skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The undergraduate computer science program is fucking awful.

1. As you say, the introductory classes are enormous. For the math classes this means less feedback on your assignments. What this also means is that you have other undergrads grading your work. If that doesn't terrify you, then it should.

2. Inadequate preparation. Similar classes in other departments have more prerequisites. I'm currently attending a machine learning class where more than half the class is probability-illiterate. Take a look at how the core math curriculum is taught (algebra, analysis)

3. Professors and graduate students are out of sync about the material and assignments, which leads to situations where nobody can answer your questions. See cs162, cs61c. I've heard similar rumors about 161.

4. Only 5-10 upper division undergraduate cs classes. Interested in type theory? Practical encryption? Computer algebra? You're out of luck. Most other universities seem to offer a lot of variety.

5. Less treatment of the fundamentals. Our systems class no longer goes into any depth about malloc. They've replaced it with a section on map reduce. Similar situation with the operating systems class and I believe the security class.

6. The people who rise to the top are the people who were probably going to be successful anyway. That's just my experience/bias though.
There used to be a similar service at http://notepag.es/
However, it seems to be down now.
terminal 7 is were X resides...

So basically it's :

switch to text terminal
wait 15 seconds
switch to X Window
Inventing fundamental new computing technologies
If you embed the optics in a contact lens (such as the one that is being readied by iOptik, then you dont need a HMD with embedded optics and can indeed have a large flexible display covering your entire Field of View.
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You spelt it wrong.
Are you running linux currently? You have a number of virtual terminals, commonly Ctrl+Alt+F1 through Ctrl+Alt+F7, with 1-6 running text consoles and 7 with your X11 session on it.

If you boot into the GUI and spend all your time there, then although 1 will probably contain remnants of the boot process, 2-6 will be unused, a blank screen with some text in the corner.
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What this sounds like to me, is SodaStream is likely owned as some tiny subsidary of coke or pepsi already, or is secretly in talks of being absorbed, and this is all a 'manufactured outrage virial marketing campaign'
WordBiLLY in the Niner Times.
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Brilliant reply, sir!
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For what it's worth, I disagree with that chart. It breaks conventions, makes assumptions, and has an eclectic selection, so use it only for suggestions.
Not that I'm against a decentralised Twitter, but wouldn't that increase the attack vector?
tak ;)
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It’s not the economy, it’s UX/UI, stupid.
For context:
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?
http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
So how do you suggest they test students personally, without assholes taking advantage of the nice students who do all the work?
Its all about multiplayer and the social aspects.

If you're playing a single player world, sure it can lose its appeal pretty quickly.

But sharing your creations with your friends... walking them through something you just built... or going on adventures for specific resources together is soooooo much fun.

Everyone on voice chat via Mumble, with the Minecraft Wiki open on a second monitor....

Thats what minecraft is all about. I think a large part of its appeal has todo with it working so well in conjunction with other things. Like wiki softawre, and voice chat software, etc. Combine all these together and you really do have something special and infinitely entertaining.
> So how do you suggest they test students personally, without assholes taking advantage of the nice students who do all the work?

If that was their intention, why did they allow open book, open internet, etc? Far better would be in-class timed tests and essays.

EDIT: Well, there is also merit to the approach they used, so perhaps they just should have been far more explicit about what collaboration is OK and what isn't. Come to think of it, I'm not quite sure where to draw the line myself, so I just err on the side of caution and don't discuss anything that could be graded until after deadlines have passed.
I'm pretty sure that concatenating strings is not the "fastest way" to create HTML tables.
I meant more that in the real world you are not only expected but often required to work with your peers.

> In the same vein, I also find interviewing by nitpicking to be poorly reflective of real world work -- when you are actually programming, you have access to tools like linters and google to help you when you are chasing down a bug (and its not entirely clear how asking very subtle issues in a stressful situation like an interview represents the realities of working for the company)

In my recent interviews I've been encouraged to google in front of my interviewers if I didn't know something because they considered it crucial. So perhaps this is changing?
There was an x-ray machine called "Therac-25" which had
a chance of killing you if the operator typed a specific
(non-lethal) configuration too fast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

That was a disaster. This is a bug.
hmm, its not my imagination, but I did got that message some days ago as well, since it went away after few hours, I thought it was just something, not that big.
What does this actually mean? To me, the obvious part is that people in coffee shops could be targeted. Is the most dangerous part about it to do with ISPs? They already could know what pages you visit TPB anyway, couldn't they? In Fiddler today all I seemed to see were handshakes to a secure site I host, but I couldn't see what pages or assets were requested. Do ISPs have the same problem?
To be fair, no one has the first clue what they're getting into when they have kids.
So half of 279 (=~140) students cheat, and 70 are forced out.

