skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Overall, what this study points to is that even as many colleges, both for-profit and nonprofit, are boasting online courses that can give students increased flexibility, the outcomes aren’t matching up with face-to-face courses, especially during those students’ first semesters.

Then again, maybe that is exactly what the study is showing. The outcome statistics in the paper could easily be interpreted as increasing the students' flexibility - they feel more comfortable taking courses they want or need without feeling as much need to continue on to graduate. There is too little information provided to decide for or against either interpretation.
aka empirical evidence, yes, that is the basis of science.
Wrote a small web app, would love feedback
Test the new and improved app before the release
I like having three top level directories: archive, current, and scratch. I'd work the model you've presented into 'current', and move occasional snapshots into archive (usually by year, sometimes quarterly). Seems to be working well for me.
Why I'm Not Going Near Spotify (and Why You Shouldn't Either)
Define forever, becuase in my books Google+ is only a month old... and I use have used other Google services for a long time with fake names for online gaming... as do many others I've gmaed with (giving out personal information isn't desirable at all when gaming online). The first I heard of accounts banned was people trying to activate Google+ for gaming accounts.
I'm not a rider, but I like the elevation map in the example. Nice feature.
Speaking of aesthetics, I like the experience of looking at Microsoft Tags much more than looking at (ordinary) QR codes.
Key quote:

...when most people talk about "the new," they're actually talking
about it after the fact. They look back and say how brilliant you were
at seeing all this, and so forth. Well, it's all nonsense. When it
is new, you don't know it. You're creating something for the future, and
you don't know exactly what it is.

I used this quote as a point of departure for "Early Adopters Have Already Let Go of the Past" at http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2011/01/07/early-adopters-have-...
Even something as simple as packet latency is really hard to get from JS. the timing functions you get from the browser are way too low resolution. Also the only network latency you can test for is doing an xmlhttp request as that's the only way o do any network communication (minus web sockets which arent generally available)

Aside of that, you get no direct hardware access to measure and even if you would, there is still the timer resolution problem.

Very recent browsers provide an API to get strong random numbers, but this is even less widely available than web sockets.

So either you take the mouse movement or you use something like Java or Flash, or you use bad numbers.
Radio Shack to start stocking Arduino, Other Goodies
Didn't work at all on my Android phone.
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It's going to be from ThePast@futuremessage.mailgun.org
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what irc channels ?
"But it's three cases out of millions of users"

Are you saying that only three accounts have been suspended? I'm assuming not, but that's what your words mean. Hard to take the point seriously after that.
I'm driven by (roughly in this order):
1) Desire to have a minimum standard of living (basically, $100-200k in the bay area); you could get this from a lot of sources beyond entrepreneurship. Also, safety (physical, employment even if a startup fails, etc.). This is basically "satisficed"; $100k and $300k are obviously different, but the annual salary difference isn't 3x improvement. Say it is sublinear.
2) Desire to change the world (this can scale, and is almost superlinear; making a major positive change is worth more than a few smaller changes)

I think "huge wealth" (>$10mm personal exit, etc.) goes into the latter category, since it lets you influence a lot of things, including other startups. Smaller wealth is more like a personal annuity, so if the alternative were not having a job at all, it would be important, but it's easy enough to get a great job in the bay area even if you don't have $2mm in the bank.
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The fact that it uses Comic Sans doesn't help matters either.
So I am OK with Google suspend my G+ account, but I can't share items on Google Reader anymore, what the fuck Google?
Where would I find content for the site?
Fair enough, I've seen some really good service from the ad sense guys, maybe its jsut the team I dealt with I don't know.

I've never payed for Google Apps so didn't comment on it, and also didn't want to muddy my point as there is a definite grey area with a lot of Google uses in terms of thigns like blogger which make users also customers.
I just hit the BN page ( http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookcolor/index.asp ) to check for international shipping - seems they do it - and noticed this blinker: "Save 15% on One Item. Use Coupon Code T9P8A9P Through July 25!". I suppose it applies to the Nook, haven't tried it.
The bottom line is that you need to own and control your identity online. You can't leave it in the hands of others if you gain significant value from your identity. Most people don't gain much value from their identity, but those that do need to own and control it.
I like to sit in cafes and code. It's not as socially isolating and the distractions are easy to block out because they are random and unimportant to me.
Distractions at home or the office are much more difficult to ignore.
Testing can actually have a direct effect on learning:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/science/21memory.html?_r=2...
Does XCode 4 support Erlang syntax highlighting and code completion?
Haven't finished the article yet, but the bit about framing reminds me of a core principal of Alexander Technique which is to forget about introspection and judging your position and movements (primarily because these judgements are often incorrect) and instead to give your body the directions that you learn from your teacher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_technique

