skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came across this recently: http://www.proctoru.com/

The endpoint is a model that will satisfy the employers - whether that's webcam or live proctoring or any combination thereof is irrelevant.

One variant of live proctoring could be an arrangement in which universities give students a number of online options to fulfill a particular requirement - cs, math, physics, etc - and administer their own exams. So the university would simply use it's brand to issue the stamp of quality. In a sense - this is cannibalism for the university. But I think there are public schools that are struggling to serve their students in a financially feasible way. This could be a good way to streamline...
Default Power Options setting is to turn off hard drives after 20 mins. Any r/w operation would require it to spin up which can take up to 30 secs, during this time the app behind that becomes unresponsive. Seems like the possible cause for me.

Anyway, disabling swapfile is not a fix, merely a way to hide symptoms of the problem.
I'd be surprised if Adobe isn't at least looking into this, especially considering their sometimes sour relationship without Apple.

A lot of the more "arty" people I know would consider giving them a Windows computer to use as a personal insult and would probably be more open to switching to Linux than Windows.

Getting arty people to use desktop Linux could be a huge net positive if they decide to help "pretty" the place up a bit.
I am currently working on processing images at scale(maybe small) and would be also be interested in knowing this.
Steam itself works great; the only time I see problems with it is when the flashplayer plugin is involved.

They desperately need to drop their reliance on flash.

Once they do that, I think it would vastly improve.
I think in the domain of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Mechanical Engineering. My dad is a Civil Engineer and I know stuff he needs doesn't exist on Linux.
An In-Depth Look at Gauges App
First Rails Project
Hey!

I'm working on my first rails project. It's pretty simple, and I'm just starting out, so yeah.

The concept is pretty simple. Anyone can write anything anytime. You just can't delete or edit anything. It's open source, you can check out the code at github.com/arelenglish/rubyblog

Feel free to write something, anything. Also, feel free to do whatever else you want.

Thanks.
@ArelEnglish
A community is going through exactly what he was warning about? That's not irony.
I don't use linux as my desktop OS for quite some time (now it's windows and osx, used to have Redhat and later fedora workstations). My question is, is it possible to target 'linux' in general as a single platform at all? I thought heterogeneous nature of linux distros is what would hinder that effort. Something like when you buy certain graphics programs, you get to have only this and that linux variant with this and that software on it in order to run it.
My last machine was an i7 920 with 12GB and Intel 80GB SSD; I now have an i7-3770K with 16GB and Samsung 256GB SSD; and Steam has always been fairly unresponsive.

Specifically, it's most unresponsive on the "preparing disk space" page when installing games. It takes multiple seconds for no apparent reason. There's no high CPU usage and no high I/O usage. It's also very slow to start, and very slow to let me play a game.

My theory is it's due to some degree of online activity, that it's gated on my internet bandwidth. Since I only play single-player games, that's a huge annoyance to me, and I often don't start playing games because I know I'll have to sit through Steam startup for several seconds.
Waiting For Superman is a remarkable documentary that I would recommend to anyone who is curious about the many things that are wrong with the American education system, it honestly brought tears to my eyes at moments -- small kids who have to enlist in a lottery hoping that they are allowed to go to the good school.
I fail to understand your answer. Maybe you've got a good point, but the current reply is too short. I fail to see what you mean.

The 'whole point' was a discussion about mandatory tips. If you don't tip here it's not rare for the service guy/girl to get quite mad and insulting. You HAVE to tip, forced by social norms and by demanding workers.
More accurately, in this context, "person who disregards the purpose of the community". Communities are created to serve certain purposes (quality discussion, for example) and the risk to a community is that users eventually disregard that purpose and the community is no longer useful for the original purpose. To avoid this a community should be very explicit about its purpose from the beginning (and the means that will be employed to defend the purpose), should regularly remind users of the purpose, and should aggressively question behavior that undermines the purpose.
While it can certainly be used for that, Adam Smith had it right a very long time ago. The purpose of the TSA is to purchase millions of dollars worth of useless equipment, lining someone's pocket. Oh, the unions get a little slice too. Oh, and "Homeland Security" gets to expand and have more clout. Like businesses, government loves expansion. Everybody gets a cut and we have to pay for it.
More eyes on HN probably means items being submitted more quickly, hence less time on the "newest" page in which to get noticed.
In the 'enterprise' market, targeting 'Linux' means targeting RHEL. I don't think that would be the way for Valve to go though. If they are really going to release anything to the public for Linux I imagine they will just officially target Ubuntu.
I would rather put my money on not threaded well. The application thread seems to get blocked whenever it's chugging on something important, which locks up the UI.
Ask HN: What's the easiest way to add invite codes
I'm at the point on a project where I want to add invite codes and share it with a select few people (and slowly grow it after that). I'd prefer to not to add another table and a bunch of logic to the core app itself, knowing that I'll just tear it out in a month.

