skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I believe that there is a 1%-2% of blatant cheater everywhere, and a significantly bigger percentage of students that take liberties with their homework assignments. (Asking people for help, looking at solutions, collaborating in individual assignments, etc). There is no clear black and white separation of "cheaters" vs "honest" but a full spectrum of gray.

Regarding the parable, I see the point and how what I wrote could be interpreted in the way that you describe. My intention was to refer to the city as the whole academic system. The "Redwich Village" is a reference to Greenwich Village, the neighborhood in NYC where NYU is located.

So, Redwich Village stands for my institution, which was attacked ferociously as being the harbor of cheaters over the last few days, while people fail to recognize that this is most probably a more generic problem. You may claim that I overgeneralize without proof, but I have sufficient evidence from other people that this is the case. Especially after all the emails that I received within the last few days where people described their own experiences with cheating that were very similar (most did so anonymously, but with specific names of top universities around the world).
not a fresh insight

James Hague would know this as he was the second replier to van Roy in the thread you cite. Freshness of the insight is hardly the point.

I'm glad you posted it, though. It's a good discussion. I particularly agree with this formulation of van Roy's: It is the overall simplicity of the system that counts, not whether it is written in a functional or stateful style. Using true state in the right places makes the system simpler overall.
Pair programming should not involve watching somebody else solve a problem. A good pair programmer knows how to involve even junior colleagues in the hunt for a solution.

I agree that things stick better when they're harder. On the other hand, when pairing I learn ways of solving problems that would never occur to me. And it's not like when pairing nothing's hard; I think I have just as many in-the-shower ahas when on a team that pairs.
Planet Money is actually a co-production of This American Life and NPR, and there's often a lot of overlap (for example, they devoted a full TAL episode to Toxie, a story that was developed over several episodes of the Planet Money podcast).
Is that me or mee (noodles) or mi (musical note, do-ray-mi...)?

;0)
Thank you for this essay. I understand that it's not, as some have already pointed out, particularly disinterested, but it set me to thinking, which is enough for me.

This essay calls for a return to hard problems. The "problem" with hard problems isn't that they're hard. That's actually exactly what we need about them. It the unyielding character of hard problems which makes them worth dedicating ourselves to. The greatest difficulty is not solving the problem (which isn't even strictly necessary to benefit from the investigation), but rather, in giving ourselves to the problem in the first place. How can we choose a problem when there are so many possibilities and we have so little foresight?

If we lived in a vacuum, the choice would be impossible or arbitrary. Luckily, our lives are not vacuums. The "real problems" (the things that matter to us, which come into our lives whether we like it or not, and generate actual experiences of significance) provide a point of departure. Real problems aren't technological in nature, but that doesn't mean they don't lead the way towards challenging technical projects. The space race didn't start as an engineering problem. It was the result of the longing of a people, of their hope and anxiety for the future. But as a result of that longing, of that fear and excitement, a lot of smart people dedicated themselves to hard technical problems and produced a huge array of breakthroughs. The trick, then, is to remain attentive to the problems around us, rather than giving into the temptation to ignore or adapt to them.

In order to refocus ourselves on the hard problems, it helps to acknowledge that they are what we want -- that we aren't really satisfied with a day's salary and that we want to push forward towards a life's work. Wouldn't everyone prefer to work on something substantial, on a 'hard problem' for the sake of a 'real problem'? I think so, but we often don't know where to start.

Can technology help us get started? I don't think "a Facebook" or "a Wikipedia" for hard problems is the answer, although either might help. In order to maintain the kind of excitement and reciprocal encouragement necessary to sustain a culture of hard-problem-solving, you need to put smart people who respect each other into the same physical space. You need to make hard- and real-problem-solving a lifestyle in order to overcome the creeping inertia of the trivial. This is why universities retain their relevance. They're a concentrated mix of intelligence, experience, and youthful idealism. They contain lots of people who think about "hard problems" (science, engineering) and "real problems" (philosophy, history, social thought). Universities have their own issues, of course. They suffer from institutional pressures that have more in common with the banalities of commerce and politics than with any dedicated enthusiasm. Historically they have been very successful, but it may be that the next wave of innovation will come from a less traditional source, perhaps from the real-life communities that sprout up around virtual groups like this one.
The JPL release also captions the picture with "This artist's concept illustrates..." Engadget didn't even bother. I really hate it when that gets left out.
Leo Tolstoy and static code analysis (or PVS-Studio VS Apache HTTP Server)
As an hummvee gunner in Iraq in 2009, we had a manual device to drop the gunner if something happened. The device was indeed used in a humorous fashion a few times. I wonder how it would be done fast enough when performed automatically to be effective.

