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No, I agree with this. There was obviously nothing wrong eugenics movement 100 years ago. And obviously minorities get arrested more, have lower income, and a lot of children because of their extremely low IQ as opposed other social forces.

See the difference is you are talking out of your ass, whereas Flynn has a book filled with verifiable statistics.
yes! how do they keep getting the front page with the linkbait titles and me too content?
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One of their blog posts states "4 wives placated" ... your life situation tends to determine what risk and austerity you can afford so this particular team might find it harder than other teams would to also do side projects to pay the bills.
I see, everything smoothes out.

But that makes my question more relevant

the article, and the scientists behind it seem to be saying there is a line to draw, between Denisovia and Humans and Neanderthal. And they can draw that line with mtDNA

* how can we distinguish between three species 41000 years ago

* what are the metrics in DNA used (% of gene sequences different?)

* if we are saying that xmillion yrs ago there was a common ancestor and they diverged into three species who evovled down till 40k yrs ago, then how can we call them different species if we were still interbreeding 40k ago?
If we were interbreeding then we were same species, so again what is the DNA based reason for saying seperate species?

One last thing - if the A+B scenarios imply that say humans bred with Neanderthal and their offspring had to breed with denisovians whose offspring then could bring DNA back to human line, (while human/denisovians could never produce fertile offspring) then I still see the same issue

if we interbreed we are same species, so what is the DNA based rationale for saying no we weren't

if we were not interbreeding ... It makes more sense but presumably the mutations in different trees got shared after common ancestor ?

Edit: tokenadult kindly re-edited and I did not spot it I time
but makes the point that DNA definition of different species in Pre history is weak at best, and relies on other Indixators of breeding success. I shall assume that the "DNA shows a different species" to be poor science journalism rather than poor science and bookmark this for further Reading later
apologies for any iPhone based typos.

Edit again:

Just checking: If we find two skeletons 250k yrs old, definitetly Neanderthal and human, sequence their genomes. Then find two skeletons at 150k one has acquired a random mtDNA mutation and then find the same mutation on both at 50k years ago - then can we estimate the odds of that being mutally independnt mutations? And is that what this branch of science is trying to do?

(I remember Leakey being quoted as saying we have only found enough ancient skeleton bones to fit in the back of his car, so the above convenient pairs of skeletons are understandably hypothetical)

pps HN and iPhones do not get on so if this editlooksawful I am justleaving it - thank you for the comments - always nice to have questions treated seriously - and thanks to tokenadult again for living upto your handle
In the end it doesn't matter, Thomas Jefferson was looking a dozen moves ahead when he helped lay the groundwork for a free society. Other checks/balances/appeals, and the incredulousness of the people, will eventually win out over special interests.

The patent system won't change until people are affected personally, when they realize that it's costing them jobs and money. I'm always astounded when people stand up for the rich people and organizations who have already won, and give them even more, like they owe them something.

My main complaint with this whole case is that the jurors completely ignored their own power. They could have nullified or come up with any way they wanted to handle the case, including setting a real precedent like saying since there is prior art everywhere, there's really no case, and thrown it all out.

I worry that we've become so uneducated about civics that we may no longer be capable of cultivating a free and evolving organic government. We're going to find ourselves stuck with archaic laws invented by people who have long since died.
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Perhaps, but I think his approach could be improved.

Basically, he was feeding a troll and now they're playing the troll's game by using "eyecatching headlines". (I don't think for a minute they are seriously concerned about blackmail; this was a troll being a troll, not anything serious enough to warrant the name "extortion".)

"sorry, I’m afraid we can’t provide free samples" was the right response (although "we do not provide free samples" would have been better as "can't" implies there's a barrier that might be overcome; do not give unreasonable people a reason for a decision because then they have a target).

If the troll asks "why", the answer can be "because we do not offer free samples." Repeat meaningless responses until the troll gets bored (or better yet, block and ignore them).

As soon as you say the reason is policy, they can try to get you to change or go around the policy. If you provide no reason at all, there is nothing to discuss.
The patent grant is only for those using the code. So it wouldn't help Google unless Google rebuilt Android on WebOS.
Please don't spread legends. Einstein excelled in school, and his grades were fine (his only weak subject was French, which he apparently had little interest in). See http://www.albert-einstein.org/article_handicap.html .
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It could be that management hopes for that -- due to publishers' inertia AdSense will delay payments them.

I wonder if that delay would improve GOOG Q3 revenue results.

