skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must understand that half of the students in an intro level class are there because a) They don't know what the hell they want to do so they picked a class. b) They have to fulfill some requirement.

In the case of a), this happens because colleges are idiots and think that taking whole classes are a good way of going about figuring out what you want to do with your college education. What actually happens is the student takes the class, notices that they don't like the subject, and is disinterested for the rest of a whole term, even though they are still graded and can not switch.

In the case of b), some bigwig university rector decided that x courses in subject y must be taken by students of major z. Z students of course blow the class off because they don't want to take it. Professors know this, and don't care much if Z students learn anything anyway. They want to focus on the students that are actually going to major in the subject of y. No one stands up to the rector and everyone takes the path of least friction.

Solution: Have some goddamn flexibility. Don't enforce a strict ordering when taking classes. Don't force students into a single required class as much as possible. Instead say "must take two of these 5 classes". Have your majors defined this way also: Eg. Computer Science is 1 intro, 3 theory, 2 low level, 2 software engineering and design, 1 social issues class and 2 major projects. You can spell out specific classes that MUST be taken afterwards. Have quarters instead of semesters so that classes "die fast" and students can focus more on fewer subjects. This ends up being very intensive but there are more breaks. Allow students to fail 3 times without penalty, so they can experiment with classes out of their comfort zone, like grad classes or classes from a different major altogether. Have freshman year multidisciplinary problem solving seminars so that students have some idea of how project work an research happens, and what subjects they are interested in.

My school did most of this for a very long time and the students loved it. They almost rioted when there was talk of changing this system.
Who has been saying that we should give them a break?
Congratulations on becoming the lead. You already got some excellent advise in this thread.

I found some good advice about managing and leading teams in books:

"The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization" by Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith

"Leading at the Edge : Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition" by Dennis N. T. Perkins, Margaret P. Holtman, Paul R. Kessler, Catherine McCarthy.

Few suggestions from personal experiences:

About not delegating, getting your hands dirty can play to your benefit if positioned right as trying to understand what team members goes through in their activities so that you can make better decisions that are in best interests of team members.

Consider your team lead role as mentoring role and not as a "manager" role. Allow people to make mistakes and do lesson learnt type sessions.

Depending on the size of team, have lunch/ informal gathering as a team and also meet with individual team members informally at regular basis.

Watch patterns and signs in how team behaves around you. If they are quiet around you or always agreeing with you, you have a problem.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/beef-taco-tar...
http://mashable.com/2011/12/30/its-time-to-give-godaddy-a-br...
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FWIW I've used them for SSL certs. I've had to call support a couple of times, and both times their support was outstanding... I mean surprisingly ridiculously good.
the guy at Mashable
> the only library of note anyone ever uses is boost.

I think the Qt people might have something to say about that.
It looks like Mashable, the source of Marco's link, also uses GoDaddy:

Registered through: Go Daddy
Domain Name: MASHABLE.COM

Yet the author of the article, Todd Wasserman, states in the comments:

"No. I don’t know who we use, but that had no bearing on this whatsoever."

Hmmm...
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Agreed. Beyond all the terrible things they've done, they suck as a registrar. I'm never using them again in favor of Name.com.
Stroustrup apparently listened to a lot of people at Bell Labs while creating c++, essentially creating it by committee. I think there is a quote by someone about this, Rob Pike? Can't find it at the moment.
Godaddy is a scam. Fuck Godaddy.

Easy to sign up. Impossible to unsubscribe.

Down with Godaddy.
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Oh come on. Since when are there rules for what warrants a GitHub project? I store a collection of icons on GitHub. It's not really something you'd expect to see on GiHub but it's useful to me and if some else stumbles on it and likes it then it's a bonus. No one claimed these were innovative. You'd be surprised how many people, experienced or not, would find this useful to build on. Don't be a know it all, now. The post is exactly what it says it is and there's really nothing wrong with it. Don't be negative for no reason please.
I hate reading novels in paper form. Each of the books in the Game of Thrones series is 1000 pages long. Holding a super fat book in your hands is not pleasant. You have to break the spine to keep it from closin. You need to physically rotate the book as you move from the left to the right page. It's heavy and cumbersome. Urgh.

Reading on a tablet type device meanwhile is a dream. Thin, lightweight. I hold the device the same for every page at both the start and end of the book. I can comfortably hold it with one hand even.

Being able to look up definitions is wonderfully useful. If you're on an ipad a quick internet search can be incredibly useful. I just read a Clash of Kings (sequel to Game of Thrones). I regularly looked up characters to refresh my memory on what they did or what they looked like (from the TV series).

