skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally (hmm, I'm good with the non-data today), there is a very strong correlation among my friends between not cheating and professional success. The ones who engaged with the material and really tried to learn it are doing very well for themselves, even if they flunked a few courses as a result. It's probably stronger than the GPA-to-success correlation - I know several summa-cum-laude graduates who've since flitted between low-level jobs and continuing education.

Makes sense, really - I've found that your actual skills are the primary limiting factor on your salary, and credentials just make it easier to get the jobs you're already qualified for. While some folks try to game the credentials, the rest of us are working on skills so we can hit the ground running, and actual, tangible accomplishments speak much more loudly than degrees.
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Co-Founders Matter More Than You Do
For that, you really need to get involved in local meetups, groups, and clubs. "It's not what you know, it's WHO you know." So get to know some people and you'll be headed in the right direction.
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You Are Not a Visionary
How can the US debt problem be addressed?
The creative commons comparison is a good idea. I wonder if you could put it into github, then people could just fork it, make their changes and use it. Just a thought.
He works for the University. If the employer is not interested in rewarding him (or even penalizing him) for doing something that not only is stressful but that takes tons of time away from his useful work, why should he?

An example of what you are doing in your job for coworkers and society at large while being penalized for it by your employer would be appropriate here.
If I went at it full-time, I would have made more than that for my casual job I held on the side at university.
Ah ha! This comment explains where my 7 points of mystery karma came from :-).
The Firebug team has tests running against Nightly. Bugs are caught and fixed fairly quickly. Because we work to catch bugs during the Nightly phase, there should not be much time during which an Aurora build is not compatible with a pre-release (at least!) Firebug, and that would be soon after Aurora is branched.

Given that Nightly is the least stable kind of build and could have other problems along the way, we've reached a pretty good point with Firebug's compatibility.

Of course, you also have the Web Console if you're having trouble with Firebug (and I'll grant that this alone is not a replacement for Firebug!)

ObDisclaimer: I'm the product manager for devtools at Mozilla.
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I was one until November last year when I moved to somewhere smaller and colder, Canberra. I did work for a startup in Adelaide for almost 6 years, so I just wanted something different and a new environment, hence the move.

That said there are a few interesting companies and people in Adelaide that want to build some cool things, but in reality a lot of graduates and other skilled people move interstate, especially Melbourne or Sydney.
If you are molly-coddling the students, then I suppose it could take a lot of time. An email with the Turnitin report would take about five minutes - which is about how long it takes for my spouse who teaches courses online to handle plagiarism.

Setting the expectation for academic honesty in the syllabus and directing students to university policies is more than enough. In any event, it should just be handled privately. There's no reason to jump up and down and hold your breath in front of the class.
What do you mean? Copy/paste from the internet was not a valid answer.

Pretty much any question can be answered by copy/paste from the internet. That doesn't mean it would be a good or acceptable answer.
his pay was increased by less than in previous years. He didn't actually earn less.

If his pay increase was less than inflation, then many people would say he did actually earn less.
If they're extinct, then they'd probably be not as fit as the extant animals. The only place for them would be the zoo, and some people might consider that cruel.
Ask HN: What is the point of this? Email form sending.
I have a feedback form which emails me a message. Today I have been getting dozens of messages along the lines of, "Im so glad that the internet allwos free info like this!"

Since this is not posted publicly anywhere, why is this being done? I can think of these possibilities, but I still don't get it:

1. Spam - they think it's posted somewhere publicly, even though it's not.

2. Security vulnerability - they are probing for a way to send emails elsewhere even though the email is hardcoded.

Any ideas why this is being done? The ip address is changing every few messages.
I like that. An early adopter icon shouldn't be too hard to automatically assign. I'll need to figure out some time of launch strategy first. Like, Network A first followed by Network B etc. Early adopters in each network would love that kind of recognition!

Glad I asked about the forced invites. Thanks!
Maybe this will help make housing in SF more affordable?
I've always been partial to something like http://spacebug.com/tableless_secure_one_time_password/.
i use last.fm weekly as i have a firefox plug in(fire.fm) at bottom right of firefox that has play controls to start & stop my various stations. It makes starting and listening to music effortless (fire.fm + last.fm)
I realize you are trying to maximize the quality of education you are providing. I don't think you can use that as an argument against failing students who blatantly cheat.

