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I believe the importance of Wikipedia is not so of how big it is, but how easily it's accessible (with no cost) and that the articles can be updated and be available almost instantly (in comparison with a hard copy encyclopedia).
? Of course, you can tell nothing at all from a name.
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A fantastic analogy, but unfortunately it fails to capture the secondary effects of people you know volunteering information that is "yours" by accident or on-purpose.
Plenty of such jobs are mind-numbing, soul-crushing and lead nowhere.
Yup.

Even in the best case scenario (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Recovery_of_the_Stasi_fil...), encrypted electronic files are easier to shred than paper.
I don't think you can really draw that conclusion. Even if local build-on-demand factories end up entirely replacing shipped goods, 27.5yrs is probably pretty close to a minimum timeline for that happening. Any huge systemic shift in the nature of physical goods like that will take a very long time.
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Reinventing ways to display plain text has been a good chunk of activity on the web for well over a decade now.

But hey, slide-out comments.
Actually I am in no way saying it is the worst it has ever been.

I am saying that we are making zero progress as a species toward a free reality, and this is unacceptable.

Just because this version of America is "better than any other place" doesn't mean it is good.

I refuse to accept such apologistic BS.

Yeah it was worse. It is still bad and that is simply not acceptable.
also know that I am actually having difficulty with the reality of the world we live in.

I think your assessment of the world is significantly inaccurate.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243518
We already see this in culture, in business and other public activities, even religion. The language is restricted in various ways to prevent error that can result in an unrestricted environment. Unfortunately, this leads to compartmentalization, which can hide rot and bloat of various flavors.

I'm not exactly sure what the solution is, but if history is any indication, these linguistic systems are often considered foul-proof to the point that those managing them stop managing them, or hand off management to someone and forget about it, letting any issue outside the scope of the language become a cancer of sorts that eventually kills the host.
> Interesting idea popped into my head... If candidate is not going to ask good questions about the job and experiences and responsibilities and challenges and the company, should the interviewer torture the candidate with random pages from Knuth until candidate either asks a good question or breaks or runs out of time. (say yes! say yes!)

General etiquette for this sort of sitch seems to be to allow the person with more leverage to lead. Most of the formulaic/cold interviews I've had they'll get to the end and then ask you if you've got any questions.
That's the opposite of what's happening. Money (power) is flowing from the few (the rich) to the many (the poor who actually use government services and social programs).
Electric communication has existed for 1837 with telegraphs, but really it is not a question of technology (means) but rather the ability to easily communicate with arbitrary people without overly board effective spying (ends). That is, this argument works as well for mail as it does for email, but the parameters are different.

G = Percent of people that the government can spy on for a form of communication (0-1 where 1 is everyone, 0 is no one).

D = Percent of personal data that gets sent using that form of communication (0-1 where 1 is everyone, 0 is no one).

G * D = Freedom Lost.

Using made up but reasonable numbers

Mail = 0.05 * 0.001 = 0.00005

Email = 0.4 * 0.99 = 0.396

Historically mail was used for almost all personal data but the capability to spy on mail was far lower (d= 0.8, G = 0.000001). As time increases communication privacy goes to zero (since both G and D will increase as an average over all means), unless, of course, the trend changes.
That's just what financial reporters do. Whether the margins are intentional or not, they're still information that bloomberg readers want to know about.
You're missing the point and actually reinforcing the issue against the NSA: The NSA is already botching the whole damn thing - but WHAT they are botching is the fact that they alreday setup the infra to slurp all data. They farked up setting up controls that would prevent something like Snowden (thankfully) and what we are seeing is that they took IMMENSE technical power and are using it against everyone - the fact that they botched up the human aspect is, as you imply, inevitable. But they still have succeeded in getting the infra in place.
I'm not defending the hiring practices at all; on some level, we lose out on a lot of qualified candidates who would do great work and would be great to work with. I'm not a recruiter, but I try to help out however I can; people on HN regularly email me asking for advice, or to ping their recruiter, and so on, and I'm happy to do this. I want to work with you, and I don't want the intrinsic flakiness of people to adversely affect your experience. But ultimately, I can't control other people, I can only control myself.

All my other comment is saying is how to think about the problem from another perspective. You have a lot to offer Google, but Google is not exactly coming up empty on its end. Therefore, I think it makes sense to cut Google some slack. But if you don't, that's your prerogative. I personally don't aim for 100% perfection 100% of the time, but some people do, and that is respectable.

