skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not "more debt that non-AP credited kids", "more debt than they otherwise would have if Dartmouth took their AP credits".
My son and I want to start getting into robotics (probably starting with mindstorm). I'd like to encourage him into programming. Is there a way I can put the two of these together? Alternatively, if you had these interests/goals as requirements, how would you solve them?
Facebook Just Obscured App Reporting
In any system there's going to be a certain amount of leeway, were you can go beyond what is normally allowed. The problems begin when people become arrogant and abuse the responsibility given to them because it makes it easier for themselves to reach a certain result. These acts themselves are of course awful, bordering on corruption, but we choose to trust people in certain positions to use their judgment and therefore give them the benefit of the doubt.

Once in a while something happens, like someone getting hurt or taking their own life. Then it's no longer about trust, but about accountability and therefore the burden of proof has been reversed. The person with the privileges now needs to convince everyone else that the trust put in them wasn't misplaced. That doesn't mean people involved were responsible for what happened, but it does mean they should be held accountable for whatever shortcut they took.

In this case we need to ask ourselves: Was the pressure and tactics used by the prosecution in line with the alleged crime committed and did the prosecution show enough judgement in regards to the defendants previous mental health issues or even just as a human being?
Yes I would and this happened when I was on the other side. The candidate reached out after 2 weeks and asked if the job was still open and that he had made a mistake. The job was filled.
No, they would have more debt because the credits AP credit provides are cheaper than the "premium" credits you'll now have to get through Dartmouth instead.
Nice, didn't know about the Berkeley connection! (wasn't in CS)
Austin has more in shape and attractive people by FAR. I moved to SF a couple years ago and moved back... SF was like clowntown when it came to fitness... Austin is orders of magnitude better when it comes to the fitness scene.

I mean shit, I'm running a 5km this Sunday in a gorilla suit... http://austingorillarun.com/
Why is this under heroku.com?
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A high school degree ought to be good for something. Students are entitled to four years of effective free education. If high schools can't engage them I think the government should be on the hook for the bill for the first year of college.
using a greasemonkey script like http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121261 can fix this for you.. obviously using such scripts brings it's own issues, but a nice(ish) solution imo
Oh my god, I've been waiting to read this ever since I saw the movie. wait, I don't remember any "Python"s in the movie....
This sounds quite a bit like Objective C.
Totally agree man on everything you said.

But please stop the influx of Californians to Austin... I don't want them to ruin Austin the same way SF and LA are ruined...
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Don't forget the Anti-Dildo laws:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_obscenity_statute
http://daxlegal.com/dildos-sexually-obscene-toys-illegal-in-...

This is so fantastically nutty I could hardly believe it (when I first read about a woman that had been arrested in Texas for smuggling Dildos).
Excellent points.

"So when we're faced with a case like Swartz's, why are we so quick to find someone to blame?"

Let me answer that for you by quoting Rahm Emanuel:

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
Whaaat? Dude, like seriously,how dumb do you have to be that burning all of that gas just CANNOT be good for environment. And no, I'm not leftist, I don't support greenpeace(they can all go to hell), but this is just a massive waste of resources, that damages our planet for no reason other than corporate greed.
To me it showed a more serious issue within the company. Integrity isn't a part time thing, you have it or you don't.
I took classes at the local community college at night of my Junior year in HS, and during the afternoon of my Senior year since my HS didn't have AP courses (heck, they didn't teach trigonometry or above in Math). It seems like a pretty good strategy then and it will probably be going forward. Community College tend to have better 100 level courses since you get a person hired as an instructor.

Graduating early just mean problems in the dorms and paying for expensive 100 level courses.
How many millions of gallons of water is North Dakota using now, for all this fracking? And where is the water coming from?
> The tooling and library ecosystem of C is absolutely second to none, and there's an enormous community out there that consists of some of the smartest programmers you will ever meet.

This is causing me some pretty serious issues right now. The C community loves its giant ecosystem of C libraries. Everything on Earth seems to bring in a pile of delicate dependencies on the rest of the C universe. What should be fairly mundane configure, build and deployment problems become nightmares.

C is also more likely than a lot of other languages to use outside tools to generate program text as part of a build. In a lot of other languages developers would use those hairy features everyone complains about instead, and avoid complicating the build for everyone who could otherwise treat their library as a black box.
Just an app running on Heroku.
I'm using my ported version of Hiccup [1] to ClojureScript for a while
now and share most of my templates between Clojure on the server, and
ClojureScript on the client side with good sucess. It can sometimes
get a little bit hairy to share code between the 2 platforms, but I
hope something like Common Lisp's feature expressions [2] will make it
into Clojure and ClojureScript soon. When this arrives, life will be a
lot better ...

