skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to compare apples with apples then it would be better to compare Bootstrap or Rails with some of the "framework" themes (like Genesis) that exist for platforms like WordPress. They stop short of design and mostly provide the designer and developer with a common language.

A complete theme usually has a lot more than just tools, conventions and code examples. It's a complete design, and content implementation, all you have to do is stick in your logo and copy and you're done. Not exactly the same process as using a framework.

Although I also dislike frameworks (Bootstrap high on that list) for the same reasons (shoehorning is encouraged) I don't think it's an appropriate comparison.
On Linux. On anything else, Nvidia have the best drivers.
I agree with your general sentiments, but, and you are certainly not alone in this, you glossed over the financial issues facing universities. In many cases, the budget issues facing universities are not all endogenous, unavoidable problems.

I think a better strategy would be to figure out why, exactly, universities are so strapped for cash (I've worked in higher education, it isn't a simple issue) and target those issues instead.

This is not to say that pedagogical advances can't be made, but as you pointed out, these advances, to the extent possible, should not be influenced by budget constraints lest we end up with cheaper, but proportionally worse, education.
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Guys Like This Could Kill Google Glass Before It Ever Gets Off the Ground
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Or because it is rich in carbohydrates and fats, and super aromatic.
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Next thing you know it starts showing banners, pop-ups and sending you emails with the "tax offers".
It does help to answer most of the true philosophical problems about reality etc.

Many problems on that page are IMHO psychological or sociological problems, e.g. the ethical problems.
Note: going solely off the two screenshots (mctop: http://etsycodeascraft.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/mctop.jpg , memkeys: https://raw.github.com/wiki/bmatheny/memkeys/misc/screenshot...), it's not clear why tumblr didn't fix the stated packet loss issue in mctop instead.
I agree completely, on both counts. I think I've used it for the few things I use it for, enough times to have just memorized what's where. It's definitely a huge improvement over the old site, regardless!
More than 10 expectations students have of teachers
What the heck, this site is reasonable, attractive, and legible, why is this not the MAIN SITE?!?
There was a blog post a couple days ago that said it really well: http://trishkhoo.com/2013/04/i-knew-exactly-how-she-felt/

"that’s what happens when we hold events for women in IT when there aren’t that many women in this industry – we tend to broaden the definition of women in IT."

There's so few women in tech that groups like this tends to draw some women who are not even remotely technical (I remember for our women in tech group in college, we held an annual networking event where we invited "real women industry professionals" but the vast majority of them were marketing or HR). I'd like to optimistically think that "women that do technical things with other women" groups will become more prevalent the more women enter the field. I'd love to join a group like that but it's difficult in my area where there are two female CS students in my senior level classes (one of them is me).
The implication is the smug "oh, aren't we better" (as in the blackface routine) but also "I don't think we've really changed enough". Even if people focus more on the former.
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I'm sorry, but when objectification started implying it was a gendered thing? Last I checked both men and women could objectify other people.
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If the technology were there to have a workable version of Glass as a contact lens, I'd wear it all day every day. Augmentation of the senses is the next logical step, right?
So? The license seems to allow that at least for the one I checked. Maybe a little bit of context would be helpful?
For me it all comes down to class size. If you are in a philosophy class with more than 15 students, how can it be said that one is having consistent and meaningful 2 way interaction with the other students and the teacher? It's simply not possible.

To the prof's who think lecturing to a class of >15 students is teaching them in a way that is different from what the students can get thru video, I say you're fooling yourselves. And you know this to be true.

What's beautiful about where this is headed is a) it's inevitable, and b) it will lead to a better education experience. How can it not be of benefit if the 100-level mundane subject matter is handled via video (with perhaps a teacher being available for questions and tutoring), and have the higher level courses be of smaller class size with mostly in-person teaching? We could probably prune some of the teaching staff and still deliver a better experience.
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I'm sorry, but your comment makes zero sense to me.
Poll: At what price would you buy Google Glass?
To fork off of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5644621

The buy decision is influenced by the price. So it begs the question: At what price does Google Glass need to hit for you to buy?
$1500
$250
That was my take as well, but the whole thing is so vague that it's hard to be sure.
The person who popped out of the other end of the teleporter would be doubtful.

