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Recently I interviewed a candidate for a fairly niche but high demand field. I generally liked him - he had skills that would have been useful to the team, and he was a very bright person. But a couple of us felt he exaggerated aspects of his resume by sprinkling in a couple of bullet points he knew we were interested in (from the posting) but didn't understand well. He would have fit well on our team, but ultimately we decided we couldn't trust him. If he lied about being "proficient" in skill #2, how did we know he wasn't lying about certain achievements or even jobs from the past?

I realize his lie was less severe than making up an education (and ironically much easier to catch), but it's a good example of how small lies can do a lot of damage.
Then maybe you didn't take advantage of the things college offered you.

For people who just want to follow the beaten path, college is just another footnote. For those who want to explore, there is a lot of opportunity.
Writing good SIMD code is really hard. I might take a look at this when writing NEON next time.
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Why were his home displays publicly viewable? If anything her displays (twitter, messages, etc) should've been filling the blank spaces.
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At one stage it seemed it was easier to get an IT job if there was an obvious lie on your CV. The manager interviewing you would more likely employ you if they thought they could bump you anytime simply by doing a CV checkup.
As expected of a telecoms company - they want to use the standards that are already implemented in silicone.

Has anyone blogged the feasibility of hardware acceleration of Opus? I know they have an integer implementation already, but it seems we still don't even have Vorbis support anywhere...
This service exposes your local port to the internet without the need to forward ports (which could get hairy quickly if you're behind multiple NAT layers), I don't see how it's related to serving directory contents through inbuilt python web server that you mention.
If you want asterisks to show up, * put a space on both sides.

If you want to do something *f*a*n*c*y* put two spaces
at the front of the line, it will show up verbatim
including line breaks.
It could also have been the Russians, who planted a mole in Ubisoft's quality assurance division and, over time, laying low in a foreign country gaining the respect of his peers and bosses, slowly worked his way to the top of the food chain...

...where at last he installed his Russian Rootkit.

Or maybe some programmer added a feature that was insecure and they moved on to work on some bug that was crashing level three?
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My dialog app uses Netty for serving secure web sockets to a Chrome web client, an Android client, and an iOS client. I evaluated several ws client libraries before getting the SSL handshake and websocket handshake working. The most difficult issue was limiting the server-accepted ciphers to those that iOS was truly compatible with.
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A web-based portal. List all the games you have registered and click on the link to launch it, whether it's a game installed on your PC or a link to a facebook game.
That's odd. That's not my impression at all. I figure he would have put anything that would draw some attention - Had he been a boyscout, he could have put that down, but since he happened to be a mensa member, he put that instead. I definitely don't think it was a lie, as that would have undermined the entire point.
You ask this question in a way that suggests that you think he got insanely lucky, and that's it. Whereas I actually think he is a great businessman. (I also think he got lucky)

He could have sold Facebook for billions of dollars at any point. If he felt like he was riding on luck, he should have expected his luck to run out at any moment in the last five years or so, and thus have a strong incentive to sell. So he was either being exceptionally irrational (stubborn, stupid, etc.) or he knows something you don't about the business he's in.
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IIS 6 is part of Windows 2003 Server, therefor it will be on "Extended Support" until 14/07/2015

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?a...

This means that if there is some security vulnerability discovered with it then Microsoft will provide a patch, therefor from a security point of view it isn't "out of date".

The number of years and versions is fairly irrelevant, there will be plenty of very secure systems in use by banks and the military that will no doubt pre-date much of what tesco is using by several decades.
I can understand why they do this, sort of, but I can't understand how they have this mindset in the first place.

Imagine if they let criminals run riot through their stores, on the theory that they're in the business of selling meat and potatoes to everyone in the UK, not of policing stores. Well, it's true, but putting their customers at risk is wrong and bad for business.

No, this web site nonsense hasn't been bad for business... so far. I wouldn't be surprised if a major breach would change that in a hurry, though.
Whatever happened to the virus killer: DRACO?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO_(antiviral)
http://www.ll.mit.edu/news/DRACO.html

I don't see it in the top google links, but not long ago there was some correspondence with one of the lead MIT scientists that said that after the media hype in August 2011, no one else really contacted them to look at funding the research.