(Oh, and I don't think complaining about the interview on your blog is bad at all. What's "bitter" is refusing to come back for a second try, even though you still are kind of interested in working at Google.)
I went on the subject interview two years ago when I was at the 4 year mark of my current employer. The reason I was looking is because my current employer was being acquired and all of us received a letter stating, "We will tell you in x months whether you have a job or not." It turned out about 80% of my coworkers got laid off but I did not. But I didn't know it was going to turn out that way at the time.

I'm not interviewing now, but honestly they're just trying to figure out a way to cut me out of the picture without torpedoing the business I support. Eventually they'll find a way though realistically it's another year away. I have one fall back company I can go to in a snap at equal pay and I do side consulting about 15-20 hours per week so I'm not worried enough at this point to be interviewing.
Why should you encrypt user data?
I think this is a great strategy for Apple as an Apple shareholder. It will still be a good phone, and it opens up a whole new market for them. They aren't going for the low end $100 junk android phone market. Just aiming at the middle for places that don't subsidize phones.

The people who want the latest and greatest will still be happy to get the top of the line, and the people who are currently buying 4's with contracts will be happy with this one.

Apple's market share in the US is ~40%. Their market share overall is ~15%. This is a play for the international market, and I think it is a good one.
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As I followed Amazon's buildout over the years, I couldn't help but wonder why FedEx is either overlooked in (or overlooking) this market.

I worked in one of these facilites many years ago, asked, and got mostly shrugs.

Their 'Global Distribution Centers' offer 24/7, 365 fulfillment, and exclusive 'last minute' access to shipping hubs.
Of course they can't, but they can regulate its use and acceptance in their country. Eg. more paperwork/licenses required to accept them, a more difficult taxation process, etc.
At the end of the day investors still need to meet with founders and do their diligence, but I believe we may be able to bring attention to good companies that are not spammy or dishonest but also don't get a lot of press, attention, etc.

Within Mattermark Pro investors can filter by stage, vertical, business model, geography and many other factors to create useful comparisons between companies... Mattermark scores for B2B companies are quite meaningful when comparing apples to apples. I know it is painful to judge and be judged in this ecosystem, but I hope people will see that we are blogging about interesting stuff that others aren't covering and bringing more transparency and information symmetry than before.
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It's really scary that we're at a point where not using social media can reveal something about you.

If they somehow manage to get an IP address associated with the shadow profile, they can use XKeyScore to see which websites you've visited. If they see you've been reading a lot of articles about the NSA ordeal, browsing wikipedia a lot, visiting websites related to cryptography and visiting a website called hacker news, they'll target you as 'politically dangerous' and you'll be put in the 'nihilist, anarchist, hasn't talked to the opposite sex in 5 years'-list.
They pay their delivery people. They're a competitor to Amazon in that they've traded the operational cost of warehouses for the risks associated with crowdsourcing (quality control, etc.). Amazon probably perceives the risk of crowdsourcing as too high, or at the very least it's outside of their operational "comfort zone".
Please read my reply below. I'm personally not OK with screwing over candidates, but I can understand why fuckups happen from time to time.

If you're having problems with the process, never hesitate to send me an email. jrockway AT google.com.
I'm far from being a professional programmer, and until the last year of my life I'd never written anything work-quality. However, you've pretty much nailed it on the tools needed for a beginning programmer: They'll learn anything to do whatever it takes, if it's for a game or something else they're equally passionate about.

That's exactly how I started programming, with QBASIC gorillas, savegame hex editing, and Robot Battle AI programming. I eventually muddled my way through QuakeC, because it was for fun. It was only really at this point that I was ready for proper training materials.
We're very aware of these issues and our algorithm accounts for them.

You're welcome to sign up for free trial to poke around and see why each company's score it what it is. We provide graphs and details on all the data points for each company. http://www.mattermark.com/app/signup
Can't we also make a server that is physically hardened against tampering? If servers get small enough and cheap enough and only need to support one individual, then you can always try encasing that server in some material that is physically difficult to penetrate without risking destruction of the server itself. i.e. encase the server in concrete or opaque resin with a thin lead shielding to prevent x-raying of the device for precise drilling and exposing only the power leads and the network interface. As long as the network software interface is totally secure, you leave no way for any other attacks that I can think of. You could go further and booby trap the enclosure so that it destroys it's contents. At the end of the day, many of these ideas have already been explored in the safe manufacturing industry, such as glass panels that shatter upon drilling, permanently locking the safe. A glass enclosure with a strong liquid corrosive could be used around a small server. Tampering with the outer enclosure could result in likely breakage of that glass vessel, thereby destroying the server beyond recovery.
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I don't consider myself an expert, but I see homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty communication trotted out as potential solutions to similar problems all the time. It (no offense) rarely seems like the speaker has more than superficial knowledge of HE and SMPC work.

