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i went to lse and the environment was supremely unsupportive. i think there are two fundamental problems with elite universities 1) because uni degree is a sorting/signalling function consumers have limited power. there is no other consumer product that i can think of where the consumer has a bad experience and that reflects on him not the producer's product 2) the misalignment of incentives, where profs towards research not teaching.
i think the solution is to separate learning and signalling into two independent markets and allow market forces to act on them... there is definitley a zero-sum element to all this where people will always be stressed/over-worked as they compete, nonetheless i do think learning these university mathematics subjects can be made an order of magnitude more interesting/addictive.
You've heard of JavaScript I presume?
There is an address and real people on the site. I wouldn't call fake.
Do problem sets count for grades at MIT?

I did engineering at Oxford, where we had problem sets every week as well. I'd try hard, but not because there was a grade that counted. There would be a 2-on-1 tutorial for each set, and you really don't want to be the guy who didn't make an effort.

On the other hand, if something was simply too hard, we didn't let it stress us out either. I remember emailing a tutor at 2am once and telling him both students found it way too hard and needed more time. Got a response 5 mins later saying no prob.

As for impostor syndrome, you need a healthy confidence. Naturally there are people who are smarter than you, but equally when you're at a world class institution it's because someone decided you are world class. And they had a lot of people to choose from, most of who are doing quite well at less prestigious places. Where they learn the same stuff.

You also shouldn't worry about rank. Only one guy get the top prize, but everyone can understand the subject matter.
Would you mind sharing who you use as a provider?
Unfortunately, for many millions of women, even in western countries, this is still the case - treated as property.
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I'd switch back to Gmail if I could somehow change my Google account to incorporate my real e-mail (and pay), as opposed to having a separate Google Apps for Domains account for e-mail that was separate from my real e-mail and is on my old Gmail address.

Does anyone know if this is remotely possible?
Please read the commit log of LibreSSL and try not to face-palm. I think you will fail. The code quality they're up against is very often stuff you expect to find at thedailywtf.com. It must always be ok to criticize (even in the form of mocking) bad code as long as the criticism comes with well written patches. OpenSSL should embrace the help they get for the greater good.
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he might (like me) still have a grandfathered-in account which is free (with ads) for up to 10 users.

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I like the fact that the answer to number 1 has changed since 1921.
Oh and to answer the other part of your question: we provide certificate application, CSR verification, and order validation before using digicert for EV verification.

We also provide customers with validation advice - eg, yesterday a customer was given various options by digicams but from experience doing a lot of EV validation I know one particular mechanism is much faster than the others. The certificate was turned around in 5 hours, for the same prices, with all the value CertSimple adds.
You need to give a very, very specific use case right off the bat.

Security, computing, privacy. Simplify everything. Be in control of your data. Communicate freely. Mathematically impossible to break.

What are you talking about? So much text, and you don't even provide one actual direct strike example use among all of that buzzwording.

Pick your top one or two use cases, be specific, and sell yourself for that immediately near the top of the intro on the homepage. Right now it comes across as so vague as to not mean anything specific. Products are about solving narrow, specific problems; the wider you cast the net the harder it's going to be to get the traction you want.
So how do you go about using this in both PHP5 and PHP7 at the same time?

Do you need to run a pre-processor to strip them out of the code that runs on PHP5, while getting the benefit for testing on PHP7?

Trying it naively, PHP5 thinks you want to use a class called "int". And doesn't like the : for the return value.
And WIP just means "work in progress."
Isn't that largely because the LibreSSL team refused the invite to the exclusive OpenSSL security list? At least that was the case the last time the LibreSSL devs complained about not receiving any vuln info in advance...
To each there own I guess. I have been a happy fastmail user for many years, I get some spam maybe 1 or 2 mails per month and I just use the default spam settings. Seems like a personal choice not a tech or feature driven decision. Not sure why this is on the front page
"...there is no other consumer product that i can think of where the consumer has a bad experience and that reflects on him not the university …"

sounds far fetched to me to relate education and a consumer product.
But basically I agree that a university that is unable to maintain an inspiring atmosphere fails at its most basic job. Under stress, the brain is not receptive to new information. This is a very basic fact. Although handling stress is something to learn as well, education must not be stressful, except maybe prior to exams. If MIT students are under permanent stress, it is unlikely for them to learn and understand science. Hence, MIT can not be an elite university any more.
That in itself is a good selector for companies where HR wields more power than the engineering.
My bad! Accidently just assumed https.
what's the difference between gmail's labels and fastmail folders?
Put yourself in OpenSSL shoes. Would you then really send your still confidential bugs to the people who claimed you're incompetent but they themselves didn't remove the said bugs after promoting their work and speaking bad about you for months?

