skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bob Nystrom wrote a blog post[0] about self-publishing his book, Game Programming Patterns[1]. He used Kindle Direct Publishing and compares it against sales from CreateSpace, Smashwords and iBooks.

[0] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/11/20/how-my-book-lau...

[1] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com
A 1tb HGST 7k drive is £50
A 1tb Samsung 850 EVO is £300

I thought it'd be interesting how your "1/10th the price" sounded ok but was actually more like 16% - 20% the cost. I'm constantly impressed by how the SSD prices keep falling.
Northern White Rhinos are not the same animal as Souther White Rhinos. They are sub-species of White Rhinos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_rhinoceros

There's a possibility that the Northern White Rhino animal is very different to the Southern White Rhino animal.

> Following the phylogenetic species concept, recent research has suggested the northern white rhinoceros may be an altogether different species, rather than a subspecies of white rhinoceros, in which case the correct scientific name for the former is Ceratotherium cottoni. Distinct morphological and genetic differences suggest the two proposed species have been separated for at least a million years.[18]
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He was the president of the institute, and a tenured physics professor.
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I wonder, how is it fair if half a class would pass even if nobody scored more than 50% of the points? I'm sure I miss an integral part of the grading system.
It must be IE gathering its numbers to face off against Spartan in the IEpocalypse.

Another theory is that corporates/governments are switching over from XP to Windows 7 (with Internet Explorer 8 as default) because XP was declared "dead" (end of life on April 8, 2014 - no more security updates) and the existing PCs aren't capable of running UEFI required for Windows 8...

Windows 7 and Windows 8 is going to get a free upgrade to Windows 10; it's not far fetched to believe some people are installing a fresh copy of Windows 7 on a clean machine to make use of the free upgrade.
You can't discharge a student loan in bankruptcy. This makes sense. If you borrow money to purchase a car or a home the lender always has the option of repossessing the goods as a last resort.

You cannot legally repossess someone's human capital. So the current law is set to avoid the moral hazard of someone borrowing $100k in student loans and then declaring bankruptcy right after graduation.
Final exams have to be stored for years and approved by a second party I should think, for accountability.
My best subject in Physics was electricity and magnetism, which depends heavily on special relativity.

I aced the junior year E&M final without ever having shown up to class nor attempted any of the problem sets. I don't recall sitting for a midterm exam, maybe I spaced it.

I also successfully petitioned for credit for UCSC's optics class. In my written narrative evaluation, Dr. Scherr said that while I got the correct answers, my derivations were quite different from those of the other students.
Isn't it 'treadmill'?
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While this may be true for public universities, private maintain their prestige by student faculty ratios and keeping their incoming classes between 1000-1300 students. You will see most private universities have kept their class size constant in the passed decade while public ones have increased, further supporting the graph shown in this article attesting to the disparity in grades between public and private schools.
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Conspire thing Idk trust to or not
Did you do anything to avoid an IP ban for the crawler?
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Hi,
Our fledgling company is considering outsourcing for relatively complex front-end web app development (not your regular blog). We are considering, for example, Romanian developers. We would be glad to hear insights on this issue.
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"You changed the logo?" -- end user with the icon changes
"Oh cool, the app works now" -- end user after changing a < into a >
Like a lot of the pathologies in higher education, there's a lot of bleed from one problem/question and its answers (like grades) into others.

So first, what are grades even for? They give students and teachers feedback, they set goals and they enforce a certain amount of discipline, pacing, something to enforce practice. Basically, teaching tools.

If I try to think of something analogous, a periodic fitness test as part of a fitness program might be it.

Once grades exist, they pick up all sorts of other uses inside the system. Admissions of various sorts. Hiring. Proof. Measures of competence. Comparison. When this is the actual goal, the grading and testing looks different. GMAT is designed around this "secondary" use.

I think if you roll back the history of how high schools or universities picked up all the habits and structures they have now, grades weren't as central as they are now. Matriculation was the main marker and that's a binary.

Anyway….

I think this kind of focus on grades, grade inflation, deflation and such is more about the fact that most of us were at one time or another concerned with our grades. Any unfairness annoys us and when different generations, places or subjects "have it easy" we get annoyed.

I don't think it matters much though. The main reason for grades is the first part, the teaching tool. Hopefully that becomes the focus. Better grading where better is "helps the student more." That probably means tracking and giving feedback progress, reacting to deficits, controlling the pace and stuff like that.

