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Why? That space would normally be used by ads, so I don't see it as an inconvenience...
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Having 2 each of BM, GM, etc. is implicitly labeling 1BM, 2BM, 1GM, 2GM, etc. If you sampled with replacement, you have to admit the possibility that you draw the same BT twice. It's a stretch to suggest that the statement is ambiguous in this way, as it would imply that the father could have the same child twice.
I am just curios, how you evaluate the "contributed significantly" especially if someone is contributing to documentation side of the project?
Cashiers have to deal with thermal printer paper that is being printed all the time. You will be dealing with just one or two printouts per day.

You are being overly dramatic.
If you're referring to this graph [1], that comes from an ITRS prediction. These predictions seem to be made assuming that we'll scale feature sizes assuming everything else will stay the same, which of course, is never the case. I wouldn't read too much into them. BTW, ITRS is famous for making ridiculous predictions like we'll using 15GHz by 2011.

[1] http://www.eetimes.com/ContentEETimes/Images/Design/Prog%20L....

Threshold voltage is not really an effective knob

Why is it not an effective knob? Most modern designs include sleep transistors in an attempt to not leak when a circuit is inactive. These would not work unless we could engineer high-vt transistors.
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same here. tethering to me is one of the best features a smart phone offers. it needs to be standard on every model. I hate that we're being bullied to pay extra for it, or worse yet get a separate device just for tethering. my 4 year old android phone does it well and in the background and i didn't neat to break anything to get it working.
It looks to me like this is a front end for "personal assistants" sitting in a call center somewhere, perhaps with some real algorithmic stuff mixed in. I might be wrong, but if I am right, this is not really the type of product as Siri, though they are obviously trying to ride Siris hype.
Ironically I was looking at it when they had sent me a marketing email for their new cloud computing service...

Yes I am fully aware that it's not a networking issue but it's still ironic
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They're having database issues, it gave them an error code but no-one understood what it meant so they had to Google it. The first Google result was a non-sensical post on forums.oracle.com so they gave up and went to lunch.

(This will only make sense to anyone with experience with Oracle Database)
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Finite Element Analysis. Maybe. In theory. There are lots of very large square matrices used in the various problems solved by the method. The limit of the technique is generally computing time, although last I worked in the field (about 10 years ago), we were using way, way smaller matrices than are being discussed here, and I don't recall how often the limiting factor was multiplying two of them together. (The usual case is a simple {x} = [M] * {v}).

But I always wondered what FEA would look like if we removed the constraint of model size and computing power.
The point is that, all other factors being equal, switching jobs as an engineer is the easiest way to get a raise. People tend to take the path of least resistance.
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What would the question have to be to make the following the answer?

Suppose we label the combinations of child-day BM, GM, BT, GT ... BU, GU (14 items). We have two buckets which both contain a copy of each combination (total 28, 14 in each bucket). The problem states that we have taken one "BT" item out of one bucket, and are asking how many "B" items are left in the other bucket (7 out of 14).
>He repeatedly talked about the concern of young people leaving college with 200k+ in debt -- which I think is very fair.

But is that a real problem? The statistics I've seen show that the proportion of students with more than $100,000 in debt is tiny. Most students graduate with ~$25,000 in debt. At that debt level, a college education is still a no-brainer.

I'd be willing to argue that if you've managed to rack up $200,000 in debt financing a college education, you've either 1) had extraordinarily bad luck or 2) made extraordinarily poor choices. Neither case is an indictment of the system at large.
TIL the english call their living rooms "front rooms".
I have a son born on xDay. What is the probability that my next kid will be a son?

I dont get Monty Hall :(
At first this seems like ho-hum news a bit, but if their claims that you might be able to set a printer on fire using this are true, then HOLY FUCK!

How many million HP printers are there in how many million offices filled with how many vulnerable PCs?

I'm not usually one to be alarmist, but are we one clever worm away from Printergeddon?
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Similarly, one article published without adequate editing/fact-checking can do wonders to destroy the credibility of a blog...

Try reading an article on anything you are an expert in, from any newspaper.
And now its back up. 8:53 CT.
It appears to be back up now!

It was down for a good 45 minutes though from when I got the email
I've lived through a programmer's career already. Everything was good until age 50 when my body punished me for punishing it for 25 years.

Seven heart surgeries. High blood pressure. Damaged kidneys. Removal of an inner ear (from flying while ill and not getting to a doc in some place or another).

