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I have created what I think is an effective Simulation for understanding the various sorting algorithms, it is the latest Sim listed on the home page: phyzixlabs.com

Full disclosure.

This is a port of :
http://math.hws.edu/eck/jsdemo/sortlab.html

Feedback is welcomed.
relevant: data on tuition inflaion. http://project.wnyc.org/college-costs/
You obviously sit proud on a throne of smug. Try putting yourself in their shoes for a second. Your livelyhood can be taken away at a moments notice.
Until everybody at the hiring meeting is interviewed by the EEOC or the meeting notes are subpoenaed.
There is a danger to what Apple has as well, in that with every revision they reduce how much they can innovate. Users are willing to buy an iPhone 5 because all the changes are incremental. If the iPhone 6 has a new UI paradigm, Apple will undo a lot of what they've created. If Apple upped the price to a thousand dollars (or lowered it and compromised on part quality) your co-founder would have thought twice.

My point being, every time Apple innovates significantly it throws away a lot of consumer good-will, because it has to rebrand everything. So far the strength of the overall Apple brand has kept this strategy together, but after a few more mis-steps like iOS 6 people might start hesitating before they instinctively 'buy Apple'.
I know a few startups in the healthcare space, they are just less vocal simply because their market is so much different that the typical B2C common model.

Shameless plug : I'm a co-founder of trendMD (http://www.trendmd.com), a medical search and trending engine to help practicians to keep up to date with the medical research.
Why is imagination the most valuable commodity? This is why.
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All of these scary things you're talking about mean the same thing. "Give us a discount or we're not going to give you a purchase order".

From what I can tell from dealing with this problem (not nearly as directly as my business partners, but enough), there are basically just a few things you can productively do:

* Walk. A lot of times, the company will come back, and procurements is bluffing.

* Cave. You need the money enough to permanently sacrifice your rate at the client. You should really avoid doing this, because it is extraordinarily difficult to recover a concession on your rate.

* Convert to budget discussion. Try to get procurements to talk about a "number" they want to hit across the project (you can't do this with hourly billing HEY WAIT MAYBE THAT HOURLY BILLING STUFF ISN'T SUCH A GOOD IDEA AFTE--- anyways). Now take that number back to the real buyers and massage the scope of the project.

* Trade. Procurements wants a discount, you want a committed pipeline of work, a customer reference, or whatever. Again: if you're negotiating, make sure it's on the project rate, not the hourly.

You do not need a nontechnical cofounder to understand this stuff. You just need to know the role of procurements and you need to truly grok positioning.
Australian webshop kogan.com charges a 6.8% tax for IE7 users
1984.is
orangewebsite.com

both out of Iceland. Both accept Prepaid Visa. Both register .com, .net, and .org. Orange accepts Bitcoin as well. Neither ask for much in the way of user information when registering the domain.
For those talking about "don't borrow if you can't pay":

Should a society allow a system where a person is allowed to gamble one of their organs for a chance at a million dollars?

The argument against this extreme example would be: society has an interest in keeping people from doing dumb things that gets them in over their heads because one person being really screwed actually impacts the lives of others. The same applies to student loans. Sure, only "dumb" people take out loans without it being a good deal for them. But we have some interest in preventing "dumb" people from screwing themselves up so much it starts to hurt us too.
Future? I'd be shocked if most of what is outlined in the article is not already happening NOW, in some form, if perhaps a bit less developed. And we know for a fact that Facebook data is being scanned by employers, in a mandatory fashion, and being used to screen employees:

