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That's too bad. Two of the best classes I've taken in my life were at Berkeley -- econ 141 (econometrics, about 80 students) and math 195 (undergraduate stochastic differential equations, about 5-10 students, 3 I think taking for a grade. If I'm off on the course number, sorry.) This was over a decade ago, though. Two thoughts,

1: you've been screwed by the California budget over the last 5-10 years.

2: I don't know what the most advanced classes were in your field, but Berkeley (and other top top schools) offers classes that are unimaginable at other universities. An undergraduate SDE class really is "unimaginable" most places, and learning the material from a textbook would be impossible -- it's too difficult and appropriate textbooks don't exist. The "textbook" is usually the instructor's notes from the last time they taught the class.

Anyway, I have enormous fondness for Berkeley and the three classes I took there got me into grad school and kicked off my career (I took these classes after graduating from college --- Tufts, which is a great liberal arts-oriented school with generally small classes and personal attention, but it ain't got undergraduate SDE --- and moving to the bay area), so I'm kind of saddened to read your experience.

edit: typos
I should probably add though that I'm not an undergrad :) I started using Papers in grad school a few years ago (version 1) and have kept using it since then.
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That's the "flipped" classroom model, but these days, we talk more about "self-paced mastery" learning or "personalized" learning, which is different.
Basically, students should be able to go at their own pace, so they can dive into whichever topics they don't grasp as easily or find particularly interesting, and not worry about having to keep exactly in step with their classmates. That may mean doing more problems, re-watching videos, etc.
These style classrooms don't involve students necessarily doing anything at home, they just give students the equipment to learn at their own pace.

There are some schools trying it out, using Khan Academy and other resources. I've visited a few and it's neat to see. I've also been doing that model in the weekend workshops I teach, and see definite benefits. No more having to rush the students that need more time or bore the students that got it quickly.
thats why its called vNext, not vCurrent, still a work in progress
40 startups since 2012. Impressive.
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Fish oil or Snake oil? "One tiny brain-imaging study of fatty acids has been used to endorse fish oil as education's magic pill"
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jun/05/bad-sci...

Makes me think about people, science and the church. There is large decline in the church and it's as though a "faith" in everything "science" has replaced it.
Except that this is the equivalent of a library that only 5 crew members can borrow from at once. I'm not sure how useful that is.
I think we might be able to get the. Same effect by transporting her to somewhere else in the world where American popular music isn't as popular.
I had commented on a different thread, listing down a bunch of ways money gets transferred from poor/middle class to rich in an institutionalized way.

This is a prime example!
We chose 'Skyhook' for it's usage in science fiction as well as "Willy Wonka and the Great Glass Elevator", wherein Willy Wonka is asked by Charlie's Grandmother what keeps the elevator up in the air. He replies, "Skyhooks,". We thought this was a humerous but fitting comparison to cryptocurrency in general as well as services built thereupon.
It's true that the concept of moderation doesn't prescribe specific targets. It only excludes extreme targets.

The two rules that you really can bank on are that calorie intake is directly linked to weight loss/gain, and you need a certain amount of protein and fat to maintain or build muscle. That being said, protein needed for survival is minimal. Other dietary parameters will affect long-term health, but laypersons are so inundated with misinformation that it's better to eat a variety of foods in moderation than to adopt extreme diets or novel nutritional theories.

Why are those "one weird trick" ads so profitable?

I have a hypothesis that people focus on magic pills (like fish oil) and conspiracy theories (like sugar toxicity) because it is a welcome distraction from an ugly truth: that in order to achieve their ideal body composition, they just need to be extremely disciplined and hardworking in their dietary and exercise habits, and for the sake of long-term health, they should lay off the junk food. There's no "trick". People already generally know what they have to do, but they pretend to themselves that they don't, because if they know what they have to do and fail to do it, that's indicative of personal weakness. It's cognitive dissonance.
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I always find it educational to meet someone who lacks all of the characteristics I think are crucial for success, but is still successful.

In that vein.... I probably attended fewer than 15% of all of my lectures, for every class in undergrad (I was a math major; attendance didn't magically pick up in my advanced classes either). I've also finished an MS in stats and a PhD in economics (working on econometric theory, so... basically more stats) and work as an assistant professor.

Now, I'm posting on HN at 1am instead of sleeping or working, so I certainly lack discipline, but I don't think that "attending boring lectures as an undergraduate" is the magic precondition that you seem to. :)
> same reason you can't bring a Furby toy into a secured area - it contains a recording device!