Anyone know a good service for this? Any other good methods?

LaunchRock: if you're reading this, this would be an awesome addition to your service.
Professionals have spent considerable time learning their tools (PS, Illustrator...), hence while these tools are not available on Linux they will always refrain from shifting to Linux and that is quite understandable. After all every need their work done best possible way with least obstructions.
You don't need to ship distro-specific packages. You could ship a tarball with a statically linked executable. Take a look at the Humble Bundle, for example. Every game published in the bundles is cross-platform, and work great Linux regardless of distro choice.
The large number of people willing to take Brian Hamacheck's word (without response or evidence) on the "who's here" versus "who's near me" dispute seems relevant to me. The number of people offering to donate is even more disturbing.
I upvoted you before you added the second paragraph because I thought your joke was funny. "But your equivocation between silencing other viewpoints and eliminating unhealthy voices is not useful." Why not? I was making the point that it's often not easy to tell the difference.
Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker on Being the Alternative to Microsoft, Google and Apple
Ruby parser for Common Lisp
I might agree with you if it weren't for the strong stench of fraud coming off the whole enterprise. And I don't mean vague "I'm misusing the term Ponzi scheme" fraud concerns about the entire business model, I mean, accounting fraud. (And I also mean the term more colloquially than legally. It may be the case that their numbers are entirely legal, but still carefully spun to produce results that mislead people.)
Oracle Vs. Google: Judge Alsup Ruled Against Oracle
Galaxy Note 2 debut set for October with Exynos 5250 processor
Unfortunately, very little of software engineering involves new concepts; and when they are introduced, it's often ill-advised. It's usually better to build something out of two or three well-understood ideas that have stood the test of time in the industry than a single novel one, even if it's a lot shorter and less work for the initial implementer. There will be later maintainers who may not have had as much invested in their experience and training, and it's normally better for whoever is paying the bills that specific and exotic skills are not required on a continual basis.

New ideas really pay off when the constraints are such that conventional composition of existing ideas won't work well. But those situations are rare.

It might sound like I'm arguing against talented software engineers, or against education, training etc., but really it's just business pragmatics and economics.
The best part of mathematics is learning how to reduce something into a solved instance of something else. Recognizing when things are the same in abstract. Very hard to do.

As for the question. In english we have many words for those people who work on buildings and even cars because both go back thousands or hundreds of years each. So we have janitors, masons, carpenters, plumbers, architects and civil engineers. Each word clearly delineating a different expertise and scope.

Cars are newer so we have mechanics, automotive engineers and mechanical engineers. No one asks if the mechanical engineer or the mechanic needs math. The answer is obvious and contained in the Words. Electricity is from about the same time as cars and it too has electricians and electrical engineers. Not as many as houses but no doubt with more variations than common vocabulary implies.

Software has words like programmers, computer scientist and software engineer that are overly broad, ambiguous and interchanged indiscriminately. Leading to arguments about what really should be tautologies. I expect in time there will be terms like plumber, detective, architect, scientist, archaeologist and engineer for software and they will all mean something. And the subject will no longer be new and such questions will no longer be asked.

EDIT: I'd also like to chime in for it depends. If you are building a CRUD website it depends. For example: It depends on if you want to A/B Test your site in a non cargo cult manner. It is important if you want to compare A/B Test to multi armed bandits within a general framework. In general, you can only know not enough math.
That plus, with the ability of the scanners to see anything and everything you are carrying, the near-complete ability to turn the continental USA into one big lockdown, a sort of free-range prison. Gold, silver, jewelry and other forms of portable wealth will not be able to be taken out of the country.
I'm not sure why the pagefile would even be in use if your system operates with 4.5Gb free memory...
This was exactly my point.

Small shops have limited tech resources. Database scaling and implementing A/B testing suites can and have competed for those resources.
You might be projecting. Where did you get the idea that high quality contributor means rich or educated? The author mentioned neither.
I sporadically use bit.ly (once a month) to generate a shortlink for email lists to track conversion, geolocation, stats, etc on a nice dashboard.

I tried it yesterday, and I was smashing my head against the wall in frustration. First, what was once a single click is now at least 4, including 3 page navigations. Second, I have no freaking clue how to customize the shortlink, even after spending another 2 or 3 minutes on the site before giving up and deciding not waste any more time.