Does it make a difference if it's a teleporter that destroys the original as an necessary part of its function, vs one that destroyed the original but didn't need to do so, vs one that did not destroy the original?
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Someone already pointed this out in another thread: what if someone hacks it, starts displaying shock porn. Closing your eyes won't help, neither can you take them off as easy as glasses.
"Free"; as with a cell phone plan
I think if you're running experiments you're called a scientist. Talking about has limited utility.
There's no proof here maybe just an experiment. To see if SDF is truly secure or can he still be tracked.
I would wager as long he doesn't use that handle anywhere else he is safe.
I have an Aeron chair, but I actually stand up most of the time now. Much better than sitting.
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I'll never use it, even if it were a give away.
No, but there is a question concerning moral realism. Since moral relativism is a type of moral anti-realism which is entertained by 27.7% of respondents, it follows that less than 27.7% philosophers are relativists.
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I know the students who put it together probably thought it was cute, but the "Join the Apprentice Revolution!" photo[1] strikes me as rather tasteless, given the ideology and events that inspired it.

[1] http://www.manchester.gov.uk/images/75583_Apprenticeships_ba...
Thanks for submitting this. I submitted it, and a couple variations, a couple days ago; this is arguably the biggest and possibly most important news of the year, but for some reason it hasn't hit the frontpage. H7N9 may turn out to be nothing (one hopes). But if it turns out to be important, every PCP and anyone related to them should be reading this.
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I own one already. Feel free to ask me any questions!

Edit: I actually posted a short blog post about the pickup/first couple days of use: http://michaelevans.org/blog/2013/04/29/hands-on-with-google...
I'm quite content with my Batman mug.
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It sounds like your problem with the article is that its "mother goddess" interpretation is baseless because there is no written record of that time period. That's valid, except you then proceed to offer your own modern interpretation that is equally as baseless. Just because we are inordinately pre-occupied by porn today, doesn't mean pre-historic people were. If anything, they were hungry, hand-to-mouth wilderness survivors so those big-bellied women are much more likely to symbolize a well-fed person than a pornographic ideal (especially since breasts were not the sex symbol they are today for much of human history, and neither was masturbation to external visual sources). Or they could be literally anything else - kids toys, voodoo dolls, whatever. Like you said, no written record = speculation.

Also:

the ancient artists of surviving ancient art were mostly teenage boys

Sources?

Edit: Anyone care to reply instead of downvoting?
I have a ton of sympathy for the professors. You've certainly have put in a lot of work to become a professor, studied your whole life, and then out of the blue you're potentially obsolete.

The article kind of bugged me simply because the professors didn't admit any self-interest. Everything was posed in terms of altruistic concern for their student's well being. I kind of doubt that's the case. While they may have some concern for the students, I'm inclined to believe their motivations are driven primarily by self-interest (which is totally normal but less admirable).
To ask about price, which determines buying decisions, I just added:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5644984
Interesting read. If I was asked to give a commencement speech (which never will be, by the way), I'd cover only three points.

-Make connections to others

My boy scout leader used to say, "Humans are herd animals."
Even if you're an introvert and socializing sounds like the worst torture imaginable, at least invite a friend over to watch a movie once a week or sign up for the company bowling league.
The research says it will make you healthier, happier, and longer lived.
Also: eat with other people sometimes. I have no idea why it works, but eating together builds stronger relationships faster.

-Volunteer

The schools and charities in this country could use a ton more volunteer time that they're getting.
Go read to kids or help with math homework once a week or even once a month.
Help clean up at the local emergency food shelf.
Tell the local boy scout troop you'll make them a web site.
If you show up on time and work reasonably hard you will likely be treated like a hero.
(And if the organization doesn't treat you like a hero, find a different place to volunteer.)
As a bonus, you'll look awesome if you can start a sentence with, "I just came back from reading to first graders..."

-Give some money to charity

If you have a steady job, try to give at least 2 percent of your income to charity.
Keep it to one or two institutions if you can.
If you give a thousand dollars or more to most charities or educational institutions you get invited to go to all the fancy benefits and events they hold.
That can be a great way to make connections for somebody with ambition.
Again, if you're not married, there's no better way to impress a date than to take him/her to a fancy benefit dinner where they talk about how awesome donors (i.e. you) are.
Indeed, according to a 1998 survey of members of the National Academy of Sciences [1], the group of philosophers had about the same number of atheists, more theists and less agnostics.