Edit: it seems I guessed incorrect (due to GAAP).
If a lot of talented engineers from Microsoft and Amazon are having trouble in Google interviews, doesn't that indicate that Google is testing the wrong things?
No, they fail at math because they have never learned how to use their brainpower effectively. The difference between geniuses and everyone else, from my experiences, are not any fundamental difference in their brain wiring, but that they learned how to better focus what brainpower they do have,

Its like the difference between a guy who gives 120% every day but his work, taken individually, is mediocre vs a guy who gives his 1% but his 1% is the Nobel prize winning work of his field... the guy who gives his 120% day in and day out is a smarter man.

Ironically, an IQ test will not say much about either of them. The 120% guy might score lower than the 1% man by 10 or 15 points, but the 120% guy, if he were, say, a researcher or inventor, would be spending day in and day out finding thousands of ways that don't work just so he can find one that does. The 120% man learned how to focus the skills he does have and learned how to apply them well; of the two, I'd hire him over the 1% man, Nobel or not.

The few super geniuses that history remembers (such as Tesla) had both: 120% work ethic combined with a brilliant mind. These people are rare, but every single person no matter their racial or religious background has the ability to become that kind of person to.... they just never learn how to.
Does anybody know why the extension wants to 'access your tabs and browsing activity'. Is this permission required for it to work?
You can still make houses out of baked poop :)

I'm not sure of the relevance of that point though :(
My advice is reach out to the team and talk to the engineers on the team. Even meet up with them for a Google lunch.

This is the best way to align everyone's expectations.
> Meanwhile, a 50 yo who retires with 25 years of service gets 25% of the average of their top three year's salaries as an annual pension.

Good info. I believe that would still put the 50 yo at > $100K annually on average during their working years, considering the cost of the equivalent annuity. (The price of an annuity increases exponentially as age at purchase decreases. In retirement they also get health insurance worth over $12K annually.) For the ones with 35 years of service it would top $150K.
If philanthropy is an emergent property of a business model, I'd count my blessings and keep it.
My mom is a children's psychologist who used to administer certain tests. I know I was tested as a child, due to requirements of the school I went to, but my mom didn't look at the results and never showed them to me.

She was worried that it could affect the way she treated me and my success (or lack of success) in school if she had some expectations based on a single number.
Brilliant story!
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Facebook isn't as interesting anymore. I think the new trend is more privacy/less sharing.
That's a fair point. Perhaps my example was badly chosen!
At best this was always going to be a companion app, since almost all fantasy football leagues (ESPN, NFL, Yahoo) have online draft tools. I wish that kind of data was exposed via a real-time API, let's hope someone from the Yahoo API team reads this thread.
These people aren’t any less intelligent than the researcher — their minds just work differently. They focus on the practicalities they know rather than hypothetical possibilities.

That's going to need some explanation. First off, I can see how the question itself is abstract, about a place they have never been, but "no camels" sounds extremely concrete to me. Second, how is ignoring information anything other than a lapse in intelligent thought?
Apple adds App Store IP infringement dispute portal
That is, of course, the standard argument for dynamic binding in general.

So in CL one could certainly pass a callback via dynamic binding and get the same effect.

The choice to use the condition primitives instead is, then, simply a stylistic one.
Right. Everyone is screaming about unfair practices and monopolies because unfair practices and monopolies hurt the market. You honestly don't think MS hurt adoption of otherwise-good platforms in the 90's? There are a bunch of South Korean teenagers who probably wish you physical violence for holding that opinion.
>The persistence scaling story for Heroku seems pretty questionable to me.

I said this and was talking exclusively about this. Read my original comment.
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No, that would simply lead to risk averse juries or retrials when they refused to return a verdict. I'm quite in favour of the English patents court, but it looks as if we may lose that in EU harmonisation.

"The English courts are already the chosen forum for many European patent ­disputes. The quality and relative speed of well-reasoned decisions, as well as the use of court procedures such as cross-examination and disclosure, are much respected throughout the world. Most of the English judges who are experienced in patent cases also have technical ­backgrounds, which is so important in complex cases."

http://www.thelawyer.com/opinion-patently-obvious-eu-patent-...
It really is my cathartic pleasure to share, thanks for reading.

1) That's the biggie, and changing that will probably be part of my life for a long time. Being aware is a big step - but still just a step in a long journey.

2) I've learned basic js and php, so I'll never outsource a version 0.9 again. Funny thing is that before I started on this venture, I was a consultant helping clients to prototype in smaller, cheaper iterations - with great success. It's always easier helping others, than helping oneself, since introspection takes bigger balls.

