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So far I've seen Facebook recover from a lot of bad decisions. I think the leadership at the company is very strong and that the core business concept ads lots of value to a lot of people's lives.
The admissions formula is broken or the way the class was structured was broken?
I was taught that trials in absentia are not really a great thing.
Well, they don't want to discourage teamwork.
Not to mention this bit: "...and some said that they will sue the university if any serious punishment is meted out."
They couldn't have made it a forward slash and you damn well know that.
Astract: You're a total troll and/or a dishonest propagandist.

It was fun to see your conspiracy theory dismissing the example I quoted from Wikipedia:

>>Sweden was a Nazi Germany ally.

39% of the Muslim immigrants support antisemitism in a poll because the Swedes are Nazis and taught them?!

FYI troll, the Nazis never got much votes in Sweden. (I am Swedish, that is why I used that example.)

Conspiracy theories like that only work in dictatorships, with controlled information. Is what you're used to?

You certainly also have insane conspiracy theories about the rest of the European examples in the Wikipedia link -- Holland, Germany, Norway, etc. (Don't bother to post them, I have enough embarrassing materials if I see you write some other time.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_Antisemitism#Islamic_...
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Universities teach in such a way as to encourage academic pursuit of knowledge, but the majority of students will be seeking field experience post-graduation. This mismatch happens regardless of whether a school is top-tier.
All roads lead to Mathematics answers it -- http://www.xamuel.com/all-roads-lead-to-mathematics/
> Clearly the admissions formula is broken.

As someone who attended an "elite" college, I can assure you that you only need 3 things to get into them:

1. A plan to follow (you can easily find great ones online these days) telling you what to do in high school (with respect to classes, extracurricular activities, volunteering, leadership, standardized tests, recommendation letters, etc.)

2. Money (i.e., live in an relatively affluent area with a good public school or attend a good private school)

3. Determination (lots of it)

Your personality doesn't matter at all for anything other than the interview, which you can also pass with flying colors as long as you have basic acting skills (which can be easily learned as well). Basically just smile a lot and don't act like a psychopath at the interview, and you're good to go.

As for getting into a specific college, that's a crapshoot. The admissions process is a black box, and there's no way to guarantee admission to a certain university unless your parents are big donors. But if you apply to, say, all the Ivies + Stanford + MIT, you're guaranteed to get into at least 2 or 3 if you have the 3 things I described above.
Disagree. It's been one privacy blunder after the next- each further tarnishing the reputation of the company and service.

If you find oversharing, memes and cat pics valuable, then yes it's "valuable."
The majority of Westeners know the following about cars; turn the wheel thing to pick a direction, push one pedal to go faster and one to go slower. Some of them also know how to operate the stick thingy. Removing this tiny scrap of knowledge is hardly returning to Ludditehood.
Really sounds to me like you mostly dislike Java. Personally, I can't stand objective-C and very much prefer Java and developing on Android. Personal preferences, man.
I did this back in H.S. comp sci class (posted my projects to my personal website). I was punished by getting a D in AP comp sci (though aced the AP exam). Definitely was not approved at my school...aided and abetted in cheating apparently.
Nope, I don't dislike Java. I was the project lead of a "TV-Browser", an Java Swing GUI that is used by over 100.000 Users. You can't do that if you hate Java ;).

A broken GUI editor can't be a personal preference ;).
Well geez, don't hold back, let me know what you really think.
Can you blog or link to an example on your ant setup? I am really interested in that one. And how do you manage dependencies to third party jars with the sdk manager?
A lot of the anti-cheating campaigns are based on social norms, shame or reputation-based things. So if a student can ask themselves, "If I found out a fellow student, or future employee, had done this, would I be angry?" and honestly answer "No" then the honor systems have no effect at all.

A similar change happened when calculators became common in classrooms. Teachers had to get much more specific about when they were allowed and when they weren't. It looks like teachers (and grad student tutors) haven't come to any consensus on when collaboration is OK. It's no wonder the students are confused.
These are not high-tech companies.