It's really something I believe in if anyone is struggling with pain or tension.
I agree and I don't limit it to online, but real life as well. The idea that a person's identity is something to be granted, approved of, regulated or controlled by corporations and governments is outrageous, offensive, and to be resisted with all necessary force. My identity is my own.
I would love to see a "How it works" section on the landing page. I know there's a "Sample" section, but that just lists an entry after it was created. I'd like to see how the entry was created using the app.

Also, have you looked at this app: http://www.everytrail.com/iphone.php
Anonplus.com hacked by Syrian hackers
sorry, that quote wasn't from you, but I think the two of you are making the same point, which I disagree with.
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How Android Phones are Helping Farmers to Grow Better & More
Based on the HN headline, I was hoping it was in the solar system, like they just discovered the asteroid belt contained far more water than they thought before... could be very useful for future space applications.

This is pretty cool too though.
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The site is hosted with JustHost with over 1000 domains sharing the server...

http://viewdns.info/reverseip/?host=anonplus.com

If you host with JustHost it might be worth seeing if your site is listed, because the server itself might be compromised!
What about all the things you passed on and were right about?

I have my list of missed deals too, but I also have a huge list where I guessed correctly.
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This seems like a great way to burn money.
"You can handle a much larger number of connections provided they don't do anything useful."

Define useful? I think you mean, computationally complex, but that isn't the same thing as useful. At my last job I worked on a web crawler, and fetching a page, then persisting it in our grid, was useful work. It was useful to have more than 10k connections in that context.

One of my pet peeves is this idea of throwing servers at problems. We currently have enormous problems with power and heat dissipation in data centers. At my last job, where I did the web crawler, we couldn't put any more servers in our data center because we didn't have enough power. Doing more, with fewer servers can be very important.

I also wonder how much larger the carbon footprint of computing is because of such philosophies.
1) Transition my gmail account over to a domain I own. I'll email everyone I know, and change all my known addresses. Thankfully, Google lets me connect via IMAP to retrieve all of this.

How do you plan doing that as I'd like to do the same.
> Does this mean I can actually get banned for using more than one GMail account?

If this were the case they wouldn't have [recently ?] allowed people to stay signed into several accounts at once.
You don't have to have the same experience on all devices, but a good experience on all devices.
Thanks for the post! The way I solved this problem in the past was to rotate one of my monitors 180 degrees. People always make comments when they walk into my cube for the first time, but you sure can fit a lot of txt on the screen. Maybe now I can go back to a normal orientation on my monitor.
MelonJS A Lightweight HTML5 Game Engine
My observation is that most cheating is one student handing in another's work with little or no changes (maybe a find/replace on variable names, or very slight editing).

The key is that every student writes software as uniquely as they write prose or have fingerprints. I can't get a class to type in HelloWorld.c exactly as presented on a
projector without odd spacings, typos, errors, etc. I watch for submissions which feature the same impossibly identical nuances, usually bizarre solutions (works, but nobody else would do it quite that way) or odd mis-formattings or other things which raise red flags. Find the previously seen instance, and - here is the key - overlay the windows to position the text exactly the same, then Alt-Tab flip between them. The copying is plain, exact when the paltry few guilty tweaks are accounted for. Showing this to the parties involved usually reveals the original author vs plagiarist pronto.

The contention that "it's the same assignment so submissions will be similar" doesn't work when bad formatting is duplicated right down to every extraneous space.

The other way is just watching for submissions well beyond the capacity of the student. For my classes, legit passing students will find it easier to just do the work than to attempt stealing it. In-class participation, quiz results, short answer questions, and lab work will soon show what the student is really capable of. When submissions far exceed what is demonstrated elsewhere, suspicion is warranted and dead giveaways will usually occur.

In the end, a talented cheater cheats himself, not the system. For programming classes at least, there will come a point where you have to perform, at which point the error of cheating one's way to a degree becomes it's own very costly punishment.
I've been reading this blog intermittently for quite a long time, and despite a lot of good conceptual thinking, I believe the author fails to understand a lot of principles which are equally important to the ones that he espouses. Maybe the most important is independence of layers - the author seems convinced that, as he says in this post, "it is the bedrock abstractions of a system which create its overall flavor. They are the ultimate constraints on the range of thinkable thoughts for designer and user alike."

