skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I would consider the large research projects to be the tests of that course. Besides, the English/lit/composition courses I've taken don't really give small daily or regularly assigned "homework" assignments anyway, so this plan wouldn't really apply to those.
Interestingly when roaming in Europe, T-mobile charge me 40p/SMS and 20p/MMS. It is actually cheaper* for me to write down what I want to say by hand, take a photo of it, and send that than it for me to tap out an SMS!

Why is this? Well it suggests to me that they want to encourage people off the old SMS infrastructure, possibly due to capacity or manageability issues, and shift them onto the much newer GPRS/3G/whatever network.

* Yes I know you can send text by MMS and I have an E71 so typing isn't a chore anyway.
Precisely! This is why I've always liked standardized tests (although admittedly, I did far better on my ACT than on my high school grades). Unfortunately, there are many arguably legitimate complaints about standardized tests, namely: that they're governed by the state or federal government, and that they may encourage schools to "teach to the test."
Its the waterfall approach in action.
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More people want the option of receiving Twitter by SMS if they have to than actually do by choice day-to-day. If being out of good signal meant not being able to use the service at all, people would be less keen on incorporating it into their lives.
Agreed entirely.

I don't understand why they don't get testing either. Not one I have met realises just how error ridden their scripts probably are. Still, a lot of programmers don't understand the value of testing yet.
It wouldn't work. Homework is there so that you learn the material well before the exams instead of cramming. If it doesn't count towards the final grade, people won't do it.

I had a professor who said that having frequent (like twice-weekly) quizzes, which has the some purpose as assigning homework, had reduced the number of failures in the class considerably.
I agree with your statement about only being able to judge 4 or 5 quality levels. This of course only applies to subjective work, not to things like math, grammar, etc. Subjective classes like Composition usually don't feature such an emphasis on daily or otherwise regular homework assignments, therefore the large assignments would be the tests. But I would also argue that 4-5 levels of quality is too much, because is the grader comparing papers to other papers, or to some ideal paper that exists in his mind? I think for subjective grading, the only options should be pass or fail.
I was a full-time student for about 20 years, all said. I was never assigned a homework assignment that did not benefit me in some way. Whether by teaching me something new, honing a skill, or reinforcing and deepening knowledge I already had, each homework assignment I did was helpful. It seems like the author wants to cut out all of this beneficial work just because he can do well on tests. I don't think that's a good idea.
Twitter search isn't good for reference searches. But it's great for real time opinion and real time opinion can be extremely valuable.

As an example for anyone running a business, that real time opinion is a great way to get and respond to feedback from your customers.
That serach engine nees a bit of refinement. Doesn't even find itself: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck+duck+go
Would it be outrageous to say that Facebook and Twitter are different things and can live in parallel? One of Facebook's strengths is that it maintains private data. Part of what makes Twitter unique is that so much of the data is public. They're both useful, but for different cases.
But with this system, the "safe" option is still to do all the homework assignments. If you're implying that making them option "punishes" the "bad" students (by bad I simply mean more likely to fail), then by that logic requiring the homework punishes the "good" students.
Umm... it's still missing?
Well, it seems that web's ultimate battle is going to be for who owns/controls/manages the social graph.

I don't know where that battle is going but I very hope that it will go in the direction of an open/multi-polar solutions.

One antidote to FaceBook/twitter/whoever-owns-everything would be if Open Social or some other solution let any website plug social features and announcements in.
I would argue that this is still an implementation issue w/Vista's networking stack. The RFC assumes that the DNS resolver (the client) has a public IP. This is usually not the case with most clients, and Microsoft (etc) knows this. It's just an edge case that is now brought to light.

The solution to this is pretty simple (at least in the case of IPv4): identify and use the public IP of a session instead of the private one. I know that public IP identification behind a NAT is problematic, and certainly not that robust (SOAP-based UPnP IG is pretty ooky), but if it doesn't work, fall back to round robin. Not too hard.

Of course, while the solution is not too hard, it's up to a handful of large enterprises to deal with (people who make operating systems). And the rest of us are the ones having to hack around the problem in the meantime, which kinda sucks.
Why the separate domain name? It's bad for SEO and branding. I didn't trust that it was really techcrunch until I clicked around. They should have made it it.techcrunch.com or something.
I wish someone would tackle that eating a night myth. I can't imagine if you eat the same thing at 2PM vs 11PM, you'll gain more weight in the latter. I always cringe when people tell me that.
How about something with genes and chemicals? maybe an improved crop plant? I wish I knew how to do that.
Here is a good example:

http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=skittles

We would love to be able to add other status feeds to this tool but so far we haven't found any with a volume that's a significant fraction of Twitter's. A live feed from Facebook would be ideal.
Even if the grading system is arbitrary, it's usually fully transparent and disclosed ahead of time.

