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This is puzzling. Did something instruct you that you needed to re-install cabal-install? You would already have had a copy as part of the Haskell Platform. You also already had `old-time` since it's part of the Haskell Platform too. Maybe something was overwritten in the `yum -y cabal-install`? There are several possibilities. It bugs me in any case that yum wasn't warning you that it had already installed `cabal-install`.

It is probably something very simple but would be much easier to figure out in real time, e.g. on the #haskell irc channel which generally handles such difficulties promptly. E.g. does a look at `ghc-pkg list` and `ghc-pkg check` suggest that something was broken?

(By the way, the comparison with Ruby and Python and Perl and Node is not that great; cabal is as much, or more, like `make` than `gem`, managing compilation, linking etc.; one uses it all the time locally where distribution is not in question; it looks like that is the aspect that you are bumping into.)
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From the article it would appear that their definition of a bot is a client with JavaScript disabled
I wasn't necessarily bad at solving problems before. I think it just opened my mind to more avenues of attacking problems.

After hallucinating to a point where your thoughts influence your vision, you have a different relationship with perception. It's not something easily explained to people that have not gone through a similar same experience.

When on any sort of hallucinogen I never though I could solve math problems or computer problems. Quite the opposite really, I was almost useless at the computer and getting simple things like running winamp's screensaver seemed like a chore. The mind is easily distracted and literally thinks at speeds that is above average. I remember playing Dead or Alive and being able to literally see the game moving in slow motion and completely kicking the computers ass. Under normal circumstances I was never as good.

The whole idea being, experiencing a different reality opens the mind to a whole different set of possibilities. Things like what is a memory? Is there really a difference in experiencing something in a dream vs real life? You are what you sense which is all in your head. This is often why it is seen as a spiritual journey.
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On the "different people can believe different things", I think this is very valid, but is misapplied early on in education to mean "everyone is right/special". Really, if you can present a different opinion on something and can provide evidence for your reasoning, that's great. If you want to claim that Hamlet is really about aliens because you like getting laughs from your friends, I really hope the teacher calls you on your bullshit.
"I have found, however, that hackers (eg: people who taught themselves when they were young) right out of highschool are about as equally prepared for employment life as (most) people with CS degrees right out of college"

I doubt you meant it this way but that's pretty damning - in my experience people with CS degrees (or any degree) right out of college are horribly ill equipped for most things.

The problem with college is while it teaches some really great stuff, it gives people an over inflated sense of what they know and what they're ready for.

In that sense they're often the opposite of many high school graduates who might be a little too unsure of themselves because they're too worried about not having a degree.
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Unless you're buying ads for popular affiliate stuff, handing new AdWord users $75 in credit doesn't have much of an effect (other than some percentage of those users going on to spend real money). I have gotten similar offers from Facebook, Twitter, Bing and a lot of othe advertising companies.
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How about Ajaxian? They're ONLY geeks, and yet do the same thing.
True, though quickly is still a period of time that is detrimental to the planet. Well obviously it was self-balancing historically, but add the natural methane with the enormous CO2 of humanity and you have a problem.

http://www.epa.gov/methane/
I read the stack overflow. So someone at Oracle is dumb enough to want to reimplement / and/or wants to see if a future hire is dumb enough to be intimidated by a manager into doing something dumb (dumb like, say, reimplement /)

OK my solution is connect to a postgres sql DB server and something very much like "SELECT WIDTH_BUCKET(389, 999, 0, 333);" and the result will be something like 129. width_bucket asks for a sample, the highest bucket, the lowest bucket, how many buckets, and tells you which bucket to dump the sample into. You know, for histograms and stuff like that. So you make the largest bucket max_int or 999 in this easy scenario, and the number of buckets precisely 1/3 the number of buckets or 333 in this easy case, and postgres database will figure out the number of the bucket to stick your sample into, which coincidentally happens to numerically match 1/3 the sample.

Its possible Oracle has a function similar to width_bucket from postgres, but I have no idea because a Oracle license costs about 10 times the value of my house so I can't afford it, probably because they pay people to reimplement /.

