skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed the point of the article, which is that a number of schools simply do not have a sustainable business model and may not exist in 4 years unless they make major changes. Entry level classes in particular could be taught online, since the contents of many of the lectures never change. Likewise, if the credits transferred (unfortunately they frequently do not), a smart student would take those introductory classes from another institution.

Schools pay professors huge salaries, tuition rises, meanwhile the quality of the education is the same. Of course, specialized degrees like law and medicine that require special training and licensing will always be around. But I'd expect many colleges to start hosting introductory classes entirely online to save money and probably dropping entire degree programs within the next several years.
How is this spam? 95% of my news feed is worthless, but I still wouldn't classify it as "spam".

Now, if the app sent private messages or wrote to the wall of a friend, that could be classified as "spam".
Yes, it's a basic math question... and one any developer really ought to be able to solve. But does it belong on a Software Development test? I argue that if you blew your math class, that should screw up your degree, but it's not specific to software development. In my experience, there are terrific developers, but only a handful are math nuts (and I mean that in the kindest way).

Question 3, for example, is obviously much more higher order math than the first spam question, but question 3 doesn't really have (IMHO) a damned thing to do with software development. The bigger question is whether calculus is a fundamental part of advanced software development, and the article does make an effort to indicate that it is, but I generally find that in a working environment there are a few math-oriented individuals, but most are more logic-oriented (which doesn't preclue math, admittedly), and unless you're on a project where higher-order math is required, you get along just fine. For those projects requiring physics calculations or whatever, you bring in the math geek. That doesn't mean it's not a testable question, but I contend it's not a requirement to be a damned good developer.
That's cool!! Can this be adapted for curriculums? I am a medical student and have been posting medical curriculum at https://github.com/aloo/hack_medicine
In some European countries, not only is the VAT included price legally required to be the most prominently displayed price for any products advertised at consumers, but a consumer can legally demand to pay the most prominently displayed price even if it is VAT exclusive, and the seller will be on the hook for the VAT.

It acts as a very effective deterrent for companies to try to play games with VAT exclusive pricing.
Really, why? What should they have been using - at least just a few years ago before LLVM became mainstream?
That might run them into hot water with the accreditation folks.
The sealed bottle garden still thriving after 40 years without water
Great point! :-) I lol'd
It totally could be, send me an email and we can discuss it.
I like how easy recipe discovery is on forkingrecipes. I think the waterfall layout and search bar were good decisions.

Mappum and I made something pretty similar for the last Node Knockout.

http://foodhub.jit.su/

Like orangethirty said, foodies tend to be really visual, so we encourage the user to take a high quality photo by making it the focus of their recipe page.

Good job, I'm excited to see where you go with this. :)
The dot-com crowd is not the only people to blame. They just provide demand. If the long-term San Franciscans don't allow an increase in supply of housing (something which is totally possible in SF), then they are equally at fault.
It's a great idea.

Other things that help are giving books to families and encouraging parents, especially male father-figures, to read to children.

That might need some adult eduction, because adult illiteracy is a bit of a problem.

In the UK we have a charity called BooksTrust. Unfortunately it seems to have wider reach among middle class families (who have enough money to buy books, and who read to their children) than among poor parents. They have quite modest funding (£13m per year)

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8218115/C...)
> they might be a much better and more successful developer if they filled that gap.

That's certainly a valid hypothesis, but do we have any evidence to support it? I would be looking for causation, and not correlation (i.e. many great developers are familiar with calculus, because many great developers have CS degrees).
Hmm, would love to see Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet in a competition to see who can solve more of the worlds problems.
Either make your 3rd party librariers part of an OS snapshot, or make it part of your source repository. The flaw seems like it's in your build as opposed to the build system. I'm all for wiping away intermediate work products, but you don't need to test the ability to download 3rd party librariers each time. You could use the md5 or sha1 files that get published to the standard maven repo. and that would be a miniscule download, and once you have it, you could just compare it to the existing files.
I haven't read the OP's instance of citation, but I read another account of what Woz said. His... "concern", might be the word, was that while he understands dramatic license, what he saw was not at all "in character".

At the same time, the quotes I saw didn't appear to paint him as being overly (or even?) upset about this. And he freely granted that he, like everyone else, has only seen the previewed scene, and that he doesn't have any idea how the rest of the film will be.

He did mention his book, "iWoz", as another source/recounting. I am now rather tempted to read it.

P.S. I also recall now his recounting that the idea of computer as... "social instrument" actually came from him and in turn from his connections within various... "hacking communities". Whereas the clip seemed to be ascribing this perspective to Jobs. Woz describes Jobs as instead the fellow who repeatedly took his ideas and turned them into commercial opportunities.

