skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting counterpoint to this is the experience of Caltech, with its honor system (I attended Caltech). It is institute policy that exams are not proctored in any way. Exams are normally take-home. They are time limited, starting from when you open the test.

Yet cheating is nearly non-existent. How is this possible?

I think it is because the honor system is a pretty explicit statement that the Institute implicitly trusts its students. It views professors and students as collaborators, rather than adversaries.

One consequence is that the students like the honor system very much, and do not wish to see it change. Hence, there is intense pressure from the students to themselves to not cheat - and someone who does cheat is pretty much ostracized.

(There are other aspects to the Caltech honor system - professors are not allowed to take attendance or base grades on attendance in any way. The Institute also does not attempt to control student behavior on or off campus. I don't remember ever locking my dorm room door.)
> the now changed policy of refusing to unlock out of contract iPhones was a particular bone

> Telecom is a competitive market.

Can you appreciate the dissonance between these two statements?
Where do you live that carriers don't keep a history of where your phone has been?

Every once in a while I read a news story where a suspect's cell phone was connected to the nearest tower to a dumped body, around the time the coroner thought the body was dumped.
> Anecdotic: I have always been good at sports, popular, and confident,

I'm fairly certain this is a lie, given the way you've presented yourself in this thread.
There's stuff to rely on, it's just that mostly nobody wants to spend the time reading it.
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Mostly time, sadly. We all have lots of ideas and aspirations, but time is always short at hand. If we had more of it, much easier to fight things.
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Is empirical science really so far removed from complex axiomatic systems? Isn't the point to learn how all of this universe works together? Suppose we solve gravity, QM, and the rest, then we'll have a complex system of rules which nevertheless must be incomplete and therefore flawed. I think that's fascinating -- Sisyphus is Science (not that we don't discover useful and amazing results along the way!).
Details please! Who's your VOIP provider?
By signing a contract that says they can do this?
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You might ask how do I know that cheating was nearly non-existent? One, nobody is going to help you cheat. Two, I never knew of anyone who cheated. Three, some classes had more than half of the students fail the exam - hard to believe if there was widespread cheating. And four, I knew a not atypical student who fell asleep during an exam, woke up and finished it, but noted on the exam that he'd been awake for less than the time allotted, but his sleep time exceeded it. He received an apologetic F on it, and had to repeat the class next year. Nobody thought this self-reporting was unusual or particularly worthy of comment. It was just the way it was.
The syntax. Python's syntax is much cleaner.

I tried to find examples of Ruby's awful syntax in tutorials, but much to my surprise, the code in the introductory sections of a couple tutorials picked at random looks clean and the language seems nearly Pythonic. Contrast that with a function from an actual Ruby on Rails project [1]:

def fresh_commits(repo, n = 10)
commits = repo.heads.map do |h|
repo.commits(h.name, n).map { |c| Commit.new(c, h) }
end.flatten.uniq { |c| c.id }

commits.sort! do |x, y|
y.committed_date <=> x.committed_date
end

commits[0...n]
end

Whoa! This code apparently calculates factorials (with the ! operator), absolute values (of course |x, y| looks like the length of a vector), and biconditionals (to someone with a math background, a <=> b means a => b and b => a). The function ends with an expression on the last line that doesn't look like it would have side-effects. WTF? There are question marks and colons in weird places in that file, too. I started to translate the function into Python, to show you how much cleaner it would be, but I simply couldn't follow what the multiple nested map's and uniq is supposed to do. I'm certain that the Python equivalent would be much easier to follow. (Even if you take "equivalent" to mean "list comprehension" or "itertools.map" instead of the most readable alternative, nested-for-loops.)

I don't think this project is particularly good or bad. I merely picked a random piece of Ruby code from an app I installed recently, and I feel the difficulties I had with the syntax of this function are representative of my struggles with Ruby as a whole.

All the strange symbols make Ruby code very hard to read. For me, the effort required to learn a language is directly related to the number of operator symbols it contains. Ruby is nearly as bad as Perl or shell scripts. (The operators-are-bad penalty to my impression of a language is reduced if same operator exists in other languages I already know well, like Python, C, C++, or standard mathematical notation.)

In Python, by contrast, you can usually get a fairly good idea of what syntactical constructs do without consulting the manual, even if you're unfamiliar with them. (To be fair, lambda is an exception.)

