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Yes

I'm afraid flickr is still better than Picasa/G+ photos (even though G+ photos are very good and a definite improvement over Picasa)

I believe flickr can still "be revived"
Why the "..." ? Am I missing something?
Both scientific and athletic achievements have an alternative explanation: culture. If there was a good sample of adopted children from a group with such achievements, one could examine these hypotheses in more detail.
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Yes. The point is that you really need to push the envelope if you want to succeed.

I was burned by one of my "advisor" and scaled down Facebook feed posting because he said it was "spam". WRONG ADVICE: competition ran over me.
I recall a successful 'highest prime' search using a system that checked numbers of the form 2^n - 1 (or something like that)
Likewise, society can't accept that members are able to increase their happiness just by drinking a few ounces of...coffee. Or beer or rum. Or run for a mile.

These would sap the inspiration to work hard at a job in order to succeed.
I stand corrected. Never heard it used like that, but the Royal Academy confirms it: http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=patr%C3%B3n
I write Javascript for a living, and the code standard requires semicolons.

Anyway variables in javascript have function scope, so two variables with the same name in the same function always refer to the same value, even if declared twice.

As a result I like to write all the variable statements at the top of each function, all in one var statement.

The problem then becomes that you write var a, b, c, d; and then later want to add variable e. If you aren't careful you might accidentally write var a, b, c, d; e; if you do that, the program may still work but e now has global scope. This results in nearly impossible to find bugs that may only happen if the function is recursive or it is called (perhaps indirectly) by some other function with a similarily named variable.

Considering that semicolons insertion mostly works, and the other can be a huge pain in the rear end, I can understand why people would want to skip the semicolons.
Page 3 of Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence: "During the 20th century, they made up about 3% of the US population but won 27% of the US Nobel science prizes and 25% of the ACM Turing awards. They account for more than half of world chess champions."

http://harpending.humanevo.utah.edu/Documents/ashkiq.webpub....
The big attraction, for me, is the groups and the discussions therein (i.e. the community), however, the tools they provide for these interactions are primitive.
> The point of this project is not to convince women to go into tech, that is completely out of scope.

That seems like a shame. A lot is said about the awfulness of tech culture for women. I think it would be good to see more made of the upsides (the money's good, the hours can be convenient, and most of aren't actually as awful as we're made out to be).
I don't know much about number theory, but I think this visualization probably provides significant intuition as to why number theory, which contains only theorems about integers, uses tons of math that is about a lot more than integers.

Edit: Why would anyone down-vote this comment. Barbarians at the gates, I tell you!

The only possible explanation is that the down-voters thinks that the relationship between number theory and other kinds of math is so obvious that it needs no further explication to those who are less informed. In which case, this is the pinnacle of arrogance. Or the down-voter believes that there is no such relationship between number theory and other kinds of math, in which case this is the pinnacle of ignorance.

In any case, I personally found the visualization inspiring. I.e., it makes me want to learn some more.
"Beat up", probably not. "Push around", probably yes.

Also, if it were done in front of a policeman, he may do something (or not -- if he's in charge of monitoring traffic he won't do anything about an altercation between pedestrians) -- but in most places there isn't any policeman.

If you go to the police after the fact and say that someone hit you in the face because you were taking a picture of them, then I guarantee you will elicit zero sympathy and will be made to wait a looong time before anyone writes down your complaint (which will go nowhere anyhow).

But of course circumstances matter; if you shoot people in the street then even policemen monitoring traffic will intervene; if someone cuts your arm in half because you were carrying a camera then the police will help!!
I think you're right to question the profit potential of an improved Flickr. But I think there's still room for a massive archival service that is separated from Facebook and handles the kind of instant photography provided by Instagram. Instagram's photo archiving interface is still pretty limited.

I think if you ask the average digital camera owner what happened to all the photos they took, they would say they haven't yet downloaded them from the card, nevermind uploaded them and categorized/described them. I use Adobe Lightroom to manage this process, but it's still klunky, even for a prosumer like me.

Facebook has a huge advantage with its social network...but it's not yet designed to handle photos (i.e. there's no searching for photos, albums are limited to 200 photos, jpg compression is poor, and you can't label/categorize photos). A service that provides a slick way to archive and manage massive amount of photos is still needed by the average user. In fact, I'd say the need has grown, as photo-taking opporutnities have exponentially grown, without a corresponding growth in photo-archiving services.

