skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found part of the problem:

#content
{
padding-top: 53px;
z-index: 0;
visibility: hidden;
}

They're obviously flipping attributes around in scripting.

So, keeping with the theme of "no interface", disabling style sheets for this site will let the content display. Brilliant!
There are some good ideas here, but putting each sentence into its own paragraph makes for choppy prose. Split them out and consider each one on its own, but once each sentence is as tight as it's going to get, why not combine related ones into paragraphs?

The example email is, to my eye, three paragraphs:

“Hey Ralph,

I’m glad to meet another fellow Quebecois and lover of
poutine last night at the meetup. If you’re in town next
week, let’s meet up. I suggest Cafe Madeline for coffee
on Tuesday at 3pm.

I’m interested to learn more about example.com and tell
you more about thoughtbot. If you haven’t already done
so, take a look at thoughtbot.com to see some of our
recent projects. Also, take a look at our playbook
(playbook.thoughtbot.com) for more detail on our
approach to building startups.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

-Rolf”
It looks like that's the worst possible punishment, I doubt anyone will get that.
I like the pen drop effect. It might be worth detecting the browser as when I read the "put your finger on the screen" my hand actually moved to my laptop screen. Then I realized it was probably for a mobile device and laughed as I used the mouse.
Top private schools are often effectively cheaper than UCLA for most people. For instance, Stanford waives tuition for students from households in the US with income in the bottom 80% (under $100k). For students from households in the bottom 50% or so, they also waive room and board.
If your house is wired for cable, have you tried just connecting your TV to that? A lot of cable companies push local channels unencrypted. That's how I get my local channels.
> Famine isn't the issue.

It is to the people starving.

> The issue at hand is when there's enough food that isn't well distributed, which is a completely different phenomenon.

As I pointed out, US poor people are fat. Why don't we have distribution problem?
You're right, looks like Firefox 15 broke it. It was working fine in Firefox 14. Thanks for letting me know!
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Instead of calling this a political move, I'm wondering if they would allow an app that tracks murder victims across the US as they happen.
My guess is that it would be rejected too for the same reasons, which are probably not political. This would simply be, as they said, crude. And IMHO, inappropriate.
They should be thanking their lucky stars they aren't at Virginia.
It seems interesting, though I'm not sure how to actually use it right away. Perhaps examples would be helpful?
I'm pretty sure you'll have to sign a 'terms & waiver' document similar to the one before Sky Diving.
This has allegedly been reverted:

http://delphitools.info/2012/08/30/poor-eula-clause-reverted...
The article mentions the blurred line between collaborating and cheating. Seems like this is the former since it requires analysis rather than just comparing matching answers.
I know a guy who was suspended for a year for lifting a few sentences from a previous paper he had written, and using them in a different paper for a different course, without attributing himself.
"Nearly half the students in a class of more than 250 are suspected of jointly coming up with answers or copying off one another, said Jay Harris, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education. Independent groups of students appear to have worked together by e-mail or other means on responses to short questions and an essay assignment"

Involving others in cheating with you greatly increases the "leak vectors" for the "crime" to be discovered. Loose lips sink ships.

It's unclear from the story the size of the actual groups that were cheating but it seems to be that the groups were not 125/2 groups of 2 but much larger groups of students helping each other.

I guess that is one life lesson that all the education in the world doesn't provide that people with street smarts might have had.

No doubt that the administration was tipped off by somebody (or would have been if that's not the way this went down.)
Oh, come on. It's not like the course held a gun to their head and made them cheat. They didn't cheat to feed their family. It's (nearly) impossible for a college course to actually "drive half the students to cheat". They're big boys and girls, and they need to be responsible for their decisions.

The point of taking a course isn't to get an A. It's to learn something. If the students are too thick to grasp that fact, then Harvard made a mistake in admitting them and would do well to kick them out and give their places to students who get it.
The level of disagreement and misunderstanding surrounding C++, its typing and implementation is a sign that the language and its community openly welcome extraneous cognitive load. Or its a sign of my own confirmation bias or both (or neither). Other languages have their quirks as well, but C++ stands out for me. I haven't done a study--perhaps there are studies on this, so my opinion amounts to so much line noise.
Obviously they will have to build a real business. They will have the incentive to do it this way though.
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>Downloading most any material seems completely legal. //

You're making a single copy without a license. Fair use doctrine may apply depending what you're doing with that copy. There is a general exclusion against the right to copy works that are protected under the Berne Convention for example see Article 9 (http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html#...):

"Authors of literary and artistic works [...] have the exclusive right of authorizing the reproduction of these works, in any manner or form."

