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I think by coming up with "cheating-proof" assignments you'd be ignoring the real issue, which is that students think it's ok to cheat. Lacking some global solution, I think it's possible to deal with cheaters without "poisoning" the classroom. Here's my suggestion, based only on my experience in college and common sense:

The key thing is not to make such a big deal about about cheating publicly. No public witchhunts, no Turnitin submissions, etc.

Include your plagiarism/citation policy clearly on your course syllabus, and briefly go over it on the first day of class, but that's it. Don't have students submit through Turnitin directly, but use Turnitin yourself discretely.

Depending on the severity of the infraction, the first one would result in a stern warning in private, or no credit on the assignment. Subsequent infractions warrant more severe punishment.

If you let them off "easy" in their eyes (but not too easy) you're the good guy, but they'll still know you're serious about it.

On the other hand, if you announce you're using Turnitin, or otherwise publicly dwell on cheating, then students will feel antagonized and band together against you. If you don't give them a reason to discuss it with each other they won't. As you mentioned before, the social pressure among peers to not cheat is strong.

But by ignoring the cheaters you're doing both them and their non-cheating peers, and the university as a whole, a disservice.

Kids straight out of high school might not even know what they're doing wrong, and if no one ever tells them they'll grow up to be cheaters in life too.

Of course it's also unfair to the non-cheaters who work harder and receive the same grades, and ultimately the same degree.

On a larger scale, if a university tolerates widespread cheating the quality of their graduates will decline, which obviously isn't good for anyone.

[This is a repost of my comment on the blog]
48 hours? When someone gets fired from a job do they let that person just hang around the office for a couple of days?

If the guy broke the rules and had that action taken against him...and Cutts agrees...he did something wrong for real. Automated mistakes happen. Obviously this was not one of those.

The only sad part about this, is that we'll never know what he did wrong. Shame.
I think that you make an important point. Not counting detected cheaters in course evaluations seems like a good policy. This is especially true because student evaluations have been shown in a number of cases to be very highly correlated with the student's expected grade.

However, I still agree with Panos' diagnosis that his student evaluations went down in response to detecting cheating. He presumably has data from hundreds of students over years of classes. The primary difference between this year and past years was almost certainly his detection of cheaters. While removing cheaters from the evaluation pool may mitigate the problem a little, I find it pretty plausible that evaluations went down because of some cheating-detection related phenomenon, like the more adversarial atmosphere, his own feelings about the cheaters, or students feeling attacked or accused.
Yes, it is. The iOS Accessory SDK is public. You'd just be making an App that relies on people having this hardware already.

This works for hardware manufacturers who make iOS accessories and then want to ship an App to work with it (which is the general case of the cable.)

But you could, for instance, make an arduino hacking kit that lets you talk over the cable to a board, and sell that as an App in the AppStore.

That text communicates to me that it comes with no software to drive it and you'll have to write your own, and there are no assumptions about the hardware on the other side, but you could use it to work with an arduino.

Seems like this is the perfect piece of hardware to go with open sourced iOS software for doing development with the arduino.

Imagine being able to re-program your Arduino powered robot in the field from your iOS device!
Selling videogame cheat source code to interested cheating websites: a few thousand. Was surprised to find such a robust market for that stuff.
That really isn't very surprising given that most people don't have a need for a passport. I can't imagine most Americans traveling out of the country within a 10 year span, whereas anyone can easily sign up with a Facebook account.

I wish it was better cited. I'm hesitant to believe some of the information. For example, it claims that 45% of people visit friends abroad because of Facebook. Perhaps people in other places (ie Europe where it is cheaper to go between countries) travel abroad regularly, but I don't know anyone in the US who has gone to another country because of Facebook.
My thoughts were "That's probably a great project, but no one is going to use it because they'll be worried about a back door." Although it couldn't be that hard to find one - log traffic on startup, see if it makes any requests to servers not requested by the user. Unless the theorized back door is better hidden, such as by introducing a vulnerability into its SSL implementation (and whatever other encryption tools for network traffic it uses) that makes it much easier to decrypt intercepted traffic (not sure how viable that would be; it's not my field of study).
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Its definitely a total cop out because no one is taking responsibility on the matter, bugs are being ignored, and Google has made a history so far of passing blame and not addressing issues with Android.

