skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I graduated from HMC last year.

>Do you really think nobody was cheating at Pomona & Harvey Mudd? Perhaps those schools follow educational philosophies that deemphasize relative performance like Brown's gradeless system or emphasizing "cooperation" over individual ability. If your performance did not matter then perhaps there would be no incentive to cheat (or study). However these students are still humans and humans are lazy, greedy and proud - thus prone to cheating.

I can't speak for Pomona, but many HMC classes have timed, closed book take home exams. It would be trivially easy to cheat on these. On homework, collaboration was usually encouraged, with the caveat that problems sets should ultimately be written up individually -- what policy to take was the choice of the professor.

We certainly had grades.

>Maybe because they are small and there is no incentive to publicize episodes of cheating and damage their brand no stories have come out yet. Still a quick search finds several articles indicating concerns at these schools. And sister school Claremont McKenna has had several major scandals in recent years.

I'm appending data collected in a survey last year. The data was shared with students, but not AFAIK published outside. My personal perception is that cheating is uncommon, and I did not know of anybody I knew doing so. I believe very few people I knew would be open to cheating if approached by a friend. I agree that the administration has no incentive to publicize issues, but I do honestly believe that the issues were few.

With all due respect to Claremont McKenna, their culture is very different. I would not extrapolate from them.

...

There was a survey of student and faculty perceptions of cheating on campus. Unfortunately I don't have details of how this was conducted. Presumably it was anonymous.

In response to : "I believe nearly all HMC Students respect the Honor Code"

Students:
Agree: 84%
Neutral: 8%
Disagree: 8%

Faculty:
Agree: 88%
Neutral: 5%
Disagree: 7%

"Most HMC Students adhere to the Honor Code in their academic work.":

Students:
Agree: 92%
Neutral: 4%
Disagree: 4%

Faculty:
Agree: 90%
Neutral: 10%
Disagree: 0%

"Most HMC Students adhere to the Honor Code in matters unrelated to their academic work.":

Students:
Agree: 66%
Neutral: 22%
Disagree: 12%

Faculty:
Agree: 53%
Neutral: 33%
Disagree: 14%

(For this question, I do not know the number of respondents):
Faculty: In the past 3 years, have any of the following Honor Code violations occurred in the classes you teach:

Plagiarism: 18
Cheating: 10
Collaboration: 10
Other: 3

Faculty: On average, how frequently have Honor Code violations come to your attention?":

1/yr: 77%
2-3/yr: 23%

Faculty: Do you currently give take home exams in any of your Core classes"? [Core classes are required for all students].

Yes: 32%
No: 42%
N/A: 26%

Faculty: Do you currently give take home exams in any of your non-Core classes"?

Yes: 86%
No: 14%

Students: "Have you ever violated the honor code?"

No: 80%
1x: 15%
2x: 1%
>2x: 4%

Students: "Did you self report?

Yes: 17%
No: 83%
Doing the wrong fix is at least as dangerous as not handling the DDoS (as shown in this case). Based on their general network architecture, I would think a prudent thing would be a quick sanity test on a pre-production system if available, then deploy to the various colos in groups at intervals that seem appropriate given the nature of the change. If pre-production isn't available, then having the first group be one colo limits the production impact.

If they did some colos as vendor J and some colos as vendor C, I think it would be manageable, but I don't really know how much of the cross colo traffic is actually their routers talking to their routers. Homogeneity in networks makes things easier to manage, until a platform fault breaks everything at the same time. In this case, at least it was related to a change they had made and happened quickly, so it was easy to determine the cause; other platform faults may not be as easy to determine, but if only your vendor X colos fell over, at least you'd have your vendor C colos up and something to look for.
What about just exercising and going to gym? Standing to be fit is like staring to scientific papers to be smart.
Thanks for the detailed comment, Kragen. I didn't think anyone remembered xfractint :-) I think your analysis is correct, although I'll need to investigate Henkin-sentence circuits some more

You mention dynamic stages that rely on capacitance - these pass-transistor circuits are a standard technique, written up in books. The key is the nearly-infinite input impedance of MOS transistors, which lets the charge hang around for a while. Interestingly, the Z-80 doesn't use this, so its clock speed can be reduced down to DC, unlike the 6502, 8085, etc that have a minimum clock speed as you say.
Can we teach computers what "truth" means?
Yahoo mail's been circling the drain for years. I switched from Yahoo mail to gmail about five years ago and haven't looked back since.
I'm certain I've seen Dr. Miele in the BART before.

