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And the ironic thing is whilst if you give an honest answer you end up sounding like you have a massive sense of entitlement[1], the answer the interviewer is actually looking for is fuelling their own sense of entitlement: i.e. the type of environment they're offering is close to the ideal way you'd spend your time rather than merely very acceptable, financially rewarding and well suited to your skills.

[1]mine would include elements of yours, but I'd probably also enjoy spending next week coming up with strategic initiatives for socially useful causes, travelling to exotic events to make deals with interesting people and having teams of people with actual skills around to turn my half-baked creative ideas into something worthwhile. Give me a big enough trust fund and I definitely could start doing that on Monday, but back in the real world I'm perfectly happy earning my crust doing things which people actually want to pay me for. If you asked me what I'd ideally be doing based on what actually exists that I might be remotely qualified for and the answer's pretty much a blank canvas, because once I'm expected to make that compromise I can also happily trade socially useful end for intellectually challenging means, massive amounts of autonomy for really great collaborative environment etc. and find fulfilment in many different ways.
Why worry about offending them when it's your life on the line? You're paying them.
Yes, but we should hold programs purporting to increase security to a higher standard.
So it's 2015 and they ship software with a trivial stack buffer overflow. They don't even bother to turn on the "mitigation" options in the compiler (not that it makes such mitigations less of a terrible set of hacks). Sounds fairly incompetent. Also further validates the intelligence in creating things like Rust.
This is an artifact of the medical insurance system in the US, which focuses upon low-cost, high-volume processing of patients and gouging the delivery staff on payments. Subscribe to an expensive concierge physician service (the kind that is cash/check/bank-transfer only, no insurance allowed, some don't even take credit cards), and the difference is night and day; impeccable bedside manners, no rushed visits, 24x7 phone access to your personally-assigned doctor (with only light screening by the RN on duty, if any screening at all), some even perform house calls.

It is no secret that if you are well-to-do or wealthier in the US, then it offers you some of the best medical services and quality delivery you can buy anywhere in the world; the steady stream of medical tourism by the very wealthy non-US patients year-in and year-out attests to that. And if you are not so well-off in the US, then any complex medical complications requiring sophisticated treatment to survive can be a horrifically terrifying experience, depending upon your individual roll of the dice in our byzantine insurance maze.

While many US citizens decry "socialism" when single-payer systems are discussed, I personally believe Coase's Nature of the Firm might offer one possible solution set out of many possible such sets, in terms of a solution along the lines of co-ops.
Not in the US, sadly.
My degree specialization was in embedded systems, and I designed all of the hardware for my current startup. I've also been known to play around with robots.

There are plenty of other things I would love to start doing full-time on Monday if I money weren't an issue; start an indie games studio, write a novel, or teach.

Instead these are hobbies. I'd say most people have some kind of hobby they'd do full-time if it paid as well as their current job.

But these are all hobbies,
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What do you mean by "proprietary"?
Because there's already enough loopholes for you to use if you really don't want to show your income to the government?

I'm not sure what exactly this kind of tracking helps with; it would be nice if they had more examples or case studies.
So the OP's answer was "On Monday, I start getting paid $150K per year to work on new widgets for my toy open source GUI library, that nothing uses other than the demo calculator, text pad and mini paint program."

- The question said "you're on your dream salary", but you've specifically said what that salary is, so I know that money is at least a thing for you (maybe in a good or bad way, but something for me to explore with you)

- Open source is important for you.

- You haven't mentioned working with other people, so you're an "individual contributor".

- You say "nothing else uses it" so you're not particularly motivated by fame and success, more by achieving things on your own terms.

If I was hiring somebody to work on some obscure but necessary library we needed built but could open-source, you might be perfect. On the other hand, if you were applying for a managerial role your answer would raise some flags. And that's the whole point - I'm trying to figure out whether you're a good fit for this role.

If you gave me an optimised answer where your dream job exactly matched the job spec you're applying for, it would indicate you're either trying to convince me to give you the job by being a least a little bit dishonest (not necessarily a bad thing - perhaps if this job involves sales), or you genuinely are a great match for this role.

Either way, I'm not going to hire or fire you based solely on your answer to this question. It's just a lever to get you talking about yourself. So give the answer that feels comfortable for you to give.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Fire

Apparently it was displayed upside down. /shrugs. I don't personally think it matters how it was displayed. I don't think it is worth $200, let alone nearly $2mm.
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No Hire. As a software developer, 110% of your passion should be for code, followed by a couple of harmless, minor interests like bicycling or craft beer.
Finding a doctor is like finding a good mechanic or a hair stylist - it's kind of on you. There is no shortage of terrific doctors in this country who really care about doing their best for you, but it does take some shopping around and online research to find them; try reading doctor review sites, check their credentials, think about what their support staff sounded like when you call to make an appointment - if the receptionist sounds cross or grumpy, you can bet the Doctor's going to be worse.
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I'm suggesting a higher-up or someone else suggested Tavis target Kaspersky. I'm not suggesting Google execs all sat together and decided to destroy Kaspersky.