I hope grading gets completely hijacked by the technology assisted pedagogy.
this is the quote that I initially responded to, emphasis mine.

> I see telling people they're wrong as selfish. It's almost never necessary, and in a probabilistic sense is not the most efficient way to make them correct, because instead of just changing their mind, they have to tamp down their ego, avoid getting ticked at you, and then change their mind. Bam: you've just made their lives harder, for the satisfaction of being explicit that you're more correct than they are.

That's the context of this conversation (a statement made by YOU).

If I can't approach someone about improving/fixing/changing something being worked on then I have no interest in working with them, and I have enough control over my own life that I don't have to.

If someone is really going to insist that I need to spend my time trying to work with them, they're going to get dismissed and I'm going to go on with my life.

I have enough control over my own life that I don't have to deal with those sorts of issues. Perhaps if you're working in a job where you feel forced to have to deal with other people's bullshit than you suddenly feel as if it's important to start worrying about this sort of thing, but I'm not there.

And no amount of communication is going to put me there.
It's amazing that we can throw nuclear weapons at both of those huge objects (volcano and meteor) and there is actually a chance that we can prevent them from destroying the world.

In other news, terrorists and other enemies of the US are trying to make the Yellowstone volcano explode, that's scary. Can we not "cool" the magma under Yellowstone? Maybe even use that heat? Are geothermal plants too expensive?
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Seems to be a big project.
Because the business case isn't there, in terms of the cost/benefit. It's a lot of work (maybe not initially, but maintaining that functionality on an ongoing basis slows development), to support a tiny number of users, who you can't make any money advertising to (if you're ad-supported) and who are probably not the kind of users who buy much (if you sell directly).
this is fascinating code, nicely done!
Teaching as a graduate student i'm seeing a pattern where my department is swamped with students and thus has a lot of grad students teaching (a lot of people here on student visas), then then evaluates all the teaching grad students based on student reviews.

A lot of those out-country students are scared of angering students, getting bad reviews and getting kicked out. End result, classes are getting easier and grades are inflating. Students are getting less prepared for later classes

I'm a US citizen and I have a reputation for being a hard grader because my position is a lot more stable (it is a lot easier to get funding for US citizens).

I teach mostly upper level classes and I am failing a lot of students with "good" grades.
Were you once a regular on Kuro5hin?

I was: http://www.kuro5hin.org/user/duncan%20bayne
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I started out with LinkWords http://www.linkwordlanguages.com/

Basically using a memeory technique to associate the foreign word with the german.

In the end I stopped using their software as it isn't so great and created my own spreadsheet with the word, foreign word and memory link. I then loaded this into some flashcard software on android. Then several times a day I would try to keep on top of my flaschards. After around 6 months I had gotten through the cards and was getting a reasonable recall rate.
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Over my Mom's dialup?
I think main reason is that number of users with JS disabled these days is just too small to care.

Another thing is even if the effort of enabling is small, people responsible for the website are not even aware of the problem.

As an experiment I would drop a note to a few websites broken with JS disabled about a problem, providing a reasoning why it should be fixed and check how many respond.
People tend to believe this isn't bad, as "other qualities" would be more important.

These qualities often are not creativity or diligence(hard to be quantified now), but family connections or social status.

Showing personal skills in an interview assumes you got one in the first place.
Nothing too crazy, looking at the changelog. Which is one of the things that makes Backbone great - the functionality is rock solid at this point.
If someone gets close enough to me to remove my watch from my arm, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have bigger problems then them re-selling it on eBay or at a local pawn shop (such as getting beat up or possibly stabbed / shot)

Sensational headlines FTW!
Mono and C# are now being used by both Unity and Unreal. This certainly gives further momentum to the language for game developers. With all the past license changes and the cross platform nature of Unreal and Unity this makes it a lot more pursading to learn C#\Mono for game development.

