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I'm not arguing it never happens, but that it's been "moving in this direction", i.e. that notability plays an increasingly small role relative to verifiability. That's my observation over about 8 years of writing articles now and then, but I would be interested in a more quantitative test of that claim if someone knows of a way to do it. Nobody has given me any grief since around 2008 for new articles, even ones on quite "minor" subjects, whereas the question of "does this belong in an encyclopedia?" used to be a more common discussion in Wikipedia's early days, as everyone was trying to figure out what "a wiki encyclopedia" really meant. (In particular, people coming from a more academic background, like Larry Sanger, were advocating for a much smaller, more traditional encyclopedia, certainly not one with millions of articles.)

I do think there are specific areas that remain more controversial, mainly around recent pop culture and business. If people suspect you're self-promoting, then they may try to get an article deleted (there was a recent rash of hotels hiring PR firms to add articles on them, which wouldn't be so bad in itself if the articles didn't read like ad copy). Same if you write an article on a recent internet meme, or a website.

In the areas I've been working in, which are mainly geography, history, science, mathematics, and literature, "notability" as a separate requirement seems basically completely dead in practice. I used to have to argue against deletion of my articles on minor 19th-century Prussians. But nobody even thinks of deleting those these days, as long as they have solid citations.

edit: Looking elsewhere in the thread, it looks like your views of Wikipedia are generalized from one very self-interested example: an article about your dad. May I suggest that isn't the most unbiased way of forming an opinion on a complex subject?
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""when carbohydrate levels are low in a diet and fat content is high, people lose water"

This is not a bad thing, but it is a thing that has to be compensated.

And there is loss of water in all weight loss diets.

"the measurements were mistaken and there is not advantage from a low-carbs diet"

There is not an advantage from the calorie balancing point but there are several other aspects that are important in diets
The fact that you are so emotionally invested in the subject is a good reason why you shouldn't be the one writing or creating the article in the first place.
You already have to distinguish between curated and non-curated content. It's not like Wikipedia requires an editor before publishing the content, and a whole lot of pages have never been revised, or have been editing since, etc.
Stackoverflow and stackexchange are much closer to that idea than Reddit.
This topic has been covered quite extensively on Quota - here's a relevant thread: http://www.quora.com/Why-hasn-t-Facebook-migrated-away-from-...
Articles like this make me angry. Wikipedia is one of the most important, if not the most important, example of digital commons, created by an enourmous amount of volunteer work. 91% of those doing this work are male, according to the article. Now a group that has contributed only a small fraction of the work for a decade complains about being underrepresented? This is not the military, which had actual barriers of entry for women, this is Wikipedia, which you could edit without an account only a few years ago. At that time it was a true, anonymous meritocracy, as opposed to a mailing list where your name gives away your gender and may subject you to gender discrimination.
One thing is calorie burning (metabolism) and the other is weight loss (weight measurement), I don't think he would mix up the two naively
Actually it should care about signals. Maybe not honking, but there are cases like emergency vehicles that you react to. I'm not sure what's the standard reaction in other parts, but in the UK when you hear / see an ambulance or a police car behind you, you stop on the side of the road. Sometimes partly on the pedestrian area. Would the self driving car do the same to let the emergency vehicle pass it? Unfortunately that's unlikely.
Interesting, we've read a lot of untrue things about us in comment threads before, but this is a first :) we've never created dummy accounts/posts before (though we know it worked well for Reddit! <3 Alexis).

Can you reply here or email us at team at ridejoy and let us know what posts you're talking about? Much appreciated!

(We currently don't even let users post rides without a photo, so I'm racking my brain to figure out what you're thinking are dummy accounts...)
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> license plate that was too small in the original image to see the letters of

I did mention that better quality photos are available. And I did show that there are at least 2 photos of the same license plate -- there are probably more. In the photos printed in books, the license plate looks like the last couple lines of the Snellen eye chart in the original article -- i.e. it's quite blurry, but the super-resolution nethod was able to resolve it.

> it guesses at what the blown up image should look like based on an examination of other features already in the image, with some expectation that shapes and textures will be similar in different parts of the image and at different scales

It is true that there are no license plates at different scales in the same image. But are you quite certain that the technique cannot be applied across a range of photographs? That is, couldn't photos of license plates of the same type (and hence with exactly the same font) at different scales taken by the same photographic process on the same day in the same conditions have the same "fractal nature" that could be exploited to improve the resolution of the target photo?