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/failing-provide-...
I work for a medical device startup which is located in the Midwest. This is the founders 2nd company in this space, the first one he was able to exit successfully north of +100 million. I came in right after the device got clearance from the FDA. It took 2 years from concept to product in the hands of patiets. This, from what I am told is fast. While te potential is huge, because it is a physical product it does not scale like a traditional saas company we see here on HN. There are a lot of hoops/regulations that have to be jumped through to be successful. The space is hard, but ripe for disruption. However, the biggest challenge we face is the insurance industry. It is changing fast and causing a lot of unknowns. Luckily we are a young company and can pivot fast as needed.
Of course, they won't have data on everyone — just young(ish) people. The result might be reverse age discrimination.
"Looks down from here" - but when trying to load it myself, it's up.
You're a fucking loon.
Crap - sorry, will fix ASAP.
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At least Iranian population is demographically and geographically more difficult to control than NK.
Individual instances can be difficult to prove, but a systematic effort to discriminate based on these things should not be hard to detect within a decently sized company.
simply because people can only borrow so much

-- Borrow = future obligation to [repay] = future obligation to [Work]

This is why it all makes sense...that is, if you are in a position to profit from the labour of the debtors. Who are these people? (1) Gov't - receives N% of income the debtors are forced to earn to repay the debts; and (2) the Lenders, who receive repayment of the Interest (profit) and principal (capital). In the case of student loans[1] , the profits of (2) are guarnteed by (1).

So, its all makes sense. depending on your definition of "sense". =D

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[1]Edit/Note: and housing mortages share the same logic. The GSAs have implicit government guarantees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae . This is why debt-financed asset price inflation is a characteristic of both [housing] and [university degrees], when considered as "asset classes". The massive GSA's at the heart of the housing crisis were put in place to guarantee mortgage debts, precisely so they could be securitized, sold, and traded as liquid financial instruments.
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Let me present a slightly more dystopian twist to this already unpleasant future scenario.

In the future the pool of jobs that require a human and do not require an Olympian level of focus and dedication that few people can hope to achieve without major sponsorship is going to be quite small. In other words the job market is going to become even more of a winner take all contest, and less of a matching market.

The question the hiring committee will be asking will be "Given her past history, if we hire her will she be one of the top five negotiators _in_our_industry_?" and if the answer is no... then she might not find a job at all.
It seems to be working pretty well, but I have really good lighting around here.

But 20% usage and the fact it doesn't always works makes this a cool hack, nothing more.
I think the concern here is that people would edit the year they would graduate in order to escape being excluded because of ageism, a trend which Silicon Valley is notorious for.
In your rush to attack hooande for not reading the entire article, you neglected to read the entire comment and missed the part about organized group effort. If you consider the prospect of being a teacher who is gay, Muslim, an immigrant (or one from the wrong country) etc. it's quite easy to believe that the risk isn't limited to a single student in one class.

Fortunately the authors weren't so careless — that concern is obviously key to the repeated cautions about assigning too much weight to such tests. I'd like to believe anyone setting policy would be similarly slow to jump to conclusions but this is a field notoriously prone to chasing fads and quick fixes…
Interesting article, but hard to find the 'so what' part. Anybody care to tell?
Deeply unethical people may have enough experience to get away with stuff, but there's a huge spectrum between "deeply unethical" and "entirely ethical", which includes many people I would not want to work with or hire.

Anybody who deliberately lies about the year they graduated will immediately become highly suspect in that regard, even if they're probably generally an OK guy. So maybe they're not going to be defrauding people or whatever, but what other small, "harmless" lies will they think they can get away with?
Ethical people call those "mistakes" and don't paper over them.

Well, sort of. They call them "mistakes" after they get caught, or, rarer, after they have admitted what they did. Before such time, however, said ethical people don't call their unethical foibles anything, because they aren't talking about them.

I have to agree with the GP's specific point, here. It is a bit sad that the ability to bump your age a bit and perhaps dodge age discrimination has probably now been permanently lost. I find it hard to summon very much outrage about someone trying to dodge age discrimination, which is itself unethical and unfair.
This strikes me more as an action against their own people than an action against the West. How much revenue on the internet is generated abroad by Iran?
People who request and get loans are "victims" of "risk structure"? My parents told me "this is what we can afford, the rest is on you. If you earn $xx,xxx then xxx is about how much you can afford to pay per month." Seems to me that a large part of the problem is that we're letting 18-22 yr olds make career and financial decisions without adult mentor/parental input.
This a question I think about often. Like everyday.

