skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not a matter of throwing it over the wall. Administration can conduct the Spanish Inquisition more effectively than the professor.

A Turnitin report as cited in the article would be about as much evidence as would be needed. Particularly when Turnitin is the institution's official means for combating plagiarism...not to mention the level of matches described in the article would make it appear open and shut.

Yes, it might require some involvement from the professor - but the implications of complaining that such involvement is too much work is the basis of my criticism of the author's position.
"I strongly suspect that a public health option would blow the job market wide open ..."

Excellent argument for real reform to health insurance access.
So, we actually have this feature where we "bridge" windows: you can basically tell a CPWindow to map to an actual browser window. And we implement it as a display only thing, so all of your actual code runs in the parent browser window and just manipulates the DOM elements in the child window. It doesn't completely work in IE I think, but I haven't tried in a while (it's kind of an experimental feature, but it's been in the release for a while).
Looks cool, especially for a weekend hack. The design is very well done.
Sadly, that is not the way captialism works. The 1% of people will have everything and the remaining 99% will starve. I'm paraphrasing one of my favorite quotes: "Capitalism is the best system we have for creating wealth. It is a lousy system for the distribution of wealth."

I suspect I will make some flack for this comment. I'm not arguing big govt. Rather, I'm pointing out that in a world where a small number of individuals CAN produce the majority of wealth, we need a better system for redistribution to avoid a dystopian society.
You are making an assumption that the Middle East is nothing but a dry desert; the forecast for tomorrow afternoon in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is 101 degrees with a 29% humidity.
> Not that cross-platform Java can't be done (in fact it can), but it does take deliberate effort to ensure cross-platform support

To be fair, at least for desktop apps, we are down to three platforms now. If it runs on Linux, Mac and Windows, you are about 100% covered. The days of having dozens of vendor-specific Java runtimes around are pretty much over. And as much as I like my IBM RS/6000 workstation, I wouldn't try to run Eclipse on it.
Not hard at all. We actually had that in early versions but removed it because it's really hard to optimize against functions, and you easily break the hub by injecting long running loops.

Plus queries are the power of pubsub.io. Queries can be indexed and compiled on the fly, so hubs scale very well.

If you really need funcions, you can fork the project and I can point you to how to add them.
Reminds me of Manpacks: http://manpacks.com/
Announcing Baitha: The Scala/Android toolkit
Make: | Using Google+ Hangout Video Chat for “Maker Show-and-Tell”
Android = iPhone killer

iPhone = 50% of Apple sales

Apple shares = making a top?
What are you missing in the native linux client?
It's wrong for people to think they are better off than they are because such thinking leads to decisions that will hurt Joes in the end. It's exactly Joes who shoot themselves in the foot by thinking that it's an each man for himself world.
You mention the complexity of the ASP.NET membership system. I've always found it to be quite straightforward (unless you write your own providers I guess). Where are the pain points for you?
What a great article! I have similar ideas to those thinkers (Brain and Ford), but I've been inspired mostly by reading way too much science fiction! Feels great to learn I'm not just simply crazy.
The service is pretty cool. The training works by uploading your CSV formatted training data (with labels) to Google Storage. Then you make a call to train the google service. Google has not said much about what kind of algorithms they are using behind the scenes, besides the fact that they are using a combination of a proprietary and open-source ML algorithms. The service trains up a variety of different models and then uses a voting scheme to decide which ones are optimal.

A few problems I see (or saw, I havnt used it in a few months) with the service are the following.

1. currently, there is no way to pick your cross validation folds. this can lead to severe overfitting if your data is not i.i.d

2. they provide a numerical (double) accuracy number which corresponds to the accuracy estimated from training. how is this number calculated (AROCS,etc.). They do not say

3. Security issues - read the fine print of what happens when your data gets uploaded to Google storage. It could be a cause for concern

4. Your are competing for resources. When I was testing the API, I would train two successive models with the same amount of data, and I would notice one call would complete (asynchronously) after 10 seconds, while the next would take 10 minutes. This is because your are competing for resources

5. Currently no way to inject prior knowledge into your models. What if you know your data is Guassian, you could use an RBF kernel, but with this API, you cannot, because it might pick the Naive Bayes Classifier and not the SVM, etc.

In general, this service probably will work for the average SPAM detection problem, but if you really want a great system, you probably need to keep everything in house.
Might also check page 2 where it says, "...focus on two of the tools that made up the Mozilla Suite: Firefox and Thunderbird."