Let me put it another way: Suppose I cut up the Snellen eye chart into 6 equal pieces. Now I have 6 photos. Clearly, 5 of those photos can be used to improve the resolution of the 6th. Is there some principle at work here that says that for super-resolution to work, all data must come from a single original photo?
Or desktop linux.
I started one as a toy project some months ago (in April, tells me the filesystem), just for kicks.

I used ply to write the parser (aiming at 1.9.3, which has a lex/yacc parser), and that was the first time I leveraged a LALR parser, so it's very experimental, and as such code quality is lacking to say the least. Also, since ply uses (at least) kwargs, it won't pass through pypy build step. Still, early performance between cpython and pypy gives a clear edge to pypy.

To give you an idea of how much experimental it is, it's not even in my ~/Workspace (which is usually the step before github), but still in ~/Sandbox/pypy/pyby. I actually had a hard time finding it again.
People still building software in Perl ought to be arrested.
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Your Samsung S3 camera can do much better than you've initially thought. 60 fps for all resolutions seems not to be a dream any more. For the moment, 30 Mbps in Superfine Mode sounds incredible. Other advantages: the phone still video records when the smartphone reaches 15% battery level, and much more tweaks. Read how you can download it.
Ok I see what you were getting at now but I still don't agree with your conclusions and here's why:

1. Anti-drink driving campaigns and counter measures don't work. People make the choice to drive while drunk when their decision making powers are at their worst.

2. The issue with human controlled driving goes far deeper than just DUI. The fact is that we're (collectively) just not very good at it. Even if you are the best, most cautious most defensive driver there's nothing you can do about some idiot running a red light because he was adjusting his stereo. Your perfect driving record is intact but you're dead anyway.

3. The chance of being injured or killed while driving are astronomically higher than the chance of big brother having the motive/inclination to want to remotely control your car (although I might feel differently if I lived in Syria - even then this is getting really close to tinfoil hat territory).

The way I see it computer controlled cars shouldn't be seen as curtailing freedoms, rather as relieving us from tedium and making us safer.
#classic #Ornish diet / #lifestyle #Radical Change

Change or Die /

"All leadership comes down to this: changing people's behavior. Why is that so damn hard? Science offers some surprising new answers -- and ways to do better."

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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/94/open_change-or-die.ht...
I know a guy working at JPL doing Perl stuff for internal use still. I give him a hard time about it, but it's a lot cooler than Social_Widget_0003993986 in any other language you care to name.
Or to take one of the historical examples that actually led to the "verifiability" and "no original research" policies: if I'm a prolific physics crank from Usenet who discovered Wikipedia, can I create hundreds of articles on my alternative physics theories, which cite my own website as a source?
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I'm pretty sure those "feelings of warm fuzzies" move a lot of money in the fashion industry. The influence that even details like that have when we're dealing with celebrities shouldn't be disregarded.

if you're a woman and you want to become a Wikipedia contributor or moderator, then go do it.

I think the point is that they did, and their contributions got deleted.
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"Reframing alone isn't enough, of course. That's where Dr. Ornish's other astonishing insight comes in. Paradoxically, he found that radical, sweeping, comprehensive changes are often easier for people than small, incremental ones. For example, he says that people who make moderate changes in their diets get the worst of both worlds: They feel deprived and hungry because they aren't eating everything they want, but they aren't making big enough changes to quickly see an improvement in how they feel, or in measurements such as weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol. But the heart patients who went on Ornish's tough, radical program saw quick, dramatic results, reporting a 91% decrease in frequency of chest pain in the first month. "These rapid improvements are a powerful motivator," he says. "When people who have had so much chest pain that they can't work, or make love, or even walk across the street without intense suffering find that they are able to do all of those things without pain in only a few weeks, then they often say, 'These are choices worth making.' ""

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/94/open_change-or-die.ht...
But American media takes it to the absurd. Every article becomes unchewable piece of "he said, she said" you have to fish out fact from with the microscope. They can't say "day was sunny", they would say, "Joe Farmer said that the day was sunny after observing it for few hours".
This reminds me of: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/10/23/the-ie-css-bug-which-cos...
Wikipedia's stated aim, to make information "freely" available, has no gender bias; it doesn't ask for it before serving its content - in marked contrast to other services (Google? Facebook? certainly the various ad services) which might structure their content according to a user's gender.