When it comes to novels I would be quite happy to never hold a dead tree again. I much prefer burning dead dinosaurs.
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Give the guy due process at least....

Sorry, had to add that
Funny how the news is expressed as "use the old, unsupported version of the site with an old, unsupported version of a browser".
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I use my e-ink Kindle for reading stories. For technical or reference manuals it is woefully incapable. Screen sizing for 6 or 7" devices probably makes pdf reading difficult even if it's render-able.

The iPad (ie, any 10" tablet) shines for reading content that's best served as a PDF over ebook format (ie, included pictures, possibly video). Interactive content really does require at least a tablet.
uhhhh, how so? Their upselling is questionable (although as long as you never select an option you'll have no problems) as it misleads "naive" consumers, but impossible to unsubscribe? I often cancel domains and other products with them, I've never had a problem. What's the problem you've had?
Huh? You've completely misread my comment. As have a few others it appears. Perhaps I should have written the bit you got so irate about as "Completely valid target, viewed from a number of perspectives."

Just so we're clear:

* I don't condone or approve of the hack.

* I think it's a reckless, stupid action and the perfect gift (and almost perfectly timed) for SOPA lobbyists in Washington.

* I've actually read George Friedman's Stratfor reports and found them really insightful.

So please, quit with all the hyperbole and Godwin's law proving froth on HN.

I was merely emphasizing that it's not surprising that Stratfor was a target in this context. It is possible to make that statement without approving of the act, you know.

It's also possible to wear the hat of a particular actor to understand their motives without actually supporting them:

* as a misguided, WikiLeaks-supporting hacktavist attacking Stratfor makes perfect sense. In this context you'd view Stratfor as a right-wing, US-centric outfit which "helps shape a world-view for decision-makers in the existing power strutucture". Based on Assange's theory of conspiracy, you're attacking one of the nodes in the connected graph of conspiracies.

* as a government actor attacking Stratfor would be a perfectly underhand and effective way of rousing the establishment to call for an even greater curtailing of internet freedoms. You're embarrassing all the right people, but giving most of them enough time to cancel credit cards before any real damage is done. The way the announcements have been done certainly don't support the idea that whoever is responsible is wanting to maximise mayhem.

I should re-iterate here that exploring possibilities does not mean the explorer supports or believes the possibilities explored. Believing this was a government actor is pretty fanciful, but falling into the trap of avoiding exploration because something is "unthinkable" is the path to naivety.
The guy from Mashable sounds like a terrible GoDaddy fanboy. And yes, it makes perfect sense that when a company has customers that it should be trying to make happy, goes off and does something very few of them would have agreed with, they should feel the economic repercussions ( we are supposed to be a free economy.) and do not in any way deserve a break. I'll be glad when my transfer finishes.
The endless comments on that post arguing about C-vs-C++-vs-C#-vs-ObjC make me want to jump in to a volcano. Those stories from the last few days about reducing time spent reading the internet might be on to something.
Speaking of misleading, awesome link-bait title.
Ever heard of benefit of the doubt, or extenuating circumstances?

Ok, we know the guy cheated on this paper.

There's a whole lot we don't know though:
who is this guy?
what led to the cheating?
was it his first offense?
is this paper really relevant to his professional career?
was he looking to profit from it?

Many more things we don't know and for which it's usually better to handle such things away from the Internet.
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What? That should be </div> (From the README.md).

Also seconding the simplicity of the project (i guess new years eve is a low-volume time of the year for submissions, but i wouldn't have expected this to be #5 on the front page.. must have hit all the right buzzwords.)
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Are you being serious? That's just a slap on the wrist, for what appears to be academic fraud.

