skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What handsome rewards do you imagine are heaped upon A students while still in school?

Scholarships, honors, Dean's List, general praise, etc. And students who get bad grades are given the stink-eye no matter how clever they are. In general, students who get good grades are just treated better than students who fail. Is that not your experience?

This case is actually a good example of the phenomenon. The students don't appear to have been punished for not learning. According to the story, they didn't copy any answers — it just looks like they discussed the subject matter. It may well be that these students learned better from collaborating than they would have from working separately. I know I usually did in school. But because it gave them an advantage in the grading system that the school didn't want them to have, they were punished for it. Learning doesn't appear to be the primary concern here.

(I don't mean to say that I think they should cheat. I'm just pointing out that they may well have learned better than they otherwise would have, but that doesn't matter because learning is not the overriding concern here.)
In Romania, cable companies have pirated HBO for years. They just offer it free to their customers. Recently, some have cleaned up their offers, but you can still bribe the cable tech for a trifle so he unblocks HBO, apparently.
So far Google hasn't done that to newcomers. Microsoft and Apple have.
Am I alone in imagining the floor having a slight sickly smell to it?
Did you take account of the fact that hexagonal circle packing is ~90% dense in calculating the cost per square foot?

Edit: doing the math myself, I get 295 pennies to the square foot (0.906*144/0.4417 = 295). Not sure how you got 998, unless you somehow digit-reversed 144.
I wonder when more services like this will be released in northern Europe. The legal systems are more or less identical on copyright and intellectual property, which should make it a lot easier? Combined, scandinavia covers around 20 million people and have one of the worlds highest purchasing power.
Pardon, but why isn't "no JVM" a "true alternative for the JVM"? The vast majority of the world's software still runs on raw hardware.
I haven't thought this through at all, but what is problematic about students finding out their admission results before whatever magical date? At first glance, it doesn't seem like the students are worse off (they have more time to plan/act based on their admission result and are free to not look at the information if they don't want it), nor does it seem like the school is better off (I can't think of a good way for them to take advantage of students' uncertainty right now).
I made something related to that extension, but instead of counting the number of hits, it keeps track of how much time you spend on different websites: http://webtimerapp.com
If you're with who I think you are, your company's website is down and the company Twitter feed hasn't been updated since last November.

If I had to guess at Apple's reasons (given the "bad faith" line), it'd be that they suspect you of something along the lines of posting bogus reviews/ratings or buying downloads.
I agree completely. I remember that cheating in college (at least on a small scale -- e.g. copying homework in certain STEM classes with a "right" answer) was common and not viewed as risky behavior. I doubt that any of the people who cheated would have said that they felt they were morally in the right or even in a gray area if confronted. Cheating is more akin to stealing a laptop from an empty dorm room than it is to running afoul of some arcane law that few people have ever heard of.

Given the high value that many desirable career paths (e.g. consulting, finance, academia) place on a good GPA, and the low probability of getting caught, the risk/reward tradeoff from cheating is naturally going to tempt people to make the unscrupulous choice.
It still beats buying it off iTunes, which can cost around $40 per show per season.

This I'm assuming you can probably subscribe when you need, watch all the shows, and then unsubscribe.
With HBO Go you must have a subscription to HBO the cable network, but this Nordic service will only be online. I think that is what is new about it.
Had this happen with my Master's thesis. Not fun. The positive side is, it was a good idea (at least based on the attention it's getting). It gave me something to compare to as well.
Sure. I use CRON-O-Meter (http://cronometer.com/) to track my diet and weight, RunKeeper (http://runkeeper.com/home) and Fitocracy (https://www.fitocracy.com/) to track exercise, Moodscope (http://www.moodscope.com/login) to track my mood, and YourFlowingData (http://your.flowingdata.com/) to track anything else I want to measure. My favorite self-tracking service was an MIT Media Lab project called Mycrocosm (http://mycro.media.mit.edu/), but it's pretty much dead. (I wrote a Python script to extract my old data. I'll clean it up and publish it).