Personally I have a few educational games I would like to write and still can't decide what tool would be best, certainly Unreal will be to over the top for my ideas, but Unity keeps seeming like it would get me out the door quicker. The issue always was writing in Java Script or C# with C# always looking like a much better option.
I'll give the answer: because at that stage you're still trying to find product-market fit. If you can save $1k (say - and the dev time to develop a Pusher alternative probably costs more than that) in the validation stage by using an approach that will cost you 5x more in the long run - then that's a good business decision, because only 10% of the ideas that you try to validate are going to become real products.
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I would say that graduate programs tend to be a bit more binary, i.e. you're either passing a course or you aren't, and the professor knows exactly who those people are. And if you aren't passing, your prof. will also quietly suggest to you early on that you drop it and take it again a bit down the road. This was my experience in masters & phd level math courses, at least.
Some do, it's called an RSS Feed.
Your line of questioning is great. And it's something that drives me up the wall that designers don't engage with these questions better. Here's someone from DesignerNews on your comments:

"Here's what the left-brainers have to think about such a well though-out and through design process..."

It's hinging on the effort that went into the process, which is by all means extensive and impressive. Its' defensive. But I think your line of questioning is extremely important and I'm a designer, so I'll give it a bash with explaining why they did this.

I don't think you could ever back up with numbers that these changes 'matter' to users. Any research that could be done would, in the words of someone better than I – be used like a drunk uses a lamp post. For support, not illumination.

At the end of the day, I'm inclined to agree that these changes are negligible for users. What this is more a case of is Facebook deciding they care about the craft and quality of the visual design in their product. Regardless of if users give a toss. The change isn't quantifiable in numbers. It will most likely not change the bottom line of the company.

But what it does do, is communicate that Facebook cares about visual design craft. This is part of branding. Deciding they care about these things, to have the image of the company they want.

These changes are on par with Apple choosing to make a glass staircase in their stores. It's like Twitter choosing the colour of their office furniture, it's like any other company implementing anything that does not directly or clearly affect returns or is quantifiable in numbers. Simply put, it's a culture thing. They've decided they care about visual design craft and so they put money into it so they can have high quality visual design craft. And they have done that here – this is high quality.
This is a mistake that a lot of (diy-ish) people diving into entrepreneurship get wrong. Time is the most rigid resource we have and the number one asset. Just because you can build or maintain everything yourself (and developers, engineers etc. take a big pride in that - and I get it, it's an awesome feeling), doesn't always mean that you should.
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Yes, and Jessie ships with 3.16 (and that is probably what I have). Of course, it's a very simple fix and should be easy to backport.
true that !! Its all about understanding and interpreting what you understood. It can be in any form ...not necessarily an algorithm.
Corporate images are almost all Windows 7... 8 is basically son of Vista.
I was thinking an intern, but yeah... sounds like a great way for somebody low-level to get their foot in the door.
Thank you - I'll check them out later.
I'm chuffed to hear you say that because it was certainly a battle to get it to work.
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Last paragraph, quick transcription:

'Es ware deshalb von grosstem Interesse, bis zu wie groszer Sonnennahe helle Fixsterne bei Anwendung der starksten Vergrosserungen _bei Tage_ (ohne Sonnenfinsternis) gezehen werden konnen.'

My translation:

'It would therefore be of the greatest interest [to know], until how near to the sun bright fixed stars could be observed, under the largest magnification and by day (without solar eclipse).'
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All of which have nothing to do with Einstein.
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Developers are less likely to be directly responsible for the sort of things that surgeons are, unless you write mission-critical software. However, if you write any kind of software that a lot (millions) of people depend on, there is a very good chance that you've ruined people's lives or even caused death.

I dread to think how many people's relationships have been destroyed because the developers of Facebook, Whatsapp, Telegram et al decided to implement read notifications/"last seen" on their instant messaging apps.
This reminds me of the rarely-used print stylesheet[0]. In fact, the only place I've ever seen it in use is on websites run by the Dutch government (perhaps other governments do so too, but I've never needed to check them out).

EDIT: A bit of online searching mainly shows people *complaining8 about print sheets, so perhaps I'm completely out of the loop and simply haven't printed anything in a long time.

It's not much - just stripping out menu bars and other stuff that makes no sense in print, plus a few typographical changes, such as a change in font from sans serif (screen) to serif (paper).

Similar to the other comment, there isn't a clear business case for it very often, but whenever there's a website with a "print version"-link to their articles I don't see why they wouldn't do this instead. Well, aside from the fact that nobody would expect this functionality to be there, which isn't minor I guess.

[0] http://alistapart.com/article/goingtoprint
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This. Why would it need access to my files?
(I haven't read TFA but I gather it has to do with javascript.)

Javascript is wildly popular these days, many make the reasonable claim that it is the world's most-popular programming language. Lots of people say it's so much fun.

