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Totally different situation.

In a large corporate setting with lots of dumb management, a majority of those Indians are going to be contractors, and a majority of them will be on work visas.

Why is that relevant? They are hired guns, who are supposed to go when the project ends. And they are exploited to the hilt by their staffing agencies.

Racist? I don't think so. Exploitive and amoral? Absolutely.

There are many examples of Indians leading technology businesses and managing technology departments in the US. In many ways, the Indian immigrants who get green-cards or citizenship are probably the best example of the mythical "melting pot" in today's society.
I personally work a lot with 3d animation. We use plugins and pre-made elements to create our animations. Because we are using 3rd party tools to create our final product, does this make us "middle-men (and women), glorified translators", Or is it only real if we where to make our tools form scratch.
Agreed. The ML one is much more organized and the design and experience are both incredibly better. It has more of a classroom and course feeling to it, rather than the AI class's here's some video lectures and quizzes, now do the tests.

The ML class also has a full-fledged Q&A forum (which has LaTeX markup support), which, to me, is a necessary component. The about page[0] lists Stanford students as developers (the first one is an undergraduate sophomore named Frank Chen), and the team is different than the guys behind Know Labs (from a quick search.)

Andrew Ng is an excellent teacher. Seriously, the ML class is the most fun I've had learning in a college course environment. That speaks volumes.

[0]: http://www.ml-class.org/course/aboutus/index
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There are pictures of this (and numerous other similar situations) out there on the internet for you to find. I cannot stress highly enough that you should NOT try to find them..
OneNote on a TabletPC was pretty much tailor-made for middle management at Microsoft to use while sitting in meetings all day.

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Wow. That's pretty cool stuff. Amazing brand new territory to explore.
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I didn't know that you could return a value from an include like that, that's incredibly handy (and makes me wonder why almost nobody does it that way).
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That's exactly the discussion I had that led me to go and want to check out the site. Apparently the pace and nature of the (AI class) homeworks are quite different in the actual Stanford course.
Salesforce? 37signals?

Expanding sideways is pretty common among successful software and business services companies.
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The probable reason why you see 50-80% Indians in the in the team, but few in management or team lead positions is that, they somehow put up with this bias, that they somehow are happy with what they get. Aren't there a majority of agricultural workers of Latino descent, often working at below minimum wage? Why? They put up with it, and are mostly happy to have the job. The fact is, many Indians, especially those who are "new" in the country, are happy to do what it takes, at the salary and position that they get, even if it is below market rate. Both sides are at fault, no doubt.

Then, of course, there are those who go out and take risk to do extraordinary things, like starting companies. There is no dearth of famous companies founded by Indians, is there?
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Market size.

Drugs are relatively easy to produce and smuggle and have a massive community demand. Nothing else comes close.

Added benefit: fewer drug-related prisoners being trained up as career criminals.

EDIT: also, "people" refers to "people in the community taking drugs", not the gangs.
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I would invite you to reread my comment and think about where I made that logical implication. Because I didn't. What I did say is that if a concept video exists it precedes a proof of concept video.
I don't see the "doomed to fail" part. What bad thing happens when you take out known crime bosses? They get replaced quickly? Do it again. They can only take it so long. Is it more expensive than hundreds of law-enforcement officers working for decades "grinding away at the base"? I rather doubt it. You probably don't need to go all "helicopters and M-16s" on them. I'm sure it can be done much less expensively than that.

Just working intuitively, it seems like you would want both. Put pressure on at whatever levels you can, and then speed things up by removing key players. Wouldn't this accelerate the collapse of the organization, and at least make it less effective?
In this case, I'm pretty sure that money is enough. It's not like the cartel needs to know anything about hacking or how to choose good hackers. All they have to do is tie the monetary reward to the result they want (track down the Anonymous member who said this), and somebody will figure it out, through hacking or other means.

As an aside, I don't know of any billion-dollar industry that doesn't have a fairly high level of sophistication. I don't see why the cartels should be any different.
The problem is that that this is where Facebook's contradictions really appear.

The problem is that Facebook needs to both maintain the fiction that it's a network for only your "real life" friends to seem safe and keeping finding new friends to keep the interest up.

But the average person only has about 150 friends and they're either currently on Facebook or they probably never will be. So to get new friends, people have to friend "friends-of-friends", people sharing common interests, people with attractive photos and so-forth. But if Facebook were to really discourage non-real-friends, everyone's friend numbers would drop and the site's excitement level would start going down.

It is a weird kind of situation... Facebook is become more like "the regular Internet" how that works out will be interesting...
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Sorry, that was (I thought thinnly) veiled sarcasm.
As much as I want E-cat to be true, it's almost like the creator(s) are following a well thought out plan. Parts of it might include "copy perpetual motion machine" and "remove obvious flaws." Other parts might be "create fictitious investors", and "claim partially working unverifiable product." Only next steps I can see is to gather additional investors (real profit), create fake orders(get investors), and disappear with the money.

