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Check out How a Secretary turns into A Dancing girl ! With Bruno Mars lookalike and Red panties !!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=c4-feed-u&v=pDyZ_nqj2Gc
How can I extend JavaScript to support new operators?
Or both, or the company allows employees to reimburse their own ergonomic chair purchase. I actually prefer the latter if I can't find one I like from whatever the office provides.
While you're right, doesn't it scare anyone else that your entire business can be at the whim of Googles algorithms and decisions? :(
Little Rules for Working Life
Google is a mammoth. Generalising it would be similar to doing the same of a whole country. I do not work there but know many that have that speak so highly of its foundations. Like some sort of new form of knowledge discovery and expansion of thought. While it may be infantile this could just as well be seen as an advantage, at least for a while to come. It is one of the frontiers of innovation for company building (and nation building for that matter): keeping people feeling, thinking and innovating like children. However, Aaron was right and this is not enough to keep some great talent from slipping through.

I had two run-ins with Google HR. Once after they purchased a company that had a product that I was a primary architect and programmer for. Part of the reason the process staled was because I explained "I consider programming like hammering nails. I program. I am not a programmer". I found their questions on what languages I program with to be silly. The other reason it staled had to do with their inability to discuss practical "projects" we could "work on together". It's as if Google is an Amish parent wanting to offer you their daughter in marriage with you committing before even getting a decent look at her.

To their credit the words "projects" and "work on together" coming from a potential hire are foreign to all companies. But if Google wants to avoid becoming Xerox in 30 years they would do well to understand this language and hire more like Al Qaeda rather than Ikea.

Developing a more network based structure is not that difficult to envision. For starters get rid of "%20 time", it's a joke. Instead I could imagine something more like: %25 on mandated work, %25 on google projects (what used to be %20 time), %50 time on projects entirely of your choosing that would be handled like an investment (with yearly reviews of direction as a board of a company would) and finally abolishment of most vacation days with vacation taken at will from the %50 and in any form (clustered, by day, half days, whatever). Full time creativity is a form of cognitive dissidence fostered only by industrial era thinking. Creative workers should be given the option to take minor or major pay cuts dynamically and at will in order to replenish their energy. Whereas today, asking for extra time off, even with a cut in pay, carries a lot of guilt for most. Such a structure as described, when monitored, also provides valuable feedback on the health of the employee and company. When you get something like this Google, hit me up on Pond.
There's a story of a Korean boy who learned English after coming to the United States by watching Simpsons episodes with the subtitles on. He'd write down every word / sentence that he didn't understand, find it's meaning and learn it. Then when the same episode was aired again later in the week, he'd watch it again to make sure that he understood.
You have a warped sense of time. Multitasking is essentially fast app switching on the devices. Copy and paste was a nothing feature. I'm surprised that you left out MMS too since your going down the trite meme route. Here's some back to Android, although its blatantly been influenced by the direction Apple took, it took Google until Jellybean 4.2 to catch up with the quality of implementation of iOS. They also continue to have a problem with fragmentation that is getting worse by the year and Google fucked consumers by handing control back to carriers in a bit to gain market share. Like you said, this could go on and on. So here's an idea; instead of trotting out tired and trite memes because someone has had the temerity to call out your favourite team, don't.

Also, link to the original article; http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-da...

If Android was, as you seem to think, not a copy of the original iPhone OS, why did it take a further 18 months to release anything after the initial iPhone unveiling?
Bullshit. Google were offered a place at the table.
I think you missed my point too. Anyway, who says I can't pass "the Amish" and "the north korean" to compare() along with a custom comparator function? Apples can be compared to oranges, you know. For instance, both apples and oranges are fruit, oranges are more orange than apples...
Semihcigim great post. Thanks
To achieve those results requires a lot of effort, and hardcore optimisation. Native coding gets you the same results, minus all that effort (as long as you're okay with targeting one platform), so yeah I was sort of saying it doesn't count IMO :)

That said, I'm building all my applications using web tools, Facebooks React allows for some amazing native performance, cross platform! If the views are decoupled enough, you can get two UIs with the exact same logic client and server side, with near native performance to boot.

Now it's not there yet, but it's super close, and once tooling is built up to tackle this use case with the new tech and architecture (client side), then I think it'll be a very big deal!
Do Amish children do that by choice?

Amish children aren't Amish. You have to choose to be Amish as an adult, they are exceedingly strict about that.

edit - If the Amish did mysteriously find themselves in charge of North Korea all of a sudden, by the rules of the Amish within about a year or so, depending on the harvest, there would be a very small Amish state in the middle of a brand new country that would rather confusingly now be called England.
the bugs were being patched in 7.1. they had to release.
No, it isn't Haskell. But I respect a lot functional programmers.
Cydia has been updated with a iOS 7 look.
But it doesn't support iPhone 5s yet! Hope @saurik is working on that.
The jailbreak works in 7.1b2 though, isn't that indicative of them not being patched?

