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I learned programming in college in spite of my classes, not because of them. I was doing 3x the coding outside of class and learned way more practical stuff that I'm actually using today. College taught me way more about dealing with people than with code.
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There is a big difference between a manager and a leader. A manager takes the credit for things that go well and looks for people to blame when they don't. A leader understands that they are only successful if their team succeeds. A manager worries about how the team might screw things up. A leader thinks about how the team can exceed their goals. A manager tries to consolidate their power and protect their turf at all costs. A leader knows that the team follows them out of a sense of mutual respect and understands that if they can no longer effectively lead the team than it may be time to step aside. Leaders are not just found at the top of an organization.
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I think this is a probable explanation.

A webapp running chromeless using the apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag will load with a screen capture of itself at the time it unloaded.
Apps created outside of Apple and in the App Store have no way to change what graphic is shown when the app is launching. You can display a static image (Default.png), but that cannot be dynamically modified later.
I get the impression that the Haskell code was meant to be a direct transliteration of the spec, or had some other artificial restriction on the amount of abstraction. Code for "0 or more of any character" is repeated at least 3 times, as with the use of applicative functor operators to ignore separators (a lot of what looks like syntax noise). Things like numbers (takeWhile isDigit_w8) aren't abstracted, either. There's no real reason that these couldn't be abstracted away. Also, some of the verbosity (and most of the imports) come from using Strict 8bit ByteStrings instead of a type with more built-in abstractions. That said, I don't think you can be blamed for your impression.
Apparently they have not seen the release schedule for ARM GPUs (for android). What's coming out in 2012 is mind boggling.

Also this right now: http://www.anandtech.com/print/4243

(see the benchmarks at the end)
Very true about the Philippines. However, a crucial difference is that most educated Filipinos have very good English language skills compared to many other SE Asian countries I've been to.
I like how uncluttered and fresh the design is. How you guys will make money? Also, I've give it a shot. Good luck.
Interested in CS, ended up doing Mech Engg, Worked for of those TCS/Infy type software houses in India.

Anecdote:
First year in engineering, we had this computers course, so the lecturer was teaching about input and output devices (Yes they teach this even in engineering). He goes on "Computer pheriperals are either input OR output devices"

One student raised his hand and asked, "Sir, what about the touchscrens like in ATMs ?" (Touchscreen mobiles were not common, yet)

Lecturer goes silent for a minute, and replies "Son, dont try to be oversmart in my class"

--
Just something I saw. Not saying they are that bad everywhere.
Also useful to note is number of ratings/reviews also affect ranking in the top charts.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/active

http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

http://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments
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While I can't consistently reproduce this issue, I was able to get FaceTime to show up with some random image of myself in the preview of my FaceTime call.

Basically:
1. Open the camera app and flip the camera to yourself.
2. Close the camera app, and call yourself on your Mac's FaceTime app.
3. The image that showed up was of me frozen, from just a few moments prior when I flipped the camera around.

When I first saw this post, I attempted to call a friend, and saw exactly what that first poster in Apple discussions saw, a black screen.

After rebooting it's all "fine" now. (I'm running 4.3.1)
We're talking 30-40 sheets of A4 at a time here...
This does happen: iOS writes a snapshot of the screen when an app moves to the background. You can notice that when you open an app that you ran recently and a stale, slightly artifacted screen appears briefly before updating. That's the snapshot.

But this is at the OS level, an app has no control over it, and it's irrelevant for the whole camera thing.
except this time i thought #2 was turning into #1 (actually i found that happening a lot of other times too)...
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> Most important is the cache’s miss rate: how frequently do we need to regenerate data? It is the miss rate that ultimately impacts site performance.

Not so fast. While the miss rate determines how much you need to regenerate, the miss time can have a huge effect on the average access time, which is what your users see.

If a is the average access time and m is the miss time (both in units of hit time), the required hit rate is (m-a)/(m-1). For largish m and reasonable a, the required hit rate can be quite high. (Memcache can be very fast relative to query+render.)

