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You have summarized it well and I agree to most of your points.
Its ridiculous how educational institutions have such a narrow focus on exams and the grades you score rather than actual learning. While this might be true in other places too, its ingrained in society here and any deviation from the set norms is not accepted well. Teachers are not paid well either and that adds to the problem.

Perhaps its because of this that innovation and research are very limited here.

Another fundamental difference is the constitution and the laws. Atleast on the book, the American constitution provides far more rights to the citizens than the Indian constitution. India as a country is far more regulated by the government. This means there are more avenues for corruption to happen since you need the permission of the authorities for almost everything. I feel the entire country is moving towards an authoritarian state with so much power vested in government institutions.

There are just too many things to list that its overloading my head when I try to list them out.I hope that the nation moves forward in a direction of its own, taking in the good values while discarding the propaganda.
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تطوير المواقع والمنتديات والمدونات وجلب الزوار ونشر الموقع
True, but it's inevitable. The car manufacturers won't give a shit, and neither will their workers cause they're still in jobs and heck there might even be more job openings.

I agree the truckers will fiercely protest this, but so did the luddites on the industrial looms, and so the swing rioters against the industrial thresher.

Technology has led to civil unrest for centuries, literally. It doesn't matter whether the truck drivers want it or not. Tell a transport company "you can fire your drivers and get your vehicles there in under 1/2 the time". Often truck drivers get a bonus if they get their shipment in "on-time" or early (which is often ridiculously close to the ideal estimation of driving time). When one transport company realises they could potentially make every bonus then if the others don't follow suit, one company will rapidly dominate the market.

Also, the truck drivers might not technically get unemployed, because a driverless truck can't change its own tire.
Curiously, once upon a time the U.S. federal courts considered a police crotch grab offensive behavior:

http://federal-circuits.vlex.com/vid/oswald-blake-leonard-ea...
'what HN users don't mean to be:'

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22I+don%27...
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Ask HN: did iOS mess up the time change or did AT&T?
So my iPhone 3G is showing the wrong time, but going to World Clock shows the correct time.

Judging by a quick search of the twittersphere, some iOS users had no problem with the change, but a lot did and they seem to all be on AT&T (like me).

Turning off auto-set of time also restores the correct time.

Anyone else have some data to correlate?
How was this map made? I assume with a manual process, but perhaps using some automated tool to make things easier? I'd like to see a similar visualization of the FreeBSD kernel.
I found your post to be a bit unproductive (despite legitimate content) because it was so deeply ridden with spite and disdain; too much focus on name-calling! Without the smug superiority complex and palpable hatred for a certain group of people you clearly consider beneath you, it would've been a bit easier to engage with.

Even a bit of humility about whether your personal vantage point and opinions are accurate pictures of the entire "real world" would help...
He is not a kid now, he should be responsible for his actions. With all that twitter followers he should know the consequences.
I wanted to relo to the bay area last summer and agree.

What was more bizarre, to me, was that most of the companies never bothered to look at my sample code or projects... and a few in fact said they didn't care what I had done (and proceeded to ask me edge-case algorithms stuff).

What was most off-putting, was the incredible amount of time involved in jumping through the hurdles. I only did this with a few companies, but after you add up: customize resume / cover letter + initial/hr screen + solve this screening coding problem + initial tech screen + anywhere up to 3 more tech screens + solve this more substantial take-home problem + onsite interviews... You're looking at a substantial amount of time.
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Hi Folks,

I love hacker news, more often than not, I see requests for Polls usually buried in comments. If you haven't seen them, just search and look for any text like "We should start a poll..."

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Polls&sortby=create_ts+desc&start=40

We needed this exact functionality as a means of gathering quick feedback from our customers and wondered how long it would take to build such a tool. Turns out not long at all. It's live now and free to use and we hope you find it useful.

So take a look, have a play and let us know what you think.

I recently started one that's near and dear to my heart which is to do with iPhone battery life on iOS 5.1: http://poll.ly/s/1r

Thanks,
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You can learn how to interact in society while still being homeschooled. Might be a different experience but homeschooling does not necessarily equate to being alone all the time.
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I used to think that (and was not homeschooled myself), but as far as I can tell, the research doesn't actually show much difference in socialization between otherwise comparably situated homeschooled and non-homeschooled kids. There seem to be some aggregate differences mostly because of the different distributions of religiosity: a lot of homeschooled kids are homeschooled for religious reasons. But if you compare middle-class-secular homeschooled kids to middle-class-secular public-school-goers, they seem broadly similar.
Schools should be able to do nothing. Parents should, obviously.
Yes, these absurdities only happen in large corporations, universities, hospitals, governments and other large organisations. Even though hot-dog stands and corner stores are free of such aberrations I'd still worry.
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It is almost like these comments were meant to be a public criticism of Google by his friend via PG rather than just to provide startup ideas.

