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You'd think maybe posting photos of minors without their consent might also have been a rule to prevent long-standing issues. But, no?

What is the long-standing issue that you would be preventing though? It's creepy and wrong to be sure, but say banning a specific subreddit with that content, what is the result of that action?

With doxxing you have documented cases of people being harassed based on people finding out their true identity. So banning doxxing helps to prevent situations where people are harassed outside of the site for the things they do on the site.
Why are you still online then? The same rational can easily be applied to the Internet in place of reddit. Why are you still using the Internet?
Well, this one doesn't seem to be working at the moment, it's giving me errors, though I haven't spent much time trying to figure out what's going on.

I'd like to add preset block time to this one though, and / or make it harder to disable.
The original point made by vonmoltke was that the patent text does not define an implementation in any meaningful sense. My wikipedia link was merely corroborating my opinion that an implementation of a data structure involves the fundamental operations on that data structure. If a data structure implementation can be complete without such details, then an AVL tree is equivalent to a red-black tree.
This is incorrect. All COTS in a medical device is considered SOUP (Software Of Unknown Pedigree). All COTS must be validated for its intended use regardless of the supplier and a risk analysis must be performed for the use of the COTS. The device manufacturer is held liable for defects, not the supplier.
> You can't ban content just because it offends someone,
> there wouldn't be much content left, if any. Is religion
> distasteful? Violent images of war? Gay marriage?

That's a slippery-slope argument, and it's ridiculous in this case. Reddit isn't being pressured to ban any and all offensive content; they're being pressured specifically about sexually-suggestive photographs of underage girls, created without consent.

In fact, Reddit already has rules against this sort of content. From their user agreement: "You further agree not to use any sexually suggestive language or to provide to or post on or through the Website any graphics, text, photographs, images, video, audio or other material that is sexually suggestive or appeals to a prurient interest."

So what the pressure is really about is Reddit ignoring their own rules to benefit one of their personal friends, and a small horde of terrible people defending this decision by pretending that teenage upskirts are free speech.
Is there a reason to catch all those exceptions? If you're just sys.exit()ing anyways, why sacrifice all the traceback info?
I once was hospitalized and got an x-ray while on a trip. They gave me a CD with the images on it, which I took to a different doctor (not affiliated with the hospital that gave me the X-ray) in my home city later. When the doctor put the CD into his Windows machine, I was shocked to see that it used AutoRun to run an image viewing program stored on the CD! My doctor was not at all surprised to see a totally unfamiliar program running on the same machine that he uses to access all of his patients' medical records, create perscriptions, etc. He told me this was the normal way to share images in different formats across hospitals. (I actually helped him figure out how to figure out the clunky UI of the image viewer.)

Having seen that, I can't say I'm surprised that medical computers of all kinds are full of malware. For all I know, I might have carried a computer virus from the hospital onto the doctor's office computer myself! I saw no sign of that, and the viewing software looked legit (even if it was clunky and hard to use) but viruses that attach to legitimate programs and hide from the user are not new. I hope this changes soon.
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Yeah, it is. Even if you add the caveat of "MySQL supports it (with the InnoDB storage engine)", it seems ridiculous to omit MySQL from the list.
That's a good idea. Jeff is the real compilers genius so I'll have to see if I can convince him to write a blog post along those lines. The bounds check stuff I mentioned above is one of the important planned optimizations. Another important move is making composite types immutable by default, which is surprisingly unstiffling, yet allows a large number of clever optimizations (stack allocation, memory layout optimizations). More playing around with llvm optimization passes could help and is pretty easy to do, but we haven't spent much time on that. Also lots of gc improvements (approximate ref counting, escape analysis).
No, because I consider Google to be something closer to a 'common carrier' and it is to be expected that a great deal of material I don't like is accessible.

Does it mean that Google condones the material? I don't think so.
Just a quick question. For the flyweight idea in the article you get additional thread unsafeness even for immutable data in that you are changing where the flyweight points (which is how you want to do it to avoid creating and destroying a lot of flyweight objects). What is your idea to pool/control multiple flyweight accessors?
When I was a kid.. I was outside playing. Seriously.

And then when I got older and could read, I was often reading books. And I think the knowledge and information you can glean from just reading books is enormous. Language isn't about spelling stuff right [1]. It's about having a comfortably large set of words at your disposal and knowing what words can go together to express feelings, atmosphere or intent.

