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> assuming the knowledge of the population about trivial questions follows a normal distribution

This is the assumption I question. Knowledge tends to cluster geographically--people in the same area get the same cable channels, on which are aired the same re-runs of Jeopardy on the same nights.
This is great PR.
What, exactly, are you saying? It's certainly much better than people who blindly proclaim to be secure and don't even make an effort to be transparent or truly secure in their actions.
> Perhaps the better approach to solving this problem is to stop repeating it on tech blogs, and start moving to publishing and discussing it in HR blogs and similarly appropriate, targeted mediums.

I'm a computer programmer, but I also do recruiting for a company in Amsterdam and their approach is most definitely "talent". A typical question is "given two arrays, find all the elements in one array that are also in the second array".

Most people come up with the standard O(n*m) "two loops" solution the first time (for x in first, for y in second, if x == y ...). The company might let that slide as interview nervousness and ask if there's a way they can do it faster. They completely understand if your programming background is different and asking "trivia" questions about a given language or requiring you to check some tech boxes is silly. You just have to be competent.

Sadly, most programmers aren't competent. If they tell me they're comfortable with OO programming, I'll ask them to define OO programming for me and then I squirm as I listen to them. But then gems show up and I have a lively conversation with someone who really knows their stuff and we offer them a relocation package to Amsterdam.

Helping people live their dreams like that is really awesome, but I couldn't do it if I was forced to demand that programmers check off boxes on a form.

(Relevant side note: I've routinely worked for companies for which a knowledge of UML was "required". I've never used this in my professional life)
comment.insert(-1, "great minds think alike")
Perhaps, but there is a kernel of truth in what the parent comment says. As long as an IP address can be associated to an undeniable identifier, like an address, credit card, SSN, etc., your identity and activity can ultimately be tracked. Perhaps not by Google, but by your ISP and thus the government who can coerce that ISP, or by business partners your ISP sells that information to.

The buck has to stop somewhere--and it stops at what packets your ISP handles, and thus has the ability to inspect, on your IP address's behalf.
The biggest downside:
If the sender transmits message to network and goes offline for forever, and recepient goes online to pick up message only two days or more after that, he will never receive a message.
You're assuming I didn't already, but point taken.

At least once I've gotten past MVP. I guess the decision to go public to get feedback is tricky, but if it fits the idea better that may be the next step.
If this were true, then you would never see a problem with startups too small to have HR departments. But you do. It might differ subtly from the big companies, but it's absolutely there.

Everyone doing hiring thinks they are the smart exception and everyone else is stupid.
WASTE is quite old and bitrotted. It's possible there's updated versions out there, but it effectively got killed when AOL forced Nullsoft to stop developing it. It was a bit before its time, really.
>Guys, I understand wanting to maximize your load-carrying efficiency, but decommissioned naval vessels and military aircraft are not the way to do it.

I disagree. I understand the limitations of land-based military vehicles, but tmoertel has it right. Oceangoing vessels make for quite practical daily drivers. If you can afford it I would highly recommend a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. I take it as a point of pride and efficiency that I only need to refuel it once every two decades, though I admit that sourcing a sufficient quantity of reactor grade fissile material for two separate reactors may be a bit of a hassle for the average commuter.

However, the advantages clearly outweigh the disadvantages. The 260,000 horsepower provided by the reactors supply plenty of energy to operate an on-site synthetic biofuel manufacturing facility to provide liquid fuel for the fleet of light aircraft in case I want to go to Costco or anywhere else not equipped with large enough pier to dock the carrier, and you can get a pretty good deal on decommissioned F-14 Tomcats these days. Plus, flying over all the traffic at Mach 2 is really satisfying.

And as time passes and technology improves the operating costs continue to fall. I've joined up with a pilot project in a joint venture between Google and Cyberdyne Systems to develop a self-driving carrier, and so far they've been able to reduce the required crew complement by more than 30% in just two years. I estimate that before the end of the decade we'll have it fully automated and then every American family will be able to operate their own carrier and fleet of fighter aircraft.
I don't drink (and for a variety of reasons), and I don't associate going to a bar with drinking alcohol. Yes, I understand that drinking alcohol is the main profit center of a bar. But if people want to go to a bar, fine we'll go to a bar and I'll have soft drinks or non-alcoholic beer (as long as it's not sucktacular O'Douls or the like).

I can see the recently-sober recovering alcoholic being the sticking point here, and I don't have a good answer for that possibility. So maybe you have a good point. But for the religious/philosophic/recovering-but-far-enough-along-to-go-to-a-bar I don't see a problem.