Things are more complicated when people are involved because people don't task-switch while waiting, they wander off. For example, you might want to cache so frequently accessed things have a higher miss rate. Why? Because the occasional long-access time on something that you do frequently can be seen as a glitch while a long-access time on something that you're doing for the first time (or rarely) looks like a broken system.
I was more or less a random passerby. The source zip was posted on his website and I download the file because I found the project somewhat interesting and wanted to examine it. This was before he removed the link to the source.

I have been in communication with Zdenek Kalal this morning however and he has requested that I delete the github repo for the time being, which I agreed to do after hearing his reasoning. Though hopefully it'll be back up soon with an official repository - that seems to be his intention, so I am willing to be patient and wait for a bit for him to sort out and set up a real project.
Or maybe I spent a lot of time trying to get browser folks to do it to no avail.

(there are now more delicious people at moz, especially weave, than there are at delicious.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/business/01author.html is an interesting article that talks about what the book has to say on Google's experience in China.
Genuine question: would anything legally prevent an employer from giving an IQ test as part of the hiring process if they wanted to? The standard interview techniques often discussed on HN don't seem very far from that anyway.
> The format given to us by our in-charge lecturer was a cover page with title and student name, a separate abstract page and put these in a stick file.

@SingAlong Your lecturer was just helping prepare you for the real world. So you wouldn't forget to put cover sheets on your TPS reports!
But why would Facetime be using this? It seems unnecessary.
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http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...

(orig. post deleted):

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6l7cb/clojure_s...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163552.aspx
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I don't disagree that the signalling of a pedigree brand is valuable. However, the signalling of accomplishment is much louder than credential.

So, my curiosity was based on the emotional investment in the credential, when I would think a Harvard grad would believe themselves capable of producing accomplishments that far out-signal their degree.
This is irrelevant. The bug happens specifically while using Facetime, an Apple app, so it might be feasible for it to set the last image as the launch image. Also, Apple is notorious for using undocumented APIs in their own apps.
The built-in Mail app does this (stored screenshot of current app state), but 3rd-party apps do not have this ability.

3rd-party apps can display a single static image (default.png) on boot. It is common for this image to be a screenshot of the UI without any content (e.g. nav bar, toolbars, but no buttons or data) in order to give the impression of a faster/more-progressive loading process.

I don't know how it is implemented under the hood, but Facetime on iOS does not appear to be a separate app (from the user perspective, at least). Someone who has jailbroken their phone and inspected the filesystem may be able to speak to this point more directly.

Fast app switching, depending on memory availability, does sometimes freeze an app and save state to stable storage. It's possible that this is a source of the rogue image data. A quick test with Instagram suggests that the camera is disabled when an app is "backgrounded." Perhaps Apple's built-in apps (e.g. Phone, Facetime) behave differently.
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The iPhone doesn't issue a warning when the camera is turned on. Like the others though, I've never seen a case where an app took a picture without showing me the camera and hitting a button myself, so I don't know what's going on.

And I doubt permissions would fix anything for most users - users tend to agree to anything.
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I think they are just rubbing some salt into government space program wounds

It is a message to the people who control budgets to send work their way
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The problem with Linux is that it works better with people who like to fix stuff than with people who like to make stuff.
I've seen that self-taught programmers can reach the equivalent of programmers educated at top universities. However, the self-taught programmers rarely specialize like those with Masters or PhDs in say, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and so on.
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I'm glad you did it! I wouldn't have seen this if you hadn't, I'm going to use it, plus you proved something I'd always believed was true-- time of posting can make the difference between a 15-point story and a 140 (and counting) point story. (Not that it's the # of points that matters, just the resulting front page viewership.)
Much truth here. Years ago I took a summer school course in technical and scientific writing involving intense exercises in ruthlessly eliminating passive voice (regardless of the gymnastics involved in doing so) and many other common tropes of academic writing. The course was like a cell-obliterating chemotherapy against whatever creative writing voice I had managed to put together at that age, and it took years to overcome the effects.