It's the Gizmondo of the energy world...
When I first started using revision control on a work project, I used to commit after every few lines to "save" my work.

Without commit messages.

Boy, did I pay for that one.
Hypothesizing that a trend could be explained by cultural differences is different than discriminating on race.
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And yet you can still sign up for the ml-class.org and db-class.org, all assignments that you missed and will not be doing "in real time" have 50% penalty, and you are free join in at any time. For ai-class.com, however, the decision was made to close it up the moment the classes started.
Is that really a violation? The made small modifications to gcc, they were asked for the source code to those modifications, they gave the source code to those who requested it. Isn't that what the GPL says? You have to make the source code available?
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Newsflash: There are enough gullible people EVERYWHERE for these things to work. This is not a new thing.
The integer is state, deciding if it's odd or even is behavior. Yes, it's a query method, but it's a good one. The only reason we need objects is to make programming convenient. I don't want my namespace polluted by a free floating function named even?/odd? when it can be restricted to the only type it cares about by being bound to it.

In some strictly ease of use sense, object.function() is better than function(object) because it better helps me organize and scope my code; I don't have to worry about function name clashes because every instance is essentially a module for those functions.

My tools also work better when they can see I'm asking what methods are on integer rather than just show me all functions visible to me right now. It's easier to say hey Integer, what can you do rather than hey world, what works with integers.

If you can only see functions, integers, and booleans and you can't realize those are all themselves perfectly good objects, then that's a failure of your imagination. Me, I like my functions, methods, booleans, integers, and all other types being objects because it's damn useful and damn convenient in making my day to day life easier.
Actually, having an internal server host your intellectual property is a big deal in the enterprise.
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Except it wasn't Apple.

NeXT wasn't Apple. It particularly wasn't Apple in 1989.

And it came into compliance, then contributed to gcc.

That makes the headline bogus. Fishing for page views?
I'm looking for an intern, which as I understand may not even be a paid position at some companies.

For a student level position with significant flexibility in working hours and 100% remote, I and those I've spoken to think that's reasonable.

Did you misunderstand the skill level I was looking for, or do you disagree?
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for what it's worth, I'm taking Stanford's version of the ML class that Prof. Ng is offering, and aside from being a couple of weeks and ahead and having to do a final project, it is pretty much the same offering as that available the outside world.
I flagged this even though half the stories on HN are about how to make money on the internet. I guess it's how you present it.
SciPy is not currently starting up. There were other open-source alternatives to Matlab in 1995, but certainly none with the scope and community of SciPy in 2011. That full-spectrum alternative is not Octave, not now or then. R is a very nice statistics dsl with prevalence in publications and thus a trove of code (arguments much weaker at that time) - but there is no PyMol or MayaVi in R for good reasons.

For the record, NumPy predates PDL by a smidge, and the existence of PDL is more of an argument against SciRuby, considering the cultural similarity and continued strength of BioPerl. As for C/C++/Fortran wrapping - there's a bit more to it than syntax efficiency, plus wrapping is often semi-automatic and leverages multi-language, science-ambivalent toolkits (ie SWIG or SIP). However, one nice consequence is the fact that via buffer wrapping, the NumPy array has become an efficient common currency for a huge number of legacy libraries.

IMHO, the advantages you have cited pale in comparison with the task of reimplementing 15 years worth of work for what is essentially unity gain in code style (+/- 2% depending on your flavor preference). Regarding that code style, you may be missing the forest for the trees: the inflexibility of Python is a small price to pay for community cohesiveness, and the resulting multiplier effect is non-trivial. Put another way, the time I've spent attempting to read Perl code-golf leaves me very leery of Ruby.

My basic argument though is not that Python is superior or coexistence impossible, it's that every person-year spent reinventing a mature system that is far beyond 'good enough' is a person-year that could be spent advancing the state of the art in scientific computing by building on Theano or improving SAGE - or preferably, doing real science.
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This was at the top of the front page of HN and HN classic. It doesn't even tangentially touch upon entrepreneurship, hacking, or startups. I won't rule out it being a honeypot of some kind, but maybe it's time to think about ways to halt the drift?
NeXT voluntarily coming into compliance when asked is not nearly as exciting as "Apple violates GPL!".
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By that logic they will all suddenly take up investment banking.
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I graduated with a degree in computer science for undergrad, worked for a year in an unrelated field, and then came back to do a masters in computer science because I wanted to return to tech and do a startup later on. I understand that the value of a masters is highly suspect, but my belief was that I needed a stronger theoretical foundation before I got back into it. From my perspective, it seems that "coding" itself has always been something learned on your own time, since NONE of our classes teach practical coding.
And as a result, I'm embarrassed. If someone asks me what language I code in, I can say that I've had a good amount of experience coding in Java and C. But I have nearly no experience in Python, Javascript, you name it. Everyone tells me that this stuff is learned on your own time, but I have no time to spare.
I'm becoming frustrated as I take these master classes, as I find my time being increasingly consumed by things I no longer find relevant. Everything I do now seems geared toward acing interviews at Microsoft or Oracle (even in algorithms, my favorite class, I have heard "now this is an interview question so pay attn" all too many times). I don't have the time to learn how to do something as simple as setting up a complete backend, or learning objective c to make a fun app without my grades taking a huge hit. This is bothering me.
What should I do? I actually thought about dropping my masters and just learning what I want on my own, but I already paid for the (very) expensive tuition and it's nonrefundable. If I try to learn things on the side then I struggle academically and I probably will half ass the extracurricular programming too. If I go all in on my masters classes I will end up not learning what I want but will hopefully learn the theory well. On a final note, I'm taking internet and web systems, software systems, and software foundations class next semester, which I think is more practical....
This is a composite of previous comments, someone should hack a " Facebook is dead " essay.