Even if you would, can you know if they would not leak them before your correspondents (which include really big companies which can really be in danger if the leak occurs) are ready? (See
fafner's comment here for some details -- apparently LibreSSL people didn't want to guarantee not to leak(!)) You just know they are antagonistic to you.
As Einstein said after reading this same questionnaire:

"I do not think I can pass the interview and be hired and after seeing it, I don't think I want to."
As a right click reveals https://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/ being in use, my guess is on real "UNIX" commands.
I simply stopped using my old gmail account. Switching email addresses is a pain, absolutely, but at least leaving gmail is as easy as an MX record change in the future.
Programs like ffmpeg compile in code paths for all hardware acceleration flags (mmx, sse, avx), then use runtime detection to use the right code for your cpu.
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It's going two be a revolution comparable to the invention of the internet

The funny thing is, the revolution of the internet, being able to click on Amazon and just have a thing delivered (or from a million other websites) assumes a ubiquitous road network. Let's say you cut the number of cars on the road tenfold... Who pays for this now?

Just for some figures, taxes on motorist in the UK, which are mainly fuel, raise about £50Bn/year. Government spending on all forms of transport is about £25Bn/year. So let's say through self-driving cars, carpooling, more working from home, etc etc we do achieve a tenfold reduction, now far from paying for everything twice over, cars only pay for a fifth. Where does the money come from? And if it doesn't, how much of the "internet revolution" still works?
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We are launching a product called InAiR. Basically it identifies what you are watching on TV, automatically gathers relevant Internet and social content, and then processes and places these layers of Web information in front of your TV screen in real time.

- How do you think about the idea?

- Your opinions on the price tag, if possible.

- Do you feel you would need one for your TV?

Thank you very much.
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> engineering school environments can be very toxic

I still have very intense school-related nightmares from time to time, even though I'm now in my mid-30s. I decided to drop-out in my last year of CS school, but before that almost any joy of attending my school lectures or studying for its exams had been killed off inside of me (luckily enough for me I discovered PHP and Python during my student years in my free time, which gave me back the joy of building and discovering things).
Yes, it is; statistics project a 10% growth rate/year for FoIp market (by 2017), so I guess we could say that it will adjust, not disappear.
Thank you, likewise :)
I agree, and it is sad. Well, in 20 years when the patent expires we can finally get some progress on this tech, just like when the patents on filament extrusion expired the costs went down two orders of magnitude and print speed and quality up one order of magnitude in the space of a couple years. Until then it's going to stagnate.
If the mocking is the fair game, everybody can mock LibreSSL too for not actually finding the real security bugs that exist in their code after more months of publicly claiming they are "more secure." I admit they had a few ideas OK, but for my taste they made too much self-promotion and "mocking" of the original developers. I allow you the right to like that, I just state that I don't and stand behind it.

See also fafner's comment here and think about it.
I think they use: scala, js and a little bit of ruby/rails

and documentation is written with drupal
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> thing_t * thing

This makes my head hurt!

I'd prefer thing_t *thing.

But it's a nice concept
While we are recommending mail hosts, http://www.mailbox.org also is nice. From Germany, privacy-minded (you can have totally anonymous accounts, they encrypt everything with your PGP-key as soon as it arrives, ...), run by people who are quite well-known when it comes to mail servers (author of books on postfix, running conferences, ... so they hopefully know what they are doing)

Webinterface is ok, but not perfect.
Even AJAX sites do not typically send all data back as JSON. Most of the time they use normal form-urlencoded data.

If you did send everything as JSON you would be bypassing everything PHP does with form/url data to make things easier for you (for example arrays). That doesn't seem like a good engineering tradeoff.
> Divorce rates would tend to decrease if marriage rates decrease.

I agree. That is happening. So the premise that divorce rates are ever increasing is incorrect as applied to the whole population and it is wrong as applied to the married population.
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Why not to use Facebook?
Because there is some “average Joe” that doesnt give a shit about our planet and our society...he think only about himself.