Toss in a good measure of courses involving study of Hemingway and Vonnegut and I was a wreck for years. A passive construction, a ten-dollar word, the odd adverb--all had me in doubt and writing the most vanilla prose.

So it goes.

It was only when I started participating in NaNoWriMo that the forced march of cranking out 1666 words a night for a month combined with the permission to produce a shitty first draft allowed me to being my recovery.
Probably not but possibly. IANAL though and I think the HN questions are more about the technology rather than characterizing the innate "intelligence" of an applicant(if it can even be actually measured). I could see there being litigation from a minority group or a different culture saying that the standard IQ test as being racially biased towards white American people; thus, the test would fall under the civil rights act of 1964. There are also cultural differences that minimize the effectiveness of an IQ test being useful across cultural boundaries.

see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#Test_bias

But really, why would you even want to use the result of a very flawed test that really does not show the true level of intelligence to hire someone? Assuming that the IQ test was perfect, intelligence is not the be all end all to performance at a company. Why not instead interview the candidates using performance tests in the specific areas that you are interested in?
I am totally blown away by how a private company has done this, especially at a cost much lower to what government programs have managed to achieve.

I was recently watching a documentary about the early jet era and I remember being amazed at the innovation showed by those at De Havilland, Boeing, DC and thinking 'this would never happen again, everything is too expensive' - and here we have a private company getting us into space at 20% of the cost.
Are companies really legally disallowed from using IQ tests in the USA?

This is definitely not the case in India - most companies that come to an engineering college campus for mass hiring follow this process:

1. Initial screen on grades
2. Written test for for those past the first filter (might be technical, or an "IQ" test)
3. In-person interview

Of course, keeping in mind some of the people that go through this process successfully, the bar is laughably low for all of these. (And of course, mass hiring companies get lazy and re-use questions, so there's quite a thriving industry built around 'question banks' for steps 2 and 3 above.)
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Chad Etzel wrote a pretty good Android app already! It's super well done.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jazzychad.hn&f...
A lot has changed, and very little has changed. The whole framing for the story -- that one would expect an Indian graduate to be fluent in conversational English and capable of being net-productive in the global economy -- is one way in which a lot has changed. Historically, that has been true for only the tiniest sliver of folks in India.

The outsourcing boom exploited one persistent mispricing of labor: below that tiny sliver of folks at the top of the educational pyramid in India, there was a slice of folks who had a minimal level of competency and prevailing wages which were absurdly low compared to wages in e.g. the US. I've done telephone support before. You don't have to be a genius to do it. Given that you're not looking for geniuses, you could either find a modestly educated American homemaker (or somebody trying to pay his way through college) at $10 an hour plus costs, or you could employ someone near the top of India's educational distribution for less than $2 an hour, fully-loaded.

Then apply the same economics to folks in the top of that below-the-sliver slice who are able to do back-office line-of-business CRUD apps, which are the outsourcing sweet spot.

Even though India is ginormous, though, there is a finite amount of labor in that slice, and when the global economy became aware of that mispricing, that labor got bid up very rapidly. Prior to the Lehman shock, engineering salaries in India were going up at 50% per year. My company had difficulty keeping any engineer on a project for six months -- they were unwilling to match the new market rates so the market did to them what the market does to everyone: allocates scarce resources efficiently. "You pay peanuts, you get monkeys", to quote one of our Indian engineers. (He now works for a Japanese company at a multiple of his former salary, last I heard.)

Anyhow, the overwrought reporting about the labor mispricing for that one little slice of the market apparently convinced at least some people of something which is manifestly untrue, which is that Indian education is world-class. It's not. India in 2011 is the same as India in 2001 is the same as India in 1951: it is gigantic and filled with lots of desperately poor people who do not have even minimal levels of competency for global work. (It is entirely possible than India in 2051 will not be, but they've got quite a ways to go yet.)
Graduates traditionally are trained by employers to be functional employees.

The point of the original article is that few graduates have any skills of use to the employer, making their degrees worthless.