It seems like UNAID would at least contact the MIT researchers and consider their approach.
Ok, looks like the game can execute an existing exe file already on the machine, is there currently any proof of concept for actually downloading and executing arbitrary code? Or even specifying commandline arguments for the exe file?
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I've turned Blake's blog posts into an audio collection simply using Apple's built in Text to Speech. It makes for a remarkably listenable series.
Android uses the Linux kernel as glue between the hardware and Android userland; it's otherwise totally separate from GNU/Linux. Calling Android a Linux is misleading.
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I have zero college experience, I've never lied about it, and I've never had a problem getting a job. In fairness, my specific area of expertise (front-end design/development) is one where you can make a real name for yourself simply by building something awesome, but I'm still of the opinion that moxy and gusto will take you farther in many fields than a degree. Especially in technology.
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I looked pretty hard at systems to do parallel batch jobs.

One thing I looked at was to store intermediate results in Amazon S3 and control the execution of job steps with SQS.

Although the system couldn't do everything Hadoop does, it worked for a wide range of problems and had the desirable quality that it could transparently parallelize multiple processing phases when it was possible.

I went with Hadoop, however, because I can run a Hadoop cluster in the office or in the cloud, and that's a big advantage.
I think you're right about animation not going away. Especially animations that help the user understand the app. However I think there's still some animations and especially some shadow, gradients and other small design touches that are overkill and can be removed w/o negatively impacting the user-experience.
I dunno. Perhaps it hits just that sweet spot where Stackoverflow loads just fine but Youtube is unbearably slow?
It's not that simple. The device has the potential to be an easy to use pc for the general public, but the community hasn't finished the software yet. The media reported the potential not the reality (there isn't a large quantity and it's just a little debian box).

As for the people who have one (like me) a large portion of the complaints aren't about the total performance capability, but it's the stability.. mine crashes all the time. There's some talk about fixing a bug in the USB driver that'll solve the issue (everything hangs up for 2-4 minutes every 20 minutes on average) but until that's finished it's rather unusable.
I think Apple's perspective is that they view these innovations as central to their success. If these innovations are truly trivial, perhaps Samsung would not have copied them nor be so intransigent about removing them from their products. One could argue that Samsung is not ripping off Apple because Apple simply "got there first.". The problem is you can make that argument about any innovation, but all discoveries are obvious in hindsight, even though, in actuality, these patents were the fruits of a fantastically expensive innovation investment by Apple.
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I don't think the latter part follows: even if Facebook got big (and became worth billions) primarily through luck, it doesn't mean that the rational decision would be to assume it was only luck keeping it afloat thereafter. Once something's already big, it's a whole different game; now you're managing a large company with considerable assets and brand. Presumably at that point he also had lots of paid lawyers and staff advising him.
Several pages that do this:

(Search for "We send your password via email")

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=...
In addition to the 'cheap hardware for those that buy it as _only_ platform, not gadget no 17' reason that others provided:

I think for real progress (in a language/as a programmer) you need a goal. A project.

The Pi is even hyped and interesting among people that already have their other 16 gadgets lying around and a couple VPS on top: It's so small and so inexpensive, that you can get really creative. Never learned to solder? Doesn't matter that much if the (capable) main part of your pet project costs about as much as two dozen Cheeseburgers from McDonalds.
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> Do you have 20 grand lying around to buy a server farm of mac minis?

Why start out with a whole farm? Why not start small - with just a few? Surely you don't need all of them up front in order to build out the infrastructure for them. Then, as $$ starts coming in from sign-ups, you start provisioning more and more of them.
How about the following?

new java.math.BigInteger("10").divide(new java.math.BigInteger("3"));

or

new java.math.BigDecimal("10").divide(new java.math.BigDecimal("3"), java.math.RoundingMode.HALF_UP);
If you want hash based passwords to be case insensitive (or have case insensitive characters) You should convert the case before you hash on login. Saving every hash makes it easier for an attacker to find a collision.
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Yes. Because, if they had not agreed to the FRAND terms, they wouldn't have been able to get their technology into the standards at all.

Getting your patented technology into a widely adopted standard has huge benefits since you're forcing people that want to use the standard to license the patents, and the FRAND requirement is there to ensure a level playing field.

Nobody is forcing any cell phone vendor to violate Apples patents, and Apple has made no attempts to get their patented technology into a standard body.
Schools that can't afford enough computers also can't afford new monitors and TVs with HDMI connections, which if I recall the raspberry pi requires.
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I have uplay installed on my games pc along with all available AC games.
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Auto-removed after being blacklisted? Or never installed?
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I forgot about this before, but it's also true that Samsung claims that Apple /didn't/ license Samsung's 3g patents at all, even under FRAND terms. That would be fair grounds to sue, though the rate they are demanding may be unreasonable.

