skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly off topic.. I feel the same way with google results now, which is a bit ironic since google used to be all about elegance and simplicity.
Having to write an essay for which copy/paste from the internet could be construed as a valid answer sounds mind-numbingly boring. Your job is to express the same information as your sources, but with different wording.
I would say the proofs required for an undergrad math degree are "90% mechanical, 10% twist". If you have a general idea what a proof is supposed to look like, it's pretty easy to fill in the details.
Yes. There are also the superstars that just put in 8 hour days but manage to get more meaningful work done than anybody else in the office.
Also http://like.fm.

I use it: http://like.fm/chris
It hurts me to have to disagree with you because you invoked the He's a tenured professor statement (I have a general bias against tenured professors) and the rest of your argument was right on. I was spitting at my screen until the last few paragraphs of the blog.

I don't trust a college degree from anywhere to prove anything other than that the student was able to finance his/her purchase, regardless of school. I know this will not be taken well by several folks, but it's not a complete disregarding of higher education (take me on my word or call me an idiot, you'll probably be right).

Cheating is a fact of life. When I was in college, the punishment was expulsion. This rarely happened. It was the old "make the punishment so awful that nobody would want to commit the crime", and it fell flat as soon as human beings were put in the picture.

Those who knew how to get away with it almost always got away with it. And even when caught, the book was rarely thrown at them. This "tenured" professor is trying to find a way to separate cheating from passing. I don't know that he'll be successful. But the traditional "Turnitin" approach is working as well as anti-malware software/devices work. It's an arms race. The solution isn't to build better detection or encourage better behavior from users ... it's to make the attack irrelevant.

I'm skeptical that it can be done, but I like the approach. I don't believe this is a Lazy Coward operation (good to edit it out, but I didn't downmod you, I thought your comments were fair). It's a creative, and possibly disruptive, method to teaching.

Edit: Sorry, it's really difficult to write out a reasonable reply without reading it over a few times and making changes.
Sorry, not buying it. If you let hardware or software availability stand in your way, you were never going to be a programmer anyway, or at least not a very good one.
At my previous employer (a private college), we had a consulting group come and and discuss strategic planning.

I asked them whether we could justify improving academic programs using ROI. The lead consultant said, "Nowadays, it's all about the amenities," and that we should build a swimming pool.

I think higher ed really is about pleasing the students, parents and alumni, and keeping the money flowing, unfortunately. Bureaucracies just perpetuate themselves.
There are at least two aspects of 'personal well being' to consider here.

One is 'income', the other is 'fulfilling societies expectations'. Nobody want's to be seen as being unethical or not fulfilling their duty. By automatically explaining away their actions and taking a fatalistic viewpoint you give away one of these two pressures, and probably the greater of the two.
I disagree with your conclusion. Cheating is about taking the easy way, which rarely works in the real world, unless you are comfortable riding (and perhaps crossing) the legal/ethical boundaries we, as a society, have decided on.

I would never hire someone for my startup who came to me and said, "I cheated through college, so I know how to be cutthroat in business." If you don't have the personal integrity to manage yourself, why would I ever think you would manage something of mine?
1. The problem with this assumption is that Google is standing still--they are not. When Mahalo started doing comprehensive search in 2007 google was just 10 blue links. As we added more content to our results they did the same. We were a year ahead of them... in fact we still would be. It just wasn't enough against a scale player.

2. ha

3. agreed
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rc solves problems with sh by replacing annoying/problematic features. bash adds the same features, but keeps all the problems with sh. Read the "Design Principles" section for specific examples.
I am Austrian and studied in Austria. Cheating is not really considered special or extra-ordinary in any way here.

Pupils in school would try it, also students later on might try to... generally it is the duty of the teacher or professor to keep students from cheating here and 95% of the time they are very successful at it. The remaining 5% are considered fair game by the students.

Most tests (as in over 90%) do not allow you to use books or any other material; sometimes students would try to hide notes or get an answer from a fellow student but ultimately with the teacher watching and the situation in the class room being really quiet, in most cases there is hardly anything you can really do or find out anyway but maybe you can get one or two hints tops.

Also, most exams (at least where I studied) did not have multiple choice tests instead you would have to write a proper answer and apply knowledge. So at best someone could whisper a clue or hint you in the right direction

In case you got caught talking/cheating you might get one or two warnings and then your test is taken away from you and maybe also from the person you were talking to, depending on course and professor.

The difference for me is: amongst students, it is not a "crime" here.. you are trying to help your fellow colleagues mostly "against" the teacher and while still covering your own ass. It would be considered rather offending NOT to help on purpose when you have the chance to.