Some of these services are completely siloed, some of them export data as .csv or XML, and some of them actively interact with one another (e.g. Fitocracy imports Runkeeper data, CRONometer can connect to a Withings scale). Each tool works well in its niche, but there's no easy way (yet!) to get all the data in one machine-readable place.
If you have cable, HBO GO is free on your phone.
Thank you. Somehow, I did not know about this.

Edit: This seems to only be for web apps, not native apps. Or am I missing something?
Twitter / twisst: Sorry ISS watchers, no space ...
One more crack in the dam.
Definitely getting paid. Square treats us interns well. :)
What was old is new again. All this has happened before, and all this will happen again. Apple, Google, and Microsoft are the new "Big Three" ( Ford, GM, Chrysler ).
Yeah, it's good to know that you are at least keeping up with the exciting ideas. Better than being completely surprised by it. It's also nice to get some perspective on how other people think about the topic.
I only watch HBO through my Xbox and iPad (and hopefully someday my Apple TV). The experience is orders of magnitude better than dealing with Comcast's horrific set top box UI.

I can't wait until I can switch over entirely...
Neat, but "console clear" to clear struck me. A bit verbose, no? After years of "cls" (aliased on unix) I might not bother with the number of keystrokes required.
I really want to use this service and check out the interesting data it generates. But I don't really want to give away all my data to WolframAlpha. It says 'Your information is only stored for one hour, so each time you return, we'll run fresh analytics on your Facebook data.' but I am not really sure. It's encouraging me to come back and let it continuously mine it? I am conflicted.
I hope for the US that HBO will make it an add-on for Hulu or Netflix, I really have enough streaming services.
What I'm really getting at, though, is that I think playing cat and mouse with professional hackers is a losing game. You shouldn't spend a few seconds trying to come up with something that they won't think of when it's their entire vocation. You're just not that creative, and too many people think alike.

Just roll dice. That way your choice is provably random.
As opposed to now, when the US can watch BBC for free?
Obviously there's lots of interesting entertainment. But I also happen to like some TV series, and they are usually not available here in any reasonable form (i.e., if local broadcasters pick them up at some point, then they are dubbed). As far as watching TV series in original English goes, grabbing them via a torrent is by far the most convenient and available method here.
Hmmm..For some reason, I cannot seem to find any setting in "Developer Options" on my Jelly Bean based device. Can you tell me what it is called?
I think they phrase it that way since SE apps run with no SecurityManager by default. But yeah, I can see where you're coming from.
It would be nice if the command line supported a shell-like language that would allow you to easily parameterize and script these Firefox commands. So instead of running one command at a time, you could create files that ran commands sequentially, iteratively, etc. There could even be syntax that sets variables to the values of arbitrary JavaScript expressions (which would give you access to any DOM attribute, for example).
Someone should point this out to the people who make the penny squishing machines for tourists that they had on the San Francisco docks when I visited many moons ago. Does anybody know if they are still there at all?
Um, no. You ever been hit by a bike? Then again I saw a car reverse blindly onto a main road and a guy on his bike go flying over it. I'm sure that hurt more.

Truth is there isn't enough space for sedgeways over here. Pavements too narrow, roads too littered with parked cars.
Interesting comment thread.

Not enough information to do anything of course. But these two points stand out:

1) Tuesday afternoon our lawyers get involved. They try to use back channels to get more information, but are also stone-walled. They then inform us that they have a conflict of interest with Apple and cannot represent us as apple will not sign a conflict waiver.

2) Tuesday evening we contact a senior individual within Apple. He informs us that our account is clean in the app store records and there are no complaints against us and that Legal has requested the termination. Legal will not provide a response.

If both of these statements are accurate as represented then Apple Legal determined that you were doing something illegal, further by distributing your Apps it was exposing Apple to potential liability, further your lawyers figured it out too and they don't want anything to do with it.