Another fun way to attack this problem would be to go all trig on them and try to convince them its impossible to divide by 3 because you can't trisect an angle using classical greek construction techniques. Then you hit them with galois theory as relates to solving cubic equations, until their brains bleed and/or you get the job and/or removed by security. This stuff is all 200 years old, or so, but you'll still find cranks who think they can trisect angles using classical greek construction techniques. Maybe being smart enough to understand that overqualifies the applicant from working at a place that things reimplementing / is a wise use of brain power.
This seems pretty reasonable, as the potential for abuse for arbitrary name changes is very high.
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I think this now allows people to write clients that can also use voice and video chat through Talk.
I didn't write an own analytic program but can confirm that 80% of clicks from my Facebook ads don't show up on my GoSquared dashboard.
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Wait, Jingle supports file transfers, but Google Chat currently doesn't?
> is there a way for bots (in particular, mechanize in perl/python) to also download those files?

The point was mostly that if it is not downloaded, then it's a bot (or any non-browser getter, at least), not that it's not a bot if it does.

Or maybe you were asking for a way to avoid bot detection ? :)
...if you want to hire good knowledge workers, an IQ test and a work-sample test will get you further than any set of expensive status-signalling criteria ever could.

I have seen data supporting that. However it could also land you in court for discrimination, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co..

Most companies are risk adverse, and hence an IQ test as an admission criteria is verboten.
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I just received my retina MBP, and it's magnet is actually substantially stronger than the one in my old MBP. I do hate the "T" design, though.
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Doesn't look like there has been any recent changes that warrant being on the front page.
Works fine in my town of 3,000 people that is 15 minutes outside a "metro" area of 200k people.
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The point of such questions is to test the person's problem-solving skills.

As if you're qualified to tell one way or another.
One POSSIBLE explanation for what Facebook would use anonymous bots for: verifying the advertisement goes where the advertiser said it would go.

Facebook has problems with fraudulent or confusing advertisements. for example, iPad's being advertised for $2, but the user clicking the ad is sent to a penny auction site that bills you $100 when you sign up.... so that domain ends up getting banned, but those advertisers/spammers either create a new domain or they use a redirecting domain that redirects to a non fraudulent domain when they see an Facebook IP (in theory, the Facebook IP would mean it's an intern or Facebook bot checking the URL).

Here's an example of the penny auction crap http://www.fastcompany.com/1771099/facebook-spam-ads-damage-...

and an example of manipulating the landing page URL with a redirect http://www.larrylim.net/seo-online-marketing/facebook-ads-pr...

so maybe it's Facebook's engineers trying to verify the ads are going to the place they're intended to go, but they are obviously incorrectly counting them as billable clicks
Because they are not related. You can use them just as you would with Google Adsense. Obviously you can get a lot of free advertisement and edorsement with having people "like" you on Facebook, but that is beside of the point.

And the click scam, if true, will take away the only way for Facebook to monetize the product. Marketers are not stupid, things like this spread like wildfire.
Why should they, if they have to support H.264 encode/decode in hardware already? WebM hardware support would be an extra cost, and you'd better believe that they've got those parts spec'd down to the fraction of a cent. WebM offers nothing to Apple -- certainly not video quality, and they participate in the MPEGLA patent pools, so they're not paying for the licensing.

If WebM became a mandatory codec, they'd implement it, but they'd prefer not to.
I suspect it's an accurate statement. Employment life comes with many requirements many of which aren't taught at schools and aren't always easy to pick up when self-schooling either.

I don't think "ill-equipped" is the right word. You probably have the right "equipment", just none of the experience or secondary skills needed. Neither hacker nor college graduate. One might have more programming experience and the other might have more formal scientific training, but that's just not what is being talked about there.
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I suspect a lot of these issues have a deeper cause and one that might be summarised rather simply: there is an assumption teenagers are incapable of contributing to society. This is not an original idea but I wonder if it gets enough notice. I would argue this problem is worse in the West (at least this seems to be in line with my own experience).

It doesn't take much to put together the pieces. With increasing affluence, parents were given a greater opportunity to protect their children from the realities of life. It is clear that children are not always capable of facing real life challenges. However, the age for just when they are ready for many of them, seemed to gradually shift further and further. (Something that was no doubt encouraged by the longer periods of time required to complete the education for many vocations.)

Until we arrive at the present day. Teenagers are more or less assumed to be parasites on society, incapable of true contribution to it. Until, that is, they are magically transformed at the arbitrarily chosen 18 year mark into full fledged members of society.

I would argue that all this impacts how we teach kids in schools today. Instead of introducing them to truely independently useful skills, there is an uspoken rule that they aren't actually capable of anything useful just yet. Instead we play pretend, teach them some ideas that might one day lead to something useful, and expect they'll be satisfied with the experience. Highschools often cram kids' heads full of mundane method after mundane method, with little explanation as to how they work or why they are relevant. There is a litany of seemingly random factoids to be memorised. Abstract thinking is a lofty skill reserved for the adults and we needn't waste our time trying to evoke anything of the sort with these kids.

