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Ah, I am not alone!

Sure, simple tests to filter out people who clearly know nothing about programming are useful, but puzzlers and other ego-trip tests are useless.

I can hire better programmers by asking them to write an essay about any current piece of news.

The English language is the first programming language one should master. It's the one most useful to handle interactions with other human beings, and that's what makes the most important difference in any job.
A major airline publicly attacking specific customers, especially those who are supposed to be the company's VIPs, would make me like the airline less, even if they were technically correct.
It's a fake article, don't get your knickers up in a bunch.
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You definitely need to have something on the front page that describes what you're trying to accomplish. Even after looking around for a bit, I was still unsure. Is it trying to be a site for restaurant reviews? Or a site to book reservations online? I think your bounce rate would improve from a bit of clarification.
> So the question then becomes: What happens when Zuck is too mature to see what's coming next?

He can buy/hire people who are good at that.
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Google search often breaks for me when behind a proxy, maybe for similar reasons (sending different content based on the user agent). I don't know if proxies have separately cached documents based on the user-agent or not, but I regularly get a broken instant search (no results at all even after pressing enter).

It's not all the time and I haven't investigated to find out what the problem is... Bing search always works so I just use that.
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>>But don't you think these customers went above and out of their way to abuse this.

No,

There is a reason why those are called free unlimited lifetime services. There is a price you pay for it. And there is deal you sign on. Now within the framework of all this anything you do is legal and fine. If at any time later the company felt this was wrong, then sorry this was a case of somebody goofing up on the contract.

At most this is stupidity on the part of the company, not a case of fraud on the customer.
I'm not at all worried about Facebook failing. I'm worried about them succeeding beyond all expectations.
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There's a simpler explanation, which is that the site really was hacked as we claimed. Here's an example cached page that we crawled on May 2nd: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zl9t7DQ...

I count the name of one drug repeated over 100+ times.

I've been quite clear that there's nothing wrong with A/B testing. In fact, less than a month ago I tweeted that "A/B testing can be really helpful" and included a link to best practices: https://twitter.com/#!/mattcutts/statuses/191658511149711360
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I thought the firing aspect was the one new thread in the entire 5 page article. The rest was simply a rehash.
You shouldn't be worried about either.

Smoke and mirrors are always in stock.
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They are adding typed channels to Haskell:

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Graeme Obree (the subject of this article) is a great hacker. No, not in the software sense, but most definitely in the cycling world. Consider:

- At least twice he produced advances so innovative that they were subsequently banned (his "Old Faithful" bicycle and his "Superman" riding position)

- He's quoted as saying, "My biggest fear is not crashing on a bike and losing some skin. It's sitting in a chair at 90 and saying, 'I wish I had done more.'"

- Even when he fails, he gets up and tries again (though, hopefully, he won't attempt suicide a third time.)
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That is not the same website: that is model1.webdesigncompany.net, which seems to be some kind of lorem-ipsum design or functionality demonstration. That site does not seem to be linked from www.webdesigncompany.net (based on a complete recursive wget of that site) and is not hosted on the same server as www.webdesigncompany.net: the only thing it shares with www.webdesigncompany.net is the domain name. It is also not entirely clear that it actually has been hacked. Is this kind of circumstantial evidence really relevant for Google?
mind trying this again now? I just pushed a fix for the zeros bug...
There is some demand, that is why they exist at all. Most likely from people who want to study it and don't care about the financial repercussions later. Not all demand is created by rational buyers.

The bottom line is that if the price is low there is high supply relative to low demand. Econ 101 factors are always "at play". While a more advanced econ class may explain more complex pricing concepts, it really isn't necessarily here since this basically a classic econ 101 example.

What is even more interesting is that every time someone graduates with a history PhD they are in a position where they either go in to the field where their low paid professors already work or go to a different job. The ones that don't want food stamps take the second choice.

Those people who decide to sacrifice for the first 3 or 4 years out of the program and take jobs to get experience in a new field which can yield higher pay later will make more than those that stay in low demand history PhD positions in academia.
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Your rant doesn't make sense because your starting point "Google is evil and despicable for making rules for the Internet" is incoherent.