Cure to the present roberry 2.0 - gear up a homomorphic scheme[1] combined with a generative personal cloud[2].

The " personal " in PC was most important when C stood for computer. Next, it will be most important when C stands for cloud.

The other wall this epic bubble is going to run against sooner or later - as people wake up at an intuitive level :

"Well, since Moore's law makes computation really cheap, let's just give away the computation, but keep the data."[3]

All of this nightmare will be compounded by the stunning crap-storm about to emerge in economies world over.

[1] - http://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/

[2] - http://futureoftheinternet.org

[3] - http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip
me too, I worked with a guy who did that, it was annoying when looking over his revisions, during a period of 1-2 days of work (on a project with just 2 people committing on it), the rev number would increase by 50 sometimes
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The only way possible to download the whole FB social graph is to get permission to do so from every FB user. People can scrape public info but the social graph allows access to a users friends, friends of friends, likes, comments, checkins an so forth.
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Our DNA is the same. We are better fed and generally healthier (at least since the agricultural revolution), most of us are raised better than your average peasant 1000 years ago, mothers know not to drink during pregnancy (this is a big one, by the way), etc.
for what it's worth, I'm taking Stanford's version of the ML class that Prof. Ng is offering, and aside from being a couple of weeks and ahead and having to do a final project, it is pretty much the same offering as that available the outside world. I think this could explain the level of quality of the website, or at the very least it having more of a course feeling to it.
Here is another good comparison post between Ruby and Python packaging: http://gillesfabio.com/blog/2011/03/01/rvm-for-pythonistas-v...
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The actual real competition to Apple is Samsung-Android. As business insider pointed out, Android caught up with the software, than the hardware, than the single big manufacturer.
To your point, Demand Media now focuses primarily on putting their content on brand sites and rev-sharing. See traveltips.usatoday.com, for example. There's always someone working an angle to game Google.
I'm quite new to HN and am just getting a feel for what's posted here. I did, however, just read the HN Guidelines recently to help figure it out. First two sentences on what to submit:

Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.
Great! Very straightforward. It was leaving out the --no-site-packages which was throwing me off..

I wanted to start doing some work on a web framework I'm interested in, so I'm guessing the best way is to create a virtualenv just for that framework, pull it in to the virtualenv packages folder from github, and then I'm set?
That's why I used scare quotes around "real".
I hope it has ECC RAM, as opposed to most competitors I've seen before (such as the atom based boxes)
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Well, those masterminds would be anonymous.. :)
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"they are adverse because they are unhealthy for consumption"

Like rocks, thumbtacks, shampoo, too much aspirin, bacon-double-cheeseburgers and daytime TV. We do not ban everything that's unhealthy. The question is whether, on balance, the benefits of prohibition are greater than the costs. I think we agree on that, though we might disagree when we estimate the balance when it comes to narcotics. Unfortunately, statistics for both sides are limited. This scarcity of data makes the Portugese experience really valuable.

We can know the cost of imprisoning all these people though. The US has the highest imprisonment rate in the world: 738 per 100,000. The UK, which has similar societal attitudes to drugs, though very different judicial policies, has 148 per 100,000, which is still above the median globally. US taxpayers are spending too much money on food, lodging and security for drug offenders.

Imprisonment data:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/icps/downloads/worl...

edit: in case you think the cultural differences with the UK make the comparison poor, Canada has 107 prisoners per 100,000 population. That's one seventh the rate of their neighbor.
The non-profit I work with built one for about 1/10th the cost - $1400 in total (http://wiki.studentrnd.org/Surface_Computer for anyone interested in replicating it), but it's still mostly used as a "LOOK HOW COOL" sort of thing. Maybe if you replaced all the tables with computers you'd get some minor benefit, but having a single computer the size of a table is honestly pretty pointless.
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Which of these kills the most people and costs the most money to deal with?
Another way to do this is just to use the search method that's part of the Facebook Graph API (replace watermelon in the URL with your query) - https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon&type=post

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