Neither Fx nor Tb were part of the app suite--they were both offshoots that, at the time, really violated what the project was aiming for. The story of how Firefox came to be and roguish it was seen within the organization at the time is interesting.
If you handed my website your Facebook username and password in the same way that users were handing Facebook their Gmail username and password, I could easily pull a list of all of your friends. The point here is that your insistence on quibbling over whether something is in a "readily accessible form" makes no sense in light of the mechanism that Facebook (and similar sites) were (and often still are) using to get your e-mail contacts: by logging in /as you/.
Or the claim is so vague that there's no way you can escape it.
I like it. Small nitpick: back button doesn't work. Might try implementing the pushState API or use a hack.
The problem with making scope always explicit is that you then need to explain scope to newbies. Sure, it's worth explaining, but you just lost half your audience.

Based on the success of BASIC (and indeed many, many early programming languages), global variables are easy to understand, local variables are less easy to understand. It's all very well to complain about JavaScript's lack of Important Language Feature X, but it's an easy language to learn and use for simple things and yet it's also pretty damn good for complex things (especially in combination with jslint).

Along with many other Language snobs, I used to despise JavaScript, but it's the inconsistent DOM implementation that sucks -- IE's in particular -- along with some annoyances you can work around (like truthiness) that are the real issue; once you code with JavaScript and jQuery the DOM goes away and you're left with a very nice coding environment.

Compare that to ActionScript 3 and the byzantine Flash/Flex (and constantly changing) class library and then decide which one deserves the adjective "abominable". And bear in mind AS3 completely broke compatibility with AS2 without actually becoming better organized.
DevOps: The term applied when it was rediscovered that IT pros do more than fight fires.

Organizations cut their IT staff down to just helpdesk types, because they are cheap and that's what they interact with daily. Constantly growing the number of fire fighters, but hiring no one to create fire resistant systems.
Yeah, I assumed the same, just throwing in a lil' parenting humor :) My wife 'n I looked at cloth diapers as opposed to single use diapers, and any potential cost savings were completely offset for us by the additional time/work investment needed by choosing a cloth diaper solution as well as the smell factor...there's ALWAYS a smell factor, regardless of how 'odorless' you're led to believe their bins are.
How novel! Many thanks Pete, I will read up and certainly consider it as a source for feedback.
That sounds like proper training. In life-and-death situations where the luxury of at least some time is available, why would anyone trust the machine without first manually evaluating the evidence. If our early warning system for a nuclear attack from Russia gave us a warning, while it would be prudent to automate some defensive measures like scrambling fighters and alerting our forces, I doubt we would allow the defense system to have the authority to retaliate on its own. It would need a human (several, actually) to verify the information to the best of their ability and make the judgement calls necessary to order any retaliation.

Given that this isn't a life-or-death situation, I think we can afford to go with the machine's results until we see more evidence either supporting or rejecting the Greek default.

BTW, that sounds like an incredibly cool job, although I imagine it was probably more staying up all night with nothing going on. Still cool though.
>> Government cannot create jobs.

>This is nonsense. The government can fund projects that create jobs.

There's no evidence this is a net creator of jobs, though. There's a lost opportunity cost to take into account here.
I never had the money to invest in one of these writers. I don't know if I ever would but I knew as a University student they were around and that there were people in the classes I took that used them.

I find it incredibly interesting that this no-name writer basically did the same thing I did to courses I never attended (essentially his main demographic); Google books and Wikipedia were my bread and better and it always lit a huge smile on my face when I'd "beat the system" as it were and put a few hours into a paper and pass a course I knew nothing about just to get my degree.

I don't know what it says about the education system, but hacking it in this particular way did a lot for me in terms of personal growth. I probably learned less about the subject at hand then I could have, but at the same time I learned a lot of useful skills that are transferable to my future compared to something like Women's lit (not that there's anything bad with that--oh how I remember the cold stares).

I'm sure you could argue for or against these methods, I just wanted to put my personal perspective out there.
I agree with this. I have a 2 year old and a new one on the way, so I am somewhat familiar. It is tough to beat all the free stuff you get from friends and family. Also, consignment sales are a hit with moms. They go NUTS for them... and for $49, they can walk away with 10-15 items and not have to worry for at least 2-3 months.
Looking at the text of the ruling, I can see how someone might interpret it either way, either as having to eliminate the links they have "cached" or the links to a "cached" version of the website. I think that if I was a legal counsel to Google I would probably advise them not to do any linking at all in the face of that ambiguity and the large penalties for violating the court order.

