skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually took part in this study. A few notes:

1. The exam was supposed to be administered 3 times, Freshman, Sophomore, and Senior years. I took it my Freshman and Senior years.

2. The exam was not a normal exam. I won't say it was pointless, it definitely measured something, but it's hard to say exactly what. Imagine you have to make an exam to measure "learning" and this thing was about as close as you could come to getting one. But that's still far off the mark.

3. The sample was not representative. Taking the exam was opt-in, and the college put forth a variety of incentives to get people to take the exams. Despite this, they definitely had a high drop off between sign-up-for-everything freshmen and I'm way too busy to spend three hours taking another exam seniors.

I believe there were schools where it was not opt-in, but even so, I can't imagine any of the students taking this exam had grades riding on their performance. And given that it was a single exam, it was dependent on the students' state of mind on the particular day they took the exam. Three data points per person, over four years. It's hard to draw any conclusions from this data.
If you type into Chrome's URL/browser bar, it sends the query to google's servers which in turn returns a list of possible search suggestions (autocomplete style). Google likely retains the query for commercialisation purposes.

So the user being worried about a Chrome plugin sending browsing data seems bizarre.
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Yeah, horrible UI. Just has 500 million people using it voluntarily.
Difference between correlation and causation is if its correlation then putting these kids to sleep by say a drug in order to fix their sleeping patterns won't do squat in fixing their core problem which may be the actual cause of both the sleeping problems and future mental issues apologies for the run on sentence.
Out of curiosity, do you attend Ohio State? I'm currently enrolled as an undergrad and am always keeping an eye out for HNers at school.
The argument about RAM is just plain wrong. It only takes 12 megabytes
2048 * 1536 * (32 bits per pixel) = 12 megabytes
to store the display. 24 megabytes if it needs to double-buffer.
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Your summary of my comment is nowhere near what I wrote. I'm paraphrasing from memory, but I believe my comment was something like this:

> That's a problem with any site that threads comments and sorts by score.

The parent to my comment pointed out a corner case with scoring that he felt was specific to Reddit, if I recall, and I replied to indicate that such a problem is inherent to sorting/scoring at all and not Reddit itself. Since I made that reply (which actually gives Reddit credit as saying said assertion isn't specific to them), the parent edited to say something else, and I'm not sure how to grok it.

Rather than delete and look extra shady, I decided to leave that there. I'm glad I did, because your edit here in response to that speaks volumes as to why you chose to respond as you have.

First, I'm well aware of how sorting works on Reddit. I've deployed my own copy of Reddit's code and successfully brought it up, and I've manipulated the code and looked around in it (I'm a Python developer by trade).

Second, one of the problems inherent to text is that meaning can be lost, very easily. I wrote the comment to mean "that's inherent to the style of commenting Reddit chose, not Reddit per se". That's a comment regarding a concept far abstract from specifics of Reddit's voting constraints - it's a comment addressing the concepts of threading and scoring themselves.

You took my statement as "Reddit has that problem, and it sucks because". I apologize that I wasn't completely crystal clear about what I meant.

Even after rereading what I wrote, I cannot see how the way you've taken it could be considered what I intended -- you're really reading a meaning that you want to read, because you want to pick a fight over someone disparaging Reddit. I was a regular contributor to Reddit for several months and realize its value. I think it's a great community. You're not being a great representative of it at the moment, but that's your choice, not theirs.

Since you edited out 'slander', I'll put it back:

> naive cheapshot slander on Reddit

Even with the aforementioned misunderstanding, which is somewhat forgiveable, jumping to slander is a bit much. You know this because you edited it out. I'd ask the courtesy in the future of assuming the best in people, and not accusing them of torts when there's any ambiguity to meaning that you might have missed.
I wonder how would android tablets affect "tablet market"
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Rosadi didn't write this library, look at his post history... he is a spammer for his blog.
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It's been several years since I've created a true image map. However, I've approximated the technique more than once by placing various, absolutely-positioned elements over an image. I favor this technique because it does not involve opening a new browser tab to look up the correct children and attributes of the map element.
That's not the metric. The metric is not described in detail, but it is alleged to test "critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing". The non-textuality of the workload was a separate observation.
The assumption seems to be that employers are kidding themselves by hiring mostly college grads and are paying a premium for them. So let me pose this: If a college degree truly holds little value to an employer, why aren't there leaner, meaner companies springing up hiring the 68% of students who graduated high school but didn't qualify to attend a 4-year college in the United States? Their labor costs would be significantly less than a competitor's who insists on hiring people with at least a 4-year degree.

