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It says nothing about online advertising. Reddit is pretty much the worst website to try and advertise to. The community is extremely anti-advertising, anti-capitalism anti-big-companies, etc etc. Coupled with that I don't think the demographic is one that spends big money. They're not shopping for holidays or cars, they're mainly wasting time.

Your comment has been upvoted to the top (I believe) because unfortunately that same culture of anti-advertising spills over to HN.

Remember. Google made $9bn last quarter, mostly from online advertising. A massive amount of that (about half?) went to 3rd party websites. There's money in this game...

All this post says is "Donations are successful for some value of 'success'".

If it was really all that successful, I don't think all the employees would have left.
Essays are inherently problematic in most fields, because they're effectively always at least partially graded on the quality of writing, which doesn't have any connection with how well something was learned (which should have a connection with grade). Some profs separate it out better than others, but students usually have only vague or zero knowledge about who falls where, so the default approach is that, regardless of what the prof states, writing quality matters. Copying from someone who is a better writer than you is a sure-fire way to sound better, which usually leads to a disproportionately-higher grade than an equivalent amount of copying simply the information.

If I write extremely poorly, the pain of reading through it taints what data exists. The irritation lowers the perception, which lowers the grade. It's a pretty well known phenomenon, lots of studies supporting it, probably most classically known as: sitting in a hard chair makes you more "hard" in your dealings with people.

Note that your example with the presentations only supports the belief that the delivery of the proof-of-learning matters. Not that there's a way to fix it, of course - awesome results are awesome, and should be encouraged. It's simply that I wish more professors were (more acutely?) aware of it, so it would (hopefully) have less impact. I would think that there would be a bit less cheating if delivery didn't matter.
Is it everyone's belief who reads hacker news that the number of successful terrorism attacks would not go up if we eliminated all airport security?

Yes! You are very astute! Everyone here believes that we should eliminate all airport security (even though none of us were brazen enough to actually write it)! Now that you have identified that fact, you may write 200 words arguing against it and proving how silly we all are.
I don't know if you can blame it completely on school. They also watch their films subbed, not dubbed.
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And even if you were, you have to make sure that your listeners understand you, too.
A bit too meta for a comment maybe, but ah well.

You're getting downvoted quite a bit in the comments in this thread I see, even for this one which seems very factual and without any reason to downvote. I guess it's because the average age of the audience of HN has gravitated downwards over the last year or two, and that many readers are still students who identify much more naturally with your students than with yourself; causing you to start with a disadvantage in the pathos department, so to speak.

I guess it's the same dynamic that is causing the discussion on the business-type articles to be much more, well, anti-business nowadays.

Anyway, just to say that I feel sorry for you for having to work in a system that is set up in such a way (by no individual's fault, btw) that those with the best intentions are destined for failure. It reminds me of my experiences with doctors in a hospital I've been interacting with a lot lately, who share your fate - they all mean very well but the deck is stacked against them in the form of a dysfunctional system they have to work in. My wife is a professor too and I recognize your dilemmas all too well; I've posted about it here in the past, but back in those days I still got upvoted for it ;)
Ah! I have another example like that. Sometimes people use the term 'quantum leap' to describe some huge change. As it turns out, a quantum leap is a very small change in the state of an electron, a very tiny event, nothing to write home about.
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Plus there is this comment: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2330342&cid=367...

"Facebook is an American company. Since when did any American ever use the term "advert"? Seriously, Americans do not say this. The shortened form of "advertisement" in the U.S. is "ad," not "advert." Any claim otherwise makes me want to see the actual text of the original email, if one did indeed exist. Furthermore, companies do not let random employees write emails about corporate policy and send them out without having them reviewed and vetted for language. This sounds like someone (from the UK) is using the press to hype up his own business at Facebook's expense."
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Say what you want about human perception of randomness, but I definitely find the raindrops to be more visually appealing than pseudo or quasi random.

As was said in the other comments, it seems to me that the distinguishing feature is the average spacing around each point, most likely caused by droplets aggregating when too close.

This is one of those things that always drives me crazy with iTunes shuffle feature with the dj thing, repeat frequency. Yes, I want random, no, I don't want songs to repeat immediately. If someone could fix this with a pseudo-quasi "random" algorithm I'd be eternally grateful.
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For me it's the opposite. My passive vocabulary is rather big, but I can't think of all those words when I am speaking.
I'm a native speaker, and I got a server error. Does that mean I'm illiterate?
When you have a million JPEG images, you would need to generate a sprite on-the-fly every time a random subset of those images is requested. You have to decode the images and encode the sprite each time. That sounds really slow.

Better convert them to Base64 and just concatenate the ASCII strings. Store each Base64 string text file next to the image file.

I agree however that they should use JPEG for their Base64 sprites.
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As an LA resident engineer myself, my theory (backed by an extensive amount of no facts whatsoever), is that engineers are more likely to "end up" in LA than to deliberately move there.

Almost every coworker I have had is in LA because they needed to move closer to family due to illness, they moved there because their girlfriend/wife is in some grad school program at UCLA, their girlfriend/wife is trying the acting/performing thing for awhile, etc. Engineers in situations like those don't have much flexibility in taking much under market rates and basic perks (namely health insurance).