[1] https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/5a214ee6f198a90f41...
Using Drupal as an app platform is a definitely trying to solve the problem with the wrong tool.

My experience with this kind of thing is that these tools are flexible enough that people can stretch them beyond their intended purposes, but it's usually rougher than just finding the appropriate tool.

Specifically designed blogging engines become general purpose CMSes when people stretch and tweak them enough, and likewise people stretch CMSes into crude app frameworks, but you generally wind up fighting the tool about as much as building with it.
Well, the phone does not phone home per se but AT&T analyses the IMEI number. In Sweden if you try to use data without a balance it simply does not work. What AT&T is doing is simply wrong, throwing services down OPs throat.
I guess, every CMS has same problem.
Either you build from scratch or use one of the CMS. For quickly setting up a web site Drupal/Wordpress is good option.
There are plenty of cases, you would not want to write from scratch. For example, I am running my website on Drupal(http://www.avabodh.com) without writing any code. I do not have time to write code for my website. My requirements are very simple. It will be waste of time if write CMS from scratch for my purpose.
I dont think there exists a good replacement of Drupal today.
> > professional drivers getting out of massive speeding tickets

> That seems unlikely.

It happens sometimes. A co-worker of a friend of mine was speeding in excess of 100 mph in a dodge viper and was pulled over and charged with reckless driving. However, the driver had completed the dodge viper training school so the judge ruled for him, and the officer had neglected to add any additional charges such as speeding.
Complex proxy?? You mean a headless browser like phantomjs and a slightly higher latency apparent to the client. Hardly difficult, which leads to the false sense of security these images provide. It's made slightly harder on the order of minutes to write a few extra lines of code.
That's not fair; she could easily look at the number of policyholders versus claims broken down by vehicle type. I'm sure the numbers looks as bad as she describes.
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>Motion means collision detection AI means things like path finding.

There are many game types/genres which don't require collision detection or realtime AI.
Huh -- I (born in 1958) never wore them, nor do I recall knowing anyone who did. (I do recall seeing them on TV.) Maybe it was the crowd I hung out with (prep school).
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The ethical thing would be to forward the information to the administrators of the listed sites. But since it's public now, I don't think you have any responsibility.
does anyone know the fastest way to rip a sound file from this flash player for private use?
> Is empirical science really so far removed from complex axiomatic systems?

Yes, absolutely. Empirical science is driven by observations of nature. Axiomatic systems are much more self-referential. It is the self-referential property of axiomatic systems that lie at the heart of the Incompleteness Theorems.

> Isn't the point to learn how all of this universe works together?

Which universe? That of nature, or that of intellectual representations? They differ in some very basic ways.

> Suppose we solve gravity, QM, and the rest, then we'll have a complex system of rules which nevertheless must be incomplete and therefore flawed.

Most people who understand Gödel's work will argue that the effect of the Theorems is overstated with respect to what we can reliably know about nature.

If we find a TOE (Theory of Everything), it will probably remain incomplete, not because of Gödel, but because of irreducible observational imperfections.
I switched to Wordpress when I realized that Drupal's Link Field Module (a plugin to add a hyperlink field to an entity) was 1100 lines of code.

http://drupal.org/project/link
If you turn off data on the iPhone it does no phoning home.

If it did phone home when data is turned off explicitly then I'd have been completely and utterly screwed by AT&T for the month I spent in Europe.
Which just goes to show you haven't actually bothered to look for those arguments.

No, it means I got a LOT of replies goin on and on about strawmen. I consider those replies to my posts, imagine that.

please stop throwing hissy fits because people called you out on your lack of credibility.