1. http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html
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I doubt it. I can't even put in eyedrops, so I doubt contacts would work for me.
It is. A lot of what metaphysics is concerned with now has a lot to do with AI.

You can think of zombies as the analog to robots (as is canonical with most AI questions). Robots are essentially philosophical zombies, should we get them to a level of sophistication such that they would be indistinguishable from a human being. Whether such robots could be considered "living," "thinking," or "feeling," is a question to be answered by philosophy.

If you're more interested read about John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment. It gives a great example of what you're thinking of.
Uruguay had a smaller Corralito (and I was just starting out at the time, so I had no money in the bank).

Ecuador and Brazil also had their own versions. In the Uruguayan version, they didn't forcibly exchange the money, but they froze all bank assets for 3 years (losing out on interest, investment opportunities, exchange rates, etc...).

Uruguay is more trustworthy (especially with foreign investment) but it's not above such things.

Currently there's a big scare due to the huge exchange rate disparity with Argentina - which has an "official" exchange rate and a "real" exchange rate which is almost double the official one, and makes Uruguay non-competitive.

Edit: you're from Argentina, that's obviously not news for you :)
I don't think there's much doubt about whether a document received via fax is the original or not, regardless of whether or not the sent document is shredded immediately after.
I'm not too surprised they didn't chose WordPress - especially given the recent high risk vulnerabilities in popular WordPress plugins.

Drupal still seems like a massive sledgehammer for a small nail when it comes things like simple blogs.

I just loathe the flawed "Well the White House uses it so..."-like logic that we hear from clients.
Really? I'm shocked and horrified that it's so low, same with the police.

Their entire purpose is the health of the nation. They have no other stakeholders. They should score close to 100%.

What do those 63% believe is at the heart of the NHS, and why? How can we fix it?

All that said, I can't imagine any private company scoring anywhere near as high as 37%, regardless of what their mission might be.
>Penis goes in, life comes out. You can't explain that. Well, paleolithic man couldn't. But they could draw/sculpt it and revere it

It was not until 1677 [1] that people started to discover how reproduction works beyond "penis goes in, life comes out". Yet there are no major religions documented before that (in about 5000 years of recorded history) which revered crude vulva drawings. Whereas pornographic graffiti has been widespread everywhere from the streets of Ancient Rome [2] to modern boys' bathrooms.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek#Discove...

[2]http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%2...
Thanks for reading and taking the time to leave feedback. Can you recommend any examples of games that are more sex-positive and friendly to women?
I put yes, but I don't get to pick mine up until a few days from now.

Very excited about:

* how it enhances the external mind concept

* always on Bluetooth headphones (I think there are a lot of novel use cases that can spawn from this)

* Spaced repetition applications

* Building habits and changing behaviors (e.g. might be more inclined to build the habit of going to the gym if I had intelligently timed questions/feedback on the glasses)

* Life logging enhancements (picture notes and voice notes - I'm betting glass will encourage this more often)
Until someone develops active (LED-based) contacts with high enough resolution to really shock you, that's not a great risk.

I think the current research front is at around 2^8 or 2^9 pixels, perhaps. I'd feel pretty safe from being "eye-raped" by anything on such a display. Note that I mean total pixels, not "pixels squared", i.e. a couple of hundred pixels total.

Of course, a big always-on or annoyingly flashing block of color in your field of vision even with your eyes closed would be pretty annoying. But only until you've managed to take out the contact, which is not all that hard to do with some practice.
In terms of Manchester's site being more "in your face" - it definitely captures the Mancurian mentality this way.

But then again Gateshead is near Newcastle so its hard to argue...
Are there any apps yet?

Do any of these apps overlay information into your field of vision/hearing about what you are looking at? If so, how is the performance (is it real time or laggy?), and is it distracting?
It's not nearly that simple. The question is not just are we innovating here and there, but are we gaining productivity (and therefore building wealth)?

Marc mentions GNP growth but that's a horrible number to gauge on. Peter brings up mean household income and working hours, which are much better indicators -- and they indicate we're going nowhere.