Distributors however can be more easily stung for punitive damages so until they run out of people who're 'distributing' some bits then they're unlikely to bother [as much] with mere* downloaders.
Times out on me! :(
I also found this surprising. While penalties at some schools may seem extreme I think expulsion, immediate failure of the class, etc are perfectly reasonable consequences. Catching a student cheating isn't very easy, its shockingly common, and it takes a toll on the rest of the student body that doesn't cheat.

I consistently notified teachers when I saw blatant occurrences of cheating. The last thing I want is for my Alma Mater to be producing an unethical alumni body that waters down the value of my degree and GPA.
Just to comment on your landing page: Your comment here told me much more about what this is about than the copy there.

Unless you're counting on the incoming links' context to inform people what it's about (if you do, fair enough), I'd suggest a bit more info to the potential users.
Have you tried looking on GlassDoor[1]?

[1] http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/index.htm
Where'd you go to school?
To make it easier to ask for favors - it would be helpful to know whom to ask for favors as well as what specifically to ask. The issue with making it more socially acceptable is that people normally go to the "experts" for very easy favors so they get lots of requests and people with slightly less knowledge might get less request.

Here's an idea - have me tell you what the request entails (programming, personal finance, love, money, etc) and then search through the meetup api of groups that have those key words in them. Now you return to me a list of people on meetup who belong to groups that contain people I could request a favor from. As long as it's in their interest area and you help me write a nice email, you can get me started.
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> You must understand that the iOS development community has its roots in decades of engineering community, coming from NeXT, Mac OS and UNIX traditions.

I'm sorry, but Fart Apps need not be the exclusive province of "very serious" developers.

> Or any other of the hundreds (thousands?) examples of junior engineers ignoring history and re-inventing failed architectures that would not have been so broken if they looked at what came before with anything other than disdain.

Maybe. Or perhaps the communication and people skills of the generation that came before them were somewhat lacking.
Thanks for posting this Hart. You inspired me to simplify my iPhone apps. I removed my personal and work email apps, and a lot of other clutter.

Going well so far. It's so much more productive to only do email on a desktop, and it definitely frees up my thoughts.
Are you kidding me ? You know NONE of the facts. NONE.
Your point about free time in college is especially relevant. YC might require a full-time commitment, but college is the absolute perfect time to try and bootstrap something. Never again after college will there be such a perfect confluence of available, talented co-founders, ample time and low cost of living.

On a more flippant note, dropping out to launch a startup isn't that much different to dropping out with a band: it's the same 'take a wild shot at the big time' thing, only with fewer girls. Even if you hit the really big time there's still value in a degree: Brian May from Queen went back to finish his.

Good luck to the OP of course. I hope he's one of the successful ones.
Programming is a fundamental concept like arithmetic or persuasive argument. It is about turning abstract human thought into machine-executable algorithms. Children who learn to program will grow up smarter and more productive than those who don't, even if they never code for their job.

In addition, the number of jobs that requiring programing skills is exploding and will continue to grow. The basic idea of automating information tasks is useful for many, many tasks.
>Congress will recognize that as a bug and modify the law //

It's not a bug.
> People with brains are more complex. In general if she is happy doing cleaning work we can presume she doesn't have the same brain or needs, of, say someone with higher intelligence. People are different in what their needs are.

That's almost as patronizing as it is naive.
> The larger point remains - a fifty percent higher level of self-employed with incorporated businesses (which is a fairly good marker for entrepreneurship unless you can suggest a better one)

"fairly good" doesn't imply that it has enough precision to support your 50% claim.

Canadian biz law is different, so I'd expect incorporation rates to be different.

> in the country with the safety net of health insurance.

Nope - the difference is due to hockey and average temperature. After all, if you look at neighboring states, which have those things, the difference goes away.

Or, it's due to the ethnic makeup. Asians in San Jose start biz far more whites, and whites far more than Hispanics and AAs. That alone explains a lot of the difference that you're observing. (Canada is white with some asian. The US is far more diverse.)
Why iOS? It's the minority platform?

If you are to promote mobile apps, why not go for the big platform, Android?
It comes down from Visa and MasterCard's operating agreements.

Thus illustrating one of my favorite pet sayings: "Any sufficiently dominant corporation is indistinguishable from a government."

Nothing you are saying actually makes this policy right; you are simply reiterating its existence.
Yes I had to go back and check the date to make sure it was not 2005, because that was when we had this argument.
One thing that I really appreciated at MIT was that when we were given take-home tests or other take-home assignments, it was expected (and often encouraged) that we collaborate with our classmates. Writing down the exact same answer as another classmate was fine, so long as you documented who you worked with and who contributed what to the assignment. It provided an important lesson since collaboration has been a huge part of my professional career.

