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> The more important part of that sentence, which you elided, was the fact that there was a language communication barrier.

It's not more important. You're attitude has nothing to do with language.

> However, I elected to use the word "meatheads" because it paints a picture: They were large men whom couldn't hold a conversation.

Meathead is means far more than that. If you used it merely to mean "people I can't speak with and are large," than you should know it's not what people associate with that word. It's much more derogatory.

> I treated them with nothing but respect in person.

At least the first time.

At once you tell me that they can't communicate, but then you go on to imply that they understand the words you are writing out on paper (Perfect Condition).

Something doesn't add up.
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Probably true, but you don't need to hire Matasano to tell you to patch your Wordpress. If you follow reasonable security practices then the low end automated scanning attacks tend to go away.

Security of custom code is really another vector altogether and an expensive one that suddenly becomes important when your stuff gets popular enough to warrant bespoke attacks.

I guess the problem startups may have is that they have lots of users (therefor lots of incentive to attack) before they necessarily have the spare change to pay for professional audits of their custom code.
I work on big insurance java project (initiated before 2003, 300 people in development, now more than 450 people). This is not a lot of little independent projects - it's ONE Project with more than 75 components! It's high quality software and we make crazy amount of user stories get every sprint out. Of course, we have errors, RTE's - we are all humans. I worked also for others companies and write PHP and Python/Django for years. Failure has nothing with language or framework or tools - it's always human fail. Sorry for my bad english.
"Ask PG", yet no question mark in the post? Did I miss something?
Welcome to the human race.
"he made no case for how HSBC money laundering.."

Banks make money on transactions regardless of whether they are fraudulent, criminal, or not. I think the argument is that as long as banks profit from illegal activity (identity theft) they have no incentive to take steps to reduce that profit. They lose money if the security is too strong or too weak. Apparently the security we get is just right (for the banks).
How did you happen to call him for second interview if he failed first one? Were the two interviews seperated by 6 months or so?
Cut me a little slack, OK? This is just the beginning of a long story.
It makes a lot of sense to tie the device to a specific Google account, and not allow a transfer until that account owner deactivates it.

But that's something they'd want to start advertising fairly soon. No point in having a doomsday device if you don't tell the world about it.
'select the second highest number in this list' is actually O(n) and does not require sorting.
That doesn't answer my question as to what argument is supposedly attempted to be invalidated by pointing out hipocrisy.

The article refers to "...the U.S. government’s message to China and other nations today...". I understood the author to be saying that said message is wrong.

I admit that it wasn't stated outright[1], but I don't think I was misunderstanding the author to read his opening the article by contrasting history with the present policy as a criticism of that policy -- that the implication is that it's wrong for someone to say to do something other than what they did. If you look at the comments here, I think it's evident that a many people agree with that criticism and share that view. I was only pointing out that within the article, that point is poorly argued. It's just sort of taken for granted that "do as I say, not as I did" is obviously wrong.

I'm saying that it's not inherently wrong, and--appropriate to the author's discussion of US cotton manufacture in the 1700-1800s--citing slavery as an example of something where "do as I say, not as I did" is entirely righteous.

[1] For all I know, the lede could have been tacked on by an editor to make an timely article out of a book excerpt, but that doesn't make it any more right.
Having someone visiting from Africa, there is apparently the inverse belief in some areas (sitting on a too-warm surface causes bladder infections/UTIs). There is definitely a European obsession with "fresh air". I'm not sure how warranted it is, I think most people (if being honest) agree that it's more of a "Ok, time out - I want to go somewhere quiet because this situation is wearing me down" and wanting "fresh air" is a good reason if you don't smoke and don't have a dog.
Thanks for the encouragement, your understanding is spot on. I'll definitely keep the HN community posted!
As revolting as it is, it is a good article. Most new apps on the various app stores I suspect are reskins/duplicates of old ones.
Generally I try these sorts of things out on a small but non-trivial example. Unfortunately it failed, so while this regex debugger shows a great deal of potential, there is still a bit more work to be done. My inputs:

Regex: TVo[12].\d.* [Aa] ..[^k]
Test string: TVo1-0:01.0-1:01.0 A Nashville
EMV is happening in the United States; the industry does recognize the problem though I agree there are poor incentives to make progress in solving it. It is late in starting and going to be slow and that is for some of the reasons OP states.

