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I opted out of college. Sometimes it bums me out though, because I feel like by learning on the job, I reached the 10 thousand hour mark too early. And it's annoying, I have this savings account of thousands of dollars, and it's like, what am I supposed to do with it? If I had went to college, I'd have been in debt from the get go, so it would be more motivating to pay off like $100k of student loans. This $6,600 college course sounds like a scam. How are you going to be motivated to pay off loans, if there are none? At least it's better than getting paid to learn.
If this isn't hate speech, what is?
I don't consider acceptance to be the criteria for censorship, legality yes.
I agree encouraging rape is not acceptable. Neither is racism. Or disrespecting other people. But we have decided that it is better to have freedom of speech than no freedom of speech. Is Facebook's response in the right? I think so. We should be angry at the person who put up the photo.
Facebook has rules forbidding hate speech. Is that not hate speech to you?
Firing on timeout is not the ideal way as the general pattern tells us people open multiple tabs which they may or may not read.

A better way is to trigger events based on scroll, that way you can better tell if there's been actual engagement on the page. I personally use this jquery based scroll tracking script for GA by Rob. http://robflaherty.github.io/jquery-scrolldepth/
It's not "acceptable". It's horrible. It's despicable. It's disgusting - and the person who posted that picture, and created that picture, should be ashamed of themselves. Absolutely no reasonable person believes, for even a second, that that posting shouldn't be taken down, and immediately, and the person who put it up should also immediately apologize.

The question, that is being posed, is whether Facebook should be taking down these horrible, despicable, and disgusting pictures without consent of the original poster.

I'm pretty pro-censorship and government control over what people are allowed to post, and see - so I would say, "Yes. Take it down." There are those who are more pro-free speech, who would say, "No, Facebook should not be arbitrarily censoring these images. Leave it up."

But - I can certainly understand both sides of the argument.

[Edit - For those who believe that Facebook should remove that article, read through https://twitter.com/sammorril, and consider whether you believe twitter should be censoring his posts, for example, https://twitter.com/sammorril/status/307191599543234560 is one that I reasonably think should be erased by Twitter on the same grounds that the Facebook posting should be erased by Facebook. There's lots of offensive humor that I'm fine with being censored/removed. Your position on this topic doesn't necessarily reflect whether you believe the views being posted are acceptable, but more-so whether you believe central bodies should be arbitrarily dictating what others are allowed to post, and see, and how frequent, and under what circumstances that power to censor should be used.)
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As much as i don't think it's funny, i don't think it encourages raping per se. The picture is just one of those "trying to provoke people" pictures. I've recently been at a comedian show where everyone laughed at very, very offensive and racist sentences. But after all that was the comedians intension. Hard to explain... How is this different?
Almost like it puts cats on you
This rings really true. It makes me sad when high income earners don't understand this, and live at or above their means. Instead of living below your means and stress free, many people get trapped in a sick consumerist loop where they spend at their means and/or take on debt. The enlightened know that the stress reduction of never having money problems is far better than living a life of maximum comfort/extravagance.

I wouldn't say that not middle-income means you have no freedom. It's more about perspective. If you view money as an enormous burden on your freedom to do whatever you want, then it becomes that. But you can do whatever you want, regardless. There's no requirement to have "fuck you money" to have a "fuck you, i'm not going to take your shit" attitude about life and relationships.
I try to stay out of Design-related posts on HN, especially ones that mention 'Flat' or 'Skeuomorphic'. Everyone suddenly turns into Dieter Rams mixed with Jonny Ive.

Although I don't love/hate this post either way, the comments in here for the most part are just awful, classic HN middlebrow dismissal at its best mixed with a spattering of ad hominem.
A year back Microsoft was buying them
I am tired of this bullshit 'Dave Winer' story. If you don't like his personality or his work, fine but there's no need to run around whinging about it.

He has been writing publicly for a long long time and it makes people think that we know him. Well I don't and you probably don't either. Give the guy the benefit of the doubt and stop psychoanalyzing everything that he writes.
It's not encouragement, it's someone's attempt at a joke. It's ok to joke about things, and sometimes it's offensive.
As much as I hate Facebook, it wasn't Facebook encouraging rape. It was whoever posted that picture, if even him. "Hate speech" is a non-issue. Everyone is free to ignore ideas they don't agree with, or perhaps even debate them. But it's not right to punish people for presenting ideas (no matter how idiotic they might be, or seem).
I consider it to be extremely distasteful but with the context of "Offensive Humor" I don't see it as hate speech.
Well, on the picture i uploaded there are cats around everywhere of the picture now. If it is supposed to detect a face it is failing badly.
Please note, I'm not defending the speech, just the right to say it.