Leaks aside geohot planned to burn these exploits on the release day of 7.1 by the looks of things (he just registered the domain for the new jailbreak the day before evasi0n7).
He has some crazy dreams: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/10/14/10456...
Cydia works on 64bit iPhones, just none of the packages do. The main package this is dependant on is Substrate, but I'm hardly going to blame saurik for taking a christmas break.
When I'm alone I try to describe my surroundings in another language, It great for identifying adjectives and verbs that I don't already know. Coupled with a good dictionary app it really helps fill in the blanks.
GDP in particular has some huge problems as a measure of economic good.

There are numerous alternative measures which have been proposed, though none have been widely adopted: FISH, GPI, UNHDI, GSDP, GESDI, etc.

"Nobel Laureate: Examine Alternatives to GDP"

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=nob...
Echo jwcrux. Krebs has a hard on for discrediting Cloud Flare for not playing morality police amongst their customer base. I'd hate for Krebs' mentality to make it to the ISP or government level!

Also at Blackhat, CEO Cloud Fare destroyed Krebs on stage. It sounds like he did a follow up pwn at Defcon. Not that I put much faith in anything involving Krebs being more than theater.
Simple solution, the law should be:

A) only companies using patents directly can sue

B) the maximum damages that can be awarded are 2x revenue related to the patents

This means that companies actually using patents and making a business out of them can benefit and stops patent trolls.

Am I crazy?
Only practice can take her English at the desired level somewhat quickly. I'm trilingual with a forth language under my belt and in my opinion she has to spend as much time as possible with native English speakers (or with people who speak English very well). Unfortunately you aren't a native speaker so more than likely she's exposed to Italian more than English. This is a major hurdle.
Reading is good. Listening is great but nothing beats discussing. One-on-one conversation classes could be great. You could look for people willing to practice Italian in exchange for English practice. Check "meetup"s in your region so that you can meet people and discuss in English (in whatever topic that is of interest to you).
There's no doubt that she has to study grammar and vocabulary. She has to read a lot (It is important to use tools/apps/dictionaries that can speak the searched words). But I would concentrate heavily on English communication.
Yes, that's what I was meant :)
That would be me right now, minus everything breaking (otherwise I wouldn't be on HN of course). Merry Christmas! :)
It's hard to reconcile that view with the fact that standards-of-living have been growing, more or less worldwide , for the two centuries.

Much of that standard-of-living increase has been dug or pumped out of the ground in the form of coal, oil, or gas:

http://ourfiniteworld.com/2012/08/29/the-long-term-tie-betwe...
MS ended stack ranking over a month ago:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5094864/microsoft-kills-s...

But yeah, a pretty bad system in principle.
A rather narrow view, of the thousands of occupations and careers you are just looking in the mirror. How about my friend who owns a bike shop? Or my other friend who runs an art/design webzine? Or my other friend with the micro-brewery? None of them are particularly skilled at what they do nor have the right networking. I think their secret lies between living within their means and choosing to do what they love. Anyone can do that and if that is what you are looking for, a sabbatical with enough money to go by and full time to inmerse in a great idea: go ahead and do it, do not over think it, do not be afraid to fail.
And I should point out West Germany found out after the Germany reunification that East Germany had thousands of spies working for East Germany in West Germany.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/shocking-new-res...

I have NO DOUBT what so ever that there are thousands of spies in S Korea working for N Korea, because of money/ideology/stupidity.

Come on people, the ex national assembly now being tried as a spy REFUSED to sing the S Korean national anthem in national assembly hall, claiming S Korean govt wasn't legit or something of that line. Of course when he was finally exposed and under threat of prison, he sang the S Korean national anthem just fine.
The whole thing is disappointing all around. It was clear just from the outset that the TiaG application was intended for piracy, there's absolutely no reason for it to be included. For the reasons stated (Cydia is not in Chinese) they could have just offered patches with new translations. If people found the relationship between TiaG and kuaiyong (another piracy store) in a matter of minutes, I'm not sure why the evad3rs didn't.

Now ultimately their jailbreak is being used for piracy by a company who paid not a dime for the exploit kit. I'd have been happier to see them take the money and donate the lump sum to EFF for similar.
Yes, that's why China is helping N Korean agents hunt down and return the would be refugees.

Nah, I doubt even S Korean govt would welcome a reunified korea. The cost and turmoil will be enormous...
Good for them, then.
The season of goodwill
Happy Christmas everyone! In this season of goodwill, where/how are you using your goodwill?
A thing is called a "disorder" if

1. it makes it hard to function in society; and

2. it can be treated or mediated somehow, so there's a point to having a name for it.