No. Why would I allow myself to be used in that way?
Only specific, later generation models of Apple laptops can use 16 GB of RAM. It is NOT officially supported, but it works. The thermal profile likely hasn't been certified by Apple to the point they are comfortable supporting it, but it works at the electrical and logic signal levels.
People who would work out perfectly in the R&D division of SAS Institute are not necessarily great first hires at consumer web start-ups (forgetting the potential skill impedance mismatches). There are lots of implicit ideas about "how things get done" that are part of any group. These ideas are the culture.

e.g.
Does the team practice TDD? Do they focus on unit tests or integration tests? How is work assigned? Does the team prototype ideas or discuss them in the abstract? If someone says something you think is wrong in a meeting, do you confront them publicly or privately? 12-hour days? Do you pick tools that are cutting edge or proven? Duct tape together two open source libs for one feature or write your own? And of course, the classic: Is it better to a) ship early with known non-critical bugs, b) ship on time with no known bugs, but inadequate testing, or c) when all/most stakeholders feel confident the project is bug-free?

These questions aren't nearly as binary as I've presented them (and there are many more). If you and your potential new team don't agree on these issues that's a poor cultural fit. Like a poor technical fit, it doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't be hired, but it does merit significant consideration.
Ask HN: Work visa
Hi all, Is there any good tips for a Swede to obtain a working visa in the states?
Should one travel to the US and apply for jobs in place?
Is applying for jobs online a better start and then head to the states for the interview?
Any suggestions are welcomed!
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I believe Facebook has features in place to let users target groups of users when posting. Perhaps School and Parents' role is to guide/teach children in our digital mess.

School has no business checking people's private things though. Parents may have some rights but I'd also say children have an expectation for privacy.
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How is it different from excluding (bro)grammers based on their unwillingness to self-identity as a nerd, despite their qualifications?
And, ironically, the reason the US no longer has a draft is that his generation went nuts over Vietnam. Everybody knows that it is political suicide to institute a draft.
IPad Vision in 1994? For visionary Roger Fidler, a lot of what-ifs
Sprint here and my time is correct.
Let's study history and see how Europe and America got wealthy and try to do that.
Including the last one where Paul corrected the comment about Gmail being slow.
From the last paragraph, the author doesn't know the answer for the 5th question.
Schools act in loco parentis. They courts have generally held that educational institutions can violate what would otherwise be the rights of their students if such actions are necessary to fulfill the educational mission of the school.
That's exactly what my future start-up will do! Is anyone interested in making it happen?
How is it the parents doing this, I didn't see it written anywhere in the article that they're lawyers.

The 12 year old is the plaintiff, not the parents. The lawyer may have thought she had a good enough case to hold billing, and may have even held disbursements (although more likely the parents agreed to pay for disbursements for the case).
Been working at startups all my life. Got all of them but one from folks I worked with at previous job(s). Except the college hire of course - that was pre-trick-question-interview and my hobby projects caught their interest.

The 'but one' was more interesting. Moved to a new state, drove over to the University incubator, knocked on doors and chatted with people. Nobody turned me away. Two were interested, but one was moving to Detroit (no thanks!) so I took the other one. Worked out pretty good for a couple of years. Total time 'interview to job' - 1 day.
Thank you for sharing this as I am now blank with ideas.
For me there seems to be a proportion of "uhhs" that I require. This talk had a lot of them, more than I'd prefer, but it wasn't horrible and the content makes up for it (as does the Q&A). The extent of the reliance on the transcript was probably the extent people rely on notecards, the "uhhs" were mostly to fill the silence of when he was glancing at it to remind him of his place. If there aren't any "uhhs" at all in a talk I think "this guy took a speaking course and is probably trying to manipulate me", if there are too many I think "this guy didn't prepare or is just a bad public speaker", but there's a right proportion that makes me think "he's sufficiently human so I'll listen to him." Of course that last thought requires a bit of double-think since a good manipulator would know this about me.

