skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to the future where the stupid with "credentials" will be ruling you.

While you're busy doing actual work, building something, they're building networks of support in your employer's structure to enable them to rise.

So when you explain something to them and get a blank look or questions that make it clear they haven't understood anything, you'll know why.

But hey, they have a Business Degree. They win, not you.

Me, bitter? maniacal laughter
Shhhhh... it's a secret!
I move: pareidolia.

Also, this oh-so-touching story smells way too much of 4chan/reddit style trolling.
The startup CEO's primary responsibility is keeping the company going, whether that means funding, sales, or product development. The problem is the current need can alter at a moment's notice.

There is a reason Bill Campbell (CEO of Intuit) said your first hire should be product management. I've written about that here: http://softwaremaven.innerbrane.com/2009/10/hire-product-man...

The article's general thought is right: early product management (we generally refer to it as customer development here) is critical. It is just too important to leave in her hands for long!
This is not very useful. It's essentially a directory that maps twitter ids to G+ profiles. If you're the first of your friends to sign up, you'll find no results.

Hard to categorize a tool as useful if it has social network effects (needs critical mass).

Note that by signing up you're giving up the profile association willingly into their database.
A housemate of mine had a very creative solution: as a teacher he said that he would give anybody who cheated a 0 and that appeals could be filed with the Dean's office to prove they did not cheat. Most importantly, nobody would be told if they had been caught cheating, the zero would just show up on their grades.

The system plays on the student's mind: when they submit the first assignment and cheat their motivation to bother to make the minimal effort to dick around with the next one waivers. Most of the cheaters apparently dropped before the midterms. Any whiners with the balls to claim they had not cheated get to make their case to the Dean and voluntarily submit themselves to the school judicial process, but this was generally unneeded as apparently most cheaters dropped the class before midterms. No whiners in your office, and the reviews of you as a teacher are in before you fail them. Seems like it addresses all your problems.
First sentence in the article: passengers refused to fly with two Arab-looking men looking at their watches.
Yea, I've gotten a lot of negative feedback on the clouds. That is one of the first things I am going to change. Thanks.
Sort of like Chrome. Firefox has becoming nothing more than the browser that copies Chrome from this point on. Its market share is already starting to slip away and it won't be long now before Firefox is the next Netscape Navigator.
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I admittedly don't know anything about squatters -- but if you were going to squat in order to own a house, why would you treat it like a rental? You're trying to take ownership, you would treat it like it was yours.

There must be some aspect to this that you all know about but I'm missing.
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?

It seems obvious to me that the following would occur more:
1) Mentally impaired people would attempt to hijack, bomb, or otherwise cause problems on planes with weapons.
2) Drunk or impaired by drugs (meth, coke, etc.) would attempt to hijack, bomb, or otherwise cause problems on planes.
3) Rouge individual terrorists would target planes rather than simply shoot up an office etc.
4) Organized terrorist organizations would target planes more often.

With the level of security we have today, it is still important to report what could be a terrorist attack in process. The person who reported the shoe bomber saved an entire plane full of people.

It is terrible that we live in a world where terrorism exists, but it does exist, and it will exist forever. The examples the author gave are described to make incidents involved seem ridiculous, but maybe there were other factors at play.

If you see something suspicious and you do nothing and a terrorist attack occurs that you could have prevented you are a coward who is responsible for the death of whatever number of people died in that attack.

You keep terrorists from winning by preventing successful implantation of their plans.
> Do all the stuff you can't do when you have kids. Have lots of sex.

Boy, there's a self-defeating setup if I ever saw one. <g>
20,700, Hong Kong Chinese living in the Bay Area.
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From the rest of his comment, it seemed reasonable to assume he meant "big" relative to most people's sense of fair play.

I'm having trouble picturing an argument for how a 25% cheating rate would be "small".
When you use words like "code of conduct" and "this sort of integrity" assumptively, as you have here, you invite criticism for an idea that would otherwise be almost so universally accepted as to be anodyne.

On just a second reading, I see the following issues:

* 1.3.2 ("edit" information) will be construed as a mandate that information never be archived (it needs to be "live" to be edited). This is for instance an issue with Twitter, which does not make it easy to find (let alone edit) Tweets from last year.

* 1.6 (least information required) precludes business models that exchange lowered (or no) fees in exchange for user data.

* 2.2.1 puts, in a "startup code of ethics", legal roadblocks to selling companies (do you or I know what is or isn't legally reasonable to promise in something like this? In lots of cases, a lawsuit can easily kill a deal.