I've looked into both in an extremely limited fashion, but am not an expert. And I've spent far more time looking into SMPC than HE. So take the rest of what I'm going to say with massive amounts of salt (I'd love to be corrected by an expert in any of my commentary).

Right now there are huge efficiency hurdles that must be overcome before these solutions are remotely tractable to general computation problems. All that HE and SMPC give you is an extremely expensive way to do addition and multiplication on fields. An intelligent observer may point out that's all you need to do computation. In GF(2), addition is the XOR operation and multiplication is the AND operation. Anyone that's taken a computational organization class knows these two gates are all you need to construct a general purpose computer.

The real show-stopper is the cost. SMPC requires communication between participants for all multiplication operations. This means every AND operation requires "mixing" to regain randomness and maintain secrecy. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of AND operations required for one cycle of even the most simplistic processor. That's not even touching the necessity for simulating RAM with GF(2) multiplication/addition, which would require AND operations for each multiplexing gate used.

A paper I found indicated that SMPC processor emulations are still struggling to run in the MHz range [1]. And that's without knowing what kind of communication is allowed between the participants (I'm guessing it's running on a local network).

Again, I know very little about HE. But I'm under the impression that there are still similar efficiency hurdles. I've also heard some troubling reports on patent grabs for FHE schemes [2].

1. http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~orlandi/icassp-draft.pdf

2. http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2012/04/04/38707/
Well, it would be nice if it actually worked instead of jamming up Chrome and Safari completely.
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I imagine that they are really the Uber in this area... They provide a good flexible service ontop of existing infrastructure at a premium cost to users.

While that's just fine - I would love to see a service that lowers the cost to me as a consumer for food.

Actually, let me rephrase that: I, personally, need a service that helps me reduce the amount of food I waste. With a family of (5) in my household, we waste a lot of food - and it drives me nuts.

I hope that something along the lines of Blue Apron could help me throw out less/buy less.
While I'm in favor of CNC'ing things on demand, it's doesn't scale very well. Machine time adds up - multiple tooling, batch processes like cleaning/finishing/painting,etc.

'The Market' seems to agree, as warehouse buildout (and purchasing) is booming right now - as it seems more economical to produce things in large runs and then hoard them in port cities like LA,New Orleans, Memphis, etc...
Or, more to the point, using their dominance and abundance against their competitors. They may have razor thin margins, but that's only because they're leveraging their pricing to cut into the margins of their competitors.

Lower prices here and there, raise them elsewhere to offset the cost. Their accounting department definitely has to be kept on their toes, especially to make sure things don't fly off the handle too much.
As has been said, the front doors open sideways.

IIRC the doors also don't need to open as far up as in most pictures. In fact, they have sensors to prevent them from smashing into garage roofs and the likes and then you can weasel out under them.
Yeah it was an unfortunate phrasing. I meant as far as outspending an enemy (i.e. the USSR) to match/exceed technological capabilities.
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Yeah, you're right. I don't believe they're building their own cells, true. But all the wiring for the types of cells they use, and especially the drivetrain, are proprietary, unique, and highly advantageous.

I guess it would be more correct to say "Tesla is a battery tech company." Still, people are too fixated on the fact that Tesla makes luxury cars. Much more important is the fact that they make very efficient, high performance, safe energy systems.
Hard to say if it was "widely read", but the Elements was certainly read by Lincoln in the mid-1800s.

This text book of the Elements was first published in 1888, updated in 1900, and with reprints every year or two until (at least) 1915 http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24198679M/Text-book_of_Euclid....

I'll agree with thesis that it wasn't uncommon about 100 years ago as a standard text, and agree that that was about when it stopped being common.

If you read the preface to the 1888 version, you'll see: "From first to last we have kept in mind the undoubted fact that a very small proportion of those who study Elementary Geometry, and student it with profit, are destined to become mathematicians in any special sense; and that, to a large majority of students, Euclid is intended to serve not so much as a first lesson in mathematical reasoning, as the first, and sometimes the only, model of formal argument presented in an elementary education."

In the forward to the new edition, it again refers to "elementary teachers." According to http://www.educationengland.org.uk/history/chapter03.html "the Elementary School Code of 1860 had fixed the leaving age for elementary schools at 12." This is in the UK. I don't know if the teaching of the Elements only for upper and upper-middle class students, or if it included a wider range of students.