Edit: of course, this is more of a description of how my subconscious works. Consciously I try my best to ignore these things and focus on the information content alone and feel like I should downvote you for letting yourself miss interesting content because of the speaker's presentation style. (Though to be fair at least you have the text version for 99% of the content.)
Not every parent is going to watch their kid. What should a parent do when their kid shows them something "offensive" from someone else? Where is the line drawn for bullying? To me it seems like one big mess for Facebook and parents. When kids get foul with each other, what do the parents do?
xkcd of course has something to contribute to this conversation:
http://xkcd.com/1027/
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Interesting point ... Do you think the geography of the region played a big role in keeping the tradition alive? I'm always surprised to see how my community (Bengalis) are so resistant to business - even though I have read Bengali traders ventured into overseas trading way back in history. What I felt was Calcutta becoming the capital during British India, generated a lot of government jobs for 200 years. That growth led to the downfall of the entrepreneurs in our region.

Growing up in Calcutta my Mariwari and Gujrati friends were always excited to talk about business. It was clear how their parents encouraged it. I was clearly taught business is a strict NO-NO. Get a stable job and settle down. When I look back, in a class of 60 odd people in my computer science undergrad class 95% "settled down". Only two dared to kick their job and go for a startup.
How Much Does House Size Matter?
High five for (2).
Agreed. The school district really doesn't have a clue how serious a moral and ethical violation it is to have access to a minor's facebook account. Not only the gross violation of right to privacy, but the fact that if the girl is updating it by her phone, she could well be geotagging her location, meaning an adult has access to this girls location/where she's going.

When parents freak out over sex offenders being allowed to live in their neighbour hood near their children (when the majority of sex offenders committed offences against adults, meaning the kids should be worried about mommy getting raped, not mommy worrying about her kids), do you really want to be known as the pervert in the school board tracking all the prepubescent girls.
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة وريسينج سانتاندير بث مباشر
This gave me a good laugh!
But the JVM is just Clojure's underlying implementation. Or technically one of two. That can change in the future. I believe Arc's underlying implementation is pre-Racket PLT Scheme, which is already out of date, but that doesn't mean Arc itself can't exist in 100 years.

I think Clojure's reliance on the JVM was more to facilitate its initial adoption (release early and often rather than once you've written and tested thousands of libraries) rather than a permanent language feature. So assuming pg agrees that Clojure is unlikely to curl up like a bimetallic strip even if and when the JVM loses popularity, I wonder what his view on using it at the present is.
If you like rc, check out es [^1]. It's inspired by rc but has higher order functions and a few other things to support functional programming.

[^1]: http://192.220.96.201/es/es-usenix-winter93.html
Timeline: An interview with Nicholas Felton - Facebook's lead designer
I don't know what your product is or does, but from what I just read, it doesn't seem to be very innovative.

You're building a faster horse instead of a car.

The solution lays in semantic communication. As long as you mainly communicate with text that someone has to read, analyze and understand, you're doing it wrong.
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C++11 Partial Application Of Lambdas Using Closures
Good call thanks! Fixed.
I'm 100% for helping homeless, especially in creative ways that empower them.

That said, you can get 5gb/mo of 3G/4G data access without contract at walmart for $30/mo (via a sim chip).

Then take your far more extensive savings and donate them directly to foodbanks, etc. instead of making homeless people beg.
IPhone Market Size vs iPad Market Size (iA Writer)
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Would you say Randall Monroe is the second kind?

http://xkcd.com/765/
Doesn't COPPA require that Facebook users be at least 13 years old? If so, how could she have registered for Facebook in the first place?
My brother-in-law mentioned his OK primary-secondary schools didn't prepare him for college. "Oh, how long did it take you to catch up?" I asked. "About a year!" he exclaimed.

Hm. So a primary-secondary education can be recapitulated in 1 year when you're 18 years old. Then why the heck do we make such a big deal out of it? Why torment the kids with all that artificial stress?

I suggest - take control of your child's education. Make your family projects More important that busy-work homework. Take the heat for them from the teachers, and spend your emotional capitol teaching your kids some self-reliance, common sense and kindness.

Got three Eagle Scouts this way: Sgt Al, CMU grad-school graduate Joseph (1st job: working at a Mt View startup), and young Andrew auditioning at Julliard. A shed full of home-made trebuchets, chain and plate mail; a yard full of vines and trees; a watch tower 2 stories tall with gun slits and camo netting. They did all that. The schools had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Anyway a little off-topic but sure I agree, 'boot camp' at 18 will do more to prepare your well-rounded kid than 18 years of stressing over grades.
It's a bit of a stretch to say they solved it. I'm not on FB and so FB to me don't matter. On the other hand, I'm part of an Active Directory of my company, so AD solves this problem for me at work.
But none of them guarantee that the email came from the particular person and not from a dog.
Have you used Microsoft Powershell? It (indirectly) does a useful portion of what you're dreaming about. It's a UNIX like shell where commands pipe .NET objects instead of plain text. Just like UNIX commands take and produce arbitrary text but most think of it as a sequence of lines, Powershell commands can take and produce arbitrary .NET objects but most use an object which is a collection of records.

