skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, EVERY Apple user, it's nice to know you have all that data to look at.

The Nexus 7 and the iPad Mini are tablets, not phones, both are uncomfortable in one hand and not big enough to be productive on them, unless a 10" tablet is too big for you I wouldn't even look at them.

Phone wise: smaller is better. I prefer the 4S screen size to the 5. Galaxy Note and huge Android devices are laughable from my point of view.
I don't disagree at all. I sure as heck did every problem myself and took pride in it, and I'm sure I'm more capable because of it.

But that's not the point of my post. I'm asking why somebody who clearly doesn't care about learning this bit of math feels the need to go through the motions in the first place. It's a suboptimal way to learn anything.
That would not be possible unless all HTTP is forced through a proxy server, which is very unlikely in a Uni network. I worked in a University NOC and I can tell you that this is not going to happen even if they do have the logs; unless an actual crime was involved or its somehow going to mean negative PR you aren't going to get cooperation from them on something like this.
I like how my AP Calculus teacher ran things. Weekly quizzes at the beginning of class, two exams, and a large amount of homework that was corrected, but not graded. The homework was only practice for the AP exam; if you didn't do it, you probably wouldn't be able to answer the actual exam questions efficiently.

Of course, this probably won't work for students that don't want to be in the class anyway, but that wasn't a problem in AP calc.
You are reading way too much into a single word and it's a shame that another nit-picking contrarian viewpoint like this gets voted to the top on HN.

I've heard Brits claim that they keep the royal family around for the amusement of Americans. No one attacks that claim because it's obviously just a joke. In this case, it's just a word that you've certainly read way too much in to (why you've done that I won't speculate).
Well yes its shitty code that has to work on numerous old shitty browsers.
> PHP is not beautiful or elegant, but it gets the job done.

I'm confident your mind can be changed on that. Mine has :) (WordPress vs. Symfony is a good example "normal" PHP to "elegant" PHP code)
Looking at the revision history of the page - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C%2B%2B14&act... - your contributions were not deleted, but were merged into the main C++ article by another contributor. Other articles about individual C++ standards already redirect there - see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C%2B%2B98&red...

I think your experience suggests that Wikipedia's tools are not as user-friendly as they should be to new or inexperienced editors, rather than that contributing to Wikipedia is useless, because your contributions will be deleted.
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If it's in my lap for reading, no big deal. I haven't been able to find a longer-term comfortable way to place it on my chest to read while in bed.

If I'm playing a game I often have to hold it in my hands. Maybe I'm just a sissy-pants programmer with soft hands, but it gets annoying to hold it after a while.
For anybody too lazy to read through them all, here are some gems:

+ <script language="JavaScript1.2">

Are you sure, like, really really sure, you want JavaScript 1.2?

+var speed=1

please run jslint on your code before submitting a pull request

There are so many errors that JSLint gives up on this code at 39%.

+temp=document.body.scrollTop

You really shouldn't declare a variable without using var - can lead to all sorts of scoping problems.

Oh, good catch! You should submit a pull request to fix this

+<mass of span elements>

There's a couple of redundant span elements here, when you get time, you could optimise this

+ <p align="center" dir="rtl">&nbsp;</p>

It's great that you've made sure that non-breaking space is read right to left, your readers would have been screwed otherwise.

+ $bind_port_p="IyEvdXN...<base64 encoded string>";

It's going to be hard to comment on these Base64 encoded C and Perl programs in their current form.
That daemon() function call is going to cause problems on a whole bunch of non-Linux architectures. Solaris doesn't have it for example.
You should definitely consider supporting IPv6, you can't just assume IPv4 connectivity...
You're also missing a return at the end of main().

+$auth_pass = "fe3f6d96a1ee06bc5415a5c05540c7a8";

1911990 is not a good password. Your birthday?

Let's hope you didn't use that for your email account, lovestory8976@yahoo.com

can you use a sha512 hash, instead? it's more secure.

+

Hmm the HTML isnt compliant. Please rebase from master, squash the previous commit and resubmit.

Thanks for your invaluable future contributions
This is one of the biggest advantage the Nexus 7 has over the mini. It fits, if a bit snugly, into the back pockets of my jeans.
I feel the same way about Richard Stallman and Michael Moore.
I don't think they were actually trying to deface the website... I think they just wanted to spread anti-semitism...
Guys, I really love the "shouldwebuild" this concept! This is a great way to validate an idea. Can I borrow it for my concept please? :)
I heard a cool piece on NPR the other day, talking about the benefits some schools and students are seeing by implementing flip teaching.
Essentially, the hour long lectures are presented as a podcast/video/whatever and are to be viewed at home. This allows the students (and parents for that matter) to take as much time as needed, rewind, etc.