There's not an easy solution, obviously. You are taking a risk when you do something that some other members of your faculty are not doing. You must realize, they are threatened by your attempt to prevent cheating, because it will become obvious very quickly when you find such high rates of cheating and deal with them appropriately, that they are not doing so. That will raise difficult questions, deans will notice. I think you might find, to your surprise, that there are many other people in the same position as you, but perhaps not as bold as you are. I would wager that that many, many other faculty members hate cheating as much as you, and are disgusted by the blatant plagiarism, but also like you are pressured by the current state of affairs to bury it.

I would encourage you to stick to your original guns, and keep grinding cheaters out of your class. First of all, your reputation will be established very quickly among students. Students who know they have to cheat will avoid you every semester, saddling other professors who are softer on cheating with worse students, and concentrating the best students into your classes. More to the point, students won't try to cheat in your class nearly as much once your reputation is established, so the amount of time you have to deal with it will, I suspect, go down dramatically.

Edit: This is way more congenial than how I actually feel. It's your responsibility, and every other faculty member's, to identify cheating and run those students out of the university. They are stealing from the students who are trying hard and mastering the material, by graduating uneducated and unprepared. When they go out and embarrass themselves, it reflects on every other student with that same university's name on their diploma.

As for the girl crying for 2 hours, who cares? Let her cheating ass go cry in her dorm, I think you have very weird priorities to let her waste your entire office hours (with honest students waiting) with her obvious, transparent attempt to manipulate you emotionally.
Semantics. He didn't get money that he would have received otherwise. I think it's fair to say he lost money.
On Wall Street it's common to have a $60k base and make your "real" money which may be 7-figures in bonuses.
I saw your comment before it was edited and calling someone to the carpet (in your case by calling him a coward) isn't the kind of name-calling that should be frowned upon here. He is a coward. He comes out and plainly says that it's in his best interest to go along with the incentive structure in front of him instead of standing up for academic integrity.

Let's not let the cultural politeness here get in the way of calling it like it is. "Coward" may be a strong word, but it sometimes does apply.
No, actually it's not. John is part of a team that manages and develops Firebug. The team is still there, including Jan Odvarko who we (Mozilla) pay to work full-time on Firebug.

I don't want to downplay John's part in Firebug, which is huge and it's a real shame that the project is losing him. I just want to point out that you will continue to see Firebug releases going forward.

Kevin
(PM for Mozilla's developer tools)
Cracking a System in Which Cheating Ran Rampant in Atlanta Schools
Jefferson wasn't against industrialisation, nor was he against a strong army. He just didn't want it to be a "standing army". He imagined that you might end up with an organization that is run by an elite, using canon fodder made up of the poor, that serves its own purposes. Would any of the founding fathers be surprised that we have a standing army and two totally pointless wars?

Instead, he wanted every citizen to be required to do military service, as the swiss and israelis do. He believed that if every US citizen had military training, we would have wiped the floor with the canadians in 1812. I agree.
You might be interested in a side project of mine, that lets you visualise your last.fm listening history. I'm looking for feedback (and the touch of a designer) before I launch it.

http://markhansen.co.nz/scatter.fm
I wasn't familiar with the rooting reflex and had to wiki it.

Good thing I did, in Australia "rooting" is common parlance for sexual intercourse. Which I suppose would also qualify as an inherited instinct.
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yea they should have given credit, it's pretty much a knockoff.
Google Plus: Learning from Failure
You need to worry about users who have other people maliciously requesting resets just to bother them. A password reset link in email is the more easily ignored. If you send a new password, you need to make sure you still accept the old one in case it wasn't them who requested the reset. You'd also want/need to time out the 2nd "reset" password after a short period, as you don't want someone who gains access to their email account to be able to use it sometime in the future (possibly long after they've lost access to the email account). Long story short - use the reset link, there are good reasons why it's the widely used choice.
Yeah, that's true, but in Silicon Valley it's common to have a $60K base (actually more like $100K, but Wall Street is really more like $80-90K) and then make your "real" money as 7-8 figures of equity.

If you're going to look at the top of the financial industry (who are probably not NYU students, sorry), you've got to compare them to the top of the tech industry, the guys who found successful startups.
BASTARDS THEYRE TAKING IT ALL AWAY FROM ME!

I used to love firefox but since firefox4 and the awesome speed of Chrome...it's been hard not to turn away from it ;/
The man has a job. The job states that he will be rewarded based upon customer feedback. If you have a problem with universities who measure their professors by popularity, then take it up with them.
I will certainly grant that our roadmap has never called for a "feature complete Firebug replacement". Our goal has been to explore new ideas while building out tools that we can ship with the browser. We're also working on improving Firefox's infrastructure for developer tools (a whole new JavaScript debugging interface is underway for SpiderMonkey, for example).