(I actually use facebook, but RMS message is very important because it forces you to think critically, what do you really do of your social life is important, but secondary)
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i think this is a good proposal, zero-sum competitive dynamics means that people are always going to work really hard, but with your course limit idea at least those competitive dynamics won't be directed towards taking lots of modules...one problem is that universities feel like they need to compete with each other in terms of how difficult the modules are and how much they teach their students (even though employers don't really care)..

i think one solution ironically might be to have much less holidays.. right now in the uk the top universities (cambridge and oxford) have two 8 week terms of learning a year, which means all the extra-curricular, social life and academics are crammed in these very compressed periods of time... compare this to tsinghua university (in china) where terms are 17 weeks long and weirdly that means everything is more chilled out because things are more spread out.
If I may add, Gmail has removed the feature to send from other email addresses. Or rather, they now require you to have an SMTP server to send from other email addresses. Fortunately, the change has not been retroactive, so all my previous addresses were still available, but I couldn't really set up new ones. Which became a deal breaker.

That - and the fact that I been looking for something not Gmail for a long time - made me switch to Fastmail.

I must say, my experience with Gmail's spam filter has been the reverse. There are a lot of false positives in my Gmail's spam folder. But I am new to Fastmail, so maybe it'll bother me at some point.
Yeah, there is still a lot to do. I posted because sometimes showing others helps keep yourself motivated.

I'd love to find collaborators too, though I don't expect anyone to help until less trivial programs are running.
Oh my! That deserves another HN post in itself! <3
Here is an interesting comment from Andrew S. Tanenbaum(a famous author on Operating system and Networking)

Did you experience culture shock going from M.I.T. to Berkeley?

Oh my goodness. Yes. It was so strange to be in an environment with people having I.Q.'s below 150 and where it wasn't necessary to study 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week just to keep up.

Source: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/home/faq.html
I'm not so sure about that. Some careers are simply known to be very stressful - for example most transactional work (investment banking, corporate lawyers, accounting consulting). It is self-reinforcing in the sense that each company has to keep up with the competition, but I believe that would happen regardless of the level of stress students experience in school. Personally, I have managed to avoid such environments, but for some people, that's the easiest, fastest and least risky way to success.
It seems rather tenuous to suggest that because all the parts of a conscious brain are active, all of the brain must then be conscious.
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Or instead of just forking OpenSSL then should help develop/submit patches to OpenSSL and improve the existing code base.
A mail can be in multiple labels, but can only in one folder (copy doesn't count).
>The field of "AI safety" needs more engineering and less philosophy.

An alternate phrasing might state that it needs more philosophy and an even greater amount of engineering.

If the field is in its infancy from a technical standpoint, then it probably is from a philosophical one as well.
Great idea, but oops... the data structure thing_t is hideous. It is a "god object" for anything where differently purposed members are union'd. Also, putting char*'s into a union is a terrible idea.
A counter argument would be that this ad probably wasn't for the kind of employee Einstein would make. Edison was probably hiring well read, smart folks for regular jobs, not geniuses breaking new ground in narrow scientific domains.

I doubt such geniuses were digging through job ads to apply to Edison's company in the first place. If they were in need of jobs, they would probably be recruited heavily directly from university departments.

So yeah. This ad probably wasn't meant for Einstein. Which gives us no reason to think that "it's a bad ad because even Einstein couldn't solve it".
He mentions the availability of Mailbox as a useful third-party app.

However the fact that Mailbox only works with proprietary services, being restricted to GMail and iCloud, should send red flags, because this app is not provided by Google, but by Dropbox and personally I'm seeing a conflict of interest and given that it isn't based on standards, you can bet that it won't last. I also tried it out and I found it half-baked.

This point was weird. It's because of Google's poor support for standards that I'm considering ditching Google Apps. Because GMail and Google Calendar are all fine only as long as you're using the official apps.
actually with professional qualifications like accounting, programming, finance and even music grades,, because there is a centralized qualifications board students choose where they get their education (kaplan, etc. ) based on teaching quality/price etc and they have much more consumer power...

i think the solution with elite universities is to have standardised university level exams, especially in maths and science where there is a high degree of similarity in the material at undergraduate level across different universities.. how elite unis differentiate themselves from non-elite is in annual research projects where better resources/professors as well as additional 'value-add lectures' where professors - rather than talking about basic maths and science concepts, instead take advantage of their 'superior research' and have them give regular lectures on what they are researching, so students at elite schools get exposure to high level research...
At first I thought "WIP C" meant something related to the kind of C or of the C compiler, that's why I commented. If you can still change the title, writing "work-in-progress" instead of WIP would be much less confusing.