Also, as Paul Graham said in one of his essays, Los Angeles' identity is "you should be famous," and unfortunately, software engineering isn't known for breeding famous people outside of our TechCrunch echo chamber. In the Bay Area, founding a successful startup makes you a rock star. In Los Angeles, just about the only thing you can do to be a rock star is to be a rock star.
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>>The pseudorandom pattern has both tight clusters and large voids.

This is similar to the distribution of galaxies due to gravity within the observable universe: http://astronomia.net/cosmologia/cfAsurvey.gif
Each university and individual course has its own collaboration guidelines. Collaborating with a friend on a part of the assignment could be completely kosher. Not enough information to judge.
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What you say about reddit is true, but that doesn't necessarily meant that online advertising works, either.

I've never earned more than a pittance from any of the ads on my sites.
Crikey. I failed my degree because I'm lazy and hate lectures and exams (and see them as a perverse way to test someone's ability to actually do something), but I feel less bad knowing that so many people who passed were cheats. Fuck dishonesty man.
Real SSL clients are supposed to use SSL session resumption. Benchmarking with a client that only negotiates new sessions hardly reflects real-life usage.
I went to a school in Virginia and while they spoke a good deal about what the penalties for cheating were the actual punishment was much tamer than what the student handbook would have you believe. Out of all the cheaters that I've met, and people speak pretty freely when inebriated, not one of them was ever kicked out of school.

The professors knew who the cheaters were and the cheaters knew what they were doing but when it actually came time to present the evidence to the academic review board the accused had a lame, but valid, excuse or tried the emotional appeal (death in family, drug abuse, child abuse).
Ironically, he's getting far more publicity out of being banned than if they would have just left his ad up ...
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Yep, totally. I got "Is reddit down?" from over a year ago, with 14 points, linking just to reddit.com. Clearly not a top post. Default the points to >=50 at least, possibly with an option for users to set it.

Great idea though.
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You can get your ads served in selected subreddits.

Regarding your second point, you may have to personalize it in order to run a successful campaign on Reddit, but the returns can be good and manifold, especially for a startup.

See http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/my-duck-duck-go-... for a detailed report of a Reddit ad campaign.
I hope "a major scripting language" is part of the enumeration of technologies that "coders know". Not a description of SQL.
Then respectfully, you're doing it wrong.

There's unfortunately a lot of people who believe all you need to do is slap ads on any website and watch the money come in. It actually takes time, effort, learning, and to some extent skill to know what will work and what won't work. You either need targeted users with intent, or you need more users.

Saying you can't make money from online advertising is like a non-programmer saying you can't write a tetris game. They're saying that because they haven't learnt to program yet and so it seems impossible to them.

> that doesn't necessarily meant that online advertising works, either.

The fact that Google paid out $4bn or whatever last quarter to 3rd party websites surely shows that online advertising works.
Yes, caching is only for the exact subset.

But you could do your own little client side cache. When receiving the url/img-data pairs, just store them in the HTML5 browser storage database, as key:url/value:img-data pairs. Then you are independent from the grouping into subsets.

And before requesting your next image sprite, just check with the client side data storage what images you already have and which you need to request.
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I didn't find his reasoning in favor of raising the ceiling very convincing. It's just saying "these people are in favor too", and it's all the usual suspects with vested interests. That doesn't make them wrong but just not very convincing.

What does make not raising the ceiling very convincing is that it's called a 'ceiling' and it's not a ceiling if you raise if every couple of weeks as seems to be the fashion, it's been put in place by wise men of the past to keep repeating previous mistakes and Greece shows what happens if you don't have a ceiling.
Umm.. shouldn't the points be adjusted for HN traffic growth?
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I think the big mistake Facebook is making here is showing fear. Every time they close down a path for contact export, spread FUD (e.g. Zuckerberg leaving Google+ for "privacy" reasons) and so on they make it very, very clear that they're terrified of Google+'s potential and they're going to do everything they can to stop it.

The problem is that Facebook isn't the late-90s Microsoft. They don't have the raw monopoly power to stop people from leaving for Google+, they need to persuade them. And every move they make to try and force people to stay (instead of enticing them) makes more people want to leave.

Perhaps the Ad ban story isn't what it seems, I'll reserve judgement on that. But it certainly fits the Facebook's overall Google+ pattern.

Contrast this with Twitter's reaction. Google+ circles can be used asymmetrically, so they're equally in danger. However, unlike Facebook, they've ignored Google+, at least AFAICT. When Google+ was announced I actually thought Twitter was in the weaker position, but I'm starting to think I was wrong.
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Not sure why the distinction base/bonus matters. What counts is the total one makes at the end, no matter how it's divided.

Re: 150k, outside of the Valley & NYC, significantly less.
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Hi there, great ideas! I agree the hard way is the way to go, it's how I got started myself. Thanks for the suggestion re: physics lectures, sounds really good.

Pygame is an awesome idea too, actually you've inspired me to put Ubuntu on an old notebook and give it to him so he has something to hack on (right now he shares his parent's Macbook.) Nothing too flashy but should be enough to get him going at least with some 2D stuff.