However, if Wikipedia has another aim - to make the scope of its content bias-free, then I think it has not thought it thoroughly yet: even structuring information as encyclopedia entries is inherently biased and restrictive (not necessarily bad though). Correlating Wikipedia's contributors' sex to an assumed gender bias in its scope (who gets to decide the articles' 'gender'?), as Wales does, proves how naïve such a project currently is.
If you had several pictures of the same license plate, each of which was big enough to get meaningful information from but just barely too small to make out the letters when you blew it up with a regular bicubic interpolation + gaussian sharpening step, then you might be able to figure out more than you previously could. It seems quite unlikely to me, but go ahead and try it.

If you look carefully, it’s actually possible to make meaningful guesses at the letters in the eye chart just as well in the bicubic version as in the “SR” version.
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> t's not HN, but awful is an overstatement.

Agreed. In many ways I find Reddit to be much better and more enjoyable. First, it provides a better UX, especially for posting and revising comments. Second, there is much less pedantry there than on HN ("Well technically... Well technically... Exception in this exceptional case! No it's not. Yes it is! Exotic edge case under theoretical conditions I read about in a book that one time!" etc.). Third, there are less haters. Fourth, there are lots of funny and creative writers there, again, unlike here on HN. There are definitely positives about HN, and both HN and Reddit share some of the same weaknesses (a unimind or Thought Police effect: if you post a view that strays too far from the median you will get downvotes that penalizes your karma, even if your post was thoughtful, well-written, constructive, polite, etc.)
Turns out I got a bit mixed up: the problem with the glue exists with recycling the glass front panels of the iPhone and family.
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Ask someone whose been divorced! I forgot to add religion to that list. If it was gay civil union, there would be far less outcry or interest. Some gay marriage campaigners are for religious recognition, and that's a hard battle.

I don't think marriage in its current form as a relgious, legal and government institution is that great, and I don't think getting corporations involved is going to improve it.

Marriage is certainly not the only way to ensure legal rights or protections for people. That what's married people are, just people. As an institution, marriage interferes with that.

In fact where I live, marriage grants some legal rights, like cheaper taxes, but takes away others from married women, who don't receive our equivalent of 'social security' if their partner is still working and they are unemployed. That and social conventions around divorce, which has quite a high rate, can make Marriage a miserable institution for more than half of the people who have got involved in it.

In times past, Marriage was used as an enforcer of policies that kept women under the thumb of a male hierarchy, and that cannot be denied. In the present day, I think alternatives can and should be sought, where these external forces such as corporations, governments, relgions and corporations cannot interfere with people's private lives to push their institutional agendas. One way to achieve this would be to ban different treatment for married couples versus normal people, banning outright is too extreme, I was being flippant.
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"but it's a lot cooler"

Are you referring to the work or Perl? Most programmers I know working in a scientific area switched to Python years ago and run away screaming when they hear the work "Perl".
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Probably true too, but:

1) fat takes much longer to digest

2) refined sugar/wheat is like a drug. Basically you get withdrawal symptoms that force you to eat more sugar soon. I bet that the food companies love it

3) ... and technically your body can't process over certain amount of protein per day (i think it was 300g). If you eat more than that for some reason, then you just pee it out.

I'm on "paleo diet" + cheese and have lost a lot of weight so far. I don't count carbs and I need to remind myself to eat (lack of hunger).
Blogging also takes confidence, that you have something substantial to say and that what you say is valid. Unfortunately, due to the Dunning-Kruger effect[1], actual smart people have too much self-doubt, which would imply that not-so-smart people are overrepresented in the blogosphere/google search/messageboards. Couple that with the internet's popularity-contest dynamics and you have a larger problem than earlier publishing media (which required a substantial level of peer-review-by-experts)/

Take home message: read everything on the net with a grain of salt.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I seriously don't know how you come to that conclusion when the gist of the whole article is that there is no difference between a fat calorie and a carbonhydrate calorie.

He says the same amount of calories are burnt. Only the relation to lean body mass (because of less water) is higher. But notice that it is just an educated guess by him, as he criticizes another study.
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I'd advocate http://www.economist.com/
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I just downloaded Mediawiki and took a look at the source code. Some of the later added code doesn't seem as bad, but there's an overwhelmingly extreme amount of mingling between the data logic, including the classes and actions, and the html markup. It makes it utterly hard to read understand for someone wanting to contribute. The codebase isn't light either so (correct me if I'm wrong but) I don't think a complete rewrite of the application ever occurred after the first version.