Take care of your body, blokes. It's the only thing keeping your brain intact. The cummulative effect of stress over a number of years is to attempt to kill you.
Reminds me of my current job. They asked for a potential hire's salary history to determine how much to offer them. They previously made, say, 40k, so an offer was made for 45k. Why? Not because their skills were worth 45k, but because they previously made 40k. They were willing to go up to, say, 65k for the position. Also, the people in charge thought they should probably offer more, but didn't want to...because of the previous salary. Dysfunctional, but it happens.
I wish google had written a bytecode standard, rather than doing a language, and then targeted that bytecode with Dart (or Java/GWT, or whatever).

It would be the catalyst for a flowering of browser-side languages, like we are seeing on the server side in the JVM right now.
I would highly welcome a candidate who has proven clear documentation abilities.
My wife is a die-hard paper/pen person. I could see printing stuff out for her, articles, grocery lists, funny quotes, etc, and putting it in her lunch for the day. It'd be a nice little pick-me-up.
Or just lie. Seems like you'd be less likely to annoy the interviewers and your potential manager.

EDIT: OK, it's clearly not a good idea to even remotely suggest lying is a possible option, even as a counter to patio11's frankly far more risky suggestion. And perhaps in the name of building a better society this is the correct approach (and certainly helps prevent anyone potentially sabotaging their networking efforts on HN, which clearly is something I'm not concerned about). I hate dishonesty in general, to be clear.

However, my first full time job deliberately boasted about underpaying its employees. Luckily I didn't have to state my previous salary at the next job, just my expectation. But if they had, you know what, I would have probably have inflated it 20%. Why should my first job being underpayed screw me at my next job?
...and the worm can be inside a PDF. So what, we can only print plain-text now? Does my virus scanner look for firmware worms in pdf files?
>you can still see how aalib approximates the edges of the drawing with all sort of characters.

Wonder if that makes any sense for video, though?
Looks great. Though it could use some design help.
It seems that most/all of our competitors work this way, and I wonder why they're so inflexible. We negotiate different rates for every customer (although it turns out that in practice, most smaller customers work out essentially the same).

There's much more to pricing than just "you get 10% off regular price". It may come out that a company who replaces their computers less frequently, is more concerned about software costs than hardware, so we can adjust according to those categories. And, of course, in the realm of large customers, there are the licensing agreements that they negotiate directly with the manufacturers. So every one of our customers has a customized catalog reflecting their specific needs.

I happen to be responsible for the systems that maintain all this catalog data. Updating all of this (our master product list is well over a million products, multiplied by the costs offered for various customer types [e.g., education frequently gets a lower underlying cost] from all of our various suppliers, is a mountain of data) in a timely fashion, when our distribution costs and inventory levels change nightly, is a real technical challenge.
Where did you see a price (or lack thereof) on the site? I can't find anything.

I could see companies giving these away to employees for free, just so we can get closer to the Corbin Dallas universe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjLO_CrZRmM
I agree that that is what the author intended to communicate. But I actually think that's a bigger stretch than my own interpretation - it changes how the information was determined, which has a definite impact on the outcome.

The reason why I posted was to suggest that the author should have worded it the second way, i.e.

A man has two children, and one is a son born on a Tuesday. What is the probability that the other child is also a son?

Which leaves no doubt. I guess I didn't really make that clear enough with my original post.
I would recommend using The Dojo or The DojoApp. The DojoApp is probably better as The Dojo is still not only competing with the toolkit but also with hundreds of karate sites.
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If I was HP -- or a third-party toner provider -- I would release a worm that forces printers to use two or three times the usual amount of ink...
I think you're not looking far enough into this. HR wants to hire the best employee they can (long-term strength) while also not paying a premium, or potentially getting a discount. Since most people are terrible negotiators and/or won't switch jobs for a 5%-10% pay bump, paying less doesn't necessarily equate with focusing on the short term.

Conversely, overpaying for hires is a way of focusing on the short term (to get the person in immediately) at the expense of the long-term profitability of the company (inflated cost structure).

I'm not defending this incentive structure for HR, just saying that there are a lot of factors at play whenever a hiring decision is made.
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OP says nothing about engineers. "Large multi-national" - OP could be hiring for anything.
How so? You public posts are indexed by Google Search as well, they really don't get more public than that.
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What are the best practices for testing in Django? I feel silly testing my models. And testing my views also seems kind of awkward. But then there's nothing else to test.

