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Not necessarily "ideal" IMO, but a friend told me about an interview where they told him beforehand "bring your own laptop, set up", then when he arrived they told him "please build this" (I think it was something similar to Everything). After a couple of hours when he was done, they asked him to add some functionality (network support? can't recall).

At least this type of interview seems to solve the problem of developers strangely needing to study for an interview, and I would guess it also better represents coding ability.

Alternate versions can include "debug this" and "design this" (which is pretty popular AFAIK).
I'm surprised no one (AFAICT) has attempted a family tree of all humans. There is an obvious demand for this information because many commercial services exist. Users are paying to upload their personal genealogical data to proprietary for-profit silos. Yet this data would be much more productive in an open system with user data from all services.

You could seed the database with famous people's family trees from Wikidata. The Mormon church also has lots of genealogy data that (perhaps :) they might share for not-for-profit use.

The biggest challenge would be preventing trolls and spammers from uploading false data. I've sketched out some rough ideas where family links can be "thumbs up'd" bidirectionally by people on both sides of the connection, but not necessarily the immediate people.
Paying couple of bucks to a criminal to wreak havoc on school network is not really "clever". Not more "clever" than giving some drug addict money to beat up a teacher that was too strict, on his opinion or pooping in a bag, leaving it on a teacher's porch, lighting it on fire and ringing the bell..

This is plain and simple vandalism, and should be treated as such, not congratulating the delinquent-in-making on being clever. If he wanted to be clever, he could build some useful software for the school and opensource it so other schools could use it too. That would be clever, this one is just malicious.
No, I haven't, but does it add more to ML than a bunch of syntax changes? It looks like an attempt to make ML more palatable to programmers familiar with C and Java. I skimmed the docs on that site and saw that it does have ML-style modules and functors, but does it also include something like typeclasses? I thought combining the two was still almost an open research question, although tbh I haven't slogged through this paper yet: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/modules-classes.pdf

To be completely honest, I'm a little skeptical given that the first page in the "Mythryl for SML programmers" highlights adding special-cases to the front-end to support printf: http://www.mythryl.org/my-Mythryl_printf.html I don't really miss printf in SML, although if I wanted it I think I would rather reach for this kind of type hackery instead: http://mlton.org/Printf
Quite, but one of the reasons for not talking about a case is to not give the opposition any ammunition. It's best to just keep quiet until the case is over.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
I wish I knew someone who used Opera so I could ask them to start boycotting it.
Ah makes sense! Well I knew what you meant, I was just wondering whether other countries had this 'great-grand' thing or just Australia.
> You can't be sure if a card will appear for flights

In my experience, Google Now finds my flights in my Gmail 100% of the time. For at least a dozen flights across the US. And for some airports (SFO is one, unsurprisingly) it even has the terminal and gate information ready! Google Now makes the "arriving at the airport" experience better every time for me.
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Ask HN: How can one strengthen a Stanford MSCS or MSSS application?
Suppos that the applicant has an unrelated undergraduate degree with a ~3.5 GPA, and a competitive GRE score.

Would side projects such as web or mobile applications be beneficial? What other avenues could an applicant pursue to strengthen their application?
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It's true, with the one caveat that you actually have to want to learn to like it, you can't be forced into it by your parents once you're older than 2 or 3. The social difficulty of not eating potatoes is what set me down that path initially :)
Poor guy, I don't think they should have downvoted you. Have an upvote. Btw, I can't stand Apple. Not my style, not my thing. Tried to convert several times and went straight back to Windows. I hate the whole authoritative cult like brand.

My decision is based on the new flat UI I've seen already working on Google's Gmail and YouTube properties as well as Microsoft's. They're not perfect but they're definitely heading in a better direction with flat ui. If I recall, Microsoft sort of started it with the Windows Metro look, then Google really sealed the deal by converting gmail and youtube into flat ui sites.
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It's ironic that both the companies which are proponet of non-profit open source software are engaged in this battle. Opera's legal counsel need to reassess this case, I don't think they can get $3.4million from this guy, what is the point of going after him?
Right; it's definitely a fine line to walk. I'm not sure what is the 'correct' strategy either; we'll have to wait and see.
Most days I don't write comments. Maybe once every 3 months. When I feel like someone might need a comment I rewrite the code until I feel like they don't need a comment.

