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And I've seen this in areas other than programming too. It's _really_ common for motorcyclists with a year or two of riding experience to be offering all sort of advice to newer riders - advice which riders with 10 or more years of experience will sometimes just roll their eyes at, and sometimes will step in and say "that's not just wrong, but dangerous enough to get you killed if you're not careful".

Tell me more, I'm curious about this :)
Great read. I wonder why the author didn't go with something like the three watt MK802 Linux mini-computer though?
You so beat me to the punch. I long for the days of the Power Glove.
I knew that VIM was an editor, but I hoped I could turn into powerfull IDE as many articles suggested. I was wrong unfortunately.
I doubt anyone gets a Ph.D. to become a high school teacher.
One of few completely valid points the author makes is that there is such a thing as victimless child pornography. In fact, since the advent of webcams, it's probably come to outnumber the bad stuff 10 to 1. Under the law, every time a high-school student texts a nude photo to their beau, they don't just have poor judgment-- they're both felons.

That is absurd, and worth having a reasoned discussion about.
I didn't read that as meaning systematic testing. I really mean: test with transmitters of variable frequencies in cockpits or mock-cockpits. Measure induced emf in the circuits. Record instrument errors.

They could even require a certain spec on the manufacturers (akin to mil-spec on military grade computers, for example). Much like somebody else said: shielding.
>2. Many professions such as law and medicine legally require purchase of the appropriate degree.

And in many states, if the licensing board should learn that you are in default on student loans, then they'll revoke your license to practice.
From HN's guidelines: "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think that was another one of their many idiosyncrasies. But lots of bands have interesting idiosyncrasies: IMO none of the other unique attributes/talents of the Beatles were nearly as significant/remarkable as the fact that through chance some teenagers, two of whom later turned out to be genius songwriters, started a band together. Because they are historically top of the pile, all their interesting characteristics come under focus, but I feel people make the mistake of attributing their status to this plethora of qualities. This makes their story seem like either an inexplicable serendipity or a mass delusion, but really it's easy to explain as just one chance occurrence on which everything else rests.
For my ad-supported kindle, even when it's "off" it's still on. I almost never actually hold down the button to turn it all the way off, it's just displaying an ad.
I'm not 100% sure if you read the article, but the _first_ _point_ is that making criminalizing child pornography (therefore causing 100 innocent people to wrongfully go to jail) will, in the future, enable more child rapes.

The possession of child pornography carries harsher penalties than the act of raping the child in the first place, which is I think wrong on a very obvious level, but by your (hopefully knee-jerk) reply, is a position you would agree with.
Of course I still use it to edit source code on production servers sometimes. Learning VIM for a long time was quite good experience that helps me a lot.
Thank you for addressing me personally and wishing my premature death. However, I have no intention of obliging you in this particular matter.

Cheers and enjoy the Sunday night,
Rick
Couldn't imagine getting married having any substantial debt at all, sounds quite irresponsible.
I took that undercurrent as slightly more firm than tongue in cheek. The overall description of the science and its implications were interesting enough to make the article worthwhile.

Everyone has a bias, and a popular article is going to let that show through more than a scientific paper, to make it interesting.

You may as well complain that comics are funny when they observe the human condition.
It's part of the casual misandry that permeates our culture.
I'm not saying that it's inappropriate for HN. I flagged it because I felt the author was courting controversy and neither did he present an interesting solution. It's hard to take an unpopular side and that takes moral courage, but the extensive use of reductio ad absurdum combined with the heavy handed way he delivered his arguments made me feel that the author isn't being entirely genuine.

edit: I deleted my comment because I wasn't adding anything to the conversation either.
Please read the article before you comment. The author doesn't suggest at anytime that child molestation and rape are acceptable nor that they should be legalized.
Thanks :)) English isn't my native language and sometimes (may be more than I want to) I make mistypes.
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Dude, its 2012. Use Google, go to github or something, steal some code and hack away, if you rely on universities to better yourself then you really have no business in this field. They only teach you what you need to know to do your job, if your job requires to use Microsoft Word, I'm sure they'll open a class for that one too.

Most people just use what others use, years ago everybody and their dog uses MySQL. Nowadays, no one deserve to learn about database with MySQL as their primer.

While you're at it, have a look at Firebird SQL (http://www.firebirdsql.org/) too. With the kind of use-case and hardware that most people use MySQL for you can use Firebird instead.
And it's not just Stanford:

* 123 coursera courses from some of the best universities in the world in the next year: https://www.coursera.org/courses

* 14 Udacity classes: http://www.udacity.com/

* 6 edX courses from Harvard, MIT and Berkeley: https://www.edx.org/

Education is changing. About time.
I also think you should be able to yell "Fire" in a crowed theater. Not being able to do so might cause someone observing a fire in a crowded theater to keep that information to himself rather than informing others, for fear of prosecution.