Everyone (myself included, which I am ashamed of) did everything to not stare at him nor look in his direction– which of course would have been glaringly and awkwardly obvious to anyone observing the scene.

Reading this article, his body of work is fascinating. Part of me hopes that if I ever see him again during one of my commutes, I'll have the courage to go up to him and ask him questions about all the cool stuff he's done.
In all fairness, I wouldn't call the people that target systems "Amateurs". Just operating in a different business (botnets, spam, cc fraud, etc).
I agree. I don't even have a device with the connector (yet?), but it seems like a major advantage.

Who are all these people popping out of the woodwork wanting a wired connection from their phone to their TV? I'm sure some people do this sometimes, but so many? Why would you even do that? Perhaps this is uncharitable, but it makes me think that most of the people complaining here have never done it, never will, probably never even thought about doing it before, but are now outraged at the thought that the connector is not 100% perfect for this one uncommon use-case.
There's even a Wikipedia article about them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEEK_and_POKE
Software engineer?
>Of course we do, we make amazing science at such a huge rate most people can't even keep up with it anymore. If you believe computing has only little and only "quantitative" impact on science and communication than there is little I can do for you, computing has completely revolutionized every single science field. But sure, keep thinking it's just cat videos and porn. Maybe we should just go farming instead...

The condescending tone is because you believe you are talking to some child or something?

People have differing opinions, and what you believe as the "objective truth" is not some kind of gospel.

As a matter of fact, the very issue of current science having much less impact nowadays has been stated before on HN, with very valid explanations and analysis behind it.

One reason, for example, is that the more important stuff in most scientific fields are the lower hanging fruits, and early scientists got most of them. It's a case of diminishing returns.

Say whatever you want, but any current discovery is not of the caliber of Maxwell's equations, the discovery of DNA or evolution, Einstein's theory of relatively, et al.

It's marginal, incremental work, not evolutionary. And people "can't even keep up with it anymore" just because it's so vast and concerns minutiae, not because it's so groundbreaking.

Here are some further elaborations on that:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/07/26/what-happens-i...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18095669

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21569381-idea-innovat...
I'm planning to do so, but I need to stabilize push notifications a bit before I start to make Rodos look better. Thanks for the advice, anyway! :)
Could you share some information about the SQL warts you found under concurrent load?
We've been doing this with mikrotik boxes with either wifi or usb gsm modems depending on the what is available in the location.
Buck stops with us. We choose the hardware and software that runs on our network. We test and work around thousands of bugs in it. It was up to us to check range limits before applying them. While we'll never be perfect, one of the things I am most proud of with the CloudFlare team is how quickly we do learn from mistakes.
Seeing Invisible Motion
By HN guidelines, things that are appropriate are "Anything that good hackers would find interesting... anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

This is the story of Dr. Joshua Miele who, after this horrific attack, has been working on some really interesting projects using technology to make the lives of those living with disabilities better.

After reading this story, I found an interview he did describing some of the projects he's been working on, including tactile maps on smartphones to help blind people navigate their world.
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201106171000.

So I'd say it's relevant.
It does not actually parse the ifconfig output. On linux and freebsd it uses system calls to get the required information.

https://github.com/madx/moreutils/blob/master/ifdata.c
It's kind of annoying to read comments like this if you run regularly. If you run intervals, you periodically take breaks where you jog very slowly. It's super awkward moving slowly, but sweating to death and breathing heavy from your last interval. Also, if you get started running long-distance (half or full marathon), 4-5mph seems to be a reasonable beginner pace. Not everyone is always doing speed work.
They could've been fragmented IPv6 packets. Or it could've been a bug in their profiler.
It didn't sound like "anti-college anti-credentialling" at all. All the OP was trying to say was that the traditional method of teaching ie. "all theory" didn't work for him, while a mixed hands-on/practical/theoretical approach did.

Your comment, while true, is fairly irrelevant in context of this article.
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I agree that everyone should let Marissa Mayer do her job. And I understand how she can be tired of being looked upon as the standard-bearer/role model for working women. (Though I always wince when I hear a powerful woman say that feminism has a bad name, since she would likely not be where she is without it - at least right now.) And I'm sure there were employees who took advantage of the telecommuting policy. But I wish she would have taken a more nuanced approach and implemented a policy that would have encourage dealing with those situations individually - and/or impelemented a policy that allowed workers to telecommute for x number of hours per week or pay period, for example.