The only time I write comments is when:

1. Someone fucked up big and shipped an iPad app or something that relies on an error in the API or something. Can't force users to upgrade iPad apps, especially on older ones who are fearful of the app breaking or getting worse, so you end up with these massive comments fully explaining the problem, the hack that solves it, the conditions that need to be met in order for the hack to be solved (for example, "check google analytics to see if the number of people using version X of the iPad app or lower is less than 1%, if it is, replace the bellow hack with the following solution"), and possibly other hacks investigated and the reasons that they were declined. The reason you do this in the code rather than just in the commit message is that it protects the message from getting watered down as people change the code. I assume that someone is in a massive hurry when they are reading code and massive wtfs should be explained without further investigation.

2. When the performance of the obvious solution is terrible and the efficient solution is complex. Especially when math is involved (for example, the core match method of a distributed recommendation engine).
Exactly, and there might be arguments that he has made on this blog that might be used against him in the court of law. He may not have realized that, that is why they always recommend to shut up and let the lawyers talk when a case like this is going on.
My impression was that he meant that at that point it was potentially viable to scam some financial information out of the target.
For Mozilla itself, other than possibly being painted in a somewhat negative light, do they have any chance of becoming the "co-defendant" in this suit? (They'll surely be called as a witness)
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Google search for Andoird/iOS or in a browser also has voice input option and I must say it's pretty good at understanding your accent. You should try it!
Pirated content is free content: you can't really say that one person pirating your game equals one lost sale. Would have he bought it, if he was given no alternative choice to get it? When the price is null, there are low to no expectations as to how good the product should be, hence there's a lot more people using it. Someone gives you something that has value for free in the street, would you take it? There's a good chance the answer is yes, even if you do need it.
I've worked with/for 3 companies all built completely on Azure. I was hired by 2 of the 3 companies to help them switch to Azure. The third is my own startup which has been on Azure since Microsoft launched it.

It really is a fantastic platform.
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I built this because http://hnpickup.appspot.com/ is broken and I loved the original idea from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3251877. Let me know what you think!
Also, this has been possible since basically the first version of Android: http://www.saurik.com/id/10 . It's just a chroot jail, taking advantage of the fact that there are ARM versons of Debian/Ubuntu. Complete Linux Installer and other similar apps are nice because they save you the trouble of remembering a bunch of commands or downloading and running a script, but even they are doing nothing besides downloading an image and running a script.

This is far from a usable experience. Notably, Android doesn't have an X server so you have to use VNC to get a GUI so a GUI is effectively useless. It's kind of handy to have proper GNU userland instead of Busybox sometimes and you can do silly things like run a local webserver and edit files using Emacs/vim/etc, but unless you're on a tablet with a keyboard attached somehow it's not practical at all. This has no relation to Ubuntu's efforts to make a proper port of Ubuntu to phones.
Considering that the first ship had 6 spaces advertised, you might be able to determine the schedule by book all the spots.
I think he meant to write "My company's former customer".
Given the discussions they've reportedly been having with Yahoo
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/4/9/4206794/apple-and-yahoo-...

I wonder if Yahoo's new, aesthetically pleasing IMO, weather app is an indication of things to come to iOS.
incredibly lame thing to do to former employees. if you can't innovate, sue!
I don't want to describe this comment as ignorant but I almost feel that I have to...

There are numerous accounting tricks employed by organizations big and small to book revenue on promotional services.

One popular way of doing this is to charge the marketing departments budget for the promo hours but record the cost of the hours as revenue. The overall bottom line of $MSFT is uneffected but the product, in this case azure, benefits from increased visibility.

I don't think Azure is doing anywhere near AWS in sales if you don't count promo deals.
i had no idea what a rocker box was (and i would guess most people would be in the same boat). it sounds like it has something to do with music.
>I wonder what other conspiracy theories you love.

Is this really the tone of discourse we want here?
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Google open sourcing Glass could bring on lots of manufacturers in very quickly and also create lots of derivative works. Google would theoretically have its core Glass software running on every device.

It's essentially taking their model with Android, which IMHO has been enormously successful, one step further. In two years time ZTE could be making 'The Reflector' a $100 version of Glass that has been been created from Glass' open designs. Of course their will be software modification as well, but theoretically just like Android, Google will remain at it's core.

I can see why Google will probably make more money by selling them for $1,500 a pop. But I think they could also make money by shear volume of increased search, maps, play store, etc. This seems to be inline with what they try to do now.

I hope that Google does not pull a Facebook and start forcing advertisements into everything. If that is the case it could be at the expense of the entire Glass platform which I think will be very cool.
To add to that, the reason that the tilt is so important for life on Earth, is because the tilt causes the seasons.

The seasonal variation of warmth from the sun leads to differences in atmospheric and surface temperatures.