I first learned a very modest bit of javascript a few years ago, I learn more when I need it, more recently I got about halfway through O'Reilly's "Learning Javascript" but am now stopped dead because I regard it as so tedious and dull.

Mind you I am not by any means a language zealot. If you enjoy javascript then more power to you.

But I myself would rather chew my own foot off than actually get paid to write javascript code. Unfortunately I am concerned I may not have much choice.

Is there way you can convince me that javascript can actually be fun and interesting to me?

What I regard as fun is sweating over how to reduce cache misses in my iOS conway's game of life implementation, Warp Life. I once write an AES hard drive encryptor that ran entirely onboard the Oxford OXFW911 Firewire/IDE bridge chip. It had a 49 MHz ARM7TDMI CPU, 64 kB of 16-bit flash with a five-cycle read time, and 1800 bytes of 32-bit ram with a one cycle read time.

FireWire Encrypt was a tough project but I had a grand old time working on it.

My gripe with javascript is that it is simply not possible for me to use it to solve the problems that interest me.
If you are a manager, then you will surely understand.

It's mostly because the website owner/responsible believes that the cost of producing a "text only" version would be bigger than the benefits achieved. If the decision is right or not, I wouldn't know - and, frankly, neither most of people who make the decision (albeit being "confident"). I seriously doubt that any thorough analysis is done on the subject, people just believe that almost everyone uses JS and images. And they might be right, or not.

Sometimes it might also be a matter of ignorance. It might happen that the responsible is not aware of this question (and neither is "made aware" by the technical people).
I really like this principle from cryptography:

"Anyone can make a cryptosystem that he himself cannot break."
You have a very very dangerous mind... I like it.

Actually you could have stateful loops too. Make each packet duplicated at iptables and each time increment the counter. Send one to 127.0.0.1 (true, continue) and one to 127.0.0.2 (false, stop). The right answer is accepted, wrong dropped.
Their UX is quite good. I was quite impressed when I saw their UX and even had an offer to join. But i was not impressed with interviwers and somehow felt arrogance whenever they talk. Now I understand why they grew that way.
Typed in wifimapper on my iPhone here in the UK. It says no results. Have you checked that?
Congrats. You're going to be famous. 5* on app store.
Has anyone considered a tax season effect on these results? I used to work for a computer manufacturer that also did re-seller / refurbishing of used computers. December was always when the seasonal tax preparation companies (Jackson Hewitt Liberty Tax), would pop up buying loads of cheap semi-reliable used systems. These tax preparers would then rent whatever cheap strip mall space was available, stick 20 PCs and a few used HP laser printers and connect them all to a decent terminal server.

The small company I worked for would sell a couple hundred of these tax prep systems a year just locally, multiply this out across the US and this could be a correlation. Many of these systems get reloaded, updated and then pulled back off the web to be resold after tax season. On company we sold them to would even let people use a part of their return to buy one of the systems.
Попробуйте учить на память русские детские стихи.
Аналогично тому как это делают дети в детстве, когда они учатся говорить.

Из авторов рекомендую: Михалоква, Маршака, Чуковоского и Барто (http://deti-online.com/stihi/)

Try to learn by heart Russian poems for children.
In the same way as they do it in childhood, when they learn to talk.

I recommend to start from the the authors: Mihalokv, Marshak, Chukovoskiy and Barto (http://deti-online.com/stihi/)
Same for me on a 1024x768 screen.

I don't know but there might be a memory leak too - seems to be lagging my (already slow) system.
> It sucks for students, but this way, grade inflation just cannot happen.

Problem is it sucks not only for students but everyone else (e.g. potential employers), too. If grades only show your relative position on a bell curve and not your absolute skill level, they cease to allow for skill level comparison between people. With bell curve grading an engineer with an C being born in a baby boomer year may be better than an engineer with an A graduating in a year with less students.
It takes a while for the App Store to index new apps for search (which is annoying), but the app is live! You can see it here - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/wifimapper-free-wifi-maps/id....
Wow, what a productive comment. Nothing like a quick and irrelevant jab at the humanities!
Stats of one of my bigger clients show an almost 50% drop in IE8 in the last year (UK traffic only).

Don't believe everything you read. Also, who actually uses statcounter?
Ah I see! Congrats on the launch today! Will download from direct link instead.