Basically, a "disorder" is a node connecting "symptoms" to "treatments."
Title is misleading. Rockstar isn't backed by a single entity. It's flame bait and many of you have taken it.

Merry Christmas.
Ask HN: Which programming bootcamp should I attend?
Hey Hackers,

I've been doing some research into programming bootcamps recently. I've seen that many people recommend Hack Reactor, DevBootCamp, MakerSquare, and Devatory. Is there a special reason why many of these camps teach RoR? Which would you recommend and why?
Oh yeah. You just made it a conspiracy to patent troll. Nice one.
Me - I'm spending my first Christmas with my partner, forging a strong and happy relationship. So TTFN HN, until tomorrow :)
What is Art?
Pre-New-Year Check of PostgreSQL
As a former ESL teacher, I think TV can be helpful but it's better to be very selective about which shows you watch. Pick shows that have a lot of dialogue in English.

Older TV shows tend to be more dialogue-centric. If you have the TV Land channel, I'd suggest: MASH, All in the Family, I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, &c.

Contemporary shows that would be good for this purpose might be: Modern Family, NCIS, Mad Men, Big Bang Theory, Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development, Parenthood (advanced: lots of simultaneous talking).
I believe he'd get a more fair trial than Navalny and Khodorkovsky did.

This one is pretty much obvious. It is a massive PR win for Putin, looking at uninformed online comments such as yours.

I believe he's paid much more by Russian intelligence services for all the secrets he has "exported".

The last question doesn't even deserve a response. If you're this closeminded, you shouldn't argue on the Internet at all.
Why is line level profiling so non-existent for dynamic languages? Function level just doesn't cut it, esp. w/ the zillions of monkey patches in Ruby.
I think Nickelback listeners can take a joke... To me, the mistake was turning it on by default.
They've all been replaced by hash tables.
Yes, but reinventing the wheel is not innovation, it is stupidity. Why write a new kernel if there is a very good one available? Innovation often is in taking existing things and combining them in new ways (or improving already existing inventions, which is what google is doing).
Its an obvious reference to Job's comment. Therefor its not sensationalist, hyperbole, or what ever, to use the image with this type of story.

Job's comments may well be, but that isn't the article's author's problem.
Your statement hinges on the implicit premise that most of the skills required in programming share no common knowledge, and each must be learned entirely anew (so that time spent learning X is time not spent learning Y.)

I would pose the opposite: that learning more "parts" of programming at the same time, makes learning each individual part easier and faster. Epiphanies from learning functional programming will explain bits of compiler design; patterns you learn in macro assembler will clarify instruction-optimization vs. space-optimization choices; working with message-passing systems will revise your views on networking protocols; etc.

You'd expect, for a similar reason, someone with training in book publishing and communications design to not need much help getting into web design.
It's pretty scary....what drives these people I wonder. Is it revenge against Korean society? Is it the honest belief that North Korea is a better place to live? If they believe in it so much, why don't they go over there? Why not experience what it's like to live under the glorious leader that they revere so much? It makes no sense!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_plot_of_UPP_against_S...
The Plight of the Employed
Copy/paste was introduced to the market first by Apple. For the Lisa. Not forever, it seems...
If the Rockstar shareholders can be shown to have direct control over this, the DoJ and FTC may get involved. From this interview/fluff piece: http://www.ip-rockstar.com/Press_Releases/IAM%20Rockstar%20A...

Commitments to the DoJ

The sale of the Nortel patents closed on
29th July 2011, which also happens to be
Veschi’s birthday. But it took another few
months – until Spring 2012 – for the
acquisition to receive clearance from the
US Department of Justice (DoJ). Although
this approval may have taken some time to
obtain, the only commitment that Rockstar
itself gave to the DoJ (and the Federal Trade
Commission) was that it would operate
autonomously. This, explains Veschi, was
so that the shareholders “as operating
companies cannot pick and choose who we
will target”
>> At the same time, I feel like I'm doing impactful work, with some very smart people.

Ah, you must be one of the stars getting people to click on ads, even more. No matter how you spin it, you make money by what can rightfully be characterized as fraud (1,2,3), or confusing ads with unbiased content(if there's still a thing like unbiased content at Google) while ripping your users off. But whatever makes you feel better

1. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/18/for-google-it-pays-to...
2. http://www.seobook.com/consumer-ad-awareness-search-results
3. http://www.afr.com/p/technology/google_top_product_search_re...
Hm. I feel like Google is following Diamond Age's tips on how to train their engineers. There's a pretty great passage in there about this, and you owe it to yourself to read it. It reads more like a prophecy than a sci-fi book, but it's super good. :)
Got few issues with the culture of Netflix.