Some tasks/positions lend themselves to telecommuting. Why should a level 1 customer service rep have to sit in a cube at work vs. their desk at home? Why should a programmer or tech writer or any other employee with tasks that require long periods of distraction-free concentration have to spend all of their time at work?

I also assume/hope that management will take steps to encourage/model collaboration. "Butts in seats" - or at the water foundtain or in the hallway- does not automatically translate into increased productivity or collaboration.
Certainly. For example conversation without BS snide remarks seems to be a lost art.
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Personally, I'll be (vaguely) glad that the price of my next iDevice won't include the cost of HDMI output hardware that I will never use.
I once spent a week tracking down a bug and I felt like popping out the champagne once we got it figured out and fixed!

If they had been working on this for 30 years, I could only imagine the joy and exhilaration of squashing this bug...
That knowledge didn't just appear once there was an internet; it had to come from somewhere. You're able to make geo-local picture sharing apps inside of instant messengers because someone with an advanced degree figured out how to make transistors. Then some other person with an advanced degree figured out how to make combinations of those transistors perform coherent operations to achieve complex goals. Then some other person with an advanced degree distilled the mathematical theories required to parse languages. And so on.

It's fine to say that you're getting by just fine with stuff you learned on the internet, but to call education a waste is to declare that what we have now to be sufficient and there's no point in learning anything new. That might be working for the Amish, but it doesn't work for me.
Why is it that when something works for someone they immediately feel the need to force it on everybody else?
Perhaps you need to work on persuading your parents about your intentions by describing a complete plan. Do you have a plan to get a job from the self-study through books and Coursera? Have you considered dropping out of school and getting a GED so that you still will have a piece of paper while spending more time on your personal projects? I have heard of this approach from an entrepreneur who was building a business around your age. Are you planning on applying to college after dropping out of high school? AP courses in middle/high school can be used to get college credits, saving a lot of money and time.

The "stupid piece of paper" is used by employers as another way to confirm that a person has skills they need. It's about reducing risk. Some companies might not be willing to hire someone who doesn't a piece of a paper from a respectable university. And you might want to work for these companies. There are always exceptions, but you will have to be exceptional in their eyes.

I'm not saying you shouldn't drop out. I definitely have issues with the schools and understand that time can be wasted for some students. Have a plan for how you will achieve success and understand that all decisions have trade-offs: benefits and costs. And consider how your plan might fail and how you will handle it.
err a 3 person company is in not in an position to support apprentices - this is the problem with the half assed Modern Apprentice system its abused to hell by tax dodging coffee shop chains and supermarkets to get cheap 1/3 the minimum wage trainees for non skilled work.
I think we can all agree that pushing hdmi circuitry off the iPhone reduces cost of the device, increases cost of the dongle, and drops signal quality. We can also speculate that signal quality will increase over time by a combination of better encoding, pass through for already encoded signal, and raw speed upgrade for lightning protocol itself.

What is puzzling is the timing of the release. There is an obvious drop in quality, and no obvious reason to save cost in iPhone 5. They could have let the technology mature to quality parity and only then release it, so what gives? My theory is that Apple came under serious price pressure, as cheap smartphones are now the fastest growing segment of the market, and so they are preparing to ship a very cheap version of the iPhone. Given their position as high-margin company on one hand and pressure from low-margin competition on another, they felt the need to pinch every penny. And so the iPhone 5 ended up being the test bed for the new wave technology with much lower cost of entry, but more expensive accessories. Unfortunately, what we get in the interim are both expensive devices and expensive peripherals.
Nice! Can't wait to play some Halo on Tuesday. http://www.nowplay.us/events/41
What I don't understand is this anti-learning-from-books and anti-learning-from-computers sentiment. In many cases and for many people learning in nonconventional ways is much more efficient then going to school.
Correct! I expect to start being able to gain weight around 30-35, when my father did.
In many engineering cultures, employees are perpetually required to play the role of pupil as a form of submission despite credentials, education, and experience. This is where all the downplaying of college and credentials stem from. There is almost no corporate culture which does not require new employees to play a submissive role to whoever is already there. Find one, and you'll maybe find people who value college and credentials.
If you count them there are actually 16 pins. Apple wants you to think there are only 8 pins and that the connector can be reversed. But nothing prevents them from adding some additional handshaking in a future device that lets them use all 16 pins separately. The connector could still be reversible with additional switching circuitry that routes signals to the correct place depending on how you have rotated the connector.
https://apparchy.net/ is down, just FYI.
What he doesn't say is the the dual system in Germany is very stratified it can be very difficult to go to a tier 1 university in Germany if you don't get steamed into the right sort of high school.