Lastly thats a moronic statement "The person who wants the software fixed should fix it". Android tends to attract lower income people who tend not to be IT orientated. If you told any of these peoples the dangers of identity theft they would want this changed, but its out of there capability to address. TBH I don't know how you can even have such a stupid stance.
Can't imagine this ever working with radio, but with smart TVs the technology is absolutely possible.
Yep, I agree, too. It could poison the dynamic of the whole classroom.
You're making an assumption that he overhead is the cause of the speed.

There's no serial port on the iOS device connector. So it isn't really as you represent.

The iOS device connector has a USB client port. This requires the other side of the connector to be a USB host. Thus to make this cable ,they have to put in a little micro controller that has a USB host port (which many of them don't since micro controllers are more likely found in devices than in hosts, hosts are usually PCs and laptops, etc.)

And then that host micro controller talks to a RS-232 serial chip (or has a serial port integrated to it).

Its possible that to save money that micro controller is slow enough that talking to USB at 12mbit/s takes up most of its time since this is likely done in software, and it can only flip the bits for the RS-232 at 57k. In fact, they might not even have an RS-232 port on it and they might be simply literally flipping generic IO pins up and down to produce and RS-232 compatible interface.

Would have to reverse engineer it to know.
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Apple does make it easier for everyone else willing to pay $99. You don't have to jailbreak. You just pay your $99 fee and you've got full access to run whatever software you want.

There's even an open source community of people making iOS software. They're chinned by the "open source" community because they're hacking for iOS, but they exist.

CNN or ESPN don't have to jailbreak. A big part of the problem is that you assumed they did, because the "open source" community is running around pretending like everything is locked down and you have to jailbreak to run arbitrary software. You don't, you just become a developer.

The bonus of becoming a developer is that you also get to hack on pre-release versions of the OS and stuff like that.
The prevalence of off brand cables that work with these devices make me wonder about the allegations of a proprietary crypto chip.

I use modern iOS devices and the worst that's happened to me is one would claim that something wasn't an "authorized" cable when I plugged it into a USB port that didn't provide enough current. (plugging it into one that does-- totally off brand USB power plug) works, though.
The most useless thing you can think of: it puts the app full screen on one of the screens and then puts up a useless dashboard-like background on the other screen with no content and no way to put content on it.

It effectively renders my second monitor completely useless.
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yeah same here....the thing with Google is that unless you are spending 100K a month, it doesn't really care about you as a customer.
I don't mean this in a sick or offensive way, but 80, that's got to be a lone-gunman record.
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Yes, you could let the bank decide who gets the benefit of the money. Or you could decide yourself. Depends on your personality, I guess.
The OS can't provide a key ring because the user dosen't use a password to login. Or if they do have an unlock code they are short and numeric, making brute forcing them trivial. So yes, in this case plain text is acceptable because there is no truly better alternative.
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"...was because some assignments were designed to withstand cheating. And that was a point worth talking about."

Absolutely. And thank you for talking about it.

Do you think you can also come at it from another angle and teach the students why it's not a good idea to plagiarize or be dishonest in general? It's a good teaching moment. We need less Bernie Madoffs in the world, and part of the education system is not just teaching hard skills but how to use them in constructive and helpful ways in society.

But I can understand if that's not your passion or that sounds overwhelming. I've been a teacher myself and I know how difficult or overwhelming it can be.
Looking at past incidents, the early reports have almost always turned out to be wrong, even though they often become the basis for the commonly held perception in the publics eye.

For instance, there was no child molestation at Waco, yet people think there was. (nor were they suicidal. Koresh, when he heard the ATF was asking about him in town, called up the local ATF office and asked to set up a meeting so he could answer any questions they had. Yet, the media reports that he was "hiding out" necessitating the "raid" on the "compound".) I picked waco as an example because it is long enough ago that maybe it can be considered objectively.

