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For engineers it is tough to hire a position that is not something you can easily ask quantitative questions. Instead with sales you need to mix a few things together to hire the right person.

1. Figure out who the primary person or type of person they will be selling to. e.g. are they selling to C level execs or engineers?

2. Are you selling enterprise software that requires a lot of hand holding? Or are you selling simple deals?

3. What is your deal flow like, do you have solid leads but need closers, or do you need lead generators?

I mention these because I would recruit different types of people depending on the answers to at least these. In general too, if someone makes you feel uncomfortable when you are talking to them rather on the phone or in person, your customers will also feel uncomfortable. I don't care how good their resume is, if you have any feeling of uneasy or being uncomfortable then you don't hire. You are hiring a people person who's job it is to make people feel at ease and open their wallets, they should be able to make you comfortable and interact with you.

I always make them sell me their last software or product. And then I make them flip the script and sell me the competitor to their prior product. This helps me see if they see all sides of the products they are selling and how well researched they are. Then I will give them my product/software pitch and then tell them to sell me on it. They should be able to put a good effort to sell you your software without having a huge background in it, even if it is complex. I also ask them to tell me the holes they see where competitors could attack my product offering.

If you want more ideas, you can shoot me an email or respond here with more details and I'll give you at least my experience and some more specific ideas.

Also lead generating sales staff is different then closers. You can of course get someone that can do both, but it is a hard job to do both efficiently for a growing business.
Medical student here- I completely agree. Auscultation is an important component of physical examination, and most of this article's arguments against it just seem silly. Ignoring the obvious etymological fallacy, it's just not cost effective to replace stethoscopes with imaging tools.

A "cheap" portable ultrasound machine is going to be in the thousands of dollars, and there's just no way that hospitals and clinics would be able to purchase enough of them so that one was available for every ongoing PE- not to mention the fact that US is billed separately, and could easily double the patient's cost for a brief office visit.

Plain film x-rays and CT scans expose the patient to ionizing radiation, so that's not a practical option either.

MRI is expensive, time-consuming, and a lot of rural hospitals might not have a machine, or if they do, it's very, very unlikely that they're going to have staff available to operate it 24 hours a day.

All of these tools, including the stethoscope, have their own separate uses and applications- they are not competitors.
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How? TouchID is the less secure authentication than password/PIN anyway (which is shown by the fact that you need to enter PIN/Pass right after boot). How would just disabling TouchID auth be a worse option?
Something suspiciously like this happened to me on a second-hand iPhone 6 I bought a few weeks ago. Talk about crappy timing.

Everything pointed to a software issue, but every repair person I took it to (both apple and non-apple) kept saying it was a hardware fault.

Touch ID stopped working and the phone drains super quickly despite not being in use. Hoping Apple can provide a "fix", not gonna hold my breath though.
That's exactly because it's a strong, widely shared cognitive bias (wired or not) that it's so important to counter it culturally.

Countering natural behavior with culture is what humans do, for better or worse.
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That was frankly horribly researched. They started off with a supposition, and ignored any data that didn't help prove it.

They completely ignored that a new handset release tends to come in lockstep with a new OS release. This is relevant because it means many, many people are changing the operating characteristics of their existing handsets at the same time - leaving their phone not only not a "known constant", but potentially creating the same results even if a new generation of phone hadn't just appeared at the same time.

Seriously, if you take their graph and replace the labels for each 3g, 3gs, 4, 4s etc, with ios2, 3, 4, 5 .. the data is still accurate, but the take-away assumptions change entirely.

They ignored that geekbench scores show that scores for any given generation stay roughly constant over the phone's lifetime. That's a fantastic set of data that isn't coloured by changing expectations over time.

And they were quite happy to brush off that the samsung numbers showed exactly the same changes over time, as they didn't spike around releases. Completely ignoring that Android has entirely different update strategies (having to wait until your telco 'blesses' the update, etc).

If you look at their graphs, and think of each label as an OS release rather than coinciding with a new handset (which is still accurate), the story it now tells is that ios updates receive much larger adoption in hurry, when compared to adoption of android updates.

Which we already knew. Apple's update strategy is that every compatible handset is able to update "today", whereas android updates are staggered by various levels of support from different mffrs and different providers.
There was a Planet Money episode about this recently - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/15/463237871/episo...

