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This guy hired me based on my FE skills even though I didn't had any development experience. It was my first job as a FE engineer.

I won't be able to get a job based on algorithm/standard CS interview questions.
This looks fake, it is scheduled for a second debate in the 2nd house (Parliament, the one that's democratically elected) in February 2014.

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/alanturingstatut...
I already did a few hours back: http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1tjj1p/we_need_thi...
Not only does it come a bit late (if legit), it also soft-pedals the abuses against him.
NIN's latest album was published by Columbia Records.
Many developers have written about ditching a CMS-like thing for a static site generator for their own personal use. I've done it too, it's great!

Is there anybody who's had a good experience getting less technical partners/colleagues/clients to do the same, possibly with something like the GitHub file editor and continuous deployment?
Yes, it explains clearly a lot of the mathematical concepts that are subjects of some examples in SICP, and it is as rich in insights. Those are my two most favourite books ever, and studying them over a period of few years gave me as much as my whole undergraduate university degree I think.
Papers were published by reputable cryptographers in 2007 making it clear that a Dual EC DRBG could be backdoored by the entity that chose the points.

The whole point is that this didn't come out of no-where. This algorithm was already regarded as being suspect, and RSA knew that they had been paid to make it the default in their cryptography library.

This isn't like the DES situation, where there was never any real evidence that the changes made by the NSA had made DES weaker (and as we later found out, they'd actually made the algorithm stronger whilst at the same time ensuring that the key-space was small enough that they could crack it).

RSA have seriously let down their customers & not for the first time. If I was an RSA customer I'd be taking a good hard look at dropping them as soon as I possibly could.
Good thing he didn't chemically castrate anyone, they'd never pardon that.
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Well it was butt ugly. Personally I think they went too far in minimizing the look but that's just me.

But it did start off seriously ugly, but then again, it was made to be. I guess it was something of a straw graph, no one would really make a graphic like that.
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What's wrong with storing contacts on a SIM card? Seems like a good idea, just move it to a new phone and boom, all your contacts are there.
I picked one of these up because it was $80 unlocked, well w/in impulse buy range, and anyone w/ some webdev chops can churn out an app w/o learning [STUPID DEV STACK THAT DOESNT WORK ANYWHERE ELSE].

I wish there was some slicker FFOS hardware, but I like where the platform is going
The Book Review Column edited by William Gasarch seems to include a rather large proportional of books that, given a suitable undergraduate-level background, a person can hope simply to enjoy. A person can hope to grow with them, rather than climb them. I look forward to flipping through these reviews to see, will I indeed enjoy this or that?

Now, I have read only a small portion of math books. But, Protter and Morrey, Dummit and Foote, books by Strang, books by Rudin? Isn't this quite a different category? Sure, many mathematical books are books we should note, books we should collect, books we should teach. If you are the kind of person who sits around chewing and digesting such books, congratulations. But then, haven't you probably read all the reviews that you need already?

Edit: Whoops! Now I think that my perception is quite biased because a) many books that he reviews don't require much more than excellent high-school mathematics skills and b) I personally enjoy math books more that are more closely related to computation. Gasarch's book review column is written for SIGACT, ACM's Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory. Still, my point was that this list of math books is not so much like some other lists of math books.
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Yet... I can't seem to find a link to it? Wouldn't mind reading.
You're right; I thought they had already done the second reading, but it was a reading in the House of Lords instead.

That said, the Parliament website is fantastic. The US sites are getting better, but the overall flow for public bills in the UK's site is so much nicer.

Edit: the original schedule looks like it was altered after MP Christopher Chope raised an objection.
Exactly. When the author mentions, "I like playing around with smartphones", he is immediately ruled out from the target audience of FirefoxOS today. Perhaps in the future it may compete evenly with android/iOS, but that's not an immediate goal.
Excuse me if I'm too forward but I find that hard to believe. Do you really not get, i.e., not understant their position, as opposed to merely disagreeing with it?
> I doubt that their experience will translate very well into the long tail of musicians.

Oh I'm sure it does. I certainly wouldn't know as many bands as I know today without piracy - and this translates very much into buying CDs and going to shows, though I can't afford to buy every CD from every band I like.

For smaller bands, getting known is the most important. It's what gets them bigger gigs, better labels, better production, better press coverage, better invitations to festivals, better endorsement deals... There's a very strong analogy with start ups there : focus on growth, take VC money, and you'll get the conversion rate sorted out when you're bigger.
I feel like people who say this do it to downplay his accomplishments. It's a very negative tone.
Just read the description on Amazon,

• Evan “Ev” Williams, the ambitious farm boy from Clarks, Nebraska, who had already created Blogger and sold it to Google for millions. Quiet and protective...