Having interviewed many Indian graduates over the last ten years, I've learned to ignore their CVs and simply talk to them. If they seem bright and keen to learn they can be useful, but they're only considered because they're cheap.
I posted this coverage of the CSUA Hackathon on Huffington Post today. Feel free to take a look at what the 10 student teams hacked on.
Microsoft pioneered the use of brainteasers, really a form of an IQ test
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IANAL and TINLA...
Summary: App sales dropped to 15/day. After changing to free for the next 24 hours, it shot up to 55,000. Mainly due to tweets/reviews from people keeping track of free apps, etc.

Take away: Apps need some publicity to break into the market and making them free gives you some leverage. Which is not too surprising.

Letdown: According to the blog comments, the authors won't be sharing the results of the app sales when the price is raised to 0.99 after the 24 hour period =(. Something which most of us will be keen to find out.
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This must be later version — while a kid he skipped steps 1 and 3 (I am reffering to "He fixes radios by thinking" in Surely You're Joking).
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Are companies really legally disallowed from using IQ tests in the USA?

Griggs v. Duke Power Company, 1971. US Supreme Court found that a particular use of IQ tests in hiring practices caused a disproportionate impact on African American employees. "Disproportionate impact" can make a facially neutral policy illegal under various US civil rights laws.

This is not a blanket ban on IQ testing in employment, but corporations being risk-averse, most of them don't really do it much any more.

(This is a very happy outcome for universities, since it gives them a virtual monopoly on discriminating on the basis of intelligence. Since that is really useful to do, all a university has to do is maintain its reputation as being a mostly reliable discriminator, and the actual contents of what it teaches are virtually irrelevant.)
makes sense.
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Hm, this isn't such a good recommendation.

http://snapframework.com/

(Right now there's an internal server error.)
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The app in question is a video calling app. You would be giving it camera privileges if you intended to use it.
I've tried startSSL before and this is my view on that: Yeah great, unless you want to support older certificate stores that haven't been updated (any before 2006). Maybe in another 3-5 years it'll be great though.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880688
Fair enough. I didn't mean to criticize Haskell. In fact, I'm planning to learn it.

I was just surprised that this code was presented as a good example of Haskell's fit to the parsers domain. It would be interesting to see if my perception of this code changes once I get more familiar with the language.
So what? And at the risk of being cliche, how is this hacker news?

"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

Yeah, seems just about inane enough for television news.
Even were he correct, it was a worthless comment.
Except I was talking about encrypting in the browser which is a lost cause if your clients leave your site when they see "untrusted content!!!!!!!!!!!!" All your solutions are for non-HTTP traffic as far as I can tell.
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I posted a comment on the blog, but will leave one here as well.

In regards to the claim of: "quick instance size scaling with no downtime"

I am currently evaluating moving our MySQL server to Amazon's RDS. I liked the sounds of the Multi-AZ RDS as it will greatly decrease downtime. However upon examination I found the following issues:

- Changing an instance size results in downtime. Amazon's docs and support say up to 3 minutes.

- Any failover can take up to 3 minutes to promote the backup to becoming live.

- You will experience downtime during that time

- Browsing the support forum, some people complained of it taking more than 3 minutes to failover and in some cases the failover got stuck and they experience a longer downtime until they wrote on the forum and had AWS support manually fix it.

So in other words, this is not a silver bullet to making MySQL have 100% uptime. And in fact you will experience "up to 3 minutes" of downtime each week during the maintenance window when a failover will occur (unless they do the failover before the maintenance, which I have not found information on anywhere).
Great article by Ars. I feel like they're one of the few blogs I read that regularly writes great original content. Virtually everything else I see seems to be weak journalists spinning on press releases spoon fed to them.
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That's less than $200k to lift the mass of a 180lb human.

No, it's $80-$125 million to lift 650 humans, packed like intermodal containers in stacks roughly 20 bodies high. Which technically amortizes to ~$150k/sardine, but I don't think this is meaningful!
The theory is not that Facetime is using this API but that another malicious app is using it to take pics without the user consent.

Then Facetime is loading those pics on startup because they were the last pic taken with the phone.