I would cancel his degree and send a notice to his current employers.
App engine lets you have zipped packages, no?
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That's a pretty neat article! I'm glad you wrote that up! (Didn't even notice the EVAL in there, until I saw wes-exp's comment: You can avoid it (if you want, seeing as this is example code) by not using a SPECS variable, and putting all-specs in the loop directly.
They do list spamvertised domains. It is incredibly irresponsible to yank a domain on that basis alone. Bluehost is at fault here.
It's impossible to delete your account with Godaddy, that's probably what he's referring to.
Ultimate credit certainly does go to the Xerox lab. And then to Jobs, for understanding what it meant, completing and commercializing it.
I agree that GoDaddy should be given a break. Not because I like them, but because I hate internet mob bullying in general. They've been kicked to the ground by the baying mob, and have said they're sorry.
Please tell what is wrong with libraries such a datetime, regex, filesystem, bind, shared_ptr, string, test, uuid, just to name the ones I use regularly. Also please tell what you would suggest as replacements, and why they do not share the deficiencies the boost versions do according to you. It's easy to hate on templates, and not is all perfect in C++ or boost, but boost is the best thing to happen to C++ to make it easier to use, or rather to alleviate some of the most annoying and unnecessary drawbacks of the language. I'm not questioning your expertise, I'll take your word for the accomplishments you mention - but your apparent disdain for it is, to put it mildly, lightly substantiated and shows more signs of ideologically fueled hatred than of a deep understanding of the negative sides of something that can only be developed through much experience.
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IMO, non-formatted ebooks don't really work for technical books. I have used kindle on iPad even, doesn't hold a flame to pdf on iPad. For normal sized kindles and kindles on android phone/iPhone, don't even start.

While the kindle DX is bigger, it's still not very nice for reading tech docs. I'd buy an ipad instead and use the PDF version (and I buy all my books ebook unless not sold that way).
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Viewed on Marco's blog, the title is a direct link to the Mashable article of the same name.
I had domains with GoDaddy and register.com. I always thought of the latter as more legit - they upsell a bit less, they have a cleaner interface, etc - they're more expensive but I was ok with that given the interface was better.

Well, when I transferred my domains from GoDaddy to DNSimple, they provided the authorisation codes immediately. There were a few hiccups along the process, but nothing that seemed deliberate.

Fortified by my success with transferring domains from evil GoDaddy, I started the process with register.com. Well, turns out they arbitrarily impose a 4-5 days delay just to get the authorisation code so that you can start the process.

Turns out GoDaddy is not the most scummy registrar.
Which means detaching them and keeping them around. Wouldn't that mean dragging your mass around as you go, letting it decrease as you expend fuel, similar to the current setup? And if you let yourself get too light, you'd be blown along by solar winds, never able to approach a star system.

More separately, I've been wondering: once we remove them, what happens at the destination, and we're largely massless? Do we cannibalize some of the planet's? Otherwise we'd float in the atmosphere, probably pretty high up, or get blown away by breezes...

In any case, we'd probably be far too distracted by unhigging things and floating around to actually achieve speedy space-flight for quite a while.
What's the point of writing that developer toolbar user-agent switch comment? Does setting the UA to IE7 cause the glitches? Because it surely won't change Safari's webkit engine into any sort of IE7 compatibility mode. So are FB conditionally sending broken CSS to IE7?
@ InclinedPlane 3:

so would i.

i was just pointing out that there are different degrees of public outing. revoking his degree, getting him fired, and ruining his reputation with hsi colleagues is sufficient...no need to make him an international internet villain
Very much agree with this. It's funny how almost every blog post or comment about moving away from GoDaddy starts with 'we've been talking about moving away for a while.' Everyone was sick of their constant upsells for useless things and their terrible interface.

For me, SOPA support was really just what finally got moving away from GoDaddy up to the top of the priority list. At this point GoDaddy can say whatever they want about SOPA, I'm leaving because they have a terrible a product.
You can indeed, and it's borderline trivial, but attempts to get the community to adopt such a system in the past have failed completely, and I don't find value in writing code that no one except me will ever use.
Fair enough, my brain is tired :)
I've had numerous domains with godaddy over the years. I switched them due to the SOPA support as did many others, but over many years and many domains I was always happy with the company's service and (if you ignore the upselling) their customer service was always really, really good, IME.

As much as I think they brought this on themselves and don't really deserve a whole lot of pity, I do think a lot of people (some of whom probably never used godaddy and are basing their 'knowledge' on the pitchfork wielding mob) are now piling-on a bit.
The same way you give a direction to the explosions we use to propel ourself now - contain it, and only let it escape in one direction.
unless you're a state politician. then he doesn't care what you do.
I think this depends on how you use gmail. I mostly read, reply, and archive. Sparrow is really good for this, but not very good at say labeling or search.
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The last books of Wheel of Time made me feel exactly the same way (released in Hardback a month before ebook).

I actually prefer the iPhone4 to the kindle for long reading sessions as it's even lighter.
Most of these, with the possible exception of the feel of the book in your hand can be replicated by an ebook.

Not ebooks in their current state, of course, but by a hypothetical electronic book that has more capability. I suspect paper books will become like vinyl, hobbyists and retro obsessed will still have a lot, but most people will only keep a few for sentimental reasons (e.g. your grandfather).