The reason why they insist on the 4-year degree, I suspect, is that labor costs are so high in the United States that paying the premium for a 4-year degree is negligible to your bottom line, so hey, why not save yourself the time of filtering through even more resumes and just demand a bachelors degree? It's not like college is going to make anyone worse at their job. As an added bonus, people who carry debt in the form of student loans or mortgages are less likely to strike or change careers - so it's a win/win.
Well, as you have removed it, I can only speak to my interpretation, which as you imply, may have been off-base, and if so, I do apologize.

Please don't take me as some white knight of reddit, I think that we may agree more than I originally understood. I took your comment as a dismissal of reddit purely on the basis of voting. I apologize as it seems that may not have been your intention. I merely sought to explain the other mechanisms that reddit uses, in addition to the automatic (imo) value of subreddits, to determine the value of content.

>I'd ask the courtesy in the future of assuming the best in people, and not accusing them of torts when there's any ambiguity to meaning that you might have missed.

You're of course correct. As you noted, I editted my comment as I tried to take a more understanding ground. I'm not used to people reading so quickly. I have a tendency to rephrase and uh, un-embelish, after a second or third evaluation of the thread. I do apologize.

Though, I suppose in the end, I still simply don't understand the alternative to voting on content and I feel like the directed subreddits are add relevancy to those votes. The alternative is all moderated or selected content? A community where comments can be killed (ahem)? I guess I like the anarchist communal democracy, even if it ends up that a bunch of Internet kiddies want revenge for a tortured cat. In my mind, at the very least ideologically, it's always superior to the alternative.
Nice, so this is one step closer to Heroku/GAE.

I hope this puts the pricing pressure on cloud services.
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That being said, nobody should get too bent out of shape if someone else makes more than them. If you agree to work for a salary, then live with that decision... don't come crying to management because someone else bargained better.

Bullshit. If someone with practically the exact same skillset as you is being paid significantly more than you're being underpaid for the company's own evaluation of your skillset. What you should do is say: my skills are worth x and y is getting paid that; if you don't increase my salary proportionately that I will go work for someone else at market rates.

Of course, if the issue is just that your coworker is for some reason getting paid far over his skill set or market rates then they just got lucky.
These people are idiots. 2300 college students interviewed... Think about that for 1 minute. That's a sample of less then 10% the size of my university. There are hundreds or even thousands of schools with over 10,000 students.

Where has this sample been taken? What colleges? How diverse was the population? Socio-economic statuses? These are all big concerns I have with this statistic. Also, what are they measuring? English? Maths? Sciences?

With all the high school emphasis on getting into college, I would not expect a serious improvement in the maths and English. If it's looking at general stuff, then yes, I would not expect a substantial shift, if we're talking about fields and careers then this is shocking data.

Given all that. I am a college junior, I have learned so much about math (calculus), science, computer science and how to solve problems. More so then I ever could have dreamed. College has opened me up to many new learning opportunities.

While the fault could be at the college, more then likely; however, it's on the student, not the school.
the best think i liked about the article was that : "its gonna be double or nothing". and from the past records of the company i cal clearly say that its gonna be double and all the credit will go to Mr. jobs.
The math on increasing the pixel density for iOS touchscreen devices is such that it only works out perfectly if the resolution doubles, like when the iPhone and iPod Touch went from 480 × 320 to 960 × 640. Trust me, it’s double or nothing.

That's interesting. Can someone explain why this is the case?
> A 2010 study of 392 boys and girls published online in the Journal of Psychiatric Research found that those who had trouble sleeping at 12 to 14 years old were more than two times as likely to have suicidal thoughts at ages 15 to 17 as those who didn't have sleep problems at the younger age.

Correlation is not causation. Children with crappy abusive lives stay awake at night wondering why their lives are so crappy, and they are more likely to kill themselves. Both from the some underlying cause.

Now that I have debunked this flawed survey, to be consistent with the new Andrew Wakefield doctrine, we the internet must call for the retraction of the study and the lynching of the authors.
Every time I read one of these articles I wonder, "who is Gruber?" Not in the, "who is this hack?" sense, but in that there must be more in his relationship with Apple than is immediately apparent. He's very much Apple's style, continually has insane access considering Apple's intense culture of secrecy, and essentially acts as extended PR when Apple won't say something directly.
elementary, really, for anyone raised in the Mongolian steppes who has a raid or two under his belt.
Typically bonuses and stock grants will become the major part of ones total compensation. Base salary will grow but probably not by that much.
I'm not impressed that this article couldn't even make it ten words without making a major error.