I knew that the cutoff for an A was 90%, and I also knew that the grade would be calculated based on my projects and exams. I knew the exact weight of each project and exam too, all within the first few days of class.

I knew what was expected of me in this situation and didn't deliver, so it was my fault for not getting the A - not the grading system's fault. But my 89.4% was so close to an A that I somehow felt entitled to getting one, but as his quote points out, I didn't really deserve it.
Shamelessly? They sell apps. WTF other word should they use?
The title here to this article is stupid, and the summary is even more moronic. However, the article is actually a pretty interesting read.
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It seems like opendns etc do this in an easier way though.
Generally speaking, if your approach is genuinely good and the problem you're solving is important (ie, nontrivial), you're not hurting much by talking about it. If it's really that easy to replicate and you have no special twist, it might not be as great as you think. Just my $.02.
The only predicament I have about applying to grad school is that I am afraid my GPA is not very competitive. It is past the minimal requirements, but I am afraid its not enough (seeing that I've been rejected from a few schools already). My GREs are average/above average. Nothing spectacular though. I have great relationships with my professors, but it doesn't seem like recommendation letters are doing any good. Another thing is that I am already going to a university which has a good reputation, and if I go to grad school it will probably be something a little less prestigious. Given that tidbit of info -- if I get into the industry now, I may be better off than if I did down the line with a graduate degree (from a mediocre school). Plus, I may be able to get into the schools I've been rejected from within the next two years (given I have 2 years of industry experience...I hope).

I don't mean to come off as looking down on your suggestion. I'm just playing the devils advocate here. Personally, I find I can better analyze things that way.

Thanks to all of you who have replied so far, I really appreciate the help.
well socialism is a broader term. national socialism is a specific kind of socialism.
simply because the nazis happened to be particularly aggressive socialists doesn't make them non-socialists somehow.
Disclaimer: This comment post is bordering on a politic debate. Don't read below if you don't want to get involved. :)

Sure, I'll agree that the percent of your net income that is spent on necessities is continually decreased as your income increases. This is definitely true.

I'll go one step further and say that taxes probably don't largely effect human behavior. If I have worked hard enough to earn $250k/year, it's due to some intrinsic motivation, not the benefits of that salary in the US tax code.

However, if America was built on encouraging the masses to converge on an average income, then it wouldn't be America at all. This country stands above the rest because of its tremendous wealth. It's built on incentives of self-interest. It's the ability to create unbound wealth that attracts the most brilliant minds to this country, and everybody else reaps the benefits. We should be encouraging these people to work, not take a vacation because added tax pressures are further reducing the value of their work.

This is particular relevant to the entrepreneurial crowd of Hacker News; entrepreneurs are, after all, responsible for 0.2% of the country's input and 17% of its output.
"But really, the most damaging thing isn't someone's degree of incompetence but their exaggerated idea of their competence."

Exactly. The only more damaging person is someone who is openly poisonous and negative. The two in conjunction are a misery to everyone around them.

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Well pondered if it would be complimentary or a killer.

Though when I use Twitter to search on a real time topic there are more then just thoughts, as Twitters are also sharing and pointing to resources (links) to more info about said topic. What could be done here is incorporate bit.ly into twitter search and have it calculate the most shared (Retweeted) link on said topic and list them somewhere in the interface. Like US Air into Hudson... what is the most shared/relevant (RT) link at that moment.

It possibly could be a competitor or possibly just very complimentary to Google.
>> "Do you know what kids do (in my experience, at least) if there is no TV around? They read."

That's a pretty vast generalization and IMHO extremely wishful thinking. Is this from personal experience? eg your own kids?

When mine aren't watching TV, they're doing many other things - playing, reading, screaming, fighting, drawing, etc etc etc.

TV is but one activity, but I believe it's one they should certainly have in moderation.
A dangerous trend. If 100% of provocative linkbait titles lead to crappy articles, then I can safely ignore them, but if , say, 85% of them lead to crappy articles and 15% to good ones, then I have to waste resources derefencing pointers.

Or maybe I could just boycott linkbait titles altogether. If everyone does that the new way to get people to read your article would be... drumroll... to write an accurate title! Now that would be scary wouldn't it? The end of an era.
It tells you "An awesome search engine." What more do you want? You're already on the site :). In all seriousness, there will be more "zero-click" company data coming soon...
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It's basically an honesty test, since the interviewer explicitly says not to use paper or a calculator (which would include Excel). Quants are given harder questions, and I doubt that a trader would be dinged for not knowing the correct approach, since it's not a brainteaser that would correlate highly to trading acumen. But the Excel answer (14, I believe) is a very wrong one.
Yeah, a DNS server is an option we're considering.
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Some more clarification...