I loved the part where one of the researchers who couldn't replicate other experimental results, had some of his experiments found to be not-reproducible.
From the link: "The important distinction is of intent. In the benign explanation, a slowdown of old phones is not a specific goal, but merely a side effect of optimizing the operating system for newer hardware"

When we try to judge intent we do judge the context. So let's look at the context: people do know that iPhone updates will probably slow their device(even though Apple doesn't tell them that). And there's no way to stop the nagging update notification (aside from jailbreaking).

So let's not be naive. Maybe it's hard to prove at the legal level, but there's a pretty decent chance that this is intentional by Apple.

EDIT: if you upvote, please explain why you think this is wrong.
With Microsoft shutting down Windows Phone, Blackberry giving up on making it's own OS, Palm's WebOS now just a TV interface and Firefox OS rightfully shut down, the market has very clearly proven that there is no room for a third mobile OS.

Hell, there's barely any room for a third manufacturer, let along operating systems http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/3/10894200/android-smartphone...
I thought the same. Where I live there's a register where you can suscribe, and if telemarketers call you then the company can be fined. Isn't there in USA such a thing?

Even if somebody calls using VoIP, they will mention their products, so I don't know why that would be an obstacle to identifying them.
No need for all this complication.

Simply use IPFS[1] instead as the underlying protocol.

[1] https://ipfs.io/
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Misleading?

https://m.facebook.com/help/208747122499067
Misleading? If you use the word "private"?
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Yes. Just as destroying the phone with a hammer maximizes the security of the device. Effective but entirely useless.

The phone would still work perfectly fine and safe if Touch ID would be disabled and input from the sensor wouldn't be trusted.
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I dunno. Douglas Reynholm managed to outlast his father, despite being awarded Shithead of the Year by a feminist committee three years in a row. Hell, the guy put gold leaf in the water coolers, but he's managed to stick around.
I'll take this as a joke, and I would want to believe that you're joking and not actually consider anything, dear IBM.
If you are willing to really help, the easiest path would be to leave the actual decisions to a real human president and use watson as an advisor/tool. Otherwise you're just asking us to vote a private for-profit company to make most decisions in this country.
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The thing is, if you already decided on MS SQL Server, why buy Tableau? The company I work for has both, and Tableau is the most likely to be dropped of the two.
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One more proof that you don't own your device?
I did not contest the facts. But not using the word retard won't help any way. They face prejudice and discrimination because of their condition, not of the way said condition is called. And if we change the word with other - the other word will still be used as an insult. Because the condition itself is highly undesirable. No one wants to have it.
But what happens if somebody uploads parts of your code to stackoverflow?
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Then the user would still need to input their passcode after the button was replaced before anything could be stolen.
Stackoverflow now owns it and you will have to comment your code with a link to the stackoverflow post. You will also have to send stackoverflow 1% of your salary.
I agree with most of Watson's policies and on the face of it, I think an AI would make a great president.

However, I can't shake the feeling that Watson is just telling us what we want to hear.

Time and time again, Hollywood (and Dr. Stephen Hawking) warn us that once given enough power and control, the end-game policy of an AI with ambitions of omnipotence is Kill All Humans
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Google confirms Hangouts will use p2p connections, for call quality and speed
They leave no bit or atom unturned. I'm inspired!
Android smartphones can be hacked with ‘backdoor’ in MediaTek processors
What is it lacking in terms of exploration? I thought most of the exploratory benefits were in the visualizations, unless you mean the ability to ad-hoc connect to random databases and begin exploration (because you have to plan ahead to extract flat files from those sources)
This brings up a major problem I see in the future of AI: if strong AI is exclusively the property of large corporations it will give corporations even more power over ordinary citizens. Strong AI has the potential to empower people but if it's controlled by corporations it will do the opposite.
The phone is still useful without the finger print reader, it should just degrade.

I don't know anyone who uses the fingerprint reader or the purchasing functionality.
For the benefit of foreigners, i will note that this is actually optional for most people. My experience, living in London and working at a few different tech companies, is that you might go out for a "quick beer after work" one to three times a week (and almost never on fridays), stay out for one to three hours (you're rarely still there for closing time), and over the course of the evening, drink two to four pints of pretty nice beer (you can usually find either a craft beer place or a normal pub with a good selection).

You will probably get some food at the pub, maybe only some bowls of chips to share, or maybe something a bit more substantial. If you do make a habit of getting a kebab, you will eventually manage to find the one place in your territory that is actually pretty good (Best Mangal for the Old Street posse, Damascu Bite for the Spitalfields massive, etc).

