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Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal, now at Google) Talks About Programming - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
"A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges artists fees to exhibit their work and makes most of its money from artists rather than from sales to the public." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Dan Siroker: CarrotSticks, Google Chrome, and Obama - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Google Closure, JavaScript Tools & Library - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Check What Google Knows About You With Google Dashboard - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Google Commerce Search - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
What would happen if we repeat the Stanford Prison Experiment with much younger people?
Michael Kuhn, milivella, Oaksun and 7 other people liked this
Kids would be carried to a closed place where they would be forced to sit still all day. Another group of adults would be determined to be the guards. Kids would not be allowed to do what they feel like doing, even if it were a very useful thing (e.g. reading a book of their own choosing), but they'd be forced to do what the guards tell them. There would be a pressure punishment system, publicly assigning symbols representing a kid's well-doing, per the rules laid out by the guards. This would go on day after day, for many years. Just imagine, what would happen?
- Philipp Lenssen
I participated in that for 13 years. It was pretty awful.
- Paul Buchheit
What do you mean Paul?
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
I'm guessing he was talking about schools, like Philipp was.
- Ed Millard
For only 13 years though? (er, silly me, forgot that the fact you graduate at 18 doesn't mean you spent your entire life till then in it....although it may feel like it sometimes)
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
In the U.S. 12 grades plus kindergarten is common. I assume he considered it a jail break to make it to university
- Ed Millard
I don't :( It's significantly better, yes, but still sucks if you're a minor
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
I mostly didn't show up to class in college, so it wasn't much of a prison, and I actually liked it to some extent.
- Paul Buchheit
I thought the point of the Stanford prison experiment was what it turned the "guards" into. Not sure what that says about teachers.
- Nick Lothian
For some reason teachers and parents don't become as cruel as prison guards. I think it has to do with external inputs. The Stanford experiment was essentially a closed system, while the outside world is open and might not have the same feedback loops.
- Gabe
Case wasn't that bad... we had fiber!
- Eric Borisch
The Reversible Man, an earlier short story by Alan Moore. I won't give away too much... just read it. - http://againwiththecomics.blog...
Oblomov, milivella, Simon Curran and Stephen Mack liked this
Google Voice Screwups - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Google Chrome Bookmarks Syncing Live in Beta - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
roamin, Roman Zolotarev, ☆☆☆☆ and 2 other people liked this
Google Related Links (Again) - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Looking for testers for a site in development, pls email philipp.lenssen@gmail.com :)
AJ Kohn liked this
(pls use subject Site Test... also, you need a webcam...)
- Philipp Lenssen
Lazyweb meets Mechanical Turk. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
from iPhone
Suspect in data theft case found dead ... The 20-year old was found hanging in his cell Saturday morning at the Ploetzensee Juvenile Detention Center near Berlin - http://www.dw-world.de/dw...
"The man had been arrested last weekend on suspicion of stealing data from a popular website for German students, SchuelerVZ.de. Authorities said he had threatened to sell it to contacts in eastern Europe unless the Web site's operators gave him 80,000 euro"
- Philipp Lenssen
Google's Halloween-Themed Robots.txt - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Same URL Listed 10 Times in Google Result - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Google Maps Navigation for USA - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
New Google Music Onebox Lets US Users Play Music - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
arty and Alex Kapranoff liked this
Google's Eric Schmidt on the Web's Future - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Google Groups, Killed by Spam? - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Google Social Search Live - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Re: CrowdRorschach - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Doesn't Google have an interest to make the web better? Why don't they offer a simple Spam Check JSON API -- you submit a text as URL parameter, they return a number representing the likeliness this bit of text is spam?
HealingBrush, Sandeep Kalidindi, EricaJoy and 9 other people liked this
Good idea. Algorithm: search for the text and determine whether it is oft-repeated boilerplate or near links to the same page scattered across many blogs.