Is it that hard to believe that there are certain people that would like to dissuade Kaspersky from revealing further information about state-sponsored malware? I'm not even sure where this incredulity is coming from? Let's see you target an intelligence agency and see what happens.
That site seems to give no details about how internetpeso works; it confuses "how does it work?" with "how do I use it?".

Also, Taler seems to be very much a Free Software project. internetpeso seems to be proprietary, and also self-contradictory:

> Other cyber-currencies require that you trust complete strangers to verify transactions. This is a patently unsafe way of handling your life savings.

> We leverage best-of-breed closed-source software
The American dream is a lie bought on credit. Just an FYI...
I've found CentOS 7 to be remarkably stable in recent laptop configurations. Main issues encountered were the odd package with hacky systemd integration.
It's rabbits all the way down!
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You do not know how many deaths there have been or will be from Fukushima. Every government always under-reports deaths from nuclear exposure.

Saying it is the safest energy technology in existence is a dangerous lie. Solar is safer. Wind is safer. Even natural gas is safer.
I will take nonsense like this seriously when its proponents no longer avail themselves of the benefits of assets created through taxation. Which would be never.
Because unless the government can track citizen's income it cannot tax it, and without taxes modern society cannot function at all.

Technologies like this would be a boon to many developing countries like mine where tax evasion and corruption is rampant. It would enable the government to collect funds for infrastructure, education, environmental protection and healthcare (and yes, I am a progressive liberal who would rather have the government provide these at subsidized cost rather than private entities; even at the cost of "efficiency" if need be).
It seems we need more lifelong study participants. No one would have to deliberately swear it off as a part of the study if the population was large enough. Statistically we'd end up with enough individuals who don't drink or rarely drink.
This. There is also a pretty wide variation in skill levels between different doctors. With only one arbitrarily selected opinion the chances of getting advice from the wrong end of the spectrum is higher.
Is it fair to say that Meteor is an alternative to Relay and Falcor for managing state with the server? It also seems like it's competing with Redux and all the Flux libraries, right?

The plus side of all this is that React seems like it's becoming the ubiquitous "V in MVC". This is great news, since this means designers should soon feel at east working with JSX, regardless of which platform the company uses. It also should mean that using Meteor for developing mobile apps using React Native should be straightforward..

Not sure if I'll get into using Meteor, but I'm definitely very glad I have a head start on React..! Truly a technology worth mastering.
So GNU just released FedCoin? Interesting...
The authors are employed by TU Munich and Inria Rennes, paid for by taxes, so I guess they assume that some taxation is necessary. At least they designed some anonymity into the taxation interface. How much remains to be seen.
Uses GNUnet's crypto library to generate keys. Biggest problem I've found is fraud potential, the mint operator can run a fractional reserve since it relies on "government authorities doing regular audits" and also that it touts turning Mastercard/Visa into Taler. Carders will become their own merchants, card a mint to get Taler and then cash it all out before anybody knows what happened. You also can't transfer Taler p2p, all transactions go through the mint to prevent "black markets".

Edit: Uses this API http://api.taler.net/ plus seems to have future GNUnet compatibility built into it's system for payments over it.
The original KidPix had that idea, an old drawing application that could desperately use a refresh to modern interfaces .....
I have two young kids. It is completely inconceivable to them that anyone might be in a situation where all of the world's information isn't immediately available at a moment's notice one any of several nearby screens.

They will fundamentally never understand the idea that it used to be hard to know something.
"I would love being paid for programming an IA that substitutes you and all your kind so I don't have to stand another job interview in all my live"

Yep, way too much ambition.
I kinda like roads to drive on...
Yes, I believe so. Suppose the form of encryption is a one-time pad which specifies which frequencies upon which to transmit each bit. The signal on each frequency is well within the range of background noise. However if listening on a expected successive sets of frequencies bits may be read.
Hilton does this by offering Free Wifi if you book directly. Also, delta has been known to hide the lowest prices from search engines.
I feel it's the other way around. I am a sample size of one; the doctor's experience, and the experience of the people who trained that doctor, is a far larger and more reliable sample, and so the doctor's diagnosis is more likely to be correct (absent any other information) than mine.