Looking at the apps that get this sort of treatment in the App store I see things that infringe trademarks or copyrights of other companies (misusing sound-alike names or imagery).

Of course one can't know for sure until you include representative applications that were removed.
Use nickels if you require a more modern look: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/nickel-tile-floor-a-seattle-...

A restaurant did this at a cost of $2.50/sq foot a few years ago (they apparently used more spacing): http://www.notcot.com/archives/2009/06/floor-of-pennie.php
This is a mobile site with a native wrapper- that's why it isn't allowed.
I expected this to be very slow. Access to Facebook's API is slow. My Facebook app that analyzes mutual likes is very simple and has just one stat, but it could take a second to query data for every 10 friends. The more friends you have the slower it is. You can't use just one query for all your friends either. You have split queries and wait for each before querying for the next batch.
12 traffic strategies for a web app
3 hours on 12 different traffic strategies for a web app (http://webcontrolroom.com) here are the results.
Can you link to the actual spreadsheet? I can't read most of the urls, or correlate comments to programs.
"Predatory? Misleading? Sure. Immoral? I'd say so.

But unlike homophobes, I don't agree with censoring speech that I disagree with and forcing my beliefs on other people."

Does this even follow? "Predatory" and "misleading" should be enough to remove the app in the first place -- you don't need to assume they removed it because they disagreed with its politics.
Yeah, I bet that's a difficult problem. It would be pretty cool to see how WA implemented this, unfortunately they don't say. I did get a good perspective of how useful this kinda of service is and how much people are interested in it, whereas before I doubted it would be useful beyond my own curiosity.
Why Some Companies Lose Their Best People - And Others Don't
I don't understand what exactly you mean by that. And why flagged? Please let me know, I want to be good part of the community.
I am totally excited (it's a mixed feeling), but this doesn't exactly fulfil my end goal for the project: let me fiddle with my own facebook data.

It's pretty good inspiration though.
Developing apps for Android or iOS?
What are your thoughts? With Android's growth in the market place it seems like a good place to focus App development.
Apple has sued HTC and Samsung for patent violations. Which "newcomers" have they filed patent suits against?
How many shows do you actually watch? I'm not talking about the crap you let play while you walk around the house.
Pinterest-Obsessed Retailers Are Missing The Real Social Secret
Great, back to MAD fought out though the big three crushing small startups.
Developers want to pretend you[1] do not exist. "All users are idiots." Maybe the problem is with developers[2], not users.

1. The user who can learn to use vi and AWK.

2. In many cases it is they the developers who can't figure out how to use vi and AWK. Their solution is to conclude no one else will be able to use these programs either, because... "all users are idiots".
Not with three coats of sealant.
Happened to me when Apple launched the iPhone, which I had designed for my pre-GCSE project in 1996.

Then again when for my actual GCSE project, I designed a electric car in a Lotus Elise inspired body.

That's life though, suffice to say I'm buying a tesla roadster when they're next available and I have the cash.
I think this needs some more explanatory text. It's a nice quick mockup generator, it would appear, but it oddly exports not HTML, but rather a nodeJS application, which seems insanely heavyweight for a simple form builder.
You build your billion dollar app store and you can run it the way you want.
You're right, but so is pyalot. It seems like there's at least one complaint on HN every week about some developer getting nuked by some platform they've tied themselves to; Apple this week, Twitter last week, Facebook, Google ...

To me it's roughly equivalent to weekly complaints from sysadmins that their servers got rooted because they left root remotely accessible with a password of "root". Sympathy quickly gives way to, "well, that sucks, but you should know better."

You tied your sole source of revenue to a company known for its capriciousness. The advantage was that you got access to a huge distribution channel, and a chance at a lot of money. The disadvantage was that one day your number might come up and since you have absolutely no negotiating power or legal leverage with that company, you'll be out of options pretty quick -- unless you're lucky enough to find somebody who cares to solve your problem for you.