As far as cramped goes, space is definitely at a premium, especially leg room, once you get all your gear on (and imo riding in one of those things without gear wasn't all that comfortable).
If you don't have friends to talk to and to listen to on a social media service, don't be on that social media service.
The point is that a system-wide focus on selling to the government isn't desirable. Likewise, I would think that a system-wide focus on selling to venture capitalists to be similarly undesirable.

The NY subway isn't a good comparison, at all. Most people would still use and pay for the subway, even it were privatized. On the contrary (which is specifically stated in the article) the rent-a-bikes don't seem to be needed by consumers. Whether consumers really want the bikes is unknown, but that isn't the point he's making.
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Indian traditional sarees(saris) are draped at festivals, weddings and many other ceremonies. Bengalis wear a Bengali traditional sarees(saris) for the DurgaPooja.
Rollovers were actually the number two cause of death when I was in Iraq in 2009. I've never seen an MRAP rollover, but we were always a bit edgy about it happening.
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Could there be life inside of this water?
GClient: free desktop Google + client.
Nope. If the quasar were 12 billion light-years away when the light was emitted, the light would never have even reached us! In this scenario, the distance between the quasar and Earth that the light needs to traverse would undergo metric expansion that would hugely outpace any progress made by the light's motion (more precisely, its peculiar motion) in the direction of Earth.
The Media’s Creepy Fascination with China’s Fake Apple Store
Ask HN: What is your favorite Java IDE?
I am new to the world of Java. I have written a ton of code in C++/Python but somehow I find my usual tool Vim not as usable for writing Java code. Since I cant get away without writing Java code, I would greatly appreciate some recommendations on good Mac OSish IDEs apart from the monster in the room (Eclipse). I tried Eclim but it didn't exactly work as well I expected it too.
Why care about converting to SSA, when your objective is to convert to CPS?
PDF version: http://www4.in.tum.de/~blanchet/api-design.pdf
"I know that I know nothing, therefore I am wise."
- Socrates
What is the deal with the Engadget headline? Is it supposed to be a joke? The black hole claims it was just hydrating? I'm trying to accept the silly/weird premise in good humor, but I still don't "get" why the figurative humanish black hole is defensive about converting water vapor to energy.

Maybe there's an obscure sci-fi or Seinfeld reference I'm missing.
Learning C++ and Getting Into Game Development
Summer to winter in one forward step
Ah, I see. So you are saying that now, that you know for sure, that they were good opportunities, you should have invested. But back then, when it wasn't that clear that they were good ideas, you were reluctant to.
With Boomerang for Gmail, you can send a message/receive at a random time. You might want to ask them how popular it is before pushing forward.
From the article:

"However, no attempts have been made to optimize the Java VM, the SQL queries, etc"

Emphasis being on optimizing the sql. We have run tests comparing neo4j and postgres, and postgres comes out with greater throughput for our data set, where our database implementation was done people who know postgres extremely well. Where you will see especially great differences is aggregate queries, such as if you want to count the number of a certain type of connections coming into a set of nodes, and then sort these nodes by that number. A sql database is much better at stuff like that.
I think I now know what my problem with Twitter is. I'd like to follow some developers I like, but I just don't feel like reading about their personal life or random thoughts. And this seems to be a big part of any personal Twitter stream.
Hopefully you abstracted as much of the database code as possible, so you can switch to (for example) MySQL without serious pain. This only gets tricky if you're using some of the more fancy features of Redis, like sorted sets, which are a bit more clunky to do in SQL.
Great! Already much improved.
Ask HN Women: Improving or Having Confidence.
Since, I met my current girlfriend she has talked about changing jobs. When I listen she talks about how she missed out and is now stuck where she is.

For a number of reasons, I just don't accept this piece of logic, so, I challenge it. It's nearly impossible for me to be a hacker, painter, entrepreneur type and to accept that the time to succeed for anyone has passed.

What advice would you give to a young women with bills to pay, and a good degree on finding the path to a successful career?

I currently think it's more of a lack of confidence than it is a lack of skill or potential. As a loving boyfriend how can I help?

As a guy, I just can't, just listen to it. I strongly feel that if you are going to dream of something that you need to go after it or give it up. It's a waste of emotional energy to hold on to things that you will in the far future attempt.

Currently I have thought about getting her into a career planing class, which she seems excited about, but I am not sure that is enough.

She has talked about going back for a master's degree, but I fear that is just another way to skip out of having to be evaluated at a job interview which is really intimidating to some.
Minor[1] nit: quicksort is not a problem, it's a solution to a problem. The problem in question in efficient general-purpose sorting.

1. It may not be such a minor nit. Too often comparisons are made based on implement algorithm X where the algo is something that is specific to, say, imperative programming. This leads to endless and mostly meaningless arguments.
Reminds me of a friend's snail-based email service [1] which also had slow delivery time.

