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I need to do this, thank you @old-gregg.
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do you know how well other thinkpads work with ArchLinux? I'm looking into x230, X1 carbon, and T430s
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Well, even after completing 7 Coursera classes, I agree. Not the same as being on campus.

One huge difference is that most Coursera classes let you keep submitting homework and taking tests until you are happy with your score. I got a 99.5% score in Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class by repeating work until I was happy with my score and comfortable with the material. If my score had been my first attempts, my class score would have been lower, and I would not have learned as much.
From the original article-
"However, it's worth noting that more than a quarter of the professors felt that their successful MOOC students do deserve credit. Those respondents include faculty members at Penn, Princeton, Duke, and Stanford. Most of them led courses that were oriented to math, science, and engineering."

Which makes sense, those are subjects which are probably best suited to this kind of approach.

I've taken a number of MOOCs, from EDx, Coursera, and Udacity. I'm an addict, always in at least one and plan to pretty much permanently keep doing them as long as it's possible to do so.

The 6.002x from EDx was probably the most rigorous of the ones I've done, and I felt a solid sense of accomplishment when it was over. But I don't think I should be awarded MIT credit for it, mostly due to the limited substitutions for lab work.

In fact, I don't think college credit would be appropriate for any of the classes I've done. However, the certificates for most of them do have meaning, and should be taken by employers as a sign that someone is likely to have some competency in the area.

Yes, cheating is possible, so it's not automatic, but you should always be evaluating someone's actual skills that matter to you anyway. An A in a class on their college transcript also doesn't guarantee mastery in any way whatsoever. It's just an indicator that the person may have such.
Tell HN: Dropbox e-mail database hacked (again?)
A minute ago I've received a phishing mail (screenshot http://imgur.com/lc5VxtY) on all my 8 email addresses that I had used to sign up for dropbox accounts over the years.

These are all non-guessable addresses used exclusively for dropbox.

All links in that mail point to http://lindXXXbuchleitner.com/wp-content/plugins/wps.php?c002 (XXX = sey), which presumably carries something malicious (I didn't click).

Question to HN: Who else has received this spam?

And question to Dropbox: Why was I not notified when my e-mail addresses (and what else?) were stolen from your servers?
A Nodejs native extension which allows developers to use this popular CLIPS system to build expert systems.

CLIPS is a productive development and delivery expert system tool which provides a complete environment for the construction of rule and/or object based expert systems. Developed at NASA in 1985, CLIPS is now widely used throughout the government, industry, and academia.

Check out the online CLIPS documentation:
http://clipsrules.sourceforge.net/OnlineDocs.html
Apologies. I posted this because it came up recently in a media blog [insert joke about media being slow].

So it was a manual fix that corrected the issue? I guess that makes since given that her Wikipedia entry didn't have the standardized birthdate listing (at least in the first line) until today (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy_Wilentz&ol...). Would that fix alone been enough to fix her snippet?
The rise in "back pain and other musculoskeletal" disability claims since the 1960s seems to track well with the rise in obesity during that same time. And I noticed that a fair number of the pictured subjects were obese.
Is there an option for a paying customer to "suspend" his account? If so, then how long after "suspending" would the customer's content get deleted?
but it does, check it again: 4. Proof-of-Work
Seriously? NUDT (National University of Defense Technology) still names it Kylin? How shameless… A little bit of the old story for those who don't know:

Around 2001~2002, NUDT, Lenovo Group, and a few other organizations took a government grant of 70 million RMB and claimed to independently created a new operating system with their own copyright/IP for defense use called Galaxy Kylin.

In 2006, an analysis [1] of the “new” OS revealed that Kylin was most likely a fork of FreeBSD, which voided the previous independent creation and copyright/IP claims. Worse, they did not follow FreeBSD license when distributing the software.