* 2.3 puts obligations on a hypothetical third party company to run an extra service

* 2.3.1 requires a six month shutdown notice, by which standard half the companies announced on HN would potentially be required to notify their users at launch.

* 2.3.2 requires, for no apparent reason, startups to open source their software at wind-down --- never mind the fact that most funded startups can't do that, since they don't own the code.

* 2.3.4 says, direct quote: "If our shutdown is involuntarily (for instance, because of bankruptcy) the bankruptcy trustee will be bound by these terms"

Actually here I just stopped reading.

If a startup launched with this in their promise to user signups, I'd laud them. But the person who tries to bind other startups to these ideas under the aegis of "this is what integrity means" probably deserves some flak.
Why Is The World Run By Bean Counters?
That is not my understanding of what a "code of ethics" means.
That provides the same functionality of just using vector clocks, at ludicrously higher cost and complexity (and only addresses half the problem that Alex is discussing).

A big problem is that arbitrary DB writes after split brain (aka network partition) situations are much harder to 'unify' than bitcoin transactions. Check out the Dynamo paper (or Riak docs like: http://blog.basho.com/2010/01/29/why-vector-clocks-are-easy/) for details.

In some cases (e.g., shopping carts) conflict resolution is as easy as it is in bitcoin - but in most common applications it's far more difficult, if not impossible.
Because Turnitin is pretty terrible software and there are a lot of false-positives. I remember having to "explain myself" for an essay I wrote where what was copied was direct, cited quotes. It uses word pairs sometimes and will highlight any uncommon phrasing that someone may have used in the past.
He doesn't lose money, he gets a smaller raise.
When I first developing my startup I thought it was product first, but I soon realized it's customer first. CEO should give a high level direction of the company, connect with customers and feedback to the team. Sure he/she might give their opinions to the pixel level but that's not their primary job. If you're so hung up on building a great product as a CEO without spending enough time to validate with the market, you're wasting your time.
It is a deterrent. It is often easier to come up with an original sentence then sit around with a thesaurus.
Not a pacifist, but he was against the idea of a standing army. And really, after seeing how Britain's army was behaving at the time, I don't blame him. http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/2... The War of 1812 made it clear that any mechanized force could just walk all over us, and we needed a mechanized army simply for defense. This would require some industrialization.

Of course the War of 1812 didn't cause the industrialization of America, it was just one huge reason an economy based almost completely on agriculture wasn't going to work for us.
That was one disturbing article, on so many levels.

I cannot even imagine that someone caught doing this wouldn't be instantly suspended from school and possibly expelled. Why on earth are you in college if you want to cheat?

Even worse is a teacher that thinks it's "not worth pursuing".

That said, I do like his ideas of changing the assignments to deter cheating, but that doesn't make it right.

With such creativity to try to "fix" cheating, why wasn't one of his suggestions to have the teacher evaluations exclude scores from students that were caught cheating? This would stop the mis-aligned incentives that caused him to find a way to not report cheaters.
thanks... my immediate thought was... what about the bunny?
Typo. Palestinian. Fixed. Damn that was stupid.
No, look at the Vice President and whose pocket he was in. Guess who the largest percentage of contracts for Iraq was?
Iraq War was a jobs program for the industrial war machine framework. Not oil..gov contracts worth billions
To Be or Not To Be & Focus
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I'm sure that was the policy, but how often was it enforced? Most universities have draconian policies against cheating that are never enforced, except in the most egregious cases. It's extremely rare for any school to discipline as many people as this; when it does happen, it tends to be national news.
Ask HN: Strategy for password reset email vs URL to reset pwd
What do you guys think is a better and safer way to handle forgot password? Many sites out there reset and create a temporary password and send it in email in plain text.
Others normally ask you to provide email and send a link via which you can reset password. It probably is easier to reset password and send it for one time use in an email as long as it is hashed and stored.

What do you guys recommend?
I made a different conclusion. There are several problems, but the biggest is his approach.

Now, I'm not a teacher, and all those caveats. But in my imagination, my approach would be much less time-consuming. I cribbed this from my high school physics teacher. It involves little detective work and no long drawn out confessions.

When cheating is detected, simply send a note to the student with the following: "I'm aware that you cheated on this assignment. You have received a failing grade on it. The next instance of cheating will be referred to the honor board and you will fail the class." Any student who wished to contest the charge would be referred to the honor board immediately. Contest it with people whose job it is to handle this sort of thing. The policy on cheating would be posted at the beginning of class and strictly enforced.