Now if those Harvard students broke the rules, well, they broke the rules. But I can't help but think that if Harvard is restricting collaboration in take-home assignments, that they're doing it wrong.
I dont know any of the facts either, as Apple is refusing to disclose them or even talk to us about them. The problem is getting them to talk!
It was unstable and rarely discussed until recently. This is very wellcome.
Looks like you are forgetting manual override.
1. How can they have very high standards if they cheat? Stress is no excuse for cheating, spend less time getting drunk.
2. It's always mentioned that cheating is not acceptable at the beginning of every term in every class. And isn't it obvious anyway?
3. Yes it's unfortunately too easy.
I think cheating is one of the signs of the crumbling of our civilized society. It is a scourge that doesn't stop at final exams, but as we can see in the financial sector one that continues on through life.

That said, we lay all the blame on students, but universities themselves are also cheating. Multiple well-known universities in recent years have been exposed as lying,[1] about their enrollment statistics to rankings organizations.

Emory was exposed for its lies just a few days ago: http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2012/08/21/fallout-fr...

University of Illinois was exposed earlier this year: http://abovethelaw.com/university-of-illinois-college-of-law

One of the reasons my father moved us to the U.S. from his home country of Bangladesh is that he couldn't stand to raise his children in a culture where he had to pay a bribe just to get his phone service hooked up. When I see tacit acceptance of cheating amongst students in American universities, I see the exact same elements of cultural dysfunction that my dad saw in Bangladesh. I fear without stiffer penalties for cheaters, both for students who cheat and university administrators who cheat, our culture of basic American honesty will continue to crumble.

[1] Everyone uses the term "misreporting" but "misreporting" is what happens when you intend to write down 1470 and accidentally write down 1740. "Lying" is the appropriate term for what happens when you instead write down "1500" for a period of a decade.
The humans are less than less than perfect.
That's an overly-aggressive approach to avoiding FOUC (flash of unstyled content).
Thanks for the pointer. I was able to find a Gallup link: http://www.gallup.com/poll/151310/u.s.-republican-not-conser...

By the numbers, it seems that having completed a high school diploma or less puts you in better standing than having completed just a degree (27% vs 23%), though a post-graduate degree is the clear winner.

So, it seems that if you are not willing to go through post-graduate studies (which, I assume, is primarily limited to the professional degrees you mentioned – MD, JD, etc.), you are slightly better off dropping out or not going to college at all in terms of achieving success as defined by the top 1%. That is actually pretty interesting data with regards to the subject of this thread.
Maybe the cop could have a device that lets the cars know when it's ok to turn or continue.
Is this like http://artcards.cc/ but for all kinds of art events? Per shanelja's comment - put a 1 sentence description of what your site does. I looked up new york and found some interesting events that I hadn't heard of, so there's value there.
I'd like to agree with you but nope it clearly does lack detail, looking at that page I've a few instant questions

* If I'm a business how do I get my VAT right?

* What goods/services are VAT exempt

Now they're a little specific because I deal with VAT regularly but the fact that the VAT rate is 20% is easy to show and it's a headline piece of information. However tax and everything else involving government is always complicated and presenting it simply is incredibly difficult. The questions that a user landing on that page will want answering are diverse and as much as I'd like it to be as simple as showing a simple table with some data I doubt whether that's going to answer the question the average user has. The current directgov page is full of links to and information that might help, the new snazzy page - nope nothing.

I don't think this is purely political I honestly believe there are people trying to make government sites more simple but I also don't think just throwing away whatever information you don't need is not particularly helpful. The reason most gov websites are hugely complicated/confusing is because gov is hugely confusing/complicated and while I applaud any effort to simplify the presentation simply dropping a bunch of information and claiming you've solved the problem doesn't cut it.
"It is to the people starving."

No. Famine means a widespread lack of food. The problem for the people starving isn't famine, because if it was, there would be a lot more people starving. The problem is that they lack food. "Famine" is not a synonym for that.

Why doesn't the US have a distribution problem? Two reasons: 1) we produce so much that it covers up a lot of inefficiencies in the system and 2) widely available government assistance. Despite this, people do still go hungry here.
you should try racing (real-race-track variety racing) with something expendable, you'll learn to remember there might be people behind you very quickly.
I wouldn't say that Ruby Mixins are not really similar to interfaces at all, since interfaces represent signature to be implemented by the class and mixins represent implementation.

