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Lisp's flexibility is more of a theoretical advantage. In practice, particularly in common programming contexts, I think it's more valuable to have a richer, standardized syntax. Sometimes its better to nail down a few degrees of freedom in order to better exploit others.
Heh, Petraeus should have kept his eyes open :)
I've had several technical phone interviews and programming challenges in the past week, and nothing has been even close to as easy as FizzBuzz. Do places actually give it out in interviews?
To save everyone a lot of time, here's the HN post of this article from last year:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110756
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Restrictions on liquids on international flights have been eased a bit, at least on Australian airlines.

You can have a few small containers - up to 100mL in each. I was able to fly with toothpaste, deodorant, insect repellent and sunscreen in my carry-on luggage on a recent trip. Nail clippers are allowed too.

Funnily enough, there are no such restrictions on domestic flights.
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Immediately after, and for at least months after, polls of Iraqi citizens showed > 50% support for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. It's dropped below that now, but that certainly demonstrates that there is no uniform Arab thought. As others, they are capable of more sophisticated moral reasoning than "our tribe versus theirs" and detecting the possibility of the toppling of a barbaric regime even by people whose cultura/nationality/skin color differs from their own.
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Along those lines I registered a .com domain and shortly after tried to register the matching Twitter account and it had already been created and suspended for spam. The name was such that it seems non coincidental.

I haven't tried to request the Twitter account but would be interested to know if someone has had a similar experience.
Cool, so the war in Afghanistan is over?
Ha, I could also go to Vegas and place the bet, but I'm sure it would've been worth a lot more yesterday!
It's not like a sea of qualified candidates lines up for every programming job. If you post a job listing on any major jobs board, 99% of the candidates that respond will be one of the following:

1) A contractor from another country (usually India) saying they'll do the same work on contract for some crazy low rate.

2) Someone who cannot write coherent English.

3) Someone CAN write coherent English and is NOT a contractor, but their resume shows that they are completely unqualified for the position. The kind of people who's most relevant qualification for "Senior Software Engineer" is "Microsoft Word, 50WPM" They likely just spammed their resume to every listing they saw.

Lots of chaff, very little wheat.

With that said, anyone can choke in an interview. When I was young and inexperienced I blanked when asked to write a linked-list in C++. The sad part? I anticipated this question and "practiced" it at home 3 before the interview transpired. Needless to say, I was red-cheeked after staring at a blank Whiteboard for what felt like an eternity (turns out it was only 5 minutes) - after which point I capped the marker, apologized for wasting the interviewers time, and left.
Sorry don't mean to hurt your sensitivity, but try to think objectively, what's accepted here isn't the same that's been accepted over there by society in large. Also if you really think it took the US over a decade and over 1,000,000,000,000 dollars to find that guy then whose military sucks? OBL is a joke, the world knows, the difference is that some kids at the magic show actually believe that it's real magic.
I only use it as a warm-up, because I understand that interviews are pretty stressful. Then I'm dumbfounded when someone who applied for the "Experienced ASP.NET/C# Developer" position can't even get through my warm-up.
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And I guess it was worth the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq in the last 10 years? Happy happy joy joy. Huh.
well, you could expect someone who handles server to know his ways around partitioning a volume?
The site behavior that you describe (except slowness) is what happens if your account has been flagged as a spammer. I don't know what the logic is for that, but it does sometimes make mistakes. For instance I got flagged as a spammer some months ago, but got it straightened out fairly quickly after I emailed pg. (Though given that he's really busy right now, I wouldn't expect a prompt response from him.)
This post is going to be downvoted. This is not a personal attack.

The basic question is, why the hell don't you learn for the sake of learning. I did that. Promise. I have an inability to study for grades. So fine, I am doing ok. I took classes, I really enjoyed them (though I struggled a lot), and I learnt a lot. I love school - its the best way to learn things in a structured way, and meet really crazy smart people doing that.

I'll be honest though, I went to pretty selective school - it took me a while to get in (but I did) and it was really an awesome experience. M.I.T. was an especially great experience.

But of course, you are entitled to your opinion, and so am I.
"Just amazing - harbored by friends in the Pakistani military for years while they received billions in aid from the US."

This is completely normal, and it's long been the case for the Taliban too. The Taliban operate, and sometimes govern, fearlessly and openly in parts of Pakistan. This includes proper towns and city districts, not just remote regions in the mountains. The old guard of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence is largely pro-Taliban and provides political protection, funding, supplies, training, etc. Other parts of the Pakistani government help them too.
So it's possible my airplane might fall out of the sky because there is not enough memory because not enough time was devoted to garbage collection? That doesn't sound like a great solution. Not to say that C is necessarily the ideal solution. The main reason the author hasn't seen competitors to C is because the author didn't look for one. Vala is decent and there are many others, they're just not sufficiently better than C to result in people switching.
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Don't be so sure. I think he has a good chance, but there is still inflation worries, the housing market in a double dip, and an unusually high unemployment rate. I'd say it'll take some work to survive even a weak republican candidate. 1.5 trillion dollar deficit does not help things either.