Source 1: http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/23/samsung-apple-prefers-laws...

Source 2: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-says-Apple-stole-some...

Source 3: http://www.pcworld.com/article/259650/samsung_apple_refused_...
Why does the flag look rippley in the picture at the top? Had he just planted it?
The idea of agents is usually in industries such as real estate, sports etc. where agents help their clients by shielding them from unknowns and other things that the clients are not very well versed in. In software dev though, I am not sure if we need an agent in addition to what we already have which is recruiters. True that the recruiters work for the employer's benefit more than yours but how exactly can an agent help here ?

What you do need is good connections/contacts which unfortunately only comes with experience and meeting people on your own. If at all, I would say try finding a mentor or someone like that.
"We believe that legacy hardware for hardware video encode and decode acceleration should all be thrown out and everyone should embrace our new standard which has no such support"

Yeah, that'll fly.
Because of people like this (the straw was Growl installing itself for the third time), I've had to completely change the permissions on particularly vulnerable folders in OS X. Anyone creating software, if you are not already aware of this: installing anything that is not completely and clearly explained beforehand makes you a despicable wretch.
For a job on my team? When we have to ship a product and have a deadline? Of course I'd turn them away.

There's a difference between being an employee and being a founder. For a start, I'd want an employee who can work well with others, doesn't think they know everything, is responsible and isn't likely to quit before the project is done to start their own thing. Four years of college is longer than most of the projects I've worked on, but it can be an indicator that you can finish something you've started, even when there are bumps or low points or setbacks.

One of the best programmers I helped hire and worked with had stopped going to college - so I'm certainly open to not making an absolute rule; but saying a college degree isn't everything is not the same as saying it doesn't mean anything.
College taught me something about lying on a resume. I was applying for a job and took my resume to the school's career services person to look it over. She asked me a couple questions about hobbies and classes and said she'd get back to me with an updated resume. A couple days later, I really needed to get my resume in, and she finally sent it back to me. I forwarded it off with just a slight once-over.

During the interview, the man uttered a phrase that stopped my heart: "So, tell me about your electrical engineering experience." As it turned out, the career services woman understood my basic PC building skills as electrical engineering skills. Much like you, I was up-front in the interview and told him that it was a mistake on the resume. I got the job.
If we assume that the researchers in question are in fact intentionally misleading and misrepresenting the facts then yes, that is alarming.

But what does that have to do with being American? Pocketing money from industry at the expense of public health and safety would be disappointing given any nationality.
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Conceptually, in a work environment you aren't accessing the website, your company is. If your company chooses to add an SSL proxy for its own purposes, there's nothing invalid, wrong, or unethical about that. Conceptually, you're all functioning as one entity.

You may note I'm using words like "theoretically" and "conceptually" in these replies, and that's basically because ctz's point is accurate. It isn't hard for someone on HN to be more competent at SSL usage than the administrator of the SSL inspector. But, well, welcome to the corporate world. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. But I don't think it's wrong on any moral or technical level, it's just potentially wrong based on more mundane considerations, like competence.
Just as an anecdote: I used to stream my Netflix through my console (PS3) as my primary usage of said console. I got so frustrated with having to do Software Updates, seemly "every time I turn the bloody thing on!", just to launch the Netflix app that I went out and bought an AppleTV. My console is no longer even connected to a TV or power cable.
I frequent a couple of niche forums where the rule is that you have to write an introductory post of at least X sentences (or come up with original witty answers to a list of questions etc.) before you are allowed to post anything else. All introductions are read by admins or volunteers and approved if as long as they seem written by a human. No spammers and very few trolls.
I navigate without mousing:

https://homonculus.net/images/reeder.png

What Reeder shows on the left is the summary of the article; one can read the original by right arrowing. Many of my feeds put the full article into the summary. I navigate up and down the list (which is all of my feeds sorted by date ascending) with the j/k keys. I don't know how NNW does it. Or did it.
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What I don't get about newspapers in the US in general, is that it seems that their adoption is extremely low, compared to European countries. NY Times, supposedly the third largest newspaper, has a daily circulation of 1mm whereas De Telegraaf (the biggest newspaper in The Netherlands, a country with a population of only 16mm) has a daily circulation of 700K!

