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Question 1 was bizarre. I'm not even sure what they were trying to ask.

Question 2 "There are 8 Jars. 6 Jars have Jelly. The rest have peanut butter. How many Jars have Peanut Butter."

The first thing that occurred to me is that we didn't specify the Jars with Jelly don't have peanut butter. Horrible question.

Question 3,4 I can live with.

Question 10 was greek.

Question 11 - Once again, nothing states that the others aren't red as well. Reinforcing poor logical thinking.

Question 12 "Related Subtraction Sentence?" No wonder these kids are crying.

I couldn't read any further. This is how they are trying to teach kids math?
Just a bad company, move on.
This happens in every single Colbert interview that I've watched. At this point, as the interviewee, you're effectively signing up for it and if you're taken by surprise then you're silly for not having done your research.

Don't get me wrong - I agree with you. But this is not a special case and in general I feel the same way everytime someone gets interviewed by him. But then I stop feeling bad because I know that they knew what they were getting themselves into :)
Isn't Lodsys a child of Intellectual Ventures, which Microsoft and Apple are/were investors in?
I have an 8 yo going through the common core transition now. What I would recommend parents do is teach the traditional fundamentals after school. Give your kid regular work. Its not worth being an experiment.
Ah, interesting, did not realize that. Seeing people like yourself in the git stream made me think otherwise:)
Understood. Hiring is a two way street, it needs to work for both sides. It's unfortunate how this turned out. But hey, everything happens for a reason right? Maybe it was not meant to be because something else awesome is right around the corner. If you are actively looking, I hope you find something that makes you happy! Take it easy.
I'm actually the Community Manager at Litmus. If you still use the service and have issues, don't hesitate to shoot us an email at hello@litmus.com - we're always trying to improve the service and help out our customers.
Don't you think they should understand the most concrete instances of it before they're made to understand abstractions? Don't you think they should understand it with marbles and sticks before they understand it with very abstract concepts like arithmetic operators?
Google makes money from the Web, primarily from Search. Android is an insurance policy against a world in which Bing is the default search engine. An insurance policy is a cost in case something bad happens.

It is well known fact that Google makes far more money on mobile ads on iOS than Android.

Google's interests are for people to use the Web as much as possible, and therefore, to make it as cheap as possible to get on the web and spend all your time there. That is, Google's interests are aligned with the interests of the consumers to have downward price pressure on mobile devices.

Apple's interest is to maintain margins, it is fundamentally against the interest of consumers in that regard, and therefore, it has a large motive to restrict trade of competitors.

Competition is in the interest of consumers, and therefore these abuses of the patent system are also not in the interests of the public. Apple should stop it, and the government should reform the system.
...and Garnett did not?
Here's the alternate view:

I used to "commute" to the Bay Area every 6-8 weeks for a couple of years. I'd stay a week each time. A hotel offered me a certain expected standard of service, which might not be great, but it was there. It offered me regular cleaning. It meant I had a reasonable expectation of a room of the standard expected of the hotel whenever I came over, as the number of rooms available meant I did not have to deal with people who had a single room or a handful of units available that'd regularly book up.

After a handful of trips, I had my list of 3 preferred hotels in the area, and knew I'd generally get one of the types of rooms I liked best every time I came over.

And every now and again I made use of room service or laundry services, and those few instances were themselves often worth it. But most of the time I spent a total of perhaps 10 minutes dealing with hotel staff over the course of a 1 week stay.

For a lot of people, hotels offers a certain set of expectations that might very well not include "great service" to be worthwhile. Not having the risk of suddenly dealing with some owner flaking on me would alone make picking a hotel worth it. When arriving after 16 hours of travel (11 hour flight + annoying time on both ends), I wanted to be able to walk up to the desk at the hotel, present them my details, including my bonus card, and know I'd be in the room and relaxing five minutes later, with no hassle.

"Walking through a beautiful neighbourhood" or chatting with a host would be far down the list of things going through my head at that time. In fact, my boss at the time lived nearby, in a beautiful, expensive house in Palo Alto, and I did stay with him once and it was nice as a social thing. But the hotels, while far less personal have what for many travellers is an advantage of being extremely predictable.

So no, hotels are not doomed at all. Some hotels might lose some types of customers. Likely the type of customers that are fickle and leave money in local breakfast places rather than in their restaurants, care about the cost of extras because they pay for it out of their own pocket, and otherwise generally contribute less to their profits anyway.
Find a great property manager / cleaner -- Without one of these doing this remotely would be impossible. I managed to find a great local cleaner on craigslist. She charges a flat fee of $200 per month which covers unlimited cleanings.