This, I think, would be a very significant departure from reality -- one to which I would object. (Amongst other things, it would seem to be hinting at yet another "geek as a/un/poorly-social" stereotyping.)
A hundred bucks this is tied in with photo-tagging and facial recognition. The advantage of a government photo is that you're no longer allowed to smile and are expected to provide a neutral face, all the better for facial recognition. I wouldn't touch Facebook with a ten-foot pole right now.
I would think future updates to OpenGL/DX could allow more features of the cards to be used by devs. Otherwise, to use all the features of a card, the game would need to be heavily optimised which increases development time and costs, and then only supports a certain configuration which would be such a small amount of people that all that development wouldn't be worth it.
The guy killed himself for something greater then you. So what are you standing for anyway?

As far from as I see you're just saying a bunch of words instead of doing something meaningful like he did.

Man up or shut up.
Still Server will render the main page.
Main page is " html + main content that user and search engine wants to see". Because the search engines need to index this page ( meaning the URL ), so the main content must be same, unless it is a private page. Also the browsers are designed to render html from the server. HTML5 brings in a lot of dynamic features, but the main feature is not going away.
Freebsd has switched over to clang - and that os is used as the basis for many types of embedded devices such as network routers.
there are a lot small sites powered by python. But, php may be still bigger than python.
I've never bought the excuse about "needing to pay the bills". If you are wiling to compromise your convictions for money, how strong are those convictions in the first place.

It reminds me of a friend of mine whose wife works for the TSA at the airport. Honestly, I have zero respect for her, but hey, at least she can pay her mortgage right?

While Facebook isn't on the same level as working for the TSA, it is definitely a company that appears to be run by people of questionable moral character, and I would absolutely not want to be associated with them.
Totally agree on housing and hotels, but not on parking. Do you go to NYC on business and complain about the parking there? No, probably not because it's simply unnecessary. There is no reason that SF can't develop in that same direction.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148

I'll just leave this here without comment.
The analogy compares actions, not things.
Well no, if you've been paying any attention there are plenty of people who are concerned for the amount of concern being shown by others. However, by the same token that you and others are saying people shouldn't be giving it that much attention, why should anybody care what you and they think about the level and qualities of the commentary?

That is, what good does receiving an answer to your question do?
TC is almost always the sleaziest source of news unless they're reporting on "relevant" news.
Awesome, glad you're finding it useful and thanks for the kind words. I'm also planning on storing and showing more tweet history in an upcoming update, so hopefully that'll be useful too.
Ask HN: Browsers not auto clearing session only cookies?
Chrome, and possibly Firefox have now rendered the 'Remember Me' option on log in forms redundant.

It seems as part of stream lining the app restart experience, they no longer clear session only cookies.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128513

If you are a web site coder how do you feel about this?

Do we now need to educate users who aren't in the habit of explicitly logging out, or quite fairly expect to be logged out automatically when the browser is closed.

I just spent two hours trying to debug this problem before finding posts about it.<p>Even Google has a 'Stay signed in' checkbox that no longer means anything.

If you have any tips on getting around this, please post them.
Because leadership ability does not require critical thinking. Leadership is certainly better if it has it, but leading groups of people to achieve their objectives doesn't require it. So you get some excellent leaders who think the world is flat.
More motivation not to snooze =)

All kidding aside I would hope that it wouldn't be interpreted as spam. It's a novel way to help someone get up in the mornings, and I would like to assume friends would find it humorous.
Appears to be Clearwire LTE service
But what if it's voip and it can connect to multiple cheap towers simultaneously?

I am so glad google is doing this; I seriously thought we were going to have to wait for new regulation.
Investors don't count Apple out just yet
In the UK the coroner performs the inquest in a suspicious death.
Thank you for the kind words! I hope your app reaches the success you hope for it.
Anybody working at Facebook can get multiple job offers in the bay area within a week.
I too grew up [and reside in] Texas. I grew up in rural Texas and live in a large city now. I don't believe the religious zealotry is near as prevalent in the public (even the voting public) as it is in the representatives. I know stories like this don't make it seem so, but I find that many Texans vote based on fiscal policy instead of social policy. The unfortunate consequence is the politicians tend to be both fiscally and socially conservative putting voters in a quandary to prioritize if they don't side with all values.

Couple that with post-election apathy towards what's going on in Austin, and you get crackpots. Not saying that some people don't specifically vote for creationists, but my limited experience tells me most do not.
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I apologize, you are very correct.
Did you read the rest of that sentence, or did you just stop when you thought you'd nailed the commenter, and completely ignore everything else s/he said?