1) From my other comment (but relevant here)... Those reviews in question (not all, but most) are from Philly people (some known, some unknown to me) because that is the base from which I drew my beta-testers. I solicited them through our local startup mailing lists and clubs. There aren't more reviews because it just went public! The two negative reviews came from an initial release that was broken and wasn't working for anyone :(.

2) Beyond the complementary functions to the user stated above (search suggestions, better search results, search from block page, etc.), there are also many more synergies on the back end. The search engine provides invaluable false positive data to do The Parked Domains Project. Additionally, while the project is good at backend crawling, it has no front end code base at all except for a static Web site, whereas the search engine already has all of that speed/scale infrastructure in place.

3) By your logic, every feature in the Google/Yahoo/whatever toolbar should be its own extension or else it is "scummy?" Or are all search boxes "useless"? Or are you just singling out mine?
If it is true that Icelandic males are over educated (for local industries) and aggressive risk takers, maybe software startups would have been a better outlet for them? Focus that aggression on being ramen profitable, instead of risking huge sums on assets you don't understand. At least then you have risk taking focused in a way that does not risk national solvency. (I suppose this advice would have also been good for Wall Street quants.)

What other economic activities would be a good fit for an educated population willing to take risks?
Measurement often helps people to focus.
We could do something with genes, chemicals, and crops, but there are a lot of obstacles (more than we'd like to deal with). The main issue (for me at least) is the mass amount of time and research it will take to work with that sort of science. We could do it, but in my opinion I may as well go to grad school because I'd probably be doing the same sort of research anyway (but getting a Phd at the end of it).

Plus, people are only now coming around to not looking at GMO foods as alien-mutant-degenerate crops. Europe is still very much against it.

My current job is to take the sorghum and maize genome and to analyze the genes (basically figuring out which genes they share, when they diverged, and how that can be applied to improving their yield).
I still use mixturtle.com.
I have to agree that it's not close to "grilling." Clearly Verizon feels the sting from iPhone converts and is trying to quantify just how much of a hit it's costing them.
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such as:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UA8ECU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UT...
Splitting all profit between founders early on just seems very wasteful to me. You should be reinvesting that money into your company, instead of wasting it on paying salaries.

On day one you should decide on the minimum amount it'd take for you both to be ramen profitable. And that amount should be considered as an expense. Then out of the remaining profit, you should decide what % will go back into the company, and what % will be given out as a bonus.

So if for example you decide on $1,500 and 10% - on a $10,000 profit month, $3,000 will go to salaries, $700 will be split among founders as a bonus, and $6,300 will be spent on buying additional ads.

And if you for example have a 3x ad return. Meaning your ads make you $3 for every dollar you spend.

1st month you'll make an additional $18,900 that you wouldn't have had otherwise. Out of that $1,890 will go as bonus, and $17,010 will be spent on ads for next month.

If that trend continues(lets say your product is only limited by exposure), 2nd month that $17,010 will turn into $51,030, out of which $5,103 will go as bonus and you'll have $45,927 to spend on ads for next month.

And on the 3rd month, that will balloon up to $137,781, out of which you can get $13,778 as a bonus and a whopping $124K to reinvest.

So in 3 short months, you'll make an additional $14,471 for yourself and an additional $124K for your company, that you wouldn't have had otherwise.

Early on every penny counts. If you withdraw an extra penny on day one instead of buying ads that would net you 3x return, you are losing a ton of money

Month 0: $.01

Month 1: $.03

Month 2: $.09

Month 3: $.27

Month 4: $.81

Month 5: $2.43

Month 6: $7.29

Month 7: $21.87

Month 8: $65.61

Month 9: $196.83

Month 10: $590.49

Month 11: $1771.47

Month 12: $5314.41
Those 'intellectually lazy' people watch tv because they grew up with it.

Yep. Never underestimate the rapidity with which a brand new thing can become an ancient and treasured tradition. And never underestimate the rapidity with which an ancient and treasured tradition can disappear.

One of my favorite examples of the latter is billiards. In the first half of the 20th century billiards was one of the most popular spectator sports in the United States. This, mind you, was not pool, a game which was considered shady and low-class -- and still is. This was proper billiards, the kind played on a pocketless table with three balls. [1] The USA harbored some of the most famous, most talented billiards players in the world -- guys like Willie Hoppe and Welker Cochrane -- and as late as the 1940s these guys would tour the country selling out big billards venues. Every town had a billiard parlor.

Billiards died. [2] It died hard, within less than a generation. The prevailing explanation is that it was killed by television. TV gave people something good reasons to stay at home or lounge around in bars, instead of devoting hundreds of hours to mastering a rather difficult game that tends to embarrass any new player. (I tried playing three-cushion billiards once. I couldn't score one point without deliberately setting it up for myself. This isn't eight-ball.)

