message of the non-TED talk is a good one. That is the problem. The entrepreneur and the internet grassroots that have followed him are over the moon for it and are happy with the implementation that have here. If they were a bit less resistant to the criticism they've received, they could probably find a better way to get their message out.

For instance, how much more credible would it be if there were an enterprising union leader who could talk about his or her chapter's strategies, and who has measured the boost that their union members' employment has brought to their local community? In this age when many employers can't afford to invest in training employees who will leave their firms in 5 years, a union that provided job security to its members through training partnerships with local community colleges, and provided quality assurance to employers through licenses, and certifications in order to close the skills gap would be an inspiring organization. If they were providing each other with unemployment insurance and allowing the federal government to spend less money, that's a bi-partisan win!

An approach like that works at TED. One that can't be cobbled together in a weekend. These talks are almost always personal, representing years of on-the-ground activity. If they aren't given by the leader in the field they're given by someone with a unique perspective, like Jill Bolte Taylor, the stroke victim/neuroscientist who talked about the stroke she had.

This entrepreneur has a compelling message, one that I agree with, but his standpoint isn't special and his content hasn't progressed further than a well fleshed-out idea.

1. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_o...
Do you have any real-world examples of commonly used screen readers that can't handle JavaScript? Screen readers gets its content from the DOM in a browser, so if the browser is able to put it in the DOM, it should be available to the screen reader.

98.4% of screen reader users in a 2010 survey (http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey3/#javascript) had JavaScript enabled.
I see your point, but I think the point of the complaint was that that kind of networking is only available to the wealthy.
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As always, lie travels 10 times around the world while the truth is putting its shoes on. I've encountered dozens of references already that Powers That Be and their minions at TED were afraid to talk about something that might piss of the all-powerful 1%, and that of course proves all conspiracy theories out there and gives birth to a dozen of new ones. But I wonder if any of these people will ever hear the real story.
If there was enough evidence, I guess it would. What differs TED from "elsewhere in the media" is that the former has content, the latter usually not so much.
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Post interesting content. Get it in front of people who are apt to share links to things they like.

HN's patio11 has a lot of posts about his content creation strategy that you can pretty much directly rip off and they'll be useful: http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ (scroll down to "SEO", though really all of those posts are pretty good)
Right, but how does the background app communicate with the js library without a browser plugin?
1 and 3 are the most effective. Option 2 is useful until there is any real demand for your data, and then you're back to trying to prevent automated scraping by your paying customers.
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I love the first comment on that post: It will be more of a pain than usual, but I will get the data. I always get the data.

- As mentioned: AJAXification the data makes it easier to grab.

- Convert text to images? I'll OCR it. http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/ReadMe

- Honeypot a random link? I don't scrape every link on the page, only links that have my data.

- Randomize the output? And drive your real users crazy?

I have found that the best deterrent to drive-by scraping is to not put CSS id's on everything. Apart from that, you'll need to put the data behind a pay wall.
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Oh wow, that's great! I'm currently trying to get some of my friends on board so we can use this. I think they'd appreciate the interface and the privacy - which they all find quite jarring about Google+ and Facebook respectively!
This is really the top priority: determine that you are building something like the right product.

In many cases, you don't even need to build much/any product to figure this out sufficiently.
Not getting into arguments with children about whether the easter bunny or santa claus are real doesn't make a person a coward it makes them intelligent. If they want to believe in those things then it's fine, I don't need to explain to them the irrationality of it, and often times it's just more fun to go along with it.

You try explaining to a group of children on Christmas morning that Santa isn't real and there aren't going to be any presents this year.

If instead you tell the children you will put in a good word for them with Santa Claus and then Santa Claus brings them the stuff they wanted then they'll be amazed by your pull with Santa.

Think of it this way, every week 2 billion people give up 10% of their wages just so Santa's intercessors can give them a little wine and some rice paper.
Between slide 4 and 5 there's one tiny bubble that blows up into a big giant bubble and a small one on the left that sinks a little. They are Yahoo, up 3,590%, and Apple, down 25%. They should do a follow up to see how they are doing today.
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Why should he post a talk about that? You could get that information from any other source.

