skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. This obviously wasn't cheating since it was within the prescribed parameters for the exam. Some exams are open book, some are open note, some are even take home with no limits.

2. The highest score and thus most insightful and highest quality work, according to the professor's own evaluation, came not from collaboration but from one of the 3 lone wolves.
Just to add to this - floating rate loans are common here, with a fixed date of mortgage ending. So an early payment in this situation leads to a lower payment next months (probably by a few cents or a dollar to 2 if you made a decent lump sum payment). It isn't much, but depending on initial mortgage setup a saving for next month can be realised.
In other words, I'm right so you change the subject to how lazy the Turks are. Well, Let's put Switzerland where Turkey is and vice-versa and see how well the Swiss do, shall we? Sorry, but your post comes off as pretty thinly-veiled racism, thanks to your highly selective use of statistics, dismissal of geography, and conflation of multiple historical events into the present.
Why I don’t like Maven
I'll kick it off:
A $650 transmitter can disable an entire city’s 4G LTE network
http://bgr.com/2012/11/15/4g-lte-network-jammer/
I've seen a few personal cloud startups present, but I haven't had a close look at Respect Network. I think personal cloud is in its infancy, and in a few years we'll have redundant encrypted data stored on many different servers where only we can access it using our key.

When that happens, we'll want to integrate it with our platform, but until then, we're focusing on the other aspects: user signup, contact management, invitations, granular access controls, subscriptions and filters, offline notifications, realtime collaboration, scalability, working on any device, etc. These are hard problems to solve and now that we've built something that solves all of them in one place, we think we have something valuable.
Sugar-Free Loops
> My gut feeling is that Phillips is scared they're going to lose market share over this, and are using their massive Home Depot contracts to negotiate poor placement for the Crees (and possibly poor pricing?). FYI 90%+ of the bulbs sold in Home Depots are Phillips.

It'd be interesting to know what kind of maneuvering the companies are doing. Here in the US Cree is paying for a single "end cap" (end of the aisle placement in the front of the store) and the bulbs are selling out fast. Home depot is also their main distributor. But the store is littered with other brands, not just Philips.
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Oh nice, didn't know about this. I'll watch this talk later!
I did go to an Ivy League school, and I didn't go for the top-notch academics, even though I was at the top of my class in my department.

And even if your reason was actually the top-notch academics, you still benefit very much from a strong old boys' network of professors and researchers.
Docker releases version 0.2.0
Yeah, I never plan to fly American Airlines. These are the same guys who fired one of their UX guys for taking the time to reply to a blog about a redesign of their homepage. Check it out: http://dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html
> LED lighting is costly and complex enough that directional LED bulbs are more or less at cost parity with omnidirectional LED bulbs. In fact, true omnis are often more expensive just because LEDs are inherently directional. This is the first time in the history of lighting where omni wasn't significantly less expensive than directional.

There was that awesome Kickstarter awhile back for a nice omnidirectional LED bulb, I'm looking forward to its delivery!

> Truth is, there are very few scenarios where a high-output omnidirectional lamp actually makes sense. We're used to omnis because they were much cheaper to purchase than their more efficient, directional brethren and because it's convenient to just slap a bright bulb in a socket and say "eh - good enough."

With this I disagree. Open spaces such as a living room are perfect for omnidirectional lighting.

Indeed when I have lived in places with track lighting the annoying part was always trying to spread the light out enough to make it seem omnidirectional without having a bunch of bright hot spots around the room.

When I am cooking or something, sure, light up my working surfaces, but for general ambiance when I am at home I want the entire bloody room I am in lit up!

Now just do that while saving power. :)

Indeed, if you look at how recessed lighting is installed (and I'll be the first to point out that recessed lighting is generally stupid), there are a ton of cans installed in a grid throughout the ceiling to provide what is essentially uniform brightness in a room.
Chrome Office Viewer: view MS Office docs in Chrome
Shouldn't the goal be to "Learn the most possible"? I know, it's not quantifiable, so maybe it doesn't qualify as a goal at all, but it concerns me when people act like the purpose of education is to get grades.
> What do you call someone (like, say Jenny McCarthy), who honestly deludes herself into a position where their lies are both harmful and profitable?

For Jenny McCarthy to continue to believe what she claims to believe, she has to be either brain-damaged or lying. Oh -- or both.

> Does it matter what they really think?

Of course it does. An intelligent, mistaken person can be reasoned with, educated, presented with new evidence. An intelligent con man cannot.

> We are who we pretend to be.

Unrealistically cynical. The best way to derive mutual benefit from other people is to be exactly who you say you are.
Maybe they had Xamarin in mind when they asked you that: http://xamarin.com/monotouch
The problem is that there is already a well developed set of laws to govern human interactions with each other and with the environment. This is like the broken patent system: it's something that has been done for 40 years, except on a computer! We do not need a patent for that, and we do not need a new law for stealing information on a computer. We already have laws for theft.
That's a huge exaggeration to the point of verging on an outright lie. See: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6933260753627774...
I think this is a complex and naunced issue. I have a number of thoughts on your arguments.

