skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universities are increasingly adopting online formats, so there is less of a distinction between "the University" and "the online format".

And CodeLesson is about as "formal" as online University courses (minus grades). There are exams and assignments, and deadlines. The format was inspired by what some universities are doing with online learning. (The content, on the other hand, is driven by what software developers are actually looking to learn in their jobs as opposed to the theoretical/systems focus of university CS programs -- those have value, but are well served today.)
Jobs can be replaced, he's not some magical being, he's a person making decisions and he isn't doing it all by himself.

He probably won't be replaced (at least not completely by one person) but -- and this again ties back to the Apple University effort -- it will be even more impressive if the crux of what makes Jobs/Apple great is successfully imprinted on dozens or hundreds of Apple execs and engineers.
I'd go further-- corporations are an amazing structure for harnessing human creative power, and also for distributing those dividends across society.

But our capital markets are screwed up, and corporate governance laws are a mess, leading to less accountability and mismatched incentives.

http://www.icahnreport.com/report/2008/06/corporate-democ.ht...
The difference between Pidgin and Android is, Google provides the whole stack from the OS to the Mail App and also dictates hardware requirements. Clearly the can come up with a better way to store the, for many people, most important password they have.
1) Official root methods (see `fastboot oem unlock`, as made famous by the Nexus phones) as well as many less official methods require a wipe, thus rendering this attack moot.

2) In the event your phone isn't covered by the situation in #1, having a passcode lock and not enabling ADB (developer mode) should be sufficient to protect from a root attack in most cases.

It's worth noting that you're still vulnerable to a root attack that doesn't wipe and can bypass your passcode (runs from fastboot/recovery, or a hole in the passcode lock itself); though I've yet to come across a phone personally with this situation.

And it goes without saying, if you've rooted your phone yourself, any OS security is null and void. If you're rooting, you should realize this already.
"In fact, the blog post was in my folder of draft posts for a few months now, long before receiving my annual evaluation."

In a few months, there was plenty of time to reflect on the negative points of that post and how they could be taken out of proportion. There is a reason employers frown upon employees making public statements that involve the company they work for - not because they may say something stupid (that would also mean that they hired the wrong person) - but because the media tends to latch onto the smallest details and blow them WAY out of proportion. PR departments exist so that public statements are filtered, watered down, focused and devoid of any potentially negative connotations about the company.

Lesson learned, I guess, and I hope NYU's reputation was not damaged as a result.
Does anybody know why they prick in the part of the finger used for touching? This seems like one of the most sensitive parts of the human body.
What do you use to forward your email from your own domain to gmail? That's what's stopping me, and that's why I went the Google Apps route.
the eye gives a crappy image? Odd, i dont know many cameras that can detect single photons.
The person who wants the software fixed should fix it. This isn't a cop-out, it's simple economics. If you want a pony, go buy a pony. Otherwise, STFU.
Hilarious that Apple has to "allow" you to use one piece of hardware you own with another. Only in the world of Apple would a $60 serial cable be news.
But that's cable, right? DSL is different; 15Mbps seems to be the high end of DSL connectivity. But, unlike with cable, you are not sharing that bandwidth with everyone else on your block: it's all yours. Hence, it's advantageous on occasion.
I couldn't agree more.

Government shouldn't be auctioning off anything public, whether it is parking meters (Chicago), airports, or airwaves. We've literally had generations of future public revenues sold off for the political gains realized in single elections.

$50 Billion sounds like a lot money, but in reality it is about .4% of our GDP. It is also only a one time deposit for something a corporation gets to lease for probably 50-100 years (I'm unsure of the details). The previous auction saw AT&T and Verizon making off with prime broadband real-estate for less than $30 Billion between them.

Land-lines and many other privately held "public utilities" are often subsidized by direct government cash grants, or through tax breaks.
The comments on this page are pure gold. So many people jumping on the bandwagon without a clue as to the actual security issues/solutions. Like this one:

I personally think that delivering a quick update with MD5 encryption would be a fast patch for the moment.
That was a bug, this is a design decision.
I don't understand why so many people are upset about this in the comments. Was he addressing you personally?
He's been identified: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/22/anders-behring-brei...
the extraocular muscles you refer to control the position of the eye, not the lens. maybe he attempts to change the shape of the cornea (something like squinting)
No, I could not really think of that. I do not filter my blog posts through any PR department, and I have written plenty of stories that received wide attention. And going through a PR department typically means that the resulting document lacks any punch and originality. (Been there, done that, for other types of communication.)

If I could think that people could leverage the post to post their negative preconceptions about business schools, NYU, Turnitin, academic, US, or whatever else they hate, I would have not posted the blog post to start with.

In most of my blog posts I try to propose and describe solutions, even when I "whine". (See, for example, http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/10/plea-to-a... and http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/12/mechanica...). The blog post about cheating was not an exception.

