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Ask HN: Is this interview street thing for real?
HN jobs has a link to the top to interviewstreet, which basically seems to be a broken version of codility. Does anybody know if this is just a paid link or if I should take this seriously?

1. The questions are incredibly basic
2. It seems to crash on the very first challenge I tried: Website's output 'TestCase #0
Status: Failed () line1 = input() File "", line 1 10 1 ^ SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing
Success" class="tooltip" />
Your output:
Expected output:
0'

Additionally it has no contact-us section or anything.

I'd also like to ask, if this isn't paid for, why HN is soiling itself by promoting this link which is an apparent waste of my time (at least before it's release ready).
DSSID has been tested in FF, Chrome, Safari and Opera. It doesn't depend on certificates, so deleting your root CA's shouldn't make a difference. Google "HTML5 local storage" for more info on localStorage and sessionStorage.
All I know is, anyone who uses the word "space" in any sense other than the mathematical one of "a set with dimensionality" needs a slap in the face.

If they use it in a sentence where it could be substituted for "room" or "place" with no difference in meaning, then they get two slaps in the face.

(Just realised this means I now have to slap people at my local hackerspace. So be it.)
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Thanks, I will remove the wildcards and rm -rf where I can. I will add more comments to the scripts, so people can instantly know what exactly is happening when they read through.
I'm not making excuses for it, I'm questioning your decision-making process of determining what is "bad software".

I simply disagree with you, is that a controversial position?
Seems to work great for vim using repository head. Run

git clone https://github.com/orestis/pysmell.git

to a local directory. run "python setup.py install" in that directory, and then copy pysmell.vim to your appropriate vim plugins directory (for me, that is ~/.vim/ftplugin/python), and "set omnifunc=pysmell#Complete"

Seems to have emacs and textmate plugins too, can't comment on their status.
That happens all the time, but it's because the acronym is not the point. For example, when some production system went down, a "swat team" was assembled to make sure that wouldn't happen. SWAT stands for something, but what it stands for is meaningless, it's just a unique identifier for the sort of activities that the team will engage in. It's like when people call an ATM an "ATM machine". To them, ATM is an opaque word, not an abbreviation for "automated teller machine". And that's fine; use a word enough and it becomes a word.
A got a serious kick out of solving math equations and word problems. When I got the result was very satisfying. It was like a game. Maybe it was part of growing up poor and not having enough for fancy toys (paper and pencils were nice and cheap). I also liked to take apart and build things. Eventually by 13 I knew I was going to like programming. Computers were fascinating and we saved for year and I got an 8bit ZX Spectrum knock-off. It was the best thing in the wold. So for me it is very strange that kids wouldn't like math. I guess I was a weirdo growing up...
From that perspective, sure, but the original context was that Scheme is not useful to a programmer except perhaps as an instructional endeavor. I gave evidence contradicting that assertion.
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The process of learning a math concept is often a step-like function. Unlike in other subjects, it can be hard to learn math concepts in small useful steps, and when it comes time to solve a problem, it's hard to fool oneself into believing that one understands a concept when one doesn't.

People often hate ego-damaging objective evaluations of their performance, and math is full of them. Learning math is, almost by necessity, a humbling experience (it's always possible to come up with more difficult math questions).

So a first step to the successful teaching of math is to teach patience, persistence, humility, a sense of what it "feels like" to learn a difficult concept, and a certain comfort with not-yet-understanding.
One of things that I have found to be a disappointed with the US education system is lack of statistics courses in High School.

Absolutely. Teaching HS students trig but not statistics makes zero sense.

That said, the way statistics is taught is absolutely awful (probably even worse than most math education), so I'm not sure it would make much difference.
This rule never worked for me, because I, like some sort of analogy machine, like to use analogies. And like is a good word to place emphasis on before making an analogy.
I'm not sure this argument really has any force. Doctors need less math than engineers. Is "medical doctor" therefore a less valuable profession?

Similarly, electricians need very little math at all. We clearly need electricians. Should we just not educate the students we think are likely to be electricians? Or should we have a real discussion about what topics are most likely to enrich the lives of the most students?