These are interactive media companies.
When you look at the last few lived-like countries in the list, including the US, keep in mind that we use resources like drunken sailors because we can. We have much more land and resources than we need, so we trade long term waste for short term cost.

I think it's reasonable to assume that we could, if we decided, be much better at using, reusing and conserving our resources. And if we did that, it would be possible for the rest of the world to bring their standard of living up to the US or better, and still not use multiples of the world's available resources.

If that's what we decided.
What I'm really curious to see, is whether or not I can keep generating new ideas after a day or two. I have this sneaky feeling that I have a certain well of potential ideas, inspired by things I've seen, read, learned, done, etc. in my life up to this point, and that that well will be exhausted fairly quickly. And after that, I am guessing it will be painful to come up with new ideas...

But, I'm hoping it turns out that "ideas seed other ideas" and that I'll actually find that doing this leads to an exponential growth of ideas, as ideas mat with other ideas, and new variations and cross-combinations spawn and form and emerge. Anyway, time will tell...
In the long run I think iOS's more locked down console model is going to hand the market to Android.
He lists 3 startup successes: Instagram, Flickr, and Groupon. He talks about their famous pivots. Problem is, these companies pivoted into the kinds of companies that we don't need. Groupon's business model has been debated ad infinitum, and they're trading at 1/5 of their IPO. Instagram and Flickr: free services that could likely never charge, acquired by big services for the eyeballs. As long as acquisition is considered the exit, you're doomed. Yes, there are winners, but that's just a race to the bottom. If your business can't succeed without VC and without eventual acquisition, you don't have a business, you have a gamble. Neat programming != a business, but charging for solving a real need does.
Light grey on white? Really?!
The coolest thing (IMHO) about what we're doing is that we've built it as infrastructure for others to plug into their apps. Everything (and more) that can be done through our GUI can be done via our APIs (see http://developers.awe.sm).

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Not to remove blame where blame is due, but in both cases there are incentive and regulatory problems. If you give people problems whereby they feel that they cannot do well without cheating (i.e. when everyone else is cheating), then cheating becomes institutionalized. Thus, to be cheating in a class where 99% of the students are cheating is to be somewhat less culpable than to be among the students cheating when only 1% of the students are cheating.

That is to say, to have a situation when cheating becomes the norm implies a much larger institutional and cultural collapse in which the larger framework (and not simply the cheating individuals) demands investigation.

What are the larger trends here?

Well, the first might simply be the idea that greed is okay. In this case, we can witness the following transformation in American values fairly clearly.

Phase 1 (religious): Greed is bad, we do things for the sake of a heavenly kingdom only. We are only temporary stewards of the wealth we have.

Phase 2 (agnostic): Greed may be a necessary part of evolution and competition for limited resources, but we need to limit it and make it a long term sort of greed.

Phase 3 (hedonist): My identity is defined by how much money I have, and I don't care how I get it.

In other words, there is long-term value erosion. This is not to say that one's values necessarily have to be religious-Christian in derivation, but in the American context this was overwhelmingly the case and this erosion has basically given way to live in the moment materialism.

The practical consequences is that many people involved in business, and this is most clear in the financial sector which has no ostensible tie to any product whatsoever and attracts people who care only about money, not only seek money, but seek to destroy any barriers that keep them from getting as much money as possible. In the US this has meant saturation of elite universities (pulling an increasing proportion of the best and brightest into the financial sector), buying out of the major political parties, shutting out the minor political parties, and removing regulatory functions (i.e. the SEC). Additionally, there is the desire to weaken the electorate by importing cheap labor from other countries that will be liable to manipulation via mass media, decreasing the likelihood that any independent party will achieve critical mass.

Because this is a long-term institutional problem there is no obvious solution, except to continue with the values that have not entirely been eroded (i.e. honesty) and to encourage others who do their function (i.e. continue working in the public sector and enforcing existing regulation). Creating new services and teams of people that are doing a good job simply for the sake of doing a good job is never a bad idea either -- although it is always easy to get sucked into the mentality of "greed is good."
I read it as: "By bundling IE with Windows, abusing (illegal) the Windows monopoly (legal) MS managed to basically kill Netscape... Despite losing the legal battle and being --forever-- regarded as a company that did abuse its monopoly to drive out a competitor".