Here's a few tenative conclusions:

1. The best coders are not necessarily interested in the same things as people who start "Web 2.0" companies.

2. Many of these coders who never get involved with "Web 2.0" and probably never will. (The good news, if you could call it that, is you can still benefit from their skills. They often like to share code freely. They are generous.)

To find the evidence for these conclusion you need to venture off the beaten path. To be receptive to this evidence you have to take respite the herd mentality and buzzconcepts like "Web 2.0".

3. This is the one that's continually obvious and the cause for a blog post on the topic: There are some very sub-par coders heavily involved with things like "Web 2.0". And they are very vocal. Much more so than excellent coders who not involved in things like "Web 2.0".

I'm always open to evidence that counters these conclusions.
But the more bad coding I see the more skeptical I get. And it just keeps coming. The bar is set very low. Who cares if some Web 2.0 site is a horrible privacy risk if they can still manage to IPO for a few billion dollars? The best coders care very little, it seems. They are more interested writing smart code than in a multi-billion dollar IPO.
Some HN readers don't have Facebook accounts. I don't.
It's even sillier than that. The performance gap between the best and worst is a factor of hundreds or even millions and the best performers are very rare and expensive. Worrying about a 15% performance loss is like finding a $100 bill and complaining that there was not a penny too.

In reality, these social analysis companies will be data mining to find people far to the right on the performance bell curve. They might try to weed out the particularly crazy, but the ones you most want to weed out are masters of deception.
> But "slave" != "wage slave"

Exactly my point.
Developers vs. Engineers vs. Scientists
How a dad entrepreneur increased revenue by 95%
Cool work. I thought this was going to be a static .SQL file or something from the title. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it's actually a program[1] to dynamically generate a countries table based on current data. In addition: it's possible to define the columns you want to grab like name of the country, population, languages spoken, and so on.

[1] - http://peric.github.com/GetCountries/
"do you go to a community college and live at home with your parents who feed you?" and "since you seem to have brilliant financial management skills that others could benefit from learning"

Those aren't exactly phrases that scream, "I want to learn". They do tend to be read sarcastically and indicate a lack of belief.

The solution for me was to go to a state school with a good program and work with a financial aide officer that knew what grants were available. I took out some loans, but they were minimum and easy to pay back (more because I traded work-study money for a loan). Many institutions have grants with their price only being a thank you letter to the organization giving the grant.

I should also point out, I received no help from my high school counselor on applying for financial aide or scholarships. He even cost me a $2,000 per year scholarship . With that, I would have had no loans or work-study. So, if your high school is not actually a hinderance, there are multiple sources of income they can help you with.
I crated something similar a few months a go, for the webkitAudioContext (only works in Chrome AFAIK... maybe Safari?)

I really want to do more real-time audio synthesis with javascript, but the current state of the APIs available aren't so great.

Anyways, it plays a short Aphex Twin loop. all the sound is generated with code.

http://valdemarorn.github.com/Files/JSAudio/index.html

https://github.com/ValdemarOrn/valdemarorn.github.com/tree/m...
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It would seem like this doesn't actually buy you very much, because presumably the same places that would exclude your resume because of an ageist bias, would also pass on you after interviewing you (in which case lying about your graduation dates just causes you to have to sit through more interviews with places that won't hire you).

I guess the assumption is that you might be able to "win them over" in person, assuming you get past the first interview screen?

I do find myself having to try very hard to ignore my "experience bias" when hiring infosec folks. My first inclination after seeing a resume from someone with "25 years of information security experience" is to cringe (Oh good, this person has spent 20 years doing C&A's, which are fundamentally useless).
Shouldn't the education also be a part of the equation here? Or did you drop it out of your reasoning for a reason.