In my case, i'll also go out for cocktails a couple of times a month, but that's a similar experience - the cocktails i like are so bitter and so expensive that you drink pretty slowly!
Considering that central banks are creating a new norm of negative rates around the world, I doubt that foreign investors who are there to seek yields will go away anytime soon.
The Web is a full-spectrum application delivery mechanism that allows for completely untrusted, actively malicious programs to be run, and it evolved from a mechanism to display static documents. Of course it's going to be strangely designed.

Given those requirements, your only choices are Java Sandboxed Apps, Flash and the Web. Which would you choose?
The person you're actually speaking to has no control over actually calling you- they're just logged into their desk which their bosses at the company code up to an autodialer, so as soon as they log into their desk it starts calling you.

Just tell them, "please add me to your do not call list" (magic words!) and they can put you in their software as DNC.
I think it is a design flaw, putting a security component in a common fail assembly, a fragile glass cover.
Sony chose to put their touch ID sensor in a side button. I wonder if they thought of this, it sure looks like a smart design decision in light of this.
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But this is different , as Hike may be challenging WhatsApp in India
> We people are wired to dislike people not like us.

a) source?

b) what do you mean by "not like us"? in some ways, no human being on the planet is "like" me, in others, everyone is.
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And how is that going for you so far?
Are the complex requests in regards to getting/manipulating the data, or in the final visualization. I'm trying to build a desktop tool similar to Tableau but with the ability to easily drop down into python and do data manipulation with the pydata stack. Intended audience is the new breed of quantitative analysts/data scientists.
Half the UK was on E for most of the '80s and '90s. The only sign of an epidemic of brain damage is that people have started buying Craig David records again.
Hey, not too bad considering politicians want "technological solution" for every problem they face instead of doing their job by doing the right thing. This is a good technological solution for bad politicians(currently >80%)
Agreed. I've done over 10 years in both embedded programming and full-stack web, and I often wish for the simplicity of embedded programming.

Of course, embedded programming has gotten a lot more complicated too. When I started, we had to fit our programs into 4K of ROM. These days an embedded program often includes a full Linux stack.
What makes me really sad is organizations where management sort of understands, but argues things like:

* we have never cared about this since we started way back and it has worked fine!
* it will cost us time and money, let's ignore it.
* how could someone ever find out?

That said, having a tool that can clearly point to problems could be a big help when management changes and someone sympathetic to uncovering and fixing license issues comes in.

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I called the robot's number, added a second call to the robot's number, then merged the calls and muted myself. It was pretty hilarious.
Beg to differ. You should read the docs for CoreOS. One OS is made to host containers, the other is more general.
That's not a problem, that's a product
How to make money. Unsolved, or at least those who've solved aren't sharing. (100% serious answer.)
Ready only access would be key too.
Correct. In fact, a passcode is always required the first time after you reboot your phone. The passcode secures the Secure Element, which contains the fingerprint data used by Touch ID.
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It's not clear why that should be an issue.

Are there applications communicating through the file system? You would need to take care of that in more ways than standardize uid.
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I agree, but that doesn't seem to be the discussion here :)
You're confusing telemarketers with phone scammers. Phone scammers try to call you to install malware or steal you CC info, etc. Telemarketers call you to try and sell you something or get you to donate to the police union.

Telemarketers are poor schmucks trying to work a job. Their companies generally will abide if you request the do not call list. Scammers probably will not.
I wonder what the chances are that he didn't already know the outcome before he said he would accept arrest? I think he said this only once he already knew the verdict.
I can understand Amit Singhal's opposition to replacing hand-coded features with machine learning models. He's right that ML models have bizarre failure cases across large sample sizes, but he's apparently career-endingly wrong to seemingly believe that one cannot do anything about it. He's also wrong IMO to not recognize that hand-crafted signals and features lack bizarre failure cases themselves.

IMO this shifts the focus from lovingly hand-crafted signals and features to lovingly hand-crafted loss functions and variants of boosting and training algorithms to address those bizarre failures as they occur. For example, recently much ado was made about minimal changes to the input data to image recognition convolutional nets to spoof the object ID. And the simplest remedy is to augment the training data with these cases and perhaps boost the gradients of outputs that are wrong. It's not perfect, but Google search was never perfect either. Evidence: I was on the Google search team for a bit and we had all sorts of meetings to address such failures as they happened.

While I agree that the quality of Google technical searches has declined dramatically recently, I believe there's huge opportunity to fix them by understanding why the ML models are failing (shooting from the hip, I suspect it's a long-tail problem writ large) and changing the loss functions, models and training algorithms to address these failures as they're detected.