• Jack Dorsey, the tattooed “nobody” who helped mastermind the original concept of Twitter, became a billionaire tech titan...

Anyone else find it funny how Medium and Stripe exactly portray those two personalities?
The author seems miss the point in the comparison to the Moto G's price, since ZTE does not have a ~$50B search business to subsidize its phone business(Motorola's been losing money at a fast clip) and needs to make money on every phone it sells, it's not really a valid comparison. Android phones in the < $150 price range are quite slow too.

That said, it seems to be underperforming other OSes. I remember WebOS on my HP Touchpad had issues with scroll and lagging even on a dual core 1.5GHz processor.

Anyone know how the CPU in the ZTE Open(single core Cortex A5 at 1GHz) compares to the Qualcomm MSM7227A Snapdragon
CPU Cortex-A5 in the Lumia 510(A WP7 phone)? Both have the same GPU(Adreno 200) and 256MB RAM, but the 510 doesn't seem to have that many issues with lag despite the ZTE Open being clocked 25% higher.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDZQuEn2mMM
http://cdn.media.ir.thewaltdisneycompany.com/2013/annual/pro...

Sheryl Sandberg made $274K in 2012 being on the board at Disney as an example.
All the cool kids sync their data in "THE CLOUD"
Try Sailfish.
> it lumps into a single giant structure every possibly imaginable number.

What? There are several different numeric types. It's there to implement more advanced mathematics capabilities.

Like in Axiom, which runs on top of Common Lisp.

> Haskell's relatively fine-grained distinctions between numeric types is nothing like Lisp's numeric tower.

Haskell's numeric capabilities were in part copied from Common Lisp.
while not "in-store sales", i think this helps:
"The result was massive sellouts. The São Paolo show alone grossed £1.58 million (US$2.58 million) alone."

personally, i'm with you. in-store sales are a red herring.

for the entire history of music -- aside from the last 60 years or so -- musicians have been paid for performances or on commission. music, my friends, is a service, not a product. and it has been for century upon century.

it's really this recent machination created by the recording industry that is the anomaly. music piracy is really just the correction back to the mean.
I think that's the short-term strategy, but the long-term strategy probably is to take on Android.
As it stands now it seems like Firefox OS is a good proof of concept but is lacking in polish and is a bit unreliable. I had a chance to play with a Firefox OS phone a few months ago, and I would probably opt for a feature phone over that, right now. In a year or less though, I think it could be a viable replacement.

For competing with Android, they have a lot of catching up to do, but I think it's within reach and not requiring devs to learn another api/platform to create apps for it should help them get past the biggest hurdle any new players in the smartphone OS have to contend with, which is a lack of apps.
"Greeting!", no less.
I really dislike Computer Modern.

I think it is an amateur typeface. Its italic glyphs are at different angles from one another. None of its bowls are consistent. It has strange and discordant differences in thicknesses across letters. The serif fonts are mangled in kerning and positioning in really weird ways. And the roman is extremely wide, extremely thin, and surprisingly hard to read when used for its primary purpose: papers.

I think CM is predominant in TeX not because it's a good looking typeface. It's not predominant in TeX because it's nicely compatible with provided math symbols (which it is). CM is predominant only because for a very, very long time it was the only option available, and so people got used to scientific papers being "supposed" to look like that.

But this is not a field known for its typesetting aesthetics: heck even as late as 2003 the large majority of these papers were still using the CM bitmaps rather than vector fonts, resulting in an unreadable mess when converted to PDF files. Tables are written so as to absolutely maximize the number of horizontal and vertical rule lines you can possibly stuff into a text table. The ACM's official style file is so awful and broken that multiple style files have been created to secretly patch it. Some have historically been filled with swear words. And I cannot count the number of papers nowadays which write things like $foo$, not realizing that this de-kerns the letters.

Also, it appears the version from this link is missing its kerning.
Yes, it’s not really a fair comparison, I also changed the theme to a much simpler one which is a big boost too, but still.

But still nothing. Comparing a page that is 15% the size of the original is ridiculous. I'm left wondering what happens to the page loads on a WordPress site if you reduced the overall size and number of requests.
Hiring is a risky activity. This is a means to mitigate the risk. The fraternal relationship is a means to ensure (imperfectly) that the applicant is being honest about qualifications (and same for the employer).
Her and Boxer are terrible senators, just their non incumbents have always been worse. The entire two party system has been failing as they all serve the same interests
The crooked contracts in which artists were advanced significant sums of money that they needed to recoup from album sales, which they almost never actually did recoup because the music business is like the venture capital business in that a very few winners pay for a large collection of losers, and so as long as artists were signed to a label and had their albums funded they could afford a middle class lifestyle while producing music full time?

Those crooked contracts?