[1] http://www.realsnailmail.net/
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i just noticed matt's comments at the top. and i'm going to respond without getting angry and without using profanity. but matt, if you know what it is that google thinks i did, and after all of this, you are still not telling me, i am dumbfounded. if that is true then you really need to consider your terms of service and your public relations department. i'm getting about 5 messages a minute about this on twitter.
Ask HN: why so critical?
Something I've noticed as of late: a good majority of comments on a post are extremely critical or negative.

Example: post on X is on the front page. The top 5 comments are long-form attacks on why "post on X" is completely mistaken.

Now, don't get me wrong, as these are often useful insights, but many of them are unnecessarily hostile, and well, just unnecessary to begin with. It's not-that-difficult to be both insightful and non-critical.

Any particular reason for this? Just a symtom of analytically-minded folk on the Internet? Perhaps it's easier to be negative and critical than positive and constructive?

And, finally, do you see it as a good or bad thing?
> it's not even communcating. It's more like writing something on a wall hoping that your neighbors happen to see it and take interest.

It needn't be even remotely like that.

You're kind of arguing from ignorance. And I can't, for the life of me, see why. It's okay to not know about some things. And it's okay to not have your curiosity draw you to certain things. But when it's pretty clear you have no idea what you're talking about, why go on asserting that ignorance as fact instead of asking questions and learning more? Why enshrine your ignorance in lengthy words, insisting others take a bite?

Here's what it's most like, for me:

IRC. Where you're the bouncer and the channel contains whomever you'd like.

The messages are brief but that's their only resemblance to SMS. 140 characters is more than ample to share thoughts or directions toward interesting content. There's plenty of communication, if you choose to use it that way.
Wow. Good link, but I thought this wasn't supposed to be available until tomorrow?
and based on what other people have said about you i do belive you are an honest person. and if i really have violated the terms of service in some way, what in gods name could i have done that was so small for me to have not noticed it yet so large as to warrant shutting down my entire account and blacklisting me???
Not all CC licenses are free for commercial use, though. In fact, most of them aren't. And you're right that one has to have all the relevant copyrights to avoid legal hot water. I think that there's a different right for just about every little piece, from the arrangement of the music to the lyrics to the recording and performance rights.

Combine those two points and you see that getting strings-free music is a little harder than usual. And precedents like that nonsense about a 5-note hook from a long time ago don't help when it comes to issues of derivative works.
Crypt of the Capuchins
According to the JPL article linked above, the water vapor is "300 trillion times less dense than Earth's atmosphere." So it sounds like the cloud may as well be empty vacuum as far as life is concerned.
...if you want it to be.

What it actually is is plumbing that you can configure more or less how you'd like. So it can be what you described. Or it can be any number of other things.
My comment was not meant to disparage James, so there's no need for you to valiantly leap to his defense. It was just an attempt at putting his observation into a wider context. :)
I'm not famous, and twitter is awesome. I use it to keep up with my friends and it works fantastically well. If you don't have friends who use twitter or don't have friends maybe your experience would be different.
My biggest gripe is some of the apps, drivers, etc... are not compatible. Some don't work at all, some have limited functionality. Things behave weird (in an unnatural way). Outside of these things so far, the OS is a major improvement. If anything, I would recommend holding off on upgrading just yet for those that haven't. I went back to Snow Leopard for now.
Just a side project, as far as pushing forward, I'm pretty done :)
Discalmer these numbers are totally made up.

Now that I got that out of the way,

80% of people are going to say Eclipse.
10% are going to say Netbeans
10% are going to say IntelliJ

I personally like Netbeans, I was a little worried when Oracle took it over, but so far they have been pretty good with the Netbeans project. I like Netbeans because it feels "bolted together" it feels like the IDE was built on a cohesive vision, where Eclipse many times feels cobbled together to me.

If you don't like monster IDE's then you will probably have some heart burn with all three and most Java IDE's most are trying to provide enterprise tooling because that is Java's core market. Given that they have to target that market to get any mindshare you get a lot of bloat. To me though I would say IntelliJ and Netbeans stay out of you way more than Eclipse does. I also like Netbeans because I do quite a bit of JavaScript work and Netbeans has the best Javascript development and debugging support out of the 3.
Major improvement why?
s/use/using/. I hate not being able to edit my comments.
* If you don't like that punishment, you shouldn't have signed up.*

Alternatively, we could make arguments for why that is a bad idea, post them on a public forum, and hope that Google sees it.
first of all i am absolutely pro-wikileaks. that shouldn't even be a statement i have to make. that's like saying "why yes, i am pro-truth." those people are the definition of patriots and they're not even from my country.
secondly, i can't imagine google would be dumb enough to actually think that even if someone did use my account for something like that. i would hope that the most powerful corporation would notice the change in behavior if someone was one day uploading pictures of hiking to my picasa account and emailing my sister and the next day hacking into the cia. i should hope that they would suspect they weren't the same person.
also, why is the text on this website so small? rhetorical question.
Fascinating post, and I mostly agree except for this one:

> A world that is feminized, where men are taught to grovel for a women's affection, and to earn their attention with gucci and prada, paid by their mcjob

Any man fitting that description has only himself to blame. Women don't want metros, they want real men (real man == doesn't care what others think, lives by his own rules.)