The atmosphere warms faster than the oceans, creating a temperature gradient. This is the primarily mechanism that energises the water cycle. i.e. evaporation, cloud formation, rain, rivers etc.
I know this might not be the best forum for this question, but since this thread currently has a lot of eyes on it I wanted to reach out and see if any one has experienced the same issue as me.

I am on a mid-2011 Mac Mini and I upgraded to Mountain Lion when it was released. Ever since I have been plagued with a freezing issue which is way worse than described by the OP.

What happens, 10-20 times per workday is the following:

I am in my workflow coding, sending e-mail, using Photoshop etc
At any seemingly random time, the app(s) I am using will become unresponsive
Soon after the Beachball appears and I cannot interact with most apps
After a period of time, usually between 10 seconds and 15 minutes (yes, minutes), everything un-freezes and goes back to normal

When the freezing happens, Chrome will not load webpages (stuck on "Waiting for cache" message). The Terminal will take forever to perform simple commands, such as "ls". TextMate will freeze when trying to save a file, or sometimes even when trying to input data. Finder will lock up totally.

At times during longer periods of freezing, there is a small burst of CPU cycles going through, so if I type "ls" in the Terminal, the command might execute after 40 seconds and then freeze again.

I have searched the web high and low for a solution, but haven't even found anyone with the same issue.

I have tried booting into safe mode, re-installing ML, uninstalling software, tampering with settings, isolating the behaviour to a certain app etc. I have found that the freezing occurs even after a clean reboot without starting any apps. There is nothing in the system logs. There is no extra network, cpu, memory or disk activity at the time. I have not found a single thing to pin this on.

Using Photoshop, Parallels and Skype seem to make the freezing more frequent, but they are not solely responsible for it.

Has anyone even seen this issue? At this point I have mostly given up on a solution, I am just looking for that "Who are you DenverCoder9? What did you see?" moment[1]

Anyone?

[1] http://xkcd.com/979/
I wonder if the $1B number doesn't also include internal marketing "funny money" microsoft is using to seed the business. There are companies who have been given large stipends of free services to wet their appetite for the platform.
If I was somewhere high up in Microsoft I'd serious think about it. Nothing too serious, just dragging them into court would be enough.

What goes around comes around.
I'm curious, why did you choose to submit this at a suboptimal time (according to your own service)?
As a new Android convert I've found Google Now to be awesome. Sure, it's not entirely accurate or intuitive, but it definitely helps and is somewhat good at knowing what information I want to see (it seems to be getting better with each day that passes). Based on the comments people expect Google Now to be a mind reading service, but it's merely a companion that tries showing you the information you want without having to ask for it. Google Now coupled with Google Glass will no doubt be an awesome combination though. Good to see it finally hit iOS devices, for those who aren't too picky you'll find it a fun and helpful app to have.
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Really like that coda, very familiar with folks who've crusted over and become curmudgeons and have also experienced young people so smart that their new imagining of the wheel will be much better than the status quo. I encourage folks to stay curious, ask questions, listen to the answers.
You can still do it, translate this blog post in Chinese and post it on Weibo. Opera Mobile is big in asia.
This raises all kinds of cognitive questions. How do the dogs figure out how to achieve their goals using the subways? Is it trial-and-error, resulting in a step-by-step procedure that is followed by rote? Or do they form some kind of a mental model of the subway system? In the former case, a dog would be completely lost if a train fails to show, but in the latter, they might be able to adapt.
Android is winning the battle, but losing the war
A much more elegant solution is to use Commentary[1] in Vim (and I'm sure there's an emacs equivalent too). Just use visual mode to select your text, hit `gc`, and voilà.

1. https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary
I am honestly surprised that Mozilla's legal counsel has not stepped in already to offer advice and guidance. (this post is something that such an intervention most likely would have stopped)
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Are you sure that wasn't just an ordinary calendar reminder?
I think this is probably the best advice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5629446
You would have been better off forcing them to register on your site to submit the resume, then check if they reused a password. Also you exploited trust in a way that could easily lead back to you.
This is probably a terrible idea to publish!
The thing they can't agree about did not happen while this guy was an employee of Opera Software. He was offering his consulting services as a commercial company.
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Stickers is the name Facebook are giving to their version...

http://newsroom.fb.com/News/604/Messaging-updates-for-iPhone...
It hit 59 at 4:02, and this post had a minimum of 50. I suppose you could regard it as a bad time based on the ratings before and after that time, but this was only designed to post as soon as a threshold is reached.
I'm just hoping that the suit doesn't extend its tentacles to either Mozilla's product(s) or its finances.
Did you see the "A-Z of Ubuntu" gallery recently? It was literally a few screenshots of Ubuntu variants and less than a paragraph under each.
Completely agree with this. They are giving away massive amounts of platform time to seed usage. Better question is when Azure will break even (net, including R&D and internal marketing transfers to the Azure business).
Less experienced workers are typically cheaper because they're less productive. You may luck out hiring a super-productive, recent graduate on the cheap, but they'll quickly learn their worth.