Whereas TED is the only place I can find a talk about taking criminals bicycling, the importance of the washing machine and why we should eat insects (that one does have a few doses of liberal morality though).
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I'm saying he owed us in both the legal and moral sense. I do not know whether (or if so, when) Eduardo has paid taxes on his Facebook shares, so I cannot opine on whether he still owes us under the laws currently in effect.

Morally...I think he's a freeloading bastard, and I look forward to the day he goes to jail in Singapore for violating one of their numerous and extremely punitive criminal laws. But I do not think he has a moral obligation to pay additional taxes if he has satisfied his legal obligations.
Sorry, brain fart. Yes, it's adjusted to 2011 (real) dollars.
It couldn't be because Ford is a much healthier company than GM and people are more interested in their cars?
It's interesting to note that history shows that in general the cheap and nasty, simpler, consumer level technology often wins over more seemingly more appropriate technology. In hardware for example, see Ethernet winning over other stuff around at the time and commodity PCs beating "big iron" for servers.

I like FPGAs too though and am definitely egging them on, but winning may involve somehow smuggling them into something mass produced, which may be a problem since mass produced hardware will usually prefer an ASIC. We will see.
Why doesn't google look at identical url paths on https, http, www, and no-www variants of the url, and if they look similar then use some default google policy to select which of them is canonical?

For example, if http://mydomain.com/path and https://www.mydomain.com/path have 95% content correlation and repeated requests to http://mydomain.com/path have 95% content correlation, and the server headers look the same, why would it not be safe to decide those are duplicates of a single canonical url?

It's not safe to merge www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com. it's not safe to merge subdomain.domain.com and www.domain.com. However, for the limited cases of www and no-www, https and http, if they look similar, I think it's harmful not to treat them as the same site. You can't expect every website owner to be aware of this issue.

If it's a matter of not being able to be 100% sure, is there a single site that cares about google ranking that runs different sites on different combinations of www/no-www and https/http, but has similar content that would confuse a simple heuristic looking at page similarity? In what sort of circumstance could that happen other than with placeholder pages?

GWT allows selecting a preference between www and no-www, but I don't see a preference between https and http. I think Google should add a notice that using GWT to select between www and no-www is deprecated and the recommended way to handle www, no-www, http, and https selection is to use 301 redirects or rel="canonical" tags.
some of us are fine talking about "the elephant in the room" for supply-side econ as you put it.

Here's the thing, you can't force people to be productive enough to be able to consume at the optimal level. All you can do is provide an environment where being productive is easier.
Why do people always think that this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocortex is far off?

The lady with the arm has a 96 electrode implant.. you could probably type with that many electrodes.

Seems to me its just a matter of getting more electrodes in there and/or doing more training in order to be able to interface with an exocortex.

I think if people are less afraid of sticking things in their brains, things would look a lot more like a cyberpunk novel already.
The TED audience seemed to like it and think it's appropriate. Watch it to the end, half of the audience gives a standing ovation. I've seen front page TED talks that don't get standing ovations.
ITYM "my opinion is that". When you confuse your opinion with "the truth", that's where the problem starts. And when you are so far off course that you dismiss everybody disagreeing as anti-pretty-much-everything good, pure evil they are - you might not notice that there's something wrong about it, but other people would. Not all people are suffering from partisan blindness. Some can see that on many points are many valid opinions, and while one opinion can win in the eyes of the majority over the other and define what the priorities of the policy are - that is very far from totally denying the party that disagreeing with you any shred of possibility of having real argument.
Wow, a modern-day Bill of Attainder/ex post facto law. Someone should acquaint Schumer with Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution of the United States.
Spivak pronouns have all the benefits of a singular "they" with all the drawbacks of introducing a new set of pronouns into an established language. My experiences with programmers tell me that getting a large group of people to change syntax is not easy.
This happens waaaaaaay more than anyone will admit.
I could be in 1000 Google+ circles, but I would have no clue who else I'm in the circle with or what the circle is called. It's a very strange concept, and doesn't improve much upon private sharing (it's more of a lists feature). In Everyme Circles, everyone knows exactly who they're sharing with, because you can see all the content that is being shared.
> 1. an Illustrator-style object selection engine so you don't have to do that "right-click > pick layer from list" BS.