You say Twitter is "fundamentally transformative". But I don't see the wealth Twitter has created. And if Twitter was gone tomorrow, would anyone really notice?
How much of your field of vision does it generally take up? If I catch someone using it when we're ostensibly having a conversation, will I be able to sucker punch them with impunity?
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Those are valid points, and we can go further and debate how suitable Ion is as a platform even for novel and structural variants. However, in terms of what Ion promised early on, and the talks they gave at genetic sequencing conferences -- the chip is far from the complete machine. Maybe I'm getting a little too semantical here, but this panasonic device does everything on the chip.
I've paid for one over the weekend, and am now just waiting for them to get around to ship it to me so I can start digging in with it.
Legal portals are also many times vulnerable to a form of directory traversal, where you descend the URL scheme by cropping out the last slash. ie. /documents/17683/ would become /documents/. Doing the same thing for parameters can do wonders.

So far I've found login portals to a few banks, teleoperators and to the parliament and military systems of my country. In addition, I've hit several FTP directories of organizations such as my state's public welfare system, which included software and documents.

I sometimes report these incodents as I find them, anonymously and without contact information, since nobody never responds to these reports.

tldr; Long urls can also be dangerous.
History and truth are often out of synchronization (esp. in these days of pervasive propaganda/active manipulation of the population using mass communication technology). The chapters of the human story that played out 15,000 to 5,000 years ago in Africa/Europe/Near East/India are still being figured out by a combination of archeological, genetic, and linguistic research. Concerning the worship of "Earth/Mother Goddesses" vs. "Sky Gods" (e.g. Yahweh, Zeus, Thor, etc.) and the interactions of the different groups of people who preferred (and oftentimes forced upon others) their own visions of deity, if you want to engage rationally on this topic, I recommend researching and understanding (and contesting in an actual rational manner if you believe that the hypothesis is false) the "Kurgan Hypothesis."[1] There are some good books about it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis
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>Also, take into account that Linux is not Ubuntu.

And that FreeType is not Linux only.
Who care's if it's legal laws can be wrong. Hell they usually are. (they are made by people to control other people most of the time)
Is it right? Yes!
Thank you for the clarification. I would agree with the majority in this case.
No. That's why the course is free.

I, for one, have gotten way more than my money's worth from Coursera classes. They have been amazingly educational and terribly useful.
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Ending Affirmative Action
Pretty much all POS systems have the ability to work in offline mode. The vendor can set the offline transaction amount to whatever they want, including disabling it. Typically, it is set to $75. If you go to a convenience store and they say "the system is slow today.. but it works", now is your chance to get away with < $75 worth of crime.

Source: I am a former software engineer for a credit card transaction system vendor.
For those of you interested in learning more, look up these terms (I studied philosophy related to Complex Systems, and zombies were a central question in my thesis):

John Searle's Chinese Room, Turing Test, physicalism, Conway's Game of Life
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But switching requires an action that will cause the death of another.

Rational people look for a lower number of deaths and the less rational (emotional) look to avoid action creating the misery of someone else.

People that pull the switch are thought to have more sociopathic tendencies even though doing the action would result in a lower overall number of deaths.
How many times on your computer have you been targeted by a hacker who showed you shock porn ? If the answer is nil, why do you think it will happen on your glass?
Great post.

I will note that the non-uniform letterforms of Comic Sans have made it a popular typeface for dyslexics, which is likely why it's a choice.[1][2][3]

[1]http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about-dyslexia/further-informa...
[2]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11582548
[3]http://www.dyslexia.ie/information/computers-and-technology/...
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I haven't played any games that treat sex in anything other than the standard leery puerile wink-wink nudge-nudge style. I tend to avoid "Mature" themes in games because, well, they're inescapably juvenile.

Good article, though. I enjoyed it.
There were a lot of important things invented before cell phones and operating systems, like starting from the wheel and the fire, you know? What we call USA today grew on immigration, isn't this speak for itself? But why am I talking generics when some of my engineering teachers (the young ones) left for USA even in my university study years! The qualified people, the ones that takes a lot of time and resource to train - taken! Could be here all night? Really?

P.S.: BTW, the knowledge on which transistor relies did NOT occurred in USA, and networks similar to USA's ARPANET were developed in other countries in the same period, so the fact that Internet has an USA origin is purely incidental ...something that may be true for a lot of other things.
I would surmise that the "disadvantage" these days is much more correlated to the family income, so the real "affirmative action" should be in the form of scholarships to help those from poorer households based on their achievement.

If you take a rich black kid and a poor asian kid for instance, who was more disadvantaged? Affirmative action seems to be more about meeting quotas at schools than about disadvantage.