It was the second one, wasn't it?
EDIT: I am wrong. See Blowski's message below.

It's unsolicited, bulk, messaging and so it meets definition for spam.

I wonder if it meets Facebook's rules for acceptable wall posts or not. I can see some people hating it.
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The defined subset included the particular codecs that would only be supported. Implementers who got on the WebM train agreed to VP8 and Vorbis. They may not be keen to do VP9 or Opus. There's no "have to be implemented" for these two formats. This means there will be fragmentation which WebM was supposed to avoid.
You're right, we're improving the sentiment filter constantly but it's not quite perfect yet. I have some updates to push live that should improve that detection a bit further.
In principle I agree with what you say. In practice however I am skeptical. In my calm and rational mind, I could not possible see how defacing of a government website could affect anyone or bring more supporters to Anonymous. On that same state of mind, i would also not see how commercials could ever work, or how scandals/negative news could sometimes increase support for a political party.

Thus, my mind tells me (based on previous knowledge) that hacks like this could very well increase support for Anonymous. Maybe that is because they get noticed (branding), and thus the number of supporters increase. Maybe people in their busy lives rationalize that if someone managed to break a government website like USSC, then those people means business and are serious enough to stop and get listen to. If then newspapers make a big deal out it, people will rationalize further and consider it to be important.

I too hope however that they do publish their data about injustice and corruption. Maybe the drum beating is important to first create some hype about it, but in the end, it's the data that interests me. But I do see how the actions of defacing the site could be valuable for bringing justice and change, just by the act of creating noise.
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I was too lazy to refresh, so I built a script and dumped 220 of the ideas in a pastebin. Sorted with duplicates removed. Very likely that some are missing. Would've probably been just as easy to try all combinations of left and right terms, but oh well. http://pastebin.com/rzEuz89f
It's too bad the donor money comes with so many strings attached. I wonder if the universities could get away with renting out some of the space in some of these buildings. That could at least cover some of the operating costs.
Probably icc (Intel's C++ compiler), MSVC++, or one of IBM's (i.e., xlcc).
Can you go into more detail about your architecture (a quick diagram of the connections between these components)? I am very interested -- my own dabblings have been leading me in this direction and firm belief, but I would love to learn from someone else's experience with it. Please feel free to email me if you prefer.
yield management is the exercise you do when your - the individual hotel's - distribution system is set up perfectly and humming along. The biggest gains for hotels happen actually when they set their mind to it that they want to shift the source of their business away from the OTAs to more direct business: direct can be the online booking tool on their own hotel website, mails, repeat customers, phone calls. yes even phone calls, that should be one of the goals when setting up a mobile hotel website.

To achieve this hotels should invest in a decent website, start blogging with a voice that they cultivate over time and go for better rankings in the SERPs. That, plus a humming hotel operation with systems in place to handle the direct business is the way to go.

This way even smallish properties can run circles arround bigger competitors. The bigger hotels have a hard time to copy this, as they are not as agile, and need meetings to figure out a "social media strategy".

Figure I know quite a bit on how to make hotels way more independent of OTAs as a booking source: this is actually the core of my SaaS offering: http://www.igumbi.com . It is an online pms, revenue/ yield management system and has a online booking tool for the hotel website. JSONP based and no sucky flash or iframe.

The most important aspect of the yield management architecture I find to be the use of nesting. It's a very flexible, value based approach on assigning fixed capacties to sellable allotments. This robust inventory algorithm, devised by MIT's Belobaba, is the thing that executes the yiled management settings. And I totally agree with the use of loyalty programs and direct chstomer interaction. That's why we also have a mailchimp list integration, so it becomes virtually a no brainer to keep your mailing list up to date in he daily business operations
I don't get why a string object would be so concerned about UTF encoding. What's the difference between a "UTF-8 string" and a "UTF-16 string"? The encoding only matters as you serialize the string to a set of bytes. Very confusing article.
It is the logic of being angry that someone (a prosecutor) breaks the law and they don't pay, the taxpayer do. No one is saying the prosecutor should have won.
It's nothing wrong with using something like that, but it's hardly novel in any way. I have no doubt that one can develop a larger application with it...
That's because the UWIN support had been implemented in a way that caused distributors of GCC to be infringing copyright. This is no different than if the FSF discovered someone had copied proprietary code into GCC. In both cases, the solution is to remove the infringing code immediately.