You are correct though that the "mixins" in this article are nothing like Ruby mixins.
I'm loving this. It didn't seem like the most useful feature when I first heard about it, but it seems pretty well implemented. (Using the current nightly).

The pagemod and inspect commands seem super useful. I hate having to click around an inspector to find the thing I want -- "inspect #foo > h3" just seems so much easier.
Or that the people who can see the benefits never show up to try to convince anyone.
take home exam and collaboration? take home exam is just asking for that in this day and age. I thought the idea was it would be easy, but only the students that put the work in would learn something that they'd need to know/use in a harder exam later.....
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So we HAVE the Google Discovery Service [1] that would be awesome if it could be used with other than just google's APIs.

[1] https://developers.google.com/discovery/v1/getting_started
I would say programming is analogous to the entire idea of working with your hands (which subsumes woodshop, metal shops, car repair, etc.).
One of the things I disliked most about lecturing was cheating/plagiarism. It took up a lot of time that I could use to do marking/help students. There was no incentive, nor time given, on the part of the University to deal with plagiarism (everyone just kinda wanted it to not be there). Also, being wrong about it was really serious. I could seriously hurt students who had not plagiarised (it was especially difficult to figure out who plagiarised on team projects).

I also gave a 10 minute lecture on cheating/plagiarism on the first day of class.

It is good, though, to see lecturers who are serious about cheating/plagiarism like your professor. It takes a lot of work to stay on top of that stuff. He deserves cudos.

In the end, plagiarism really hurts the student the most (and the university to some extent (but probably not Harvard)).
Vimperator and Pentadactyl have had something like this for some time and I've found it really useful. This feature of course goes a little above and beyond and it looks really exciting. Congrats Mozilla!
Can you please provide us with the link to your apps ?

If Apple Legal are involved then 99% of the time it is due to a third party filing a lawsuit against Apple because of something you've done e.g. violate trademarks. So you why do you think Apple has terminated your account ?

Now the other point is why are you representing small and large publishers ? Why don't they have their own developer accounts ? This is very unusual.
Thanks. I enjoyed reading it.

Intellectual Property may be an oxymoron when applied to ownership of public knowledge or invention. But isn't it valid when the knowledge or invention is private?

Patents are a trade with society: lose the protection of your private idea and we'll give you legal protection and financial reward for a limited period.

It sounds like a reasonable idea for a (capitalist) society to embrace.

Now why exactly you would want to make that trade is where things seem to get very sticky. Especially if the patent system is abused, unbalanced, unfair.
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It looks to me also more as some form of anti-cheating theater. Expecting that there is absolutely no collaboration / idea exchange going on with a take-home exam seems naive at the very least.
Perhaps, but isn't there the risk that a charismatic leader could get team members to essentially do the work for him/her? Sure, you could say that's a lesson in life, but ideally, you want a passing grade in engineering mechanics to mean that that person has competency in engineering, not merely the politics and management of engineering.

Of course, this risk is mitigated by having the final weighted much heavier than the rest of the coursework and not being take home. But that approach ends up going to the polar extreme of valuing collaboration
Many would give their right arm for the opportunities you have had. Should we all wish for your demise? That seems quite unreasonable to me.
I know this comment will be unpopular to many who feel the injustice of cheating trumps all else.

I can't help but feel like this is push-back against academia. This is illegal file sharing all over again. This is students working together using internet resources to share knowledge to advance and succeed, to disrupt their education in a way their authority figures thoroughly disapprove of. To me, it's very similar to people working together and using internet resources to share music and movies, to disrupt their entertainment experiences.

I'm not sure how to feel about this. Cheating isn't always the correct answer; usually it's not. But to say it doesn't have a place in the toolbox of life is a bold-faced lie.
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Right, but unless your resources adhere to some other standard, there's no reason why the downstream consumer would expect to find URLs in certain places or know what to do with them if they were there. Again, I don't see this as a problem, though the OP does.
I have called TechCrunch "assholes" twice on tweets in the last week or so (because I hate following a link to TC on my iPad and having to cancel the annoying nag popup to install their app; last time I could not get through to the article because of constant redirects back to the nag popup. Yuck.)

So, I might be a little prejudiced against TC right now, but even with that, I think the original article about Shirley Hofnstein was really mean spirited.

In any case, I usually do my web browsing on my iPad so I am not reading TechCrunch anymore anyway.
I thought it was generally assumed that all noises that come from your computer should either be muted or consumed via headphones. People actually let their computers just blast random noises in a shared place? That's like going into a library and not putting your phone on vibrate while you read a magazine and answer texts every 5 minutes.
Guilty phrases to look for: just, any, all, always

That's right. That's all.
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