Society doesn't set up rules and systems, they seem to emerge as a consequence of beneficial cooperative behavior towards a 'goal'. When it's no longer beneficial to cooperate towards a goal, over say other strategies like cheating, the rules are overlooked, passed, or changed as quickly as they emerged. The prevalence of War as a way to 'rebalance' resources comes to mind immediately, but so too does the reality that only 2% of people pay use taxes.

To your point about parasitism. Human societies are always in a state of change with respect to sociological and technological concerns, and the success of a society in achieving its 'goals' seems largely dependent on how well it adapts to this change. The parasitism you've described seems to be more a reality of economics than society in general, and though your point seems valid on its face, You wouldn't say that the success companies like Uber, which are cheating parasites by your definition, is really a net negative for the society.

to your point about morality. I believe morality is really orthogonal to this issue and should be considered from different viewpoints in different contexts because humans can hold contradictory points of view and still remain 'functioning'. History holds many examples of individuals who challenge what is 'moral' in a society through cheating, and they are sometimes lauded, sometimes not. I think of the narrative surrounding Rosa Parks on one side ( in support of cheating ) and the story of Cincinnatus ( in support of not cheating ) when considering morality in the context of the cooperation cheating dichotomy.

and you're right, this is a very interesting topic, definitely outside the scope of this small classroom experiment.
It's not some invented moral perspective, it's also a very practical concern about what is being taught. Cheating in the form of copying other people's work only works in an artificial environment where everybody is doing the same work - you can copy somebody else's answer because somebody else is doing the exact same thing you are doing.

Hopefully later in life these students will be doing something new and original where nobody else in the world is doing the exact same thing - which means they will naturally end up with nobody to copy off of. If they didn't learn how to figure things out for themselves, they'll end up useless for doing anything new.
BTW it was a nice cartoon.
Depends on the school. At the public high school I attended --several years on various top 100 lists and top 10 in the state-- class ranking was most definitely a shaming of the "weird" minority of kids who were taking "normal" classes. These normal classes were on a completely different scoring tier that ensured the students taking them could not even break the 50th percentile. And coming from Texas, where getting into the top 10 percent of your graduating class is an automatic ticket to any state university, the competition was most definitely fierce.
Given that the language was created by ex-Bell-Labs researchers (Ken Thompson, Robe Pike, Russ Cox and perhaps others), it is not surprising that the language was modeled after C.

Overall the current popularity of C (in systems software) gives an advantage to any language with similar syntax and semantics.
The Base of the Statue of Liberty - Crowdfunded 1885
>3. The best way to learn is to get a job in the field. I'm surprised at how often I have to repeat this.

But to get one, you need to have worked through a lot of books already, right? Job descriptions of this field look to me like: PhD in math finance and senior programming skills.
I'm just going to take the opportunity to react to reboot-Trek and say that I hope the non-angsty version of young Kirk had a slightly classier way of handling that particular hack... because as it was presented by angsty-Kirk, it was utterly uncreative and dull.

Come on, man, you should have more style than that.
There was a similar story in a This American Life episode about the PSA test for prostate cancer. There's a short interview in Act One with a doctor who was sued for malpractice for allowing a patient to choose to not have the test.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/391/m...
Seriously? Do we need more social apps?

This isn't directed at the OP, but rather the general trend where everyone and their mother wants to develop social features. I can't wait for the day when it actually disappears (and gets replaced with another fad, presumably).

/le sigh
I suppose the long-term solution to this problem will be to computer-generate the layouts based on basic level design theory, and then have artists glance at them to check for errors.

Minecraft can auto-generate some pretty interesting cave formations, maybe with a real budget, a team and the advantages of pregeneration you could do a lot better.
Uhoh, looks like that Malaysian restaurant down the road is going to get even fewer customers... shame (I love those Singapore prawns!)
She works as a carer, 6 out of 7 days a week she's up at 5AM and home by 10PM. It's rare we get to spend time together anyway, but when we do, I'd like to make it a nice day and give her something nice.

Plus, she does have expensive taste...
Comments from when someone posted a link to a pre-alpha version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4638712
Customer service is all but dead, and not just with the airline industry. I dread ever having to deal with a company outside of basic transactions.

I used to think this was due to some sort of societal shift towards being people being more dick-ish and self-absorbed, but now I think it is just a case of efficiency run amok.

