skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Georgia Tech is just the right kind of partner for something like this. Solid name recognition to give credibility to the degree, but not one that's so steeped in exclusivity that it might be compromised by association with the online format. And the pricing, $7,000, is spot-on for what this offers.
They do seem to be pretty aggressive with the email. Not great for branding for sure.
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JS, for the most part, does run identically on different browsers. With very few cases of truly undefined behavior, any other difference is either DOM stuff, or a bug.

I've ported lots of apps to JS, and generally they just work across browsers. Even the Unreal Engine 3 demo runs on Chrome, JS was not what was holding it back.

> It's still an effort to reinvent the wheel. When a 1:1 ratio is reached, you (not you in particular) will still have ended up spending time implementing a feature that already exists on your OS

The OS can run it, but native apps are not portable, as I said before. That is what makes it worth reinventing some parts of OSes in browsers.
Bravo, Tindie! Self-promotion without making anyone out to be a bad guy in this issue (I mean that sincerely).
Green means they've recently registered
> The house always wins, so slowly but surely that dark money will become your legitimate income.

That's not helpful, because the transaction is really obvious. If your casino is unpopular, it's even more obvious that it might just be you. This is a much worse idea than the one in your original comment.

Edit: also, you can't verify that obfuscators operate without logs, so using "mixers" isn't a legitimate answer either.
Rescale releases live tailing
Here's a fun one, reminds me of some abstract art I've seen: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,1,0,0,2,3,2...
Show HN: Use your phone as a steering wheel in nearly any PC game
Today I released Tilt Racer, an app that lets you use your phone as a steering wheel with nearly any driving game for Windows. You tilt the phone to steer, and use a unique split slider to control the throttle and brakes. It communicates over WiFi with a server app on the PC. The server emulates a joystick, so it works with nearly any game that supports joysticks or steering wheels.

If you remember FlyPad from YC, it's a bit like that, except that games don't have to explicitly support the app. It just works with hundreds of existing games, including the most popular racing simulations like iRacing, rFactor, and Simraceway.

The app was built with HTML5 and PhoneGap, so it works on iOS and Android (4.0+). I'm the sole developer, and put this together in my spare time while working on another startup.

The graphics are basic right now, but I plan on creating some awesome skins for it, so stay tuned.
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As a former undergraduate Georgia Tech student, I really would've appreciated the opportunity to do my degree in this format. At the time I was faced with the choice of dropping out and diving into my job at a startup full-time, or staying in school and working only during the summers and losing the ability to take a really important role in the company. The ability to keep working on my degree online might have changed how I approached the choice.
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From what I understand, SFO has a bit of an epidemic because of their policies. The city is extremely supporting of the homeless compared to other cities in the USA, so the nation's homeless tend to migrate to SFO.

Also, weather in California is pretty nice year-round. I know I'd prefer California to Arizona or Michigan if I was homeless.
Thanks, i didn't know tldr.io
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Pretty cool and congrats! Are you going to be charging for coderang?
http://bit.ly/10N8k8N
I'm so happy to see this - it's a sign of progress of the education system, and it gives me so much relief to see that someone gets it at the top of the education totem pole. I discussed this with a master's degree student a few years ago, because the cost (especially for computer science, no labs) seemed too low to ignore. I will sign up for this as soon as possible.

Also, having a master's in Comp Sci will really help me have a shot for all these software eng. positions I keep applying to as a chemical engineer.

Can anyone tell me how Georgia Tech ranks/is thought of for Computer Science? I know the article says "among the best", but I would rather ask HN.
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My bet is that your model is no better than (weighted) chance to predict the next game. Just run the model on the years before 2012 and you'll see what I mean.
There's also Turing Tunes, based on the same idea: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Tunes/
What is AT&T allegedly bringing to the table? Are we assuming that there are people who want to work there, who will view this certification as advancing that goal, is that it?

I read the http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq/ , and found only this hint:

Why is AT&T the corporate collaborator for this initiative?

As a premier global communications company and a champion for innovation in education, AT&T will provide technology access, connectivity and products at inception, as well as evolving service and platform support. The company will serve on an advisory board and, where appropriate, offer corporate projects for credit, be a source from which Georgia Tech draws curriculum content and guest instructors and offer internship opportunities to select students. AT&T will tap into the program to train its own employees and will recruit graduates.

Technology access, connectivity, service and platform support? Aren't those basically solved problems for Udacity?