Well, technically speaking, a Furby doesn't contain a recording device at all. But the important thing is that it might. It doesn't, but it might! Can America take that risk?
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I feel your pain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7742201 although it is plausible the Cider project was named that as a nod to TransGaming.
"Consistently unlucky" =)
This game will always hold a special place in my heart. Back when I was 17 I got hospitalized (nothing serious or life-threatening) for a couple of months and back then I didn't have internet everywhere or a smartphone to keep me company. My parents had brought my laptop to me but having no internet was really really boring. I had Linux installed but, alas, in 2006-2007 there weren't many Linux games to keep me company. Luckily after some time I remembered I had downloaded this "Wesnoth" game a few months before, so I started playing it.

Boy, it was a blast, for weeks and weeks I played all the scenarios and campaigns and I got really good at it. Every now and then I go back to it even today, just to play a few scenarios.

I met the main developers at Fosdem this year and they are great people, they are doing an amazing job with this game. Kudos to them.
Guess I should've been clearer: any equipment they're interested in that ships from the US is at risk. They don't need to go after all equipment. They only need to go after equipment being shipped to backbone providers abroad, and specific targets they are interested in that are "tough to crack."

Further, if one believes that TAO is limiting themselves to terrorists buying Cisco equipment, I have a bridge to sell you. That's absurd considering they produly boast about their economic espionage, their spying on activists such as Wikileaks supporters and other "radicals," and their partners bragging about how they DDoS IRC chat rooms of hacktivists.

One example: http://justsecurity.org/2013/11/29/nsa-sexint-abuse-youve-wa...

All of this is summarized in Greenwald's new book.
That's not open-source.
That's nothing. L Peter Deutsch was between 12 and 15 when he wrote PDP-1 Lisp at MIT. 1958 onwards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Peter_Deutsch
http://www.codersatwork.com/l-peter-deutsch.html
If you haven't seen Wesnoth before, http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Description may be a gentler introduction than the source code.
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I should have put a TODO in there :)
I think the main point is to reduce the fraud.
From Reason magazine's interview with Dave Barry (http://reason.com/archives/1994/12/01/all-i-think-is-that-it...):

> Reason: You've written in your columns about the strategic helium reserve the government keeps in case we have a sudden need for a fleet of dirigibles.

> Barry: What bugs me when I write that is that I suspect 90 percent of my readers think I made it up.

> Reason: What's something about the government that really pisses you off?

> Barry: Well, that helium thing does. That's real money. All the tax money that I've ever, ever paid--and I've paid a lot of taxes--will not even begin to pay for one year of the strategic helium reserve.
should be something like: http(s)://github.ourcompany.com/api/v3
I personally use JabRef with bibtex files. It works pretty well for my needs.
It's complicated. Most rulesets (AGA, New Zealand, I believe chinese) say "resume the game". The Japanese ruleset is a lot more complicated.

I still don't see your argument. Humans and humans are capable of agreeing on a score with those rulesets. Computers are also capable of following the ruleset and agreeing on the score. Computer vs. human games are not playing by a different ruleset. By that ruleset, the game is over when both sides pass.
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At some point they fill in their territory and lose all of their stones. Eventually they will have no where to play.
I definitely played that map back sometime between '05 and '08. It's been a while.

Being reminded that this game exists and seeing that the project is still going makes me super happy.
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At the end of day one, possibly day two, of the site being down and losing money, I would have already transferred services and moved on.
I've been using ConEmu [0] for over a year now, and it's miles better than the default console. I actually spend a majority of my time in Windows in the console now.

[0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/conemu/
The negative outcomes are not in those short summaries but the are easy to find. However just as a few positve studies don't prove Vitamin D is good for you a few negative studies don't prove it is bad. However negative studies do add to balance of evidence against use.

There is also the risk of overdose in any widely used supplement. Thankfully few of the 60,000 cases of vitamin toxicity in the US annually are Vitamin D (Iron is the riskyist).

A short walk in the sunlight is the best source of Vitamin D because your body naturally regulates it's production to near the optimum amount! I often wonder if the extreme avoidance of sunlight by some people is actually unhealthy...

Cancer:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/GeneralPrimaryCare/3...

Heart Disease:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21505219
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20111117/Vitamin-D-and-its-...
Given the sheer number of arbitrary limits found in websites, I suspect your example is probably anecdotal.

It may have been as simple as someone piping something to a shell script to setup an account, and not escaping things correctly

This is precisely my point.
This is amazing work. As someone who implemented a significant part of the iOS API on top of Android, I can say it's not trivial :) Disclaimer: we created an Apportable competitor for Xamarin based projects which will see the light this week.
that wasn't a lacking feature for me but still, good job!
also would be nice if author uses github like design instead of windows-ish one
Understood - I'm really trying to figure out the right mix of valid information with advertisement for the service. For what it's worth, this post was an honest account of our motivations in making this.
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The Moto G is still pretty much the best value proposition out there, great phone at a great price.