We just yesterday had an article posted about the 1850's Harvard entrance exam. Surely, if they had a time machine, there'd be quite a few antebellum Harvard freshman willing to tell us all how important it is to memorize Thucydides in the original Greek.
I wonder if http://lanyrd.com/ is next? I'd think github would love to have simonw on the team as well.
> When I think of intelligent alien life, I think along the lines of Klingons, not alien dolphins. Are we going to find alien dolphins? Absolutely. Klingons? Nope.

Why are you so sure that this is impossible, still? Aside from FTL travel, in what way are humans fundamentally different from Kingons? We both have space travel, some sentience, a taste for weapons, etc.

You think this happened only once in the entire (say) Milky Way, and that there is absolutely 0 chance of it occurring elsewhere? That's certainly possible. But it's not the only possible way things have unfolded.
Maybe its a way for them to get small coding projects done for free :) Seems odd a company like facebook would use this to screen.
This is very valuable insight.
Wouldn't even have to go that far. Seasteaders are already paranoid enough that you can just play on the fears they already have.

"Nice seastead you have here. It'd be a real shame if some country decided to come out and take your strategically worthless, resource barren, unstable platform from you."

Then sit back and collect a paycheck.
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What's the incentive to slow the burn rate? If the startup blows up, you just start another one.
Wait - we can't infer this using orbit size and speed plus the volume of body? Is it more about distribution of density throughout the body?
BGR Interview: Sony Ericsson President of North America Paul Hamnett
This contains a very disturbing question about RIM’s accounting practices. Jean-Louis is being careful to insulate himself from lawsuits by phrasing his suggestion as a question, but the implication is that either he is mistaken about what RIM have claimed or that their numbers—especially previous revenues—don’t add up.

If RIM has been super-aggressive about their numbers in the past, this could be the crack in the dam that leads to a complete collapse. A one-mighty company with declining prospects that engages in questionable accounting practices to delay the revelation of exactly how poorly they are doing...

This is an oft-repeated tale in the public markets, and it always transitions from drama through horror to pathos.
That's precisely right. Unfortunately, this is caused by managers so often rewarding "confidence" instead of competence.

Fortunately, the way out of this is through greater use of data and analysis. I always find it amusing when an overconfident manager s left speechless when you show them the numbers indicating what they just said is bs. Of course, the nice thing about using data is that it makes managerial blowhards think twice before making promises or telling people that they've actually done something great.
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I do frequently use many different Android phones, because I do Android development.

I've briefly compared Path on Android and iPhone. Other than performance (iPhone is much smoother), I didn't notice many differences. I'm not really blaming the OS for having any technical flaws. I'm speaking more to flaws in the platform.
Its not diffrent. I was discribing what was happening.

Well I think the evidence is not fully in on that jet. Method Jits are much older and there is a alot of reserach done in it spezially the old Self papers. Almost everything done in JS has allready been used in Self. Even some of the same people work on the JS implmentation.

Tracing jit are relativly reason and LuaJit shows how it can work out. It could well be in the end a compination of both is best.
and to think that people were going on and on saying that something like this wouldn't work. 100k raised and an experience I have firmly supported and believed in from the beginning.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203427
Well, I have had none of the problems you describe, with a machine that's not maintained on your level I might add, so I guess my good experience cancels out your bad experience.

Therefore, Firefox is neither good nor bad, it is neutral.
Sure, but if a client asks what you're doing, and you suspect they're not clueful about the work, you'd tailor your reply to as close to plain English as possible. But when you're talking to experts you correctly use jargon to rapidly communicate actual information.

There's a big difference between the example you gave and "executive" speak. About 80% of the uses I see of "leverage" / "leveraged" / "leverages" are bullshit. Not just 'could be replaced by use / used / uses' bullshit, but 'if replaced becomes meaningless' bullshit. It's not that people do not understand business talk, it's that much of it is vacuous nonsense that carries no information once you've decoded it.