Well, there was an episode of Mad Men this season where Betty suggests her husband rape the teenager staying in the same house. Sure it was shocking, but I don't recall people asking AMC to censor the episode.

I've also seen worse much worse jokes posted on reddit. Perhaps because it's an image macro that people are getting upset.
Found src. Seems legit. https://github.com/richo/catson.me
Nothing should be. "Hate speech" is an absurd concept that should have no place in any civilized society that considers freedom of expression to be even slightly important.

Merely expressing an idea, even if it involves negativity or dislike toward a certain group of people, is not in itself harmful. Now, harm may arise if somebody in turn acts after being exposed to such material. But the responsibility for that harmful act should lay solely with the individual or individuals who perpetrated it, not with people who merely expressed ideas that may have been observed by the perpetrator.
It's attempting to be humorous (badly). It's not intending to propagate the idea that rape is acceptable.
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Security researcher John Wilander makes a case that String should be an abstract class. His analysis comes from a cross road of Domain Driven Design and Application Security. Also, he is not only doing research, he actually writes production code on every-day basis, so he knows what he is talking about.
You can't censor humour; it's absurd to attempt to deem some subjects entirely off-limit.

No, I didn't find this particular example funny, but that doesn't mean that comedy that touches on certain taboo subjects can't be.
You genuinely believe that this image is instigating action? You actually believe that someone could see this image and be motivated to rape?
It says "Tape her and rape her". If this isn't encouraging rape, I don't know what would be then.

Just because people are laughing doesn't mean it isn't encouraging horrible behavior by making certain actions seem less disgusting.
Perhaps not Mozart, but anything is better than a fucking jingle.

I havent seen a TV commercial in years.

We live in a world where we are constantly bombarded by information. Some of it stick to your brain whether you like it or not. Presumably the brain has a finite amount of bandwidth for processing/retaining incoming information. With that in mind, I'll do my best to avoid commercials so something from the 'useful' information streams has a better chance of sticking.

Or perhaps my brain will latch on to some other useless information. But thats ok, because adverts are the fucking bottom-feeders of the information ocean.

Commercials didnt use to annoy me that much. But for the last three years I've consumed all my TV via Netflix and online video, commercial free. Now I find commercials unbearable. Sometimes I even get angry - how dare they interrupt my immersion and enjoyment of a story? Imagine if you were reading a book and every 5 minutes some obnoxious advert interrupted you? Thats how weird it feels.
The common knowledge I've heard about MBAs is that, as you said, you're paying for the connections -- and that the only valuable connections come from the pedigree of a Top 20 MBA program. If you're not pursuing an "elite" program (I'm sure 95% of MBA curriculums are equivalent no matter where you enroll, but the alumni certainly are not), then it's likely not worth the time or money.
I think context matters a lot, and this photo was posted to a page called "Offensive Humor" so people know the message is wrong and offensive, I doubt anyone would actually be on that page seriously agreeing with that message or being influenced to carry out its message. If this was posted to a page called "Women are scum" or similar etc then the photo would have a different meaning.
If it was an image or a tweet on blowing up an airport or something like that, it would've been removed instantly and the person charged with an act of terrorism, to spend rest of his good life in prison.
But inciting some one to rape seems to be completely acceptable under the rights of Free speech ?
re: Second-class degree
Geogia Tech's engineering program ranks extremely high in the U.S. and the United States' academic institutions rank extremely high on various world-wide charts.

Having spent a long time on the inside track of the Silicon Valley hiring processes, I can vouch that getting a degree from a prestigious institution really does fast-track your interview, at least when it comes to the screening or pre-screening phase.

$6,600 will at the current engineering salaries be at most a month and a half of your future net salary in the USA, or about 4-5 months worth of rent in San Francisco, so it is overall a very small forward investment to make if you live in the US.

I doubt the degree will be treated as "second class," this will occur only if the words get out that the program is somehow easier to finish and I strongly doubt that. If anything, without in-person TA-ing and live peer interaction, it will be harder to complete some of the courses.

re: Cost of graduate-level education in the USA
I understand that EU-citizens get free Masters' education. This is somewhat a side-effect of the EU-wide Bologna process, which promoted everyone's Bachelors degree into a Masters by adding a year's worth more of education and introducing a credit-system. If you are a non-EU citizen trying to get a degree in the EU, you will be paying much more than $6600 in many countries, including the socialist-leaning Scandinavia.