Gosh. It makes you wonder what sort of privilege the other 70 cheaters invoked. Who was sacrificed? Who was spared?

Selective enforcement of the "law" is no law at all.
I would be careful with the solution of turning off the screen. My young cousins would go straight for the reboot in such a situation.
Bits submitted by me to the server or derived from or mixed with bits submitted by me are my data. Bits that are created by the web developer that would be there if I didn't even exist are his app. The division isn't political; it is one of origin.
Excellent analogy. I've been using AngularJS for about six months, and I honestly never thought of it that way.
I guess it depends on the industry, but in my experience in homewares, 35% is not high at all. 35% is about what a normal online retailer would aim for.

From a manufacturers perspective, it is great to sell through places like this because it allows you to assess demand before investing cash in a product.
The image that stuck with me from when I first saw the promo video a while back was the museum tour. It will be interesting to see how much people enjoy the tele-tourism experience. I still think there should be an external camera for these applications; the iPad camera(s) won't cut it for exploring. Better (mechanical) exposure control and optical zoom would make for a much richer experience, and the added size will not change the footprint of the robot.
exactly my question, since I'm not the security expert either.
I'm wondering, why there was no announcement about it, if it did happen few days ago (or today)

Could it be that they have something local now ? Not many SSL providers would side with them is evident.
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are they going to renew it?
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I disagree with this post: there's another use case for visualizations -- consuming data as fast as possible to take action (eg firefighting). I work on tools for engineers, and I've found that a rich, non-standard visualization that people can learn to parse quickly after a tiny bit of initial acclimatization -- but showing them exactly what they need can help a lot.
aren't they elite, because the difficulty is elite as well?
And to be more fair, it's a bit of a stretch to imply that "wanting his kids to yell at the computer less" means "doesn't want those kids".
The problem with the ECDF is that it's harder to get a feel for, being cumulative. I spent a few days once playing with N-bin histograms, and still feel those should be the default (with non-compact ends, maybe gamma distributed) over smoothed hacks.
Unless ISPs can magically decrypt HTTP requests, all they can see are sending & receiving IP and port. Without SSL, ISPs can view everything (unless tunneling or something similar to add encryption to an unencrypted protocol).
I don't think that's a fair assessment of the situation. The article didn't say that half the students were cheating. It said that half were suspected of cheating.

Of course, considering that it's an Introduction to Congress class, you could argue that the cheaters grasped the essence of Congress better than the non-cheaters.
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A politician's ability to attract campaign donations is strongly related to benefits he can bestow on his benefactors. A politician who can't give out tax breaks will have less ability to attract donations/bribes. I suspect that reason alone would make it difficult to adopt such a tax scheme.
The cool thing is, with everyone carrying a labtop these days, it might be possible to train on an emulator on the plane before attempting the landing. Must remember to install a flight simulator before I fly the next time...
He doesn't want his kids to yell less, he wants them to not yell. I hear someone say they want their kids to be quiet more and I hear, "I want my children to be adults."
I agree that it's very difficult to change hiring attitudes to support open access publishing. I disagree that difficulty means it's a mistake to try.

Hiring/tenure attitudes can include respect for people who choose to avoid closed-access publishers. This doesn't punish people who continue to publish the old way. If done right, it only helps the careers of those who avoid closed journals.

By the way, I somewhat snarkily complained that your comment was snarky. That was hypocritical of me, at least in spirit. Sorry about that. I like non-snarky, straightforward comments.

I'm glad you're signed up at the cost of knowledge. My personal role in open access is mainly as the creator of that site.
Mine is Swedish, and I am unable to reproduce it.
Um......

Get a stick.
Stand over child.
If child makes noise, hit child with stick.
Repeat until child quiet, becomes adult, or gets stick.
If child gets stick, leave home.

And that is the "British" way. :)
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If, as the author states:

a) Many types of major improvements in society and life in general aren't happening because they would require change in human nature;

b) Human nature has a tendency to not change, because it's innate to human sapiens and actions like educating "what could be best", moral "brainwashing" etc have only limited effect;

Then you still don't need to conclude that "world will not change" - it suggests an argument that you may need to change homo sapiens to make the world better. There are tech fields that have potential to change that in the near future, such as biochemistry (mind altering drugs); AI research; and genetic engineering [of humans].