And another thought, if there will be no balance on employment and wages - who is supposed to be buying the production of those robots?
Thx for your kind feedback. Pls make sure your hand is 1-6 feet away and it should work. Even our tests it works fairly well in diff lighting but I am sure you guys will let us know.

On avg it uses about 5% of CPU - 20-30%% when doing gestures and 2-3% when not.

With all due respect, the cool hack now has 4.5M+ gestures used to Play/Pause songs and 100s of thousands of users... so perhaps we may be on right track.

Thanks for appreciate the hard work of fellow developers!
I love meny too, but fokus is not working at all on iOS - then again I have no idea of the js model on iPad.

Overall I think these just point to firefox os and chrome os as becoming the whole experience for most devices most ofbthe time.

I mean I am on paper an IT professional at the cutting edge. Most of my domestic surfing is on iOS devices in e kitchen. It is only frustrating 1/10 times
Not at all far-fetched: http://www.thestar.com/article/297666
This is an awesome app and it's free!

I wish that it worked from further than 6 feet away. I hope they have plans to make 👍 and 👎 control the volume.
The coders who join these companies are not in it to do the right things (cf. the popular things), to make sound decisions (even if they are based on "old" thinking, like the notion of privacy, and appear to be boring). These developers are in it for the perceived prestige of working for a high profile company, for the nonserious working environment (if they are young), and often simply for the money. These jobs often pay better than, e.g., working on projects where there is great concern with doing things the right way. But the high-profile "Web 2.0" company does not necessarily produce better code.
Interesting hack. Werner Vongels, CTO of Amazon, wrote about how he did a similar thing, hosting his blog (albeit not a Wordpress one)on S3:

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/08/Jekyll-amazon-s3...
Which is among the reasons I've revised my LinkedIn profile to a de minimas version. Name. Field. No job history. No resume. Contacts, which I keep trimmed in public views (lord knows how they're available behind my back, of course).

I also maintain no FB profile.

My prediction: the "social web" will end very badly. Mostly as the present cohort hits its 30s and early 40s, with concomitant life issues (marriage, children, breakups, divorce, bankruptcy, minor or not-so-minor legal issues).

The real world isn't 4 years of Ivy League experience you want to brag about openly.
It makes things less convenient but there are other entry vectors such as USB drives, Hard Drives, firmware, etc. Moreover, they could just use their local (inside Iran) assets --of course, one would probably not want to make it easy to trace back to assets, so maybe internet cafes and such.
This was the key insight for me:

"So many of us entrepreneurs are stuck trying to grind it out. Having talked to a number of entrepreneurs, I think if you launch a full-time business and you’re “grinding” for more than two years, something is wrong."
This is awesome! Love the design of your site! So fresh & upbeat.

A couple of points of feedback

-A better gesture walkthrough for first time users would be helpful

-Start with a 14 day trial and then charge for this. I would pay for this app.

-It might not hurt to add something like "we are kinect for your itunes!"

Great job! Really excited to see where you guys go with this!
Третий междун. фестиваль пародий "Большая разница" в Одессе (2012/SATRip)
New School: A Tumblr for Making Your Own Textbooks
Here's an easy one somebody could write up over the weekend:

You apply for a job with a resume. The resume lists the dates you worked various jobs.

So you just go out and comb the social networks to find all the posting times for this person and cross-reference it with their work hours. You've just made a predictor of how much time they'll be spending on your dime trolling the net.

Now perhaps that's only 1 in 20 secondary factors you look at in hiring. But I bet it's easily one of those 20.
The iOS 6 Map issue is nothing more than a PR stunt from apple.

I think it's brilliant. What's the best way to get people talking about their new map feature?

Release a map product that is inferior to Google maps then push a major update.

Everyone will be surprise how good iOS 6 map will be in a few weeks.
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Just fill out this paperwork, send a facsimile to the security, privacy, and QA departments, get approval from the VP, SVP, and release coordinator and you're good to launch! The second time you just talk to the release coordinator and you can get right to business.