[1]: the fascination with spelling seems to know no end in the USA. Spelling competitions?!
My daughter is ten, and she just started picking up some Python and Javascript. I got her started on the codecademy lessons, which she had a hard time with at first, but then started sailing as she began to understand the example / question formats a little better.

One thing I've been doing is outsourcing small code snippets to her (mostly for vanity, I got the idea from Louis CK's notion of getting his daughters writing / production credits on "Louie") that I need in code I'm writing.

The obvious key is to start off very simply. In addition to the codecademy lessons, I've been giving her small tasks like "I need a function that accepts a string as an input, and return a string that replaces all hyphens with nothing." It obviously takes her awhile longer than the minute or so I'd spend on something like that, but it gives her something to do, and like all of us, I think learning is fostered more by a meaningful application than a more trivial one.

Beyond that, I'm not an exceptionally good teacher or anything, but if they're interested, give them an opportunity to learn and just try to foster that opportunity in more meaningful ways than doing code exercises. The goal with my daughter is to have her begin on a simple game starting in the next few months (or whenever she seems ready, an obviously subjective metric.)
I was at this talk. Patrick's talk was very insightful, especially this section.
It is such a simple hack, but very well executed and though through. No wonder he did so well !
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Interrogate the assertion that those photos are "creepy and wrong". Why are they creepy and wrong? I think you'll find the answer to your question in there.
It seems to me that Reddit did the right thing here. How they got there is questionable, but I think they've got it right.

1) "No child pornography or sexually suggestive content featuring minors"

2) No doxxing internally, external links allowed

To stay viable, Reddit has to ban internal doxxing. There have been several instances in the past of false accusations combined with doxxing which have resulted in witch hunts.

But doxxing is pretty much the only defence the Internet has against legal yet hateful and harmful pseudonymous speech. So by drawing the line where they did, they've made witch hunts more difficult to pull off, but still possible.

They're also just bowing to the inevitable: they can't censor the Internet, so any attempt to do so will fail.

So did they do the right thing because it was the right thing, or just because it was inevitable? They really give the impression that it was the latter, so they don't come out of this affair smelling very good.
@andyjohnson0 - it's in there, around line 29 in the source.

_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-26179049-1']);

We're also referring to http://gov.uk, which is what the OP link refers to, not the OP link itself.
This is the project that brought me back to lua :)
Is there not a separate deal for Governments and Educational Institutes with Google to negate this?
It shouldn't be limited to minors. They had a field day with that old Gawker editor vs. Jimmy Kimmel video yesterday because she said people should understand that if they step outside of their house, they're subjecting themselves to ridicule. That is the exact same argument that r/creepshots supporters use.
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My understanding is that the overwhelming majority of "jailbait" images that were posted on Reddit came from Facebook by way of 4chan (or at least that's what violentacrez, the mod of the now closed /r/jailbait subreddit, claims). Yesterday Facebook suggested I Like the "Sexy Teenagers" group (which had 49k Likes). Facebook is hardly a good example of place that isn't allowing the sexualization of minors.
The nearest planet "that we can detect".. What says that planets can only form around stars? Yes, its most likely since those are some of the biggest gravity sources, but if you have a failed star system, or accumulation of mater out in deep space, no reason it can't aggregate and form its own starless planet
Color was coming out right as I was starting my first company. I was just becoming aware of Valley culture, and I found the Color story really, really confusing. As other things have started to click and I've moved from "not knowing anything" to "being consulted professionally on these matters" the whole story of Color remains pretty confusing to me.
I don't know what these pictures were like because I had never been on creepshots, but if they were taken in public, there isn't really anything (legally) wrong with them.

People in public spaces can be photographed without their consent. That's a very clear rule, at least in the US. See: http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf
>But, back to her original point, I have noticed that the smartest people and best researchers I know are not afraid to say "I don't know" when asked a question.

So true.

That is exactly what really hammered it home for me years ago.

I found myself working with a particularly capable and impressive guy who didn't have the slightest hesitation about saying "I don't know." when asked a question or "What's that?" when listening.

I've had some frustrating encounters with people who seem to live by hard and fast rules about what negative things "I don't know" supposedly demonstrates about a person [1], but overall it has been incredibly liberating. It's amazing how fast you can come to know someone and learn from them when you both come in open and unguarded.

1: A few of the more memorable responses I've seen to "I don't know".

* "Never, ever say that again. You should always try to relate the situation to something you do know. Saying I don't know just means you're lazy."

