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Sometimes I hate these types of problems - though they're quite fun to argue about - because though they seem to be simple, straightforward enumeration problems, the "right" answer depends on assumptions about how the information that you've got is obtained, and what the other possible pieces of information you could have obtained are.

Here's the thing: nobody needs to see how you obtained your answer, we're all smart enough to enumerate things, so don't bother; similarly, leave out the equations, they're simple enough, and that's not where anyone falls over. If you want to argue productively about this type of problem, you need to explain why you enumerate the possibilities the way you do, not how.

And actually, I think the article goes through this problem pretty well, as mentioned there it hinges on two questions:

1) In this "random sampling", was "girl" a possible answer? Or did we restrict the sample pool to only people with boys, and only let them reveal that they had a boy?

2) Similarly, was any day other than "Tuesday" a possible answer?

Once people agree what the "obvious" answers to these questions are, disagreements tend to evaporate very quickly, and the enumerations/equations solve themselves. Unfortunately these assumptions are almost never spelled out in the problem, which is why these damn problems keep confusing people...
Thanks , your feedback was encouraging.

Quick question : when I talk to a news broadcaster e.g. NBC -- who are the right people e.g. should I approach marketing or web team or the producers ?
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Well, that much it does not do in my browser.
True but maybe not so significant. Without hits the VC can't raise the next fund. Fees are real but I'm not sure they drive model or the viewpoint.

IMO the larger divergence of interest is investment of time. Financial risks can be diversified or hedged, but there is no protection against lost time.
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If the human body isn't built for sitting 8 hours a day, I'm damn sure its not made for standing 8 hours a day (not mine at least!)
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What exactly is “hacking” photography, anyway?
I just sign up for all of them and decide which ones I'll keep watching once they start.
Probably because you could replicate the experience with a fax machine.
It doesn't work in IE9. That's just careless.
Great project -- I'd like to have the time for such side-projects
Yeah; next we'll see it print Opera tickets and phone books.
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Did you read my post carefully? I do get 13/27, when presented with the information from a neutral third party - i.e. filter for all 2 child families with one son male/Tuesday, what is the chance the other is also male/Tuesday.

But the fact that the father voluntarily offered up the information changes the probability distribution. We can assume he's selecting one of his children at random, and revealing their birthday and gender.

If only one of his children is a male/Tuesday, there's a 50% chance he'll say male/Tuesday.

If both are, there's a 100% chance.

So I'm not counting the possibility twice; I'm saying that given that the father reveals male/Tuesday, it's disproportionately likely that's as a result of having two male children born on a Tuesday compared to any other possibility.
I'm on the move from Greader to something else because of their Greader/G+ tighter integration. And I'm far from being the only one in this case. Didn't they learn anything from the Greader mistake?
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Dupe. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3290017

Posted an hour earlier than this one.
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Considering BERG is a design consultancy, I'd say this is more of an ad for their services first. It looks cute, and I'm sure there are people who would buy it for the novelty factor.

I'm not sure how you can compare that to CueCat? Which was a full fledged company.
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I agree, but maybe this would explain why most TechCrunch articles are so bad.
Dupe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Printer
It does feel a bit like a runaway train, but I'm not sure it's the government's place to police the carriers on features and price (my biggest issues with them). What we really need is one solid competitor who aims to do things differently. We need an Apple / Google in the carrier world.
> but Marco has come to the realization that the problem lies with the user's personal use pattern combined with his expectations for the technology. I think that's really insightful.

No, the real problem lies with the technology over-promising and under-delivering.

There is no reason why the problems the user was experiencing should exist, other than that software quality is appalling.
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Alternatively, suppose we label the combinations of child-day BM, GM, BT, GT ... BU, GU (14 items). We have a bucket with 2 of each of these combinations, as there are 2 kids (total 28 items). The problem states that we have taken one "BT" item out of the bucket (so 27 items left), and are asking how many "B*" items are left in the bucket (13).

The confusion arises because one can consider the same problem with replacement, putting back the BT item in the bucket before picking a second time. It's something that's not clear if u are not thinking of enumeration.
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We can assume he's selecting one of his children at random, and revealing their birthday and gender.