I'm actually surprised anyone wants the job.
eg. instead of i.e., and yes, I did go to M.I.T.
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Odd, it says he was eaten by wolves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhwiuRbOEE
I use it as a warm-up in every interview question, and it takes longer to actually write a solution than to reason your way through it, so I've had a long time to think specifically about this problem while waiting for candidates to finish typing. It's always interesting to see what sort of half-baked idea I come up with by the end.
Across the US, people are firing up Team America: World Police. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI
The position for which I use this question is titled "Experienced ASP.NET/C# Developer", so I really expect the candidate to know C#.
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This man caused a lot of griefs to many families

A lot more people die each year from heart disease, and yet, what's the budget for health-care versus military?

Your government did a lot more damage to the US by the corrosion of your constitutional rights, actions received with cheers and applauds ; because 2000 people or so died in the 9-11 attack.

But every 34 seconds a person dies from heart-disease in the US. Do the math.

Some scars are still not completely healed.

Oh, get over it -- I'm pretty sure the American soldiers that invaded Irak (based on bogus WMD stories) left a lot more scars.
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Can we make May 1st a national holiday? We have President's Day for two presidents, can we have something similar for Hitler/OBL?
Part 2 (http://jacob.jkrall.net/fizzbuzz-without-multiplication-or-d...) has my favorite solution in the series.
Indeed. I just installed 10.10 on a Thinkpad W500 using the Trinity KDE3 dstro.

I ever cared for Gnome; lack of easy menu hacking and navigation and not being able to set different backgrounds for each desktop were among my peeves.

KDE4 didn't work for me, either. Too much slickness for stuff I had no use for.

Lucky for me some smart, motivated people decided to keep KDE3 alive. My eternal thanks to them.

A downside is that most often when I search for help on something it ends up being how-to in Gnome or maybe KDE4, but with a bi of digging I find what command line invocation to run or what config file needs editing.

Truly a great thing to be able to have such a range of UI options (and every so often I try xmonad) while under the hood it's same hackable OS.
That quaint document?
I have to say that I was very skeptical of Unity before I tried it yesterday for the first time. It's certainly different from what most people are used to, but it's also better in many ways. I have tried at least GNOME2, KDE3, KDE4, XMonad, wmii, and different versions Windows, and I can't decide which of them I like the best. Unity is not the best for everything and takes some getting used to, but it certainly isn't bad either.
Please. I'm talking about the article this discussion is about. There's nothing remotely informative in there about 'hacking society'.
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Well the question is whether people mind. For example most web content aimed at kids is flash-based (pbskids etc) so you can't play those on the iPad; but then if you have an iPad there are many equivalent native games that you can use for the same purposes. I am sure the same is the case for adult games. If you have 15 minutes to wait for the dentist, do you care whether you are playing a Facebook game or Plants v. Zombies on your phone? Either way, it helps pass the time.
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It's hardly far-fetched to say the two parties were acquainted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA-Osama_bin_Laden_controversy

Dunno if I'd go as far as saying they were still pals in the last decade but I would warn you that jingoistic fervor is a terrible reason to suspend critical thought or curiosity. Boogeymen are enormously useful tools to those who have power. Skepticism is as valuable to apply to one's government as to conspiracy theorists. It's never "the time" to turn off your brain.

This is the same organism, mind you, that once called Iraq an imminent threat. Keep your salt handy.

Here's a great book by a former CIA field agent that explains just how complicated the reality of our middle east relations can get:

http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Devil-Washington-Saudi-Crude/...

Get through that book and even the most outlandish claims about our foreign policy or intelligence services will seem worth considering.
I am reading 'Complexity' by Mitchell Waldrop and it mentioned boids a few chapters back. It is a pretty interesting book if you like this sort of stuff, lots of background on the game of life, artificial life, and emergent behavior of all kinds. quote: "To them that hath shall be given", meaning that positive feedback loops exist in the world of economics.
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You mean Zawahiri. Zarkawi was the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq and was killed several years ago. Zawahiri was the #2 to Bin Laden and remains at large.
Choosing to abstain from voting neither helps nor hinders this government. Since we don't have a minimum required turnout, it is an inherently neutral act. On the other hand, choosing to vote does help it by lending it credibility.

If you think voting "works" then you are in their fingers. If you abstain from voting, they simply don't give a shit.

Stop wasting your time, and do something that will make a difference.
ABC News has released a timeline of the events that occurred on Sunday as well as the 5 years of events that led up to identifying the location.

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Dunning-Kruger doesn't imply arrogance, just a mistaken level of confidence in one's own abilities, based on a failure to appreciate the magnitude of one's incompetence.

Consider a person who plays, for example, a multiplayer game against the same three real life friends on a LAN, and concludes from his performance -- domination of his friends -- that he is an astounding player. Given his knowledge about the game and the skill of other players, it makes sense for him to make this conclusion. However, were he to play online, he would realize that his skills are paltry compared to the those of the best online gamers.