3) There are so many! But in the realm of Market Research, Openpanels as a product suffers from many flaws, that only became obvious when trying to market them to a real audience. I have a semi-working prototype of what I believe is a much better and simpler approach for penetrating the Market Research segment laying about. If there's interest, I'm happy to share the concept.
This is not entirely accurate because:
1) True google ads can be more effective but are much more expensive vs. Facebook;
2) On facebook you can in fact target users by age and interests. You cannot target by age on google and with an higher CPC it doesn't always pay off.

The model of facebook or twitter is not wrong. It is the same used by TV ads, newspapers etc. you try to target your potential consumers that might be perfectly good passive buyers. Not only people that search for an Hawaii vacation would buy one ....
Agreed.

If writing a binary search tree thingamabob isn't relevant to the job they have 10 years experience in, why is the answer to that question so important at the goog?

Why not ask questions that are relevant to the experience the candidate does have ...
I'd like to see this as a standard. Somewhere between the Linux Standard Base specification and the periodic Ultimate Linux Box, so I can know what to buy if I want to run the next round of games, developers can know what to target, etc. Then someone can make consoles to the spec.
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Buy a book to get the illusion you'll work on Google. Sounds good!
Throughout the whole ordeal, Eben didn't break character. If that maroon wasn't trolling, it was indeed a very funny attempt.

Overall, the RP is hard to get. I paid about 2 months ago. All I got since was a couple of emails saying that the shipment will be pushed back, etc. And I'm totally fine with that. I guess, some aren't and shit like this happens.
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When I interviewed, I studied this book cover to cover for 3 months prior to the interview. It definitely came in handy: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d...

There's also lecture videos here: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/video-lectures/

Learning data structures that you don't use often, like bit arrays, come in handy for interviews, especially for when they ask you to optimize your solution. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_array)
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>a site has a fixed number of copies and then transfers them to the downloaders //

It's a kind of interesting question in technical terms. However the law gets interpreted practically and judges are very good at seeing through these sorts of "clever" ideas: if the site doesn't have a license to distribute then they're acting unlawfully. If they purchased copies and then transferred them, destroying their own copies then there's nothing in copyright law generally - that I know of - that is a problem. Lending an e-book to a friend is allowed under copyright as much as lending a paper bound book. It is highly likely however that the seller has attempted to add contractual obligations in your use of their e-reader and at your purchase of the e-book ... whether those terms are legal or not is a whole heap of legal spaghetti that I'm not really competent to pronounce on.

Jurisdictions vary on the difference between holding and using a copy but pretty much it's like receiving stolen goods (though of course copyright is not theft, I'm making an analogy); if you know they're stolen then you're guilty, if you don't know then you're still guilty but the courts don't tend to punish you and you are likely only going to have to return the goods (or in copyright terms pay actual damages).

The media in which a work is created is not especially important. So a digital work in general terms should be treated the same as others - however the nature of the media means there is movement and some stretching of the law. For example with e-books you could automate sharing so that you buy in to a pool of books that are shared whenever you wish to read; you get a contention factor (like when using broadband) and effectively you may only have to pay a-hundredth of the cost of the book (plus the service charge) in order to read the book whenever you wish ... this is not illegal AFAICT [I'm not entirely up on US copyright though] but it's probably contrary to the spirit of the law and unlikely to have been in mind particularly when 100+ year old international treaties were first drafted.

>fair use rights [...] illegitimately //

These are contradicting terms.

If you have a fair use right to a copy then you didn't get it illegitimately you got it within the legal bounds of the copyright law. I imagine you're thinking if you use bit-torrent to download a work that you have a fair-use "license" to use. Well of course the people uploading to you probably are infringing, though you'd never know if they have a license or not, and you don't have a license to upload. You might fall foul of provisions against derivative works, for example if the work was edited to remove attributions or copyright notices, but I don't see why you'd be judged to have committed a tort provided you have a genuine fair-use right to duplicate the work and you ensure you're within the lines on the above mentioned issues.

Gah. Got carried away there. Verbosity is a weakness of mine.
I may be wrong, but I'm reasonably confident that Einstein did not do well in elementary school and while he was in school in Italy. He also failed his University admission exam: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bpeins.html
Also Readability / Pocket. I find that page hard to read in the original form for many reasons, not only ads...
You report revenue and expenses during the quarter in which they were earned, not when they're paid. So a delay in payment wouldn't change their Q3 filings at all.