Mozilla has a lot going on and Firebug, for it's part, is an independent project with goals and plans of its own. I wrote about this a bit here:

http://blog.mozilla.com/devtools/2011/05/25/the-relationship...

Mozilla's developer tools work has been steadily increasing this year, and you'll start seeing a good deal more communication about what we're up to.

Kevin
(product manager for Mozilla's developer tools)
Perhaps they are hoping you will reply to the email message so they can grab your email and add it to their spam lists?

I have it happen a lot on some of my e-commerce sites.
Should Cities Drive Food Trucks Off the Streets?
I can't think of anything in particular you'd need to worry about. Something long enough that it would be infeasible to try and attack. We just use GUIDs, but those may be predictable if you know the generation time (I'm not sure about that, to be honest).
Yeah, my comment was unclear. I didn't mean to imply the students lost their rights, just that the courts have decided this particular use supersedes their rights under the fair use doctrine.
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Those examples don't necessarily refute grandparent's point.

See link below regarding "two speed economies" in which resource booms can actually have a negative structural impact on production.

http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1421/HTML/docshell.asp?...
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Thanks for the reply, glad to see you here & participating.
From the article: "Consciously or unconsciously we think of our interlocutors as disposable or replaceable."

Interesting, this must be how interviewers or HR types feel after they never get back to you.
I do regret letting the "copy & paste" students go relatively unharmed. I was naive to believe that they will not do it again. They were even more naive to try to cheat again in my own class.

Btw, all students were reported to the administration and have a mark in their transcripts that they cheated. This is communicated to all future employers and is an automatic block to entrance in law schools.

But again: 22 out of 108 is not a problem to be solved by force. It is a deep structural problem that got me thinking about evaluation strategies that are independent of cheating.

Btw, the girl was not crying to manipulate me. She really had a serious nervous breakdown, bringing out all sorts of issues that she had with her life. Apparently her parents kept reprimanding her for not "performing" at the university. There was a long term stress issue and the realization that she was going to fail the class was just the straw that broke the camel's back. But it was a very uncomfortable spectacle: her classmates outside my office looking at her, and other faculty members stopping by and making gestures, trying to figure out what is going on.
Cheating seems to be like fraud, if state funds (or state-backed loans) are going to be awarded for it.
Oops. You are correct.
I happened to know that one due to my music degree, but I ticked almost none of the other words of similar difficulty.
Likewise. I answered honestly and got a little over 22k. I've always tested extremely well on verbal portions of standardized tests and feel that my vocabulary is well above normal but this would put me at about the 20th percentile.
I give people a magic log me in code, good for 24 hours. (I lie - it is actually good for 48, to minimize user error.) For convenience there is also a URL, and the code works in the password box on the login form (until expiry).

Anyone using this to log in gets a prominent reset Your Password option after login.

This is, relatedly, how I log into people's accounts for support purposes, since I can generate your magic code for today at will.
May I ask what you are using for the site?
"I certainly felt ignored when a young editorial assistant at a magazine asked me to send important information to her but never acknowledged receipt of same. I waited 72 hours for her reply, and then sent the information again with a note saying, “Just re-sending in case you didn’t receive.” When another 48 hours elapsed without a reply from her, I resent the information again, this time appended, “I’m resending this because I have no way of knowing whether or not you received it.”"

This guy isn't too well-versed with technology is he.
Microsoft have so far not advocated competing systems.

The initial release of the iPod only interfaced to a Apple computer.

Oracle makes a lot of money.

Microsoft likes money.

At some point being more open may be a Microsoft strategy.

Certainly I think they would be more successful if they were more open.
I actually just used this as the base for a project I'm working on. It is nice just to have a starting point design-wise so I don't get caught up wasting time styling when my strong suit is coding.
One of my favorite things about reading on a Kindle is the ease with which I can look up words -- "garron" being one of the most recent, in fact.
What about shifting to a teaching model where students review material and watch lectures (MIT OCW, Kahn, or even the professor's own recorded lectures) out of class, and do actual assignments (problem sets, essays) in class -- in an atmosphere that encourages working together so nobody feels "stuck" or gets stressed to the point where they feel like they have to cheat, while still preparing solutions separately? That seems to be direction favored by many of the advocates of reform in higher learning... advocates like Dr. Tae.
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This comment is complete flamebait. The fact that there isn't an outrage against this poster makes me lose a LOT of faith in the Hacker News community. If you want to be an ass, there are plenty of other places on the internet you can go. On HN, please try to treat everybody with at least a modicum of respect.
It is easier on the user.