There are some great ideas here for anyone who wants to take advantage of them:

- Add drawing support and overdrawing/highlighting to the ereader (this should be there now, lord knows why it isn't).

- Put a display on the back of the ereader so people can see the title of what you're reading. This sounds terribly egotistical, but so is twitter, and it's not doing too bad :-)

- Use a (very: e.g. 8'x4') large picture frame/bookcase display to show all the books (and media and art and whatever else) you currently have in your living room or study or whatnot. The technology is not quite up to doing this at scale, but I can see it happening. I do think a human friendly way to browse media not tied to a remote control or sitting down in front of a rectangle or peering through the aperture of a handheld device will be a majorly successful consumer electronic device in the future.

I also don't think that ebooks will somehow demote text-only to secondary status. After all, what do you think you're reading now? :-) Even if you look at the web in general, the best sites (for reading) have text as the backbone, and if they have other media, it's more about supporting the text with a diagram or an example -- not a stage or a soundtrack.

EDIT: Oh! and for battery life -- go solar :-)
Yes, I was referring to 'traditional' hosting. The VMWare vcloud offering is actually quite interesting in the ease with which you can migrate from on premise to public vcloud providers. Still way more expensive that just going the Amazon route for most people
I would say their user interface was designed to be a maze which is extremely difficult for the average user to figure out. Nothing was technically impossible once I found out the convoluted way to do it, but the design is no accident and many laymen just give up trying to leave or cancel.
9 months into my latest startup, Lion.

Started this year with the intention of programming more after a break since college. Hired another programmer to help work on the website. The site itself will be a social business website; a community.

My aim is to do consulting and investing full-time using my website as a vehicle to help with both. Hopefully it can be useful to other founders too, especially in the UK.

I would like to launch before January 2012 is out.
Multiple Windows Clipboards
I have this idea from long time in my mind - In Windows we can only copy (ctrl + C) one thing at a time and keep in the clip board or memory buffer. I think windows should have multiple clip boards incase you want to play around with multiple things. The multiple clipboards can be made accessible using various different key combinations like [ctrl + 1....ctrl + 9] or [ctrl + c + 1....ctrl + c + 9] . These various clipboards can be made accessible using windows sidebar with also a feature to see the content in them. If there is any such thing already existing please let me know.
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Perhaps, but he did have a company that earned a lot of money from publishing newsletters containing racist and anti-gay passages under his name (e.g. The Ron Paul Survival Report):

> The newsletters, attributed to Paul, made statements such as "opinion polls consistently show only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions," "if you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be", and referring to Martin Luther King as a "pro-communist philanderer" and to Martin Luther King Day as "hate Whitey day."[72][73] An issue from 1992 refers to carjacking as the "hip-hop thing to do among the urban youth who play unsuspecting whites like pianos."[74] In an article title "The Pink House" the newsletter wrote that " "Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities."[73]

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul_presidential_campaign,...

Of course, he distances himself from these newsletters now. Would somebody who is truly not racist and not anti-gay have such words published in their name by accident?
Another test framework written in (pure) shell is Sharness: http://git.io/sharness

It was derived from the Git test harness. I'm already using it for a couple of my projects.
You're assuming we're the adults here, rather than Google.

If flipping the bird isn't an adult thing to do, clearly the users are not adults. So the guardians have to clean up after them, as is customary.

Heck, apple has made a lot of money by taking that stance. Why shouldn't Google emulate it?
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Ironically, the class is taught by Professor Mulligan. Heh.
I couldn't find this on their pages - does anyone know if it clones the whole repo, or just the current versions? Also, can it get rid of old versions of files to save space on the server?
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The original Mashable article makes a great point. The guy makes a totally reasonable argument and I agree. Let's get off GoDaddy already. It sucks that you can't share this opinion around here without qualifying that you hate GoDaddy and SOPA first (which I really do). There really is a strong tendency toward groupthink on the GoDaddy issue as well as a lack of reason. Yes, GoDaddy sucks for a lot of reasons. We've talked about it, said our piece. It's over now. Give it a rest. There is absolutely nothing we can say about GoDaddy now that will get us any closer to defeating SOPA.
Agreed Bill. Githib is for anything I want it to be.
Not a very accurate title. It looks like most of Facebook still works fine w/IE 7, it's just the Timeline that's affected. For example, I can login, view a friend's profile, view my news feed, like something, make a wall post, play a game ... all fine in IE 7. And, the experience is very similar, if not entirely, to that of doing the same in Firefox 9.

Should it have been entirely true, this would have been a great step for the web, even if only a small one.