So your business plan should reflect that. Either charge high enough margins that you can afford to take six months to a year off after something like this to work on the next thing, or don't do it in the first place.

I'll usually keep this to myself because I really don't want to shit on someone that's having a bad day already. But, these stories are also getting really old fast.
Dropping out has come to mean you will never get a degree because most people only consider college in the first place because they perceive a workplace advantage to having a degree. When they get out into the real world and realize they can live comfortably without one, there is little reason to go back. Someone who loves learning and is in college for reasons not related to future employment is not likely to leave over an idea in the first place.

Because of that, the number of people who leave and then go back is significantly small. Though I think you make good points anyway.
New Peepcode screencast: Panic's Neven Mrgan on Designing for iOS
Fragmentation.
Why it is no longer a good idea to be in the investment industry [pdf]
So now we have an Apple/Google oligopoly on mobile devices and fluid UIs.
Wow that's sad. Twisst is a perfect example of how to use Twitter for one-to-many messaging.

I hope an alternative or new way pops up soon.
The lawyers represent both Apple and Us. This was the problem. Evidently a large number of firms are on Apple's retainer and when you get into legal issues with Apple, the firms wont represent you.
I've quit coworking spaces because of the music before. Not only is it annoying, on the occasions when you do need to take a call at your desk, it sounds immensely unprofessional.

(Aside: I wish more coworking spaces had phone booths for that sort of thing.)
Ebook buyers will get $0.25 to $1.32 per book in Apple price-fixing case
Ok - I've found a github repo for this: https://github.com/mozilla/napkin#readme

which doesn't help much, but it does seem to have an overview document that helps somewhat:

https://github.com/mozilla/napkin/blob/master/docs/overview....

It looks like links and forms can be linked inside the mockup generator, and it's that linking that they are trying to preserve by exporting a node.js app. I'm not sure that I'd care enough, to lock things in in this fashion, but perhaps it's a nice tool if you are already planing an app using Node/Express
epsilon = some very small number used in mathematical proofs, usually approaching zero.

OP is saying that this is too similar to cat pictures. I think that it is worlds better than cat pictures, but still not relevant to the HN community.
Harvard doesn't award scholarships based on grades and they don't have a Dean's list. I can't speak to honors at Harvard, but at the Ivies with which I am more familiar, departmental honors carry a lot more weight than that magna/summa nonsense, and are awarded based on advanced work in your major, not on your GPA.

I'm sure that students are praised for getting 'A's, but are they men and women, or are they golden retrievers? I was mostly an 'A' student as an undergrad, but I certainly never felt that I was "given the stink-eye" on the occasions that I earned a 'C'.

To be clear, I'm not saying that 'B' and 'C' students are better off than 'A' students; I'm just observing that in my experience, they are also generally no worse off at the Ivies.

I agree that there are silly incentives to get 'A's. We should probably do something about that. But that doesn't make it unreasonable to expect the alleged "best and brightest" to be able to see past those silly incentives.
From crime to software company executive
Totally :-) You get to see what works and what doesn't
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. - Mark Twain

I am a cautiously hopeful. The peace pact won't last without some legislative change, and they probably know it, so we might just see some lobbying for a saner patent law, much in the same way that some alcoholics know not to keep drink in the house.
Typically for me, the answer is that they are not interactive ssh sessions but long Rails migrations running via Capistrano.

Anyone have a suggestion how to use tmux for those?
Ask HN: Tips on running a software consulting company
Hello HN Community,

Since not long ago, I've been trying to create a small software consulting company in a developing country. Talent is good locally in that country, so I decided to try.

I could hire really good devs locally. The problem I'm thinking about is that whenever I may introduce my rock star devs to my client, what do I need to do to prevent that after some time either the client tries to make deals directly with my employee to save money or vice versa when my employee approaches my client with lower rates and once accepted by the client, the employee would leave the company.