note that he moved to the USA where the stigma of going to the wrong sort of school is less of a problem.
..or maybe both.

to me, discussing and speculating his state of mind, his personality from a armchair just doesn' feel right.
It might not even correlate with his actions. They count and were well intended, ethical, brave, helping and in a good democratic spirit.
They were also foolish, off, dangerous and endangering.
I am convinced that people with different psych.

I hope he will be treated like Daniel Elsberg.
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These articles are great. Sad, but great. They somehow feel more real than the "I made X in a weekend and sold it for a billion dollars" type of stories.

I can relate to this story and would combine points 1 and 3. We often do it to scratch an itch or to engineer a beautiful a solution to a non-technical problem.

In my last job in IT-healthcare, i learned not to rush to automate any process because the problem is probably a people problem and not a technical problem. And you can't fix a people problem with a computer.
What is exactly the postman syndrome? I can't find anything about it, except for the band "The Postman Syndrome" (which is great, by the way)
I’ve been sitting on an exercise ball for the past few months. Don’t really care for the science behind it vs. a real chair, but I do find the constant readjustment to stabilize yourself lets me stay on it longer than if I had sat on a chair.
It's unsustainable in the sense that behind almost everything we do or eat is a lot of fossil fuel. That's a finite resource which will not always exist.
In the US, I see an apprenticeship program not necessarily as an alternative to college (yet), but as a way for companies to groom junior engineers into senior engineers. If top talent is hard to find and costs a lot, it makes sense to invest in your employees to build them up. I can't see a 10x return from such a program, but just 2x would justify an investment. Like code reviews, it would reduce rework with more feedback to avoid future mistakes.
In a similar vein, I'm trying to figure out why tech types keep thinking that their experiences are comparable to everyone else's.

Hint: not every office desk job just involves sitting and typing on a computer all day. I'm sure some jobs (perhaps even many) might be suitable, but certainly not all desk jobs at "every" office.
Ah you mean the Torry plan to bring back the 11 plus and ship off poor kids to dumbed down Modern Apprenticeships so they can stack shelves at safeway.
>> The dehumanized the individuals they were engaging and seemed to not value human life by referring
>> to them as quote “dead bastards” unquote and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in
>> large numbers. At one point in the video there is an individual on the ground attempting to crawl
>> to safety. The individual is seriously wounded. Instead of calling for medical attention to the
>> location, one of the aerial weapons team crew members verbally asks for the wounded person to pick
>> up a weapon so that he can have a reason to engage. For me, this seems similar to a child torturing
>> ants with a magnifying glass.

>> Shortly after the second engagement, a mechanized infantry unit arrives at the scene. Within
>> minutes, the aerial weapons team crew learns that children were in the van and despite the
>> injuries the crew exhibits no remorse. Instead, they downplay the significance of their actions,
>> saying quote ‘Well, it’s their fault for bringing their kid’s into a battle’ unquote.

>> The aerial weapons team crew members sound like they lack sympathy for the children or the
>> parents. Later in a particularly disturbing manner, the aerial weapons team verbalizes enjoyment
>> at the sight of one of the ground vehicles driving over a body– or one of the bodies. As I
>> continued my research, I found an article discussing the book, The Good Soldiers, written by
>> Washington Post writer David Finkel.

>> He writes that the soldier finds him and sees him gesture with his two forefingers together, a
>> common method in the Middle East to communicate that they are friendly. However, instead of
>> assisting him, the soldier makes an obscene gesture extending his middle finger.

>> The individual apparently dies shortly thereafter. Reading this, I can only think of how this
>> person was simply trying to help others, and then he quickly finds he needs help as well. To make >> matter worse, in the last moments of his life, he continues to express his friendly gesture– only
>> to find himself receiving this well known gesture of unfriendliness. For me it’s all a big mess,
>> and I am left wondering what these things mean, and how it all fits together. It burdens me
>> emotionally.

This is all that matters... the discussion on Bradley is valid but why isn't US/these soldiers on a court to answer this sort of shit? You should be ashamed of your country and try to do something about it

So many lies, fuck the power.