This is the entire point of the article, IMO: we have to make some assumption about how we selected this guy to talk to, and how he chose what to tell us. It's not pinned down by the statement of the problem, and what you might consider a natural assumption is not necessarily what other people might assume.

Which is why these problems tend to suck...
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Also, this is only mandatory _after_ you've secured a position. I've always concealed past salaries and never had to present my P45 until I've actually started work.

I can only second patio11's point here. My salary expectations have doubled over the past few years by just shopping around and keeping my mouth shut about previous salaries.
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Unlike your father, my dad is really excited about that Photostream feature :)
Wow. Ranting like that begs to be labelled, but I'll resist. I'll just say this: also ignore rants from cowards who have never been in the trenches, who have never known glory nor freedom.
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Well it's kind of the fault of the web developer too: everyone knows to charge an amount up front.

Also, did the developer go through the small claims court? It's quick and cheap.
Thanks for posting that. These little things are often not mentioned in the success stories we hear. Was Mrs. Gates' chat with Mr. Opel the sole cause of Microsoft's success? Of course not! But opening a few doors so early on is definitely a huge stroke of good fortune.
I want to make the user experience seamless " if a user is interested in 3 items -- I don't want him jump from clip to clip; instead I want a seamless newscast with just his/her items , while giving him or her the option of going deeper.

The second reason is controlling the exposure to ad. The idea is that we not to force the viewer to view an ad unless we know that he or she has consumed more than X second of news videos.

As far as the CDN bucket goes -- the broadcaster owns the bucket. I have them set up their buckets ( for which Amazon bills them). My application just needs access rights to that bucket.

Also, I expect TV stations would be flexible in content management as news is a fungible and highly perishable commodity ( 5 pm news is stale by the time is 11 pm ). Also, unlike entertainment content ( sitcoms etc.) , Local TV stations produce their own news content; so they less encumbered by third party copyright issues.
Doesn't this mean that the more information we gain about the boy, the less likely it makes it that his sibling is a brother?

More likely, but only if that information being true was a precondition for knowing about the boy in the first place. Take the following scenarios, assuming Alice knows Bob has exactly two children.

Alice: Do you have a son?
Bob: Yes
Alice: Pick one of your sons, and tell me the day of the week he was born
Bob: Sunday

Here the day of week provides no additional information because Bob will always have an answer (like in Monty Hall, where Monty will always reveal a losing door), so the probability that Bob has two boys is 1/3.

Alice: Do you have a son who was born on a Sunday?
Bob: Yes

Here having a son isn't enough; he also has to satisfy a condition that occurs with only 1/7 probability. Bob is more likely to be able to answer yes if he has two sons and thus two chances to satisfy that condition.
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This, of course, is the main benefit of an non-restrictive development environment.
Would you publicly call out an non-paying client?
I just found this via twitter..

http://bsglogistics.co.uk/

Here a developer has suspended hosting and publicly called out a client for non payment of bills.
Personally, whilst I might suspend a clients service, I don't feel that this kind of name and shame tactic would reflect well on me professionally.

Would you do the same?
HR's job is to hire someone at the very least amount possible.

Is it?

HR strategy should maximize ROI and minimize financial risk regarding your team, but that doesn't necessary mean hiring someone for the least amount possible. Getting the best ROI and minimizing risk sometimes means recruiting the best possible employees and paying them exceptionally well to retain their services and keep them around.
Python (and Django) prides itself on being cross-platform. Installing bcrypt on Windows is a huge PITA.
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Not giving much attention isn't the same as actively giving bad advice.
patio11's line is pure wank, and will be recognised as such by anyone worth working for. It's not the denial of the request that's the problem, it's the overly dramatic reason - similar to "what's my greatest flaw? well, I can't stop myself from working long hours for my employer!". Bravura below has better alternatives.
... which is why nobody can quote a real price on a website when selling to big companies; they all have purchasing groups that are required to secure discounts.
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If the older child is the boy born on Tuesday, you have 7 chances the younger child is a boy.
If the younger child is a boy born on Tueday, you only have 6 chances the older child is a boy. This is because the 7th chance (older is a boy born on Tueday) was covered in the first scenario.

Summarized from: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/60598/title/Math_...
Faster matrix multiplication in general is an important applied topic, because it can speed up all sorts of scientific, engineering, and ML algorithms that have it as a step (often one of the bottleneck steps). However this new technique appears to be more of theoretical interest because of how impossibly large the matrices would have to be before it becomes faster than simpler techniques.