The reason that it was in my draft folder was because I did not want to put it out just to talk about cheating. The post felt incomplete. Yes, I could complain. But after that, what?

It took me a while to realize that people did not cheat in some of the assignments, but tried in others, was because some assignments were designed to withstand cheating. And that was a point worth talking about.
Show HN: 100 start-ups, 50 days [Tutkiun Beta]
Tutkiun Beta List - a place where you find new products in Beta everyday.

http://beta.tutkiun.com/
sorry but this article is absolutely awful, my sympathies to the affected victims, but there's not a single analysis of the situation. was it terrorist based, was it a hate crime, why is this stoltenberg guy such an apparent tool, what does his party do, and i love how the article makes an ass out of stoltenberg by possibly mis-quoting him as someone who has a god complex by stating that all govt ministers are ok, what about those injured and killed!? unimportant? obviously the article is against stoltenberg unless he's really that much of an incompassionate dickwad

the police in oslo much be very tight lipped, this must also be the first crime aince medieval times :)
Who is harmed by a real-names policy?
i think the biggest problem with screens is that the eyes get dehydrated because we blink less often. certainly, the lens muscles may get overused as well though.
What will you be using it for? I'm considering one as a media center, so personally I'd go with the $799 model, 7200rpm HDD, Wireless Keyboard & Magic Trackpad.. the SSD is tempting, but $450 extra would make it pretty expensive.
It seems like there is a market opportunity here for anyone motivated enough to take on the old guard in this industry. It's not the most glamorous subject, but there is a lot of money sitting on the table. If someone applied to YC with something like "Funera.ly: the app that makes funeral preparations simple, fairly-priced, and dignified", well I wouldn't be surprised if they got accepted...
the reason is because of the lack of players in the industry in any given locale.

First, in my examples above, those businesses are highly undesirable industries to be involved in as an owner and an employee, but highly profitable. Second, most of those above listed businesses are family owned with a lot of experience and background in the industry they represent.

Newcomers are viewed as strongly suspicious and since those existing entities know the ins and outs, it is an uphill climb.

This doesn't mean that good innovation cannot overcome the obstacles that these very established businesses have, but you can bet that tradition and experience in those businesses will lead to a lot of ammunition for a fierce fight when newcomers arrive on the scene.
+ one here too. Very good book, very nice narrative.
Cleartext passwords are perfectly fine in this case. I speak as a software engineer specialized in security.

These passwords should of course be stored in a Keychain-like component that the OS provides.

Are you sure you are specialized in security?
Baby Monitor
We're working on ML algos we license to DSPs... I'd love to meet startups working on different parts of the ecosystem.

Are we not welcome?
You can make that three geeks.

I got pretty upset earlier this week. I wanted to do a site-survey of the wireless network that covers my company's campus.

The iPad is a wonderful tool for this, you'd think. It has a wifi chip, and a GPS. What I wanted was to drive around and pair signal strengths with GPS locations.

Except I can't do this on my iPad because Apple doesn't want me to. The API for getting wifi signal strength is off limits, and utilizing it will keep you out of the app store, which is the only legitimate pathway to getting applications onto the device. They've built the tricorder from star trek...but they've locked it inside of a box and won't let anybody use it.

This is absurd to me. Here apple has this really wonderful piece of hardware that is packed full of all kinds of sensors and things, and they're telling me that I can only use them for playing silly games? What the hell is that?

I ended up still doing the site survey, I even used apple hardware to do it, but the amount of hoops I had to jump through[1] was stupid.

[1]: I wrote a few lines of javascript that pulled GPS data from the geolocation api, and then called an ajax script to log this info into a mysql database with a timestamp.

I then ran a script on my laptop that polled System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport, and parsed the output for signal strength.

This got logged into another file, with a timestamp.

It was a simple matter to mesh these files together, and generate a KML file for google earth.

Now...this is all accessible to me because I'm a hacker; it should be accessible to everybody, and it shouldn't require that amount of duct tape and chicken wire.
Apple needs someone who has wired their mind to think just like Steve Jobs. Someone who is able to rationally explain all of the decisions made at Apple, even the ones that look downright crazy to most outsiders. Someone who has spent the last 10 years trying to make themselves one with the Apple brain trust so that they can accurately predict Apple's future game plan. Someone who has immense support from Apple employees and customers alike.

It's obvious why Gruber omitted this, but you know it crossed his mind, and I'm surprised no one here on HN has mentioned it: Apple should hire John Gruber to replace Steve Jobs as CEO.
People use old laptops, as I understand it, because the USB adapters aren't incredibly reliable at acting like a real serial port.

I can't imagine that the emulation this does would be more stable than USB adapters that have had years to iron out the kinks.
> Look up the FBI stats on radical muslim bombings on US soil vs radical christian vs radical athiest bombings.