Advisory board? Does GaTech have corporate sponsorship on the advisory board of their other Master's programs, setting curriculum? (Maybe they should, maybe they shouldn't, but I doubt they think they need to.)
Ever hear of skinny-fat? That's where someone is at the right weight, but because they do no exercise they have NO muscle tone. It's better to exercise and not have a perfect diet than not exercise and have a perfect diet.
Honestly, while it sucks that I can't take advantage of what will probably happen in the future (undergrad degrees in this format). I can't say i'm not proud to be going there after hearing about this. I'm happy that this will be an option for our future. Hopefully it's successful and affects all areas of study.
On one hand, I think it's ridiculously awesome that Tech's doing this. Our CoC department is incredibly innovative, and one of the only administrative departments that recognize the need for innovation.

However, I wonder if this would devalue a degree from Georgia Tech. You'd obviously have a lot more people taking the course than you would if it wasn't an MOOC. Thoughts?
Only downside I see in the FAQ has to do with this: they say the expected time for completion is still 3 years, though they suggest people may take up to 6 years if necessary. Udacity has been tho most flexible so far in letting people accomplish what they want at their own pace but, having just taken GT's computational photography on coursera, I wonder if they're going to stick to an organized, semester-like schedule.
They could distribute a list of malicious URLs to the clients and do the checking locally.

They could ensure that clicking a link doesn't compromise your system.

There is no inherent conflict between privacy and security here, not like you're making it out to be.
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Getting It (Almost) Right
Never, but after reading some comments here I might start.

I block ads because of the obnoxious practices of some of the ad networks. I let some ads through from networks or individuals that are not obnoxious to me.

I also remember the early days when a slow ad server would keep a whole page from rendering (Hello ESPN)
Sure, except what about political slogans? Supporting a candidate you like by making your own versions of posters? Oh, wait, that's what Shepard Fairey got in (copyright) trouble for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster

But it's the control over derivative works (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work) that copyright gives you that's more obviously suppressive. All of the uses of Mona Lisa would be derivative, if Da Vinci's estate still owned the "intellectual property". All of the uses of Grant Wood's "American Gothic" would be derivative.

Yes, not all "derivative works" are worth it, but neither are most "original" works. 99% of everything is crap.

Copyright law is also used to suppress anything that the Rightsholder doesn't like: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/gopro-can-fall-fr..., http://www.dailydot.com/business/dentist-bad-yelp-reviews-co... and many others.

This may indeed be an abuse of copyright law (copyfraud) but the laws are apparently intentionally written to allow this sort of thing. The practice is to not prosecute improper DMCA takedown notices, for example: http://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=copyfraud

So, yes, copyright per se doesn't tend to stifle free speech, but the concept of "intellectual property" gets used to get laws like DMCA passed, which are then promptly abused to censor people and their ideas. Moreover, the practice of lengthening copyright terms towards infinity keeps ideas out of the public domain, causing derivative works to not appear.

One more thing: Mickey Mouse Meets the Air Pirates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Pirates If that ain't censorship, I don't know what is.
Inbox overload - we don't need an app for that
Georgia Tech has an excellent reputation for engineering (and consequently CS, but I roam in different circles so no specific details), but I'm sure there are much more qualified people here to tell you the same thing. They are not Stanford or MIT– they're the ramblin' wreck! ;)

For arbitrary reference, they're ranked #10 by USN&WR: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
Xor waves (this has 2 distinct 'phases' before setting down into a nice static pattern): http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,2,1,3,0,2,0,0,2,3...

Escher's hourglass: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,3,3,1,3,0,1,2,1,2,0...

Zigzags (devolves): http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,3,0,3,1,2,1,1,1...

A big static one: Construction line: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#212,2,13,1,2,207,1,0,...

Mostly static: scales: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,1,2,1,3,1,1,1...
To add to this point, Weebly's audience and its users are almost entirely unlike the readers of HN. Weebly is a website builder for nontechnical people, and many of us here on HN know that nontechnical people regularly have exactly the questions that Weebly's emails are answering.

Here's the message that Bob is receiving: "Hey Bob, here's an email about how to do that thing you wanted to do, but were too embarrassed to ask your nephew about."

Bob is going to stick with Weebly because of these emails, not despite them, and Weebly is going to continue being a product that is wildly popular with the Bobs of the world, and not so very popular with the HNers of the world. There are about 1000x more Bobs than HNers out there, so IMO the math and the messaging both check out.
Ads are just a way of making money. I'm fine with them as long they don't disturb the user experience(video ads that run load in the background, click under, and those tricky ones )
>Gina Kolada

That's an unfortunate name.