Bitly's redesign just plain sucks.
Things just haven't been the same since September '93.
I used DeMorgan's laws when refactoring Boolean expressions for clarity long before I learned that the laws had a name - they're entirely obvious and self-evident. I think the relative pointlessness of specifically classifying and naming them makes knowing of them by name obscure.
Did anybody noticed eC language www.ecere.com.
Still under early development, documentation incomplete.
Some issues with preprocesor and other stuff fixed. Definitely has potential.
Show HN: breeziee.com - add a paywall to any link for free
Friends With Rooms
FYI: found an old thread on the subject http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=306957

Still, any better suggestions would be welcome
I like the simplicity of your app. You should add twitter/facebook login.
You have reached the end of the Thingiverse
Not just any community; the community the author was trying to establish by writing this essay (along with the others). That's tragic irony.
Depends on what problems your tackling. If your doing a basic crud website then no. However if you want to analyse customer data on that crud website, and provide recommender systems for it then yes.

The thinking is similar too, they're not isolated.

I personally think a large amount of value is in using artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics to analyse data to optimise a business. I think future grads should be focused on that.
Plate tectonics cannot explain early Earth
Ah, never thought about that. As good old DOS games were, everything contained within program/directory itself. Interesting, makes using some of the external code a bit harder due to licenses though.
I first created Breeziee about 6 months ago, but it could only accept credit cards, was costly to run (because I had to host the files), and it seemed like no one wanted to use it. So rather than letting my work go to waste, I rebuilt it to be cheap to run, and to act as a PayPal gateway and provide paywall services for free - There are no fees or cuts taken by me.

Let me know what you guys think!
I said much the same thing about the Megaupload debacle: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4047683

I see it here all the time, by users with extremely high karma.
By whose qualifications?

I much prefer Inkscape over Illustrator for my vector art. I much prefer Audacity over... actually I'm not sure what's considered the direct commercial competitor here for post-processing audio. I mildly prefer Photoshop over Gimp for graphics design and tablet drawing, but after almost a decade of using each, they're practically interchangeable for me. I mildly prefer Blender over 3DS Max for making game models (though I admit it has been a while for me—I hear the recent Blender releases have amazing improvements). And that's not even taking into account the difference in license costs.

I'm not claiming to be an expert in any of these industries, but I don't think I'm completely naive here either. I can imagine there is a strong majority of experts who would never considere free/open source alternatives to things they've been using since they graduated their respective art school and paid thousands of dollars in licensing fees. I feel they're missing out, even though I'm biased towards open source.

P.S. I said "some of the best."
How some Americans are treated in Israeli airports.
That's one way to look at it... Another is just the phenomena of fads. No matter how well-kept the garden of slashdot/digg/reddit/HN they all have a time horizon. Just enjoy it while it lasts.
(take 6 jim-crossley)
CoffeeScript2 - A Redesign of the CoffeeScript Compiler
I think the content here is fine, but the title is inapropriate and doesn't meet the guidelines of the community. Maybe you or an editor could change it to something like "Jason Calacanis answers: "Will Mahalo return the $21M invested?"

"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.

Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead."
What Night Sky Photographs Will Look Like Over the Next 7 Billion Years
Someone's clearly been reading his Art of War.
This is one of the coolest things on here today. Definitely bookmarked.
> it honestly brought tears to my eyes at moments

Well, I didn't cry, per se. I think a bug did fly into my eye right around the time that poor little Daisy didn't get a lottery spot. Total coincidence timing-wise, though. I swear.
>It's just one fool, and if we can't tolerate just one fool, well, we must not be very tolerant.

Repeat after me:

100 times I’ve sworn this oath:
100 years I’d rather languish in a dungeon,
100 mountains I’d rather grind to dust,
If only I don’t have to make a fool to see the truth.
– Bakhvalan Machmud

Now, the problem arises when that fool is you.
I'm not sure if I have a higher tolerance for bad usability than other people, I find I am often more vocal complaining about it. Besides if you watch a highly non technical user use a computer they will often do things in incredibly inefficient ways and don't seem to worry about it too much.

I think the key though is making it as difficult as possible to get stuck when trying to do a particular task. This is where consistency is hugely important, if most of your apps work approximately the same way (such as with Apple) and have predictable behavior this is hugely helpful to users.

There is also a lot of context to bear in mind when thinking about how easy something is to use and I think this is where it does a disservice to lump "non technical" users together.

For example , I grew up during the days of DOS so switching to a UNIX/BASH command line when I got older felt very natural to me. However I wouldn't want to put myself up against the average 15 year old of today when learning how to use the latest social network.