Just for fun, I benchmarked my Hiccup port against the other candidates.

Compilation Mode: Whitespace
{:crate 7.076333333333333, :jquery 1.4643333333333333, :dommy 2.1186666666666665, :hiccup-str 1.985, :hiccup-node 2.3476666666666666}

Running Hiccup and Dommy in advanced mode get's the time towards unoptimized jQuery.

Compilation Mode: Advanced (Crate and jQuery don't run in advanced mode)
{:dommy 1.3436666666666666, :hiccup-str 1.0293333333333334, :hiccup-node 1.3506666666666665}

One thing to note: The original Prismatic tests were building jQuery
Nodes and appended them to an UL element. Building strings and
appending those to the node speeds the whole thing up a little bit
further [3]. In the above benchmark :hiccup-node uses DOM nodes to
append to the root, :hiccup-str uses Javascript strings.

I can only agree. Using a Hiccup like template system in Clojure is very nice.

[1] https://github.com/r0man/hiccup/tree/clojurescript
[2] http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Feature+Expressions
[3] https://github.com/r0man/dommy/tree/hiccup
In California, if you want a change in the weather, you drive to it. I grew up in Maine where there were two seasons, winter and August. Oldtimers claimed there was a third, mud season. I dont miss it at all.
4 million? That seems like a lot. As a New Yorker formally from Boston, I tend to think of the city as the places that the subway can get you. Coming from wikipedia:

Boston: 625,087
Cambridge: 105,162
Brookline: 58,732
Somerville: 75,754
Newton: 85,146
Chelsea: 35,177
Revere: 51,755

Which is 1,036,813. Any others I'm missing?
You've got a nice site but I think the product is not useful enough. You've got to install those bulbs and any enterprise I've been in uses fluorescent lights and not the classic fittings. I couldn't even use those in my home.

If you want a mobile device to locate itself indoors, why not use WiFi? Probably the entire place is flooded with access points already.
Because its not actually Svbtle.
That's nice, but honestly I'd be surprised if many were able to do that at all without a lot of generational wealth backing it up.

Assuming you went to college and got out in 4 years thats only 8 years to put back 1x salary. Given that a lot of those first few years is invested into "setting up shop" getting things like furniture, a reliable vehicle, maybe buying a house, getting married, sometimes having kids, I don't think thats in the cards for many people.
Its not difficult to find his email address. Even if you can't take the project over, I'd imagine dropping the guy a note to wish him the best would do a lot of good.
That produces a money trail which, at least in theory, could be tracked and recovered.

If it's an economic crime, chase the money. If it's a cultural crime[1], to quote some Liverpudlian, let it be.

1. In the sense of: propagating the popular culture.
Older heroku apps used to be at .heroku.com

Wordpress on heroku :)
https://github.com/mhoofman/wordpress-heroku
'Bob' outsources tech job to China; watches cat videos at work
Sometimes you want say one more sentences or two. Would you create a webpage just for that?
> as long as Google optimizes it a little more to be more suited as a desktop OS

I think it's a bigger jump than just a little optimization. Consider:

* no proper windowing

* no OS support for copy and paste of anything except plain text - you can't
even copy some bold text from one part of an email to another
part of the same email!

* the mouse support is really mouse-simulating-a-finger, with all its clumsiness
(for example, you have to "long click" to get functions you'd normally "right
click" for on a desktop), there's no "mouseover"

* apps are killed randomly in the background and often don't restore their state
upon returning eg: switch from your word processor to your browser and back
again and there's a *chance* your word processor got killed. Depending on the
quality of the code, it'll start up blank, perhaps with the same document, but
almost never in exactly the state you left it.

I would love for Google to address these things but they haven't shown any sign of it. The fact that they went out of their way to kill multi-windowing in CyanogenMod is interesting ... and the fact that the CM team complied without a whimper suggests that something may happen on that front, but I might be hoping more than really optimistic.
We develop our site in django and just bought the book. Excited to read it!
They told me if I passed the first interview, I had, I would be interviewing with 5-8 people and it would take about 3 weeks.

They set up my expectation and didn't live up to their end of the bargin.
"If that's enough to get me labeled as "usually reasonable" as well, then so be it."

It's amazing the number of people (myself included) that when talking about this issue have to package what they say in a way to prevent getting pilloried (or downvoted) for their opinions.
Hah this is awesome, thanks
Interesting how hosting one's Wordpress on Heroku can render a link that much more clickable on HN.
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I don't get it. You can't make things harder than they are by their nature; sure, you can make interestingly problems, but in a discipline is a discipline. For example, general calculus hasn't changed that much in decades. The same stuff I learned in AP calc senior year of highschool, people learned freshman year of college. The only thing was, in highschool the exam questions were actual problems and not proofs of Stokes theorem or some other wildly pure math question.
Or you could treat them exactly the same as children of single parents are treated. In other words, count them as beneficiaries of the income of both parents.