Well, I appreciate the irony and the projection. Mocking non-sequitur arguments repeating what they missed isn't throwing a hissy fit just because I'm not going out of my way to read the whole thread over and over, and your argument boils down to "believing in Santa doesn't hurt anyone either". Well, that still makes it an undesirable, unnecessary, mediocre thing at best. And I don't buy the whole "kids at 4 are super egotistical" either, some are rather protective of their baby sibling for example, so they clearly know what being disturbed is. Actually, I remember one thing my father told my when I was a kid, that you can't lie to babies, they always notice... I took that literally, and told my baby brother I'd go to the toilet, thinking "I will go to the kitchen instead". When I left the room and he failed to cry, I was disappointed, I was already planning on using him as lie detector. You see, the fact that you shrug off the myth of Santa, the uttering of which would have been like crapping on the carpet for my family, just tells me we experienced and live in different worlds. And I couldn't care less about the additional credibility which the "parent" flag would give me, it's just not relevant; if I have kids they might turn out to be completely different persons who I was. But instead of speculating about a kid who is not me, even if it's "mine", I actually do remember. As you say so ironically, "Feel free to disagree", feel free to claim I remember wrong or whatever; but don't throw hissy fits just because your kids don't notice that shit.
That looks good these days! Any experience with it? Stability, performance, costs, flexibility?
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Good to hear that you thought the work was useful. GT just went up a few points! I hate to make generalizations with so little data.
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I tried a couple of the links. All SQLi vuln. All using microsoft sql server too it looks like. I don't know why I had this image of .gov and .mil sites being super secure. I no longer think that...
from where I stand, it looks like you were coming up with criticism and theories you never bothered to verify in any way

?

"have had the luxury of having great parents who never bothered playing such mind games with you"

And I run into PLENTY of adults who just tried to use their privilege, or lies, for shortcut solutions. I know how they fared. So what exactly don't I have experience with, other than doing it to someone else?

"I suggest you read Steve Yegge's"

I suggest you actually address the content of my posts.
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I'm fairly certain you don't think it's a lie, and you are just envious.

Either way, I don't see how any of this matters. I explained why I criticized the guy, and instead of working on that, you tried to undermine the anecdotal part.
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Examples:

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Here the ID is '163685'. Raw file is: http://audio.macaulaylibrary.org/16/163685.mp3

http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/53276
Here the ID is '53276'. Raw file is http://audio.macaulaylibrary.org/5/53276.mp3
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It's intersting that men were the ones who picked up Persian fashion first. Nowadays, men's clothing is utterly boring. The small men's section is mostly located in the basement or on the top floor of department stores, and what you find there is basically two or three kinds of uniforms.
That's what I thought.

You're a troll.

Maybe stop thinking that for a second and pretend you are actually supposed to give me an actual answer. I mean, it's neat and easy and all that, I understand, but you're flat out wrong and that you are just looking at an exit while being unintentionally ironic. I am not teasing these abstract arguments, I am time and time telling you stop with the logical fallacies and generalities, give me the argument for this situation. I also love how you hold exactly the BS responses I complain about, including yours, against me.

You haven't said anything. No content, not even an anecdote.

Right, and while you're lying you think you might just keep on with it, huh? Nope. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5156988

So you would rather talk about the messenger, than the message, also ignoring that some people with kids say the same fucking thing. Well, I already established that, too, the question is how often are you going to repeat proving it?
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I would also ask "so"? Everybody can imagine lots of stuff. Its far more important who will make them real and economically viable. I was dreaming (e.g. predicting) YouTube in 1998, but that does not mean that I consider that I've done something big or I've been the first.
It's good to see the bible on that list. I should get around to reading it.
Yup. found the file I wanted by looking through the source for *.mp3 and finding the static file asset.
I'll go ahead and claim that most of these books are pretty dry these days. Historically significant, yes, and everyone should definitely know of them and what they're about. But reading them probably won't make much of a difference to your life. The same information can be found in other places these days, in forms that are more comfortable for the brain to digest.
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That means that you had 30 days from when they changed the TOS. Not from when they started charging you.
If peer influence is the cause the perceived shame of viewing men kissing will have the same effect.

Also what I presented is not a serious solution to kids acting like jerks. Kids would just invent new words to get around a filter like that.

They need some kind of JerkRank algorithm to allow players to rate other players and machine learn what kind of people are compatible to game with each other.
Maybe it was phrased that way because Symfony 1.x is dying, since Symfony 2.x is not backwards compatible.
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This item has wolves on it which makes it intrinsically sweet and worth 5 stars by itself, but once I tried it on, that's when the magic happened. After checking to ensure that the shirt would properly cover my girth, I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women. The women knew from the wolves on my shirt that I, like a wolf, am a mysterious loner who knows how to 'howl at the moon' from time to time (if you catch my drift!). The women that approached me wanted to know if I would be their boyfriend and/or give them money for something they called mehth. I told them no, because they didn't have enough teeth, and frankly a man with a wolf-shirt shouldn't settle for the first thing that comes to him.