When the scandal was published and went crazy in the media the same year, another interesting incident happened: access to www.freebsd.org was blocked from mainland China. In fact, the term “FreeBSD” became a sensitive keyword that if you mention it anywhere on any page, your connection will be cut-off and subsequently blocked, not just www.freebsd.org [2]. Of course there was no official statement regarding the connection between the two (what do you expect anyway…), given the deep involvement of NUDT and the Great Firewall, one has to wonder…

Looks like they learned something from that scandal and this time they acknowledged the adoption of Ubuntu/Linux upfront. Let's see what will happen next.

[1]: http://www.dancefire.org/article/Kernel_Similarity_Analysis.... (in Simplified Chinese)

[2]: http://www.williamlong.info/archives/406.html (in Simplified Chinese)
Good point. In terms of network performance, we try to batch events and minimize server requests.

For link tracking, our method is similar to how other analytics products track link clicks - we delay the page navigation the min of: 1) 250ms, 2) the time it takes for our server to respond to a click event.
Dude, relax. Have a discussion. =)

> If I play in a busy street everyday, you'd blame me when I eventually got hit by a car even though cars are always supposed to be driven under control.

Context. You are supposed to comment on HN. You are not supposed to play in the street. If you played in a park, I'd expect you not to get hit by a car. If someone does get hit by a car while playing in a park, you don't suggest to that person they should avoid playing in the park.

> What about if it is telling women to go out with their friends and look after each other when they are at bars? To be aware of their surroundings? Is that victim blaming to prepare your daughter for the realities of the world?

No, that's good advice! And there is a distinct difference.

Yes, I know, the reality is that wearing provocative clothes can entice men, and some men will get the wrong idea, and might do bad things. But it's a bad solution to adopt the "change what you wear" approach. It doesn't solve the problem.

Basically, it's the same as this type of advice: If you don't want to get into an accident, don't use a car. Of if you dont' want to get into an plane crash, don't fly a plane. If you don't want to drown, stay out of water.

Or, if you don't want to get raped, look ugly.

But telling you daughter to go with friends, to be aware, to check in? These don't change her behavior. It minimizes risk. Indeed, if you think about it, the advice you give up there is much better than not wearing provocative clothing. Mostly because wearing provocative clothing has little to do with getting raped.

Anyways, I hope you understand better what I was trying to say. Again, it's not some new concept that I'm spouting. Spend some time reading up on it. Others do a better job at explaining it then I do.
IE8 is a complete mess in comparison to modern browsers. To support IE8 you often have to go through a lot of extra work after the site works in modern browsers to get it functional even if your not doing something particularly complex. At the very least its often a whole bunch of different CSS / replacing CSS with images to get the rendering to look decent. In addition a lot of 'Show HN' posts tend to use 'cool new tech' that just doesn't work at all in IE8. To get it functional you often have to implement an entirely different approach just for IE8. Most 'Show HN' links are MVP products, the devs just decided to release quick instead of spending a few extra weeks dealing with IE8's shenanigans.
Yep, our local c++ tough guy figures he's a 6/10 in c++ knowledge, and we're unsure if you can make it to 7/10. Yet, millions of instances of his code are still successfully running as we speak.

I once had someone ask me if I was a c++ expert, I said no, did not get an interview. I guess I should have lied and hoped the questions they asked me fell in the realm of c++ I know.
I might be concerned if the only thing the random Glass wearer recorded was you walking your babies, but if that's a small part of his daily record, so what? Without Glass he would have seen you just the same.
Why will nothing enter the public domain this year?
It seems that the F-word/nipples moratorium is pretty much over. While it's true that broadcast tv still can't show it, cable/satellite tv is pretty ubiquitous and free to bath us in as many nipples and F-words as they please.