And she's probably illegal . . . But even if she's not illegal, how can this "property manager" live with himself, taking advantage of people who don't "know" enough (whether of the language or minimum wage laws) to understand that they are being taken advantage of? I was born in Vegas and have seen what that city has become -- if there's one thing in abundance there it's under-the-radar immigrants.

This post represents everything that is wrong with the property management and rental industry:

White man want easy money. White man charge high rents. White man hire nice, busy ladies who no speak English to do hard work cleaning. White man hire nice, fast men who no speak English to do hard work painting and carpet replacing. White man take profit for himself and give teeny bit to people who no speak English because they no understand how hard it is to make easy money.

His cleaning lady is even laundering towels and sheets for $200 per month? How nice of her.

I have about 3 or 4 sets of sheets and towels. This way the cleaner doesn’t need to wash everything in the 3 hours between guest check in and check out. They can simply take all the dirty sheets and towels home, wash them, then next time they swing by the apartment have a clean set of everything ready to drop off.
Nokia filed several lawsuits against Apple in 2009. Nokia later also sued several makers of Android phones. At the time, Kodak and S3 sued just about every phone maker out there, including Apple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_wars
Apple and Microsoft were part of a consortium. Do we know that Apple was a ringleader here? Maybe they just are along for the ride to make sure that they weren't in the crosshairs? </devils-advocate>
Was really excited about this, but no functionality for New York. :/
I've gotten into a phase recently where I am obsessed with dark BBC comedies I had never heard of like Snuff Box and League of Gentleman. I found them just random-surfing on Netflix.
You don't have to be "in charge of the company's network security" to know enough to be sure that you're not compromising the network... Phishing protection? If you think anyone here has ever been phished I don't know what to say.

And don't give so much credit to network admins and corporate policies. Admins often aren't as competent as you'd hope and I've been subject to some pretty senseless corporate network policies in my life. I had an internship where I was told to downgrade from Visual Studio 2012 to Visual Studio 2008 because 2012 wasn't in their security policy's approved software list. Subjecting a competent software developer to such restrictions is insulting.
The Zurb one is a cool start - you may also like Antwort - http://internations.github.io/antwort/ - and Brian Grave's Responsive Email Patterns - http://briangraves.github.io/ResponsiveEmailPatterns/

For general information, Anna Yeaman over at STYLECampaign made an amazing video on Responsive Email Design, a must-view if you're interested in the topic - http://stylecampaign.com/blog/2013/03/responsive-email-desig...

Shameless self promotion, I also wrote a book on the subject called Modern HTML Email - http://modernhtmlemail.com - good way to get into responsive email design and email marketing in general.
I happened to see your other comment when it was just a few minutes old. I almost replied to it directly, but it would only have been to say "huh?" I found it hard to distinguish when you were purposefully being extreme and when you were making actual assertions of your own views (if any). A fine exhibit of Poe's law, I guess, as even though you indicate sarcasm, I'm not sure where it starts...

I wasn't terming them "monopolistic grants" to vilify them (those words are used in the law itself), merely to more clearly express the specific aspects they are pooling that I object to. Specifically, with in more detail, it's the pooling of the patents into a third party to make use of the patents while protecting the parent companies from much of the downsides of using their patents against believed infringers. I term that abusing the legal system. It may not be illegal yet, but that doesn't stop me from deeming it a morally repugnant perversion of how the patent system is supposed to operate.

Google may indeed be guilty of patent infringement based on their actions, but from where I'm standing, it's nowhere near clear. I would prefer less legal maneuvering and more clear cases regarding patents and suspected patent infringement, but unfortunately it's not in patent holder's interests to test whether patents are actually valid, as they are much more useful as a tool to intimidate.
The big thing for me, is predictability. If I book in at a chain hotel in particular, especially a chain I've stayed at before, I have a certain expectation that the standard is roughly en par, and that the level of hassles will be similar. If I book via AirBnB, I have no idea if the next host will be anything like the previous, and have to put in effort checking reviews. It's hassle I might take if I'm going to spend lots of time planning a long vacation. Not something I want to deal with for short stays or business trips.
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What do you mean by "recover"? In practical terms? Get another job. In emotional terms? Cry/vent/watch cathartic movies, etc. Anger is generally an acid which corrodes the vessel which holds it. No one can make you do that to yourself.
eh, I'd take it. Bandwidth is cheap... and I have the sort of ego that derives a lot of pleasure from creating something that other people find useful and use.
I get the snark. But using their own words against them is very disingenuous.

Recognizing people for being good people, as the author did, should be completely separate from a product that you believe is a bad product.
In Mitte, there are some buildings where most of the apartments are Airbnb rentals or similar. There are few local residents left who are not so happy about living in a 24/7 party hostel.