These directions do seem disturbing, but that alone won't prevent them from happening. I mean, gulags and genocide are also disturbing but they happen anyway all over the world every decade. So ignoring ways to change homo sapiens won't help, but we have to discuss on how to manage it so that the result is morally/socially good.
There are examples of wireless recharging [1], and UAVs perching on power lines for recharging [2]. Apologies for the self-indulgent links -- I wrote the articles, so they were easy for me to locate. ;-)

[1] http://www.hizook.com/blog/2012/04/17/wireless-power-transfe...

[2] http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/07/20/gliding-uav-perches-po...
And its only once you do have them that you realise how much you didn't want them...
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It looks like the certificate has been replaced, but not yet on static.thepiratebay.se.
Or vice versa, how much you wanted them.
Since someone had to do it, here's a version in brainfuck:

https://github.com/fcostin/crafting_code_in_bf

Writing things in brainfuck is a good way to appreciate the things we sometimes take for granted, e.g. languages with more than 1 pointer.
So you learned to "code"? Next goal: become a software developer.
was the British way
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A remote DoS isn't remote code execution, but it's still an exploit.
> Copyright law prevents you from selling a book written by someone else (without their permission)

Actually, you can't sell copies of the book. You can sell your original.
Per-application permissions, sandboxing applications, and one-click installs are great for the users. I'd like to have a filesystem like Plan 9's, where an app cannot even see outside of its box unless I let it. But for some apps I'd like to let it.

Preventing an app from opening other apps or arbitrary files if the user desires is awful for the users. Siloing data so that a user cannot use an arbitrary application to read a PDF is awful for the users. One-click installs and refusing to run unsigned apps is awful for the users when the only CA is Apple or Microsoft.

All of the current systems are poorly implemented. They could either be a step forward or two steps back. I'm not sure of the direction they are taking yet.
- There is a big difference between having laws and actually enforcing them, Sex (out of marriage) is probably on of the primary factors of Dubai's lifestyle.
still though,I believe that app is more of a marketing thing.
I don't think it would work in Dubai, The people here already carry condoms in their wallets/purses everywhere ..
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The worst part is the article makes out that SodaStream is a "liberal cause". My ass.

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/01/advertising-sodastream-arresti...

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/01/fantastic-msnbcs-hayes-airs-se...
What do you mean "exploited"? It certainly can be exploited to cause a denial of service (like the one at this page: http://gironda.org/this_will_crash_safari.html).
Their wildcard certificate appears updated.
Valid from "2/1/13 Feb 1,9:47:57 GMT" until "3/5/15 Mar 5,10:48:42 GMT".
You do know married people still use condoms right? Although yes you are correct the sex laws of the UAE are rather "insane" (when I was there the other month a guy in McDonald's was arrested for being overly affectionate) there are no laws against it after marriage.
This is absolutely correct. Apps should be completely isolated by default but users should be allowed to add access to other resources on a per-resource basis.
They would certainly try but it's not part of their standard training. The reason is simply that events where both (or even more pilots depending on the aircraft model) are incapacitated are extremely rare.

In addition, air traffic control is not responsible for flying the aircraft, that remains the pilots' task for the time being.
> It seems wrong to teach your children that the machine is a person.

In 2100 your comment will be evidence of wild anti-AI sentiments popular in our backward times.
I presume (hope!) the author of that article is not a native English speaker as some parts were quite hard to read or interpret correctly.
Instead I hear "I want my children to play more quietly so they may become better adults."
I saw this yesterday and run this script all night:

while true; do
sox -t .wav "|arecord -d 1" -n stat 2> /tmp/tmp;
echo -n `date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"` " ";
cat /tmp/tmp | grep "Maximum amplitude" | cut -d ":" -f 2 | tr -d '\n';
cat /tmp/tmp | grep "Midline amplitude" | cut -d ":" -f 2 | tr -d '\n';
cat /tmp/tmp | grep "Rough *frequency" | cut -d ":" -f 2;
done

and got this:
http://i.imgur.com/oD6ZKIg.png?1

Interesting things: When my neighbor walks in his apartment above mine, it creates a amp peak with low frequency.

I have no idea what are those approx. one hour long periodic variations in the frequency, maybe my computer's fan or me snoring.

Anyway, pretty useless...
I intuitively agree as a programmer, but in practise, the focused 10.7/10.8 line has been pretty buggy compared to the legacy-happy 10.6; and the legacy-happy Windows 7 was a smash hit compared to the focused Windows RT. Of course, it might be even worse with Rosetta added to the mix...