- Daniel Dulitz
from iPhone
I'd be concerned about spammers using this as a way to gauge how well they are bypassing Google's detection. A well-written machine learning algorithm that optimizes spam phrases based on the return value from Google's JSON API could theoretically improve to the point of not looking like spam.
- Bill Strathearn
Using the text alone is likely to bring a lot of false positives. Just think of all the "Great post, thank you" comment spammers -- some people may actually be posting that legitimately while others just want a link.
- John Mueller
What Bill said. You'd have to train up a different, non-production classifier. Then you face the question of whether you want to support that API/feature forever, esp. given that the bad guys might end up getting lots of mileage out of such an API.
- Matt Cutts
John, I would probably *manually* delete a comment that reads "Great post, thank you" (believing it's spam). But you could also simply show a captcha when the API says it might be spam -- which would then be harmless to those low-confidence returns (and I would think "Great post, thank you" would receive a low confidence rating due to being so short). I.e. those who really want to post such "spamlike" congratulations would merely need to complete the captcha.
- Philipp Lenssen
Bill and Matt, interesting and unfortunate problem, though is there any way to resolve that issue? And how do programs like Akismet solve that problem?
- Philipp Lenssen
Bill's and Matt's issues are surmountable, but at what cost? Philipp, turning the question around, why would you want this? It would be more accurate/useful to perform the spam check within a higher level service, which could have an API.
- Daniel Dulitz
Isn't essentially what the DCC does : http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/
- Soren Riise
What would also be interesting would be a service that separates legitimate people names from product / service names. I think I would totally install that as a plugin on my blog, Mr. "discount plane tickets" & Ms. "best data recovery" can go post their comments elsewhere :-)
- John Mueller
John — I get that kind of comment spam from names like Tanwa, Philip, Jay, Vector, Youku, and Lance. :-(
- Amit Patel
You know you've made it when every song of your album gets its own Wikipedia page. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Alex Kapranoff, Oblomov and milivella liked this
The new taxis in this Chinese town have a Like and Dislike button in reach from the front passenger seat (green/ smiley = approve, and gray/ frown = disapprove... well, that's what I made of it).
#alaskareport, ǝuǝƃnǝ, Bret Taylor and 5 other people liked this
Pressed the green button today, but somehow can't imagine many contexts in which I'd press the gray button... seems so rude.
- Philipp Lenssen
What happens when you press the buttons?
- Daniel Dulitz
When you like, does the taxi get jumped to the front of the queue? :-)
- Ruchira S. Datta
I'm imagining our AR retinas in 50 years: when a taxi you liked is driving by, you actually see it. And the gray button causes the taxi to disappear for you unless it's about to run you over.
- Daniel Dulitz
What's the "original source" of a news bit? E.g. when Friendfeed references a blog, which references a newspaper, which references human sources, which reference their eyes from input from the scene, which was staged (e.g. a press conference, or witnesses restricted to certain locations), referencing background events that orchestrated it.
Roberto Bonini, Marcel Weiß, Sebastian and Alex Scoble liked this
We often seem to associate the information shifting and transformation costs (time, energy, money...) with the originality of a source. If reporter X spends 2 months getting an interview with John Doe -- shifting the information from John's brain into a newspaper -- the new location will be considered the source. If Y spends 2 minutes shifting the newspaper's information into a blog, it may not be considered a source.
- Philipp Lenssen
Is this a rhetorical or a "proper" question?
- ianf ⌘
This seems almost too-much on-topic, and may be the answer you are seeking: "Where the News Comes From: Walking back a single day’s top stories." By Jeff VanDam (Published Oct 18, 2009) http://nymag.com/news... COMPLETE WITH A DIAGRAM in PDF: http://nymag.com/news...
- ianf ⌘
Google Social Search, and Twitter Integration - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
What feature would you like to see in a text editor?
Code highlighting
- Varun Mahajan
Syntax hints
- Sebastian
Outsourcing - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
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