In this crowd there's a lot of hate when the phone doesn't have an SD card slot (and I kinda wish it did), but the fact of the matter is you cannot get a better phone for the price (and even for double the price it might be hard).
>Would you like to use a linux-like console on a Windows host without a lot of fuzz?

s/fuzz/fuss ?
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I think it has lost its OO focus.
I wish I knew why so many Windows devs hate Cygwin. It has some pretty poor default settings, but you can change your .bashrc just like on Linux, or ditch the whole thing and use zsh instead, which works out of the box with oh-my-zsh (it looks like Babun does this as well.) For me, Cygwin is a very comfortable environment for git, programming and basic file management.

It's also the only way to get Linux shells to run on Windows, since they all rely on fork(). Even MSYS is just a fork of Cygwin 1.5.
Just because Dave Barry can't think of any use for helium doesn't mean everyone has that problem. And in fact 20 years later people got very worried about the ability to keep MRI machines running due to a (potential) lack of Helium.

It's a good thing not everyone is as shortsighted as him.

No one can think of a use for guina worms right now, but that doesn't mean no one ever will.
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MongoDB i believe.
http://www.mongodb.org/about/production-deployments/#cloud-i...
This is the first time I am seeing that a phone is priced cheaper in India. It is exclusively available online in India on http://www.flipkart.com/motorola/motoe
I have a similar frustration with React. The source code is very hard to read our follow.

An ideal "barebones" virtual dom library looks like https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom . The `virtual-dom` module was build out of frustration with the readability of react source code and is the minimal modular subset.

I've also built a small framework on top `virtual-dom` to add in essentials like immutable state and event handling ( https://github.com/Raynos/mercury ). Whilst mercury might not be the best way to structure apps, it's an approach that is getting me far and I'm drawing strong inspiration from FRP and FP systems like Elm and om.
And just plain low volume. There's no economy of scale with 385 units. Let's say the injection molding tooling costs $20k (cheap!) - that's over $50 per unit just for the plastic enclosure. Ditto for circuit board production, engineering time, software development, prototype and validation units, testing and qualification, and all the other things that go into a product that have setup charges or nonrecurring cost. Not to mention you'll get gouged on the components themselves if you're buying such a low quantity (and if any parts need to be mil-spec - I am guessing not in a device like this but who knows - then that drives up the cost even more).
I just watched this tonight. I'm just mad - at Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, Hayden, Obama and the New York Times (for holding the story for a year after they had it). All participated in a huge cover up of illegal and unconstitutional wire tapping that persists to this day.

To add insult to injury, early in the program, the average American family was paying $100/year in taxes for the privilege of having the NSA mass-collect all their private online communications. Who knows what the secret budget is now?
The internet genres that go for clever but shallow wit and/or maximum emotional rev-up don't work well here. They evoke pleasures like surprise, recognition, and indignation (also a pleasure of a kind), but they do so by activating reflexes that operate much faster than the intellectual curiosity that HN tries to nurture. Curiosity needs material which is more reflective and longer-lasting. As PG wrote somewhere, the thought processes are quieter and slower. Snap reactions thwart them. Worse, they tend to keep going and often end up dominating discussion.

It's not that those internet genres suck—they're delightfully clever. But their influence takes HN away from its core. Such high-frequency, low-amplitude stuff drowns out everything else if allowed to, so we don't have the luxury of allowing everything equally. For HN to thrive, we have to clear a space for more substantive material. That's hard to do, but one fairly easy win is to rule out sites that play the other game. In our more fragile ecosystem, they count as invasive species.

theoatmeal.com and others have passionate fans who will disagree. But the fact that one likes something is separate from where it belongs. I like ice cream, but not on meat and vegetables.
Smoking in bars and restaurants is banned in France since 2008. You won't find anyone smoking in restaurants now.
"Type your password into your telephone"; already they're asking me to do the wrong thing. If my password is anywhere near secure, then typing it into a phone would be a nightmare. A combination of 16 numbers and letters that I need to convert to numbers? I'd be pressing zero and hoping for an operator before I even opened up my password vault to find the secure password to begin with.

If you want a phone interface, give me a PIN option. Sure you'll not want me to be able to buy plane tickets with just the PIN, but that should be sufficient to protect user data.
> tl;dr This form of genericity is provided by nearly any OO or imperative language. And in fact it points out a shortcoming in Go: it doesn't support parametric polymorphism.