The Strassen algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen_algorithm) is used in practice though, and is faster than the naive multiplication approach for moderately large matrices, so this kind of research sometimes produces practical speedups. Not in this case without significant further breakthroughs to really bring down the size of matrices that it wins on, though.
Well Google normally goes by the numbers, so I question whether your assertion matches what they're seeing.
Sounds like a Naked Objects implementation to me. The fun really starts when you start generating your views at runtime using reflection.
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If someone has to stay long hours on a regular basis someting is wrong...

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Vlad, good points.

Just a minor correction, the H-1B cap has been filled every years since 2003, at least.

http://redbus2us.com/h1b-visa-cap-reach-dates-for-fy-2004-20...

(which needs an update for FY2012 - the cap was reached last week)
I've been using msysgit at work for the past couple of years, and it works fine. There's a bit of an impedance mismatch between the command line orientation of git and the crippled command line experience on Windows, but msysgit comes with its own mini bash implementation, complete with ls, vi and a few other handy utilities.
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In the US, a year of family leave is, to say the least, unlikely, and legally required nowhere. But even if it were, most companies that last long enough to have somebody come back from a 1+ year leave most likely are, or have become, large enough that there's no reason to lay off the "replacement".

Developers in particular are rarely terminated individually for economic reasons. There's always something for them to do, some way to extract value from them. Companies don't usually start dropping good people until they're dropping a bunch of them at once, and usually deadweight layoffs have preceded.
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I was pretty excited to test this, but unfortunately it's not available in my country (Norway). Siri is available for iPhone users here.
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It's not made for being immobile. With a standing desk, I find I move around more.
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So people will set up companies that work for the authors to set this stuff up, and those companies won't be able to capture most of the proceeds from the authors work, but instead will be forced to price according to the value their work provides to the authors.
Personally, I'm always pleased to see an open source project on a candidate's resume (provided they contributed significantly to it, of course). It's always a good way to evaluate a candidate's skills outside of a technical interview.
I'm amused at the term "greedy" used as a pejorative when referring to stockholders.
Why should your salary offer depend on what the candidate has previously made?

When I hire people for my consulting company, I consider how much I can bill them out for, and then how much I can pay them based on that. Their salary history is irrelevant to me, and their salary expectations are only important insofar as it's less than or equal to what I can pay (and that they're up to the job).

Obviously, as an employer, I'd rather pay people less than more. But I'm also in a business that requires skilled, independent, smart people, and those are pretty rare. I'd rather pay someone a lot and bill them out for a lot, than not have access to such people.

Asking for salary history strikes me as a sneaky way to ensure that you can pay someone as little as possible, and leads to similarly sneaky and/or dishonest behavior on the part of the candidate, as well.
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Lately it seems any move made by a social network raises the hairs on people's backs. I haven't tested, but I'm willing to bet that you only see the person's activity on the top-right if both of you are in G+ and that person is in one of your circles.
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I definitely agree - I hate problems like this, because the difficulty is caused by ambiguity of English, not the problem itself.

But even given other assumptions as to why the father selects the child he does - sort by date, males first etc, the author's answer of 13/27 is still almost certainly wrong - he should have just taken the father out of the equation completely.
You're complaining of a double-standard where men aren't allowed to hurt other people but women are allowed to hurt themselves? You have a strange definition of double-standard.
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Don't be so sure. In a down economy, with a large fund, the fees can be so large as to be demotivating. What's 2% of a billion dollars? A fuckton by my standards.
The issue here is with assumptions - you have made a different set of assumptions from the author, and hence are getting a different result.

A lot of people here are having similar issues, by misreading exactly what the initial proposition means.

Your reasoning above relies on the 'likeliness' of a man giving you the information, which is something that is not meant to be a part of the problem. Although it is phrased as a man 'telling' you something, that statement is really a metaphor for 'you determine the following piece of information, 100% truthfully'.

In particular, your explanation assigns agency to the man - that if he does in fact have a son, he may or may not choose to reveal the truth 'I have a son'. However it makes no allowance for the man lying - so you are assuming if he answers it will be truthfully, but you are allowing him the lie of omission.

