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NCAA Football 10 Released last week
NCAA Football 10 is wonderful football game that gives a new level of openness for newcomers, but keeps the core mechanics that veterans love.
The subject matter for NCAA Football 10 is effortless: Play the game the way it's inevitable to be played.
try setting your greeting
Checkout this thread, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108723
Google would never hire someone like Zeke (they might have in the past, but not current Google); without a degree from a "top-tier school", you don't even get past the first steps of the interview process.

You're wrong. Let me add one more anecdote: I know someone who dropped out of a second- or third-tier tech school after five years of moderate GPA, in 2000. He started work at Google three months ago. Yes, in engineering.
>a happening-new-image that has no connection to who or what they really are

Oh? And what is your justification for that statement? Have you worked there? I have, and I am actually surprised at how cool and fresh some of the stuff MSFT is doing is.
They should simply ignore Palm. Instead they chose to actively block them.
To be honest, calculus isn't that important for mathematicians, but if you want to study mathematics seriously, I'd suggest picking up a rigorous text like Rudin's or Apostol's. It will be difficult. You'll have to read most of it several times. That's perfectly fine; the point is that it will help you learn to think like a mathematician does.

Now, on the other hand, linear algebra is almost universally important and is probably easier for a programmer to grasp. I would also suggest picking up a Number Theory or Combinatorics text; they're practically useless, but they're fun and interesting, they'll give you a better idea of what mathematicians do, and you don't need much education to get into them.

My usual advice for building skills is to work on contest problems. See if you can find some AMC12 problems. If those are too easy, you can work your way up. AIME and Putnam would be good next steps (those can be found here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080205091131/http://www.kalva.d... ).
I started using Snackr a few months ago and have been extremely pleased with it. It shows items from a list of feeds I can setup, but the items are displayed randomly. It has a ticker interface, no unread counter and a nice clean interface.

The only drawback? Development seems to have died on the project which sucks. So I'm just going on with the last stable release which creaks along
Socializing healthcare drives up costs for everyone, pushing higher quality alternatives out of range for more people. Providers no longer compete on price, and consumers no longer factor price when selecting providers or moderating their use of resources. Combined, these factors will make (and already have been making) private alternatives unrealistic for all but the most wealthy, whereas prior to the government takeover of healthcare, high-quality private care was well within reach for (at least) the lower-middle class.
And the magic phone number is...?

1-800-264-0002

But you might want to do a bit of research before signing up:

Get AT&T Dry Loop/Naked DSL In 5 Minutes
http://consumerist.com/342490/

AT&T Dry Loop DSL Hard To Find, Get And Cancel
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Dry-Loop-DSL-Hard-To-...
Not literally nothing. I guess you haven't read "The Graphing Calculator Story":

I was frustrated by all the wasted effort,
so I decided
to uncancel my small part of the project.
I had been paid to do a job,
and I wanted to finish it.
My electronic badge
still opened Apple's doors,
so I just kept showing up.

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/
I know meta-discussion isn't entirely welcome on HN, but nevertheless, I feel a need to express my disappointment that this article was (apparently) undeaded. Whichever mod is responsible, please try to understand why so many of us flagged this article in the first place and don't undead lowbrow flamebait in the future. HN is supposed to be above this sort of article.
My first reaction was, how is this different from Lala.com?
I just compared Yahoo's search results to Google's a week and a half ago. The difference wasn't large, but I switched to Yahoo Search. (I've never worked for Yahoo or Google, but lots of my friends work at both, and I have a Yahoo Search shirt in the closet.)

http://canonical.org/~kragen/search-comparison-2009.html
That's a pretty interesting point. I used to use Yahoo Pipes to make my own DIY feeds from sites that didn't have them but it ultimately ended up being too much of a hassle so I stopped. I would definitely be interested in something that solves the problem a little more directly.
This article is pretty dumb. I am working at Microsoft this summer, and there are plenty of great things to say about the place. Being able to go to the bathroom whenever I want isn't one of them.
I have used the IE version as well, and yeah, it's better...but the Opera (and others) version is perfectly sufficient.
We've been through much worse than this. The economy is complex enough and our entrepreneurs talented enough that we will rise above this. The economy gets better under two circumstances in my view:

(1) Large opportunities are available for businesses to invest and make money.

(2) People start spending money again because consumer confidence improves.

BTW, the goal is not to produce more than we consume. That, in my view, is a formula for failure. The goal is to create a more stable supply and demand curve. If consumers don't spend enough money, then the problems get worse as a business's gross revenue decreases.

If we stop panicking, spend their money, stop with the bail outs, provide tax incentives for entrepeneurs, and most importantly, provide an opportunity for business to make money as well as compete with existing giants, then the recession will start easing into recovery.
>were thoroughly well-versed in the liberal arts (as classically defined), meaning that they had been grounded in Latin, rhetoric, and similar subjects that trained them to be highly articulate in their forms of expression (as is easily seen from a glance at these hearing transcripts).