OTOH the feature demonstrated here is discriminated unions, he's actually storing different types in the two nodes and is correct that most statically-typed languages don't have good ways to nicely handle that case (at least when the typeset is open, many languages handle the closed case nicely[0]).

Not that Go handles it nicely of course, as you would in Java you have to use a cast/type assertion at every fetch, and that operation may fail at runtime. So you end up with

val = heap.Pop(key).(*MyType)

which may fault at runtime much like Java's

val = (MyType) heap.pop(key)

or

val, ok = heap.Pop(key).(*MyType)
if !ok {
// handle failure
}

versus

try {
val = (MyType) heap.pop(key)
} except (ClassCastException e) {
// handle failure
}

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union
But as much as i hate to admit Rubinius is still slow.
What's the issue? They force a reset so there is no difference between giving a temporary password like this or a URL which is unique to them?
No. This is not conceivable. In fact, Apple has never taken a single documented action which would be at all similar to this.

If one thinks about it for just a moment, one can see the hilarity of even suspecting this. Apple has very consistently provided the best overall experience and service in the industry over the last 15 years. They have done this regardless of whether you are using one of their products (PC users who use iTunes) or their entire ecosystem of products.

It strains credulity to think that Apple would attempt to punish a customer who is moving away from a given iPhone (perhaps even to a new iPhone!). That customer could very well still use several other Apple products for years or even decades in the future. You expect us to believe that Apple would antagonize that customer in a grade-school fashion, out of spite?

It's just nonsense to even think this.
This suggestion is ridiculous. You can right-click Publish from the Visual Studio integration, but at no point are you told about packages or the ability to rollback.

That's what I meant by "clear" ... there is no clear ability to rollback from a VS-initiated MSDeploy.
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Surprising... The Moto E has an SD card slot, dual sim support, and a gorilla glass screen.

I'm guessing they've got the price down by getting rid of the front facing camera, and LED flash for the rear camera, probably cheaper build quality. But... that's a a great price!
Void* and java's object both support that idiom, at least to the degree to does. Actually, I'm having trouble thinking of a static language that doesn't support it at least as well as go.
Except that Cider is already the name of a porting tool http://transgaming.com/cider
Google still sends the password in plain text which is bad practice regardless of what they do after.
I saw that, but it was very delicately worded. For example, if Gabe doesn't consider the search query to be personal information, then his answer would allow DDG to save/store search queries. That's why I asked for clarification.
I know it's becoming less of an issue for others, but I wish that the current Motorola lineup had replaceable batteries.
I am glad WebKit is thriving. I was worried that the fork Blink with Google and Opera would means Webkit gets no love.

Hopefully the next Safari in iOS and OSX will get many more improvements
I wish it had an SD card slot for sure, too! I was overly optimistic about how quickly 8GB would fill up.

But, it's not a big deal, and for the price? Can't think of anything close.

Edit: Oh dear, the new 4G version supports SD cards. Man, I didn't get my Moto G that long ago either. Regrets...
Yeah noticed that too. Was just talking to a co-worker the other day about how static types are sometimes, and they were saying how any sufficiently large code base written by average developers will have more and more things like that (void*) casts and so on. So then type safety kind of goes out of the window.

For languages like Go you look at static types from 2 sides - 1) it is there for safety and reliability (so in this case if it couldn't be circumvented it would that way) or 2) it is there to speed things up. Then Go is like a faster Python but casting things left and right erasing types will make the code blow up.

So taking the second approach, I don't see it as terribly. But maybe someone coming from Java or Haskell might be really offended by that line of code.
Except that it's very consistent that the states with strong unions have the highest academic achievement and the states with weak or no unions have the lowest. So the facts easily refute this common but erroneous opinion. (This is most likely because nonunion states correlate with high poverty, and so does low academic achievement, but it conclusively disproves the notion that unions are to blame for low academic achievement.) (Also, whoever told you that lied, so disbelieve anything else that source told you -- fool me twice shame on me.)
That's quite generous of you. I don't think there's any more reason to assume they are competent than to assume they aren't.

The fact is that this sucks for the user. It's also a pretty safe bet to say that there are lots of developers putting code into use solving problems outside their competency. You may not want to assume this evidence makes them terrible developers, but that doesn't make the inverse any more likely, either.
In order to catch up with language, I also decided to write a Graph library in Go[1]. Since this seems to be a quite common application, is there any more mature, bigger project implementing these same ideas? A similar concept in the Python community is python-graph[2].

[1] https://github.com/ichinaski/grapho

[2] https://code.google.com/p/python-graph/