There's no such thing as a 'radical atheist' in the sense that you're using it, mate. Also, there's no mention of atheists in the FBI stats you speak of - http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terrorism-200...

(Sorry, I'm sensitive to this, but then this is why we shouldn't be discussing religion and politics on HN...)
For some reason I remember having first seen it just saying "ad agency"; maybe it changed, maybe I'm crazy, whatever ;P.

Regardless, given that those two categories are included, I'd find it difficult to believe that anyone who reads this website isn't in at least one of them: "advertiser" + "publisher" includes anyone who uses AdSense.

Maybe you should list some kind of "minimum size" to be invited? I might suggest "dollars of ads transferred", as that's probably what you are caring most about (big-ticket partners and clients), and handles all three cases quite cleanly (whereas "impressions" or something only awkwardly approximates that metric and doesn't work well for "agencies" at all).
I hope against hope that they DON'T go with Lion's full screen mode, or at least have an option (like iTerm 2) to go back to the old way.

Lion full screen is by far the most maddenlingly frustrating and disappointing Lion feature for those of us with multiple monitors.
what 's a "ring wing"?
So is this airing tomorrow? If so, I can't wait. I won't read it now though. I'm all about the podcasts.
It takes more than a popular blog to be a CEO.
I think this is on the wrong thread.
If I remember well, the biggest problem with NeXT was that it was quite expensive! According to the "Master of Doom" book, Carmack pay around U$ 10,000 for one workstation in 1991.
优化技巧
Beloved within Apple, but he’s been out of the game for decades, and, let’s face it, is a bit of a flake.

What makes him a flake?
If you do that, I'd imagine that the phone would not be able to pull updates from those services while the phone is locked.
Not sure if this is what johnswamps was referring to, but the two big things that come to mind are the Sokoban levels (there are only two fixed variants which can only guarantee you one of two things, and a lot of the time if people don't get the thing they want (usually the bag of holding), they end up restarting since the odds of getting it anywhere else in the game are pretty low after that) and the fact that you can do things like pudding farming to obtain items/corpses easily. A lot of actions in Nethack are formulaic and based on tricks, whereas DC:SS encourages things like unknown item use more. In the end, I love Nethack and it was my first roguelike, but DC:SS is just a lot more fun.

Also, here's a post comparing Dungeon Crawl and Nethack that I just remembered: http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Linleys_Dungeon_Crawl
Nice little auto complete addition. If you type a word that is auto completed and hit delete you are prompted with a list of possible auto complete changes. It has always been one of my biggest complaints about auto complete. If a word is auto completed and it varies considerably from the one that was intended you have to delete more characters that you would have normally typed to get back to the beginning of the wrong word. This is an excellent addition.
we'll see that cable show up on Ebay for $3.99 USD in a matter of a few months.
Gruber is a fervent follower, and good at reading between the lines, but he's demonstrated no ability to set his own rudder. His vision is simply Apple's vision.
Supposedly his code is pretty rough. That would explain why development is slow and the game pretty bug-ridden.
Its not they let it happen, its the fact that it designed to happen.

These companies use highly automated services, if the approach feels inhumane then you are noticing the fact that it is inhumane.

Its not a malicious act for these companies to do this, its a by product of a set up circumstances that are designed to trigger a response to catch people abusing the product.

Naturally a person from time to time will trigger the automated response and appear to use as a cruelly treated victim, but what you don't see is the thousands of other people that systems like this catch. To them the system works extremely well, innocent victims here and there included.

Why it appears to suck is what is mentioned above, users are not customers, you are a product being sold. Hence they want to spend the bare minimum on user support, they want to maximsie the profit per product. On a personal level they have no interest in you.

Like a farmer to cattle. You have to treat the cattle well enough so you have sell it, but the farmer has no personal attachment to a cow as such (pets aside), they are just a product. To keep a cow healthy sometimes you have to spend some many on vet services, but you don't bring in the vet to inspect every cow, thats bad business.

Google has great customer support by the way. If you want to spend large sums of money they will send a man to company to discuss exactly how you spend it.
Earlier this year one of their other engineers, Louis Brandy, went to Facebook.

http://lbrandy.com/blog/2011/01/im-buying-facebook-at-50b/
You can see this is happening through self-organizing communities on Facebook and other social networks. Search for the "for sale or swap in ..." Facebook groups and you'll see people engaging in a much more social and local based bartering system. Extrapolating from the single data point of my wife's experience, it's much quicker and easier than eBay to buy and sell stuff locally.
I completely don't understand these public bug tracking systems that turn into YouTube threads, for all intents and purposes. How does any working engineer get anything done like that?
The spi.dod.mil server is clearly overloaded and downloading this is difficult.