Why don't you just send a link that includes your one time password? This will allow the user to choose a new one just clicking on the link and setting the new password, instead of going to your page, logging in and changing the password after that.
> e-mails to travel with the speed of photosynthesis

Am I the only person who found this metaphor a bit jarring? It seems very much like the author trying to make himself sound more cultured or intelligent, unless he's trying to say something like "travel with no outward signs of progress."
This is largely a technical problem resulting from Email's unpredictability and lack of any receipt verification mechanism. While this is true of other non-real time communication mediums (like snail mail), that doesn't mean we shouldn't try solving it.

Improved spam detection increases the likelihood that an email will actually reach its intended recipient. In the 7 years I've been using gmail I've seen exactly one false positive (although there is some bias here as I've long since stopped checking my spam folder). But such technology has been slow to filter out to the less technically inclined ISPs and mail providers.

As far as actual verification, there are several ways to achieve this now. A popular technique is embedding a 1x1 pixel image with a unique id in its url. Unfortunately this is frequently abused by spammers looking for verification that an email address is good, so many email readers block images by default.

Any real solution is going to require some sort of trust mechanism or better make the procedure opt-in. Still, anything would improve upon the current situation where letters go silently into the void
Ask HN: How did you get early beata testers (Non Friends and Family)?
I finished my MVP and have had friends and family test it. Unfortunately you dont always get the most honest answers from F+F. How have people gone about soliciting early testers outside of their social circle?
Please send out the URL; my Facebook account would be unusable if I got a new password every time somebody decided to mess with me.

1: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9802610/Screenshots/06.png
Google Will Acquire Spotify
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As I tried to explain, I'm not arguing that all sites should look a certain way

... you're just giving him advice that would make his site look like every other site following the conventional wisdom. I agree his site needs work, but it would be more constructive to identify something unique and salvageable about his site instead of saying he needs to completely remove his design skills (or lack thereof) from the equation. It feels a bit negative and mercenary for a site that he's put a lot of personal work into and doesn't seem interested in monetizing.

Personally, I think the way he's done the text on the photos feels original in this context. A professional analyzing the structure of the page might find a cliche, but that doesn't mean much if the users don't see it. Otherwise everything would feel cliche all the time. The solid background behind the text isn't original (A Softer World uses it, and it might feel stale in a magazine advertisement) but it puts you off the "product page" scent.
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And then the university loses all that tuition handling the lawsuits from the families of all those failed students, and due to the age of the cases/faculty leaving/etc., the case becomes hard to win for the university. Losing all around, unfortunately.
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That's nyu undergrad business majors. MBA is 150k on average.

http://www.stern.nyu.edu/OCD/Recruiters/PlacementReports/ind...
Is it a departmental problem?

I understand that people will cheat and that as technology changes the game it's potentially harder to catch them and that's ultimately not your job. Does the school use character as one of the attributes when selecting students? Should they maybe be more selective? It just seems like a staggering number of cheats.

You ever collect any statistics on it? Are there certain trends?
So, extrapolating?
I for one am glad for the flexibility afforded by e-mail ambiguity. In a situation in which one person wants to go out to lunch and the other doesn't, is the better outcome that the first either confrontationally declines or reluctantly accepts the request?

In the art world, the protocol for asking for a show at someone's gallery is that you invite them over to your studio for a "studio visit." The purpose of the visit, to see if they want to give you a show, is known to both parties, but never explicitly stated. If the dealer doesn't want to give you a show, then you just had a nice visit where they gave you some feedback about your work. If they do want a show, obviously there's no problem. But the perils of saying "Can I have a show?" and getting rejected are avoided by the introduction of ambiguity. You don't know anything about why they've rejected you (if it's you or them) and the relationship isn't strained by anything too outright.

As annoying as it is sometimes, I think there are definitely cases in which ignoring email can be a graceful alternative to difficult options.
Would you opt in? What if you don't have time to answer right now? I would hate feeling like I had to either respond immediately or broadcast that I was waiting. Part of the appeal of e-mail (or any correspondence) is that each correspondent can proceed at their own pace. It's a feature, not a bug, at least in many cases.
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Spotify is an app you have to download, right? Google builds web apps. Why would they want this?

The author didn't give any reasons that seemed very compelling to me.
What do you think happens when you pass arguments to functions like that?