My go-to example here is a few years ago I had unbelievable abdominal pain for a day or two and saw a doctor about it. And the first thing the doctor thought it was -- gallstones, which I ended up having a mildly-complicated and expensive test for -- turned out to be completely wrong. But I don't fault the doctor for that: it was, given what I was experiencing and my family's medical history (multiple people who had to have their gallbladders out due to gallstones), the most likely cause, to such an extent that focusing on anything else until it had been ruled out would have been a bad idea.

(it turned out to be inflamed cartilage in my ribs, which was the second thing investigated, once the abdominal ultrasound ruled out gallstones)
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I suppose it depends on whether or not you like having a fire service, national health system, comprehensive education, social security, national defense, etc.
You can take your liberal bullshit currency someplace else.
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I would guess it is not automatic in most countries of the world, except for a few developed countries.
Fully agree. As a professional photographer, I'll happily pay for 1TB of Dropbox Pro. It is simply the most effortless way to share images with my clients.
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I feel very similar to this blog post I read a few years ago, calling the Groupon era "The Locust Economy".. It wasn't good for businesses, consumers logically just abused the mechanism until these companies were ruined..

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/

Thinking about locusts and the behavior of
customers around services like Groupon, I’ve
become convinced that the phrase “sharing
economy” is mostly a case of putting lipstick on a
pig. What we have here is a locust economy.
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This came across my inbox and I think it is one of the IoT applications that actually makes some sense. That Parallax made it a product seems like the next step.

My guess would be that something like this would be really good way for an Atmel or ST Micro to "sponsor" the embedded systems conference as well.
Binaries are here, I can see them :)
but that is only due to one important thing...

The US defense of Saudi Arabia has a requirement that Saudi sell oil in US dollars..
Puerto Rico is a US territory, but technically it's not part of the US. They refer to it as "international" because it is.
Why is it the tech industry's fault? It's a good thing that the industry is prospering. Would you rather have people losing their jobs? However, it is a bad thing that the housing supply is not keeping up, leading to high rents. There needs to be way more housing supply. This is the obvious solution that is somewhat of a third rail issue due to local politics and homeowners. The fact that even Palantir employees have lobbied for more housing in Palo Alto shows it is really affecting everyone who doesn't already own a house or condo, even those well off.

Also, it's not like the area isn't benefitting from prosperity through taxes. Why is it a company's responsibility to donate for cleanup projects when their taxes already pay for such things? If there should be more meal programs in a city, the city can vote for that, and fund it through taxes.
> Has anyone built an Ecommerce platform in Meteor?

Actually, they have: https://reactioncommerce.com/
https://libcloud.apache.org/
It occurred to me the other day I see people who were alive in WW2 using smartphones
Most large-scale FOSS projects in C I've seen tend to be structured in OO-like ways. The C language actually lends itself well to a low-level, Nygaard-style OO when you reach a certain scale and complexity across modules.

Though, if your project is more of a toolkit, then a strictly procedural style is probably better.
not what i said or even suggested, i mentioned it as the most apparent solution, particularly given that fb (obviously) recommends this solution, as indeed they did not Jed Shaw.
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If you wind up voice chatting about it, stick it in your text chat with a full summary. You can't CTRL-F a conversation. One of the keys to success as a remote worker is being able to figure out as much as possible w/out requiring other people to respond, because undoubtedly they will not when you really need them. The best way to do that is knowing where to search for the information.
I love the false dichotomy, either we have to accept ALL of the State as it is today, or we don't get roads to drive on.
This is a good point I hadn't considered, thanks.
I don't mean to be a dick, but the default bootstrap look is not making it easier to take this as a serious project.

But I like how this is not a giant project to waste electricity breaking useless hashes.
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Does China's government hack US companies to steal secrets?
I think you're certainly overstating the case here. We don't see US derived malware being ignored by the USG. In fact, almost all high profile hacker arrests stem from US investigations. US researchers are the ones who take out Russian and Chinese botnet C&C servers. We see almost no action on the nation states that profit from malware, namely Russia and China.

On a cyber weapons level, who knows, but citing things like TTP which releases to FOSS or Israel's defense industry as a sign of corruption is asinine and not remotely comparable to what is the status quo in Russia. Cyber weapons will always be here and, when used correctly, can't be detected by signature based AV because they have no idea what to look for and the exploits they use are typically zero days. Stuxnet used, I believe, 3 or 4 different zero day attacks.

Nor did you bother to read the Kaspersky articles where the proof is laid out in a pretty obvious way. I think its foolish to knee-jerk to "Oh Russia does this, so must everyone else." Certainly there are degrees of corruption, and Russia is on the extreme end of this scale. Brian Krebs and Tavis Ormandy aren't on some NSA payroll to make Russia look bad. Russians do that for free. Lets stop playing the "every government is the same" card. Its been historically untrue.