Especially given the headline.
That's the case for every hash function. If it's a good hash function, the outputs will be evenly distributed across the entire 256 bit space, which comes out to 2^256 possible outputs. I don't think this is a problem; bcrypt has a much smaller output space.
There's actually quite a bit of overhead at the CG* and Core Animation layers of the SDK that bump that up substantially. In the current iPad, it takes just a bit over 10 MB to store the image data for 1024x768 and have the necessary system stuff loaded into memory. I suspect that extra bit would not increase substantially on a 2x screen, but I'm sure it would some.
That's just for the framebuffer. All the intermediate textures flying around will need four times the memory too, and could easily eat up several hundred megabytes.
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If it helps, he's the author of a rather nice series of science-fiction books.
Developers use bitmaps for many visual elements. Bitmaps will appear blurry when scaled unless they are enlarged by double.

Since UI elements often include one-pixel lines, blurriness would be unacceptably noticeable.
The answer to that question is always from when you fall asleep to when you get up. If you need to use an alarm you need to go to bed earlier. If you can't sleep you need to destress your life.

Yes there are real exceptions to that but in regards to a longitudinal study that's the answer
Ask HN: YC, transitioning to webapps, building a prototype
In college I took a great CS sequence at Brown where we had to learn Scheme, ML and Java. After that I learned some python, and some C, although my main workhorse is R and I've mostly worked in the other languages to write more efficient R programs. My interests include a good bit of applied stats work on the side of my normal, mostly unrelated, job.

Every time there is a YC app due, a few friends and I brainstorm about ideas. Ya, ya, I know ideas are cheap, but working tirelessly building something is one hell of a dream/nightmare, and you better be pretty sure you believe in the idea. But none of them have ever been that good, even though we applied once. Today though, for the first time, I came up with an idea that really struck me. Its the first idea I've had that I could explain to completely random non-technical friends and have them say 1) I get that 2) I'd use it and 3) I'd invest.

And then I realize, crap, I want to do this more than I've wanted to do anything in a long time. If I had any money I'd quit my job today, but barring that I'm going to make as good a prototype by March 20th as is possible. So my question is pretty simple: what next? Lets assume for a moment that I can program in some computation is beautiful and has always clicked for me, and I own a copy of and have implemented things from CLRS way, but that until about 12 hours ago I was always more fascinated with datasets sitting on my computer than web applications. I know I'm asking the impossible/ridiculous question, but lets assume I didn't sleep much for the next 60 days, what do I need to read? I assume I want to use LAMP (with python), what is a good introduction to MySQL? What libraries do I need to look at? Is Django the way to go? (I ask this because I want to do things right, not necessarily quickly, I'm skeptical of something like turbogears) Who is best for hosting Django projects since I need shell access, etc? I know partially I'm asking religious questions, and I also know that I will definitely ultimately relay on lots of guides/how-tos/instructions on everything, but HN seems like the perfect place to ask for that first push down the hill.
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The reason he doesn't like facebook...

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You missed the parenthesis. (except for the whole verizon thing)

I would expect certain parts of the IOS ecosystem to be flatish based on the product cycles. They're apparently undergoing a runaway chain reaction instead, without a corresponding change to the average sale prices to engage that part of the demand curve.

Therefore, there's a hell of a pentup demand, and we ain't seen nothing yet.
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Couldn't agree more.
Falling down is a given, getting back up and trying again to improve is what matters.

(Yes qualifications abound and various other qualities are needed as well)
Apple really ought to put 1 GB of memory in the iPad. 512 MB will not cut it for very long, and the current 256 MB is laughable.
Yeah, I just meant that's a great place to start when doing RoR, first make sure you have your Ruby covered and then moving on.
There should be some study on this relationship... the more the web gets sophisticated, the more unsophisticated people use it.
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Also, 20 pages of, say, Spivak's Calculus is simply more than , say, 20 pages of Michel de Montaigne essays.
Yea but if you buy it from nostarch.com you get it 1% cheaper and you get an ebook version to boot! Awesome deal.
At this point, Gruber is basically an extension of Apple's marketing department. Someone at Apple said "people are going to be disappointed when iPad doesn't have double resolution, leak some info to gruber to tamper down expectations".

I'm going to go ahead and take this one as fact. Retina iPad would be great, but that'll be in a year or 2.
I wonder how much making this virus cost taxpayers. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet...
While the code is usually GPL, for games the artwork is many times CC non-commercial (as it happens with "Dangers of the Deep", one of the games mentioned).