One thing that is now changing is that responsibility for charge-backs is going to be moving from the merchants and card issuers (who do bear risk in ATM transactions, for example) to the acquiring point of sale network, operator or ATM. In order to prevent that from happening, the operators are being required to support EMV in X% of devices by Y date. MasterCard has a write-up of this here: http://www.mastercardadvisors.com/_assets/pdf/emv_us_aquirer...

You can Google "EMV acquirer risk" to find more on this issue.
Is the market for protected personal information about to take off?
> Treating another person with immediate decency is an honorable thing

That's respect.

> Respect is earned.

You are confusing trust with respect. The only people that believe that respect is earned are people that need to an excuse to act like an asshole. Respect costs nothing.
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There is also always the possibility of being a lab tech in an academic lab for 2-3 years to boost his application. It typically pays better than grad school, and the close interaction with grad students will give him a better idea of whether that's something he actually wants to do.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. If you have an opportunity to walk into a well-paying job in your chosen profession today, take it.
The site founder is on record as saying that an individual's personal karma total is related to, but is not exactly, based on the net of upvotes on submissions and of upvotes and downvotes on comments. In other words, it is possible that a personal karma total could have movement up or down even if there hasn't been any recent up or down vote on anything you've posted here, or the other way around. I think the system is generally working as intended, but there is a little intentional security by obscurity to prevent gaming karma, I think.
> One of the differences, though, is that these things were mostly highly responsive, because they were bloat-free.

That's not my recollection of the Smalltalk IDE at all. I especially remember how selecting was crazy slow: press down the button, move the mouse to the end of the line and the selection takes two seconds to catch up with the cursor.
I agree with you. But there are different levels of integration. I can't imagine glass will be much different than Andoid when it comes to Facebook.

Setup your Google+ account to sign in to Google Play, and then you can install the FB app, if you want to.

In fact, when I imagine the Google Glass software, I imagine a modified/extended version of Android. That way it fits together with everything else - phones, tablets, google play, google+, etc.
How do you know a company's Facebook page has got fake likes?
It seems to me the oculus rift can accrately account for all head motion when you are standing still. There is no need for eye-tracking: All the rift has to do is detect all head bobbing & rotation, and update the view acocrdingly. Your eyes can still look around on the lcd screen.

What the rift _can't_ do is account for long term linear acceleration (eg in a car or walking around), it's true. If you had a large empty room to walk around in with the rift on, even this could be accounted for, however.
What would be available via the API? I think this is referring to published papers becoming freely available after 12 months. I imagine the delivery will be identical to the way papers are delivered online now, but with the explicit 12-month open access mark.
Not really. Having all that gear on just one side looks kinda cyborg-y. Symmetric is more natural.

Also, think of the possibilities for crazy 3D stuff if you have displays on both eyes.
As a scientist, it is so funny to read about the "valuable contributions that the scientific publishing industry provides".

The scientific publishing industry does not write, review, or edit any of the content it publishes -- volunteer scientists do that. It literally takes a pre-formatted PDF or Word document and sticks it on a website, and maybe into a print edition. It charges multi-thousand dollar fees to authors to publish the articles, fees to institutions to access them, and still litters the website/journal with ads. And their profit margin is in the 40% area.

This industry is an absolute scourge on human progress, and a 12-month embargo does not go nearly far enough. 12 months is an eternity in science.

I will say that the publishing industry does do some very minor but useful things, like linkification of references, management of submitting the publication record to PubMed, etc. But the cost is exorbitant, and the government could provide these services for a fraction of the cost.

Edit: Oh, and journal prices are rising much faster than the CPI. While at the same time most have reduced or eliminated a print edition, and increasingly require reformatting to be done by faculty. Hmm...
The system that I think you are describing is already out there. I can’t speak for other countries but here in the Netherlands, the banks have standardised on “iDEAL”.

When you’re on a website and want to make a payment, the site makes a request to the bank, which then presents you with whatever method of authentication your bank uses. Generally this is some two-factor system. After giving the OK, you’re redirect back to the merchant.

Actually, it would seem to me that PayPal is very similar.
They can sell millions of devices before they even need to consider the wishes of mere mortals.