Both Google's action and Google's inaction "make rules for the Internet". In an alternate universe where Google didn't implement this penalty, attacks using this kind of client-side redirection could easily be common and a serious problem. In that universe, alternate-saurik could come to Hacker News and complain that "Google is evil and despicable for not clamping down on these client-side hacks that are almost always used by attackers, not legitimate developers."

Google has to make choices. Those choices are going to feel like "rules for the Internet" for many people they influence. That's unavoidable. If you're going to criticize Google for this sort of issue, you need to focus on the details of those choices. In this case, your lack of attention to detail makes it clear you're not making a credible case.
You should check out TAGLab at the University of Toronto. They are working on a very similar problem. One of their projects involves a touch-sensitive picture album where the patient can request interaction with a loved one. The patient taps a picture and a notification goes to the recipient, and on the other end the recipient can take a photo or write a note or record a video to send back.

http://taglab.utoronto.ca/
Some vaguely interesting statistical analysis, but here's the money quote at the end (TL;DR)-

"So why do I still buy lottery tickets? <b>Definitely not for the expected monetary return on investment.</b> I think of it as a discretionary entertainment spend. I get literally hours of enjoyment from fantasizing what I’d do if I won."
On the flip side I am still using my first generation tivo because I have a lifetime on it and if I get a new device I would have to buy a new lifetime subscription.
> "Maybe he's not a good guy, but he's not a bad guy."
Translation: He has too much money, and FB has too much potential influence on our readers, for us to tell you what we really think.

that's unduly cynical. if you read the rest of the article, they explain their reasoning - mainly that, when zuckerberg might have fired people ruthlessly in his rise to the top, they did not feel that any of those firings were actually unfair.
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I used to come here for some marginally curated content, but the curation here has declined. The amount of stuff skipped over because of tiring hyperbole-ridden headlines has gotten pretty high. Maybe you disagree, that's fine; that's not really the question.

I'm curious what other low/high pass filters users here use to get some kind of marginally curated content? Maybe for specific types of news? How do you guys wade through the crap?
AA made a bad deal for short term cash. But the contract was valid and the people did not violate terms of the contract. Their investigations were done in bad faith and their cancellations of the contracts fraudulent.
Totally! I actually found it really surprising how boring the potential usage examples in the video were compared to what's possible with some of these ideas.
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I downvoted his comment while trying to upvote it. (android phone is hard to use hn on) which is probably why it went grey.

I am talking about professors since that is what the article is about and completely not worrying about colleges since that is off topic.

The entire point of the article is that a person who decides to get a PhD in history should be paid because they went to school for 4 years. To me, that concept is ridiculous and people don't get to be paid a lot for what they want to do in the absence of basic economic theory.

Too many professors, not enough demand = low pay. It sucks that person made that choice, but there are plenty of secretarial jobs which pay above poverty level which someone with a PhD in history could get.
"I get literally hours of enjoyment from fantasizing what I’d do if I won"

funny, thats exactly what i do too!
This is the first time I've heard of BrowserID, do any popular sites currently allow you to sign in using it?
Did you find any that you kept seeing after you stopped playing, as with Tetris hallucinations?
> I like benefits of the functional programming too, but I think functional and OOP work together rather than being in contradiction to each other.

Oh absolutely, I was responding to the statement of "all being lost" without OO more than making a serious argument for the opposite extreme ;)
I really like Colin McMillen's comments on this matter:

https://plus.google.com/107814003053721091970/posts/6sPpxMo6...

Some choice quotes from his Google+ post: "The lottery is not a tax on people who are bad at math. It's trading a little bit of expected-value for a lot of variance."

"There are many other cases in real life where mean/variance tradeoffs arise, and there are perfectly plausible objective functions under which it makes sense to follow a policy that doesn't maximize expected value.

The obvious example is insurance, where you pay a small bit of money each year to reduce the chance that you end up suddenly needing to pay a lot of money. Same with forming or joining a startup; on average you'll make less money than if you take a "normal" job, but there's some small chance that you'll have just joined the next Apple or Google and you'll end up rich.... "
In the Python community we mock that sort of job req.