EDIT: now that I read the actual quote, it occurs to me that one can just throw out multiple options: drinks at a bar or coffee? The smart candidate picks coffee, drinker or teetotaler, to avoid the influence of alcohol in front of a potential employer. :-)
Things like "number of working hours" and "free weekends" - you didn't find important enough they are part of one of your points?

>>- actively studying philosophy, economics, psychology, business, art, literature, religion, science, music, etc.

It's like the free lunch thing pitched by start-ups, isn't it?

It's very simple. Give me money and I'll decide what to do with it because I know better about myself than you do.
A GAP in Communication makes a lot of difference
Just 5 countries, the title and the map was promising more.

On the method: what is the ratio of tweet that are unclassified? I do not believe your data to be accurate on the whole picture. For example, tweet on good restaurant is very frequents in Asia, but restaurant's names will hardly match some keyword.
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> Because a public key on its own isn't that useful as the address of a resource?

Why not? If I can send a message to someone with their public key, it is a resource address. At least, I assume he's talking about these "BM-BcJFNZDyzQKXCVJZtBJGqoon2f7GKo6s" (that's the author's) strings people are sharing. It could easily be bm:BcJFNZDyzQKXCVJZtBJGqoon2f7GKo6s and that would be a valid URI if the scheme were registered.
Yeah, I think it often backfires. Long ago I thought I did a good job on one of my first projects, would work after-hours on it for fun, and my co-worker said I was doing a good job. But the client started to publicly shame me in the meetings, which would just demoralize me. I stopped working any extra hours. The hours I was at the job I spent half the time worried that I was going to be fired not getting much work done.
Parallels Nears IPO While Advancing in $40 Billion Cloud Market
I have been blocking 3rd party cookies for years.

The only site that has ever had a problem was my local power company (aps.com). However, it was easy to get around because even though their site warned that 3rd party cookies were required, you could just click around it to pay your electrical bill.

I've never had a problem on any other sites that I use in at least five years, though I suspect it's been more than that.
I didn't bother reading the article because of that stupid sidebar thingy that chases you down the page. Maybe I'm the only person that finds it annoying, but there is nothing on the web I need to read so badly that I'm willing to put up with it these days. And, yeah, OnSwipe's starting to get on my nerves, too.

And in a pathetic effort to remain on-topic, I'm unlikely to work at your company, either. Such window dressing over substance (I gather from comments that the article wasn't much) gives me a possible hint that my compensation may suffer the same fate. Bean bag chairs and a kegerator don't add to my 401K.
Someone has set up an image board:

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BEWARE! Medium/big images (>1Mb) may take hours to be work-proven before being sent.

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This seems like atrocious advice. Here's the bit that seemed especially misguided:

"Ted may tell you that other team members made it difficult for him to meet his deadlines, that it's not his fault; at that point, you're likely to become a human ping-pong ball, shuttling back and forth between Ted and other team members trying to understand the problem. The information to solve this problem lies with Ted and the other team members."

Note the pejorative way Roger characterizes the effort needed to understand the operations of what is (ostensibly) his own team: "Shuttling back and forth like a ping-pong ball trying to understand the problem."

That's one way of looking at in. Another way is "doing your (expletive) job."

If the manager doesn't understand what's happening with the way his team is working, that's a serious problem - even in cases where the team isn't failing. "Researching" the issue by herding everyone into a room for a round of mutual recriminations has got to be the worst approach possible.

Far better to grasp the problem discreetly through a series of private conversations in which people feel they can be candid, work out possible solutions from there, and get everyone together when you're ready to discuss viable solutions. That way, the team participates in the decision, while the manager retains control of the situation by displaying a vital combination of leadership and situational awareness.

At no point should any manager undermine his own authority by running a session like the one described here, in which the clear subtext is "I have no idea what's going on with my team, and I'm too lazy and/or incompetent to figure it out myself, so I'm just going to tell them to lace into each other and observe from the sidelines." Aside from fostering intense distrust among colleagues, the manager undermines the respect and authority that his own job depends on.

So no, this isn't a good argument against the normally solid rule about delivering criticism in private.

The only exception I can think of to the "criticize in private" rule is when what's called for is actually punishment for abuse of colleagues. For instance, if Ted had no trouble meeting his deadlines, but couldn't talk to women without making sexist remarks, then it's entirely appropriate to shut him down in public - preferably in full view of whoever he demeaned, along with anyone else who witnessed his affront. Concluding by saying that you'll fire him on the spot if you catch him doing it again will not only get through to Ted, it will also light up the grapevine, putting everyone on notice that the No Asshole Rule is in full effect.