>Every security vendor is aligned with it's "host" nation

Also, I really doubt the guys writing rules for Snort, ClamAV, or mod_security or OSSEC are aligned with anyone. Your view is incredibly cynical and very much an example of the disingenious tactic of "whataboutism" Russians use to defend their wrongdoings. Those rules are public, pray tell, which ones are NSA backdoors? I suggest you come up with some proof if you're making such accusations. The articles I linked to about Kasperky are significant and well-researched.

edit: I cant reply below so I'll type it here. Clinton-era crypto limitations are a non-issue. Clinton lost the crypto wars after the Clipper chip was never passed or funded and after Phil Zimmerman wrote PGP and helped end crypto restrictions. I'm talking about things happening right now. 20+ years ago whining is not helping nor relevant. Use whatever crypto you like.
> Banks haven't proven too skilled in estimating risk (see 2007).

Arguably, they demonstrated that you can accept a lot of risk and then if things go wrong the Fed will bail you and your creditors out. Not _quite_ the same thing as simply underestimating risk.
Nice. Will test it out. As a parent of a 3 year old & 15 month I find it amazing how quickly the pickup on things. I also belive we are witnessing the "app generation" growing up. We limit ipad time etc. But my daughter does not ask for TV. .. she asks for youtube/netflix.
I had totally different experience. I don't have much experience on meteor just working on some tasks for a meteor project. Hence issues might be related to it as well. But I felt it was very amateurish, there was no proper ordering/routing like in rails. I had to guess debug a lot to identify the source of files. Mongo was a pain to work it. My biggest issue was speed. It took a long time to reload after changes. From this experience I am not interested to work on meteor.
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Companies aren't proactively encouraging employees to migrate though. The employee has to ask for a approval, and if granted it's generally considered a favor.
I would say the havok is caused by NIMBYs + rapid economic expansion. For example, there are no height minimums for new construction in the bay area, but constant height maximums.

Would this havok occur in a building friendly city, such as Dallas? They have encountered a recent economic boom due to oil, but you don't hear many complaints of rapid price increases.
Thanks for the suggestion, we're working on more and better documentation for teachers.
>> what's the appeal of toroidal food? The slight increase in surface area?

You can put them on a stick or hang them from a rope in your shop to sell, clearing up counter space. Shops and street vendors will often have them stacked high on rods.
By virtue of the way indices work, a lot of public companies in general would have been better off throwing their cash in index-driven mutual funds. That being said, if it were easy to tell ahead of time which these companies are, it would be easy as an investor to beat index-driven mutual funds.
We never had roads before the 19th century when personal income tax was introduced.
in which case it's on Apple to improve their CDN within China

I'm not quite sure why it's up to anyone outside of China, Apple included, to bear the cost of China's firewall dickery.

This is on China to turn off their firewall or bear the costs, commercial and otherwise, of this stupidity. Perhaps Chinese developers shouldn't be allowed to submit apps to the non-Chinese app store?
Not really sure why "was a physics graduate student" means anything about his business acumen here. Eric Lefkofsky has a law degree, Brad Keywell has a JD and an MBA, we could do this all day. Having a graduate degree in a hard science could certainly suggest a person has a different way of approaching business, but Wang dropped out so he could unapologetically clone other people's ideas.
I have made some tests, but as Træfɪk is still in developpement, I will publish some serious benchmarks later.

Besides, Træfɪk is not in the race of pure performance.
It is fast and will be fast, but it's not my top priority.
> We'll only be working with pure black-and-white images here

They're actually black and transparent, which for me means black and dark grey :(
> They require a SHA1 hash when uploading objects. This is probably overkill over a cheaper CRC.

Having been on the receiving end of entirely too many corrupted files in my life, I strongly approve of their use of a hash that's been standardized and fast for decades and remains cryptographically strong. "But fast" if you fail to store it isn't very helpful. TCP has a CRC too. We're wallpapering over it with better ones and everyone serious has been for years: it's time to accept that cheap CRCs aren't a good place to get stuck.

Improving the API to avoid the 2-pass problem is spot-on though. Another possible solution is to require either a subsequent API call, or format the first message as a multipart, and use that route to have the caller submit the hash that's used to confirm and commit the file to storage after the body upload. This would solve the 2pass problem while still ensuring the client is actually doing the integrity check -- and since Backblaze is more than likely to take the heat on any corruption issues, it's probably a good policy for them to make sure lazy client implementations aren't going to cause problems that their storage then gets the publicity smear for.
The big companies might be on one of these occasionally, or not so occasionally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_reporting