And good luck in your efforts, you've set some really serious goals.
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Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who still own nearly one-fifth of the Internet giant, disclosed Friday that they intend to significantly reduce their stake by selling roughly $5.5 billion worth of stock over five years.[1]

That's from 2010. Since then, GOOG has almost doubled in price (note that there was a stock split)[2], and they have delivered almost constant revenue and profit growth.

Diversification can be a sensible strategy for founders.

[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-co-founders-to-sell-...

[2] https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
"If you're so awesome, then why not start your own business and clobber all those people who do stupid stuff like Agile and Scrum?"

As if it was that simple. My company is 80% waterfall and yet none of our agile competitors can keep up. Is that because waterfall is better in my industry? No, it's because there is a lot more to success than picking the right development model.
Fantastic. Thanks for linking. That seems like something similar, although more university centric than business-and-residences centric. But it seems like a good example of a planned development done right.
That's strange, I can't find any reference to this. Where did you get it?

In Isaacson's biography there's mention of Einstein's visit to Boston, where he defends the value of a college education and he 'fails' one of the Edison-test questions about the speed of sound ('I do not carry such information in my mind, since it is readily available in books.').
Was just a little joke ;)
https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ - having looked, it turns out they don't have a telephone number, but as all my support emails have been answered within minutes I'd never felt the need :)
> "We need everything we can get to protect the commodity of intellectual property."

Protection from what? It sounds to me that this verdict will not protect musicians and songwriters, but put them in danger of litigations.
Although GP didn't remark on it, TFA uses an other cool feature which is actually C11: anonymous unions. Although not as wonderful as designated literals, they're really quite convenient.
Is it weird that I don't get this at all.

I've never been competitive and no exam has ever driven me to tears.

Everything I've learned was self thought and I took it at my own pace which is way slower than academia requires but that gave me the opportunity to delve deeper and answer my own questions.

I don't care about competing with my peers I just want to see cool things and have fun building cool things with other people.

That's probably why stress never gets to me and I never push my self into psychological hell hole.

I've done it once when I was a student and I never want to go back to that and I'm certainly not going to accept an employer pushing me to that.

I would rather quit.
The image the projector makes is in theory also in frames of course.

But yeah, discussion, is a movie continuous or is it frames p/s?
I agree that Hanlon's Razor should be applied here, and yes, this twitterstorm should know its limits (see http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tw... and http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-dongle-joke-that-spiraled...)

However, I'd like to take you up on two points:

> I'd understand the anger if this were, like, a Goldman Sachs-calibre company practicing age-based discrimination

Are you claiming that small companies should be free to discriminate against protected characteristics with impunity, and that only large companies should be held to account for bad behaviour? Where do you draw the line?

> decidedly not versed in HR laws

As far as I can see, Career Harbour claims to be a revolutionary recruitment company, xiangyu_wu claims to be its founder and CEO.

In order to make those claims, one must have at least a cursory knowledge of the law and customs pertaining to recruitment. "Know the rules well so that you can break them effectively"

Although I can't back this up with quotes now, as the site has disappeared, I think I read that they wanted to "disrupt" recruitment and were targeting the milkround market, by allowing applicants to apply to all the big names with just one form. They may not be a Big Company themselves, but they are pitching themselves as the gateway to them. Were I to apply to PWC or KPMG or whoever through them (with a "magicpitch" video), I wouldn't be surprised to find that they'd not even sent it on, due to the shortage and greyness of my hair and colour of my skin.

Also, (again, I can't back it up, because his own tweets have vanished) it looks like some of the ire comes not just from the awful ad itself, but from his attempt to defend it (e.g. https://twitter.com/digitalmaverick/status/57606722316234752...). That said, in his defence, he has "had a change of heart", which may mean that he is repentant.

Anyway, if, as he wishes his employees to be, he is a "nice dude" who "celebrates failure" and can "accept difficult challenges as opportunity for growth" and "deal with setbacks and failure on a continuous basis", this event will be bread-and-butter for him.
F# is perfect for a part of our application, I just dislike that we can't mix .NET languages within the same Visual Studio project without going through hoops. I had expected this to have been solved by now since they all compile down to IL anyway.

Hmm, maybe we'll just have to put it in a separate project even if it feels silly to just have a few classes there, which in turn are strongly related to others. It just feels so perfect for these particular classes.
> It is a "god object" for anything where differently purposed members are union'd. Also, putting char*'s into a union is a terrible idea.

They're not differently purposed, the union is just used to define more contextual labels for equivalent fields, and thus make initialisation more readable within each domain.
Thanks, Its a marathon type of project, not a sprint.
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