Is that your definition of "smart"? It sure isn't mine.

>Those who went on to become lawyers, politicians, etc. were indeed elitists but the best among them were highly talented, very bright, and quite capable of making many of our modern politicians look pathetic by comparison in their forms of expression.

The ones you've heard of, sure - they are the ones worth remembering. But if you don't think there were just as many moronic politicians back then you're just being naive. Anyway, politicians are a self-selecting group - and a terrible group from which to sample if you want to get an idea of an era's general intelligence.
Saying the Putnam is a next step from AMC12 problems is like saying the NBA is a next step from pickup basketball with friends in middle school! There are people who can do Putnam problems for fun, but those people generally know who they are already.
I would claim that Calculus isn't that important for engineers / scientists / programmers either. Real Analysis is important if one needs to understand thing deeper. In the real world, problems can't be solved analytically... and many of the tools one learns in Calculus are kind of useless. I think Linear Algebra is much, much more important than Calculus. Linear Algebra is the arithmetic of higher mathematics, like Bellman said.
> It would be very interesting to know if Kindle copies were deleted in the countries where the book is in fact out of copyright.

They likely were. I'd say that the copyright covers the information in Amazon's central Kindle database, which is presumably under US jurisdiction, and that all the other devices simply reflect any changes in this database unless you hack them not to.
As always, it depends.

I subscribe to a small number of feeds. But several of them are themselves aggregating multiple feeds (e.g., running some sort of "planet" software), and so can produce lots of items depending on who's active on a given day.

I find this to be fairly useful (since it lets me get good coverage of particular niche topics I care about), but I'm also very careful about what I subscribe to and who I trust to choose the feeds which get aggregated.
Connecting the Dots Isn't Enough, Adobe's Chief Says
Doesn't work in Opera 10 b2 (which passes Acid3) or IE8. Both claim I don't have Flash or have Javascript disabled (incorrect) and the playlist also doesn't look right in IE. What's the deal?

Also, it claims to back up my iTunes library, which it doesn't actually seem to do. For some songs, even with correct ID3 info, it either guesses wrong or says "not found".

I guess I'm not seeing the point of this site.
It's been ages since my last university math class (I was a I math major), so I can't point you to any reference material, but I can say the following.

If you really want to improve your problem solving skills, I would highly recommend studying real analysis. What you get out of this will go a long way to making you a better problem solver. The reason why I say this is when you have to so something like prove why 1 is greater than 0, you'll learn to look at things differently.

In studying real analysis, you are almost learning how to walk again. Everything that you have taken for granted as being obvious in the past will now have to be proven. And by going through these exercises, you'll learn the importance of truly understanding what you are doing.
I've always just looked at them the way I look at any other event-based hooks -- they're a way to say "when this thing happens, I want to know about it and run some code".

Some programming languages even have this built in :)
There's a lot of people and companies in the world I don't care for, for whatever reason. But I try to never put anyone down unless it's necessary to achieve something more important. So I'd put down Soviet Communism because I'd like to see a freer, happier Russia, but I'm not going to waste my life putting down XYZ Ice Cream Parlor / Software Company / Whatever for doing something I dislike.

It's fashionable and easy to score a few points putting down McDonalds or Microsoft or whatever, and I used to when I was younger. I mean, it's so easy to put down McDonalds, and McD's really is legitimately garbage. But what's to gain from it? It just takes time away from me doing some science, doing some business, connecting with people I do like, reading, writing, painting, lifting weights, playing golf, going to a museum, having sex, swimming, sitting in a park, having a coffee, whatever. I don't need or want the short, easy points and bond that come with assessing my disgust/superiority/whatever over other people and organizations. Time is too precious to spend doing that.
I tried the site in Opera 10, IE8 and IE8 in compatibility mode. None of the above actually allowed me to play a song.

The sign up form is pretty awesome, though.
The classically trained people of that era displayed a high level of intelligence in many fields, including science, literature, law, politics, etc. I will grant that the article does not give evidence of this apart from what the transcripts reflect in a particular area - I just know it from wide reading of materials from that era.

People who can express themselves well in complex fields such as law (as reflected in these transcripts) are usually pretty smart as well. It is a general indicator, though obviously not the only one.

I am certainly not claiming that earlier eras did not have their share of moronic politicians - I was once a history major and read about them all the time! They are all-pervasive in every era.

I just don't think people today are innately smarter simply because our knowledge base has expanded.
Examples of data visualization
>In the real world, problems can't be solved analytically...