And I know Rails guys mock stupid job reqs too.

Rather then nitpick each other, let's team up against patronizing recruiters.
Isn't this the same like raising money in an IPO. The investors buy the stock only once but are eligible for dividends and other incentives like stock splitting for lifetime.

Anything with the term 'unlimited' looks dangerous to me.
No luck, tried: annual $1000, 500 transactions
Did calculate for: annual $850, 350 transactions

Doesn't seem to be taking into account the volume discounts.

As a potential customer, the more significant barrier is customers not knowing what Dwolla is therefore not making a purchase.
> This Clock in the Mountain is being funded and built on property owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com.

> Bezos is also active in designing the full experience of the Clock.
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I think he's kind of close, at least in that it was not meant to be written as S-expressions. AFAIK, the M-expressions were meant to be the main syntax. The very early Lisp docs I've seen were all written in M-expressions, with S-expressions taking the lead something like a decade later. (This was all decades before my time, so it's possible this is sampling bias, but I don't think so.)
Are resume creation apps hoping for LinkedIn to buy them?
I'm trying my best to figure out why so many resume creation apps are spawning up.

Are any of them better than insert your favorite document editor?
In my rant I provided a specific example of how Google's rules regarding content cloaking make it difficult to search or build sites like Hacker News (and will now further point out that Yahoo provides that feature); I have also provided evidence that Google disrecommends doing A/B testing using some mechanisms as it may be considered cloaking, and that webmasters should first deindex their content from Google.

I can even, if you demand, find other videos from Google (also from Matt Cutts) that show that the heavily-hedged suggestion in this video to serve different content from the server (even small snippets of text, such as titles or breadcrumbs) that is not based on IP address (and thereby might not be stable for GoogleBot) is also highly dangerous and can lead to Google believing that you are cloaking.

I therefore take issue with the fact that, once I misunderstood this specific article, that somehow means that all of the other research that I've done on this matter, and even the arguments that I state in my rant (where the specific paragraph that is currently under contention I am backing up with evidence outside of this single article, which is from someone none of us have ever heard of and for all we know could be lying about what Google did anyway) are now void.
I was initially confused and annoyed by the author's lack of justification. But I enjoyed his conclusion, that there's an 'entertainment' value attached to the purchase.
Shouldn't the title be Reaching the limits of Adobe Flash Stupidity?

You couldn't say the same about the Photoshop team, IMO.
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Every company is staffed with "good" people; some are not that good, and some are not listened to.
I don't know what their current policy is but we've rolled our initial Tivo S1 "lifetime" subscriptions over to S2 and now one S3/Premiere Tivo. Seems to be an occasional special they do.
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You're right. Too cynical. I took it out. But remember we don't know who the executive is. He/she may have been even worse than Zuckerberg on the ethical scale. I don't doubt there are some very creepy "executives" working at Facebook.
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I don't understand your point. What does maturity have to do with "the right mindset to steer something as pliable as a web app into a product that keeps up with the non-stop competition for users' attention?"
It's not even clear that you have to do it right.
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Poor statistics on the chance of winning aside, there is one reason for me to spend $1-$2 a week on tickets: Having a ticket ensures you have a chance of winning, while not having one ensures none at all. Losing the $50-$100 per year isn't too big of a deal for me, especially for the entertainment value.
Why do people assume anything better than t-shirts means a suit? There are many degrees in-between.
"I think Daniel deserves a great deal of credit for putting this idea out there in the open instead of patenting it like some large companies might be tempted to do."

Agreed. I'm somewhat annoyed that TNW's writeup doesn't even mention Daniel Hooper's video, which sparked all this sudden interest in iOS text editing a few days ago:

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/05/07/slidewriter-might-be-t...
Mostly a personal challenge. I was also sick of things being over-bloated.