BTW, here's an advocacy piece for bringing the Elements back as part of the core curriculum - http://www.kysu.edu/NR/rdonlyres/0B03B73A-777B-4571-A554-7DE... .
My first laptop was an Amstrad PPC512 in the mid 80s - almost 30 years ago. I'm still not convinced batteries have come that far since then.

I'm actually thinking of going back to my nokia which has a battery that lasts a week on standby. Compared to modern smartphones which last a day.

You're right though - Inefficient bloated buggy software is becoming the driving force for requiring more power from batteries - going back to my original point - I don't want software running my car.

Agree to disagree eh
From my perspective, the naysayers (including you) are personifying google to make them look worse. Two interviewers leave on business trips without notice, and the people remaining scrambled to get something together. The system couldn't handle this exception, so everything got screwed up. It's not like they lead him on only to harass him.
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I think you're trying really hard to find a reason why you aren't responsible for yourself.

You're on Facebook because you put yourself on Facebook. If there's a problem why are you still there?

The core issue we're seeing is that it is no longer really possible to ignore the fact that most consumers are liabilities to our privacy, and that they'll gladly sell out their fellow man for the dullest of shiny trinkets.

I think you have this backward. You can take yourself out of the relationship or you can work towards changes in government. what you're feeling here is the breakdown in society. People think they're fighting alone. They're not. You're not.

The biggest fault I'm seeing in discussions is that the blame isn't being placed where it belongs: the government. We have a right to privacy. The US Constitution says we have the right to privacy, It's not something that the government provides or can take away. If they do take it away it is our collective fault.

Honestly, the most insidious part of all this isn't our loss of privacy or our trust in some beneficial Big Brother: it's the distressing fact that we can't trust anyone else anymore, and that we've shown that democracy is impossible with such an unworthy populace.

That's what being brutalized does to you. It takes away your hope. People without hope can't support a society. If people aren't organized in a society it is much easier for an authoritarian government to take over.
Well put. Is it possible to fight against the police state without putting technological fences around it?
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The Model S is definitely in the realm of affordability for more than millionaires and executives.

60,000 is relatively easily affordable to the likes of doctors, dentists, lawyers, software developers, and more.

The estimated monthly payment on their website is 579/month which is actually less than I pay now for my subaru forester. (The loan is twice as long, but if I can afford to pay if for 3 years, I most likely could pay it for 6).

What's exciting to me is that these electric cars are just as good, often times better, than their non-electric counterparts. These cars can be bought by regular (although still quite well off) people. That's a pretty big accomplishment.

I can't wait to see what they do to make a more affordable mass market car.
That is a really cool link, i especially like the page about gold.. crazy so much ( ~50% ) of the worlds gold is in jewelry..
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It's usually deals with record labels that slow the rollout of music services to other countries - I hope that with iTunes Radio Apple doesn't hold up rollout until it does deals with advertisers in each country.
The difference is that Instacart, with a few orders of magnitude less resources, can deliver your groceries within two hours today and Amazon can't.

Obviously, as your volume increases, it makes sense to own more steps along the value chain yourself.
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Actually, no, it doesn't just happen that people go out of town and miss an interview. Not in normal places.

Now, let's say there was some royal but completely understandable cockup where this guy completely spaced that this day was the interview or whatever. Fine. Where was the recruiter in this? Who was in charge of the process, and why didn't they realize that an interviewer was unavailable sometime in advance?

If I get an interview with a company and then just neglect to show up, odds are they will not give me a second chance unless I had a good reason, something more than just "I forgot". Why should things be any different if the roles are reversed?
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Just assume each one of your friends is a raving moron until you observe evidence that contradicts that fact.

Half jokingly, my alibi for getting out of FB was "On moral grounds, I cannot offer my support to a company that was started through borderline fraud and is known to change its privacy-policies/terms-of-use without notice".
Wife's the scapegoat. Saying "my wife wouldn't be happy with X" is just saying "I don't want to do X" while shunting the blame away from yourself.
I'd LOVE to have my view changed. Would you care to provide your assessment of the world? Seriously.

Every single thing that the USG has said since I have been paying attention - starting in 1986 - every single thing has been a lie. (I first became politically aware when I watched everything related to Iran-Contra with my father.)

It has been nothing but rinse-and-repeat of the same shit since that time. (2008 banking scandal? Try the SNL scandal of 80's)