Then at class, the students do their homework, with the teacher helping and grading the work.

I'm really intrigued by this, and think there is a future for this method, given how technology has progressed.
That's more a problem with having to support IE6.

If you redesigned a whole new ecosystem from scratch, you will still have IE6 users who don't support it so you'll have to provide a "fallback mode" anyway.
http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com

That seems to archive deleted pages, and does come fairly high up search rankings for some deleted topics.
There have always been unethical people. That doesn't mean ethics has never been taught.
Spend time fixing your weaknesses or building on your strengths? Not an obvious choice in my opinion.
Thing I'm most happy about is the upgraded export course materials. The zipped file is now logically organized. They used to have seemingly random arbitrary grouping of materials in folders with half of the directories only leading to one subdirectory.
Also important: when I want to have a chunk of productivity, I close email and don't check Twitter/FB/Reddit/HN or anything like that. I'm obviously not trying very hard to be productive right at the moment.
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The OP has done most of the work for you.
This is very difficult question to answer. Unless you actually build it in some way and ask your target audience to use it you won't get any concrete feedback.
About halfway through the campaign we figured out that of all variables that affect user behavior (design, usability, imagery, etc.), copy has the highest ROI

I thought I'd highlight this because it is true, apparently not obvious since everyone discovers it for themselves, and wildly actionable by many people on HN.
At first they may accept that but do you really think the student isn't going to challenge it? There actually is due process involved in matters like this, and part of that is assessing the evidence.

The only reason the prof asked for the confession is because otherwise he has absolutely nothing.
Whats the current state of the real-time patches for linux? Last I'd talk to someone about them, this was a while ago, they felt a bit sub-par. From a developer's point of view is it as easy to work with and predictable as VxWorks?
Love it. Great read.
Presumably folks would use it to post screenshots relevant to the code being discussed.
You can solve this pretty easily. First, record the victim, and tamper with the recording as needed. Call this tampered recording "sample A". You need this recording to be somewhere that ambient noise will not vary much throughout the day.

Next, go to the same room (or a similar room) at a time when the victim will not have a good alibi and when the room will have the same basic ambient noise. Record using the same recording device in the same conditions (e.g. if it was in your pocket for the original recording, keep it in your pocket for the second recording). This is "sample B".

Take your recordings into Audacity. On sample A, apply the "Equalization" effect like this: http://i.imgur.com/gxPTV.png

On sample B, apply the opposite filter like this: http://i.imgur.com/6qeYQ.png

Now mix the two samples. As long as the ambient noise does not contain easily isolated components like other people's voices, you'll have a convincing forgery.

Now you might argue that there could be other forensics techniques to detect this kind of tampering, but I would argue that if such reliable alternative techniques were available, this mains analysis technique wouldn't be particularly valuable in the first place.
I use Apple products pretty much throughout my life, I didn't think the smaller screen was a big deal, and I was wrong. I've never been terribly loud about 7" devices being crappy, and I've always known Apple wasn't perfect -- they do plenty of things that annoy me and make me think about getting out of the Apple habit. But hey, I was definitely wrong about the smaller screen.

FWIW, I think that extra inch of screen size does make a difference. On the other hand, I'd still like the Mini a lot if the physical size was exactly the same as the Nexus 7, and I like my Nexus 7 fine too. The biggest reason why I'd choose the Mini over the Nexus, other than ecosystem, is weight -- the Mini is lighter by 30 grams or so. Screen size isn't a huge deal, just a minor advantage.
I find that £1200 item kinda odd. Is it an outlier? It's basically a male designer at 45+ with 14-15years of exp from Wales.
Because they are buying a credential.
It is so much more functional though. Navigation and discovery is heaps better now.
I can't figure out what it's for. So I guess no, or perhaps improve the message.
how much cheaper is Rackspace vs Amazon CloudFront? From our experience, Amazon also has more nodes that its CDN pushes files to and our CDN cost with 100k+ views a month is still under $3/month, for each solution.
I think it's funny that they censor pornstar names. I mean, it makes sense, but it's just funny how google instant quits working after a somewhat generic first name sometimes.
Wow, EVERY Apple user, it's nice to know you have all that data to look at. [...] both are uncomfortable in one hand and not big enough to be productive on them [...] smaller is better [...] huge Android devices are laughable from my point of view

If you're going to criticise someone for making blanket statements, I wouldn't then immediately follow it up with a series of blanket statements.
I've been told they ship a lot of water in.
I do not know of the single language, including the language of math, that gives equal precedence to their and and or operators. Sadly Ruby does, and it's a blight on the language. It's like giving equal precedence to + and \. It's a choice, but not one that anyone would expect.