Ctrl/Cmd+click with Photoshop move tool automatically selects the layer that is under your mouse cursor raster. Not 100% Illustrator-style but less BS than selecting from lists.
You're claiming that integration ruined Brooklyn? Can you explain the mechanism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

If you ever actually talk to anyone who was personally involved in the former, and they're being frank, they'll tell you that a primary concern was a rational fear for their physical safety and/or that of their families. Which adds up to the latter. Why do you think there are no Serbs left in Kosovo, or no Albanians in Mitrovica?

E. Michael Jones's Slaughter of Cities (http://www.amazon.com/The-Slaughter-Cities-Renewal-Cleansing...) is a good overview from a j'accuse perspective. For a mainstream author, read J. Anthony Lukas' Common Ground. Better yet, read them both.

Of course we've digressed into the question of harmful effects (of the civil-rights movement) on white people. My original post was mainly concerned with the effect on black people.

Perhaps you've noticed some cultural changes? Are they for the better? If we could sit down together and watch WSHH for an hour, how exactly would we disagree?

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/
Facebook is probably not as "effective" at large spends as traditional media buys are, but Facebook is an INCREDIBLY lucrative system for advertising and social interaction if dealt with in an intelligent way. I think the problem people are having is the impedence mismatch of treating pull based engagement to traditional push marketing.

Traditional advertising is about pushing people to buy a product like a car or soda. Pull based engagement is more about people seeking you out and your business interacting with them at a time and place of their choosing.

Facebook is a social network, not a shopping mall or yellow pages. Google is more of a yellow pages for most people. I bet GM would be more successful if their $10 million spend went to push local dealerships and created customer to dealer relationships via coupons or creating local car clubs for various brands/models.

Local businesses would be more successful on FB if they treated as a lead gen system to build up their own mailing lists to offer ongoing coupons, sales, information, etc. You know, creating a relationship with them.

The point is, all of this goes against traditional advertising and marketing ideas where you just had to blast out a bunch of ads to TV, Radio, Newspapers, or more recently Google. Buying ads on Facebook isn't about flipping $1 of advertising into $2 in sales. That works for a few niches. For everyone else, use the cheap lead acquisition cost to build a long term relationship. It's harder, but it's WAY more valuable.
Science is science, and can be discussed without descending into a political debate. Discussions about 'inequality' are entirely political, and have little value outside of polemic.
First and foremost, from the video that was posted, the talk in question was not good at all. As a speaker, Nick Hanauer is not very polished and has this halting manner of speaking that is fairly irritating. It sounds like a speech that a high school student would make.

This was too easy of a decision to not run this, because it was really terrible. Instead of bitching and moaning about censorship, get a better speaker to talk about income equality. Get a more dynamic speaker to present a better-researched and better written speech, and then see what happens. But THIS particular speech is not something that people should be rallying behind, because it's really bad.
Anybody who actually thinks about issues in terms of the entrenched, incumbent parties in the US political system is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Virtually everything that's broken in America today is in some fashion a consequence of the bi-polar stranglehold on power the country has been subject to, more or less since its founding.
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That said, I'm okay with not allowing people who renounce their citizenship back in to the country.
Yes (I accept the correction). See below:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989048
I believe that MOAI does have a nice Model, and a visualization core that renders that model. That model is composed of Props, Decks, Layers. Physics. Action Timeline. MOAI sets up a very powerful engine, which you can tie up to any kind of rig, as needed, to produce the game you're developing.

Its such a great game engine that in fact you can even build a real GUI with it, quickly and efficiently, without much fuss.

I wrote a physics game, which consisted of a single Game Logic thread, just doing the level-switching and score-keeping, while the physics engine was being driven by Lua tables. This .. 200 lines of code .. can be fed 3 Lua tables of information, per-Level, and its a functioning game.

Speed? MOAI has great speed. Really, honestly. Memory usage .. umm .. it was designed to make rendering on the GL/ES pipeline extremely memory efficient. Need to choose your strategy for glyph caching, based on the size of your data-set? Guess what, MOAI can offer you hardware-accelerated font rendering with optimal texture strategies. It can offer multiple strategies, according to the limitations of your game - need lots and lots of textures, as soon as possible? MOAI can scale, from thick to thin.