I arrived at Wal-mart, mounted my courtesy-scooter (walking is such a drag!) sitting side saddle so that my wolves would show. While I was browsing tube socks, I could hear aroused asthmatic breathing behind me. I turned around to see a slightly sweaty dream in sweatpants and flip-flops standing there. She told me she liked the wolves on my shirt, I told her I wanted to howl at her moon. She offered me a swig from her mountain dew, and I drove my scooter, with her shuffling along side out the door and into the rest of our lives. Thank you wolf shirt.

Pros: Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women
Cons: Only 3 wolves (could probably use a few more on the 'guns'), cannot see wolves when sitting with arms crossed, wolves would have been better if they glowed in the dark.
Reading large works like these may stimulate your thinking much more than getting the same information in a shorter format.
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A programming argument that can be convincingly shown to be only a matter of personal preference is irrelevant, but I strongly disagree those are that common. Various programming language constructs have various properties and if you had the opportunity to maintain a single project for some 5-10 years, to experiment with different implementations of same functionalities etc. you learn that certain techniques prevent problems and certain others provoke them.

Look at the writing of Joshua Bloch based on his experience with designing the Java standard libraries, you will find plenty of arguments that you could think are about "style", but in fact he always includes a very detailed and concrete discussion about why one way is superior to the other. Similarly with some of the articles of John Carmack from idSoftware. For me the revelation was that there is indeed no such thing as "style" so that some techniques are just "prettier" than the others, it is all a matter of consequences a given implementation has for other developers using the code and for its maintainers.
The article mentions Mojang and Uniloc suing for the '067 patent.

Mojang are not in the US.

Maybe companies threatened by patents could motivate the public by preventing US citizens from having access to those companies' software for a week, but that's unlikely to happen.
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Looks really cool. Well done guys.

Also the guys at pyramid labs do some awesome web design work. I have been giving project to Rahul for a number of years (before they started pyramid labs) and he has never let me down.
Here's my experience on this one:

Actually, it's about using the wrong tool for the wrong purpose. I tried building a custom CMS with both Drupal AND Wordpress, just like the author and I realized how horrible it is build something custom out of an existing CMS.

I wanted to build a Metro-like interface for a shopping cart application with some extra functionality, just using Wordpress. Should be easy and was easy, until I discovered some horrible stuff within the code. You would think that Wordpress being so popular, would be top-notch as a development platform too. It was for the most part, but there were some trivial issues that made me develop a sense of hatred for developing for it.

No, I'm not talking about themes, I'm talking about building off something different using Wordpress as a base platform.

For example, on Wordpress, for pagination on posts, the GET variable is 'page' and for pages it is 'paged'. There is absolutely zero documentation on this and no reason as to why they have different (inconsistency) names for the same functionality. This is just one example. There were lots of other annoying bugs that pushed me too far. For example, sometimes, updating Wordpress would break a lot of plugins and leave you stranded.

Does this mean Wordpress is bad? No certainly not. It's the best blogging platform out there. But, if you want something custom, just build it yourself.

That's why I said 'fuck it' and moved on with rails. I get what I want, nothing more, nothing less. If I want an authentication system, there's Devise, if I want something else, there's always a gem for that, let alone writing my own code for the functionality I want isn't a big deal either.

In short, if you are building your start-up based off on an existing CMS, you're doing it wrong. Unless you are focused only on developing themes and frameworks for these platforms, or if you just want to run a Media company like Techcrunch or Mashable, just don't go with it.
Would it be wrong of me to implement on the site to prevent that from happening? haha
Note: Mz is a "she".
So in this case scenario, how is dropbox making money off me? Note I have one 1.9GB true crypted file that i host on drop box for years. please tell me, how am I being a product that is being sold?
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
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I'm enough of a hacker to obtain them myself, but it seems like a typical task so I'm asking: is there a 'packaged' way to either make your 'saved stories' HN page public or simply export the list of URLs and titles to text file / browser bookmarks / delicious / whatever sharable?
What do you mean by horrible state of encryption? why is it high cost to make a truecrypt container and use that as your interface? the only thing I can think of is it's inconvenient to be unable to simultaneously mount content from multiple places at once. That doesn't seem like an enormous cost, did you mean something else?