What's worse, Ruby give the "correct" relative precedence to &&/||. I suspect this inconsistency is the reason the OP cautions against using and/or*. It's too bad because I miss the low precedence and/or operators (from perl) that can be used to avoid parenthesis that &&/|| would require in the presence of assignment, etc.
It's nothing new - the same has been going on on Stack Overflow and other forums for ages. Here's a particularly egregious example of someone cheating on a Regional Olympiad level competition: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/155319/150097
>You don't need to provide much information to get a github account, so the risk is not very much elevated.

1. Unless you are extremely lucky, you have to gain someones trust by posting fixes that do not contain backdoors. This leaves a trail in terms of: coding style, word usage, editor settings (tabs vs spaces), and ip records/timestamps in github. It's not much but it is additional unnecessary exposure.

2. Since the code is publicly available on github it stands a much better chance of discovered later. If you own a server, do you business and change the logs, you have a very very low chance of someone discovering the intrusion after the fact.

3. If someone discovers the backdoor they can setup a honey pot. They might even allow the change to be merged and then wait for you to connect, although this is unlikely. An attacker is potentially forfeiting the element of surprise.

4. Gaining access to a remote server is trivially easy (just use a publicly available exploit before it is patched on your target server), especially if it is a webapp, especially if you have access to the code.

I'm not saying there isn't someone out there that thinks this is great attack method. I'm just saying that an attacker that uses this method is either doing it because they think it is funny or a stupid attacker (there is not shortage of stupid attackers).
The Nexus 7 isn't lighter. Check the specs.
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I had an engineering professor who programmatically created unique exams (random numbers + randomly shuffled types of questions). It actually made his job a lot easier because grading was done via scantron. What I didn't like is there was no partial credit from showing your work.
That is really cool. I hope it gets enough adoption we can see if it really helps.
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Ok, so you look up the true signal for the actual recording time, subtract that from the recording, and then add the signal from the time you want it to look like. Voila: perfect bleed over.
Beyond workflowy, before going to bed each night have the next 2-3 things you need to do immediately when waking up ready and defined.

That way, when you wake up, you can dive right into it and try to accomplish at least one thing a morning, if not two. This helps you get up rested and put your highest and best energy into your side project and it can be fruitful.
The bias of individuals play a major role in the historical and biographical accuracy of the articles they write, not so much in obscure songs. Also the credibility reduction in the public eyes is virtually none for mistakes in such things as obscure songs.
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What to expect?

They always try to justify the decisions of the great leader.
In previous years these results have been driven primarily by African Americans and Hispanics (groups which don't exist to any significant degree in Europe or Asia) dragging the US average down. European Americans do very well when compared to European nations, and Asian Americans do well when compared to Asian nations (a bit worse in math, better in reading).

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...
http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-well-do-above-...

Do we have any reason to believe that situation has changed? (I haven't read the latest report, so I don't know.)
Agree, at first I thought Nathan had accomplished something for these companies. I thought it odd that he didn't make a bigger deal about his work for them. It was a shot to his credibility that I found he has never been involved in projects for these teams, or if he has, it's not discoverable.
Many teachers agree, unfortunately they do not set policy in regards to what is taught and how to assess that teaching.
You're correct, however note that 2.3/2.4 fixes the lock on the javascript interpreter with the move to V8 as the default engine.
if they are using a virtual keyboard then those are one in the same (besides maybe the tab)
Then that someone learns a valuable lesson about the internet.
Yep, but we can't know if it's really him, it could be a fellow student as far as we know...
> Why is there an incentive to cheat like this? Frankly, because most of the hoops a student jumps through during their education really don't impart any lasting measurable value. What fraction of educational content is still usable in the average student's brain ten years after they learned it? Very little.

You're overcomplicating things to push your agenda. There's an incentive for a dishonest student to cheat because it's significantly easier than actually doing the work.

A student is unlikely to cheat on a topic they really love, but the value of learning something isn't judgeable on that basis. A lot of things I questioned the value of at school have come in handy, and I only left 2 years ago.

I agree that a big value of school is the ability to learn and reason, but students don't know best.
There are differing opinions here on whether this is a good way, but give it a shot!
What's so phony about dressing up for investors? VCs live in suit land, so they certainly wouldn't get far with a visceral reaction to a dress shirt. I suppose a hoodie and sandals would show off how unique and eccentric you are?