The reason why this is so much more efficient is because the net time spent compared to a non-cheating assignment is probably negative. This is simply because you no longer have to read or grade the papers that are found to be copied. Since there is no conversation to be had with the student, there's also no extra time spent there. The only marginal cost is if a student wishes to appeal your verdict, but I doubt there will be much of that happening since the consequences would almost certainly be more severe.

This also solves the problem of bad ratings. There's no need to play the hard-ass in this situation, which is probably where the rating trouble comes from. Since the interaction is terse and factual, the students won't have much face-time in which to build resentment. You could even put something like, "I know you can complete this class successfully, which is why I'm not referring you to the honor board on the first offense. Please come to the TA's office hours if you're having trouble on your papers in the future. I look forward to working with you and helping you achieve your goals in this class" at the end of the email to put a positive spin on it. (Although the idea of having ratings come from people with whom the professor is in a somewhat adversarial relationship seems like one that could be improved.)

Anyway, I see where this guy is coming from but I'm not sure his is the right decision. Maybe I'm wrong though because as they say I have not walked a mile in his shoes.
I would like to do this for some subreddits I check too often as well. Maybe it could also be done for RSS feeds, using comment, Facebook like, and Twitter mention counts to determine which articles are more popular.
This isn't a startup, it's a website.
Honestly, what were you thinking about when you looked at her?
You seem to be disagreeing with Taseer's article, yet you give no concrete reasons or evidence -- only anecdotes. Do you also find it very hard to believe that Pakistan's hugely wasteful military is an artefact of its drummed-up animosity toward India?
1) I like the single-use token, but I'm interested in hearing others' perspectives.

2) Don't just hash. Use bcrypt, since it's probably got a library for you to use in your language (or database) of choice: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
What's the benefit? Can you leverage any Ruby libraries? Or is it Arduino development with Ruby syntax?
I only got ~22k and I managed to score in the top 15% on the GRE verbal portion not too long ago. So either people who take the GRE are on average below median or the results aren't quite accurate.
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Look if you want to level attacks at someone, level them at the administration. They gave this guy the catch-22 that led him to give up.
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Here's a better solution: let students plagiarize all they want. When they are about to get their degree, do an en masse review of all incidents of plagiarism for the student and, if it's egregious and beyond doubt, retroactively fail them for everything. The university keeps their tuition dues and the student gets what they're due.
We do use BCrypt. Trying to figure out if implementing an extra layer of sending an email with a link to reset password has advantages over just sending a one time changed password.
I have to agree with the criticisms of the gratuitous swearing. I swear like a sailor in person (and keep trying to tell my foul-mouthed younger son to get a better roll model than me) but I try hard most of the time to keep my online stuff "PG 13-ish". In my mind, the F word doesn't meet that standard.
Lots of similarities, one of the bigger differences is that Flask is standing on the shoulders of giants whereas Bottle is turtles all the way down. If a lack of dependencies is a big deal to you, then Bottle wins, but given Python's packaging system, I don't see situations where that would matter a lot.
The more important question we should be asking is if we really think that sacrificing freedom in the name of efficiency is a good idea. Freedom is equated with happiness, efficiency is equated with a lot of stuff. Have our mountains of stuff managed to solve world hunger? End wars? Do they make us happier? I think that it makes sense to increase efficiency up to a certain point, after which it has negative effects. That point is bringing people out of poverty, since studies have found that those are the only conditions under which money/stuff increase happiness.
Are there more HNers in Adelaide than I suspect?
No, they won't. They will just keep tweaking until it passes. Eventually, they will learn to tweak first, but that will simply make it impossible to ask them to write their own ideas.
Surprising that there's no physics engine integration like Chipmunk or Box2D.
Justin, I am the professor who wrote the article.

The 44 hours is not a number to show how much extra I had to work. Believe me, a 14-hour day is a pretty common thing for me. Teaching is only part of my overall job (I also have to do research, supervise PhD students, review papers, serve on committees and many other things).

The 44 hours figure is given just as a contrast to the actual time that I spent in class. I would much rather spend these 44 hours on helping students, on creating new assignments, on finding things in the news that are relevant to tomorrow's class and so on. Instead, these 44 hours were literally wasted on the students that should have been the least deserving. (When I had the student crying in my office, I had actually lines of students waiting outside to ask me questions about the material in the class. Most of them ended up leaving, as they could not wait for so long.)

Also blaming NYU/Stern for this is a rather shortsighted approach. I would not be surprised if the situation is identical in many other schools but just nobody has the incentives to fight cheating.