Any advice?
"You then have a concrete roadmap for getting where you want to be."

... whose criteria for success can be easily gamed by the evaluator in order to string you along. Well, that's the pessimistic view at least.
I'm in the UK too. When I was hired for my last full time job (about ten years ago, so memories are a little fuzzy) when I was asked what my current salary was, I just replied "I want x", rather than saying what I was earning. They could find that out from my P45, but that was after everything was signed and I'd started at the new place.

At my previous job, I was underpaid compared to the average rate for developers in my area, so I needed to short cut a decent payrise. I wasn't asking for an outrageous amount, but so the company who were hiring me didn't find what I was asking for too high to pay.

I don't know whether they actually ever checked my P45 for my old rate, I doubt it. That side is handled by the accounts/payroll department, rather than upper management. If the upper management were that concerned about the rate at which they hired me, they'd have negotiated down at the time, not once they'd hired me.
So, Mono is likely to be declared "safe" in Europe next year, it seems.
I'd use it for two things: directions and boarding passes. Otherwise my printers are basically containers where the kids go to get blank paper to draw on.
Cute, but all in all it's a machine that generates trash.
"We were very clear with Apple what our app did. They asked us a bunch of questions and then approved us."

https://twitter.com/tethercom/status/141415159376781312
Siri's intentionally crippled in most countries, so there should be lots of room to move in the "trivially easy" department too.

"I'm sorry, I can't provide directions in Canada"

Despite having Google Maps and able to provide directions by typing, iPhone 4S is incapable of providing directions if speech-to-text is used.
Agreed. It's not simply a question of standing over sitting; it's about moving.

I have a motorised desk (essentially the GeekDesk v2) and shift two or three times a day from sitting to standing to standing while leaning on a sitting stool (which you can do even if you don't have a robo-desk). Plus I move around frequently (kitchen, bathroom, fetch water, etc) and - don't knock it till you've tried it - have a dartboard for when I'm taking screen breaks.
This is a great point that is often overlooked in the startup work environment. In 8 years of working at Startups I have only ever been in one place where anyone actually worked a solid 8 hours (everyone happened to pair-program there, which was one of the biggest contributors to this IMO). In most places people spend somewhere between 25-50% of their time surfing the web, reading personal email, hanging out in IRC rooms, socializing, etc. At this particular startup we really did none of that during the day. We all just felt really strongly about what we were working on, as a team we worked with the business guys to set a strong direction for the near-short term, and for four hours in the morning and four in the afternoon we worked. That was it. At 6 pm we left basically feeling punch-drunk for the mental exhaustion, and we went and followed our respective personal pursuits. The result?

The first place I'd worked where we launched on schedule with no overtime worked, with all of the features that business wanted for the big 1.0 (well, web-app 1.0... Really just a euphemism here).

My point is that while Arrington goes on about working insane hours, everyone always seems to overlook how much time in the office isn't actually productive for the product. I've been at places where people "worked" 16 hour days, at least 6 of which were spent playing Starcraft LAN games.
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I agreee -- this problem should not be discussed in English. Python seems better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3290313
Fwiw, the question here seems to be pretty close to the "API copyright" question currently being litigated in the U.S. as one aspect of the Java/Dalvik lawsuit between Oracle and Google. HN discussions on that point: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916735 / http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2996084
You see, the problem is that even your latest attempt to describe the question is ambiguous - the solution depends on how 'I' was selected. And if ever you describe that in a non-ambiguous manner, I suspect that the answer would no longer seem paradoxial. In other words, ambiguity in language is at the very heart of this problem.
But you might not have. You don't need to come up with excuses. Just say what patio11 said. Just say that it's for professional reasons. No point digging a hole for yourself.
Are you referring to the second graph, with bars of CPU time? It shows the CPU time spent making 1K handshakes (with six hardware threads proceeding sequentially, but since CPU time is summed, using a single thread would have given the same total).
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Nicely done, although it sounds like you agreed to work for gigantic jackasses. :)
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Why should your salary offer depend on what the candidate has previously made?

Because companies will use this to offer less and take advantage of employees.
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Azilink is awesome on Android:

https://code.google.com/p/azilink/

Have never had an issue with it.
So it's a free app... Can I assume they're angling for money from businesses the app recommends then? Or just looking to get bought?