If anything, dressing well will set you apart from the herd in the Valley.
That's a problem though, it got merged in as a blurb, but the article itself hadn't had a chance to be fleshed out (where it could've been enough to justify its own page) after just a few minutes.
Fails on iPad with 404 after watching the movie and clicking the "Begin journey" button. It tries to redirect to http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/explore-tablet.html that seems to not exist.
You obviously never held seen an iPsd mini or held it in comparison to an 7" tablet. There is a noticeable difference in screen size.

>because in my mind the bigger display size is actually a disadvantage

That's your opinion. The other opinion held is that, by the majority of consumers, the iPad 10" is more desirable than the iPad mini.

You're giving some kind of ridiculous argument which misses the point. Average people don't like PCs and 7" screens are still too small otherwise the Nexus 7, or other 7" tablets would be more popular.

That's not to say there aren't use cases for a smaller screen but the public at large doesn't care about how fast they can type.

Companies today will adapt more quickly to making their employees happy than being efficient.
Your point on "holdability" is very apt. I find myself watching netflix in bed on my S3 while my 7" HTC Flyer sits on the nightstand. It's just easier to hold.
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>> "Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is about twice the weight of The Hobbit."

>And how many times have you seen someone reading a book that size on the subway/bus/ferry? ;)

Good point. You may have convinced me.
I've had exams where the question was essentially the same, except that everyone had unique parameters.
Agreed. I will never go back to a non-retina screen. I bought the Nexus 7 to see what the Android ecosystem is all about and I always reach for the iPad instead. The screen is the deciding factor.

The 7" screen is too small. The text is not crisp. The colors are bland.

My devices:
iPad (3rd gen)
iPhone 4S
Nexus 7
You could use it as a tool to learn Mongo query syntax assuming you have SQL down.
I'm assuming someone may have already said this, but content isn't locked into Wikipedia. It's Creative Commons-licensed, meaning that if someone cared about curating and maintaining this history, they could have moved those articles over to another wiki. There are even wiki hosting solutions that make these kind of moves relatively easy.

The problem is not that the Wikipedia community was curating their content, but that that batch of content was not being actively curated by someone. This is how history works. Someone has to determine something notable and worth preserving. If no one stands up for a piece of content, then it eventually dissipates into the ether.
This is exactly right. The US system has it's flaws, but other systems are just as bad or worse.

The problem is the divide between rich, middle class and poor. Poor kids just don't score nearly as high on tests than middle class and wealthy kids.

Of course, I don't have the stats or evidence, but I suspect if you took out our (USA) bottom 20% and the other countries bottom 20%, you would see a much more even comparison.

Just a theory.
That's an extremely narrow view of "dishonest" if "dishonest" means "made me make an assumption that it itself clears up in English plain text in plain view".
Strawman much? It doesn't take more than 10 seconds on Macrumors to realize that Apple users don't think Apple is perfect. The media fawns over Apple not because it's perfect, but because everyone else is worse. Apple isn't the one releasing a $500 10" tablet with only a 1366x768 screen, they're not the ones releasing $1,000 ultrabooks with bad trackpads, etc. Apple is the one company that consistently puts out products that don't make you go "what the hell were they thinking?" They are the only ones that consistently realize what's important in a consumer product and what's not (e.g. that regular people will gloss over the use of a "last generation" processor on the MBP, but that a bad trackpad will be a dealbreaker). Remember, it was Apple who first realized that people would pay $1,000+ for a laptop with long battery life, light weight, good trackpad/keyboard, and didn't care if it didn't have an optical drive/big spinning HDD/latest processor. When PC manufacturers picked up on this, they started releasing ultrabooks that took all their cues from the MBA line.

As an aside, the size aspect/ratio concern is totally valid. My wife loves her iPhone 5, but lamented, unprompted, that she can't reach the whole screen one handed. The online intelligentsia are shockingly myopic on this issue. I'd bet something like a quarter of iPhone customers are teenage girls--4.7" phones designed for guys with big man paws are not the right design choice for Apple's demographics.
Care to expand a bit? I'm curious.
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I own an iPad 3 and played with the mini at an Apple Store. The screen really felt unimpressive. Also dimension-wise, Nexus 7 felt more "natural" on my palm compared to the iPad mini, although iPad mini more than compensates with its tablet-specific app selection and what not. So I guess the perfect tablet for me would be the one with the Nexus 7's dimensions, came with Google Now (and other Google-integration), was equipped with Retina Display, and finally ran iOS and the iPad-specific apps. Am I asking for too much? :)
Even more evil technique criminals could use: carry a device which emits its own fake, randomly fluctuating "mains" sound, thus tainting any legitimate recordings so that forensics analysis will incorrectly identify them as "fake".
Mmmm, maybe for companies/marketers. I can see a tool being useful to customize/personalize your marketing effort across the various networks.

I don't see consumers ever paying for this, however.