I've also given away my Mid-09 MBP because 10.7 Safari was terrible without an SSD ("blank page" bug) :(
FWIW it was absolutely not the intention to criticise you, what you said, or how you said it – I'd have said the same thing as you did. I felt the need to put the distinction forward as I'm in the eternal process of removing "can't"'s from my mindset.
How come Facebook is so secure but Twitter is not?
How come Facebook is so secure but Twitter is not ?
Not so much difference to exercises in difficult courses I encountered. But we called that homework. (Germany)
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It's interesting that my comment gets downvoted for stating a simple fact about training and knowledge in air traffic control (ATC).

In 2008, there was even a fatal accident in Zürich, Switzerland where the inadequate training of air traffic controllers with regard to piloting an aircraft contributed to the accident (although it was not the cause of the accident):

'The following factors created conditions for the accident or favoured its occurrence:

[…]

* An inadequate understanding within air traffic control of the significance of faults and emergencies on single-engine light aircraft flown by a single pilot in challenging weather conditions.'

http://www.bfu.admin.ch/common/pdf/2146_e.pdf

Swiss air traffic controllers do 25 hours of flight training in small aircraft, so they have a basic idea of piloting an aircraft. In case of a declared or suspected emergency, they will give full priority to the aircraft in need and will try everything to get the necessary support. However, depending on the type of aircraft, it might not be possible to find a pilot or another expert within the necessary time frame to do a safe talk down – and even with a talk down, a safe outcome would never be guaranteed.
Yes, it's a bit of a misrepresentation that he refers to AEI as

"I am now the president of a Washington research organization."
Somewhere in the system is a friendly program called "DataDetectors", which sniffes at text so find out if there are links in it which should be highlighted by the application handling the text.

Now the programmer who developed DataDetectors wanted to make sure (maybe for tests) that a subcomponent was fed only valid file-urls (that is: file:/// is OK, File:/// not) and therefore inserted an assert-statement. Assertions stop the program flow if their condition is not met (an exception is thrown) and normally a code block upstream should handle this case.

I can only speculate, but either the assertion was left in the code despite being only intended for debugging/testing (ie. it was meant to be there only temporarily) or the upstream code has a bug that causes it not to catch the exception.

Either way, it is not handled and therefore bubbles up the whole code chain until some monitor in OS X or Objective C terminates the program because it sees a program error.

Someone at Apple forgot a test case feeding text with File:/// to DataDetectors.
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>Big bottles of sparkling water, meanwhile, lose most of the fizz before they are half empty

You clearly do not drink seltzer as quickly as I do.
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Nice for some quick and dirty testing, but if I'm going to spend more than 2m hacking something together I prefer Chrome and gvim. I can't work without the Chrome Dev Tools or vim, and jsbin just doesn't work well enough with these for my purposes.

It's good for sharing code and helping people though. :)
Your very optimistic. There's no standard procedure for this kind of emergency. Sure, ATC will try to get help, however, depending on the type of aircraft, it might not be possible to fetch a pilot or another expert to due a talk down on time. For a common aircraft type it might be possible, for others, well …
It has been renewed until 2015.. :)
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I use Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins on Dvorak for one handed copy paste, but I also don't really find the standard ctrl-c ctrl-v a problem with two hands, I sort of poise my middle finger over "c" and pinkie over "v" with left hand on the ctrl .....feels comfortable to me, but I've been on Dvorak for over 10 years now :)
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Sure, it may well be. I just clarified why I was talking about FBI and Hollywood together. But really, Hollywood has actually changed the Western world towards police states. That's bad, regardless of what agencies or "channels" they've done it through.
On what planet do kids not make a lot of noise?
And after that, try to understand some algorithms and data structures. :)
How do repressed children make for "better adults"?
Well, please do share your insights with us. That's what this site is for, not ad-hominems.
It crashes with Swedish layout on 10.8.2 when I type Ctrl + ¨ on my computer. (Alt+~+space seems to work, though)
Why did I release suggestmydomain.com?
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In the end, how should I use this product? Writing Latex before compiling the final thing on your PC?
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Well yes, both are bad, of course.

The ad industry's efforts have led to online privacy being all but non-existent, but Wall Street has turned our economies into shit and saddled the world with massive amounts of debt that will never be repaid.

But you can consider the ad industry far more "innocent" than Wall Street. The latter has known exactly what it's doing and causing all along.
Nothing beats moving to a low-admin country, though. Since you're working remotely anyway, you could as well do that from Ecuador or so. The lower/non-existing tax bill will easily pay for any flights back home. Enjoy the beach!