(or is there some subscription which isn't immediately apparent from the Android Market page?)
Could be. But as an evolutionary psychology fan myself this is one area where I would expect social conditioning to play a very large role.
Syncing anything to anything seems to almost be invariably broken beyond repair, specially between products made by different companies.

Interoperativity among syncing systems, even following the myriad of 'standards' for this seems to be hopeless.

> Also, our technology is broken on that angle; things simply are not expected to work well with each other from the start.

I think this is the core root of the problem, which it seems everyone in this discussion is ignoring. If Syncing was not so badly broken we wouldn't have this discussion to begin with (and same goes for most other common problems of this kind, this is simple stuff that should have worked without a hitch for ages).
This is something I'm going to have to deal with soon. I'm not looking forward to it, but I know that I'm getting significantly underpaid compared to new hires. I'm also better than those new hires.

I'll probably leave and find a new job if it comes down to it, but I'd really rather not. That said, if I do leave, there's nothing they can do to bring me back: Saying "oh, you're leaving? here's an extra 50k to make you stay" tells me that they think I was worth the new number in the first place. A place trying to get away with underpaying until their hand is forced is not a place I want to work.
Not sure what it says about me that I don't trust this whatsoever.
I've been in exactly this situation, and there is a positive side. When you do what was asked, either you get what you want, or it becomes clear that you're being screwed. Once you know you're being screwed, it's much easier to move along.
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I don't think this has anything to do with the ambiguity of language or English. It does, however, like the Monty Hall problem, require you to make assumptions about how/why a speaker presents certain information.

Think of it like this. What would the father say if he did in fact have two boys who were both born on Tuesday. Would he really say, "I have two children and one is a son born on a Tuesday"? Wouldn't he instead say, "I have two children and both are sons born on a Tuesday."?

I mean he could say it the first way, but such a comment would be borderline misleading. To say you have one son born on Tuesday when in fact you have two is technically correct, but I think the problem assumes that the man is speaking somewhat plainly.

So I do agree with you that communication intent is ambiguous, but I agree with some others that this is sort of the whole point of the problem, and it's not always immediately obvious that statistical information is hiding in seemingly irrelevant data.
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I think that's a bad idea. If you are found out, it will really damage your credibility.
When they do, I'll be buying it for iPhone 4.
Useless factoid of the day: Siri is a spin-out from SRI (Stanford Research Institute), which can be pronounced as "Sirree".

Also, "Siri" is Hindi for "head" and comes from the Sanskrit root meaning "radiant". It's a common Hindu female first name.
Is this the difference between US and UK market?

I remember reading something different for US:

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-06/tech/30250041...
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HR's job is to hire someone at the very least amount possible.

If this is true, then this would be another reason that HR departments are totally useless. HR should be there to support the hiring manager in finding the best people for the job and should do everything possible to make them want to stay. They should have nothing to do with the budget besides their own.
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It's ancillary to the argument, but I do think that the development world needs more chaos monkeys (http://techblog.netflix.com/search/label/chaos%20monkey).
Not just because it's a clever name, but the implementation really drives availability and disaster preparation.
That would be two parents having one child each, one of whom says his only son was born tuesday, and asking what 's the probability the other guy has a son.
I advise everyone to play on this and see how not to implement a Siri competitor.
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This is the best comment on this whole topic. Everyone needs to know this.
i've heard that (on AT&T) you can get that activated for a couple days at a time (say, when you're traveling), and they'll prorate the fee.
What's the pricing going to be for this? At $30 it's a slam dunk, at $50 I would consider it. Anything more and it's a non-starter. They could try to increase profit on the razor blade model, selling ink and service upgrades.
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Why? Because of "Get information about the currently or recently running tasks: a thumbnail representation of the tasks, what activities are running in it, etc."?
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I remember (!) when XWindows was released. I was shocked, disappointed, agog. That they didn't put ANYTHING in the client in the way of stored procedures, macros, advanced primitives e.g. motion rectangles, polygon draw etc. It was not even as advanced as printer protocols of the time.

But... what? It works? It is a standard?
Just link to the letter as published by The Guardian:

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> I'm not sure it's the government's place to police the carriers

> We need an Apple / Google in the carrier world

if the government does not have the solution, and a major competitor to the big 4 (perhaps soon to be 3) carriers has not begun emerging, what do you think we should do? continue to wait for such a competitor to emerge? do you think one ever will?
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