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Similarly the part where the student cared most about the grade was only one paragraph among many after all.

I'm more arguing that the professor should treat his students under the same standards he wants to be treated and from the article AND his comments here (reading the article alone gave me a similar impression as what you wrote, kind of), he seems to be quick to blame the students without accepting his own shortcomings (not entirely true - he does acknowledge some and I do agree with how he intends on tackling cheating in the future: by changing the homework format to a more cheat-resistant form). I know I was a bit harsh in my comment, but I do get the sense that the prof is bitter and unapologetic for most of his own mistakes.

Still, I wish him luck in the next semester. I imagine the new homework format should help alleviate a lot of the problems he had and avoid this in the future.
App Tabs,
In-content UI (like preferences in a tab),
HTML/CSS/JS extension model and about:labs (proof on Aza Raskin's blog)

These are just a few things Google has copied from Mozilla. I don't go around complaining about all the thing Google has copied from Mozilla, but the record has to be set straight, Mozilla is not following Google, they are going there own way. They implemented sandboxed Flash first and compartments which Chrome is missing.

Funny that Google haven't updated the Google toolbar.

"It doesn't take a conscious effort to make software incompatible. All you have to do is not work too hard at fixing bugs—which, if you're a big company, you produce in copious quantities. The situation is analogous to the writing of "literary theorists." Most don't try to be obscure; they just don't make an effort to be clear. It wouldn't pay." - Paul Graham
http://paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
While the article says that deciding if a crossover cable is needed is still a problem today, in my experience devices figure out what cable they have attached and just work.
They should give it a more dot netty name, by picking a letter (maybe F, as it's a functional language) and putting a sharp on the end.
Why so critical, even if it is just for offices it makes a huge difference to the ease of taking/offering bribe, simply because of the knowledge that you are being watched. That is why we have surveillance cameras in offices.

Even if it is for the image of the official, it's a good start, if you don't agree at least give another solution, or stop being critical.
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>Are you willing to listen to the many excuses for why each student may have plagiarized and potentially extend the same they-are-human-too sympathies?

Unless their reason for cheating is "I don't care about my studies" and the way you extend your sympathies is by getting them kicked out, your argument is bullshit.

OK, the professor sucked. You know what? Some do, thats life, and you suck it up. The academic policy doesn't say "you have a right to a teacher you love a whole huggy bunch", but it does say "don't fucking cheat".
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Yeh that's kind of my point though... it's pretty much just a jumbled rant and somehow JavaScript wound up being the target for the headline.
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I'm launching this product this week. It would be great if a few Hacker News readers can give it a go and get back to me with some feedback.

Just go to the site and click on the 'integrate' button. Just one click, really.

Many thanks!
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We are about to do a test run of our loyalty application RewardCard.mobi, and it will only support iPhone and Androids. (Oh the test is at the RIM plaza)
Does it really matter if RIM are deliberately trying to block the app vs. they are experiencing organizational mayhem that results in the app being blocked?

Point is, these guys have invested man months in an app that would add value to the playbook, and all they are getting are dazed canned responses.

In a similar position it seems more than enough to decide to drop RIM development and move on with the other platforms.
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Isn't that the truth, The longest delivery time I have ever seen on an email was around three weeks.
Since most serious Scala programs will use Java classes or class libraries, I still have to see how portable most Scala code will be between JVM and .NET/CLR, besides the lack of ABI compatibility. It will add complexity to a language that is already fairly complex.

Some commenters have already suggested that Scala has the C++ syndrome, but at least C++ is easily wrapped in C, making binding to anything else fairly easy.

I wonder if it would not be better to stick to the JVM, and tell people that that's the platform. You cannot be everything to everyone without collapsing under the weight.
I'm a university teacher myself. I typically teach a hundred students every semester. Don't you think it's a bit too much to expect me to do whatever it takes to assure each and every of my student, including cheaters, to succeed in life? That's noble, but too much for any individual.
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This is the sort of uneducated attitude I'm talking about.

Advertising is not 'sleazy'. It works, and it provides a service to both advertiser, publisher, and consumer.

Do you also consider online dating to be sleazy, or job posting sites? Because that's essentially what advertising is - matching a consumer interested in something, to an advertiser who provides something.

Without advertising, most consumers would not have a clue what products and services exist. Most manufacturers would have no way to tell people about the service/product they provide.