Any US citizen can give FAFSA a try and (from memory) more than half of the undergraduate student body receives some form of financial aid from the government. There are reputable sources that say that paradoxically the generous FAFSA grants are partially responsible for a tuition inflation, but this debate is completely off-topic.
You can also tweak the subdomain to change the number of cats.
You're right that everyone shouldn't have to listen to the same thing. It's not like that. Sometimes we all want to hear something on the stereo but sometimes we use headphones.

The unofficial policy is that if a programmer has headphones on you are not allowed to interrupt them.
Houses are sometimes built like that, but I've seen indie builders just build the house, rent it out, and then sell it. There are multiple ways to build and sell a house.

Writing code that's maintainable, secure, and performs well isn't all that difficult, and it's certainly not some horrible burden that will eat up all your time at the expensive of customer acquisition. There's no excuse for sloppy work, and yes, customers can jump ship if they think your product is substandard and response time adds to that feel.

You're also not going to be less busy in the future and having a codebase that's difficult to maintain is going to put excessive pressure on you or your team. Sloppy code is harder and more expensive to debug than well written code in all respects. You're also more likely to have major problems (performance, security, grim bugs) that could have been avoided simply by thinking a little up front. It's not all that much more expensive to write decent code. It's also not appreciably more time consuming to write a decent NodeJS app than it is to write a Rails or Django app.

I strongly suspect you're conflating over-engineering with making wise decisions that don't require a huge time burden and make life easier in the long run.
Encouragement to rape is bad, because it harms society.

Censorship is worse, because it harms society more; if you look at the countries with the most censorship they are all rotten places to live and I expect most of them have higher levels of rape than countries with less censorship.
They've tried ads in books. (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/the-secret-hist...)

I wish there were no ads in the middle of a programme. I hate it. We live in a world of "director's cuts", so I'm surprised we still get weird stupid ads throughout a movie.
Love these titles. This one is only a sample. Here's a creation of my own:

"Terrorists in the murder of design: Why you're wrong and failure is beneficial."

It's sure to encourage a good discussion.
> I'm pretty pro-censorship and government control over what people are allowed to post, and see

That's pretty scary.
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Genuine question: Do you think Sickipedia should be banned? ( http://www.sickipedia.org/ )
The UK market is probably one of the most 'advanced' in terms of online viewing of TV and movies (thanks in large part to the popularity of the iPlayer).

There's a mix of things; multi-platform free VoD (iPlayer, 4oD, ITV), multi-platform subscription VoD (Netflix, Blinkbox, Lovefilm), subscription live stuff (Sky).

I would credit the BBC with spurring on this competition - they've expanded the mindshare for these kind of products with everyday people probably more than any other company. They're not really competing with the other players in the UK, though.

A new player would be competing with the likes of Sky (who own the rights to a load of premium stuff, which wouldn't be up for grabs for a long time, and when it is, would be fought for). Netflix has this problem right now with movie and TV rights.
Yes, but such mistake, once made, is very hard to notice (because you never do this, you don't look for it), so it may well lead to a fatal disaster. Hence 'once in a lifetime'.
Lol. but I'd like to be able to download the photo. Any chance of a download button?
I'm just wondering how you come across such a picture on Facebook in the first place. I imagine you have to go looking for it, considering it's in the group "Offensive Humor at Its Best," which I doubt anyone would share with their friends.

The picture was posted on February 12th [1], but she didn't report it until about an hour ago [2], which only adds to the evidence that she went out of her way to find this.

So my question is: why would you do this if it's going to ruin your day?

There's bad stuff all over the internet, and it's not going away. It doesn't seem productive to launch a crusade to get it all taken down. Just block it if you don't want to see -- get some filtering software, install parental controls.

I really hope no one tells or about 4chan or tor.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=208652812592689&...

[2] http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=208652812592689&s...
lol. Upper limit?
Are you saying that overreactions to terrorism justify loosing rights to Free speech completely?
I offer this as a thought experiment for people on both sides of the debate:

Is it acceptable to shout "Fire!" in a panic-stricken manner in a crowded theater?

If not, then you accept that there are circumstances when "free speech" is not applicable. If so, please defend your position, when such an act may lead almost directly to serious injury and perhaps death.

This question removes the connection with rape and perhaps might help to focus attention on "speech with consequences".
Are you talking about government censorship? Or about societal pressure to not post deliberately deeply offensive stuff to a place open to 13 year olds and above?
The Average Time on Page trend line should give you the information you need without resorting to this. If you have a call to action or a link to your main site on the blog, I wouldn't go changing the bounce rate metric.