No reason we need a marriage penalty to prevent to stop your scenario from happening.
Dartmouth has a very strong teaching tradition. Certainly not all the professors are good at it. But freshman etc. courses aren't taught by teaching assistants.
I would prefer they figure out why High School has become so devalued and fix that. We should respect both the student's time we are requiring and the taxpayers who are paying for a defective product. Buying students a year of college doesn't fix the problem and acknowledges that we wasted their time.
I guess not. But isn't that what your service is basically doing? And why wouldn't I just break it into two Tweets?
(Don't tell them that! They'll keep moving here and then it'll be as expensive as NY and SF!)
Winners Of The Second New Year Challenge 2013 Final
It always felt like you were robbing yourself of really interesting college courses if you skipped them due to AP.

I always saw AP as more of a gateway to college due to the prestige/GPA-boost they gave your application, rather than a real way of getting significant college credit.
This is really insane. The only important params from my point of view are (apart from query) hl (language -- important if you use google.com outside of US to have results in English or any other lang), page number, and safe (for filtering).

The solutions that could be applied on Google side for this:

1. Perhaps they could add some button like on YouTube and other pages to share the search (be it web search, image search etc.). Of course it will clutter the UI but it's already cluttered and non-intuitive, especially given their experiments (AB testing?). Each few weeks I see something moved, changed, colors tweaked. Think what if Microsoft were doing sth like this with Windows or Office... :)

2. Use the History API to decrappify the URL after the load (it's a kind of cheat, but I would like it).
Computer architecture has already changed, with today's PCs having many logical processors. And indeed C lacks any direct affordance for parallelism. Good old pthreads are hardly adequate for many tasks compared to facilities in other languages. Yes, you can implement most of the needed features in C, but often without the grace or safety available elsewhere.
I'm afraid you're confusing data structures (such as vectors, sets and maps) with the document model object.

Not even in JS the DOM and objects are the same - some properties of the DOM have 'magical behavior' attached.

ClojureScript does not provide any functional interface to the DOM - that would involve a Haskell-like model of programming (monads etc), which Clojure programmers rarely do in practice.
Knowing the mapping between a hash of some plaintext and it's de-duplicated ciphertext means a person can just provide a list of hashes and ask Mega to delete their corresponding ciphertexts, even if they can't break the encryption. At least if they maintain their ignorance they can truthfully say they don't have the power to track down a ciphertext for any given plaintext hash. Hopefully they will, and just provide bulk cloud storage, with people holding onto their little key files. It's much easier to back up a 1KB key-file (or whatever form it comes in) than the encrypted 250GB blob it protects.
Divide by zero should just cause an exception. My guess is it causes an infinite loop.
The relevant pages on the Dartmouth College website

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upperde/firstyear-students/credit_...

http://www.dartmouth.edu/admissions/apply/thinking/credit.ht...

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upperde/firstyear-students/advance...

don't appear to be updated to match what is reported in the AP article.

What's really news here is that Dartmouth ever granted credit for AP courses--that is unusual in the Ivy League, of which Dartmouth is one of eight members. On the other hand, there are hundreds upon hundreds of other colleges all around the country that continue to offer AP credit for AP scores on specified tests of a specified level, so each high school student who decides whether or not to take an AP test is deciding to do so based on what colleges the student is considering attending. This is no big deal. Each college decides its own policy. The policy of Harvard

http://apo.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k73580&pag...

http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/tra...

will continue to be different from the policy of (for example) Rutgers,

http://soe.rutgers.edu/oaa/academic-credit

http://sebs.rutgers.edu/new/aptests.asp

http://sasundergrad.rutgers.edu/academics/academic-credit/ad...

and students will continue to compare the varied college policies on AP credit

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exgrd_get.htm...

http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/apcreditpolicy/index.j...

among a lot of other trade-offs the students consider when deciding where to attend college, including whether or not they are admitted to the college in the first place.
Yes, pardon my slight ambiguity there.
Seems like a high school diploma should guarantee a basic level of competency with literacy, math, and scientific knowledge. 2/3 of first year college students in the US have basic or below basic levels of proficiency with the English language.
The Japanese sure hope so.
Ex-Goldman banker on what it really means to be wealthy
Part of its apparent inevitability now comes from its influence. Bliss was a reasonable competitor at the time with significant differences: expression-oriented, reducible control flow, immutable variables (you used something like ML's refs when you needed assignment, but stack-allocated).