Anyway, great post, possibly the greatest post.
Nice one :). Good tool to add a little randomness into life - several months is enough time to forget about all the messages one sent to one's friends. And then, one day, somebody gets the message and replies... :).
UPDATE - that's all for today

I will now reply to all emails,thank you for patience.
Please don't send any new request today

Thank you all for response
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Some programs are better than others.

The Planet Money / This American Life team brings tears to my eyes they're so good. While I won't say they don't have any sacred cows (I don't know that they do or don't), they're certainly not afraid of skewering many articles of faith.

I've also been a long, long time listener of Terry Gross's "Fresh Air", and it seems to me that it improved markedly during the aughts by tackling serious political issues. I don't know if that change is my perception or the program (my first memories are of its coverage of the Clarance Thomas Supreme Court nomination).

On The Media is also usually pretty good, though it can be a little uneven.

I have to say that the anchor programs -- Morning Edition / ATC, and Talk of the Nation -- have lost much of their edge. ToTN particularly seems to play to drama rather than fundamentals (its Political Junkie segment especially, starting with the intro soundbites all of which are sensationalistic).

APM's financial programs (Marketplace Radio / Marketplace Money) wouldn't know sound financial advice and perspective if it gave them a black eye. Internet sources rule here, largely on the sacred cow basis (and TAL/PM blow them out of the water).

But overall, it's among the better of the large broadcast organizations.
> This guy did really dumb stuff with Adwords or Adsense and got caught.

If that were the case then why can't Google disclose this to him when they close his account? (And perhaps, though this is a separate issue, then even give him a chance to defend his position -- you know, like they do in The Real World?)
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huh? i think people are assuming that i know way more about computers than i actually do.
Did you try booting in 32 bit mode, I have found most of the apps that did not work would work if I booted into 32 bit mode.
I'd love to see some example footage from the DVD. It's a fantastic idea.
Check out the teardown from iFixit for the last model.

I just did, and there are only four steps:

1. Twist the plastic base, and it comes off: no screws.

2. Remove the fan: three screws.

3. Remove the Wi-Fi antenna plate: four T8 Torx screws.

4. Remove the hard drive: two screws.

Are we looking at the same guide? http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac-Mini-Mid-2011-Teardown/61...
Member of the KA team here. We're in the final stages of getting this new exercise framework live. If you're interested in contributing towards the new framework or helping our beta testing efforts, please check out https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises/wiki/Getting-Involved (if you're interested in helping out our beta, look for the hipchat room on the wiki page).
Thanks, I'll be sure to enable replying to the originating email address... :)
"Over a year"? Given that the canvas element was introduced in 2004, I suppose this is accurate.

I agree, I am also mystified by how people are consistently impressed with game demos that say little more than "See, we can now do some of the things that Flash has been able to do for ten years, as long as you run the right browser."
Can you do Google App Engine in Netbeans?
right? what am i going to do? post offensive articles to my reader account?
Sounds worked for me in the latest Windows nightly build.
A patent is an explicit grant of a right to monopolize a market. The whole point is to restrict free trading and competition.
Many don't like eclipse at first. I think it's really a personality thing, but it also depends on what kind of work you're doing.

If you're writing core Java, like a library or something, a text editor ought to do. You could also try IntelliJ community edition.

If you're doing JEE, Spring, OSGi, or mobile stuff, you'll actually want a true IDE. Don't think it's unclean to use one. Consider the IDE part of your toolchain. It's not so much the code completion and syntax highlighting as it is management of deployment descriptors, artifact formats, configuration management, and integrated build and deploy functionality.

If you want to get started with good, out-of-the-box functionality, go with NetBeans. It feels very integrated (that's the I, right?) and it has project templates with sane structures for almost every type of application you're going to build.

Eclipse has similar templates, but it's more of starting point that requires customization to really get rolling.

If you're new, see how NetBeans feels. Later down the line, when you're more comfortable with all of the internals of how JEE works, I'd recommend going back to Eclipse and looking at it with your new knowledge. Things will make a little more sense.
Is it information about pro teams/leagues? Or is it information on the sport itself?
Why take everything so hard? If you don't agree with whats being said just skip and read the comments that make you feel happy and warm inside. I have no opinion, but the beauty of anonymity and the internet, is things can be said that probably wouldn't in person. Its just the internet. What you consider negative, I may totally agree with. Its all relative.