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It says a lot about online advertising. Google makes a packet, random websites with ads not so much. I think the alleged counter culture of reddit is massively overstated with respect to their imperviousness to ads. Its just one of those things redditors like to congratulate themselves over.
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And in other news, I have first-hand reports from a professor in France using the same exam since the 1980's, each year using copies of the original version formatted with a typewriter.

My university has a lot of rules too, and the majority are worthless.
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Thanks for reminding me of Project Euler, great idea.

I haven't heard about any of these books (I grew up in Germany) but I've forwarded the list to his parents. Cheers, much appreciated!
And also a way to may be down vote/eliminate certain posts.
Eg:What's new in PostgreSQL 9.0 - a User's Perspective,382 days ago. Wont be much useful.
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The point of these assignments, in case you don't realize, is not to write something new or groundbreaking, it's to give students experience in doing research and writing. What they write about exactly isn't that relevant, it's the process of going through it. And by skipping that, the whole point is lost.

Not sure if I'm feeding a troll here, but the amount of 'why do I have to read this book, I will never need what's in it anyway'-style failure to understand the purpose of deliberate practice is high so you may actually believe yourself that your argument makes sense.
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Sure, but the guy freely admits that he is not yet very experienced with Javascript. My own personal experience with it was definitely love/hate for the first 6 months or so, but once I started figuring out what idiomatic Javascript looks like, it started seducing me. My current project is a roughly 50/50 split of Javascript and C - at the start I preferred to do things in C if possible, and avoid Javascript, but now the reverse is true.
For what it's worth, it occurred to me right away. If you spend any time learning about and solving continuous optimization problems, one of the first patterns you notice is the existence of criteria that narrow possible optima to a finite number of possible points. For example, using basic calculus on differentiable optimization functions these are the "critical points". In linear programming, we can consider only the vertices of the polytope defined by the constraints.

If such reasoning doesn't occur to you right away, you might also discover this fact by considering a candidate rectangle and considering how changing it slightly changes the discrepancy. A very simple kind of change would be one in which no points enter or leave the rectangle, which leads to this observation.
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Right, and total compensation for skilled software engineers is easily more than $150K. So in an apples-to-apples comparison, the techies don't come out so bad.

The bulk of the NYU grads cited in the statistics above were working in the Northeast (presumably NYC), so again, comparing them to Silicon Valley engineers is totally apples-to-apples. If anything, it's unfair to the Silicon Valley folks, as cost of living is higher in Manhattan than SV.
Yes, reddit is mostly anti-advertising, but it is not a 'hardcore pornography' site. Vast Majority of people don't go there only to look at porn.
"My PhD experience, " <snip> "--- everyday was a day of glory, pursuing my passions;"

Holy smokes, that's the first time I heard anyone describe their PhD experience with positive words; and not just any, either. Congratulations.
I'm French; my estimate is 39,400.

I've been reading English since I was 13 or so - quite possibly the bulk of my reading has been in English (a quirk of mine).
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Actually, that's not what he said - what he said was that cheating happened in the same ethnic groups, but he didn't say that it happened more in certain groups than in others.

Which is not to say that one couldn't make such distinctions, I think - but blogging about that would be sure career-suicide.
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I am really not convinced that a taxpayer-funded body should be promoting one particular mobile brand over another. Where are the iPhone, BB and Windows apps for this?
"Interestingly, the Google Apps Scripting language appears to be a (civilized) form of JavaScript, and it looks very powerful"

This doesn't really compute. Google Apps Script is a (very cool) JavaScript API to interact with Google Apps. It's not a replacement for JavaScript, it's not a language at all.

"you read it you begin to understand why it's taken so long for AJAX libraries to appear"

It did take a long time, but libraries have been around for many years now (e.g. Dojo since 2004 and jQuery since 2006).

Saying that, the article has a valid point about the language being hard to use without such libraries. The trends in the video he linked to ("Learning to Love JavaScript") will begin to address that, but it will take time. There's the risk of browser fragmentation and the large legacy base.
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Google's something of an outlier in that they make the market for a ton of online ads, though, aren't they?

It's evident that it works for some markets and sites, but it just seems to be quite difficult compared to charging money for a product.
What's so unfortunate about being against advertising? Maybe some of us don't like to have sales pitched without consent.
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Not sure I follow the logic of this article - starts with closures, moves on to somehow conditionally endorse Flex/ActionScript, references you off elsewhere without being specific, talks about closures again, then complains about standardisation with Browsers in general (W3C and CSS) included.

What's the beef here? Does ActionScript (JavaScript's ECMAscript cousin) provide something that JavaScript should have? Admittedly ActionScript does hide a lot of the nastier parts of prototypical inheritance / closures / etc from you, but you also lose a bit of power in that. From a pure language point of view the two also have a lot in common.

Part of the argument is around standardisation and varying implementations - and on the same for the APIs rather than the language - but that's another debate entirely... and probably one that has little to do with the use of closures.

Probably some valid points here, but I can't see it making any conclusion to take away.
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