C started simple, but grew kind of complex. I'd like to have an ubiquitous simple mid-level language.
Cost of living is higher, but salaries in tech are much, much higher.

In a ranking of (avg wage - avg housing cost), San Francisco came out as 4th best, and this is amongst ALL occupations not just tech:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2011/12/us-cities-w...
In defense of AP tests, they're meant to replace college level courses ... not university level courses. They're equivalent to what you'd encounter at a local community college, not what you'd encounter at the top 100 research universities in the country.
I have no idea why you feel it is creepy for a woman to wonder what other members are female in a clearly majority male setting where it isn't possible to just look around the room and readily identify a few women visually.

I also have no idea why you are reacting so negatively to my footnote. People in the LGBT community often feel "left out" (i.e. discriminated against) when questions like this come up. It was only intended to suggest that, yes, I know the world is more complicated than the standard male-female dichotomy and I was hoping the question wouldn't turn into an excuse for someone to grind their favorite axe. If someone wishes to volunteer they are trans or some other category in order to scratch some activism itch, I don't care. All I am saying is that I am not intentionally excluding other categories and I respect the fact that most transgender people are better served by keeping that information private than by wearing it on their sleeve, which doesn't prevent them from being annoyed at being an invisible minority in such discussions. They are not invisible to me, but I don't care to spotlight them either and thereby cause trouble. I am aware I am treading on dangerous enough ground as is, with just inquiring as to who is willing to admit they happen to be female.

Furthermore, I am pretty sure there have been polls regarding religion which didn't cause any problems. So I find it odd that you think it would be nefarious to ask that question.
> The equilibrium behavior of millions of people is just the aggregate of the behavior of individuals in small-scale interactions.

The dynamics of a complex system cannot in any sense be described by simply aggregating the individual small-scale interactions. This is a huge unjustified assumption.
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"There are a lot of things you can do with C++ (and other languages -- even C probably) that feel good at the time, only to learn later that they don't age well."

I think this reduces to the argument that you should do the simplest thing that works. As a programmer (especially as a C++ programmer), it's tempting to write clever code. It's fun. Why do something the boring straightforward way when you can invent an elaborate class hierarchy, or use that CRTP thing you keep reading about? Being a good C++ programmer requires a certain amount of discipline, but I think that's a trait that's helpful with more modern languages as well. Consider languages that allow monkey patching. It's a neat feature, but if used without discipline will lead to code that doesn't age well because it imposes more complexity on the codebase.
That process is essentially how PGP works: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/PG...
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My girlfriend teaches high school. Another teacher there teaches a class sponsored by a local community college.

The curriculum is strict, and the teacher needs a masters to qualify. And then the kids end up with real college credit.
++ on the pull. What could help though is to display something transient-ish while you are "flipping the page" (to not present the direct modal choice, but to give a hint there's more). I am a relative noob in iOS coding, so not sure how easy it is.

The "real" problem that I perceived is the double-tap, and I have debugged my interaction a bit more.

What it looks like is that the triple-equal sign is a bit too small for my fat fingers. OTOH you do not want to waste the drawing space too much...

My thought would be: take a rectangle of 2x size the current triple-equal sign action area, then try to both use the drawing mechanism there, as well as to track the doubleclick-like events there - and if one happens, then undo the last drawing event (which was a part of the click, anyway).

I think this should make it easier for fatfingered people to deal with it :) And the translucent advertisement upon the swipe should take care of education, I think.
That's not what "college" means in the United States. "College" is a synonym with "University." There is sometimes some word usage where the connotations can be different, but rarely, and in particular, there's no difference in the notion of "university level courses" and "college level courses."
Also the subject of the funniest HN thread ever:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Ignoring Mom's Input on Design
How do you make investment decisions for your savings?
How do you get meaningful information about what to invest your savings in?
Do you use a platform or a tool? Do you have a broker?
As a current student at an Ivy League school, it's interesting to see that this is getting much backlash now. My school hasn't accepted AP credit for a while now, and it's never been a problem. Students grouse superficially, but for the most part, it's understood that they're just prerequisities to get in to the schools you want to go to.
Scrape. Don't violate TOS, but you should grab any public data that you legally can to improve your app. Watch robots.txt for specific rules beyond TOS, and be kind to the servers. Don't thread like crazy just because you can.
I suspect I wasn't alone in seeking a freely available and "real" database a few years ago and initially going with MySQL because I followed the herd. Then, while using MySQL for some significant projects, I learned that it had some quite serious limitations in even relatively basic functionality like transactions. That prompted my personal interest in Postgres, and I saw a project with all of the same advantages that had made MySQL attractive, but also a technically better product. I've never used MySQL since.