If you have a product and are advertising on AdWords, you can spend a lot of time dialing in your ad phrases. With a blog, you have a free test platform right there! Create a side bar widget that emulates the AdWords look and feel, and start A/B testing your ad text.
I disagree that MBAs have a negative value in the Silicon Valley. Most investors I know value someone having one business person on the team early on. This person can help drive the validation/marketing/sales side of the business plan forward. People with hybrid skills (MBA + engineering degree) are from my personal experience highly appreciated.
I guess they have their own method to gather statistics instead of depending on google.
First of all: I don't feel encouraged to rape a woman at all after seeing the picture. Do you?!

Second: Do you honestly believe that somewhere a woman is going to be raped solely because of this picture?

Third: If you believe that this sentence leads to rapes, you also need to ban every comedy on earth that makes fun of blacks or jews because that would encourage racism. So no Seinfeld (jokes on jews!). No Simpsons (blacks AND jews and about everything). And current comedies like Family Guy, Southpatk or American Dad.. ouch.. that's some offensive stuff in there! Maybe not funny at all for you, but funny for many many people.
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Yes, it's offensive, yes, it's disgusting, but how exactly does it "have consequences"? Do you really think someone is going to go rape a woman just because of this tasteless rhyme? That's ridiculous.
It's hard to argue that this page isn't targeted at women when it specifically says "rape her". I understand your belief that there should be greater awareness of the male victims of rape, but that doesn't seem to apply here.
Please let me know if this applies in the case outside of being a PhD student.

The US educational system has a tradition of issuing a Masters as a consolation price to PhD dropouts who've done enough of the coursework/research.

Bona-fide Masters programs with scholarships/stipends are very hard to find. If there's counterexamples I would like to know about them. From my experience, these are very rare.
This is what it looked like, with more accurate and interesting information:
https://github.com/KaivoAnastetiks/University-Demo
I guess a would make that a gender issue since it's mostly women who are target of rape jokes.

The real craziness is this insistance in removing any female nipples (for some reason, male nipples are not sensored) and not dead corpses or guns even in countries where nudity is far more accepted than violence.
I believe this is a result from this campaign:
http://www.womenactionmedia.org/

I can't get behind this campaign, because a large part of it appears to be advocating censorship of humour.

The face value difference between genuine hate pages and humour is often subtle. But their intentions are completely different. A joke, no matter how crude is not attempting to propagate the idea that rape is acceptable.

Because it's intentions are not to encourage the spread of hatred, it appears the reason they should be removed is because people are offended by them. If you find them offensive, don't view them. And I think it's pretty easy not to view those images unless you go looking for them.

Here's the campaigns 'examples' page:
http://www.womenactionmedia.org/facebookaction/examples/

There is a clear overlap between the jokes, and what I would consider hateful. The majority appear to be bad jokes, and the supporters of the campaign often (understandably) find it difficult to differentiate between the two.

I can't support censorship of humour, no matter how offended I am by it. The campaign in my view has failed because it has not clearly defined it's boundaries, it's going to war with genuine hate pages and bad jokes at the same time and is causing a lot of confusion in the process.
If you get pissed by what you find online,
then you're better off the Internet.
In Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky makes a very similar point. He advocates for the right to publish a ridiculous book that denies Holocaust ever had place. Chomsky argues that the freedom of speech applies universally, even if a speaker is a harmful lunatic, he should still be given this freedom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AnB8MuQ6DU
Here[0] is where Facebook defines what they consider to be "hate speech":

> Content that attacks people based on their actual or perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or disease is not allowed. We do, however, allow clear attempts at humor or satire that might otherwise be considered a possible threat or attack. This includes content that many people may find to be in bad taste (ex: jokes, stand-up comedy, popular song lyrics, etc.).

Granted, it's a horribly distasteful image macro, but Facebook acted according to their written community standards, so I'm not sure why their response is "shocking". It's also important to bear in mind that the page is titled "Offensive Humor at its Best", so I'm not sure why it comes as a surprise that the images are, well, offensive.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/help/135402139904490/
You're wrong: there can be no arguments about pro-censorship or pro-free speech regarding this picture. As mentioned right in Facebook's reply, they already censor content according to their guidelines. The argument is about whether this picture is "bad" enough to censor it.
In the same amount the violent video games are responsible for school shootings ...
Keep in mind that it is $6,600 for a graduate (post-Bachelors) degree, not a college degree.

In the U.S. a Bachelors degree lasts 8-9 semesters and equips you for work far better than the 3-year Bologna "equivalent."

The Masters degree thus can focus almost exclusively on the graduate-level courses, with the exception of some refreshers.

You have to compare the $6,600 to the cost of living in the United States.

U.S. census Bureau's poverty threshold is $11,500/year income. In this income-level very little goes to taxes. So this program is roughly 7 months of minimum wage in the US.

That is very affordable for an advanced degree.
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