Another difference might be: I did not have to pay upwards of 100k to get a decent education. So maybe studying is more a "commodity" here in Euroland.
There's an ongoing and never-ending discussion on the topic all over the Internet.

Basically, the idea of those who oppose the "calorie in - calorie out" theory is that eating simple carbs quickly raises the blood sugar level. Body responds to that by secreting insulin. One of the tasks of insulin is to keep blood sugar within certain levels, so it "commands" to the cells to uptake sugar from blood, and one of the ways to do it is to convert it to fat. Eating food that does not has simple sugars in it, on the other hand, does not raise blood sugar that much so does not trigger insulin response.

To that the "calorie in - calorie out" guys respond that this does not take into account the 24-hour cycle, because even if some fat will be stored after a high-carb meal, it will still be used later if the overall calorie intake is low enough.

It seems that clinical studies, where it is possible to exactly know how much calories the subjects consumed, support the calories in - calories out. Studies where caloric intake is not precisely calculated may support the opposite theory.

No references to studies as I'm not sure if that's going to be read by anyone, it's been two days since ...
> So you'd happily see thousands of people killed as long as it proves you right?

Recent American politics in a nutshell, I'm afraid. Football with words, but also stealth bombers and submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
This sounds fishy. IANAL, but what would be the possible repercussions of mentioning their name? Having your license revoked seems like the maximum possible punishment, and would this really stop a tenured professor?
In grad school, a couple of times I proctored exams for my major professor. Every time I caught students cheating (copying off of note sheets or old exams from other students), collected the "cheat sheets" and explained the situation to my major professor. Not once were those pursued and I think all the students passed the classes. Pretty frustrating.
we don't give that specific piece of information out (trade secret), but it's low enough that we see a road to profitability that's enough for us to ramp up production. :-)
I thought so too but Firefox 5+ is much improved. It's close to a toss-up for me between Chrome and Firefox at the moment.
I went as a candidate showing off my Lisp project. Because I didn't know exactly what to expect (to be fair, nobody did because it's so new) I gauged the reactions to the vibes I got from company recruiters, and printed out more résumés and visual material on the spot. There was a lot of room for improvement on the visual side of things; very few candidates made posters or good visuals, so hacking the fair might be as easy as putting more effort into this.
Why would Israelis have any Pakistani terrorists? Is this a conspiracy theory?
I am a long time firebug and chrome developer tools user and i was with you on chrome having the "best Javascript debugging tools". Unfortunately, it still crashes when doing some tricky debugging things, and it has plenty of bugs (e.g. after a while debugging, the console stops outputting complex objects (objects, arrays) leaving spaces instead, so a collection of elements looks like [, , , ]).

I switched to OSX 4 years ago and i hate to say it, but I found IE9 and IE10 debuggers (even ran in virtual machine) the be the most stable debugging tools. I encourage you to give it a try. It turns out, that we're living rather a miserable life trying to find tools that don't crash, and there are good tools out there. Too bad they are on the "alternative" operating system MS Windows is.
Yea I am currently working with the launchpad on my idea. They've been very helpful to me and have helped me develop my idea into a full business idea and product. I'm just having trouble finding someone to help me build it.
I'd really rather not have my grade depend on a completely non-transparent tool that I have completely no access to nor can refute its accusations.
And their friends are generally within ethnic lines. In engineering school right now. You would have to be blind, or incredibly naive to not see that a majority (I cannot say how great) have their closest ring of friends from the same ethnic backgrounds.

Especially the Koreans. Most tight-knit group I know.
There are varying degrees of cheating. There is flat out copying, which this article addresses, and then there are the lesser degrees of cheating.

Having experienced upper, lower, and graduate level courses in math and engineering (as well as taught at the lower level) I can honestly say that the amount of people that directly copy another student's assignments is much higher than most people think. This type of cheating tapers off as you enter the higher levels. On the other hand, I find that the "helping another student out" or "group study" type of cheating probably occurs with a 75%+ frequency among all levels of academics.

The first type (plagiarism) is definitely cheating while the second type (group think) is most likely classified as cheating but never acted against. The fact that you didn't see any cheating in your Number Theory course could simply be due to the fact that the second type of cheating is much more difficult to spot unless you are intimately familiar with the subject material and solution methods.
I've also felt in the last couple of months that the quality of answers on StackOverflow seem to be degrading and that the site seems to be becoming less ... tidy.