I think this is simply wrong. Certainly, abstractions tend to leak, but the loper-os guy thinks that you can't create a usable system unless you extend lisp-like concepts all the way down to the CPU designs. He never seems to acknowledge that technologies like virtualization actually work to create independent environments.
What does this have to do with Flash (specifically)? Your example doesn't refer to it...
I self-host openvbx which is a pretty nice application running on the twillio.com service.
what lulz, somewhat compromises the security they were boasting about
Thinking outside the box!

echo "echo message | mail -s subject recipient" | at "now + $RANDOM hours"
Seems like overall, it's definitely code to help thwart gaming of the +1 system, as there is already a cottage industry that offers (presumably) automated +1 clicking services for money.
How about algorithmically sequestering suspicious tweets? Reclaiming a tweet and making it live again would involve something like captcha and would have to be done by the person who made the original "false" tweet.

That way you are doing the scalable stuff. And you have crowd-sourced (back to the original tweeter) the burden of identifying what is real.
OK,

I actually have attracted friends on Facebook through my general wittiness and insight. But there, I'm not limited by some sharp character limit. With twitter, I really don't see the point (though I am writing a Twitter client just for thoroughness).

As the article says, what exactly makes anyone interested in my Twitter account. Especially - as far as I know, none of either my real or my virtual friends are on Twitter. If a few were, what would drag the others along?

A few of my Facebook friends do the one-random-sentence-per-hour thing. But usually those sentences are boring, the least interesting part of my "social networking experience".
Matt, Lady Ada is not allowed to use the artistic pen name she goes by, but Lady Gaga is able to use her artistic pen name. I have a feeling the same will apply to Madonna. Clearly there are two standards in play. Certain people are "big" enough and corporate profitized enough to be "permitted" to use their artistic pen name, and others are cast out into the outer darkness. Clearly there is a policy at Google delineating what the cut off point is between the two. Would you please state what the official policy is so that we can know what we have to do before we are allowed to control our own names without having to ask Corporate Google for permission?
Will any of those codes actually read?

The Disney codes are cool - they are creative in a way that doesn't compromise the readability of the code. The others just seem like gigantically bad ideas.

It's hard enough convincing people to use QR codes - the more you violate the spec the more devices will stop reading it.
I use Youmail for voicemail and have been really happy with it. I pay the $20/year or whatever it is for a paid account.
This idea reminds me of ohlife. An email based journal service where every day they randomly choose a previous entry to send you. Its a cool idea. I just don't see how you'll get people to repeatedly visit.
I'd rather have too long than too short. I got some code recently where 3 lines was about the longest function (for a loop), and many functions were one line. It was nearly impossible to follow what was going on because you could never catch the "flow" of the code.
With Rails' ActiveRecord the model introspects the database schema at run time and figures out field changes automatically. What it doesn't figure out is relations and you still have to specify them in both the database schema and the model. Since you're mentioning project build, I suppose you're referring to Java or C# frameworks. Are those frameworks able to generate code for relations as well? (I suppose this requires following naming conventions or setting referential constraints)
Gevent, ZeroMQ, WebSockets, and Flot
The only knowledge I have of Radio Shack is when I went in and found the tinest of commodities - things like single LEDs and audio connectors and flashlights - to be priced so high it was almost unreal.

Is this still true of the place? Or did I go during a bad period in their history?
The constitution doesn't directly apply to convictions within google-world, but it does have some good ideas about justice:

The right to know the specific charges lodged

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_S...

"A defendant has the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him. Therefore, an indictment must allege all the ingredients of the crime to such a degree of precision that it would allow the accused to assert double jeopardy if the same charges are brought up in subsequent prosecution.[8] The Supreme Court held in United States v. Carll, 105 U.S. 611 (1881) that “in an indictment ... it is not sufficient to set forth the offense in the words of the statute, unless those words of themselves fully, directly, and expressly, without any uncertainty or ambiguity, set forth all the elements necessary to constitute the offense intended to be punished.” Vague wording, even if taken directly from a statute, does not suffice."

So the charges have to be specific enough. In this case, they are super general.

Pretty much all the other parts of justice are denied by google too (except the right to a speedy trial). These include the right to a public trial, an impartial jury, legal representation, the right to call witnesses in one's own favor, and the right to confront one's accusers.

Obviously Google is not required to give anyone these rights. But not even giving a semblance of them puts google on the evil side.