I'm literally amazed at the naivety.
It's kind of sad if RIM has to depend on BBM as their last resort to keeping a competitive ground.
I know this is an indirect solution, but why even have papers in a business course anyway? I was a business undergrad, and after all of the lower-level BS classes, it was all about projects and discussions in class, not paper writing. Any long-form writing I had to do was in-class writing essays and stuff on exams, where you can't copy paste.

I know a lot of the CS people on here look down on business education, but the real value in it is not learning specific facts like "what is WiMax" but instead being able to work on a team to create something and being able to communicate and discuss business problems intelligently.

The team projects and case study discussions is really where I learned things. Traditional assignments in a business course don't really make a lot of sense.
Yes. Pretty sure that hasn't been done before! :D
The point is that its not any official but a Chief Minister( akin to Governor in the US) that is doing this. The message that he is putting across to all other Government officials is much more important than us being able to see if he is slacking off or not.
Here's a screenshot of the original message: http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/8840/prooft.gif

You're reading a misquote.
OK, here's something that I don't get. Why do you care that students are cheating? In the end, the only people they are harming is themselves - leave them to it, I say... You are there to teach them, if they decline to learn, hey it's not your problem.
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Calling it an "uneducated attitude" is a bit of an ad hominem, and could just as easily be flung in the other direction, at the attitude that takes some sort of naive Economics 101 justification completely uncritically, without being familiar with the history, practice, and theory of marketing/advertising.

I agree that at its best advertising is matching, basically filling in an information gap. But it often does the opposite, exploiting an information gap / ignorance; in fact it's often explicitly and completely unapologetically aimed at doing that, looking to create and exploit information asymmetries. You make more money by selling people an expensive version of something they can get equivalent cheaper, or by luring people into a contract whose full cost they don't realize up front. There's a reason advertisers tend to read up on behaviorist psychology, because exploiting weaknesses in human decision-making, to encourage people to allocate their resources in a way that they wouldn't do with perfect information, is a big part of the game.

I may just know the wrong people, but I don't actually know anybody in marketing who doesn't have a sort of cynical "tricking suckers into buying our clients' stuff" view, at least some of the time. That's the game; you don't last long in the business if you have a purely idealistic view of only matching people to quality products that are a good match for them, especially since at larger firms you often have no choice about which products you're supposed to be selling.
well, I guess it can really be only due to bandwidth reasons. It is a lesser known fact, that Spotify (in the same way as Skype), is relying on P2P behind the scenes.

Often, the music you listen to is streamed from other users, and so bandwidth load is a very crucial factor. Looks like Spotify can't afford harder load to their servers and they're gradually increasing the requirements.

But marketing their whole library as 320kbps is really disappointing. As a premium subscriber, I was under impression that it is what I was getting.
Here, here! I've worked at large, enterprise organizations for 15+ years and always resented the concept of Human Resources. At the enterprise level, there is little to no payoff for loyalty other than possible redundancy, when HR found someone who could do your job for half the pay. I suspect this is all a symptom of business school education trends over the last 40 years or so. I don't think there is any fault or blame to lay, but rather we as a society have to step back and begin doing what's right socially instead of economically. Do that, and economics will likely take care of itself.
I read reddit, but I would never buy a gold account. The site has too much hate speech, and it is hard to support that financially. Between the misogyny and the atheist anti-Christian bigotry, it's pretty bad. You don't have to be either a woman or a theist to see that's wrong.

The question of how to address this issue while maintaining free speech is a more complex one. The reddit founders, however, have shown no interest in finding ways to improve site quality from this perspective, and indeed, appear to support the bigotry.

Anyway, I bear a huge grudge against the site because they banned my account for sockpuppeting and harassment, so take all of the above with a grain of salt.
Solution: Everytime a track is requested by a premium member, if it does not exist in 320 then they send FLAC and the client converts it on the fly while playing it and sends it back to Spotify. Do this 3x for every track and verify that the md5 is the same on all three.

Then, the most popular songs will be available in 320, and the ones that aren't would never have been accessed in the first place.
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Some of the albums I've been listening to (with HQ enabled) have raised red flags, I've recognized compression artifacts. But I dismissed this as being deliberate, a weird sounding microphone, an effect, or whatever, since the HQ box was checked in Spotify settings.

Time to investigate..
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While I disagree with you, I respect your right to have an opinion. Personally, I believe in God as well, but I also believe there is more to God than simply following scripture.

Regarding hallucinogenic drugs, I believe we are born with a set of filters which shape what we can perceive about the world at large. Who knows why those filters are in place, but they are. The filters are very rigid, and are constantly reinforced by the social structure of the world. Hallucinogens allow one to experience thought with those filters eased somewhat. Not removed entirely, but weakened.