Your second point sounds purely anecdotal. My experience has shown just the opposite; older developers with families are much more committed because...well...they have families to support.
Most likely the software sales are Windows Server licenses and the Azure tools needed to make a private cloud. A lot of companies have policies that prevent them from using public cloud servers.
Opera, you are dead to me.
Here is a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDsOtdRtG0Q
I actually prefer this college ranking:
http://toptestprep.com/best-colleges-rankings/

It combines both liberal arts colleges and national universities. It's less biased, and more objective.
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Actually, they did do a big styling change a year or two ago.
Well sure, but that's a lot different than just controlling the network (which someone else is always doing).
Did you read the whole post, or just the end? The TL;DR on this post is that without Android, iOS would be in about the same place they are now. Some other platform would have taken Android's place. The biggest difference would have been that Apple and Google would still be friends, and Google's services would still be integrated with iOS.
>If you think you’re talking to an expert when you call a customer service center, you’re probably not.

This strongly affects my opinion of a company as a consumer. Some companies have great support.

For instance, I've published a book with Createspace. They are phenomenal. They call me when I put in a support request, and within ten seconds I have an expert rep.

Usually the call takes only 20-40 seconds, including authenticating my ID, because the reps are very knowledgeable and efficient.

Contrast this to most support calls where I waste about 20 minutes of my time waiting (I do other things), and often 10-15 additional time speaking to a rep who doesn't know things, and eventually transfers me to someone who does.

The company pays those reps by the hour, so they lose money, AND make me hate the company.

This doesn't mean it always makes sense to provide knowledgeable support, but I suspect there is a stronger case for it than many companies suspect.
One consumer product company and one one-man consulting company. Mozilla is not a part of this, according to the articles.
Now let's hear Opera's side of the story.
Didn't work, but I think it's based on username (tehwebguy, test)
Facebook, Path, MessageMe, and more call it stickers to differentiate from emoji. Stickers are generally larger and can be used on their own, while emoji are used with other text.
Reminds me of: http://www.surenmanvelyan.com/eyes/your-beautiful-eyes/?wppa...
The genealogists are always happy to share their data. It's part of the culture.

There's no open source genealogy programmers because the young nerds that do open source dont care about genealogy.
Indeed. They also have Wikipedia Zero, a program to get phone networks in some developing countries to remove mobile internet charges when accessing Wikipedia on phones.
AFAIK, Opera is in no way a proponent of non-profit or open source software. They are a publicly traded for-profit company and their main product is proprietary.
Yeah, I wonder if there are any in-depth studies on these dogs.
We are already in that situation vis a vis schools with merit scholarships vs. Ivy Leagues.
I've never noticed dog riding a train in the moscow subway.
I could have pay not enough attention though.
Do they provide any funding? It's hard to tell from the site.
I was stating logical possibilities, not feasible ones.

You are right in how we define the second. It was chosen so that on average the number of seconds from midnight to midnight is 606024 = 86,400. At this point a ton of stuff depends on it - the only change that I think likely is to something that we can measure even more precisely than the current standard.

But we have set up UTC such that the first second of every year starts close to midnight for the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, London. This sometimes requires having minutes with 59 or 61 seconds (usually 61).

These weird minutes have real costs. For instance the June 30, 2012 leap second crashed Linux machines around the world, taking down quite a few websites. And the costs are only projected to increase as we have more programs that make assumptions about UTC, and the slowing day requires more leap seconds to be added.

Therefore logically we have 3 choices. Change the meaning of a second (not feasible), continue putting up with leap seconds (costly, and serves no purpose unless you're an astronomer), or give up the UTC peg to an astronomical fact. Unfortunately astronomers control UTC right now, don't want to give it up, and don't care how much their leap seconds cost everyone else. But this can't last forever.

Given the way that things work, I don't think that it will change until there is some disaster that is too big to ignore. For instance a leap second bug causes some critical control software to fail, leading to a industrial accident, which brings the attention of politicians and the general public to this ridiculous situations. (Or crashes critical aviation software. Or something else on that scale.)

If the current situation maintains, it is just a question of time until something on that scale happens. But until that happens, I don't think that astronomers will understand the costs that they are imposing on the rest of the world.

My thinking is that since it is obvious that we'll lose the astronomical peg eventually, we should lose it now. Before someone dies.