Now if only some of us stopped creating social networks for kitties, and actually contributed our time and hackery into something that actually benefited the world.
Choice of language is quite marginal when it comes to determining the quality and utility of code.
How is this not censorship?
"An appealing theory that gets frantically upvoted may have well-understood but non-obvious drawbacks."

I'm reminded of the quote, "To every problem there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong." I have fallen into the trap of looking at a long, messy piece of code, thinking "I can do better than this". I would replace a 50-line code with 5 lines, only to have it fail at some random edge case, which the original has been fixed for.

That is why I always remain skeptical of people who are out to "disrupt" an industry, especially when they don't have much experience in that industry.
I came across his post about psychological effects of learning category theory[1]. As someone who has just started learning category theory, I am a bit alarmed since I sort of experience these symptoms. Anyone has thoughts about this?

[1] http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/03/category-theory-screws-you-up...
I don't think your point 1 is as true as you think it is. Anti-drink driving campaigns seem to work: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/mvoi/massmedia_ajpm.pdf describes studies that identified significant (>15%) reductions in alcohol related accidents, with economic payoffs during the campaigns of more than 20x.
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One thing that always worried me about self-driving cars - what about an emergency? For example, hypothetically, if my wife was giving birth and I needed to rush to the hospital, would I have to poke along at 50km/h and hope to get there on time? There are times when it's perfectly justified to break the speed limit (other examples: outrunning natural disasters, going to visit a dying relative, and so on).
The human body is the most complex piece of machinery in the history of the known universe, and is highly variable from one person to the next, with all sorts of evolutionary cruft and random aberrations.

I understand we all need actionable information to maximize our odds at life, but any attempt at science journalism that doesn't start from that premise and instead tries to tell you "X good, Y bad" can probably be ignored, or at least taken with a grain of salt.
It also tends to lead to distorted understandings of the problems in these kinds of discussions, imo. There are a lot of things that can be improved on Wikipedia, but they are not most clearly seen if your only interaction with Wikipedia is writing articles where you have a strong conflict of interest. You get a better idea of what's good and bad if you put in a good-faith effort to contribute to articles that don't relate to your own business/self/family/books first, and see how that goes. It's not even strictly prohibited to work on articles where you have a conflict of interest, but it's not a good place to start. I find that many people who dismiss Wikipedia entirely didn't ever make that good-faith effort to understand and contribute. I chatted at a conference with a professor who had very strong opinions on Wikipedia and appeared to be positioning himself as very knowledgeable about it... based on his one and only effort to edit it, creating an article about himself.
Reworded: "How not putting yourself into your customer's shoes while you are testing your software will cost you dearly."
Interesting point in the article that there are many, many Linux distributions with their own articles (reading one of the articles which listed them, it looked like over 200 of them). Are there really 200 notable Linux distros?

Edit: Re the wedding dress, my mother was an expert maker of lace, among other accomplishments, and I've seen a fair amount of lace.The lace on Kate Middleton's dress is definitely notable.
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I think a lot of these articles fall into the "benign neglect" category. They collect dust in a corner somewhere, and most people who run across them don't understand the content enough to feel like they should offer an opinion. It's with recent pop culture where everyone has an opinion one way or the other.

There's also a bit more scrutiny given to anything about currently living people, as opposed to articles on inanimate technical subjects, because of the potential for libel, though I'm not sure that was relevant here.
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That's certainly a LOT better than I would have thought, although still depressingly short of the 100% reduction that computer controlled cars would give us.
>mainframe app that thinks it's talking to a bunch of IBM3270 terminals...

...and runs in the simulator.

My bank upgraded from the mainframe though about 5 years ago. This was a painful experiences for everyone, including customers. And now they generate account numbers longer than 6 digits, and customers have to remember longer numbers, appalling.
They treat it as a funding for the project of "no ads for a year" rather than "pay to take ads off penny arcade"
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With some exceptions: http://www.economist.com/node/21558220
Hardly a 'slip'.
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This article will be useful for the zero people who think Facebook killed Digg.
>because nobody else is making hardware that isn't hopelessly bland looking

I think the Sony Ericsson lineup from 2011 was quite pretty and managed to differentiate themselves quite well from the bland Android crowd. Even the hit Samsung phones are quite ugly in my opinion.

It's all subjective, though, but I still like my phones small.