There is so much hype going on.
Unless he went out of his way to use x86, I can't imagine he's not using x86-64. x86-64 has traditionally been the arch that Go has gotten the most attention on anyway, it is what everyone uses these days.
In the comments of the article are some test results too, only that on that test, nodejs was slightly faster.
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Well, I know lots of programmers who do like Java, you just don't see them that much on Hacker News. Reasons:

- Availability of good IDEs.

- Good dependency management and build infrastructure via Maven.

- Quick and easy deployment via servlet containers.

I am not a big Java fan, but having written quite much code, feature-wise there are not that many advantages of Go over Java. Package management in Go is nice for an early system, but will become a mess eventually, since there is no version management at all. Goroutines and Gochannels are nice for concurrency, but not all that great for parallelization. Java has generics, checked exceptions, and a good garbage collector via the JVM.

I don't hold much hope for the development of Java the language, but the JVM is a great platform, with many interesting languages (Scala, Kotlin, Clojure), that attempt to solve problems that Go doesn't solve.
>>Consumers will want facebook integration.

Offer them Google+ and make it as easy as possible to switch. Makes it seem like the future is in Google+ and that only grandmas use Facebook now a day. Facebook will fuck them as soon as it can.
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Define hideous.
First off, I'm self taught, I don't have any computer science education. Secondly, it wouldn't be too hard to give me an actual problem that the company is actually having, and letting me think about it for a few days, then come back with my solution. Why must all interview problems be made up?
Aren't you basically describing the "Request Money" feature of PayPal?
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> most people (even around here) are insecure about their programming skill, and more-so their intelligence.

> Instead of writing endless blog posts and internet comments about how useless these tests are ... just get better at them! You'll be better off for it.

This doesn't hang together. Will getting "better" at programming tests & logic puzzles make you a better programmer? Make you more intelligent?

If not, doesn't that illustrate precisely why people seem to have a problem with these tests? Namely, that they are primarily a measure of preparation & studying for the exam?
>amazing diversity among "whites", as well as similarites to "non-whites".

I'm not sure why you persist with this laughable line of argument. I have yet to visit Sweden but I hope to eventually as I have free lodging with family friends. I am quite sure they would get a good chuckle from your assertions.
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>the need to ensure that the valuable contributions that the scientific publishing industry provides are not lost.

Honestly, what value does the publishing industry provide? Search? Google, Microsoft Bing, and any number of other search providers could do that at the fraction of the cost. Peer review? No, that is performed by independent scientists, who are either not paid, or paid a negligible fee. Editing? Nope. Scientific journals are not edited for content or even proofread; I know a few professors who found that out the hard way after discovering typos in their own articles. Typesetting? OK. I'll give them that one. So, for the cost of thousands of dollars to the original researchers, on top of the outrageously high licensing fees paid by people who wish to read the articles, we get papers that have been typeset. Hoo boy, what a great deal.
I think it is incorrect to say fraud is not costing credit card companies money, because they can transfer the cost to customers. If there was less fraud they could easily keep the transaction costs on same level and pocket the difference.

Some finnish banks introduced a "verified by Visa" scheme where you need to verify online transactions with one time password (those are normally used to log into online bank account). At least for me the result was that now I choose PayPal whenever possible, since PayPal allows me to pay with just username and normal password.
I found this [1], which seems to be a good introduction to the new features and also why eDP is poised to replace LVDS (which I, as a non hardware guy, had to deal with in a previous embedded device project and hope to never deal with again).

[1] http://embedded-computing.com/articles/embedded-greater-disp...
Looks like public accessibility was removed; I'm being prompted to sign in to a Google Apps account.
Let me clarify then:

I think that a consensus was built in the mid-90s that Java was a pain in the ass and not an improvement over what was available in that particular field at the time (not as easy as other higher-level languages and not as good or fast as C or C++).

I have a feeling that people over time consolidated that consensus through some form of confirmation bias even though the Java/JVM ecosystem had made strides towards a brighter future. And I say that as someone that doesn't even like Java in the first place (or at least doesn't see himself enjoying coding with it).

But it's hard in 2013 to look at what Java and the JVM brought to the table with disdain.
Java is nowadays a very fast language that deals with memory management extremely well (not a good feature in some fields of course, embedded or real-time systems come to mind), that offers a rather sane Java-flavoured OOP paradigm, tons of tools (from IDEs to debuggers to servers) and an extremely well-crafted documentation.

The JVM also enabled Scala, Clojure, JRuby, Rhino, Vert.x, etc.