Your "boilerplate work" is bureaucracy.
Great pointer Twog. Appreciate your support - thank you!
The far east seems more likely to explode. If you have been following the news going on in that region.
China/Taiwan vs Japan (Islands)
Hong Kong vs China (British Hong Kong flag and related anti-PRC demonstrations)
South Korea vs North Korea (Missiles)
Japan vs North Korea (Military threats)

If a war was to break out in the far east it wouldn't take long to get to world war status as America will be pulled into any war involving Japan or South Korea.
As far as performance goes, the iPhone 5's A6 is only 10% slower than the June 2004-released [1] Pentium 4 540! High end ARM processors (high end for phones at least) should be more powerful than midrange desktop processors from 2003, or 9 years ago. Unless Geekbench changed since then, which I didn't check for. Laptops with Core Duo processors (circa 2006) were indeed faster than the A6 though.

Geekbench numbers for each:

Pentium 4 540 (eyeballed average from [2]: 1800
iPhone 5's A6 [3]: 1623

[1] http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickrefyr.htm#2004

[2] http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/search?q=pentium+4...

[3] http://www.macworld.com/article/2010360/lab-tests-iphone-5-l...
Thx Joe - Volume gestures in the works. Once we make it even more efficient we will use full resolution in web cameras and make it work from 12 feet away! Thx again!
The problem with liberal arts degrees is that the job prospects are heavily dependent on the brand recognition of the school. You can have an expensive school with decent job prospects, or a cheap school with terrible job prospects.

And this is where I think you've got a market failure in education. It's not that there aren't any jobs for people with non-technical/non-math degrees, it's that employers would much rather hire someone with average grades from a top school than someone with great grades from a cheaper school. Pedigree becomes like brand names for handbags--inflating the price of education far beyond the cost of education, and almost eliminating competition by reducing the fungibility of the products.
Private lenders don't loan money when the business plan makes no sense. When the education won't increase a student's earning power enough to pay back the money, a private lender is not likely to lend to them.

The government makes no such judgment when lending, for education, mortgages or anything else it decides to "encourage".

And the result is oversupply and a drop in demand, followed by a long drought in the production of the thing the government encourages. A bust.

Government is not smarter than the student. The student will at least learn from his mistake.
It begs the question, is it worth the expense?
I actually think it will go the other way. Things that are suspect now will be treated as youthful indiscretion. Think about it: the current President admitted in his own book that he had done cocaine. That was unthinkable just 10 years ago.

As Gen Y moves higher up the career ladder, they'll be the ones making the hiring decisions about the Facebook oversharers.
Maybe I'm just doing it wrong but each time I hit the "I'M READY" button on the intro screen the app crashes (and goes away from my task bar on the top right)... Early 2011 MBP, 10.8.2

Edit: looks to be unrelated to hitting the button, it's just crashing on start-up.

Edit numero dos, ran it from the command line, got this:

kasra-mbp:MacOS kasrarahjerdi$ ./Flutter
sem_open: Operation not permitted
Bus error: 10
kasra-mbp:MacOS kasrarahjerdi$

Edit number three: Here's a crash report, sorry it's a gist I don't have anywhere to upload files to right now: https://gist.github.com/ce750dcc9c8aea8f855c
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Very cool! You should get this into a homebrew recipe, it will make a lot of people happy. :)
This is pretty much the equivalent of the Berlin Wall. We know how that worked out.
Mobile is gonna skew that factor, if I'm at work and I tweet I do it from my phone, even if I'm sitting in front of my computer at home I'll still usually tweet from my phone just so I don't have to open another tab and nav to twitter's home page.

Now if you could poll how long I spend on google reader in a given day...
Foxconn sounds better than this...
I disagree that it's a zero-sum game. The rankings themselves are zero-sum, but the correctness of those rankings can have huge consequences. If a change occurs which causes people who are less suited for a job to be preferred, that results in a lower global outcome.