Regarding number 1001...no. I'd rather show number 1001 what had happened to the thousand who went before him/her, and then say "proceed at your own peril". It should be up to that person, and not me, how they live their lives. My own perceptions and experience is fine to be offered as advice, but in no way should I use both to define laws to rule others.

What if the opposite were true and the norm was to take LSD? Wouldn't you like to have the option to not based on your own free will?
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Well, Scala is not the simplest language, but I'm not sure why having separate .Net backend will make the language more complex. After all, .Net and JVM are pretty similar at its core so that difference between the two shouldn't affect Scala the language, only Scala the compiler.

As for portability between Scala.Net and Scala.JVM programs, it was never the goal of the programs. Of cource, programs using only Scala API should be source portable, but if one ues Java or .Net classes it will not be.
>Advertising is not 'sleazy'. It works

The two are not mutually exclusive.

>it provides a service to both advertiser, publisher, and consumer

Given the number of advertizing channels, and the pool of products and services offered, the cost (in time) to the consumer, is rather high just to learn that X exists.

>Do you also consider online dating to be sleazy, or job posting sites? Because that's essentially what advertising is - matching a consumer interested in something, to an advertiser who provides something.

I'd agree that they are essentially the same if I had to go to "fast food" section of craigslist to find out what fast food joints out there, or the "auto insurance" section to find out that Progressive is a thing.

>I'm literally amazed at the naivety.

Say I accept your premise, that still doesn't negate the fact that there is enough advertizement in other mediums that all the virtues of it are already sufficiently met that adding advertizement to my websites don't create any value for the visitor.

I don't believe in the eradication of advertizement, just that it has reached a level of permeation that subjecting my visitors to even more of it is something I do not believe in.
Could it be more of a community or environmental thing than some inherent quality of the coders in LA? For example, up here in SV startups are everywhere, and you can't go anywhere without bumping into someone who works at a startup or major tech company. It's in the air. So it's a lot more likely that an engineer has a friend who sold their company for millions of dollars or who made a bunch of money working for a company like Google. Or maybe all of their friends are working at startups right now. This kind of stuff makes startup life seem a lot more viable, like "yeah, I'm just as good as them - I could do that." I imagine this concentration is much harder to come by in LA.

I think Mark Suster is on the right track with a program like Launchpad LA - bring a bunch of entrepreneurs in together and create that community around startups and risk-taking.
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This is basically the same reason that ClojureCLR has no traction.
The killer feature in my opinion is the branch name in the prompt you get, e.g.

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That sounds like a really cool idea. :) Do you have plans to release it? This combined with Ruby on Arduino (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2774170) could make a nice combination. Anyway good luck on your project.
You could help out coding Haiku OS (www.haiku-os.org) which is an x86 clean-room open source continuation of the once commercial BeOS being developed by a committed team. The emphasis is on native code, fast, lightweight and being super-responsive. You can have 10 videos playing at once (I don't know how much, but it's designed to never block a user's actions) and it doesn't bat an eye. It has binary compatibility with BeOS and new apps are being created for it all the time (avoiding the chicken-and-egg problem). There is a variety of them (some open sourced professional apps). It is not UNIX-like, but it has POSIX compatibility. Haiku has a journaling-file system which is fast and supports user-definable attributes (Be engineers brought a subset of it to Apple with them developing Spotlight and Microsoft had been working on a similar feature). Stack and Tile (haikuos.info/video/stack-and-tile.html) is a cool windows management feature unique because of tabs for window titles. The OS API is said to be the simplest and a joy to use.

Some of the languages available:
C,
C++,
Python,
Ruby,
Perl,
Lua,
Haskell,
Scheme,
Squirrel,
Yabasic,
bash (comes with a bash shell),
zsh

Some of the developer tools available:
Paladin (its own IDE), Git, Hg (Mercurial), GNU Compiler Collection, Vim, QEMU, Bochs

Some of the technologies used:
Multi-process WebKit browser,
OpenGL,
OpenAL,
SDL and Qt libraries,
Gutenprint and CUPS for printing,
FreeBSD network drivers,
Haiku Vector Icon Format

On the way:
An ARM port,
Clang with the already working LLVM,
OpenJDK,
Gallium3D,
package management,
more language bindings for the API