In order for companies to be efficient they define very narrow roles for employees, define a narrow set of likely interactions, and train only for dealing with those and then eventually base performance metrics off of only that narrowly defined set of predefined actions. When something even slightly out of the ordinary occurs, nobody is incentivized or authorized to take steps off the playbook to make things right. So you end up with massive gridlock where the employees can't really help you so they stall and redirect, which is probably almost as frustrating for them (I'm assuming here, I don't work in customer service) as it is for us.

Even the modern companies lauded for their great customer service like Amazon or Apple pretty much fit into this "pre-defined interactions" model but side-step some of the bigger problems by just having a very liberal "okay, we'll swap it for you with no questions asked" policy, which is still just a mostly automatic process and in some cases doesn't actually fix the real problems, but at least it is a policy under which the customer makes out better than in the usual case of being sent on a wild-goose chase of contacts only to eventually smash into a brick wall.
>>>“In one study, men who saw a new-car ad that included a seductive young woman model rated the car as faster, more appealing, more expensive-looking, and better designed than did men who viewed the same ad without the model. Yet when asked later, the men refused to believe that the presence of the young woman had influenced their judgments.”

I've been wondering why in China launches of products are usually accompanied by young good-looking women holding the product.

EDIT to add: I also find it to be a very annoying practice.
You'd be surprised to learn how many college students goals aren't actually to "Learn the most possible."
Yeah, at least Movember funds don't go directly towards lobbying against using public funds for low-income mens' health.

No, I'm not talking about Planned Parenthood. Komen's lobbying wing literally believes public funds should not go to any forms of womens' health, they believe it should be handled entirely by private "charities" like themselves.

http://www.southernstudies.org/2012/02/flashback-how-the-kom...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/01/1060885/-Behind-the...
Work hard within the rules and cheat but don't get caught are definitely not equally valid.

Cheating has a risk of getting caught long after the moment of cheating and getting caught even decades later can undo a lifetime of otherwise hard work within the rules. Check out the recent scandals in Germany regarding politicians plagiarizing writings during their education.

Don't get caught has an indefinite possible downside to it, you can still get caught even if you weren't caught so far. That's a permanent risk and work hard within the rules has no such downside. Whatever is achieve that way stays achieved.
Wild theory:

They're firing all the people that need to be fired before the new CEO comes in. Otherwise, if the new guy has to fire a bunch of people as soon as he's in it will taint his initial relation and standing with the company. Plus, no one wants to do the dirty work of the last CEO. How would you feel going into a CEO position knowing you're the one who's going to be responsible for breaking up teams and sending 900 employees home without jobs?
The Best Windows PC on the Market Is … the MacBook Pro?
Leap Motion ship date delayed to July 22
For me it would be a red flag to study or work at any institution who expects me to memorize more than the first 6 digits of π unless some kind of cake is involved.
Signs that you have a general pattern of curiosity and playfulness could also likely include a molecular biologist with a picture of Lil Jon on her wall.

Following a general pattern is still a pattern. Patterns aren't as interesting as anti-patterns.
This is a common pattern for objects that are force multipliers. For example, the use of firearms and/or automobiles in the commission of a crime leads to harsher sentencing. Anything that gives the everyman an outsize advantage, like a computer, is treated harshly if that advantage is used against society.
Interal Server Error :(
CISPA 'dead' in Senate, privacy concerns cited
Why and how we switched from Stripe to Chargify
Hack the POS System at Your Local Bar/Restaurant
If they can't refine it down to 3 questions, they haven't thought enough yet about what they really want to know.

Also - it doesn't have to be the same 3 questions to each visitor. Draw them from a pool.
"you can now choose between Debian, Ubuntu, Centos, Gentoo, Arch Linux and Busybox as the base layer for building your containers."

Now this is great. Using this instead of VMs is a win.
Candy Crush Saga takes title from FarmVille, Zynga
> "It is forecast that the typical American will have 5.8 devices by 2015"

http://xkcd.com/605/
Don't forget the Coursera courses on finance, econometrics and financial engineering. They might not cover everything, but they should be enough for getting you interested or bored. I'm not in a Finance field, but I like these courses a lot.
Why you can’t copy Strategy
Then go adopt some.
> Note also that, "if demand exceeds supply, raise prices" is basic economics and standard advice on HN for many other things.

Yes, if the point is to maximize profit. If you have any other goal in mind, then maybe it's not the best strategy. For example, if you want diverse attendance at a conference, raising the prices to what the market will bear may not be the best approach.

> ... you would not then reply saying he didn't think things through because all that is going to accomplish is having price-insensitive clients rather than good clients.

And? Where's the counterargument?

> and how many people go to WWDC as a hobby?

Feel free to change the topic.

> Next time leave out the meta discussion insults.