The underground grammarian has some stuff about this (http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/) (although I can't remember where) when he gives an example of a legal definition for a door. It's a long, technical definition, and it's hard to understand. It's the kind of thing that people often make fun of. But he points out the context (maybe legislation about fire exits?) and says that being exact is important, and in that case it's good that there's no ambiguity.
Shocked? No. Willing to quietly sit by while the "vehement criticism" (actually rampent, foul sexism that would never be directed at a male tech blogger) is condoned and defended and is accorded more respect than the original article from a respected blogger? Also no. The latter is happening in public in a documented form so there is more than enough evidence to "prove" it happened.
Per others' comments: adopting a "game" frame of mind can be a useful way of adopting the patience (etc.) required for learning math (and, indeed, accomplishing any number of difficult tasks).
Especially when someone else is paying for all of those lottery tickets.
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Yep, because contributing to the global math conversation is something every 12 year old wants to do.
Sibal is an idiot. Nobody in India takes him seriously. When he is not busy kissing sonia and rahul's ass, he talks from his own.
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Kind-of tangentially related, but I find that there's a high tendency for people to interrupt other people and speak over others. This often leads to poorly-thought-out discussions, because people are rushing to get a word in edge-wise. At one point, I had to implement a "Lord of the Flies" style conch system to make discussions bearable. Lately, it seems endemic to programming style discussions. I'm not sure why.

I find that when everyone slows down, thinks before speaking, and uses deliberate language, understanding improves greatly.
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This seems to be a fairly reoccurring theme - countries requesting internet sites to mass censor user content. Rarely though do they understand the scale of what that means. In the article, it stated that they wanted each item to be screened by a human. In the same way that I'll quote a client a much larger price if they want IE6 support, I often don't see why these companies don't just quote the country a price for the manpower required to do this. Kind of a, "Listen, pay us X per year to hire people to do this. Otherwise, it's simply impossible for us to do, and we'll fight your request in court til the end of time."
While I doubt any country would actually pay, I think it would serve to at least educate the politicians as to how much work censoring the internet actually requires.
"sucka-toe-ah" that's how we remembered it in high school :D
How much media firms are donating to SOPA/PIPA sponsors.
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Lastpass and gmail use an app called Google Authenticator to provide two factor authentication. Works a treat, and I always have my phone.
Cos they're YC backed
And some typical boys club culture clash issues with accountability and honesty
Although slightly ahead of its time for the masses there are implementations which do not require you to carry another device. You can use your telephone and be provided with your second factor via voice, sms or application running on your smartphone.

For example: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-secu...
The stronger variant of that argument is, I think, that you don't know how much better you could do your job with math until you know a substantial amount of the math that would improve it.

For instance, a large number of doctors tested (in a study I can't locate the citation for) fell prey to Base Rate Neglect[0] when doing a mock diagnosis. This seriously affects the amount of money wasted and the amount of illnesses cured in medicine. Along with a wide swath of related problems, it could be cured with an intuitive understanding of basic probability theory.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate
Good Times RIP never did happen. Within a few months of that presentation people started wondering whether or not we were in a startup bubble.
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That's a pretty low blow. What he wrote was extremely clear, though clearly his punctuation was terrible and his spelling was shaky. If it had been read to you out loud, you wouldn't have noticed an issue:

"Managers, salespeople, and lawyers with [a] poor understanding of math as basic as adding fractions are very risky. It's not that they can't perform most job functions, it's that they are extremely likely to make costly mistakes. 'When should I add one more person to keep people from charging as much overtime?' Or, the old: 'Should I offer overtime or comp time?' etc. As [for] salespeople and lawyers, effective negotiation require[s] them to be able to say: 'I can't drop the price any more but I can do X' (which costs us less), etc.

"Graphic[...] designers often use a lot of math directly when working out layouts and things. An intuitive understanding and lots of effort can help compensate, but it's a significant loss if they can't do simple math on how tall / wide things are when you scale them."

Is that written poorly enough to take the time to passive-aggressively call someone stupid on the internet?
Burden of proof, what? This is not a court proceeding; it's a discussion thread about a blog post.

The whole point was to illustrate how sexism at work can come in far more subtle forms than "my boss keeps pinching my ass" or "I can't stay late because that's when the guys all gather around the biggest monitor and watch porn" or even "too many fsck jokes".

I read the post; that's the point I came away with, and I came back to the HN discussion to see if anyone else in the community had similar experiences to share, suggestions about how to wrestle with this kind of subtle sexism, etc..

Why in the world would I need to be convinced that her particular example could be proven to be part of a pattern of sexism? Why, in a blog post, would she take the time to document all of the other experiences that created the context that convinced her this was sexism at work?

Maybe some of you know the company & are even working there? I didn't feel there was any accusation against me. I don't know anyone involved (the author included), so even if somehow she was some weirdo who invented the whole story, or drastically misintepreted the situation/context, that's completely beside the point.