Anything less IMO is a failure of imagination in an age of 6.6 TFLOPS for ~$1000 and the ability to stuff 8 of them into a $20K server and go wild.
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If Watson does well as US president. Other countries can elect him/her. Watson could simultaneously be leader of multiple countries.
I've seen cases where names where changed, but comments retained with the same typos as in the GPL package...
I don't think it matters if the parts came from China as long as it was born in the USA.
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You can still write SQL in Tableau, that's table stakes.

Funny to me: it took years for Heap to introduce that.

Edit: we use and help customers with IPython/zepellin etc, but that doesn't change that these things are 10 years behind as IDE/visual interfaces. Adding charting & drilldowns is much harder than a button to turn a table into a line graph, and analysts are wasting a lot of time due to this.
So there's the national do not call list which doesn't work that well, then each company has their own internal Do Not Call list. If you ask the person calling you to add them to their DNC they will and the calls will stop.
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Changing legacy business processes to align with the post-recession regulatory landscape.
You could guarantee online voting with distributed trust and proof of stake. There are several papers on it now that are a good search away.

That doesn't change the AI, though - since it still is physical hardware in some place, even if you could verify the software you can still exploit the hardware.
>TouchID is the less secure authentication than password/PIN anyway (which is shown by the fact that you need to enter PIN/Pass right after boot).

The fact that you need to enter PIN right after boot, just shows that they use "two factor authentication" to make it even more secure.

It doesn't IN ANY WAY show that TouchID is "the less secure authentication" method of the two.
It hasn't proven to be a problem for email, where the dates are also completely up to the sender to fabricate.
I am pretty sure Qlick deployments are way more expensive than Tableau ones because as far as I know it is more capable data modeling-wise. It is also nowhere near as polished.
Thats what I was thinking reading the article.
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Only if it was "planned obsolescence" and not "a security measure".
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> The issue is Apple cannot verify a secure touch ID replacement over a compromised touch ID replacement. Without knowing if your replacement is secure the change potentially compromises the security of the whole device.

The correct solution there would be to pop up a warning saying the TouchID hardware has been tampered with, and giving the user an option to validate it.
Is Tox as secure as it is portrayed? (Russian)
I do think he's being dishonest, yes. He has access to skilled lawyers, and his concern about extradition to the US is irrational: it's easier to extradite him where he is.
And to the article authors point, that is because of religious reasons - in this case the Mormons.
Funny : "yet doctors cling to a tool that was invented at a time when medical practitioners still regularly used leeches as a form of treatment."

They still do "cling" to leeches for some treatments as well. Leeches are hard to beat for a few conditions. It's got a name : hirudotherapy, and sees application in skin related conditions and wound cleaning, and saves hundreds of legs and arms from amputation on a yearly basis and even sees use in cosmetic medicine. Cleaning skin and wounds the way leeches do is not impossible but takes experts hours or days and introduces risks that treatment with leeches does not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirudo_medicinalis#Today
>Imagine the same thing happening to your car.

That sort of exists now. There are parts, like the throttle control on Volvo's, ABS units on BMW's, etc, where the unit is coded to your vehicle.

You can't, for example, swap an otherwise identical throttle from a junkyard into a Volvo. It puts the ECU into limp mode, and the car is essentially useless.

Now, that's not the result of an over-the-wire firmware update, but that's really the only piece missing. When/If vehicles start regularly updating firmware over the wire, you'll start seeing stuff like this.
You can do anything you want on the phone without using Touch ID at all. The fingerprint sensor is not a necessary factor in their implementation, while the passcode is.
It started as an English prison colony - a much more damning link, in my eyes.
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Wow. It's 2016, and you're still saying bigoted words like "fool." My great grandfather was a court jester, and he was a very intelligent man. Why don't you read up on the history of tyrants and entertainment before you go throwing around such hateful speech.
Sounds awesome! All around win. You change the economics of telemarketing by keeping them on the line while also doing some parent-child bonding as you are enjoying a shared activity together.
Don't forget that Uber also moves icecreams.
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I take it the definition of public here is inclusive of all citizens in which case, the majority of citizens should understand the fundamentals of AI and the given software implementation. Many citizens are fluent in English and for those who are not, such individuals often confide in trusted sources to translate for them prior to making decisions. I am not sure if this approach of publicly voting on AI would work, but then again many people today do not fully understand each candidates political agendas yet they still end up voting. So I could be wrong.
Unless the president is running free software, no one should vote for it.