It's only insulting if you've thought your position through. Clearly you haven't.
> EA continues to go to the well of existing properties

That's because consumers continue to prefer the waters drawn from that well. If people want new IP, they need to show that with their money.
This is particularly easy to do in CSS because it is built up out of a set of rules that have no particular ordering or context. In a way, that's the beautiful part about the CSS. You can concatenate the files however you like and you can also pull out pieces from various components into one place. This certainly isn't possible in most programming where code behavior is highly dependent on the context that it is written.

There might be a subtle difference in the way people think about CSS vs. other programming that would push them to one solution or the other.
Yeah, it's been weeks since anybody's purchased a useless half-baked app for $30M. The bubble must be over.
High-mass pulsar binary provides best test of general relativity
Everyone concerned with this problem might be interested in reading Ted Chiang's excellent science fiction story "Liking What You see": http://www.ibooksonline.com/88/Text/liking.html . It examines what would happen if everyone could choose to disable their natural reaction to beauty, and how that relates to morality.
The way it is (attempted to be) quantified is by grades. Unfortunately, that's probably the best measuring system we have so far.

The other problem with this approach to "group learning" is that it doesn't take into account freeloading students, i.e. those students that want to do the minimal amount of work for the best possible grade. Anyone that did a group project in college or high school knows that there is always that person who just doesn't care, and is happy to get whatever the group gets.
Does anyone know if this would affect the price of Li-on batteries? I'm curious to know if it would make Tesla's cars cheaper.
Entrepreneurs in Australia: Starting up Down Under
These articles are really just signalling devices for which shops overspend on PR and/or have good looking founders.
> That's not in any of those books.

For good reason!
This article (and the UW press release they quote) state that the estimated 228,000 tons of lithium present at the site is "enough to meet annual U.S. demand". I'm not sure what this last statement means since it isn't qualified by "for XXX years assuming no increase in consumption".

According to the USGS[1], US consumption for 2011 was estimated at ~2000 tons. So, this source is, indeed, significant. According to the article, it is also twice as large as the other known US source (in Nevada), so combined, the US has ~150 years worth of domestic Li at its current consumption rates.

[1] https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/lithium/mc...
It's been more than a year since anybody's purchased an app with zero revenue for $1B.

I should clarify that I don't think the bubble is over yet, but the euphoria stage has passed
Pascal: “Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, for they would understand at first sight, and are not used to seek for principles. And others, on the contrary, who are accustomed to reason from principles, do not at all understand matters of feeling, seeking principles, and being unable to see at a glance.”
The average was higher than that of prior classes. Also, it is implied that the lone wolves may have had access to some of the work the mob was producing, enabling one of them to get ahead by simply correcting a few mistakes without giving them back to the mob.
I will be pleased when Exherbo is added to the list.

(Although 90% of the fun I had with exherbo was struggling to get the systemd in place, and that's nullified in a docker system since docker replaces init to run a single process _other than_ init)

EDIT: I guess now I'm volunteering to try and put Exherbo on the list.
"Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives" (John Hull) is the definitive newbie handbook in quant finance. If you are interested in Quantitative Finance, you should understand this book, cover-to-cover.

"Principals of Corporate Finance" (Brealey & Myers) is the definitive newbie handbook for Corporate Finance, which is not the same subject as Quant Finance.
Not really. I live in Houston, Tx. I cant say that aside from intentionally cheap things like disposible electronics or guitars, no real stigma exists from the people I associate with. I think that the nationalism surrounding all manufacturing leaving the US may upset people but I dont think that people find chinese goods "inferior" to anything...
I would add Barbarians at the Gate and Predators Ball to this list.
Why is Facebook blue? The science of colors in marketing
Is the TPB accessible over Tor?
Whenever a customer service drone starts off their end with:

"I'm so sorry to hear that you're having $PROBLEM_DESC. That must be so frustrating for you."

I really have to hold back the urge to scream. At least fiddle around with the fucking words a bit, don't use exactly the same template as everyone else who has trained their drones to respond in exactly the same way.

I'm getting angry just thinking about this.
Censorship at state colleges to protect the campus bookstore
This immediately reminded me of open source software. Interesting.
One interesting note: the deprecation of v1 of the API was going to force them to either remove the app or update it. During the blackout for unauth'd endpoints a few features (notably search) stopped working. I just checked and the new version is indeed hitting v1.1 of the API now.

Also noticed that the Develop section has somehow survived, which was an old Tweetie feature allowing you to change the Oauth tokens that are used: http://d.pr/i/HMjs
The problem the authors of CFAA faced when the law was written is that this is actually not the case. Existing laws regarding e.g. burglary did not cleanly apply to computer crimes.

I think there are probably cases that do a better job showcasing the need for computer-specific crime laws, and crimes that do a worse job at that. Basic wire fraud cases don't really need CFAA from what I can tell, and CFAA serves primarily as a sentence accelerant in them. But in other cases, particularly where people cause damage but don't reap profits, the need for specific laws is clearer.