It's not about IE vs Chrome, it's not about IE vs Safari. It's not about whatever-MS-mobile-OS vs Android vs iOS.

It's about IE vs Netscape and MS (illegally) "winning" that war despite losing in court.
"Some students asked whether there was a fundamental contradiction between telling students to use online resources, but not to discuss the test with each other."

No.
This is a very good question. I have some experience with this; I find that as situations get more stressful, I become more and more calm and try to deal with it. I think it's a combination of a personality trait (my mother recently reminded me that I was the calmest of all her children) and a certain amount of self training. I used to remind myself (and others) that worry and panic do nothing to help the situation and that times of stress, more than ever, require a rational response. Eventually, the rational response mechanism discards emotional or stress based reactions as sub-optimal and you search for better ones. I know, easier said than done, but better said than never.
Not a surprise. I don't use facebook any more.
We have a summer internship program that just concluded for this year. Unless you want to apply for the one that starts next summer.
Just because you believe a stock will eventually be at a lower price than it currently is doesn't mean it makes sense to short it unless you also think you can time the drop perfectly, and if you think that you're a fool.

The virtually unlimited downside of shorting is a lot of risk that has to be factored into any decision and thus shorting isn't to be taken lightly even if you're pretty damn sure of your opinion.
I grew up in Catholic schools which were not co-ed. I disliked so much about a single-sex education, but I'd imagine that for girls it can be beneficial in this respect.

We need to do all we can to encourage girls in match/science/CS. The shortage of women in incredible. And it will lead to women not being represented not just in lower-level single contributor jobs, but also at the executive level as men move from programmer to manager to VP.
The hiding spot doesn't work, so there is definitely something amiss with the behavior. Still very fun.
You're right, there are very humane farms out there. You're right, demand for meat is only going to keep growing. You're right on many points; I'm just trying to point out that the sticker prices you see on "humane meats" in the grocery store could easily be far less humane than the farms that feature on those documentaries, giving a skewed perception of what "humane meats" actually cost to produce.
Those already exist, they are in Spl if you want them.
Sorry, I mean without specific releases. The patient has to agree to have their information published.
> I did the work, whether or not they want to is their problem.

And the problem of the mediocre students who don't cheat, but get graded below the cheaters; and employers, who will tend to hire less honest and less capable graduates.
Is your site (guildda.com) live? It returns a 404 error on me, and I don't see anything in Google regarding the company. Sorry if I missed something.
My idea is a social network for competitive gamers. The way I imagine it is sort of like a linkedin for pro-gamers. If the social graph API's allow me to build something like that I would be more than happy to use them. Do you think those API's would help in building something like what I described?
C++ was taught in my high school. A good teacher can make C++ learnable. You just focus on using a sane subset of the language and it can make sense to beginners.

Also going from C++ to Java is a lot easier (and others I'd imagine too) because C++ forces you to master pointers. And of course, Java is filled with pointers but the syntax hides it.
William is really talking more about selecting programming languages and Lua and C certainly cover a lot of programming use cases.

I have my own comfort zone (Clojure, JRuby, and Java with IntelliJ and RubyMine) and I am glad William has his.
I sympathise with the need to protect your market, but I'd say US web/tech companies have generally been more successful than European or Asian companies in dominating global markets. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, Groupon, eBay/Paypal - all are the big boys on the world stage. US tech companies are so dominant that competitors in most small countries get swallowed up (not unfairly). The exception is consumer electronics, but US firms haven't competed in that industry in a long while.

Don't paint the US as the poor, screwed victim when it's the largest, most profitable market in the world, and companies from other countries stand next to no chance of taking a lead there. The rest of the world generally does little to block US companies (China excepted). All we can do is try to establish ourselves in our own markets and hope we're acquired by foreign/US firms for a good price when they arrive on our shores.
This is exactly why I switched to Android a year ago.