Dropbox is not a real alternative, except as a backup.
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fixed! thanks for the catch.
You're not allowed to take pictures in a restaurant in France? Instagram is going to have a hard time catching on there.
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Just searched in my Spam folder for the email address I only use for Dropbox et voilà: I got the spam messages mentioned. After the password-gate last year (http://blog.dropbox.com/index.php/yesterdays-authentication-...) this is the second major security breach by a company I (and many people I know) have a lot of data entrusted to... This really sucks!

Whats even worse: The first reports came in (from users!) over one day ago and the forum thread seems to indicate that they still have no clue what happend!

[Update] One possibility might be, that dropbox is not the culprit after all but that the spammers started to realize that people use those service-specific addresses more and more and they just send out emails to [some-service-name]@[some-domain]. At least my address is dropbox@[mydomain].

So lets hope for that...
Thank you for saying this. I also do a ton of PHP development and it's so fucking tiring. Just stop with the posts already and get some shit done.
I definitely don't think the solution is huge supermarkets - but more public markets, produce stands, and corner stores selling fresh food.
Facebook killed Flickr for casual users, stop.

That's all you need to say really. Flickr isn't about casual users. It's about the interface, categorization, and other usability features specific to photography that other platforms don't offer.

500px competes in someways, but the 500px interface is to "iOS" for me. Sometimes we don't want a cut down interface, we want all the power of a "desktop" interface - even if it is a website.
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Thanks for the feedback. And have a good canoe vacation. sounds good.
My understanding (I used to do some work in distance education) is that one of the reasons Harvard/MIT founded eduX rather than partner with Coursera or Udacity is they were unable to get past the 'for profit' model, and there was some unwillingness to discuss how the 'profit' was going to be made.

I think a lot of the academic scepticism does come from the for-profit - not to say for-profit education can't work, just that it is somewhat new territory for many institutions.
I know for a fact this is an automatic process, so this is just posted as a curiosity. If enough people mark a post on facebook as 'spam' or 'offensive' it will kick in some automatic restrictions on its content.
Even better, work with camera and phone manufacturers to build Flickr into the camera. Take a picture, a copy goes to Flickr automatically. Make it a natural part of the photo-taking process -- one that you'd miss when using a device where it wasn't present. ("I have to do what to share my photo? Open an app? Connect a USB cable? Ugh.")

This is one of the few areas where Flickr/Yahoo could still conceivably compete with Facebook; since FB doesn't have a "Facebook phone" yet, they'd both be in the same competitive position of needing to get camera and phone OEMs to buy in.
I know of two, but haven't used either so far:

1. Cocos2dx (open-source)

2. Marmalade (commercial, you don't even need a mac, can prepare iOS binaries on a Windows machine)
They are both smart mathematicians, but if you trust user code and don't check for conditions that are that well known, or have set up some automatic system to catch these issues (ala GCCs automatic warning if you use gets()) then yes, you are an idiot.

If you get owned by something that isn't well known, by a bug in the CPU, by a corrupt compiler, by a cross site script attack ten years ago, fine, but not something that everybody should know is dangerous.
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Which of Yahoo's 70 services would you keep?
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I think that's what PLoS does. Their costs are here: http://www.plos.org/publish/pricing-policy/publication-fees/

Their costs aren't low, and presumably they don't make profit either. It's fair though, although i might say a bit expensive for authors from developing countries. You want to have a barrier in publishing and a good review process, and it's more fair (esp. to students in the developing world) to charge the authors rather than the readers.

Hopefully, if we have competition among open-access journals even the costs may go down.
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Yes, this was already discussed and it's still on the front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4253427

Don't litter HN with your blogspam.
hahaha 375k dkk is about 62k USD right now...I wish it was 80k
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I would, if it had any.

But since it has never been published, DRM would make no sense.
If you want to develop in different languages than (Obj)-C(++), iOS is the wrong platform.

Well, the OP was trying to demonstrate the flexibility available when programming with Java- your response is "iOS isn't meant to the flexible, therefore it's just as good"?