Powershell comes with builtin commands for most of the simple UNIX utilities, and you build new commands in any .NET language. Additionally, you can interop with UNIX style programs that produce plain text by using a parsing filter (there are a few builtin, you can make more).

It's actually pretty good and a lot more regular and modern-feeling than any UNIX shell I've tried. I still prefer to use GNU/Linux, but wish there was a good port of Powershell...
you mean to tell me it has NOTHING to do with global warming?
Let me disagree.

Unless you plan to discover new ideas by mistake, you absolutely need a vision, and then find the way to get there.

If you start from the bottom (bottom-up), you'll constantly compromise technically, as lots of things are not yet possible to do.

If you start from the top (top-down), you'll "know" that it's possible to accomplish, and you'll only have to find out how to do it.

You have far more chance to solve an enigma if you know there is an answer than if you don't. Visionary ideas make you believe the answer exists, which makes it much more easier to accomplish.
In a lot of cases, so far in my career, using iostream's and sstreams and fstreams in C++ is absolutely fine because most of the programs time isn't even spent there, it is spent in the data crunching algorithms.

I am a real world C++ programmer, I can only claim about 5 years experience though, and I use iostream. So yes, your data is anecdotal, so is mine, and we are both complete opposites.
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You should know that there's no such thing as Aryan invasion.
Interview with Dr Nathaniel Borenstein, inventor of MIME
suprgeek is right. Standard deviation is too huge in all aspects of India.
I think you'll find that India still receives foreign aid from 'the bleachers'.
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This has been posted before during the past 2 months.
A mix of luck and people having access to incomplete information.

Seibel says this:

'Though not about computers per se, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations by James Surowiecki (Doubleday, 2004) contains an excellent answer to the question, "If Lisp's so great how come everybody isn't using it?" See the section on "Plank-Road Fever" starting on page 53.'
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/conclusion-whats-next.html

A Google Books search for Surowiecki's book yields a preview with those few pages uncensored (just search for "plank-road fever") and a detailed discussion about "information cascade."
I prefer sublime text 2 even if it's still in beta it is sooooo great, I really love it. ;-)
uhm, the site appears to be unresponsive for me.
It's going back a while but I believe it was the graphical nature of Macs, coupled with the LaserWriter printer that made DTP important for Macs. Which in turn prompted the use of Postscript in NeXTstep.
That's exactly what I'm planning to build! I'm not sure if I should go hybrid or all-in.

By hybrid I mean that people could receive regular human-readable emails, but senders could include a small url or tag that links to the semantic information (it could be an event invitation, receipt, valid email confirmation, password changing, task proposal, marketing offer, flight information, etc.).

The "smart" email client could then automatically interpret semantic emails, and act accordingly. It would also hide those emails, and only show you the relevant notification.
Apparently these primitives haven't found their way to the Node.js land yet... and sendfile is still undocumented.
This is just wrong on so many levels...

That is absolutely not the "point" of modern homeopathy... The point of modern homeopathy is to spread a lot of nonsense about water with memory and other such bunk.

Secondly, you seem to have some funny ideas about the placebo effect. Placebos are used to try and measure peripheral factors. It could be that just going outside is what is curing the patient, and not the new drug you are giving them.... Or maybe spraying anything up the nose will help some symptoms, not the new nose spray you are testing. That's the whole point of a placebo...if your medicine is only working as well as the placebo, it's not working at all.

It so happens that additionally, sometimes you can get what is called "the placebo effect" where just the idea of being treated can help somewhat...but generally only in certain cases and for subjective things, like pain. It makes sense that people feel a little better subjectively when they are treated.

However, not all placebos cause the placebo effect and if a placebo helps it is not necessarily because of the placebo effect. Using placebos in the way you suggest is not good medicine, they are not reliable enough and require some dishonesty with the patient, a serious ethical concern. Furthermore, you should be able to get similar or better results from a variety of real treatments!

Outside of research, there may be occasionally a reason for a doctor to dispense a placebo...but overall they are not good medicine and neither is homeopathy.

> Yeah, it has no medicinal effect. But that does not make it worthless,

Actually, yes...that's exactly what it does. That's the whole point. If something only works as well as a placebo, it's literally worthless.
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My apologies. I did not mean that you were being used. More that your friend did not have the option to come out publicly criticizing Google, but you were able to. Google is in the position of target of criticism lately just as Microsoft and many other large companies are, however by referring to your conversation with your friend in the same context, you lend credibility to the notion that perhaps some of the criticism was his.