As for 3-strikes and "zero tolerance" that's a whole other can of worms. Looking at the disparity in US crime statistics vs Scandinavian countries, it's pretty understandable that cultural attitudes toward legal punishment are so different. 3-strikes and "zero tolerance" are wrong headed and ineffective, in my view, but you can at least empathize with the motivation (as opposed to the whole nipple thing)
It seems that a large part of this is a problem with implementing and/or acting upon rudimentary analytics. If a particular doctor or judge is referring plenty of patients into the disability rolls, that doctor/judge should be singled out for special investigation.
Tekacs,

you are right, current auth is the most simple thing we have in mind. For sure can be better and so we planned to follow more an API standard so to be interchangeable with others auth systems.

That helper is 'dead'. Will be removed before 1.0.

If you have some others suggestions or you think there is something insecure, please share your thoughts. In this release we did a lot of stuff to improve that area, so you are welcome!
Thanks, I wasn't sure what was considered an "implementation" according to the W3C.

In other news, azakai, you work for Mozilla, correct? Have they issued an official statement regarding this?
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Exactly my reaction. Beautiful actress but it still gave me the creeps.

I think the approach of decoupling the eyes/mouth/etc. is a mistake. Our brains are trained to unite all of them and when they don't match up naturally it sets off alarm bells in our minds that something is not right.
Isn't this going to be necessary for a site like YouTube to be able to fully switch off of Flash?
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>it's the sign of someone consciously choosing to profit from facilitating criminal activity. And it can be totally valid to punish one person who helps out many criminals more harshly than one single criminal.

It is now a matter of public record that HSBC, Wachovia, JP Morgan, and others have laundered huge sums of 'drug money' in operations ongoing for many years. So, for those individuals and companies who continue to do business with the banks involved, are they "consciously choosing to profit from facilitating criminal activity"?

Can a businessman refuse service to someone they suspect are involved in criminal activity?

Does a businessman have a duty to refuse service to someone they suspect are involved in criminal activity?
I don't see why this is surprising; MOOCs, for the most part, by design don't have the kind of accountability mechanism that make them suitable for formal credit, and which are required for entities accrediting higher education institutions (including ones that do have credit-granting online programs.)

The push to incorporate credit options involves a variety of solutions that add those kind of accountability mechanisms on top of (or, provide separate assessments in addition to) MOOCs, and evaluating support for credit for those kind of programs isn't something you can reasonably do by asking anyone (MOOC instructors or not) whether existing pure-MOOC students deserve credit.

And, anyway, knowledge is useful without certification.
I have the option to not use flash, or silverlight. When built into a specification, that option is absent.
Notice that the model, before texturized, has fang's for teeth... scared.
I honestly don't think those conclusions are accurate (factually). At least, I've not read anything that supports those conclusions.

Anyways, I tried to address another commenters questions about my post, and address it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5424522
I like the general sentiment, and I generally act the same way, but I can't help but think, "if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying." Another analogy: I played tennis in high school and in every match I've played in my life, there are no refs and the players call balls in or out on their own. Some people cheat on that and, all else equal, they tend to win more points. If I had millions of dollars at stake on these matches, I'd be a hell of a lot more likely to cheat than I did. As it was, I'd try to call things fair unless my opponent was cheating; then I'd blatantly call balls out to, um, "persuade" my opponent to knock it off. None of your opponents choked you in high school? No hard to see punches?

The analogy somewhat falls apart because reputation matters more in business: the OP is to some degree PR.
It's ironic that on their website they don't have their own code (well, maybe it's on the backend) and use Segment.io + Mixpanel instead.
Better, turn it into a co-operative? I'm dying to see more co-operatives in the startup space.
This seems like what journalism should be. This is shocking to me. An entire generation of people have slipped through the cracks, and I had no idea this sort of disability-gaming was occurring. Is this common knowledge?
Is your basement or your garage or the local Starbucks a battlefield?
How is it "home-grown" if they're "working with Canonical"? It's just a distro fork, not a "home-grown" operating system.
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You don't see Heap on there?
Everyone, not just web startups, is sick of IE8 and earlier.
As the other commenter described, it's a lot of effort.
I think when it comes to bigger organizations (such as Google not officially support IE8 anymore), it's to force laggard corporate offices to at least upgrade to IE9, if not Chrome or Firefox.
Flawed methodology: The approach considers only services Google has closed. There are fairly obviously flaws in using this to predict how long you can expect a newly-introduced solution to be around.
"It's a great attitude to have for creating cool new things, I suppose, but it feels like it's moving too fast for me to keep up, is Node.js not cool anymore? What about Backbone? Lua? what the hell is Hadoop? How about a new Lisp?"