+1 regarding the Google searches as well.
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One of the things you gotta admire about Jason is his optimism.
Where I'm from, a single sentence similar to one of your sources is marks deducted

Sounds like the purpose of the class is to teach people to use a thesaurus.
"I know it's frustrating for you all but please bear with us -- I promise you having to work on a Sunday afternoon rather than dozing on the sofa is just as frustrating for us!"

Somebody is /really/ bad at PR: complaining about having to work to fix a client's problems, even jokingly, is a bad idea, unless your goal is to weed out the clients who take things too seriously.
It amazes me that you cannot see it from his perspective. He tried to catch cheaters and was punished by the school system for it. He earned less money for trying to enforce a no cheating policy. Would you work twice the amount of time for less pay? Most of us probably wouldn't. It seems like a prudent financial decision for him.

The problem seems systemic, he throws his hands in the air and gives up because he cannot do anything alone and is punished. Others either came to the same conclusion or don't know/care cheating is happening to begin with. I don't think I can simply blame him for the calculations he went through in making his decision.
You are basing that on Alexa? Alexa will always over-report sites like Stackoverflow, because lots of SEO people (who use the Alexa toolbar) use it.

Google trends gives a better view. Here is is related to other sites that (according to Alexa) have similar traffic: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=stackoverflow.com%2C+dou...
Insults and personal attacks against (external) article authors seem to be treated as less taboo, as they are on topic, and less likely to cause a flame war. Still, it's a bit rude.

It's hardly fair to call the one guy trying to fix the system a coward, just because he decided he had better things to do.

Besides, "No tolerance" is a bad way to beat corruption, as an individual. The best way is to occasionally bring it up. You won't lose as many friends, but some people people will still think that a crackdown might be underway. You might feel stupid, only catching one or two cheats, but it's more effective in the long run than being too hard.

He's not a lazy coward. He's just not a great political player. His boss is a lazy coward, for putting him in a position where he has to know how to be positively Machiavellian in order to improve things.
I am completely aghast.

This professor is considering only what path will avoid the most hassle and difficulty for himself. Any duty he might owe honest students, fellow faculty, or even society at large doesn't seem to figure into it. He seems to see no problem at all with effectively selling high grades to cheaters, so long as there's no risk or hassle involved for him.

And because he gets to use a term like Nash Equilibrium to describe it, he's not even ashamed.

Profoundly dishonorable.
>then you are one ignorant summbitch. Downvote for stupidity.

You couldn't have answered the question without that bit?
pbh brings up solid points. Stating that something is big will always lead to the question "relative to what?"

Your post indicates that you think 28/108 is big relative to what a normal cheating rate would be (as can be seen by your statement "he'd have gone back to 'normal' cheating rates"). How can you establish whether or not something is big relative to a norm when you haven't even established what the norm is?
The problem with your logic is that the statistics you give are based on there being security. Without it, you have no idea how high the number of successful attacks on planes would be.

The chance of dying in a auto accident is still really low. Should we start allowing drinking and driving, no air bags, no speed limits etc. because those laws are annoying to you?

I, like everyone else would appreciate less restrictive security, but some level of security has to be present on aircraft. Without it, there would be far more incidents. Especially non terrorist activities like people bringing guns on board for hijackings etc. Security at airports is effective against a wide range of attacks, not just organized terrorism.

(I used 2000's number of flights to estimate today's. 20M)
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You are exaggerating by 200% and leading it ad absurdum.

"Cheating" for me means getting one or two hints at an exam and with the exam situation being what it is, those hints typically only really help to jog your memory if you did study. It does not mean downright plagiarizing your thesis and 90% of your studies.

But US Americans seem to be offended even at the idea of getting or sharing a single hint during an exam. Here in Europe you could easily loose "street cred" and be forever labeled as the worst kind of "nerd" if you did NOT at least try to help a fellow student on purpose. Again, I am not talking about writing 100% of homework for you but sharing a hint or a small piece of help during an exam.

Funnily, we had a few very, very high profile cases of plagiarized doctorates amongst politicians here in Germany. Their degree was taken away from them of course.
Since you asked, I would refuse to work anywhere that I was expected to stand aside and ignore fraud, or where I was punished for doing what everyone would agree is the right thing, in this case trying to catch and identify cheaters in compliance with the rules of the institution. I would rail against it every day and try to change the system by doing the right thing and calling out other faculty for not doing so, publicly.