Why is that, don't people read newspapers in the US?
This is the same problem with The Economist's digital subscription. Really annoying full-screen click through ads between a lot of pages. And generally these seem to be just one or two different ads in one issue, so they're not interesting either.
The claim is that if Apple had to pay the sorts of royalties on Samsung's (and others') technology patents that Apple is asking Samsung to pay on Apple's patent on curved lines, Apple phones would be so expensive that they wouldn't sell like they currently do.
The thing that bugs me about Apple's recent lawsuits is that they seem more like cynical, tactical moves and not some kind of honest stance on principle. I think they're deathly afraid of losing their majority in the tablet market and want to try to keep competing devices off shelves long enough to cement their ecosystem in place all the while standing behind the flag of "innovation".

I think these kinds of tactics could backfire on them in the long run though because they're burning up a ton of good will with people like me that love their products and code for their platforms but don't enjoy seeing them beat up a legitimate competitor with things like "slide to unlock" patents.
It sounds like using one like an Arduino involves a lot of extra work, like installing Linux. With an AVR or ARM microcontroller, all you have to do is flash your program, everything else is pretty much burned on the chip forever.
The Pi will work with svideo IIRC so you can plug it into an old TV. How well the window manager will work at that resolution on the other hand..
> Why don’t you make something up.”

This is shocking. In the UK this is potentially a criminal offence, and it certainly leaves the liar open to civil action. And even if they don't bother with courts they can just dismiss you and you've lost most of your protections.

And it sounds like really weird advice. What happens if recruiter tells Joe to just make something up, and then sometime later has to approach Joe with "a great candidate; a perfect fit for the job"?

That's for any job. Obviously there are some jobs which are more protected - you cannot call yourself a dietician or social worker unless you're qualified and registered.
"Ubisoft Uplay DRM exposed as rootkit; dozens of popular games hacked"? Idiots.
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It's rigid, but made to look like it's in a breeze.

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Give me an effing break.

My family is a computer family, through and through. Surprise, surprise, my sister is in software too.

Don't attribute malice where there is none. Quite simply, women are not encouraged to be scientists by OTHER WOMEN. Not men. Men LOVE women who love science.
The comments in this thread kind of miss what I perceive to be the main point of Raspberry Pi. The great thing about Raspberry Pi is not that's it's a cheap enough PC that you can run Python on, it's that it's a cheap device that has GPIO pins and video.

There are significantly cheaper ARM boards than the Raspberry Pi, but to my knowledge none that have video output, or at least reasonably fast video output. Tell the children (or potentially interested adults that have only done software, never hardware) that they need to learn how to use a terminal connected through a serial port, or that they need to learn about cross compiling and other things and instantly the barrier of entry is huge. Tell them they can't have graphics, only a teletype and nobody will care. Let them have a simple thing they can plug a display and a keyboard into and program the I/O pins live while displaying graphical stuff you can see and relate to, now that's something!

Look at Arduino, an expensive and vastly underpowered device, in many ways unsuitable for the task people use it for, but very, very successful because people don't have to deal with all the boring and idiosyncratic low level setup stuff.
I always wondered what kind of telescope one would need to look at the stuff we left on the moon (flag, cars, what was left of the rocket, ...). Anybody know or tried that? Is equipment like that even accessible to a regular joe like me?
You can run a cmd without prompting the UAC you know... or worse... a PowerShell. You know powershell can do a lot of horrible things to your computer with not a single UAC prompt.

For instance, the remove-item commandlet, its description goes like this "The Remove-Item cmdlet does exactly what the name implies: it enables you to get rid of things once and for all. Tired of the file C:\Scripts\Test.txt? Then delete it"[1]. No UAC prompt. Bingo, let's start erasing this annoying C:\Users\Username\Documents.

And this is only one example, give me 1 hour and I can find several ways to fuck up your computer with a powershell open :-).

[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/library/ee176938.aspx
Thank you -- so many people don't seem to understand the concept of "natural monopoly", and how the "normal rules" of business competition don't and shouldn't apply in the case of natural monopolies.
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I just read the article and apparently it also has composite RCA. They should advertise that part more than the HDMI, it is more useful for their target audience.
And should we also stop saying we've gotten "fucked" for similar reasons? Since you are the curator and sole arbiter of allowable phrases, I'd like to get it all clear while I've got your ear.