These rights aren't just made up for no reason - in the past people realized that just trusting leaders to do the right thing doesn't work, and gets corrupted. To stop this corruption they came up with ideas for how to make things more fair, and built systems around this. In some cases they even died to get these rights. Just trusting google to do the right thing is a scary, primitive way to deal with their power - and google seems to be wilfully ignoring that progress.
They don't seem to have the store space for all these things unless other things are going to go. Is this just in the catalog?
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can't speak for tshtf, but yesterday I just put my gmail details in Mail an it spent most of the night donwloading my entire gmail history. I'm a bit more comfortable knowing I now have a local copy
Yes, in retrospect, we can easily agree that you are correct.

I will just give here the answer that I posted in another thread http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2797371

the post was supposed to be "a story with the twist." Had I known that I was going to have hundreds of thousands of people reading the post, I would have followed the standard journalistic practice of writing a summary at the very first section. (See http://t.co/2kJEkJW for a copy of the post. Note: I asked the post to be taken down until I repost the original article but the journalist is really playing childish games.)

I kind of felt this a few hours after the post went out, so I added two clarification points early on in the article:

1. I am not giving up the fight, I will just fight differently, please see the conclusions (link),

2. This was not about NYU and people cheating in business schools; people cheat everywhere: the story gives an explanation why they remain undetected.

Oh well, people could not even read these two points.

But I want to write stories in my blog, not papers with an abstract, executive summary and table of contents.
Ask HN: What happens if your landing page doesn't collect enough emails?
Regarding setting up a landing page to collect emails, to gauge the interest in a prospective idea/product.

If all things go well, you get a sizable enough mailing list to launch with.

However, what if you only get say 20, and determine it not enough to move forward with the app? Best to just leave those people and move on? Or a courtesy email?
That's awesome! I remember 20 years ago radio shack was amazing for me as a child hobbyist. Now I only go there for obscure sized batteries (so once every 2 years). Let's hope they can revive the original spirit.
All of them worked on my iPhone 4 with the QR Qrafter app.
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For a game hackathon I built an engine/CMS for creating phone-based choose your own adventure stories (http://uchoos.com). It's not actually a commercial product yet but I won $250 from twilio, so it's technically profitable.
Google Analytics does it too, which makes approx. 85% of all web sites you visit.
hey pal, i'm not going to go around righting every one of you people who thinks they know what they are talking about. but since i'm here anyway, even though i already said this, i don't know a goddam thing about google adsense or adwords. period. i wouldn't know how to make money from scamming google even i wanted to.
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Alright, cool. So how is it called in vim? ;)
The "Barcode Scanner" app in the Android market had trouble with the first one, and the one with the panda in it. Google Goggles had no trouble with any of them.
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Compress the messages of the people you follow
I wonder if there exists a chance they will notice their current downward trend, look back at their heyday, and do an about-face?
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ahahaha. ok. yeah. there are tons of us all pretending that we don't have the same profile. even saying that is confusing.

and the thing about anonymous in my building is very true, look it up. bushwick bk. ny post. i don't know the specifics. but i did have breakfast two days ago with someone who knew the tenants and let's just say i don't want to know and he didn't want to tell me what was going on.
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The guy is a bit of a masochist isn't he? Bouncing from one intractable problem to the next.
Well, that's putting it mildly. This is, in fact, the humanities kool-aid. It's all very emperors-new-clothes. But think of it this way: this guy just got himself a degree of questionable worth. He has to justify it to himself somehow, and "I'm part of a special club and you aren't" is one way to do that.

Yes this is an ad-hominem attack, but this guy is full of s--- and deserves it.
are they even still called "Radio Shack"? or is it "The Shack" now? They use to be the most amazing place ever, and would supply components and things to keep you busy beyond your wildest imagination. and at cheap prices too! Some kids went to the mall for the arcade. Radio Shack was my arcade. But that was decades ago..
One namespace you are going to want..
I had heard something like this a few weeks back--that Radio Shack is going to start stocking more components again. Discussing it with my co-workers, we decided they probably can't make as much on the old business model any more. Every time I've been, they try to sell me a cell phone, but there are cell phone stores in every town already. Everything they sell is available at Best Buy for comparable prices (with better selection), or on Amazon for far cheaper.

I look forward to a day when perhaps Radio Shack will sell kits and electronic components... even if it's more expensive than Digikey. There aren't really any nationwide brick-and-mortar electronics stores, but there are plenty of consumer electronics + cell phone stores... I'd love to see Radio Shack making money with a new business model.