It is likely that I would fail, but as I will sometimes announce loudly in the Milo office "I've got something to say! It's better to burn out than fade away!'
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1. there are more methods (dir, group, error, etc)

2. some browsers provide console.log but not others

3. those methods most of the time are not .apply'able or .call'able. that matters when you try to output an array of items with the right firebug/devtools coloring. But you cant. You get the ["Message", "was sent", {Object}] output with the arrayish square brackets and all strings with the double quotes. If you pass values directly via console.log(type, action, object) the output will not have double quotes around each string and the "Message was sent" part will read as one sentence, not two values of one array.

4. Some combinations of firefox (i think ff4) with firebug (even disabled) raise exceptions when you attempt to redefine one of the console objects. The exception alone renders some of the sites broken.

Handling the console object is needlessly painful and hard. Someone has to stop it.
Want to know the value of a global variable using the IE dev tools? Well you'll have to put in a break point, because the watch window isn't even available unless execution is paused.
dude, your job is to be everything. so yeah, if the pixels are wrong, it's your fault and you have to fix it, but probably not by diving into CSS. its your job to go hire someone that is better than you at UX so you can fix the stuff only a CEO can fix.

http://bhorowitz.com/2010/05/30/how-andreessen-horowitz-eval...
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There's a continuum, just like in other subjects.

As I've said, many students self-enforce (somewhat - it's a continuum), because a Math degree that you didn't earn is barely worth the paper it's printed on.

With most students self-enforcing, the exams can still be rigorous. The 400-level courses can still be rigorous. And nobody will complain that the exams and 400 levels are too hard, because they still learnt enough to deal with them.

It's not a result of Math being "harder to copy". Math is easier to copy than an essay, because it's just not as unique. The difference is cultural. Most Math students don't want to cheat their way through, and so the professors are under no pressure to be soft.
Just curious, can you say what your startup is (in the most general terms)?
Good god you people are sure full of yourselves sometimes. You're telling me that if you put in extra effort in your daily jobs and got kicked in the ribs for it more than once... that you'd continue to do it and wouldn't be upset about it? Armchair ivory-towerists. I'm just aghast at the paragraphs of criticism I'm reading here for people that I can just imagine being upset with wasted and unappreciated effort.
The 'group study' thing is true, but often explicitly allowed by the professor. In the end the exams should sort it out, since homework is rarely worth more than a token amount of the total grade.
I noticed the same thing. I'd like to know what criteria he used for placing students in the "Jew" category. Perhaps he watched too many "films" by Goebbels.
Not really, I think it would be strange regardless.
He earned less money for trying to enforce a no cheating policy.

No, his pay was increased by less than in previous years. He didn't actually earn less.

Would you work twice the amount of time for less pay?

He didn't work twice the time. 32 lecture hours is an indicator of the workload - he spends far more on the course than just contact hours.

The problem seems systemic, he throws his hands in the air and gives up because he cannot do anything alone and is punished.

He still got a pay increase. Not as much as he would have liked, but it's not exactly horrible punishment. In one aspect he's just as guilty as his cheaters - he is more concerned for the big bux at the end than in doing his job properly: "If doing things properly means I get paid less, screw that".

EDIT: it's important to note that he also reports on the changed dynamic of the class, not just the dollars. That being said, it's interesting that the dollars come first.
Disregarding any particular poster's religious affiliations, understanding "Christian" values can shed a great deal of light on the foundations of American culture. I think it's an excellent point at any rate.
Wikipedia suggests bananas are berries, at least under some definitions of 'berry':

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If you are using pip and virtualenv (which are currently understood as "best practice" in the Python world), it's as simple as running "pip install PACKAGE==VERSION" (or, better, adding "PACKAGE==VERSION" to your requirements.txt file). Even if it was expected that people would frequently fork their own version and drop it in their application, a package is still just be a directory with a few .py files. Hardly an issue for version control systems or even setuptools, and it has the advantage that your application code is separated from the forked framework code.
Please keep the PC rhetoric out of HN. The fact that some demographic X is under or over-represented in some field Y is not by itself evidence, let alone proof, of a conspiracy against or in favor of X.
I don't think I understand. How would we communicate without language?
> Why the difference?

Religion or religious history can account for at least some of the difference.

A lot of religions explicitly teach and emphasize forgiveness, even for grave injustices [0]. When people have an attitude that says "forgiveness is required", this can have a lasting and widespread influence. Nations with a strong history in such teachings, even if they are not particularly religious now, may retain that attitude toward forgiveness.

[0] A friend of mine wrote, after his sister was murdered, that he had no option but to forgive, that regardless of his emotions, his theology required it. http://darrow.faithweb.com/murder.htm
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