Smartphones are not trivial consumer electronics devices: they are sophisticated computers, and increasingly are our primary portals to the wider world. Any central authority that governs what you are and are not allowed to do with your smartphone is thus an incredibly powerful political actor. It would be scary enough if such an actor were governed by the democratic state, which had at least some theoretical accountability to the general population. Apple, however, does not have even the pretence of that kind of accountability.

I'm somebody who has publicly castigated RMS for being an alarmist and a zealot, but here I have to agree with him 100%: this is an issue with profoundly negative implications for the development of a healthy and democratic civil society. If walled gardens like this are going to become increasingly dominant, then I honestly fear for the future.
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What's so special about driving? It's a task that has only been available to humans for a century.
Ask HN: Caching pages with login form/"Hi, Bob" components
It has become pretty standard practice to have a login form on every page and, once logged in, to have a "Hi, Bob" type of link to their profile. Naively, this destroys caching.

So what are some ways to deal with this. Ideas I've thought of (with varying degrees of difficulty):

1. Componentize and cache everything on the page in chucnks. Then the final page is a conglomerate of cached chunks. The higher the componententization, the higher the mental complexity but also the higher the potential for re-use.

2. Special case that authentication portion, so the remainder of the page can be cached, but that auth info/form is substituted right before display (that is kind of an ugly, degenerate version of #1). This is pretty easy, but an ugly hack.

3. Use an iframe for the authentication information. Now the page can be cached completely with a simple iframe being regenerated on every request.

4. Use a cookie to store the authentication information and use Javascript to populate it after the page renders. There are obvious problems if a user doesn't use JavaScript.

Are there any other options I'm missing?
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That would cause abuse
IMO directly viewing the videos in safari and not having YouTube.app hijack the links actually makes for a better experience overall.
Most people here are saying that the students were clearly in the wrong. "Lack intellectual curiosity and character". "spoiled children". I don't agree at all. Aside from the formal rules, smart people pick up on which rules can be broken safely. In fact, knowing which rules in life you should break and which rules you should follow is probably a critical factor for success in life.

Jaywalking is illegal in most (all?) US cities, but in many it's completely acceptable behavior. Jaywalking in Seattle (edit: was Manhattan), on the other hand is not done and you better not do it within eyesight of a police officer. Jaywalking in the Netherlands is completely fine (even right in front of the police), but in Germany it's not. The laws are the same, but the culture is different.

There are thousands of examples of socially acceptable behavior that doesn't correspond with the law. Drinking in public. Sometimes fine, sometimes not. Forging a signature. Occasionally fine, usually not.

Startups break laws all the time too. You have to get a product out first, and only when you start making money you get lawyers involved to make sure everything is going by the books. But if you aren't making real money yet the government really doesn't care whether you follow every law to the letter. And as a founder you have to decide which laws can be broken safely and which laws must be obeyed. Get it wrong and you may lose your company: either through legal trouble or because it doesn't get off the ground. The founders talk freely about the laws they broke. They brag about it! It's considered clever. Relentlessly resourceful. It's a fine line.

So if the culture in Harvard was such that cooperating for take-home exams was sometimes acceptable and sometimes not, then I consider that a legitimate excuse. It's easy to test too. Just look at the exams of that course of the previous years and check if people worked together on those too. Compare with other courses. If the results show that students consistently break the "individual work only" clause for some courses and not for other courses then the students probably didn't think they were doing anything wrong. They were just acting in the socially accepted manner.
Computer Science is sort of odd in that respect, and it does vary from department to department.

For example, my undergrad school was very clear that everyone's home directories were set to being publicly readable, and that it was expected that there would be times that you would want to see someone else's source. This was essentially asynchronous lab work: we could always talk though problems together, but we were never able to cut and paste code (the detection system looked for things like whitespace to detect cut-and-paste vs hand-typed).

When there were two matching submissions, both students would be pulled up and then the administration had to figure out who copied who. What I heard on the grapevine was that usually it was really obvious: students that had been struggling were the ones most likely to cheat, and even when they matched in ability, the guilty party would crack pretty quickly and own up.

Personally, I think there are better ways of doing computer science assignments anyway: I tend to TA classes where students work on self-defined projects rather than doing the same rote exercise, so cut-and-paste is no help anyway.