Equally important, I'm having a hard time imagining how it would be reasonably possible for Google to only link to the articles. A hyperlink is a combination of both text and the link, and the text has to come from somewhere. Usually it is the title of the web page that is linked to, but then Google would still be stealing content from the newspapers. I suppose they could just use the URL itself as the text of the hyperlink, but then we get to the second part of this issue. Complying with the order and still providing links would require rewriting a lot of Google's front end code just for this one specific case. Given that Google already has a process to block sites entirely at the back end it would be a lot easier to just comply with the court order that way, and probably the only way that they could do it quickly enough.
Blinkier lights. You can't explain that.
Off the top of my head, here's a few reasons why someone may dislike the LGPL:

- proprietary extensions are not possible
- dynamic linking is mandatory
- the whole hassle of including any tools or data
for recompiling said LGPL library and
reproducing the executable
- the patents grant is implicit rather than explicit

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you want to.
Front end web development changed seemingly overnight for the better when Firebug came on the scene.

That's true, but let's give credit where credit's due. It was Joe Hewitt who created Firebug.
Thanks!, it feels good to be out there.
Good fight? I'm fairly sure at this point Ptacek realizes that he was wrong. So wrong that Apple's own self-serving explanation of the patent is identical to the root explanation that caused so much of this discussion.

You insult this community while offering absolutely nothing to counter any complaints about this patent except for, as others have tried, vagaries. Patents are public, so if you've actually got something, let's see it. Otherwise it's just noise.
NetSecL Linux 3.2 released with new XFCE
In the example from the article, 80% of the class was presumably not cheating - so even if only half the class shows up for lectures the scolding will not be applicable to the majority of the students. Of course, if there is any correlation between lecture attendance and academic integrity (which one might suspect to be the case) then the majority becomes greater. In other words, the ill consequences cited in the article may well be a part of the author's choice of scolding the innocent along with the guilty. Seriously, at the point students are sitting in a university classroom - they all know what blatant cheating is and have either decided to do their own work or cut and paste. Going over basic citation requirements in class is more appropriate for junior-high school English.
I wrote a free Twitter spam filter service, trained on thousands of accounts reported to @spam before the "report spam" button.

You'd enter your Twitter username, and asynchronously it'd grab your follower list and score each account for spamminess. Because of Twitter's rate limiting on the API, it could be a while before finishing the work if a lot of people were using the site at once. When done, it'd send you a @tweet with a link to get your results (and, if you want, click another button to block the spammy accounts).

Within an hour or two of people starting to use it, Twitter shut down the account. Tweeting the exact same message with a similar link at the end, requested by each and every user it tweeted to, was considered too spammy.

That was a year and a half ago. Nobody was reporting that account as spam, so they must have some basic heuristics already.
I believe this particular usage of queue is correct english. You can see it on the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" where Nigel will often say "queue music" meaning "start the music."

'Queue' is not quite a direct replacement for 'see', there is an additional nuance that what follows it is obvious or inevitable, which is why I used it.

I also understand that many HN readers are not native English speakers, and have varying levels of mastery of the language. I would also agree that obscure usage of high falutin' words for the purpose of peacocking is annoying.

But using them to add color and nuance is appropriate.
You should support commas, decimals, and dollar signs in the taxable income allowed. Keeping statistics for how many people using the tool would actually be affected might also be a useful exercise.
It could describe features in a CMS that do the same thing with things like ticker symbols or how the NYTimes auto-links Times Topics the first time they are mentioned in an article.
I use a popup :) https://github.com/trbecker/getbacktowork.
As you may (or evidently, may not) know, correlation does not imply causation.

"Evidently, may not" - don't be a dick. Would you say that to his face?
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Seriously? The library solution is pretty ugly--though it's a good solution if you are absolutely dead set against compiling your "javscript". Tame, being a code transformer, makes the equivalent code so much more readable and clean looking.

How on earth is readable, clean looking code "the wrong solution to the problem"? I would argue that it's almost always the right solution to a problem.
More than customer service, hangouts will be great for sales demos of products (just imagine getting the products demoed and questions clarified for products ordered from ebay).
If the premise of the article was true, then high unemployment would be a problem in all developed countries. This is apparently not the case.
Force the World to Pay Attention to You
I have to agree with the second point. Lots of churches and other organizations hold fairly regular kids resale events in our area. They tend to be a step up from what you'd find at the thrift store, but they're still sold for thrift-store prices.

Not only that, but it sounds like what you get is sort of a "surprise bag" of clothes that you don't get to select. So it's sort of like Netflix, if Netflix just picked out movies it thought you'd like, rather than letting you select the titles yourself.