Now I totally understand and agree that the picture of Java nowadays is still far from perfect but I was more pointing at the slight disconnect between the actual capacities of the language and its perception by the programming world at large. Overall Java and the JVM are pretty damn good tools to use and meet the needs of lots of different niches.
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Everyone keeps saying that it will be weird for people to wear such glasses. I don't think that wearing them is what's weird, I think talking to them is the weird stuff.

I mean phones have been around for ages and some people still don't feel confortable talking in them in public spaces.

Siri is another example, have you ever meet someone talking to Siri on the bus ? on the metro ? on the street ? Not me.

Do you imagine people yelling in the train "Ok glass, show me the weather" ?
I actually think they should have it mounted on just one side without the rest of the frame. If they can get it stable enough to hang off the side of your head without the ugly looking metal frame extending across the top, I would definitely wear it.
The concept is to not get depressed about $25,000/month, but excited. If you are able to come up with a number of simple products that have a quick development and production time, then with five hits, you are at the $125,000/month. Look at the <insert name of the company that makes that ridiculously simple conversion program that posts here to Hacker News alot whose name currently escapes me>, they have three hits on their hands, and would assumedly be at $75,000/month.
Oil prices won't plummet with a lot less demand, they'll go higher.

There's no real ability for the oil industry to compete on price much below $50 to $60 / barrel energy equivalent. Even Saudi Arabia needs $85 to $100 oil just to pay for its budget these days. Since they can't actually afford to chase energy costs down, the industry would simply fold for the most part.

The volume benefit that oil derives is a critical part of its formula. If you remove the volume, you lose the efficiencies of the oil ecosystem as well. That means losing the pipelines, tankers, and global supply counters to the OPEC cartel (as many nations would give up on oil).

Most likely oil would move to being an expensive niche product, only supplied by those who can drill & ship it the absolute cheapest.
I used to work in the credit card space, and what I witnessed is that the industry is adamantly opposed to anything they perceive as inconveniencing customers, at least at point of sale where they are competing with cash. In fact, Visa and Mastercard explicitly don't allow stores to ask for an ID with card purchases. This is why anything that requires effort from the cardholder won't happen soon.

Fortunately the anti-fraud solutions out there are pretty effective, which helps control the damage a stolen card can do.
Screw that. They should make it exclusive for as long as day can get away with it. iPhone was exclusive for a year and developers where screaming at the door to let them in.
Doesn't exercise the same kind of thinking as doing it letter by letter? So what?

Solving this problem in haskell doesn't show the same kind of thinking as solving it in PHP, whats your point?

You basically saying you have to solve this problem they way I say you have to. Thats a sure-fire way to tell if the company is worth working for or not.
I don't know if there is any relation to this idea, but some diseases that babies catch are alleviated by cold air.

For some infants with croup, cool air alleviates the symptoms.
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That's far from proven. There have been a variety of inconclusive cell phone studies, but definitely none about having a 3G radio glued to the side of your head and active for most of the day.
It's not the humidity in Minnesota and upper plains winters that gets you, it's the wind. 15-20 degrees is chilly, but perfectly manageable. However, add a stiff breeze to that and it becomes truly cold. Add wind to <0 F temps and it becomes downright dangerous. It quickly moves beyond feeling cold to feeling pain, like sharp needles being poked into your skin.
What is the point of 2-5 [0]? None of these numbers match up and it seems like they could just say 31kg to start, in 1.

[0]
1. A method of preparing espresso comprising: providing ground coffee to a brew chamber of an espresso machine; performing a first compression of the ground coffee with a pressure from about 10 kg to about 60 kg; performing a second compression of the ground coffee with a pressure from about 60 kg to about 500 kg; and forcing heated and pressurized water through the ground coffee, thereby extracting espresso.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing a first compression of the ground coffee comprises compressing the ground coffee with a pressure from about 15 kg to about 55 kg.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein performing a first compression of the ground coffee comprises compressing the ground coffee with a pressure from about 20 kg to about 40 kg.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein performing a first compression of the ground coffee comprises compressing the ground coffee with a pressure from about 30 kg to about 33 kg.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein performing a first compression of the ground coffee comprises compressing the ground coffee with a pressure of about 31 kg.
My mistake, from the demo I thought this was just creating a JSON object, and there was no actual backend database.