The point was to start a conversation; that this experience could be part of a subtle version of sexism is perfectly plausible; and yet somehow so many commenters here are completely avoiding that conversation, and instead reverting to this overly-formal stilted legal language and demanding incontrovertible proof that this specific incident can be validly ascribed to sexism.

Who cares? She sounds like she has a reasonable grasp of the situation; why shouldn't she have the benefit of the doubt? (What's the horrible cost to avoid?)

And the few people who seem aware of what's happening here are too busy pointing this out to have the conversation.
That would be a good target - I could also see interest in branching out into the careers/interviewing space as well.
If you can do it with ten women, you still win.
In my high school public speaking class, we also had a goal to remove these stop words from our speech by the end of the semester - but in our case, the teacher would simply stop you if you ever said one of these stop words in class, at which point you would have to say what you were going to say again without any stop words.

it didn't take long for most people to learn, and it's probably one of the more valuable lessons I've carried with me from high school. I've learned to be more comfortable taking a pause if I need it, which I think has had only positive effects.

On the other hand, sometimes it can be annoying just how aware you are of other people using stop words :)
Hey! He was taking into account the overhead of the distributed algorithm ;).
New business idea: Setup proxies in Switzerland. Customers pay a subscription to download pirated content from their Swiss account. From there, you can transfer the customer's data to their home account in the US (or wherever). Seem perfectly legal to me. For extra value added you can do AV and other quality control to make help customers find and safely download pirated content.

I wonder if Switzerland foresaw such businesses...
Serious syslog problems?
School, in general, isn't for learning shit. It's for learning how to learn. He obviously knows how to learn things, has learned the things he needs to know and could (re)learn the material covered by the test. The fact that he failed a test covering material he hasn't (re)learned doesn't mean a fucking thing.
The reason why I maintain a solid circle of honest friends in my tech community is that we exchange services and gifts rather than money.

I frequently tell oblivious entry level developers and aspiring musicians to show respect to those who consult them as friends and associates by giving back to people who give them substantial advice...

You would think this was common knowledge -- We have no problem in going to College and paying 100k+ for an education, but when someone mentors you or gives you honest feedback that greatly will or does immediately impact your success, it shouldn't be taken likely, nor overlooked as their obligation to teach us. Show people your thanks for honest help, its one of the primary rules in being successful.
Looks interesting - I didn't realize the first tablets were developed 20 years ago.
The original poster is correct: human gestation is about 10 months (from conception). Most women would be aware of their pregnancy for only nine of those months.
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Your use of the phrase "even if" makes me think that you are saying that loading a form on a non-https page would be secure when that is emphatically not the case at all.
Misleading article. Since when is Android founded by designers? Youtube is founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Only Chad has studied Fine Art etc.

So, please stop starting an article full of misleading information.
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Disagreement certainly isn't (or shouldn't be) controversial :)

But my questions are pretty straightforward: Does the software crash during "normal" workflows? Is the software slugish when compared to other similar software, on a similar platform? Is the memory consumption of the software unacceptably high when compared to other similar software on a similar platform?

If the answer to any of those questions is "yes", then I think you have a serious problem on your hands. Those are questions I ask myself when I am building software. I don't see why that decision making process should be controversial - those are fundamental indicators of quality in a software project.
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Mozilla doubled in size over the last year, to nearly 700 people I think.
That's if you billed 2k hours a year, that's 100k revenue.

After corporate/employment type taxes and run of the mill expenses you would not incur as an employee, that's about 80k.

80k for lawyer-hours is not worth it. (2000 billable hours is a common law firm quota)

(To bill 2000 hours a year, you have to work much more like 3-5k hours, really expect to bill more between 1200-1600).
Yes, and the BSA opposes SOPA, as per the Information Week link

>In a blog post, Business Software Alliance (BSA) president and CEO Robert Holleyman said that, while he believes the proposed SOPA legislation, (H.R. 3261) is well intended, it's too sweeping in its current form.
A way to bring this back to the productive side of the thread would be to point out that both sides can be right: the math taught in schools can be so irrelevant that nobody (outside engineering) retains it, meaning, we should teach more stat and less "pre-calc".
I also use PwdHash. I don't know nay of my passwords by heart and also use the same seed password for everything. Whats great is you can use the extension for chrome or FF, theres a free iphone app and theres always pwdhash.com if you need a password.