Beyond this, Google makes a profit from having both sides continue to participate. The more ads they can show, the better. Hampering one side of this equation for temporary gains that only really improve how you look to Wall Street (not how you're actually performing) is silly, and seems completely counter to how Google typically works.
My impression is that IQ seems to be a measurement of a person's capacity to think abstractly, which is something you learn through the world around you. Perhaps those who fail at math have simply never experienced anything that requires abstract thought. Therefore, it seems like there is a skill that even basic arithmetic is dependent upon, basic abstractions. I can see how an otherwise able person would be hopeless at math if they never learned abstract thought.
You're missing the point. If you ask someone a question that expects them to think in a way foreign to them, it does not say anything about their intelligence if they have difficulty approaching it.

Think of the old "analytical" thinking questions companies used to give out like "how many golf balls can you fit in a bus", "how many high schools are there in America", etc.

Now, I'm not the smartest person but my peers and bosses consider me to be highly intelligent. When I first heard these questions, I was completely stumped. I mean, I've never really taken public transportation and I don't know really have a good idea of how many students go to a typical high school or even how large America is, so how was I supposed to know? However, the population cutoffs for high schools and the size of buses and golf balls are very concrete and well known. Does this show a lapse in my intelligence?
You're right, if you present with malice, that's mean.

But sometimes the facts themselves are perceived as mean, when they really aren't.
Are you saying it's rational to avoid things that might cause an emotional response? Should I not have attempted Stripe's CTF challenge since, as a web developer, it would have been demoralizing to fail?
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If you're adding user accounts, there's really no excuse not to include an email & password signup option. You can alienate a lot of potential users if you require Facebook connect and don't give the option.
Schools exist to educate all their students to roughly the same level. How does that seem to be working out for them? Simply doing more of what we wish would work, but doesn't won't help.

I don't know how, but I think that interest is the only thing that can work on a large scale. If society churns out kids that are only interested in guns, drugs, and proving they're "thugs 4 life", you might have a problem bigger than a school system can ever hope to solve.

Abolish the school system? You might be on to something.

Edit: Yeah, I get it. It's one of those, strong, unpopular opinions I hold loosely. I don't believe all school systems are unworkable, or even that this one has never been so. But I sure do think it is now. We're paying hugely for it and it's not working for us. Turn it off.
Yep. You'd probably wind up wanting two indexes, a unique one on user,movie and then possibly one on movie only, to speed lookups the other way.
If kindness is taken to mean always doing what will make someone feel good in the short term then I'd agree with you but I'm not sure this is usually what is meant by kind.

In my view doing something which causes someone discomfort in order to improve there long term quality of life is in itself kind. Conversely satisfying someone's short term desires in the knowledge that it will probably have a bad effect on them in the long run would - I think - be categorised by most people as unkind.
You could optimize this a bit by caching the loops, I noticed some pauses between Fact and Truth, seeing as how that loop always comes up it would be nice to cache it.
Why do you think it was a troll? Don't trolls have better things to do like troll message boards where people will actually see the havoc they're attempting to wreak?

Personally it smells legit. If it was a prank then kudos to the troll.
A hypervisor is just a kernel with a more clumsy API dictated by legacy hardware design. If you have eight services that can fit on the box together, eight processes on one good kernel should offer better visibility and control over what's going on than would eight VMs each hosting one process (along with some uninteresting crud).

VMs shine when you're stuck with proprietary software that can't all be ported to run on the same kernel, then what you're paying for is a compatibility shim that's cheaper than another box. I don't see much sense for software you wrote in-house.
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The challenge is in the actual exchange of the physical goods. You make the effort and take the time to meet Tom in a coffee shop downtown in your lunch break and hand him the CD after he turns up late. Tom is a lazy ass and doesn't bother to meet William and ignores his pleading emails. You are then down one CD and one coffee mug. There is a good reason why money exists as a primary form of exchange rather than barter.

I had a similar idea for an app, but kept hitting physical barriers to implementation.
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I don't know about Ubi but EA has done this in the past.
Or beer that gets more expensive the drunker you get
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That's not how GAAP works.
Never say never, as the cliche goes. The example you give is an extreme that's difficult to argue with. And yet I find it difficult to agree with you. Hey, I can go so far as giving another example - Chris Barnard was accused of butchering and killing many a guinea pig before he pulled off a successful heart transplant. And yet I'd dislike myself a little more than I'm comfortable with if I applied "never" to truly random acts of kindness.
>But the big question is, is it really that much slower?

So, there's a pretty good shibboleth/knowledge smell you can use to detect whether somebody's done systems programming and knows what they're talking about or not.

Whether they think relying completely on the heap is a "small" cost or not.

Try writing some code in a real-time constrained environment where non-determinism is unacceptable. See how far malloc and Boehm gets you.