So yes, in a way I think our expectations of what our kids are capable of, do need to change. Not only on a superficial level where we just get them to work harder within the existing broken system. But a new approach is required where their full potential can be challenged.

It's easy to make such grandiose sweeping statements of course, but I maintain one of the keys is not stopping short with purely theoretical methods but extending them to practical realities. Yes, that is more challenging. Let's stop assuming that the challenge is out of grasp for these young people.
Oi, I didn't initially ask for outside opinions on my intelligence.

The comments thus far have only exacerbated my moral dilemma. Living in a country where we must pay absurds amount of money to obtain an undergrad degree, the consequences of not following through on payment is a type of debtors prison. Not only do I not receive my degree, I'm likely not be able to purchase a car, laptop, house, computer. Job opportunities are compromised, and the distance to which I can pursue a career is likely shortened. Ouch!
Whoa, thanks.

I wasn't able to follow your instructions (I tried finding a setting like that on my mobile or the tablet, but failed), but the location history (that clicked!) website's dashboard allowed me to redefine 'home'.
How much bigger?
These groups already know that blood and guts terrorism is politically self-defeating. Well-funded material attacks are only made on valuable targets, like oil pipelines after you've stockpiled call options. Political objectives are pursued in other ways. Here's an article on Inspire magazine: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/11...

It's funny that the author says they were inspired by Robin Hanson, because he certainly is one of the best examples for a kind of person who confuses their intelligence for a kind of universal expertise, one that requires no schooling, no study, no direct experience or theoretical grounding. "It's better to come to the field from the outside," they say, "so I can better disrupt it!"

The only thing that stops the post from being truly Hansonian is it stops short of openly arguing for solving the problem by "giving" women to dispossessed young men.
I don't think so, there's lots of reasons that would be a stupid idea for Facebook. But there's clearly something shady going on, and Facebook is being dicks to them in other ways, so they're out. That's the subtext.
As the article points out, this alarm doesn't have a scientific basis. The question mark is standing in for data which would actually do anything to substantiate this claim.

Everything "rewires your brain." People always find ways to kill time. Liberalizing attitudes about sex and low birth rates, rooted in industrialization, vastly pre-existed internet porn. Breivik is not representative of young men.
Zimbardo is not an authority, rather a clown who hounds after publicity.

Now here's a question: why does this kind of claim keep popping up?

Here's my hypothesis: the demand is driven by social conservatism. Certain political blocs want rhetorical support for certain pre-established conclusions (to reframe debates, give them leverage in culture wars and the legislature). Hacks like Zimbardo hook up with that demand for cash and notoriety. The media eats up the output because of the hot-button alarmism.
Man. You are some kind of idiot. Everyone here now knows your name, facebook account, HN username, personal web site, etc...

You really need to delete this, pay your debt, and seek advice for every decision you make for the rest of your life no matter how small it seems. Your judgment is not to be trusted.
Just because it is a security hole, doesn't make it a root kit. This is just a dumb security hole.
I think the only fix for PPC is PPA.
What user agent was reported by those hits? This is fascinating.
do they roll up their sleeves and get to work, or do they stammer and freeze up under the pressure?

Which, BTW, correlates more with whether they had seen that particular problem or not before (i.e. had subjected themselves to the tedious and soul-crushing task of prepping for interviews like this) than with any "intrinsic" problem-solving ability.
True, but they shouldn't be charging for those verification checks.
Here's ascii of the screenshot in case they censor your picture of text.

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you're not alone. I've heard similar stories from other businesses that have tried to advertise on FB. At first I thought they just didn't track properly, but it seems it's a widespread problem.
So you think that a facebook ad checking bot is taking up 80% of the clicks?

I know facebook doesn't have the best reputation for careful engineering but that's quite a stretch.
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Allow me to connect to GTalk via webSocket and I'll do the rest. Appengine already support xmpp bots so it would be a piece of cake to manage presence, stanzas, etc.

That's all I ask for:

ws = new WebSocket('ws://talk.google.com:5222')
I hated time wasted on college, but I did it. I did it via distance education course to save a lot of time and now I have diploma saying I am masters. It is not A grades, but rather just above pass level. This adds zero to my knowledge or my abilities, but I pass all these stupid filters put in place by HR people.
You mentioned "However, I might want to eventually go to grad school." They will require a transcript from college, and college won't release it unless you settle the debt.