Trademarks can be involved as well: e.g. you cannot resell Firefox and still call it Firefox.

Even the screenshot for Inkscape is a ripoff of a tutorial: http://howto.nicubunu.ro/inkscape_face_draw/ (and the license is breached because there is no attribution made).

So in case you want to sell open-source software, make sure you consult a lawyer ;)
Universities don't do much to encourage students to work hard.

You'll pass no matter what, and in many places can get an A by just cramming for the final. Worse, many classes adjust grading standards based on how students are doing, so anyone who studies hard is betraying their classmates.

Fraternities are given official support while study groups are left to fend for themselves (not that much support is needed, but it would be a nice gesture). A football team that wins a championship can expect official schoolwide celebration, which no intellectual achievement would produce.

People are influenced by social pressure. Children are especially influenced. And the pressures aren't really pushing toward learning.

(A secondary conclusion is that if you want to learn a lot at college, your first act should be to find a network of friends who do value learning.)
Statistically, you do not need a certain percentage of the population you are surveying to obtain good results. There are other factors used to determine the required sample size to achieve results with a given level of confidence. See the article below if you're interested in the details.

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This article reminds me of my own childhood. I was badly abused and could not fall asleep. I would lay in bed staring at the ceiling each night, worrying. Sometimes morning would come, time for school, and I would still be awake. When I could sleep, I would often wake up screaming in terror in the middle of the night. After this, it was often hard to fall asleep.

I told teachers, friends, relatives. Some would meet with the parent that abused me. They would come out convinced that he was a model citizen.

I told our family doctor about what was going on. He prescribed pills. Later I found these were antidepressants. They made me not care so much about being abused. So they "worked". But it wasn't really a solution, and I still lay awake at night.

Since then, reading about the field of psychiatry, I have found I was not alone. It is extremely common for people whose lives are horrific to be told that the problem is not the abuse or torture they report, but a "chemical imbalance" and the solution is pills.

Because of this I do not trust the medical industry, or these studies, for good reason. I am also deeply skeptical of those who do.
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Are we missing even Eclair source? I know Froyo and GB have changed things enough with some of the drivers that forward porting has been harder than expected... but if Eclair's source is missing, it seems the proper response is some sort of campaign to get Samsung in gear. I do think that HTC responded to GPL complaints when they had held out so long on releasing their kernel mods.
Start here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=98805

This is a great forums, full of very knowledgeable people.

Also,
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Start there so that you know how to use what is out there and what kind of trends to expect. Build up from there.
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Zuckerberg is in fact not a genius; he’s an ambitious nerd who was in the right place at the right time

So the guy who created Orkut must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Too bad for him. His Google stock probably only made him a millionaire. Totally uncool.
Thank you for the clarification. Sounds a bit like being a VC in a large fund.
Counterpoint: In the 1970's software engineering wasn't a common major, or career path. Back then, you had to have a PhD because the building blocks of the internet, and microcomputing were still being developed. Since then, the amount of people who actually know how the internet works (or have a PC in the house) has exploded. A simple comparison of graduates in technology from the 70's to now would tell the story. The older generation didn't grow up with this stuff in their houses and schools (at least my parents didn't). As time passes, that will not be the case. We have a whole generation of kids who are growing up with the internet fairly mature. I have to think that will drive a more sophisticated user base. Maybe I'm just an optimist.

Just because things get simpler to use doesn't mean they are less sophisticated.
That's gotta be one of the craziest post titles I've read on HN lately ;-)
I'd love another shot at this conversation. If you grant that there are other factors at play for determining comment ordering, and you still insist that a site is "broken" because it utilizes voting... what is the alternative? Or are you suggesting that all sites are in some fashion "broken" and that it's a common problem with any site powered by user content?
This sounds fantastic. Thanks very much for sharing it with the community.
In the face of the way he worded that, not really.
I get that there's a point to be made here to other people considering implementing their own crypto. But how is posting this anything other than kicking a man when he's down?
I'm confused by your reasons. With scroll for more, you would know if there is more- the end is the end, just like with pagination. And it's no worse than pagination in the "you don't know how much more" department, either. The pagination is a "More" link, it doesn't indicate how much is on the next page.
In my experience, it's turned out that the C in MVC isn't actually all that useful for client side web apps. Between routing, nested views, view methods for event handling, and fat models, there isn't much left to control. Active.js dropped the controller a few versions back.
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I have had pretty much the same experience, though I can't say for sure how much of my behavior is due to the 2008 election season being long over.
To cut load. I'm not sure it helped much though, so I may not keep it.