I wanted to see what I could get away with in a single file without things getting too large to manage. It's getting close to unmanageable now, but I think it's still OK.
Quibble: the "companion pass" to allow a second ticket was an additional $150,000.
How about get her blogging (if she has neat viewpoint on something) and some adsense. It would take a while to reach $1K per month though.
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Please, somebody: I'm privy to know as well. I've just visited hacker news asking myself the same. Slashdot by now has become long in the tooth several times over and is ostentatiously geeky and reeks of conspiracy theory; Reddit lacks the level of discourse here. OSNews? Hackaday? 9fans? Lambda-the-ultimate? All are much closer to Hacker News at its greatest, the last probably even greater, but they all require too much baggage of the reader in the way of commitment and even specialization.

Perhaps I'm in the minority regarding my next quibble, but: I don't care about web start-ups. At least, I'm not employed by one, and I don't care to know exactly what Jeff Bezos is thinking __right now__. I like Hacker News for its capacity to impart that fascinating tidbit about technological advances, exciting advances in physics and science, and DIY articles from embedded projects to mathematical nuggets.

Since its decline as an icon, Slashdot is much less interesting than the news section that begins each issue of Science magazine, or any issue of Physics Today. What about Phys.org? Why does it have such a terrible reputation here? Admittedly, the comments were why I always went to Slashdot, and Phys.org comments seem to be made mostly by amateurs and spectators with too much time on their hands (think: armchair Star Trek physicists).

I'm not the only one feeling this way. See these Google Plus posts:
https://plus.google.com/116810148281701144465/posts/h95SSbSJ...
https://plus.google.com/114765095157367281222/posts/VfmNKPBd...
The mafia would hire "gangster" devs.
I think they are going for the rockstar's newest competitor, using the music metaphor, the "gangsta" developer.
If the mafia were to want to hire developers and wanted to use a musical metaphor maybe they would want a "crooner" dev.
Looks like it was a clone of Glympse.

I'd be willing to bet these guys specifically cloned Glympse
Its a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, designing a great game play experience is the epitome of good game designers.

On the other hand, maximizing revenue means you get to feed feed your family, and ensure continued existance.

I m sure this goes down to "greed". But "greed" is the basic tenant of the corporation, of which most big budget games are made in. I m not sure there is an answer to this, other than gov't legislation, and I personally don't like gov't legislation.
Yes. If I play something intensely enough, especially if it's visually novel, I'll see it when I close my eyes before sleeping.
"rise to the top"?

I think you mean protecting his position at the top from "executives". Some of who may have little skill to offer the company (as someone above said, age is a factor) but are who are quite adept at maneuvering their way into higher salaries and greater powers of decision-making.
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For evaluating a refactoring or using a library/framework, you can compare the number of statements that would be used to add a given feature before vs. after the refactoring.

What's harder is to evaluate the effect of adopting a certain pattern or framework will have on the cost of future refactorings. I don't think people do even a back of the envelope estimation of even just the first number. The number of statements put in can probably be used to estimate the cost in man hours.
Meh.

Take however many symbols it takes you to describe your large number. Call the symbol count N. Then my counterpoint is the Nth busy beaver number. That's a big number.
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But will he listen to them? What if "they" can't even agree amongst themselves? How would he decide?
Marco is just posting stuff on his own blog. Its not Marco trolling, its aaronbrethorst karmawhoring by posting irrelevant-to-HN-links by highprofile HN celebrities…
The CSS isn't actually that large. The entire home page (CSS included) is about 4-5KB. The analytics code from google is three times the size of the rest of my page.

What MySQL error did you run in to? You're right that I should probably hide & log them, but at this stage logging is a low priority. I'll add it in later on.

This is built largely for personal use, so I'll only implement features that I feel I actually need, and even then they may not all make it into the main code base.
What most companies don't realize is how differently these schemes are perceived among the masses.

The initial target segment of VIP's, companies purchasing as packages and business segment of people looks naive and too much of an wrong assumption to me. You really have to understand the mind of a common man here. How would your life be if you are told, you can travel infinitely for free your whole life? Is it worth investing a little extra money for such infinitely free vacations? I bet it is!

More than the money, I think the company is just irritated that the scheme was badly gamed and the customers have had the better of them.
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lol, read the article