Writing the whole game in it? Well actually, you use MOAI but write the game in Lua, and actually: Yes, its great. The whole game in MOAI is .. much, much less code, than it is in many competing API's, and its hell fun to boot.

>Would seriously hesitate to recommend it for a professional project.

I'm professionally recommending that you take a closer look at it. There is much, much power, and it seems you have missed it.
why '90deg'? using no direction, and otherwise 'to bottom' etc. for the non-prefixed and 'top', 'left' etc. for the prefixed gradients seems easier to understand.
Now I'm wondering if blacks could vote if they dressed up in whiteface and pretended to be white to fool the voter board. You know, denying everything they are. Just like a gay person marrying the opposite sex.

Gays have benefited from the liberalism and civil rights movement in that the majority of the population doesn't hate them for being different. But you can't deny that they're being harrased, beaten, killed, pushed to suicide, thrown from their homes, and subjected to punishments designed to "fix" them. It's doesn't have to be "black had it worse", the point of the matter is gays have it bad.

I'm not trying to put words in your mouth since you didn't come out and directly state your viewpoint, I'm just trying to show how fallacious the words you did say are. Especially when we're on the verge of starting things down the right path. Both blacks and gays have been are are being violently persecuted for something they can't change. Telling gays to marry straight is highly offensive.
Ajaxification can be defeated if you scrape using a headless browser like PhantomJS [+]. Actually all the markup/visual techniques you propose can also be defeated using Phantom. Dump the page as PNG and OCR it.

Honey pots suppose that the scrapper is an idiot... And even in that case, if he's dedicated, he'll come back later and will be more careful.

The only potentially effective solutions are those that preclude usability for everyone: truncating the content for logged out users. And even then, with PhantomJS and some subtlety/patience in order not to trigger flood detection, an attacker could probably get away with it.

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websockets :)
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Honestly, for code that controls millions of dollars worth of business and could seriously screw over a lot of people if a subtle flaw was introduced, I don't see a problem with doing it this way.

Might be overkill for one line of code, but where do you set the threshold? If you say any change longer than four lines is subject to this process, then people will work on trickling in new stuff in increments of four lines at a time.

Also, I can do a lot of damage in one line.
Personally, I'd say check the usual suspects first. Check your personal life first. Oftentimes, is something is out of whack in one place, it carries over to almost every other part of your life.

I think the most telling part about your story is "I'd say in the whole organisation there are only 2 people, plus myself, who actually care about writing good code". You either care about your job or you don't. It sounds like you do, but almost no one else in your organization does. That sucks. Do you say to yourself, "I hate my job, but love working with my co-workers?" If so, get out! It's hard and it's scary, but you need to. Trust me.

There are a lot of things you can do to care less about your job and find fulfillment elsewhere, but I advise against it. I want no part in turning someone into the kind of employee that doesn't really give a shit about what they do for a living.

Good Luck!
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No. Take responsibility for yourself and stop the belief that your fate depends on something that someone else gives you.
Right, their point is there's nothing wrong with Facebook ads.
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I have very little idea what you are talking about, because your apparent attempt of being sarcastic makes it your point a bit unclear, especially when you at the same time try to put words in my mouth and assign to me points that I never made. But if you're talking about Transhumanism described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism then indeed I can see very little connection to current politics - I don't know any prominent Transhumanist politician and any currently debated law that had any Transhumanist intentions or ideas behind it. If you know any, please feel free to point them out, it would be very interesting to consider.
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To my point (and I guess the point of the DRM issue), that would depend on if you could actually get a copy of Photoshop working. Would Adobe still be running their activation servers? Would any of the cracks still be around? I'm willing to admit I don't know if there are FOSS (or equivalent) .psd software. Maybe GIMP will still be around, if it can open .psd?
Ugh, sounds like the wrong way to do things.

Shouldn't they rather work on preventing the bloat and creeping in of toolbars and unwanted stuff? I shouldn't have to reset a profile just like I shouldn't have to reinstall an OS just to make it go "like on the very first day".

These things should not 'age' or need maintenance. Everyone hates to do maintenance and in this digital environment it could be gone forever, but instead it's not. As if it were a thing that had to be emulated to 'feel right at home'. Yuck.