Just a note: My PhD is in computer science. I have a technical background. I code for fun, and I detected cheating in the Excel assignments using my own code.
I think in this situation, more arguements should be made that driving is not a privilege, it is an unfortunate necessity of modern life. What percentage of Americans could work without a car?
"I decided that it makes no sense to fight it. The incentive structures simply do not reward such efforts. The Nash equilibrium is to let the students cheat and "perform well"; in exchange, I get back great evaluations." (The Professor) As an honest student this is a cowardly response and makes me loose faith in the entire system. Who gives a shit about a degree if it's just a piece of paper. I was never there to tick the box on my way to a middle class lifestyle anyway.
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Anecdotally, 25% cheating rate seems really low compared to what I observed at my top liberal-arts college. I would've guessed a cheating rate of about 60-70% to be "small", and 90% to be large. On my floor of incoming freshmen, I'd say those of us who had never cheated were in the minority, and in fact many of my floormates expressed incredulity that there were people who could've gotten to college without cheating once.
As a site user, I'd want to just have a link I can click to pick a new password.

I'm not going to use/keep the generated password you send me, so just linking me to a page that lets me pick a new password to begin with works best for me.
You read my mind :). I want to fork this code base and apply it to reddit.
Catching copying is a O(n^2 * m) algorithm (n = no. of kids, m = length of assignment). Fuck that shit, no grad student or prof has that kind of time.

If by any chance you hire 2 TAs and if they got to catch plagiarism, they're cooked since they can't distribute work and have to go through each submission. No point in doing that.

And I am an Indian undergrad and I've seen this ethic cheating first hand - it is fucking disgusting and destroys the educational experience for everyone in the class because the honest guys are competing individually against the efforts of a 5 - 6 person team.

PROFESSORS and TAs : If you see a group of same-race people sitting together in an exam, fucking break that group up ASAP.
You raise a fascinating point about what happens to societies when the males have no chance of getting a girlfriend or wife (they may become destructive because they aren't stakeholders).
For those living in Toronto and interested in Hadoop, we are trying to bootstrap a local Hadoop User Group here: http://www.meetup.com/TorontoHUG/
Highest vote counts != Best of (IMHO)
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I have a few. In social media and a service based startup. 'Nuff said. They all make money, but my living expenses, taxes, child support are more.
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James, I did exactly what you suggested. Every single student came to protest. I believed that things would play out exactly as you are thinking. Unfortunately, they turned out very differently.
I am an honest student. How would you feel about me being in your class? Not every student is at university in order to tick a box on the way to a middle class lifestyle. Some are there to learn for the sake of learning.
English is my second language and I got ~13,500 words. I was surprised that this was only half the average. I read a lot of scientific papers in my field and almost never come across a word I don't know. Writing technical papers well also requires not much vocabulary (it's more about clarity of expression). I believe to get beyond that number you simply have to read lots of books. I notice lots of words I've never heard of when reading, say, Bill Bryson but I very rarely bother to look them up because they usually make enough sense from the context.
I'm not sure of all the details. I recently organized a face detection competition. And we included a couple of commercial face detectors for comparison. My boss informed me that since we purchased them under an education discount program we had to refer to them as "Commercial Competitors".

My view might be slightly skewed since the basis of the competition was to make it hard (low light, noise, occlusion, pose, atmospheric blur) and the commercial competitors are trained on easier datasets (close range, well lit, uniform pose and expression). While L1's system would perform better on driver's license images false positives are going to occur in any system. So when it flags a person it should be regarded as something fishy might be going on instead the oracle says this person is a terrorist who buys alcohol for teens, lock him away!
Hmm...interesting. Click wise it probably is less clicks and you are also forcing the user to change his password. Unless you add logic to ask the user to change his password with one time token, it probably makes more sense to send a link to reset pwd.
Learning to just do something when it resonates with you. Stop asking permissions, stop asking ahead of time what the outcomes will be. Treating the market as a lab, of sorts, rather than trying to predict results ahead of time.
Not that karma means anything, but it's amazing that the user who submitted Bellard's Linux-in-browser story received more karma from submitting that one URL than I have for the hundreds of comments I've made over the last eight months.
I was in Adelaide until 6 weeks ago when I moved to Melbourne to start a new job as tech lead in Python/Django web development.

I would have liked to have stayed in Adelaide, but from my own personal job search there were very few development jobs advertised in Adelaide and those that were tended to use old technologies (e.g., zero Python jobs advertised on seek.com.au in Adelaide vs. dozens in Sydney and Melbourne) and be government or defense related.
Putting something in standard lib effectively kills it. It doesn't mature, it turns into an adult child actor. Forever 'young'

I don't think their really should be a standard library for Python. There should be a base, and a much more proactively revved base library, but not a standard library. Part of installing python would be installing the base.