The day of the incident is when spin is the most effective. Getting out the "official story", even if it turns out to be absurd or outright false in retrospect, is paramount. It doesn't matter when the truth comes out-- most people will never hear it, and many who do won't believe it because the person spreading it, no matter how much evidence they have, is going against the "official story" and therefore is a "conspiracy theorist" and thus has no credibility.

This is how the public is manipulated into believing disprovable things.
From the article it mentioned that the gunman, posed as policeman, asked people to gather around before shooting. Those victims were taken by surprise.
> From what I've read, Apple has never participated in those "top workplace" surveys

Ask yourself why.
From what I remember reading when I was frequenting the bay12 forums, it's a mixture of pride (the code is very rough, and it would probably take a huge amount of effort to get it into a form where contributions from others could be useful, or even where others could contribute) and control (he doesn't want it to get out of his control, and as it's his only source of income he doesn't want to deal with donations and community being fractured between several versions). The fanbase both doesn't care (based on donations) and sees it as a challenge (there have been some interesting analyses posted of what the game is doing, and there's a thriving modding community - both in the form of modifications to the game's files, which is supported and encouraged, and modifications to the game through memory editing, leading to the creation of invaluable tools like Dwarf Therapist).

If your only reason for not trying it is that it's not in apt, just go to the website and download it. It doesn't take any installation; just download it, extract the contents, and run the game.
Don't be daft.

If the police in a first-world country officially report that 80 or more people were killed (not just missing) they are going to produce a list with 80 or more names and properly-identified bodies.
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It's a one-time sale. It's a freemium model. You can download the app and get limited functionality. You can purchase for $10 the "Pro" version which is a serial number that unlocks the advanced features.

For a while I was doing cheaper time-limited licenses, like $1 for 6 months, $2 for 1 year, etc and $10 for lifetime.

Best source of customers is from free users. I started the app as free until version 3.0 when I switched to freemium. Sales have been fairly consistent each month for years, with spikes when a blog picks it up.
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"The country has no finer youth than young people who go for a summer camp doing politics, doing discussions, doing training, doing football, and then they experience this absolutely horrendous act of violence."

This description of the kids drives home the tragedy to me. If these really are the next generation of Norwegian leaders, I could see the after effects being long and deep.
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Sold about $1000 worth of advertising so far and have had more than that in donations. Lots of ideas to do more.
That's been proposed in the bay12 forums several times. While I don't think that Tarn ever officially responded, the reason that's not going to happen seems to boil down to it requiring a complete rewrite of all the code behind the game. Which isn't going to happen any time soon - I recall that, a while back, he was using implementing new features as a reward to get him to do bugfixes; putting off the fun things until after he'd done the unfun things. Rewriting all of the code would be extremely unfun, take forever, and prevent implementing new features.
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Knowing this fact came in handy one evening while stargazing with some friends.
This, and the impossibility of resolving the issue, is why I don't trust google. I had my own experience with google unfairly preventing me from using its service-- one where I was trying to give them money-- and I realized they really don't have any customer support.

This is why I trust Apple. They might be slow, or silent, but they've never left me hanging (and I've been a customer of theres for decades before google existed.)

That said, my iCloud account is where media and non-essential information will get stored. If Apple disappears it one day, at most I'll have lost music and movies. But everything real lives somewhere I can control and backup.

I use GMAIL, but with POP access, and I store my email locally.

However, it is time to get off of gmail and move anyway. It is just such a PITA to manage your own email servers....but I expect a company that does it for a living will provide better support than a company where I'm the product rather than the customer.
I do that all the time when people look at me. Look away like you are staring at something important; they very quickly try to see what you are interested in.
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I've been trying to tell my colleagues and higher-ups this for the last few weeks as I've planned out a new platform that "needs to scale." They've heard that some of our business partners are using MongoDB and want to know why I'm using Postgres.