But again, that has nothing to do with performance, except to the degree that people perform much better when they feel that their managers are looking out for them, and are fearless about protecting anyone on their staff from humiliating attack. This is the stuff that deep loyalty is made of. Roger's advice points in the opposite direction, fostering the "everyone look out for themselves" climate that leads to major losses when the "team" that operates this way goes up against a truly solid team with a strong and respected manager.
Being in it for the money is not the same as caring about your well-being. I have no trouble imagining someone who does not care about money but cares greatly about their well being.
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At OrderAhead, we’re rethinking the way people shop at brick-and-mortar businesses: a world where inventory and pricing is immediately accessible, where comparison shopping of offline products is effortless, and where purchases are made with one-click for immediate checkout - all from your phone.

Superlative customer service lies at the core of OrderAhead, and we want you to spearhead (and potentially run) every dimension of customer success. Not only does this require a passion for making others happy, but you’ll also need to be a generalist with the capacity to do it all, because all will be required of you: Customer Satisfaction. Operations. Business Process Design. Relationship Management. Business Development.

That requires an encyclopedic knowledge of every aspect of the company, and the difference between a dilettante and a polymath is stark. We need your abilities and responsibilities to parallel the incredible growth of the company. You’ll work hard as hell and, sure, some days are a grind. But we're doing something special here, and every moment has a tangible impact on reaching a lasting, meaningful vision.

Requirements

+ Entrepreneurial spirit: Wanting to be at a startup shouldn’t be a curiosity or passing interest. It should be a passion.

+ Flexibility: The needs of a rapidly growing startup are manifold, and will range from data-entry to long-term strategy. You need to be willing and able to wear many hats.

+ Resourcefulness: The ability to get the job done. Be creative, be innovative, be scrappy. Because you’ll have real responsibilities.

+ Good people: Must be/be good with people; gotta genuinely like people. It may sound asinine, but it matters.

+ Willingness to work weekends

Undergraduate degree and 0-3 years of experience

Please send your resume and a brief statement about why you would be a great addition to the team to jobs@orderaheadapp.com
Artificial intelligence expert Robert Wilensky dies at 61
Quadrocopter swarm creates massive flying 3D Art
I assume you don't mean my company. We're not really hiring right now, but we'd be big on good working environment (private offices and/or wfh/remote+trips), great hardware, fun/meaningful stuff to work on, and either great pay+find-your-own-benefits or good pay+good benefits.)
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"the general person uses a car a lot more often than a plane"

Average CO2 per person in the US is around 17 tonnes per year[1].

A single flight from LA to NYC (round trip) is equivalent to about 2 tonnes after taking into account some high-altitude effect[2].

Driving 12,000 miles per year at 25mpg releases about 4 tonnes[3].

So, if you cut your driving in half and then take one long domestic flight, you are just breaking even. If you take multiple long flights per year, you really have no hope of staying below the average carbon footprint for an american. Unless maybe you live in a tree or something.

I'm not saying this to be critical. I fly, and I am not ashamed of that. But we should be honest with ourselves, and not think that riding a bus once in a while and buying locally-sourced vegetables makes up for taking three international trips a year.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviatio...
[3] http://www.stewartmarion.com/carbon-footprint/html/carbon-fo...
I was just recently wondering if you could use the bitcoin-style blockchain concept to implement encrypted "email". It looks like this does exactly that...

Their white paper seems to address some issues such as proof-of-work, spam, and scalability (you'd likely have a much larger blockchain than with bitcoin).

I remember a proposal from a while ago by someone else that was essentially a PGP-encrypted RSS scheme. You encrypted each message for the intended recipient and recipients would subscribe (or choose not to) to a sender's feed.

Bitmessage seems to have the advantage of being peer-to-peer, so RSS broadcast is not an issue.
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Combine that hardware with Vindigo, Avantgo and Paypal, and you had a lot of what you get today as long as you were in a city.

It got a little easier with the Kyocera 6035 Palm phone, but I suppose that wasn't until a year later.
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I have a GMail account but I don't use it. All I get is spam email. And yes, GMail finds a ton, but my inbox, which should be empty (or with very few emails from people thinking I'm someone I'm not) and it is not (granted, I only check once or twice a year, but I should not end up with over 100 messages in the inbox).
I think this phrasing is really slanted.

Premise 1: everybody in a room knows it

Premise 2: Nobody is saying it

Conclusion: It must be that no one dares to say it, as in, people are afraid.

Next conclusion: The premises mean they are a bunch of kids, not adult professionals (because adults will say sensitive things out loud while kids won't?)

Next conclusion: The premises mean that the participants are unable to deal with anything remotely resembling criticism.

Next conclusion: Failure of management to say it out in front of everyone is an example of pandering to quirks.

Final (implied) conclusion: The participants should not reasonably want to be empowered, independent, and not micro-managed (since they are unable to deal with anything remotely resembling criticism).