(I'm not even sure if I'm being sarcastic or not.)
I don't agree that the only way to address these edge cases is to entirely repeal the laws rather than reform them. Technology changes, society changes, and the law adjusts. Sure I can imagine myself as an activist working against imprisonment of consensual (but teenage) couples as he describes, but never for outright acceptance of all child porn content.
I'm sure some folks here did the Technology Entrepreneurship course the first time it was offered.

What was your experience like?
I think the idea is he wants full processing power on demand while low power for the 90% of the time it's at idle.

ARM is great for idle but is still a fraction of desktop cpu computational power.

It's a couple years out of date but scroll down to the V8 and Sunspider benchmarks here:

http://vanshardware.com/2010/08/mirror-the-coming-war-arm-ve...
> It needs to be completely silent. No fans.

You can't hear fans when they run at a very low speed. This will make your cpu cooler and use less energy
Yes, anybody can do a google search. You can also do a google search for "9/11 was an inside job" and "JFK killed Marilyn." Doesn't mean that the first google hit is a study that is reliable, repeatable, or even factual.
But it would still be a bit excessive to wake up everyone and force them to close their books, don't you think so?
"we need to add you to a que to get going." -> que = queue. Oh, and it would be better if the logo would be clickable, now I can't return to the homepage without using the back button of Chrome.
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When I lived in Houston and was buying a house I used a website to look up sex offenders in the neighborhood.

I remember seeing one guy who was in the sex offender database because when he was 19, he had sex with a 17 year old. It made me feel a little uncomfortable. It struck me because I was in my mid 20s and I think we were around the same age at the time.

Something is amiss in a system that punishes him for life and places him alongside men in their 40s convicted for touching toddlers.
Meh. Don't be platform-phobic.

Honestly, people use what is best for them. That may be Windows, it may be Linux. Point is, don't knock it if it works for them.
My college tuition was $1800/year, and it was completely covered by the scholarships that I received. I just checked, and the funny thing is that those same scholarships are still at around $2000/yr, but tuition is around $15k/yr.

If I ever have kids, when they decide to go the college, we will do a simple cost-benefit analysis to see if it's actually worth it. I would never imagine that my kids would not go to college, but based on how quickly costs are rising, and how crazy student debt has become, instead of being laden in debt until they are 45, it might be better to simply take the $250k (the costs 20 years from now) and try to create a business instead.
Ask HN: Would there be any interest in a blog analyzing why startups *fail*?
Obviously, no one likes seeing startups fail. However, it's a very distinct, and very likely possibility for tech entrepreneurs, given the incredibly-competitive landscape and the negligible cost of entry. Learning how to fail gracefully is as important as learning how to succeed.

HN and the tech blogs don't cover startup closures frequently, unless it's the closure of a previously high-profile startup (i.e. Color, 1st iteration). Startups fail more frequently than that, and not for the reasons that may be obvious. (Read the comments on http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/yggye/tell_me_about_your_failed_start_ups/ )

Would there be any interest in a blog that discusses why startups fail, and that also allows user submissions for their own personal perspective, akin to the Reddit thread comments?
I disagree.

I had the honor of actually having a direct email exchange with Steve Jobs in the context of difficulties doing business with Apple. In a last ditch effort to solve the issues I decided to email Steve. I had never done that before. While I was convinced that it was pointless, I did it anyway. It was three in the morning here in California. I was programming and shot off a two line email not saying much more that I needed help resolving a business issue with Apple.

Fifteen minutes later I get this:

What's the problem?

-Steve

I must have stared at that email for an hour. Not sure if it was a hoax or the real deal. I wasn't even sure that I had the right email address.

I replied anyway.

The next day I got a phone call from a high-level VP who had been asked by Steve to personally look into the issues. This led to many meetings and even a couple of trips up to Cupertino to meet them all and discuss further. The problem was addressed to everyone's satisfaction.

Having the CEO of a large company take the time to take personal ownership of an issue is special.
I read the article. The author intends to create an environment where a select few take a risk so many can gain access to the material.
I recently started playing with Twitter bootstrap and was wondering how quickly I could put together a simple website using one of FictFact (my companies) apis. By using a combination of bootstrap + php + 2 apis (our search and recommendation apis) I was able to put together this simple series recommendation engine in a couple hours. It still has some kinks to work out, but I was happy how it worked out as an exercise.