Whilst there is nothing specific that rules out your interpretation, it is not what is intended. Read it instead as:

----

There exists a man, A.

A has exactly two children.

The statement 'A has at least one Son, B' is true

What is the chance that the statement 'The Non-B child of A, is a son' is true?

----
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Wow, it never occurred to me that HR staffers might get a bonus for hiring people at a low salary. I would have hoped (naively, it would seem) that they would get a bonus for hiring really great people that help the company to do better things.

This sort of reward structure strikes me as focused on short-term benefits, without regard to the long-term strength of the company. It's very sad to hear (and shows just how out of things I am, having been my own boss for 16 years).
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If they insist, just say you've signed a confidentiality agreement regarding salary with your previous employer.
I think I've spotted where your misunderstanding is.

BG is only not the same as GB if there is some other information available - which was born first, what their names are, hair colour, etc., because then you'd be saying something like

Boy born first, Girl born second

Girl born first, Boy born second

and those are two distinct possibilities. The point is that they are only distinct if you have this extra information, which we don't. We have no way of differentiating between the two children except for gender, and therefore BG and GB both just say 'one male child and one female child'. You might assume that the order of the two letters specifies the order in which the children were born, but that's a false assumption because it's not stated anywhere.

If you include the order, there are four possibilities: a) Boy first, Boy second, b) Boy first, Girl second, c) Girl first, Boy second, d) Girl first, Girl second. If you don't, there are three possibilities: a) two boys, b) two girls, c) one boy and one girl. The unspecified information about order is the subtle but important difference.
I'll be interested in seeing what people think about this. Some of what Siri does is trivially easy, but the completeness and polish of it is what makes it special.
Yes I would call them out. People do these things because they believe the consequences are painless.

I wouldn't do what this guy has done though because I doubt clients publicise sites before they are live, so no one's going to see that notice anyway.
Impossible to tell what it really does from a sales/concept video. Will need to see it actually in action.
Can you elaborate on this? I'm mostly curious because I have used Sinatra, and I am starting to look at both Noir and Compojure.
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Oh, because men hitting their wives don't also hurt themselves? Please. The toll of committing violence is high.

"Poor women, we can't let them do what society tells them to do!"
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He talks only about how hard his dad worked and draws a direct line from his dad's hard work to the results. I'm trying to make the point that the line isn't so direct. There are a lot of things that could have happened to upset that trajectory and I don't think the OP is acknowledging them.

In other words, I've got the impression that OP thinks that life is fair - that if you work hard, you're guaranteed to get ahead. I'm arguing the opposite. Sometimes you do everything right and it all goes to hell anyway, due to forces outside your control.
In the recent Thiel debate he said in fact that he supported undergrad education inclusive of non-technical degrees and was personally glad he did what he did. The larger question related to increasing price tag vs. decreasing value.
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I'm not sure what maleness has to do with this. The issue is there is a class of people who are, relatively speaking, much better at something than other classes.

I'm tempted to say that the author is not suggesting that there is a proactive push on his company's part to take advantage of this disparity. You could argue that they are by lowballing everyone, but some fraction of the people end up taking the job so it must not be a totally bad deal for those who take the job and fail to push the lowball offer higher

My question is, what do you feel is to be done about situations like this? In particular, at what level should society act to 'right' the situation?

Edit : by disparity, I mean the gender disparity : There is not a proactive effort to get women to accept lower salaries.
Non-standard? You can buy the paper in any Staples. It's standard width.

They're selling physical products for more money than it costs them to make. That's the business model.
I'm sure they'll only show you posts that you can see - either because they're public or because you are in one of the circles to which the post was shared. But not showing a public post, even if you're not following that person? That wouldn't be a breach of privacy for sure, and it could even be useful (if maybe distracting from the subject of the email, sometimes).
The comparison doesn't matter.

The fact remains: if men do what "society" has "conditioned" them to do, we hold them personally responsible. If women do, we rush to take care of them and save them from themselves.

The moral of the story: women are delicate flowers who cannot decide for themselves, and must be protected.
'Siri' sounds like someone's name. 'Cluzee' sounds like the result of a failed marketing meeting.
This is an old news. G+ integrated your feed into Gmail a while back. Another one of the privacy concerns.
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