So once someone is not needed, the person is just sent off? I understand a generous severance is given. But, you couldN'T use that money to try to retrain the worker with another technology/task/job?

What about mentoring? Someone has to start somewhere. So if Netflix ONLY hires someone who's A grade, where do B and C grade people get their chance to learn and improve? Sounds like a very selfish way of hiring (granted every company is selfish).

I do agree with one thing in the article. The whole year-end or half-year end performance review is just a sham. No one in management cares until management decides to lay off someone. They start putting down C or D grade all of sudden when earlier it was mostly As and Bs. And next thing you know, you are let go.
What about patents that come out of universities?

How do you determine the "revenue related to the patents"?
You should toss this up on http://itch.io
To be fair, with the exception of hardware and retail companies, almost all internet era companies make their revenue from selling ads because people have a negative reaction to roadblocks and paywalls. Facebook is just as beholden to ads to Google is.

I would argue that most of the Google products that are successes today in terms of users: Gmail, Chrome, Android, Maps, Search, etc have competed on the same merits as similar products from competitors. Yahoo Mail or Hotmail, for example, are subsidized by other products as well.

I don't think Google has a monopoly on talented individuals, but I do think Google has a better culture than other companies. You can have the smartest people, but a shitty internal culture can act to break their innovation, not multiply it. I've worked at IBM and Oracle and definitely, very smart people at Oracle that I knew of were hampered and stymied by a suffocating corporate layer.
Actually, Google was not offered to join the Rockstar consortium. They were offered to participate in a joint bid on the Novell portfolio (which they declined), but not -- as far as we know -- the Nortel portfolio.

I think the confusion arose when Google complained about multiple firms ganging up to win the Nortel auction, and Microsoft shot back that they'd have invited Google into the gang too if it hadn't snubbed them during the Novell auction. All PR posturing on both sides, of course, but prone to sow confusion.
I work on Google Fiber. You give us money, we give you an Internet connection.

I'm glad you made an account just for this, though. What a great community HN can be.
and there has been work going in this area even earlier than that:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~zickler/papers/Autotag_IVW2008....
Andrew Gallagher has a number of publications in this domain:
http://chenlab.ece.cornell.edu/people/Andy/publications/publ...
The laws in the US are pretty clear on this subject. In general, as soon as you start colluding between companies, pooling resources, shaking hands and ganging up against one company, antitrust comes into play. Just look at what happened to Apple and publishers, standard oil, etc.

Having said that, one of the parties involved in collusion was Microsoft. They covered their tracks well, as they have had more than a few run ins with the government here. You can see that in the, "Look, we asked them to join us, they chose not to do so" line.. Which was a laughable point by the way, as joining their group wouldn't have allowed for protecting android manufacturers. But it provides an alibi for regulators. IMO, it's not a very good alibi.

Microsoft and Apple took a huge risk in their collusion. I imagine discovery might bring up some juicy tidbits. I figure they knew the risks, but reasoned that sticking it to their biggest 'problem' was worth the risk of getting caught up with regulators. So that tells you about how scared they are.
So, someone offered a full scholarship for Harvard on craigslist? Damn, too bad I missed it :)
If there is one person working on the next version of ruby it is not dead.

jruby and rubinius close the performance gaps. (This is an arguement for only knowing one language.)
One-Participant 401(k) Plans
If your query is in Clojure there are some great tools in addition to those mentioned for data science that leverage Hadoop - in particular - Parkour

https://github.com/damballa/parkour/ (Hadoop MapReduce in idiomatic Clojure)

If your query is in R then you can convert to a PMML query and then Cascading to Run on Hadoop:

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/11/how-to-use-cascading-p...
Yep. Free shipping is not free shipping when you move the cost to the items. 2 day shipping is convenient, but not as convenient as driving 10 minutes down the road. For me, even 2 day shipping is an inconvenience. If i'm not saving a good deal of money, I'm not going to use it. Compound that with the fact that they now charge sales tax in my state, and I can honestly say I don't order too much from them anymore.
Engineers are expected to take responsibility for themselves. They are, after all, "fully formed adults" (in Patty's parlance). And honestly it's not that hard to figure out which skills are useful to the work around you.

Netflix has traditionally only hired very senior engineers. Mentoring, at least technical, isn't seen as necessary for these people. Further, if an engineer thinks mentoring would help them, the onus is on them to seek it out.
Another 2c: Google[x] might be the founders way to avoid the sloth of a mammoth structure but it may also be the one thing that turns them into Xerox. To prevent that expressly avoid the patent-chest-trap and future reliance on this over innovation in product based wealth. If your investors cant give up on future patent wealth secretly plow efforts into reducing the effectiveness of patent-chests for all.
You seem to be responding to the title of the article, which takes Snowden's statement out of context. He was talking about his mission, which was to hand over the documents to journalists.