So far the engine has found me the "Old Man's War" series by John Scalzi. (I ended up loving the first book of that series.)
That might've been your personal experience. But the Defense Language Institute, which has trained thousands of people over the decades, gives both Chinese and Japanese (along with Arabic and Korean) a level "4" rating - the highest one, requiring (IIRC) 2200 hours of practice. A large part of it depends on the individual - if you find grammar easy to pick up, then Japanese will be easier. The opposite will be true if you find pronunciation easier.
> On the other hand for child pornography there is always a victim. Some child, somewhere, had to go through an ordeal that will destroy and shape the rest of his/her life to produce that series of images or videos. Some child somewhere had to be damaged for the pleasure of people watching that video.

Absolutely not. Did you even read the article? Not everything that would be called child pornography in court is molestation of prepubescent children. One of the main points of the article is that it might be consensual sex between, say, two sixteen year olds. Or it could be kids putting it online themselves (remember Jessi Slaughter?).

Not to mention that you imply there's a causal link between people watching child pornography and people making more. That seems very far fetched. I doubt child molesters molest because they want more viewers on whatever site they're on, I'd think they take pleasure in molesting children.
> 1. If you are a young person and aspire to "middle class" employment, in 90% of cases you need a 4-year degree. The reason this is true is simply...

A while back, someone on HN replied to a comment about college degrees being almost de rigueur with a link to a lawsuit I never heard of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Company

As it turns out, this is the real reason why 4-year degrees have the power that they do in the world of white-collar employment.

And that is the beauty of HN, you can learn the facts when sometimes most people just do conjecture
This isn't just a phenomenon in software development. Maybe it was just me, but I distinctly remember classmates getting mad at me back in school when I tried to help them with their work without just giving them mine to copy.

There are people who understand that working at a problem develops skills that make you a more capable, valuable person, and there are those who haven't yet made that connection and seek to avoid work whenever possible. Giving the latter kind of person easy answers strengthens that mental pattern, and can lead to a sense of entitlement.

You can find this behavior everywhere, from school and work ("gimme the answers!") to consumerism ("I'd rather pay $400 to have someone come replace my door/toilet/network router than learn how to do it myself") to trivial troubleshooting ("Oh no, all the text in my web browser is big! Welp, better call tech-savvy friend" or "Oh no, my AC filter needs replacing! Welp, better get handyman friend to do it").

It's everywhere, it's endemic to human nature, it puts an moratorium on personal development, and I'm sick of it.
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Over the long term that may not be true. FTA: "I'm going to use your story to radically change how we deal with holds, and customer service"

It's going to take some radical change to alter current perceptions of PayPal, but it may be possible.
Some later versions of Exchange have a SOAP API (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exchange/dd877045(v=...). I wrote this npm module to grab a user's current emails: https://npmjs.org/package/exchanger.
http://www.class-central.com/#upcoming for the whole list.
You were wrong, obviously, but the people who made you believe that with their stupid blog posts are wrong, too. I'd say they are more wrong than you.

Those blog post are seriously misleading: at best, one can come up with a vim config that make it look like a stereotypical IDE: file tree on the left, class tree on the right, quickfix at the bottom, completion… But there's a lot more to an IDE than that. Because Vim will never understand your code as an IDE does it will never be an IDE, full stop.

It can be the (super charged) editor module of your development environment but it would take a lot more than a blog post with cool screenshots to explain how and why. Even this 7 parts series is probably not enough: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/
I don't see an architectural alternative for such services yet. You'd need a client side app sandbox which allows servers to schedule routines to run locally on secret data, without leaking back data which the server can decrypt. It would also need to be cross-platform and have the same user accessibility as the web browser.
To add to this (and as patio11 has said several times in his articles) OKCupid does this with regularity, and has provided a people with great deal of entertainment and information value, and have been covered many times in the press. They've also possibly indirectly helped their business doing this.

http://blog.okcupid.com/

KISSMetrics is another:

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/
Okay, fine, I'm being an asshole.
There are cars that don't require monthly payments. They don't look as nice, but they still get you from point A to point B.
Really? I think you're being a bit hyperbolic here as my chances of getting a surprise gift are far better than the odds of me getting set up with cocaine.
Read the article again. Child molestation and rape is obviously never acceptable (except to the most disturbed of minds), but the same should be said about putting innocents in jail. You lower yourself to the most abysmal level to wish Rick upon this fate.
What's the next step from here to replacing "a college education" all together? Of course I can't walk into a job offer and explain to them how I watched coursera videos online, but I'm wondering what the path from A to B will be.
While you're correct, the personal jabs are unnecessary.

This kind of thing cheapens the discussion here. Please take it somewhere else.
There are also various countries who have different laws on this kind of thing. It reminds me of an album cover by the Scorpians back in 1976, the original cover is on the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer (great album btw) but it was banned in the USA.