Can anyone who's downloaded this give us an MD5 hash on the files as I'm going to try to download this from a mirror (why the DoD hasn't published an official MD5 for these I don't know)
Apart from age, there's performance - even written in c++ and running on a modern CPU, the framerate can get pretty slow.
Studying English. There is no effective and low-cost way to study speaking English while living in Japan.
If it's not intended to be the main focus, why are you bothering to demo it now? Why not wait and show us something even slightly representative of what your project is supposed to be like?
Damn, good point. I'm out of ideas then. :)
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This may not be the best place to say this but, I found both your cheating article and this one interesting. Please continue posting.
And total non-sequitor (if you missed it the first time around):

How to burn a NeXTCube

http://simson.net/photos/hacks/cubefire.html
Jobs can't be replaced, what more needs to be said about it? Apple will continue, and we need to look at what happens when he does leave.
even though I'm anti-Apple, I've always thought James Dyson would be a perfect fit, along with his company. Apple -> Dyson -> Sensor Network -> Internet of Things(with some design love)
Even More Obvious
.com is a ghetto, move on.
"Photoshop & You" at Adobe's first retail store
Recursion is its own reward.
Doubts About Lytro’s “Focus Later” Camera
This is another epic thread (dated and not as relevant now) that may be entertaining to you...

"Issue 6914: Make android use the GPU (if available) for UI and browsing."

"I agree with the common opinion here... It is very hard to pitch Android to someone who is not tech savy, simply because of the choppy and sluggish UI. This has also become the talk of the masses, most people who haven't even used Android say the following: "I've seen Android, its cool, but its not as smooth and stable as the iPhone."
The iPhone's hardware fails a lot (I've exchanged my 3Gs twice in less than a year), it also freezes at times and drops calls, but what do people see and remember!? UI!! If android wishes to ever compete seriously with iOS, GPU acceleration is a must!

On a side note, who cares about the older phones!? they can keep being sluggish... There's less than a handful of Android phones that won't support GPU acceleration, there's more than 30 that do...

Conclusion: MAKE THIS A PRIORITY, its time to put the choppy UI days behind us, this year is going to bring amazing hardware to the table, and the new iPhone is good, but not THAT good... As it stands, all iOS has on Android is a "smoother experience", why hesitate to fix it!?"

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914
Microsoft going to launch Avatar Kinect next week
From Living the Experience to Popping the Modal
That's not quite true. A few bits of intelligence like history or vocabulary can continue increasing for decades; measures of working memory and fluid intelligence tend to continue to increase until the early late teens and early twenties, which is why the long-term studies and comparisons usually start at age 20-25: http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#aging
Since Cutts isn't at liberty to say I think I'll take this one for him. This guy did really dumb stuff with Adwords or Adsense and got caught. Everyone wants a piece of the Google pie and Google wants no one to have it too easily, or their integrity goes to the shitter.

Think about what you could do with a tiny bit of programming knowledge and keyword knowledge to make money using these service. Then try it and get banned. Cutts works all day to ban guys like this. He's less webspam hall monitor than he is the "Ad Sheriff". The internet, and Google, is the Wild Wild West. The only thing stopping people from scraping cash from Google and other ad networks are people like him. And their algos of course.

Sorry your account got banned bro. You just got tased by the cops. Next time don't ask questions about Skull and Bones and deliver good content instead, as Cutts always says.

/opinion
The problem is, if Google had to provide real support, would they be able to offer stuff for free¹? Because if not, the alternative is shutting down these services, which is bad for those of us who bother to backup their emails and have their own domains.

Personally, I feel this is a simple matter of personal responsibility. It's free, so you can't expect support. If you're not okay with that, pay someone and ask them for guarantees.

¹ Yes, I know there are other costs, but I don't think their value to Google covers anything similar to real support.
s/MD5/SHA-256/ or some sort of PGP signature...
Police just confirmed that at least 80 is killed at Utøya, earlier reports were 9-10. All killed by one gunman, and the deaths (at least 7) from the bomb in Oslo is in addition to these 80. :(
Further evidence "regulation" is just legal favoritism.
Agreed. Sometimes people stop writing due to a minority of very loud people being rude dismissive shallow whiners. I think Steve Yegge stopped writing for a few years because of these people.

Don't stop writing, please.
Gruber is criticizing a WSJ story.
Ask HN: Your opinion on hardening sprints?
Hi HN,

First off, I understand the criticism of hardening sprints occurring after each release.

I'm looking for advice on how to schedule hardening sprints in the most productive way. Maybe every three or four regular sprints, for a week of tightly coupled QA + dev.

Positives and negatives?

Thanks!
Wow... when I saw the headline, I naturally expected yet another puff piece extolling the genius of Nathan Myhrvold to all who will listen. NPR gets some serious kudos for proving me wrong.