In that sense, the swap sales have a clear advantage. You see something you like, you examine it right there, and you don't have to buy anything you don't like.

Personally, I wouldn't use this service because it sounds like what's being offered are designer clothes, and that doesn't fit our budget.

What I'd love to see is a service that offers something like Finland's famed "baby box" -- which is given to all new parents:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/04/fin...

It's got a bunch of basic outfits -- no frills, just simple, normal-looking clothes.

If a company were to buy stuff like this in bulk, it could probably put together a great, low-price, one-stop-shop "baby box" here in the U.S. and still make a decent profit.
Why would that be totally unlikely? It's definitely possible in theory, and we know publicly a quantum computer has been successfully implemented, albeit for very short amounts of time and very small numbers of qbits.
I can propose a few:

Have a one-on-one conference with each student where you ask them about their paper without letting them look at it.

Skip papers altogether and simply do a one-on-one interview about the topic to evaluate their knowledge of it.

Make students write papers in class.

Don't assign homework. Grade entirely based on class participation.
Well, to take another example, we don't use horses for labor anymore...Some part of the labor force -has- been replaced.
I should print this out and frame this on my wall: "Why our industry is insular and tunnel visioned."

Entrepreneurialism in the vast majority of this country, let alone the world, is not at all related to computers, the internet, cloud services, or any such hoo-hah.

We exist in a little tiny sphere in a little tiny corner of all that is small businesses.

The vast majority of entrepreneurialism that happens in the world has real costs and a need for real capital. Try running a corner store when you have no money to buy inventory, or pay rent on the space.
Initiative is good, but it never hurts to be a Stanford MBA, be a recent grad, and have Wall Street experience.
This looks like a really unique Hackathon! Super excited
Yes, I believe three things have to be true:

1) We have to be clear that to be employed you need new skills (trades or science or engineering)

2) We have to find a way to encourage both the creation of skills training programs and a way to enable folks to take advantage of them.

3) We should start providing resources so that kids in school today understand that we're not 'forcing' them to go to school, they should go to school so that they can find gainful employment later (or entry into a tradeskill program).

Serious business.
"...but youngsters with no special talent, like Ms. Cinkle..."

Not so sure that's fair: I see this a lot with young 'stars' being 'talentless', in this case, being smart enough (both to use it for a good cause and to be able to use it in this way) to capitalize on her 'fame' "to generate money and attention for earthquake relief for Japan" or raise money "for Cystic Fibrosis Walk" is pretty impressive, and remember, she is 14 years old; I don't think most in her situation wouldn't be capable of doing that.

EDIT: I just felt like adding this because I see this sort of thing a lot, sure, she may not have demonstrated talent in the video but what she's done afterwards has definitely demonstrated that she's a smart kid, and, 'sly bashing' like that is so unnecessary (and prevalent).
On the bright side, if Android goes away, iPhone developers now don't have to worry about learning yet another framework.
Again, there is no implication money is shifting hands.

"It's actually a transfer of wealth from the coffers of Apple, RIM and MS to mostly developing-nation consumers..."
--http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2777354
p.s. if you like it, feel free to repost it. I'd say let's have a "PG, please let this topic back to the front page" trend; but he might just send a team of snipers at me afterwards. :/
Anyone remember the non IBM PC compatible NEC PC-98?
another nitpick, use the 'label' tag and the 'for' attribute with your yes/no radio buttons to make them easier to select.
I am constantly pleasantly surprised here, I come into comments expecting the usual "How is this hacker news?" type of thing, and instead find some practical and useful suggestions on typography... Speaking as someone who can't make head or tails of it himself, thank you for the info :)
> Jobs are just one way to distribute wealth. Technology has made many jobs unnecessary: it doesn't mean distributing wealth has become unnecessary.

Good point.
Uh... I think it's a bit far-fetched to think of Richard Stallman has a pro-capitalist. He is at best a social-democrat from what I've read.
Isn't that basically what a wiki does? I'd also suspect that there were similar solutions for the old Psion 3 handheld.
>That is exactly the message that the unemployed and the rest of the country need to hear and take to heart.

I bet they and the lady at Rite-Aid regularly read Forbes magazine, right? Don't kid yourself--this article is meant for the echo-chamber. And that's why I think it's a waste of space.
Oh, I agree about the asset part. The US just went through a "must go to college" phase that is making it difficult to do infrastructure jobs that frankly are hard to outsource. Educators and funding providers really cut anything not having to do with college prep. I wonder how many people in offices would have been happier and healthier in a vocational profession. It isn't like the money is exactly that much lower, particularly given the cheaper starting costs.