As far as the last part is concerned, what about R7RS Small, and later R7RS Large?
Woz is uber hacker! I loved that story where he says how he hacked pay to watch movies system at hotels. Only someone who has 'tinkering' psyche can do stuff like that.
The lock-screen widget would be more useful if you could check/uncheck items without unlocking the phone (you are able to add new notes and checklists, so I am not sure why this functionality was not added).
I really enjoyed reading this. It neatly and succinctly encapsulates life's little uncertainties.

As someone who's seen his share of rejections (as well as the inverse) lately, I can certainly identify.
Her taking a picture and posting it to Twitter (which is different from publishing) is not illegal. She didn't need a model release. The only time you need a model release is if you intend to sell the photograph of a person to be used for commercial purposes. You know, sell the picture to a company for the company to use it in an advertisement. At that time, a model release is required. No monetary gain was acquired in this situation, so why would a release be required?

Know Copyright and publishing laws when you comment... just sayin'
Looks like you are describing conventional cash! ;)
Any kind of currency allows criminal actions...

check for example this:
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/report-hsbc-allowed-money-la...

and this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/17/cocaine-dollar-b...
Holy hand-wavy, HN.

Yes or no: do you think the Feds' actions in this case were kosher? Do you think the Feds pulling shit like that is kosher in general?
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LOL: The URL has a trailing "-".
I would be very glad to hear that a session_secret is being used to encrypt session cookies (which would prevent the (working-at-the-time) 'attack' I posted in the abovementioned issue).

I can't tell at a glance whether this change was made after the issue and if the problem is now overcome, but I'm glad to hear that security is at least on your minds! Just switching to BCrypt from the old DES'd passwords is a wonderful step!

Best of luck and thanks for the great project!
Ember being impressive but not yet ready for prime time seems to be a common refrain on HN these days, and one of the big gaps holding Ember back appears to be Ember.Data. I have no doubt the team is working hard to improve Ember.Data and move it into "ready for prime time" territory, but why move Ember-proper to a "1.0" release without Ember.Data also being ready? Every major competitor to Ember (including its predecessor, SproutCore) has a data layer that does more than pass the buck off to jQuery. Yes, the move to 1.0 locked the non-Ember.Data portions of the API, but it seems short-sighted to believe that that will be enough for most users.

The "1.0" is communicating a set of implicit expectations that I suspect the core team didn't intend for it to quite yet. It was a mistake to "release" Ember itself as a 1.0 before Ember.Data was ready.
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I think Google would be fine in this case, if we're assuming American law. Wilentz arguably qualifies as a "public figure" and so Google would have to be proven to show gross negligence and/or malicious intent in getting the dates wrong. Assuming the googlebot did as it normally does, Google has an even stronger case that they aren't intentionally being bad actors, as the googlebot gets so many other things correct with its algorithm.
That is becoming increasingly clear. When I drive through small to medium sized towns I can't help myself thinking "what do all of these people DO for a living?". They have to import everything they need and many of these places don't produce anything of value. Add into the mix that if they do have any fast food or services, more likely than not they're global franchises sucking even more money out of the town. How is this sustainable?