Here, Dunning-Kruger is manifested in this gamer's overconfidence based on lack of knowledge, and lack of meta-knowledge (he doesn't know the importance of what he doesn't know). It's based on a genuine mistake in his assessment of his skills, not necessarily arrogance.
I have no cable. Al Jazeera/CNN/NBC on Roku have been far more useful than cable was. (Yes Al Jazeera has a 24/7 live stream on Roku "Newscast" channel).
But web crawler doesn't have an important input: how HN users would vote on a particular submission.
If you would like to counter this statement of GWB, you are welcome to provide evidence (news articles, etc.) to buttress your claim.

My point was that "news articles, etc.", as well as 3rd-hand accounts and hearsay, are likely insufficient to determine just what the CIA is up to.

But maybe Wikileaks has something.
I have gaps in the times at which I've watched AJE, but I've yet to see a "broadcast will resume at HH:MM" message.
I just watched President Obama's speech live using a flash-based player. I don't know of a to perform live streaming with HTML5.
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I'll probably regret asking this, but what exactly is your "mentality" then?

Go ahead and enlighten me. But I've heard the one about the planet being better off without people, and the planet being better off without clothes, and the one where we all love and understand each other and nothing bad ever happens.

Tell me about this one in which the planet is not better off without the likes of OBL.
No and no. Neither MySpace nor Friendster ever had anything near a half billion users. Facebook has gotten to the point where the government would step in if they wanted to destroy all of the photos.

Mostly, I think Facebook has achieved the status of a utility. It is entrenched, with a solid business model. It's drastically different than Myspace and Friendster in that way. They were just fads.

Also, GeoCities was at least partially saved. As we develop more computing infrastructure of all kinds, that kind of thing becomes more an more likely.
"Have any of the leaks brought us anything productive?"

How about all the democratic uprisings in the middle east?

All the leaks are pure facts. The truth is always worth being told. Would you rather live in a dream world that really doesn't exist?
This is a weakened version of FizzBuzz---I was taught the version that has you buzz on any number that is divisible by five OR which has a five in its base-ten representation. Which would be a lot harder to do without multiplication or division. :)
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An interesting analysis (which only pg could do) is to multiply each vote by ln(user's karma) or something similar. That could arguably deal with "noobs who don't follow the rules" problem.

The above analysis will assume, though, that the problem of decreasing quality of votes (or discussions) is caused by newcomers and not by old high karma users getting nastier.
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Fixed that for you.
On a hunch: Run Pagerank (the original thing, i.e. just the stable distribution of the random walk) on the graph of who-upvotes-whom. Then tally upvotes weighted with the upvoters pagerank. It's probably safe to assume that the pagerank of a given user changes rather slowly, so this shouldn't be a too big problem to actually compute (and needs to be update at most every few days). Also, to favour recent history a bit one could decay the wheight of older upvotes in the who-upvotes-whom graph.

Now that upvotes are non-public information, people can't know their own rank (at least not easily), so this looks at least halfway resistant to gaming.
Listen, Obama is just the messenger, fine. But please, know your history. America is no innocent player in this affair (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver).

Thirst for death only perpetuates further violence and hatred which will lead to more grieving families. I never implied to let the guy go but we should be maintaining the moral higher ground here.

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Please, allow me to express the following opinion without reprise and then I am finished: He should have been taken alive at all costs. I think my kids would have been safer if we had.
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I honestly don't get the fascination with the death of Osama. Who cares? It's not like his death magically undoes 9/11. 9/11 sadly still happened, whether Osama is dead or not. Also, Osama is just one of thousands in his organization. He was already irrelevant.

Sorry, this is not news.
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It is very likely that there will be retaliation (or at least some forms of trying to retaliate) in the immediate aftermath. So increased alert levels are more likely.
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It's just fascinating don't you think?

I think you're arguing for the sake of arguing, so I won't spend much time going back and forth. But I'm sure someone somewhere is thinking really hard about making an iPhone game that takes advantage of this development (e.g. "Angry CIA").

[no that's not what I was thinking about; one of mine is along the line of American psyche as defined by the event, the pivot (optimism), and the potential impact on customer behavior]
the internet won't last forever, that civilizations come and go, and maybe with the end of our civilization the internet will be lost

I actually think the internet is a kind of permaculture. It's like a new kingdom. We have animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, the bacteria, fungi, etc, and now the bit kingdom. And it's as robust as the other kingdoms.

I doubt you could come up with any kind of vaguely plausible scenario where the internet disappeared completely.
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It's an open, actively-worked-on ticket -- and it's not just CoffeeScript debugging support. It's proper line + column number mapping for anything that compiles to JS.

It'll be a boon for straight-up minified JS as well.
The sticking point for me with Unity was switching between multiple open windows. I typically have a dozen or so terminals and gedit and Chrome windows open across a half-dozen workspaces, but if I want to bring (let's say) a specific terminal on my current workspace to the foreground, I couldn't figure out a better way to do it than to open up Unity's display of all the many terminals I have running and try to pick out which one I mean.

I'm open to trying it again once it's had a bit more polish, but I'm sticking with Gnome classic for now.
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