Your other suggestions notwithstanding, you and I live in a very different "real world" my fried.
Lots of visitors goto large exhibitions like Basel World etc. Where lots of companies show their stuff. Can we implement some technology solution which can make visitors life easier at such exhibitions? I am not sure what kind of issues they generally face in such exhibitions.
Cocoa Packet Analyzer (http://www.tastycocoabytes.com/cpa/) is a nice replacement for Wireshark on OS X if you don't want to have to use an X server.
There's a much easier way to demonstrate multipixel dithering: create a 50% gray bitmap (the scrollbar on an xterm works fine for this) and drag it around on screen. If you see weird color effects, there's multipixel dithering happening.
I guess the reasons would differ from reaching out to fellow brethren to just showing off the stuff they do.

I wish i could show off, until then it's just a way of letting people associate a person with an otherwise anonymous username.
my site would need 1.25mm page loads or 125k uniques per a month Im currently at 7% of that or (9k unq's). (assumes my cpm scales) .. my site is weather related.

I would assume a web app would get more pageloads but have a much lower CPM.
Agreed... i can sit back or work at a desk... or even take my laptop outside and sit on the stairs to work if the weather is good.

But then you might also get a more powerful desktop for the same price. So in heaven you would buy both... until then i suggest paying a little more and get a good config laptop.
I do a lot of landing page designs for clients. Here are some successful pages I can show:

http://www.codedpreview.com/previews/68ce03ad/

http://www.codedpreview.com/previews/78709ad6/

http://www.codedpreview.com/previews/f2658514/

http://www.codedpreview.com/previews/96728435/

It's important to keep in mind that the most important thing about your landing page is that you send qualified leads to them. Some of the requests I get seem very silly or odd, but my clients are AdWords magicians and can get the right people to go to them and convert very well.

Many clients optimize the pages I deliver to bring in $500 a day, net. I've been in the affiliate marketing service industry for long enough to have some insights for anyone just starting with online marketing.

If you have any questions, feel free to reply and ask!
But doesn't it lead itself to "Action at distance" anti pattern?

Like everyone else, we use django-regsitration a lot. Here in your code, http://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-registration/src/tip... you send a custom signal. Now any one can break the normal flow of control and call control _from any where in the project to anywhere in the project_.
The real answer is, of course, that it totally depends. Here's some reasonable generic ranges though:

SCENARIO CPM AVG ADS/PAGE PAGE VIEWS
-------- ------- --------- ----------
Best $1.00 2 2.5 million
Okay $0.25 2 10 million
Bad $0.15 2 16 million

You can almost always show more than one ad per page. But, don't over do it.

The primary way to generate significant ad revenue with low page views is to have highly targeted content and sell ads directly for $4+ CPM. It's better to think of this kind of advertising as sponsorship, and charge appropriately (preferably thousands over month+ commitments).
I'm not sure what you're saying or how it's relevant. I'm comparing separate ways to use an American debit card. I'm not comparing either use case with using an actual credit card (which I concede has even more protections).
>I just don't think people today are innately smarter simply because our knowledge base has expanded.

I don't think that either - I think there are other reasons for it. The Flynn Effect certainly doesn't seem like it could be caused by an expanded knowledge base.

My intuition is that it has something to do with the increasing complexity of entertainment. The way kids played 30 years ago might have been better for creativity (and was surely healthier), but I imagine the way kids play these days makes for a stronger intellect.
No. You are missing the point: this incident was not an accident, a bug or a mishap. The featureset of the Kindle was deliberately premeditated to ensure the fulfilment of the requirement that allows for the revocation of the Right to Read. Effort has been spent to have this capability. It is Chekhov's principle:

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

And judging the book in question by its cover, one might be tempted to think, that it was a bait: and apparently the well educated, clear-headed lawyers/managers who pulled the plug had obviously no idea what they were doing. If they knew, then all the worse.
Putnam problems are not considerably harder than AIME problems, and AIME is definitely the next step from AMC12. Anybody who can solve a few AIME problems can certainly solve A1 on the Putnam of almost every year.
I totally agree that my new iPhone is basically an iPod touch. I get no AT&T signal at my house and marginal signal elsewhere. And it looks like I don't even get voicemails reliably. I should cancel my AT&T contract (there is a 30 day grace period) and get an iPod touch instead. There is no phone in the iPhone thanks to AT&T.
> calculus isn't that important for mathematicians

That's a joke, right?
I have more academic qualifications than you can shake a medium sized stick at, and was largely self taught and continue to be largely self taught. My experience as a TA was that a disturbing number of my students had enormous entitlement complexes and thought of programming as a way to get their ticket stamped and get into a "good job". The few who were really interested in the work usually didn't need my help, or when they did it was more like "can you get a 2nd pair of eyeballs here? I'm too close to this to figure out what's wrong".
One distinction is making your product extraordinary vs. making your self extraordinary (or your company). I like the idea of the former, that you just need an adequate company if your product and marketing are great, but the article gives me pause...