It is better, moneywise, to be a record label than it is to be a musician. It's better to be a VC than an entrepreneur. But don't confuse that with the fairness of the deal those people offer. It's better to be a financier than a worker for reasons beyond contracts.
It actually is that tractable. Plenty of murders are 'heat of the moment' things, where a lowered bar is significant. You seem intent on casting all gun violence as serenely premeditated. It very much isn't.
I meant it humorously; I deliberately did not use lmgtfy's shortlink service so people would see what the link was before clicking on it.
Is it legally possible to FOI / subpoena / sue the NSA for records the NSA has? That could be a good weapon in the copyright infringement cases they like to throw out - probably a lot stronger link than just IP.
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I've been following this site for 3-4 years. Recently graduated college and decided to move out to Seattle to look for a job. 7 months of this so far and I can't believe the general lack of interest in what I've done and can do.... I knew I was taking a risk in moving out here to look, so I initially planned to stay for 3 months, but now I think I've overstayed. I'm getting sick of this feeling and everyone telling me that "I'll find something".

Is anyone hiring a web/mobile/desktop (php, javascript, obj-c, java) developer in Seattle or hiring remote workers? I wish I could afford to move out anywhere to interview, but that is impossible without assistance at this point...

or can recommend me to your companies' open positions?

I'm a self taught programmer and I know I have the motivation to do what I do best...
The second reading of the bill in the House of Commons is not due until the 28th of February, so even if this is a draft it's not the real deal yet.

I have to say I feel uneasy about this whole thing, I'd be much happier if we pardoned everyone prosecuted under the same law.
You prefer "You'll Never Guess Where This FBI Agent Left a Secret Interrogation Manual" as a headline? Linkbaiting on full display there.
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Chicken or egg is easy to resolve: things were being born from eggs before chickens existed :)
In what way is prematurely ending a fellow humans life "key" to my experience?
I think there's a big future for static site generators (that's why I'm building BitBalloon https://www.BitBalloon.com), but the big hurdle for using them for projects for clients is the lack of browser based admin tools.

Stuff like prose.io goes some of the way, but for most users even WordPress requires training, and showing them the raw filesystem is gonna be way to geeky in many cases.

Would love to talk to anyone interested in building a great open source admin panel for a static site generator.
Actually I have a British Army commission and it does indeed start 'To Our Trusty and Well Beloved Christopher Graham Seaton Greeting!'
So how long until piracy related sites are included? Seems like the next logical step given the secret agreements about that & FUD.
Is there a cushier job than being a board member?
I wouldn't be surprised if the page was created by Feinstein's staffers.
Bloomberg just discovered fraternities? Just wait until they find out about skull and bones.
Author of the article here. On Lean, I'd recommend a book called "Notes from Toyota-Land: An American Engineer in Japan" that is in part about the dark side of Lean and its impact on workers. Or just read an interview with the author:
http://www.gembapantarei.com/2006/05/interview_with_darius_m...

I also recommend reading The Management Myth which is about management theory in general:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/the-mana...

The wikipedia page on participatory design gives a nice overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_design

Unfortunately most of the work in these areas is highly academic and assumes a lot of background knowledge. I thought this article on participatory design was quite good, but again, it's an academic paper:
http://peterasaro.org/writing/Asaro%20PD.pdf
Are you saying that internet petitions have been effective for specific 2nd Amendment issues? Cite?
EMC bought RSA for $2bn. With a market cap of $51BN, why would you expect RSA to be a major component? The $10M NSA payment was apparently 30% of that particular RSA group's revenue.

And even if RSA was standalone, should we expect a major impact on the company's sales? It's not like Wells Fargo is going to stop using RSA keyfobs because of this. Although I admit I don't know where most of their income comes from.
The point is it's not a crazy risk to take when you trust the NSA, even in 2007, when everyone else knew not to use Dual EC.

I just don't see how the RSA is supposed to realize the NSA is evil before the Snowden leaks.
This is completely and totally off topic.
"graciously pleased to extend our grace and mercy".. what a bunch of garbage. I hope that is toned down for the actual pardon.
I meant my previous post where I had them in every single possibility.
You'll forgive me, I hope, for having tried to weasel out of this discussion without having to introduce the term 'propaganda', which is so loaded down with connotations at this point as to be practically useless.

I hope it's uncontroversial to state that the most effective way of steering political opinion is to establish a method of determining the terms in which political discussion is undertaken. (It should certainly be uncontroversial to state this to a progressive, whose political movement has more precisely formalized the concept than any other in recent history!)

In this line, one might promulgate a formula by which human agency is as much as possible elided from discussion of one particular method by which humans have been known to kill one another, in favor of the unstated but strong implication -- yes, that word again -- that the essential problem lies in the method, rather than in the untrammelled urge to kill. "Killed by an AK-47" is a sterling example of the type.