The truth is that our traffic could wildly exceed our most hopeful projections and we still wouldn't nearly be in the position of orgs like Twitter, Facebook, or Netflix, stretching the limits of what an RDBMS can do without becoming a nightmare to maintain.
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This is intended for rank and file staff of the DoD (as a DoD product) to use along with their CAC to connect to various DoD sites using CAC authentication. The theory is that you can load this onto a thumb drive or CD, take it and a CAC reader with you and plug both into any internet connected computer, providing you with a simple terminal for mundane office tasks (read: email).
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People who cheated were counted. The evaluation of students who had honor code violations were not reported.

From his original blog post he mentioned that he did not refer all his students to the university's "honor council". He even gave the student who copy/pasted another student's work a chance to redo the paper without referring it to the administration.

It's a very reasonable thing for him to do given the consequences of being referred to the honor council. Having cheating on your college transcript is a scarlet letter if you're thinking about graduate school. You get an 'F' in the course and will not be granted admission to any medical, law, dentistry, or pharmacy school. The consequences are disproportionately severe given how pervasive cheating is.
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The best one was left out the blind spot everyone has where the optic nerve connects.

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Well, if you look at the handy sidebar in the article... looks like he at least has the record for the last 15 years.

And for something slightly more constructive, it appears like the gunman is this guy:

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/22/olso-attacks-suspect-pr...

(I know its the Sun.. but the name checks out with other sources)
Almost nothing to do with each other. CALEA requires telephone services to support wiretaps. This would require ISPs, businesses, wifi access points, and anything else sitting between you and the internet to keep a log of dynamic IP addresses and other such connection information.
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If you're referring to BatteryBar, then, yes, I do. I'd love any way you could help get the word out. If anyone has thoughts on how to get it reviewed by tech blogs, I'd appreciate it.
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So you're saying that when he wrote "you had absolutely no reason to do this" he meant "you gave me absolutely no reason to do this (and may or may not have one)"?
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I once did a fixed bid contract that was sized by someone else at $150K.

I completed the bulk of the work over three days. I spent about 40 hours on it total including the production roll out.

I most likely could not pull that off again because I had very specific domain knowledge. I knew the software I was modifying and I knew exactly what to do over all of the various systems.
Heh, cute, but confusing, since "Googlers" usually refers to employees of Google Inc. That's what I thought this would initially be when I saw the title.
An instructional DVD I made on SEO for wedding photographers and their websites (http://photographyseo.com).

Recorded screen casts and mastered it in iDVD. Did a run of 1,000 at Discmakers for about $900. Sold out the initial run (@ $79 per disc) in under 2 years. Now we just one-off them or give them an option of viewing online.

Looking back (or if I do it again), I would probably do it as just an ebook or online videos to avoid shipping hassles.

Regardless, it's been a fairly easy ~$80k.

(BTW, if any HN folk want to see it for research purposes, let me know)
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Among people who knew Ballmer in the past math geek (or similar) comes up a fair bit. Here's a PSA he did about learning math: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4219nb0dpeU. Here's an article that talks about his life which refers to him as a math whiz: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/102009-ballmer-bio.htm...

Magna cum laude typically represents about the top 20% of a class, with summa cum laude often around the top 5%. Although I'm unclear why the distinction mtters in this discussion.
How many impressions does it to take per day to reach $1000 a month? Do you use Admob?
I call bullshit.

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Yes. You would be surprised at how much attention a well written letter can get. You may even get a personal response.
Ok, so as far as non-client work goes:

The first iPhone app I ever made was a very simple Shopify app for seeing your orders and checking inventory. I dropped the ball on keeping it up to date because of client work and Shopify ended up buying a competitor to make into the official (free) app, but at its peak it made about $2000/month and up until I pulled it from the App Store a few weeks ago it was making around $300/month.
Was testing it out on our homepage. Noticed a couple of bugs as well:

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The search for "Tax" yields result, but nothing for "Estates". I think it doesn't work for first word if the term contains a space.

EDIT: was testing on Firefox 5, works on Opera.
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[and the reply that I also posted on my blog :-)]

What you describe was my policy in all prior years. I just stupidly felt last year that I need to hunt further.

Nope. Big mistake.

Just FYI, I could always locate 1-2 cases of cheating in every semester. But I treated treated as isolated cases.
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