Also, great comment on your part :)
If it's a limited number of states in the automaton, and a limited amount of "tape" in the canvas, it's not a Turing machine, it's a Finite-State Automaton, which is easy to analyze for loops.
How to write abstract classes and virtual methods in JavaScript
Why don't you get a chair like the ones they use in bars? They are usually very tall, and used in similar settings (people at bar counters can either choose to stand or sit and are at about the same height in both cases).
Crime and poverty lie at the heart of broken families and lack of family planning.
1) unix, lisp oriented material
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~psilord/blog/

2) django, web, testing, mobile apps
http://ericholscher.com/

3) c, systems programming
https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/

4) web, javascript
http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/

5) functional programming
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
I never do because I know people actually pay money for those clicks. Imagine paying 1.25 per click. You could waste someones entire ad budget for the day in a few minutes.

I block ad's because I don't want to see them no more than I would want to see them in a library. But I'm sure advertisers would rather me block their ad's than to click on ones I wasn't genuinely interested in.
Agreed - this is not really "Massively Open" IMO, because it still requires a bachelor's in CS for admission. They do hint at it, but hopefully they will allow an option B for admission.

That would somewhat validate their stated goal of increasing STEM education.
I will happily purchase from you at a discount.
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Seems like it's explicitly designated "Online Masters" OMS as opposed to simply a regular degree you could complete online, so they're still separating it from the B&M degree.

While I feel like this is a step in the right direction for online education, the fact that this has the online designation plus its availability to a much, much wider audience seems like it would be a temporary setback in the eyes of employers.
The answer is probably yes, but what do you expect to learn and what do you want to know? Maybe make your request a little bit more specific.
There are a number of tools in Perl that will scan your code base and automatically generate a dependency list based on what it finds. The one I use is called Dist::Zilla (http://dzil.org/), and it automates the entire packaging and library release process. Again, this is how civilized languages work.

I'm sure Perl isn't unique here, of course.
Same here, I think it's a really easy way to devalue their degree unfortunately.

A Bachelor's would be easier to accept, but a Master's? I don't think people are ready for that yet.
Very true. Personally, I wish there were a way for apps to specify optional permissions (ones an app can run without, but might require for specific features) as an alternative to required ones.

To take a simple example, I've noticed that many third-party launchers request the "Services that can cost you money" permission, so that they can create dialing shortcuts, I believe. I'd prefer not to give them that permission because I don't want dialing shortcuts, but I'm sure other people do.
The main issue with MongoDB is that it's so easy to use and seems like it scales, but soon you're invested in it to the point of refactoring being a serious engineering effort, and you're stuck with something that doesn't actually offer real scaling features.

So, it's less "nosql vs. sql" and more just "don't use mongodb".
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Why isn't this causing the price of bitcoin to drop?
Power analysis and CI's should be elementary, but I would assert that they are actually not commonplace. Most people have a very surface-level understanding of the latter, and little understanding of the former. In my opinion, A/B Testing has actually done a great service to power analysis. I have seen many experiments in the academic world (social sciences are somewhat notorious for this) forgoing the power analysis for various reasons (fear: they would not be able to get the sample size needed for 80% power, inability to control sample size: you take whatever you can get with a convenience sample). As a statistician, I breathe a sigh of relief with the amount of emphasis power analysis receives in the A/B world. It's a step in the right direction (if you're an acolyte to the dark world of Neyman-Pearson).

As for bringing better stats to high tech, I've thought of this as a wonderful challenge. I'd especially like to see more focus on not violating modeling assumptions (more non and semi-parametrics), and using some more modern techniques from the ML and Bayes literature.

Hypothesis testing is so last century :). Would love to discuss it further with some similarly-inclined HN folks.

Sorry for all the parentheticals. You'd think I was a lisp programmer with the amount of parenthesis I used.
I do wonder what the immigration repercussion of this is, too. I've often considered taking a Masters simply because it would make it easier for me to stay in the US.
This one takes a bit to get going, but then it does a gigantic phase transition into something like wind (play on max speed):

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,1,1,1,1,2,2,3...

This one starts with a great wave effect:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,1,0,0,1,2,1,1,0...
For an extended essay-length version of this poster's viewpoint, read 'Of Paradise and Power' by Robert Kagan.
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Court rules against Google on autocomplete search feature
I imagine some people do go out and do it, then realize that it's ridiculous and pointless, perhaps after every lawyer they contact tells me that there is no way they would take such an insane case.
Have a read of what pg has to say about wealth inequality here:

http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html

"So let's be clear what reducing economic inequality means. It is identical with taking money from the rich."
I think the real reason you have AT&T involved is that without that sort of influence, this degree program wouldn't have happened until years later. Universities, and boards of regents, are deeply conservative, risk-averse institutions in some ways. There's also a lot of cost to startup a program like this, and public universities aren't exactly rolling in money right now.