Included below is ways to contact, lessons and software sources:

freelists.org/list/haiku

freelists.org/list/haiku-development

haiku-inc.org

haiku-screencasts.blogspot.com

www.haiku-os.org/blog/darkwyrm

www.osnews.com/story/24945/A_Programmer_s_Introduction_to_the_Haiku_OS

haikuware.com (back online shortly)

bebits.com

There's also a wallpaper contest going on. I am not affiliated but I'd love to see more people get involved in this great OS! :)
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> what really irks me about your post is your complacence with cheating because it’s not in your self-interest to pursue those who cheated

Why don't you hold the other professors to the same standard? It's not as if the other professors are oblivious to rampant cheating. But what's the point of trying to catch cheaters if it hurts the class dynamic and if those who get caught don't even get suspended? The students are clearly OK with cheating otherwise the cheaters would be ostracized by the other students. The school management clearly doesn't care, since they don't take action against those who are caught red-handed. The teachers who care are punished for it: bad reviews and bad class atmosphere in return for extra hours on top of an already heavy schedule. And yet you don't thank the professor for trying to fight against cheaters (and losing that fight) but you effectively criticize him for having tried in the first place!

> discussed it and concluded you were just racist

A teacher is in a bad mood when a significant portion of the class is exposed as having no academic integrity, doesn't want to teach the class but still, according to your own words was a "great teacher in the classroom" and "gave good lectures". How do you explain his bad mood? Why of course, he must be racist.

> all the students had received your email demanding those who plagiarized to come in to talk to you, naturally everyone, even those who didn’t cheat, felt very uneasy and worried

This exact scenario happened in a class I attended some years back. Guess who felt nervous? Those who knew they cheated on the assignment and those who plagiarized habitually but didn't remember whether they plagiarized in this instance. The students who would never, ever, ever, copy-paste plagiarize did not feel the slightest bit worried. I'm sure you "collaborated" with a friend on a small part of the assignment. Yeah, that's the word all cheaters and plagiarizers use.

> teaching evaluations don’t just measure your ability to give good lectures

If you give a better evaluation to mediocre teachers who smile and say sorry when they're late, then that's exactly the kind of teachers you're going to get instead of the teachers who are great in the classroom and who teach classes where you learned a lot.

Save your post and re-read it a few years from now. You'll probably be able to see it from a different perspective.
Not really - it's perfect for those new to AWS. It's not as generic as the title suggests, but you realise it's an AWS thing pretty early in.
Both of these:
> ... ability influence the world in its favour
> ... military expenditure ... face a decline and downturn

are not necessarily bad for people inside the US either.
Like all features, "position: fixed" can be applied in useful ways and in not so useful ways. I agree that Der Standard's way of using it isn't too good, but overall fixed positions are an excellent feature if you ask me.
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You don't get bribes in the office, in a clear, visible way.

This is almost certainly true, especially for major politicos. This is addressed later in the article in this snippet:

Sunil Abraham, the executive director of the Center for Internet and Society in Bangalore, said he applauded Mr. Chandy’s webcams, even if the effort amounted to no more than tokenism.

“This type of tokenism is also quite useful,” said Mr. Abraham, predicting it might check the behavior of not only the chief minister, but also his underlings and the powerful executives and politicians who come to visit him.

Of course, he noted, if people are intent on paying bribes, they could probably still do it outside the office.

Mr. Abraham said webcams might be a far more powerful tool if installed in police stations, drivers’ licenses offices, welfare agencies and other places where Indians interact with officials who sometimes demand bribes to do routine work.

The last paragraph is especially interesting, but it would never fly. There would be widespread opposition on flimsy grounds, and even if it were implemented, the webcams would magically malfunction for no apparent reason.

Every single government-run agency I've been to for any sort of work, or any run-in with the cops - I've paid a bribe.

Drivers' license, certificate of domicile, Certificate of marriage, Passport office, Train ticket inspector, Stopped by cops on road. Each case has its own story about how I was being yanked around by the players in question, and a not-subtle-at-all culmination in how they'd essentially just stick their hands out and say, "You know what to do.".

I would think that a reasonable way to combat this is to just pay these officials well, but I'm not sure that carries any conviction any more. It's a sadly endemic evil that will only be tackled with a widespread name-and-shame campaign (the likes of http://www.ipaidabribe.com).
This solves the CPU issue but I reckon bandwidth is the real issue. This solution actually increases bandwidth usage and there would need to be a lot more checks than just 3 md5's to prevent abuse.
As if the corrupt deals happen in the Office. Generally CMs have agents who meet you in pub and get the deals fixed.