The obvious counterpoint to all these conclusions is that there may very well be a better way of handling the situation other than saying it out loud in front of everyone.
The source code Startup News based is from the Arc language package written several years ago which may contain some serious Bug.
One and a half years ago I didn't even have a smartphone (late adopter), and I printed out Google Maps directions whenever I had to go somewhere new since I didn't have a GPS. Forget all the useless apps and internet browsing while on the can... GPS and maps is the killer app for smartphones.
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How about taking the $100 cans, installing sensors in them that phone home when it is full? Power them with 9 volt batteries and replace them on a regular schedule. You get most of the benefits at a much lower cost.
I was listening to Marco Arment's old podcasts and he mentioned that the Tumblr CEO (Dave?) tried extremely hard to keep his age a secret for this exact reason. As soon as his age leaked to the press (19 years old) all articles about Tumblr turned into pieces about his age rather than what Tumblr was about. :(
The capital expense of a turbo diesel engine is unattractive given low U.S. fuel taxes. If fuel costs approached European levels, Americans would go nuts buying them.
I have been involved in the fire service for some time. Yes you could use that type of fire apparatus to convert to an RV but as was stated the suspension on the fire truck is ruff at the best of times (some of the newer ones with air suspension aren't horrible). The National Fire Service will rely on large brush trucks which are more like modified F350 for forest fires. While a pump will be utilized it won't be the bread and butter for them. My point being that the fire truck pumper is radically different from a brush truck.
Checking out the French ideas from 1899-1910 on what 2000 would be like :

http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/30/france-in-the-year-...

"The New-Fangled barber" isn't quite there yet, but we do have electric razors and trimmers. Then again, the electric trimmer is fairly old at this point.

"An Arial battle" and "Torpedo planes" bombers, ground attack aircraft and fighters. I'm not surprised the first use ideas for aircraft are in war.

We have "Aviation police" of sorts, except they're a combination of air traffic controllers and the FAA. And the near-collisions in "Aero-Cab station" are eerily similar to what has already happened. We also have air-mail, but "Rural Postman" with his own flying machine hasn't quite happened yet.

We don't have "intensive breeding" machines per-se, but the poultry industry is pretty automated these days.

We have drones today except they don't have a guy with a looking glass. We have "electric floor cleaners" that don't involve a maid.

Am I the only one shocked that the maid uniform has essentially stayed exactly the same (maybe with shorter skirts). I mean, look at military uniforms. The helmets in particular have changed a great deal. Same with police uniforms.

The "well trained orchestra" is basically a synthesizer. "House rolling through the countryside" is real today and we call them Dollies (http://hmrsupplies.com)

"At school" knowledge download is not quite what we have, but Wikipedia and Google come close. After all, almost everyone these days carries a mobile device even if they have no other electronic device on them.

"Madame at her toilet" is kinda out there, but you could say those new multi-head showers are almost that.

"Battle cars" we've got 'em and they're tanks/armored cars.

"A Croquet Party" underwater is a tourist thing and even happens in backyard pools.

A "Whale bus" is basically an organic submarine that we haven't built yet, but the company Innerspace has built a dolphin sub. http://www.seabreacher.com/dolphin

All in all, that's quite close to what we would have had if idealized projections came forth and other disruptive technologies like automobiles didn't become as common first.

Still bitter about not having my flying car yet, damnit!
Svbtle was last batch, I believe. Only bringing this up so that Watsi will be listed in your "top 5" where they deserve to be.
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Are you seriously defending the comparison between Google and Mao?
Interesting. For me, I learned OO with Perl (scary, I know), but really started grokking it when I learned to Java. Finally, I started studying Smalltalk and when I found out that it doesn't have "if" statements (it creates boolean objects you can send ifTrue/ifFalse messages to said objects). Once I grokked that, it was like my eyes opened. I still have more to learn, but OO programming is so much easier and more pleasant after understanding how multiple languages approach it.
At least change the background colors.
Python 2.7 wasn't supposed to exist. Python 2.6 was supposed to be EOL for the 2.x series, including being the "help upgrade your code" release, but for many reasons, the line wasn't ready to die.

The original poster is implying there will be a Ruby 1.8.8 to support the many who can't/won't upgrade to 1.9.
There's nothing wrong with filtering. Go have a look in your spam folder - there'll be thousands of emails in there, but nobody's saying that email's jumped the shark.
Disk IO is a massive problem at scale. This obviously isn't "at scale", so it works fine here, but avoiding hitting the disk (edit: any slow IO, really) is Performance 101.
What is the last version you've used? 1.6.4 is nothing like you said.
It's hardly a simple problem. And by buying out another successful company they get the consumer base it already has rather than spending resources and pushing their own product and risk having it fail or having to compete with the other company.
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No problem for the last 8 years.
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