Perhaps now it is TV's turn to die. The name TV might live on, but only in the sense that the word billiards lives on in American popular consciousness: As a nickname for a superficially similar game (pool) that had better survival characteristics than the original.

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[1] If you didn't know this you probably didn't understand certain lyrics in The Music Man. Those lyrics are obscure today, but back when the musical came out everyone understood the joke. Indeed, it was barely a joke!

[2] In the USA, that is. In certain other countries there are many more billiards players, though I believe their games have different rules.
The gist is that they've created a better theory of flow separation (roughly speaking, where a flowing fluid "tears loose" from a boundary surface of some sort to make a sheet of fluid that folds up and projects out into the main flow).

Their theory deals only with incompressible flow, so I'm not sure how much this would help aerodynamic simulations, but it's probably got lots of applications in hydrodynamics and industrial process simulation.

You can see the original papers at http://web.mit.edu/ghaller/www/papers.html.
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> No need to turn this into a "my country is better than yours" pissing match

My apologies - that wasn't my intent.

I was trying to argue that border stuff is broken pretty much everywhere.
A lot more people make the mistake than you would think.

below is a link to a guy who got charged over because of such a mistake a while ago, he even has a recorded phone conversation of people missing the point

http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-...

but anyone who has a startup like he does should know how to advertise rates, sometimes people are just too dense
This is absolutely correct.

blog.mybusiness.com is treated as an entirely different domain to mybusiness.com

The only way to get any SEO benefit is to use a subdirectory like: mybusiness.com/blog/

Wordpress is very easy to install just make sure you upgrade it once a month.
But I would also argue that 4-5 levels of quality is too much, because is the grader comparing papers to other papers, or to some ideal paper that exists in his mind?

I think, in general, the grades A, B, and C map to the following standards of acceptable work:

A: That of a student intending graduate study in the field.
B: That at a major.
C: That of an ordinary student, e.g. a non-major.

Hence, C is failure in graduate school, whereas a C in Calc 2 for an English major is unambiguously not failure.

F obviously represents failure. D is essentially a high-fail that's counted as a pass. It means, "you didn't pass this class, and you shouldn't use it as a prerequisite, but you didn't do so poorly that I want to set you back a course." D would probably vanish if college weren't so fucking expensive.
The real question would be, would Iceland have been better if it never privatized banks to begin with and never adopted Americanized economics.
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Hey everyone,

We're adding virtual gifts to Ramamia, and looking for the best way to get icons for Virtual Gifts. Is there a good place to get icons (for cheap) that can legally be resold as virtual gifts? Any experience with specific designers or design sites (ie-99 designs) for this?

PS- If you're a designer that specializes in this, shoot us an email: founders@ramamia.com . PG is probably right in that it's something worth paying someone good.
Twitter also happens to be 95% noise. At least if someone is rambling in a mailing list, I know they're rambling on-topic. The tweet that made me stop opening my Twitter client entirely? "Just saw dog poop in the street."
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I don't understand the last sentence at all:

So we're going to have to take a slight hit to our resilience and reduce the number of A records we return for a DNS lookup to one instead of two.

How does that improve matters? Even if more or less every Vista user used the IP that was closest to 192.x, wouldn't other users still see the benefit of multiple records? In fact, they could make non-vista systems prefer the other addresses if they used effectively duplicates of the other addresses. Costs a few extra IPs, but surely that's not a problem for a site with millions of page views?

In case that wasn't clear, say they have 3 A entries:

A: 7 shared prefix bits with 192.168.
B: 6 shared prefix bits
C: 5 shared prefix bits

Vista will always use A. Other systems will use all with 1/3 probability. If servers B & C were aliased to very similar IPs to the ones they already have, they'll end up with this situation:

A: 7 shared prefix bits with 192.168.
B: 6 shared prefix bits
B: 6 shared prefix bits
C: 5 shared prefix bits
C: 5 shared prefix bits

Vista will still prefer A, but other systems will choose B or C twice as often as A, compensating for some of the extra load. You could play this game further if you wanted to.

An orthogonal solution is to get hold of some more servers that have an IP with the same "distance" as A. Vista should distribute traffic evenly across these; combined with the duplication suggested above to draw other OSes to the non-vista servers, it should be possible to make this less of a problem.

Still, if big companies are affected by this, I'm sure they can pressure Microsoft into abandoning this method. Actually, the author mentions that Windows 7 seems to have a more sane policy, so you'd just need such hacks until Vista fades back into insignificance.
I'd let the spam come in the first instance and not publish the link, based on rules, or algorithms once you have more data. Later on you can block certain ip addresses. Also try creating a blacklist to get you started.