You argue that "everyone knows" what is meant by that formula, and I wouldn't presume to disagree with such a trivially obvious statement. But, in that case, I'm forced to wonder why anyone bothers with the obfuscation at all! What does it add, to the attempt to reason as accurately as possible about a phenomenon in order to enact laws intended to control it to the benefit of all, to use a form of words which suggests by its structure the absurd thought of a firearm floating around willy-nilly shooting people of its own accord? To whose benefit is this absurdity deployed?
the relationship between the two is "true fans".

where are the true fans? they're where all the piracy is happening. what do true fans pay for? live performances and a chance to connect with the artists. hence, the epic money they're making in a place you wouldn't normally think of as a money-generating location.
imho static page generating sites is optimizing at the wrong level. That's what app caching, caching servers and CDNs and such are for. Static page generation like this is ok at a very small level/scale but doesn't scale use wise. You cannot build interesting big dynamic sites with it. So I guess for a blog fine, but, not for me thanks
"We trusted the NSA" might have been a good excuse without the payment. It seems really strange that the NSA would need to pay RSA to "improve" their RNGs.

And it doesn't change the rest of the post's point - after Dual EC was determined to be backdoorable, RSA didn't say anything.
He didn't say why, he said how. Do you know somewhere I can pay $15 to download or stream new release movies?
This feels quite raw. I cringed a few times reading it, in the way that you cringe when someone is telling you something that is taboo but is what they really think. A worthwhile read, I think; thanks for letting us peek inside your mind.
prezjordan, you should check out Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com). It shows you how many other projects/people actually use a library and how they use it (code snippets).

[0]: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/jdan/cleaver
[1]: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/numpy/numpy

disclaimer: I am one of the creators of Sourcegraph and would love to hear what you think about it!
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> Wrong! CSS is in fact a turing-complete language. :) I know it sounds weird, but it's true. Turing-completeness can be formally proved for CSS.

Where's the proof?

I am aware of a supposed proof that CSS3+HTML5 is Turing complete (but it relies on specified user interactions that aren't part of the defined execution of semantics of either language), but I've never heard of one CSS itself.
That's more than I knew about modern Russian salutations, or the lack thereof. Thanks!
Is there any precedent for online petitions doing anything? Ever? Would be happily surprised to learn of something but to my knowledge they have never done anything.
My understanding is that this is actually standard form for certain official documents in the UK. Example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_patent#Form_of_British_...
It is about 30% redacted at the moment. We've done everything reasonable to protect signatory privacy. We hash and discard email. We don't retain log files.

But yes we think this is necessary.
Honesty compels of me the admission that I'm almost never really sure, especially in the context of comments on HN.
Perhaps you meant square, not stripe?
> But I think that most programmers who are serious about what they do should know calculus (the real kind), linear algebra, and statistics.

What does he mean by calculus of the real kind? I parsed that as referring to calculus of real variables, as opposed to complex analysis. One of the reasons that complex algebra is taught in colleges and universities is that real and complex algebra are related. Gerolamo Cardano ran into it around 450 odd years ago, so it isn't exactly an obscure area of maths.
I don't recommend people to certain jobs unless I am 100% sure they are the person for the job. I don't like having my name associated w/ people who reflect poorly per my recommendation.

Alternatively the metric I use is: "If I was starting a company, would I hire this person?" or "Would I want to work with and trust this person to deliver?".

I'm friends with many people where this answer is no, but they're still great friends.
Congrats on your 1.0 release!

I hate to nitpick, but I assume you want some feedback, right?

On your screenshot, http://openemu.org/img/controls-prefs.png , you appear to be missing an option for the B button. Also, I know this is hugely a personal preference, but the wood grain makes reading the text quite a bit more difficult for me. Now that Jony Ive's been removing skeuomorphism in OS X and iOS, it might help consistency to remove and/or tone that down, possibly?

The scrollbar to see the starter pack games does not work with my browser (Firefox 17.) I can't click it, use arrow keys, or anything of the sort.

Aside from that, it looks really great! I'll try it out when I boot over to OS X again.

Happy to see another project interested in game libraries and auto-mapping gamepads! This will definitely be my top multi-emulator recommendation going forward.

I would like to ask where you're getting your box art from, and what you do when box art isn't available? (eg no way you have box art for Super Mario World + All-Stars, as it never had a box; and you probably don't have any for obscure Japanese titles, I am guessing.) Also, if you support Japanese boxes, how do you handle the orientation differences between US (horizontal) and JP (mostly vertical, some horizontal)?

Lastly, how do you handle multiple identical controllers plugged in at once? It seems that most USB gamepads lack the serial# field, so the only way to uniquely distinguish them is by USB port# + vendor ID + product ID combined. The downside there is if you move a gamepad to another USB port, the mappings need to be updated again.