It happened to me - I was 100% covered by financial aid in college all 4 years (well I finished in 3.5 - so 3.5 years). After about 5 years working, I applied to masters, they asked for transcript, and bachelors college refused, they said I didn't pay 2k. I didn't have any documents about financial aid anymore, and didn't feel like fighting, so just paid it.
Funny thing is they never even bother to tell me that they thought I owned them money, if they said it right after I finished college, I would have had all my financial aid papers, and would have settled it differently.
Maybe it's simple demand vs supply economics? The Valley has had a chronic shortage of engineers, hasn't it?
I could understand reasons for their support for VP8. But "superior quality" is definitely not a strength on VP8 side.
If it was coming from Facebook, I would expect not to be charged for the clicks.
Completing a BSc with a third involves more deadline pressure than shipping, say, two or three video games? Are you sure about that?

Being more general and less snarky - I think that, probably, you (personally, as a single hiring manager) can get away with "only hire CS grads from great universities with firsts", if you work for somewhere easy to hire into (Facebook/Google/Twitter/whatever), because they don't find it hard to find people, just to find ones who're good enough. If (as I suspect by your estimation of the costs of mid-hiring) you're working for a no-name start-up, you're not only cutting out the brilliant people without degrees (and I've worked with many over my career), but you're also cutting out the excellent graduates who won't want to work for you because you're hiring a monoculture.
> (or that hit the page and left it before the js executed, which seems improbable for such a large number - 70%).

That's actually an interesting proposal-- 100% of the time when I click on an ad, I didn't mean to and I try to close it before it has a chance to annoy me.

Probably doesn't make sense on a large scale, but it's something to consider.
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Fair enough then, I've got the wrong end of the stick. I must admit, I didn't really think pure apple households were at all common.
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"Why would it matter if he could demonstrate the right level of proficiency for the tasks you wished him to perform?"

Because demonstrating consistency, future performance, trust, respect for coworkers, and self-confidence is involved in the "right level" for many?
Is this a Windows only exploit? I have RUSE installed via Steam on a Macbook Pro and the linked page reports a missing plugin in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
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As pathdependant said, this is a very common shady tactic in the ad business. You drive up your competitors costs with bots in order to drive them away from your keywords or make them think their conversions on those keywords are awful and then abandon them.

By far the most likely explanation in my opinion. Even if it's not the correct one, some of the traffic is almost certainly these kinds of bots.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or not, so I'll assume naiveté and give you a thoughtful answer: Because the resource you tried to delete will not be deleted. To add insult to injury, from a UI perspective, it will still behave like it has been. This wrecks any ajax applications that cache GET requests.

Furthermore, it's in direct violation of the HTTP spec:

> If the request passes through a cache and the Request-URI identifies one or more currently cached entities, those entries SHOULD be treated as stale. Responses to this method are not cacheable.

[http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt]
That is indeed the only sensible way.
They end the bot section with "But let's move on, because who the bots belong to isn't provable." after saying that they weren't accusing Facebook of running the bots. The subtext is screaming out.

Does me pointing out the barely shrouded subtext mean that I believe what they are saying? Of course not. It's just as likely, it seems, that their test is simply flawed (as others said, let's see the technical honey trap), that it's some other technical fault, etc. I highly doubt, just on intuition, that Facebook is running such broken bots: Come on, they'd do a better job than make something so easily detected.
It's gotten to the point where the iPhone is essentially unexciting. When it came out it seemed innovative and interesting, but it has become the "default" phone that we expect to emerge from any buzzing pocket. The Galaxy, on the other hand, looks absolutely beautiful, in a shocking way. The first time one of my friends pulled it out, I was immediately compelled to ask what it was and how he liked it. That doesn't make it a superior product, of course, but there is a lot to be said for that moment of, "Ooh, shiny phone."
So, I've got one and am experiencing similar issues.. I believe that right now the "power supply" issue had been used as a blanket response to ethernet/usb issues until people were seeing that problem with an oscilloscope on their power supply and no power supply issues.

What seems to be the common conclusion is that it's a bug in the DWC OTG USB driver/firmware:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=9470&p...

et al
Could FB do something like this to detect click fraud/misbehavior: FB's ad system only counts a click as valid and charges the advertiser when the browser from which the click originated has js enabled.

OP says only 1-2% of users have js disabled hence FB would only miss out on a relatively small amount of ad revenue instead of massively over-charging.