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edwardio

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Going to be "that guy":

On the installation page, it says to do this:

    curl -s http://repository.rainloop.net/installer.php | php
    wget -qO- http://repository.rainloop.net/installer.php | php
This is incredibly dangerous. Because it's http, it can be Man-In-The-Middle'd, so you're basically executing arbitrary commands on your computer. (See: php function exec()). Also, even if it's non TLS/SSL, you're putting a lot of trust in Rainloop not being hacked or malicious.
Metacademy 12 years ago

If you look on the left, the learning plan shows that it would take 22 hours to complete from the bottom up. Logistic regression page just assumes you know all prior knowledge.

Ask HN: Idea Sunday 12 years ago

You reminded me of something that does exactly this for machine learning. I posted it on the front page of HN (Metacademy).

Metacademy 12 years ago

Submitter here, thanks for creating metacademy. it's helped me a lot in school.

> But ... its a score to jstor. It's unorganized.

I'd imagine competing against an organization that's been around for 18 years won't take 6-7 hours of coding. :) It's an MVP, one I'm quite embarrassed about. But I'll continue coding. Someone suggested an open Google Scholar approach - that's one direction this project could head in.