It seems to me that the more globalized, specialized and efficient the world becomes, a few hubs will produce pretty much everything. If in the past every town within a 100 mile radius had it's own carpenters making furniture, today there's one big Ikea in the middle of them all taking all that business away.
Andrew spoke about the current situation at DjangoCon last year (2012) not sure how much still stands out of this video but its good for a general overview of the current state and his plans for the core integration - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwP7zLDDdPA
Thank you updating that this issue still is occurring with Dropbox e-mails. Has Dropbox officially responded to this incident? It seems as if this problem has been mentioned here and some other outlets for about a month or so (emerged some time around mid-Feb. 2013 ? ).
We all expect to find a Rails/Django equivalent for JavaScript apps.

There's nothing like that.

All of the JavaScript frameworks are in their infancy. It doesn't mean we can't use them yet. It's just that they are not mature enough to be easy to use.
Just an FYI:

The primary challenge to the mobile operators is backhaul from the base stations, not spectrum. At any given tower/site, you've only got a certain amount of fixed facilities from the local wireline carrier that are available. In other cases, you're using point-to-point microwave links to backhaul until you can offload that traffic to a fiber-connected location. In either situation, you need to think about the entire picture before you go ahead and focus on "spectrum" as the reason why your link speed differs from what you expect. There are many moving parts and they all can cause congestion.

And the AT&T/T-Mobile merger was nixed because they tried to pull a fast one on the FCC/DOJ by claiming that they needed the spectrum/infrastructure to upgrade their network. When a document surfaced that showed that their cost to upgrade their existing network was a fraction of what they were paying for the T-Mobile network, it became clear that they were buying them to eliminate price competition.
I'm really excited about this, I signed up. We've been trying to solve this with different things for a while.
Last time i was installing gitlab after having the nightmare to install and maintain a gitorious installation and was really depressed that it felt like the same nightmare. Pages of pages of copy&paste instructions, followed by half a dozen issues that needed post-install fixing... no, never again..

I ended up installing gitblit and was amazed by the quick installation and features. Unpack&run! I can recommend gitblit to everyone who needs a quick&easy to install Git web frontend..

But gitlab definitely looks nicer, probably can do even more.. it has pull requests which are (yet) missing in gitblit.
We were thinking if someone pays for a year, we'll just keep the content online forever. Paul Buchheit actually gave us that idea.
That link redirects to hxxp://3rgjrihoqwd.dns04.com/closest/98y7y432ufh49gj23sldkkqowpsskfnv.php DNS04 is a dynamic IP address service. That address loads an obfuscated web page with a java (or flash?) widget. Then it redirects to hxxp://doctormusi.ru which tries to sell me Viagra.
As others have noted on HN, what you're describing is called the "Lump of Labor" Fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
As we get closer to being able to perfectly replicate the sounds of human speech, I wonder if we'll find an "uncanny valley" effect. Check out 0:10-0:13 in the video (especially the word "now"). I actually prefer this GLaDOS-esque inflection to something perhaps closer to human-producible phonetics. The imperfection in sliding up and down tones is actually very musical, almost like "grace notes".
If you read their pledge you will find the answer:

"What happens if I stop paying?

Permanent URLs are a powerful idea, and it's a feature of using Posthaven we think you should get even if you stop paying. We'll keep the site online, but you won't be able to edit content or add to it. If you want to renew, start paying again and your account will be restored.

When will something qualify for permanent storage? Let's keep it simple initially: If you pay for a year's worth of service, your content is safe and we'll keep it online."
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They got the definition of hackers wrong again.
It's not "disability gaming" for the most part. These people have legitimate, serious health problems and, in this economy, no employer wants to accommodate them.

There are a lot of people who are capable of delivering economic value, but not on a typical employer's terms. The sad truth is that the demand for most labor is crashing.

The truth is that disability is a spectrum from 0 (no economic function) to 1 (full health). In 1950, there was high demand for labor and people at 0.7 could get full-time jobs with access to middle-class labor. Now, the 0.8's are unwanted and the 0.9's are trapped in secondary labor, unless they're extremely intelligent and can swing as free agents.