Is that a common scenario in consulting companies? How can I avoid this? or is this unavoidable? I was thinking about having a non-compete agreement between companies or employees. What's your advice? Is creating a software consulting company profitable? I want to prevent a high employee turn over. Thanks a lot.
I live in Poland and it's the first time I ever heard about something like this. As far as quick google can tell me, we have the same "you get HBO Go when you subscribe to cable" thing going on.

Is there a forest I'm missing from the trees?
I would argue that the illegal distributor is the one making the copy.
Meta rule that replaces all other rules for any place and any occasion:

"Treat others the way you want to be treated."

The rest will take care of itself.
ha! Thanks for setting me straight!
Hot Startup Profile: Delve
After reading this and seeing some of the comments I am a bit shocked. I've been in a coworking space for about 1.5 years and we survive with a lot of these things happening.

People take calls where they are sitting on phones and on skype.

People have meetings in shared spaces.

People eat all over the place in the shared space (beyond just the kitchen).

We're perfectly able to complain about what perceived wrongs have occurred to us lately.

Nobody is live tweeting other people's shit.

And I've basically seen basically zero issues with all this. Why? I suspect it's because we're respectful of one another and act like professionals. The mere fact you're threatening to live tweet about other people in the office says to me you aren't ready to share space with other people. If you can't handle normal human behaviors such as eating near you, you probably don't belong in a shared space.

I think some introspection is needed on the part of the author.

I think the real secret to working well in a shared space is being mature and actually talking to people to resolve any issues you might have. We all make mistakes, but most are very easily corrected with a simple 'excuse me, would you mind <suggested solution to problem>'. Yeah, that's about all it takes. A screening process for who can join also isn't a bad idea.
How so? These responses are quite simply FUD.
Thanks; I went back and tried to remove some of the snippiness from my comment.
I save ESC2J to a file and my "cls" is simply another file consisting of

cat file1

in my PATH. Only because sometimes printf or some other way to print ESC's might not be available.

The idea of starting up X11 so I can start the super-sized code complexity experiment that calls itself "Firefox", all just to get to a command line struck me. The fact they are calling the approach at Mozilla as "responsive design" I found insulting.

Are they in denial about just how big and complex Firefox is? This is not how you attain responsive design.
Ah, Gatsby's great American dream.
Defining Systematic Creativity
It does actually mention it's an insult a lot of the time half way down the page. You wouldn't use it as an ethnic slur like 'roast beef', people accuse others of being a gypsy or a pikey. It is 'considered to carry pejorative connotations' as wikipedia delightfully puts it.
Chirpify API
I figured out how to insert strings with quotes on level 6 - if you use a param list like username[]={string"with'quotes'"}, it bypasses the safety check but still gets coerced to a string by the ORM. Unfortunately, I wasn't clever enough to actually do anything with that...
Sorry, this should be fixed now; let me know if you continue to experience issues.
Please learn the difference between "there" and "their."
This is one of my main concerns too. What's the business plan here? How can I trust "lifetime" will mean something more than a year or two? As much as I appreciate Dean stepping in, it may be too late.
Not exactly the direction your question was heading, but check out http://shelterpub.com/ - they have a few books about building your own house (for considerably less money than buying one.) You still have to get the land somehow though.
The web site hosting the Harper's article "Secrets by the Thousands" linked in "Patents considered evil" posts questionable ideas if you look at their root site. Also, linked from their version of "Secrets" is another article titled "The Great Patents Heist" that comes from The Barnes Review, a Holocaust-denying publication. While "Secrets" is behind a pay wall on the Harper's website (http://www.harpers.org/archive/1946/10/0032777), I'd suggest using a direct link to Harper's (or get permission from Harper's to post "Secrets" yourself) rather than use that site as a citation.
Perhaps it's an inventory problem. You can cherry pick the best stuff when you're starting but the pool of remaining awesome products may grow smaller over time. If that were true, then the choice becomes less offers or start lowering the quality bar.