I believe you can use JavaScriptCore directly from iOS. Probably you can even use Google v8 from iOS apps if you build it into your application

I doubt it. Wouldn't this fall under Apple's restrictions on code interpreters?
Like a github for photos?
Right, but my question is for only the genetic effects (even with adopted children of different cultures there will be other differences that are not genetic). It would be difficult to determine, but there are enough statistical techniques that one could get a good idea. Surely different races can't have identical distributions of various "skills" -- the only question is how much they are offset from each other.
One thing UDACITY does better is that it is much more structured. They have courses that build on each other.

Coursera seems like bunch of interesting courses put together, rather than structured degree thing.

I think this is because universities see coursera as way increase its reputation with the public rather an alternative to university lectures.
Having a full suite of products to compete against competitors and providing alternatives to 500px, & other similar sites, is a good enough reason to maintain or rejuvenate Flickr and many of the other products & services Yahoo! has available, many of which have tens of millions of current users. You don't need a billion users or be the number one site to make a good profit and too many are forgetting the huge customer base Y! has maintained even while it has had its recent disruptive problems.

Some of my friends and I have used pbase.com for almost a decade now and we prefer it over the alternatives such as 500px we've tried. There maybe folks who find it old or dated, but it works well for what we intend it for and, just like Flickr, there are loyal users who don't want or need to use the most cool or awesome site, because often they really aren't and are too much trouble than what we currently use.
Here is a ted talk about reverse engineering the nerve impulse signals to create these artificial retinas.

It's only about 10 minutes, but a fascinating video.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/sheila_nirenberg_a_prosthet...
Wat? I use it a lot for images I embed in sites and I think it's great. All I'd add is sticky settings in the iphone app (e.g. so I don't have to explicity deny location info for each photo individually), and a slightly more streamlined resize interface.
In my mind, Flickr is to Facebook what Vimeo is to YouTube. It's a community, not a storage system.

I think the pro and "prosumer" photo community is plenty of room for a cool product with features targeted at their niche audience. Curation, craft, camera nerdery, etc.

Flickr just isn't evolving their product as well for photographers as Vimeo is for video folks. It's sad, really.
There's the photography community and then there's everyone else. For everyone else there's Facebook (don't mind shitty photo quality and management). I'm no fan of Instagram, and even if I was, I wouldn't stop using a DSLR.

I've been with Flickr for years now, am a Pro user, and nothing else comes close for a photography enthusiast. IMHO all it would take is few key redesigns and better mobile apps that would make the photography community really happy to stick with it.
I like it as well. For those who haven't turned it on:

1. Go to about:config
2. Set plugins.click_to_play to true
Obviously the complexity of my projects have also been increased since I started out 10 years ago. But thanks to frameworks like Kohana I've been able to manage it pretty well.

I'm not saying that I will never use another language (obj-c has caught my interest) but I will never use another language for the sake of using it - especially not when I can do more or less the same thing as with PHP.
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If alcohol was invented today, do you think it would have been made legal?

And churches worked very hard to make it impossible to legally drink in the US.

As for coffee, it is very difficult to ban something so many people depend on daily.
Disagree. Flickr is still awesome.
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While it appears plausible (likely, even) that Dropbox is the source of the disclosure, it's not verifiable as fact until someone identifies the method used to obtain the email addresses. This makes the title inappropriate.

Malware frequently targets address books and browser forms as a means of harvesting email addresses. Not saying that it can't be Dropbox, and I'm not saying that it's even unlikely, but years of troubleshooting have taught me not to name the root cause until I can verify it myself. This is even more true when you're putting someone else's reputation on the line.
I don't see any confirmation in the forum that the "e-mail addresses of users" was leaked by Dropbox. It also appears to be mainly Euro-centric accounts. So while there is certainly a problem and it is very likely originating with Dropbox, the title is quite misleading and overly condemning given the known facts.
I measured, and the simulated image in the video seems to have a resolution somewhere around 100x55 pixels (giving them the benefit of errors in measurement). Grossly misleading, if you ask me.

(Unless, of course, the pixel size is about representative and the brain builds up a big image like we see. But that would be worth mentioning explicitly..!)
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Consider for a moment that the pro/prosumer market is large enough to sustain several businesses which have much higher per-sale costs. Look at all of the camera gear companies out there. Definitely a sustainable business, but Flickr needs some serious rebranding and updating. They need to hammer in to users that putting photos from your $4,000 camera rig on Facebook is just silly.
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Perhaps related, "Preschool: The Best Job-Training Program": http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/08/12/139583385/preschoo...
My favorite part of the support forum is the suggestion to submit a ticket and it will "usually" be addressed in 1-3 days.
These kind of studies have been done, and it is my recollection that genetics still appear to have a significant impact. Of course, people can still argue that various sociological effects can explain most of this, like lowered expectations for certain races, etc.