* "You were just feigning ignorance about that to get me to try to explain it so you could attack my explanation!"
Isn't the most famous and distasteful image board using CF?
You understand that bystanders like me puzzling their way through what's happening with Reddit and this "stand" that they're taking see surreptitiously taken photos of minors posted for the amusement of a creepy Reddit thread to also be private information about other people, right?

Do you just disagree that they're the same kind of information? Is that where the controversy is here?
That's a slippery-slope argument, and it's ridiculous in this case. Reddit isn't being pressured to ban any and all offensive content; they're being pressured specifically about sexually-suggestive photographs of underage girls, created without consent.

Haven't they already decided not to allow the pictures of underage girls? I could be wrong, but I thought that had happened a while ago with the closing of /r/jailbait or some similar subreddit.
I don't mean to use hindsight to say I knew they were going to fail, just that I'm just as confused as to how this happens as I was the first day I got interested in startups.
I used Anki _extensively_ when I was in dental school--I think I had something like 10000 cards at the end of school. You can seriously pack knowledge into your head with spaced repetition.

Anyhow, Anki is AMAZING. The best thing it does is eliminate your downtime when you're studying. If you critically look at your periods where you sit down and do work, there's a fair amount of "staring out the window" time when you are not in [flow][0]. However, because of the timer system, I felt compelled to continue through flashcards throughout my 15 or 20 minute study periods. It feels great not to waste time. I should go donate to that project.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
Annoyingly misleading link bait title.

The mail was sent to "journalists", not users.

It is nothing new, just the usual social engineering basics that have been covered a gazillion times like sugar coating the recipient's ego, mentioning pseudo-personal things about yourself, etc.

Annoyance warning about visiting that site, it loads and loads and loads some images to no end. Every second or so the mouse pointer changes to loading.
I also considered this, but concluded it would be counter-productive.

These creepy subreddits have been allowed to exist for so long because users who disagreed decided to remain silent. They're only coming to light now because some Reddit users have decided to break their silence and speak out.

If you want to help clean up Reddit, then a six-year account is a useful asset.
That's an interesting catch.
> (News.me and Instapaper - Sync your articles to your phone as you leave your house, so that when you're underground on the train, you have all your content right there

How is that location data? The sync operation is the same whether you're at home or at work.
It's up to the users and lawmakers of the country to be the tastemakers.
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The claim that Octave is as fast or faster than Matlab is simply absurd and untrue. Octave is consistently the slowest language on all of our benchmarks, often by orders of magnitude [http://julialang.org/], even on heavily vectorized code.
Cool but kindly suggest extending threshold. An option for a 30 day look, for example, would be a good addition.
The lawfulness of those photos has been disputed. But either way, posting the name, phone number, and employer of someone posting photos to Reddit is also not against the law.
I'm OK with it because I see it as a necessary evil - always considering the worst implementations of any new rules.

Right now we all have the same expectation of privacy - that is we have none if in public, and none if its a digitally distributed photo. That expectation does not shift based on one's age.

What if the non-consenting minor is Miley Cyrus? What if a compromising photo of police brutality has a kid in the background - can they force a take-down of my photo? Off the deep end, but I'm just pointing out that we are on a level playing field, and it's likely for the better.

We obviously make many concessions to our rights to protect children, but this is not one of them. E.g., as an adult male, I can't eat my sandwich in some NY parks unless I'm accompanied by a child. I just hope the children are grateful for my sacrifice ...
> The future is integrating it into new uses, to answer questions we haven't even asked yet.

Actually, I think that's the exact wrong lesson to take from this. That's what Color did: look for something that hasn't been done before and did that. It was a solution to a problem that doesn't exist: meeting strangers. People don't want to meet strangers, unless they're looking to hook up. That's why we construct amazing home entertainment systems; so we can avoid being around strangers. Ditto for Highlight and Airtime.

The takeaway from Color is not to go searching for the next big thing, but rather solve a problem that you yourself have (warning, you are probably not a normal person so don't spend too much time solving the problem before releasing something).
Shouldn't the first step be install http://www.zeromq.org/? That is some seriously amazing stuff right there. Makes network programming (something I've avoided for years) almost trivial.
It's just more efficient & really shines for long term retention + large datasets (i.e. learning nouns in languages).
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For the purposes of tests like that, they probably just wanted to see that "reasonable action was taken", which will (hand-waving) probably take care of most instances of that type. In the event of real demonstrators, it would just be the opening salvo of damage control, but it's too hard to predicate how a crowd of angry people would react past the first move.
System-wide package management is broken. If you want me to use the system-wide package manager, fix it.
I did something similar to that as a kid. I hated it. It worked, but much less efficiently.