Keeping ahead of the competition is important, and so it's important for a company to be good at "keeping ahead". This includes your explicit focus, and the focus implied by how the company is organized, its methods and how it approaches tasks.

One could perhaps define companies with long-term success as being good at getting better at some specific thing, as in the article. This could a specific sub-field of engineering; or marketing to an specific industry etc. When the environment no longer values that specific thing, that aspect of the company fails. e.g. rap or minicomputers.
I've learned a lot of math that's beyond the scope of what I had in college. I usually find that it works best when it's on the way to something that I'm trying to do or understand. I never really tried to learn math for the sake of math -- I wanted to understand quantum computing algorithms, recommender systems and graph clustering -- and had to fill in the gaps so that the papers in the fields made sense.
Well, keep in mind that you only have to have the best score out of all the entrants, so your odds aren't that bad.
I live downtown and have AT&T. I've never had a problem.

Maybe it's just the iPhone that sucks?
You should take a look at a book called The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose. While it's geared more towards physics, this book has proven to me to be the most enlightening mathematics text I've ever read. Admittedly I'm only about 10 chapters in - it's a very dense book, and you'd do well to go through it slowly. But, if you're interested in math, this book will blow your mind.

http://www.amazon.com/Road-Reality-Complete-Guide-Universe/d...
I think it's fine to say that you don't like signals. But I wouldn't do so without proposing a better alternative.
To play devil's advocate. Are you a doctor? Are you qualified to know if a metabolic panel is required?

While I have to admit since I moved to the US (from the UK) my physician seem more free conduct things like blood tests than the NHS they don't any more free about it than BUPA my private health insurance in the UK.

The main difference I see is that with my PPO insurance I'm free to willfully ignore my doctor's advice and take other actions if it suited me with the insurance footing a large part of the bill. That definitely isn't true in the UK (or on Kaiser actually).

While I feel I'm an informed consumer of health care, I'd still rather be in a system where I don't need to go outside the system because the system is capable of looking after me adequately.

And this is the crux, while it seems universal health care countries seem constrictive they provide for everyone. The real cost of being able to pick and choose your treatments, or take needlessly expensive treatment is insurance/medical costs that are beyond the budgets of 1/6th of the American population.
Well, not very difficult if you're using a functional programming language, where pure and impure code is usually separate. Haskell code can be "proved" just like any other mathematical theorem.
The US also has a large number of metro areas, and the metro areas cover a large area.
If you can solve your problems analytically, then you're either working in a blessed field, or you're working with simplistic models...
> ... wrote a little tutorial about how to implement Scheme in Haskell (3).

This might be offtopic, but link please.
I use both because apparently I like to waste money. I have dual 20" and 24" hooked up on my desktop (which has a totally sweet humanscale keyboard tray) as well as a 12" thinkpad tablet.

When I'm sitting at my desk, I feel pretty awesome, I can fill my screens with whatever I'm working on etc. If I for some reason want to work outside or need to meet to discuss something the thinkpad is decent-ish (1400x1050 resolution) for coding and note taking.

I will admit I don't understand the need to lie on the couch and code. I feel like its best to separate out tasks and the places they are performed. When I'm sitting at my desktop I am either playing a computer game or programming. If I'm lying on the couch I'm watching TV. Typing on the couch seems hell on the wrists. (And doing so in bed hurts the quality of your sleep).

(Sidenote: I worked at a startup where I just brought in my thinkpad. I ended up borrowing a spare monitor, keyboard and mouse just so I wouldn't go crazy. I felt like I couldn't fit any code on my screen otherwise.)
Sure, but those bright stars like hacker news eventually burn out too. Hopefully it doesn't happen too quickly.
No, I was suggesting the presence of links to Scribd may not be intended solely a convenience to the current HN audience. I do think there is some self-suppression occurring regarding YC companies, though. This is a good thing if it encourages more thought as to phrasing, and a bad thing if it creates a taboo.
Solving problems 1-4 on each day of the Putnam with an "unlimited" amount of time is not a ridiculous expectation. Putnam's difficulty is partly due to its time format.
It's hard to overstate the importance of a good outline. It serves not just to ensure proper organization and coherence, but to make it possible to complete the book.

If you have a solid, detailed outline you always have that to tall back on. You're much less likely to get writer's block because you already know where you're going and what the next step is.

The outline is key to motivation. You can put it together when you're excited about the project and everything is clicking, and then when progress gets tougher, there are no excuses--the outline tells you what to do.
what is your justification for that statement

Longstanding observation of their products, behavior, and culture. But really, all you need to look at is the painful artificiality of the ads themselves, including the OP.