Would love to see some cites.
A mental test, perhaps, to determine if something truly is "obvious": if the fact is reversed, and you can come up with a reasonable sounding explanation for the reverse, then the original fact is not obvious.

This experiment has been tried, by a scientist who presented the exact opposite of various findings to undergraduates, who were readily able to invent rationales for the counterfactual statements, as reported in "A Sociologist’s Apology" (as posted on the website for the book Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer).

http://everythingisobvious.com/wp-content/themes/eio/assets/...
there's nothing wrong with a beginner picking up a dull tool

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That's quite laughable given that the very article is written by the UK-based for-profit publisher (and part of the science oligopoly), Nature Publishing Group.
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I've moved to OpenPhoto. It can use S3, and Dropbox accounts, your photos and your comments are your own. It's open source and the dev team is making strides.
It's also an usability nightmare, as a lot of things that Steam is used for both update very often (weekly to daily), and always need to be kept updated to the newest version or they fail to start. You'd have to run a apt-get update && apt-get upgrade every time you launch your favourite game.

Most likely, Valve will provide a steam_installer.deb, which depends on all platform libraries Steam needs, and which only contains a script that creates the necessary users and rights, reserves some directory for steam, fetches the actual Steam off a Valve site, authenticates it, and runs it.
Intuitively, I think that might be the case.

You have to define more specifically what you mean about accuracy here. Accuracy for the bloom filter would be probability of false positives. For the inverse it would be probability of false negatives.

For a bloom filter, if you're targeting a false probability f with n items, you want k = lg(1)/f hash functions, and m = 1.44 k*n bits.

That's the thing though. The bloom filter version scales up easily from the degenerate version (adding more bits increases accuracy). Unless I'm missing something, the inverse bloom filter doesn't scale up from the degenerate version in any natural way.

This will nag at me now. I'm going to need to give this some thought. If I come up with any proof on mem reqs. I'll let you know.
Seems like an example of a Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm, mostly used in motion planning. Granted this display seems like the RRT* variant.
>They need to hammer in to users that putting photos from your $4,000 camera rig on Facebook is just silly.

The people putting photos into facebook don't have $4000 camera rigs. They have $500-1000 camera rigs, and the photos that they're taking are [often] taken using the pop-up flash, the kit lens, and automatic mode.

For them, putting photos into facebook is a completely reasonable thing to do, and their photos wouldn't gain anything by being stored on flickr.
Thanks! I understand some of the implications associated with brand recognition, but I was curious about the legal side of things so that helps. Also, does anyone know how likely it is or how often these lawsuits occur regarding mobile app development?
Why not just learn from a textbook? It's extremely concentrated, written by an expert, and you don't have to deal with any of that "teaching." Loads of problems to work out too.

I do like the programming interface that these sites use, to work out problems and get instant feedback.

Would you consider yourself an auditory learner? If that's your preferred learning style, I guess I see the value in these recorded lectures.
Very interesting point, but I'd argue it has different implications to different fields of study. In physics, for example, if ten years from now it turned out that the existence of Higgs boson, in hindsight, was an "obvious" part of a wonderfully intuitive theory, most physicists would be elated and consider it a proof of the strength of their theory. Arguably a different story in social science.
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I'm sorry if I ended implying I was using hindsight, I meant to claim that this was obvious to me in advance. I'm pretty sure its even in my comment history where we were discussing someone's claim that IQ wasn't a real thing even though it was a heritable thing, and I asserted that "there isn't just one heritability of IQ" or words very close to that.
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Well, isn't the image you provided [1] answering your question already? It has been a trend for a while (hard to determine how organic since both companies spammed the heck out of Facebook wall) and now when the dust settled, there is nothing left behind.

In this example a large corporation agreed to be the one to turn the lights off (vide Zynga purchase of DrawSomething -- nothing can save the dropping audience #s) and so congratulation to PG and SocialCam team: selling rotten eggs is becoming hard to do.
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