The strategy that you describe causes you to spend most of your time looking at cards that you've already mastered. You don't have the ability to slowly add to the list. You don't have the ability to have as many flashcards. And, according to the research, long-term retention is worse.

He currently has 465 cards that he's shown some retention on. Of those, tonight he will do 14. Your system would have him spending 33x as much effort maintaining that knowledge as what we're currently doing. A factor of 33 is worth some bookkeeping on my part.
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> Haven't they already decided not to allow the pictures
> of underage girls? I could be wrong, but I thought that
> had happened a while ago with the closing of /r/jailbait
> or some similar subreddit.

They close particular subreddits when they become widely featured, such as /r/jailbait on CNN or /r/creepshots on Gawker.

They do not ban the users who posted such content, and do not take measures to prevent them from re-creating the same subreddit under a different name.
Is 'cdrxndr an alias for 'potatolicious? (If so, I'll start following that nick on HN too).
Interrogate the assertion that those photos are "creepy and wrong". Why are they creepy and wrong? I think you'll find the answer to your question in there.

Or you could just answer my question.
There are many companies who make a living by finding software patent infringement for their clients, sometimes through analyzing decompiled source code.
I did the same, it is a very useful tactic. There are some programs that use this technique, usually mixing some "good" questions inside your current "todo" pile as well.
I am a strong supporter of the patent system, and in general an advocate for software patents. This, however, is a likely example of an error. We accept a certain error rate in any process, and if the USPTO is expected to be infallible, then fees would skyrocket and people would complain that patents cost a million dollars. Anyone who tried to enforce this patent would more likely than not have it invalidated in court or on re-exam. Apparently the assignee (LSI Logic, hardly a 'troll') has chosen not to enforce this patent on Google and Microsoft because it is so weak. So before we grab the pitch forks, remember that the "system" as a whole has worked here, even if the PTO let one through. The tech world has not come crumbling down, Google was not shut down, and everybody who has ever modified a linked list has not been sued out of oblivion. If you have a much better method, I'm genuinely interested to hear it.
Voltaire nailed it best with "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
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Hi there - the collection doesn't need to be homogenous; if the query references a missing field in a document, the wrapper interprets that value as null.

For nested documents, we have some ideas on how to make that accessible, and talk about it in our README: https://github.com/citusdata/mongo_fwd/blob/master/README
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Thanks! You're right and I'm wrong. I've edited my comment to make this clear.
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More appropriately, the first step should be to install Twisted.
This seems backwards. If you had invested significant sweat equity and then raised $41 million then perhaps so. But in this case it's more like you took your investors hostage and live in constant fear that they will escape.
That's quite an interesting architecture.

Do you have data on how frequently your spot instances terminate gracefully (with time to finish their requests) versus how often they zap out?
This represents a rare (AFAICR) failure for Sequoia. I don't mean to be the naysayer but even at the time, for me, Color had disaster written all over it. All flash, no substance.

I wonder how much of that $40+ million is left and will be returned to investors. Anyone know how many employees Color has (had?)?

It's been said that the military is always busy planning for yesterday's war. The lessons of the past often don't reflect the change in circumstances. I think the tech sector suffers from a version of this, particularly for VCs. Facebook is big. Instagram sold big. Lots of people are chasing social. But IMHO social is largely yesterday's war.

Take one of my current bugbears: social search. Many view it as the Next Big Thing. Social is seen as a key future driver to recommendations and the like. IMHO this is completely overhyped. This is something that's been much-discussed already but a month or two ago I had an interesting conversation that I think shed some light on the problem.

Let's say Alice is friends with Bob. Bob likes a particular movie. We as programmers and entrepreneurs see an opportunity to use technology to solve a "problem" here: namely, how to allow Bob to express that information in such a way as to expose it to Alice, who it is argued, may well be interested in that.

The problem here is that the view of the "problem" here is backwards. We see social interactions as an inefficient way of disseminating information but in most cases in the real world, it's the opposite: that movie recommendation is simply a way of enabling and facilitating a social interaction. In other words, the movie recommendation is a means to an end not an end in and of itself. Too many social startups (IMHO) view the social interactions as a means to an end when in fact it is the end.

Anyway, my condolences in particular to the employees of Color, who I have no doubt worked hard over the last year or so. Luckily we're in a market where you should easily be able to move on to bigger and better things.
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