Regards FOSS applications, one thing to bear in mind is FOSS is by nature easier to port than proprietary software. Therefor most of the good Linux desktop apps are also available on Windows which in many ways actually damages Linux adoption.

For example I know plenty of Windows/Mac users who are using Firefox , VLC and Pidgin. There would not be a particularly big tangible benefit for them moving to Linux (apart from saving MS license money they already spent in the price of their PC).
On the other hand it makes it easier in the sense that most of their familiar apps are already available.
Indian gov (run by Congress Party) has become a prostitute of Muslim minority populations on one hand, and on the other, of America. The Prime Minister is an awarded economist yet he cannot control the prices. He is already called a puppet and slave of the actual string puller of their party Sonia Gandhi. Heaven knows what will happen to India, when Muslim terrorist-ethnical groups in Pakistan and bangladesh are already involved in a conspiracy to create "Mughlistan" corridor through heart of India and a massive genocide of the age-old tormented Hindu populations in India. When some Hindus are fed up and retaliate in violence they are considered "terrorists" by the pro-Muslim gov, who knows they also are in "Mughlistan" conspiracy!
Where is your proof that terrorists have been deterred? Or are you assuming this is something which cannot be disproved? Your argument invokes a logical fallacy, particularly an appeal to fear and an appeal to consequences.
Wait, I'm confused... Are you saying that it can be illegal to have hiring practices that are suboptimal? For example, you mention that brain-teaser tests might have disparate impact on some applicants--and they're also not that effective anyway.
There's a fine line between disregarding the purpose of the community and attempting to change it, and it's often difficult to distinguish between the two.

For example, when 4chan became Anonymous, a lot of people objected to the politicization of the community. They felt that it was a betrayal of the original purpose of the community. But communities evolve. Purposes change. We don't live in the Founding Fathers' America anymore. It's not easy to ban people who "disregard the purpose of the community" without also trampling on nascent attempts to evolve that very purpose, and I suspect that this is where accusations of censorship most often arise. Strong moderation, on its own, can't solve this problem.

Good moderators should be wise enough to make subtle distinctions like this and humble enough to confer with long-time users on tricky issues.
Looks cool. If I use this for an extended period of time and create a lot of notes, can I get programmatic access to my own data somehow?
Steam does have a very slow boot time, but the expected behavior is that Steam is always running in the background so I can't imagine it's a priority. I can't fathom a ~3 second wait when installing and launching a game being a real problem. Minor annoyance sure but that's less time than you'll be forced to see stupid splash screens for!
Interestingly, the story strikes as a completely opposite of 4chan.org/sci/ where among army of trolls many intellectuals for many years discuss interesting ideas.

Maybe it's the community size, maybe it's new technology (comment voting, bans and such) but I have a hunch that fools are not a problem.
I'd say I use some math but that would mainly be high-school level geometry (for game animation and graphics) and accounting math for some business apps. But I'd assume people who are tuning 3D engines and low-level code are dealing with math and algorithms all the time. Up higher at the application layer I think you can get by without too much math, although it never hurts to have the knowledge.
Picplz shutting down.
It's not just the tools, but all the additional plugins that are built on top of those tools. Professionals don't just use Illustrator and Photoshop.
I thought the exact same thing. Engadget is a blog, it ought to be lightweight.
What's even more disturbing is reading the comments of the arrest section on local newspapers. 95% of the people commenting seem to make up these elaborate fantasy scenarios of what happened in their heads and then decide people's guilt or innocence based on that.
This is what XSI has to say about Linux - "Softimage 2013 is also capable of running on other configurations, such as boutique distributions of Linux. However, enumerating systems that are not tested and cannot be supported or that fall below the requirements for a productive user experience is beyond the scope of the online certification charts.".

Lightwave isnt available for Linux either.
Looks like it's pretty good, featurewise: http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html

utf8 multibyte, decent abi versioning and compat, pthreads ...

Edit: Also, MIT License!
That is also the reason why /r/askscience is one of the better subreddits:

http://imgur.com/JGqhf.png
Nimbula, Nebula, one of you is going to have to rename...
WebOS Must Be Decoupled From HP
There are many, many Americas.

City folk like to walk. The others not so much. Suburbanites DRIVE to the gym.

We had some visitors from another office, took them to lunch, made it to the crosswalk (200ft), they asked "How far away is this place? We should have just driven."
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SolusOS 1.1 Released
How to get passionate early users to test your web app?
All the curves are in a giant jumble at the top and are nearly indistinguishable from each other.

Perhaps a log scale on the y-axis would improve readability?
Don't really get the theory behind changing the default stack size for threads. Feels like they did it just to be different which might get someone scratching their heads for a bit.