In other words, anyone from the USA who clicks that wikipedia page may be committing a federal offence of possessing child porn on their computers (because media is downloaded into the cache from the site.) - crazy right?
I live in Spain and do domestic flights quite a lot (although, high-speed rail is looking better for me every day… 2h30 from city center to city center vs a 1h20 flight plus the train from and to the city, rail is sometimes better), and I always follow the same procedure: take off my watch, empty my pockets, remove my belt, get the tablet/laptop out and put everything in a tray with my backpack on top of it.

I've been asked several times to remove my shoes when those shoes were 'high' shoes, ie. covering a bit over the ankle. Now every time I fly I make sure to have the right shoes, and start removing stuff before arriving at the checkpoint. It does't take long to get past security (I've done under 5 minutes), but still I have to get half-naked and often checked. And it's annoying. HSR (and leaving the VIP lounge, already included in the ticket which has a very reasonable price, ten minutes before the train leaves) is so much better. And just walking past security without having to get half-naked, that too (get your bag through the X-Ray to see if you're carrying something huge and dangerous and that's it).
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The ones that are most striking to me, though, have--to my eyes, at least--an HD video look to them.

This is an interesting way to put it.

An HD video look to them, not a Photoshop look. And that's one thing that's striking about them to me: They look so immediate and real, like they were shot yesterday. This property is something we've been trained to associate with video.

So, I think this is the crux of the matter. A trained artist is trained to get the "HD look" without the "Photoshop look".[1] Its like fight club: the first rule of using photoshop, is don't let anyone know you are using photoshop.

Example. Your mind expects certain relationships to hold - an image subject closer to you has more resolvable detail than one farther away - for one. A visual cue for relative depth perception: if i can see it better it must be closer. But, in photoshop, I can differentially sharpen the fore-ground and the back-ground. If I do this to get a "uniform" level of detail,[2] it looks "high-definition" because the background has a higher level of detail [sharpness] than it should (according to your brain). But there is no increase in pixel resolution (ie, definition level) An image like this can be almost difficult to mentally process, you will want to look over every inch to take in all the detail. [Note: how this has nothing to do with color - i can pull this off with neutral colors].

Now, is this a "photoshop look"? Arguably, yes. To someone that is trained in these techniques. The idea that one can make a still image look "cinematic" HD is actually a good way to put it.

So, "looks like photoshop" as I was using it may have been not easy to understand. To many, this might mean "looks like Glamour photography, with airbrush and vivid colour". That is but a tiny subset of cases [popular photography, etc]. Almost all PJ and FA work is heavily (as in 80 layers) photoshopped if its going into a gallery. But it doesn't "look like it", if what you are expecting is something else. But, if you understand how these images are working, you will see they look nothing like the files that come out of RAW or a Digital scan of the negative.

The master of "HD" type looks is Gursky [see footnote 1]. His images have no unnatual colours, but the would be impossible without the powerful colour control you get in photoshop. Ie, the irony is that the more agressive you are with the tonal controls, the more you need color control (and 16bits and large color spaces, etc) to keep the normal part of the look. But its the tonal control that enbale you to create the "definition" that is so distinctive.

______________

[1] Take a look here:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/Rhein_II...

or here:

http://artobserved.com/artimages/2008/01/andreas-gursky-hong...

Disucussion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gursky

[2] Assuming the pixel quality is up to par
> This is a sincere request: can someone tell me why I should care about this?

You don't have to, no one said that this link is only for CrankyPants to enjoy, or for that matter that HN has to cater to specific interests. It is simple not to care, just close the tab and go on to the next post.

The fact is that many people think the Beatles are pretty cool and love their music, and I'm pretty sure that the kind of demographic that visits HN indeed loves the Beatles. Now you mix their music with the Fourier transform and you got a hacker worthy post, even if the article is a little fluffy. Also even if I am not the greatest fan in the world, the fact that for 50+ years no one has been able to figure out the exact chord arrangement in the song is enough to spark my curiosity. So you know, I don't enjoy every Ask HN post either, but I just move along, there is plenty of content.
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The article raises a lot of valid points. Not all imagery of non-adults having sex are made under non-consensual circumstances, or consumed as means of sexual pleasure. The law doesnt take this under account.

Big tech and media organisations (eg Google or any image or video hosting service provider), process and filter a huge amount of illegal child porn everyday. They even have employees doing this, watching and censoring child porn that is. Isnt watching it, even in order to censor it, according to such laws, illegal? Also while the material remains in the servers, isnt the company liable for possession ?

In Greece for example, the law is rather simple and doesnt cover such cases.
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