You might argue that compliance with copyright law is a "political reason", but I think you'd find that to be a very difficult position to defend.
>...offering the flagship Nexus One smartphone online and unlocked. That experiment lasted only about six months, after Google struggled to cope with customer service requests and learned that U.S. consumers are apparently happier paying a significant markup for a device over two years than a smaller sum upfront.

Google learnt what? Then why is the Nexus 4 sold out?
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Are they really that much better? I remember hitting a bunch of incorrectly generated code for MSVC++ at least back in the 6.0 days. Like, the disassembly revealed dangerously incorrect code.
Agree that would be cool, but I don't think it has anything to do with this test network. Technology Review's speculation based on an old patent is IMHO wishful thinking.
Same here. Why should I care if my friends hit the snooze button? I hit the snooze button myself regularly, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. --I love that 10 minutes of relaxation where I know I'm allowing myself to be comfortable before I actually have to get up and get ready for the day.
It does smell of an attempt to create the Streisand effect in reverse. Which would be kind of quirky (sorry couldn't resist).

I really enjoyed OXO's response. I wonder if you see that someone is trying to create something out of nothing, how to blunt that? The OXO response seems to try for that, a bit low key, sort of 'kids will be kids' kind of thing.
Then you're paying for a connection to each tower, which in aggregate is likely to be more expensive than a single connection to a reliable provider.
2524-2546 and 2567-2625 MHz; the entire band has about 500 Mbps of capacity.
It's writing on the users own wall, which they are asking it to do. Therefore it's not unsolicited. It doesn't write on other users' walls, so it's not bulk.
(I am pretty certain hosay123 is talking about "time to compile" not "time to run result", so whether your code is spending time in I/O or something else is unrelated; or do you mean that you expect your particular codebase to be resulting in more calls to #include and more time linking?)
FourSquare, but for photography (is that Instagram?)

It pains me to say this, but it might be Color.
Parent just did say something about it.
1st ¶: surely you've never been in the situation where you didn't have a parent to pay your rent or daily needed meals. Prove than and then you'll have the right to question how others make their money,

2nd ¶: your friend loves her, and she helps him to lift the weight. Who are you to question that?

3rd ¶: thank god your parents are such great persons.
Since you apparently wanted to know why you're being downvoted, here's a reason: I cannot derive a meaningful point from this comment. You seem to be encouraging us to eschew programming languages in favor of "be[ing] really effective." Platitudes will never replace actual tools.

Also, you're saying all this in a rather obnoxious manner, talking about how you're "drunk instead of high" and what-have-you. Nobody wants to hear about how drunk or high anybody else is -- and if you don't feel like you can compose a decent comment in your current state of mind, you can't be too surprised if you go ahead anyway and end up downvoted.
No, for power reasons and the way that bluetooth works you have to expressly put the app in sync mode with someone nearby, which isn't ideal but is a good start. That being said anyone can post anything so there's certainly the option for adversaries to propagate their own information.
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Many of these features are no doubt used by the driver author(s) to implement cool stuff in GL extensions. One particularly crazy example: https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-path-rendering
Funny. Here in Germany you can

- study for your CS degree (formerly 'Diplom', now Bachelor/Master) at a university for a couple years

- do a 2.5/3 year thing including school and working in a company (actually having a company to take you on is required for these kinds of degrees most of the time). It's - an apprenticeship (using the same process, word and methodology as you'd use in a crafting skill)

Do you get the very same job offers, the same salary? Probably not. But I'd say that you have the chance to work on the same stuff as any bachelor/master of CS. I think the disadvantage is merely in the first couple of years and often (note: Not always. Sometimes the more theoretical CS background counts a lot, of course) unfairly so.

So - yeah. You can do an apprenticeship here. Starting with 16 (you'd be done with 19) or 18-19 (you'd probably be allowed to shorten the time to 2 years -> 20, 21).

Disclaimer: I have neither a ~normal~ degree from a university nor did I do this apprenticeship. But - it works.
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There's actually a panic button in the app which resets to an innocuous set of stock photography. It's not perfect, but it's better than being caught in a situation that you're describing.
Website is down but I really like the error page.

http://i.imgur.com/f20igSW.png
Like that's gonna make the world better all of a sudden.
It's hard to make sure it's the student and not Joe Blow who he hired to take the test for him, especially remotely.
> Do attack ads ever work, even if the facts are accurate?

Absolutely, because it puts the attacker on the same stage as the much larger company. It is risky, so it is a tactic that should be limited to companies that have less to lose.

Look up the history of Salesforce.com, and you will see all sorts of attack tactics that were instrumental in their success: attacking oracle, staging fake protests outside enterprise software conferences, etc.