Beyond that, a lot of companies have some kind of tuition assistance for graduate degrees, and a lot of companies are having trouble finding skilled talent to begin with. So it's a way to save money and improve recruiting.

The business models of companies like Udacity and Coursera are probably going to rely heavily on the hunger of companies the size of AT&T, Google, etc. for a steady supply of trained workers. Somebody's got to pay the bills and make the VCs rich.

I like to think of this as shifting part of the cost of the education from the individual to the company that's ultimately benefitting from it. Of course, one might worry about some unspecified negative influence from the corporate sponsors, but in this incredibly transparent educational environment, such influences would be pretty obvious and self-defeating.
Bitcoin mining to earn money from free web content or mobile apps
Recently there have been discussions about how to pay content generators money for reading their content. E.g. How do I pay a good journalist who writes a great news blog for his or her work? Has anyone thought embedding Bitcoin mining JavaScript code that runs in the Browser while the reader is reading the content? Similar idea (native code instead of JavaScript) could be used to support free apps on mobile phones and tablets. This idea has several nice properties:
1. The content creator gets paid directly by mining Bitcoin.
2. The payoff is proportional to the amount of time the content or application is used by the user.
3. No need for ads to support content or free apps.

Unfortunately, the idea also has a couple of disadvantages that I can think of:
1. I have read that it gets progressively harder to mine Bitcoin. Depending on the exchange rate of Bitcoin to physical goods, this could be a problem. My guess is this is a flaw due to the design decisions of Bitcoin. Another virtual currency designed so that mining it does not get progressively less fruitful, would solve this problem.
2. The User could hook the javascript/Browser and possibly steal the mined Bitcoins. This could be mitigated by making it hard enough that the payoff would be too small. Also, for the mobile apps, the hooking and stealing should be a lot harder.

The whole idea seems obvious, so I wonder if anyone has already tried or done this?
Spam is unsolicited email. If A gives their email address to B in order to use B's service, and B then emails A regarding that service, AND gives A the opportunity to unsubscribe from such emails, it's not spam.
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I've posted about this before, but I'll post it again. A few months before the first Obama election, there was a thread on Slashdot about things you couldn't say on the Internet. I humorously contributed "I am going to kill the president" to the discussion. A few months later, the Secret Service showed up at my house, with guns, to question me about it. (The agents were quite reasonable about the whole thing, FWIW, but they did need to follow up after reading that comment.)

People are watching you, so be careful what you say.
Wow! As a Georgia Tech alumni with a MS from the College of Computing, I approve of this development!
> The don't consider not having to step over homeless people a "benefit".

My daughter really tries to stop us from visiting San Francisco, because there is nothing that she can do to help the homeless. So even though I like the city, I don't get to make much use of it (plus, on an not-unrelated note, the city is child unfriendly).

Making matters even more surreal, the Willows Market in Menlo Park now sells caviar at the checkout counter, nestled amongst the chocolate and other things targeted for impulse buys.
How does anyone find these. I keep hitting "random" with various choices of states and colors and I get either white noise or an epileptic seizure.
> Same here, I think it's a really easy way to devalue their degree unfortunately.

This only makes sense if you consider degrees to be collector's items. Maybe the problem is not with the degree.
Actually, that's precisely the issue. If the entire internet goes down, it will start to impact things like the power grid and the water systems. Every year, utility companies put more and more of their infrastructure behind increasingly clever management infrastructure, and control it over the open internet. Hopefully none of it will fail-unsafe (though I bet something will), but if the management systems are offline for weeks?

And it will immediately, although not fatally, impact land line telephones, which I believe do significant backhaul over IP.
I think the Masters degree is an excellent place to start. MOOC-style education requires more of the student than traditional teaching formats. A lot of people don't have the necessary skills leaving high school, but they are likely to have developed them during the course of an undergraduate degree.
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The way I see it you should treat it like any other UX problem: The user is going to be at home anyways, so if you can get a "conversion" (even a short 7-minute one) that can easily bridge them into the next step. Just like video games start you off in tutorial levels and help you develop the skills you need (e.g. Mega Man X [1]).

For example I tried out the 7-minute exercise simply because I could, it was easy. If I can't even be bothered to spend 7 minutes on exercise there's no way I'm going to the gym, so it's not as if the short exercises are interfering with work at the gym.

[1] http://youtu.be/8FpigqfcvlM?t=5m53s
This one tells a story in 3 acts: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,0,4,0,2,1,0,3,2,3...
I couldn't agree more. They saw an opportunity to gain exposure and took it yet still managed to present themselves in a way that was neither exploitative nor full of FUD (i know - i hate that term as well).

I wish more businesses conducted themselves this way.