If you don't end your contract, your rent is going to stay quite low in Berlin. If you're retired or unemployed and living decently with a rent around 100€ per month, it's not so easy to escape from the apartment. With a new contract, the rent might be ten times more expensive. Or the place is renovated and put into Airbnb.

People in general here in Berlin don't want more hotels. Especially for the residential neighbourhoods which makes all the prices go up even faster. Too bad some of the neighbourhoods are also very 'hip' places to stay...
There is also not much money in "curing cancer", unfortunately.
FWIW, the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book has been updated accordingly: http://news.railstutorial.org/rails_4_0_1/
So what you’re saying is, Motorola sued Apple because Apple was being mean to Motorola’s friends?

“In early October 2010, Motorola Mobility [which would later be bought by Google in August of 2011] filed a complaint with the ITC against Apple alleging patent infringement. The complaint allegations concerned six Motorola patents, and sought remedies of a court-ordered bar on U.S. imports of infringing products, and an injunction prohibiting Apple from importing, marketing and distributing infringing products.”
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I'd recommend you send your kids to a school with a sane curriculum. The only thing these public school morons will understand is when they start losing students (and corresponding dollars that go along with that).

The public school system here is up in arms about a quite limited voucher program, because their funding is based on the number of bodies in the classroom. So they see it as taking "their" money, rather than thinking "I wonder why those parents don't want their kids to go to our schools."
I know this man's feels.

4chan is only one month older. It's like we're cousins.
Thanks for the feedback. Any suggestions for the "buy" wording? Can you shoot me an email? I would really appreciate it.
Wait, what? What do people in China use instead of emails? Do they just use SMS all of the time?
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One of my favorite stories regarding an elementary level Standards of Learning (SOL) test in Virginia. . .Students are taught how to estimate relatively simple sums, difference, products and quotients in their heads. Students are required to select the "correct" estimate. One of the questions accidentally (I guess) included the actual answer among the choices. My son selected the actual answer rather than the "correct" estimate and it was marked wrong.

OK, technically he didn't follow directions. . .the question asked for the estimate. But. . .really. . .you penalize a kid for calculating the correct answer and selecting that over the correct estimate??
While I haven't yet read that paper, I wanted to point out a thing I just read in a coinduction tutorial (http://www.cs.ru.nl/~bart/PAPERS/JR.pdf).

Coalgebras are defined as an isomorphism between "sets" X==P(A*X) which allow us to unfold our seed state over non-determistic updates. Such a "set" obviously cannot exist in ZFC directly as it violates set cardinality. It can be a set that satisfies the AFA, though—in fact, that equation I just wrote is sufficient to define it I think and then AFA guarantees uniqueness.
I'd prefer the opposite. I wish tourists didn't cover any costs of running my city. Then it would be optimized for those of us that actually live here.

If there's one thing I've learned in my old age, it's that I love buying things for people. Because then the power dynamic is in my favor: this is my city, enjoy your visit but leave no trace.
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Those evil white men up to no good again. When will the evil white man ever understand his evil? He won't, because evil never knows itself. It's in his nature after all.

In other words, yawn.
I am also a nut job. The first thing people do when they learn this is ask me "oh, you're religious then?". I say no, the opposite. It would require religious faith at this point to believe that those schools could teach a kid anything at all.
Well, seems to lend more support to this: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/europe-wont-save-...
If you lived in a high-rise condo and paid go money to do so, and the two places on either side of you started being rented out to random people who were there one week and gone the next, how would you feel?

As others have pointed out, residential zoning laws aren't generally the product of corporate malfeasance. Usually they are there to help combat it. That's what NIMBYism is all about.
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My iPhone stopped being able to connect to Gmail. "Incorrect password".

I open gmail on my browser - which usually has a cookie saved and keeps me signed in.

Gmail prompts me: Please re-enter your password.

I entered the password, then it showed a CAPTCHA. I solved the CAPTCHA and my account loaded.

I remove and re-added my Gmail account on my iPhone. I still get the password error.

What is happening?

EDIT: I opened gmail.com in an incognito chrome browser session. I signed in normally. Still unable to on my phone.
was this started or prototyped at a 3daystartup?
Reality? Let's talk biased viewpoints.

> Google doesn't make any money from Android.

Are you claiming Google puts out Android as an exercise in charity? If not, this is a non-sequitur.

> Which company has a founder/CEO who openly proclaimed in inflammatory rhetoric that he was going to "destroy" and go "thermonuclear"?

Ok, let's play this game too! Which company has a CEO who openly proclaimed "if you have something you don't want other people to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place"? Oh, hey, look, Google supports the NSA!

> shaken down

> abusing

> abusing the legal system

> Microsoft's shakedown of B&N's Nook

I thought we had discussed the usage of this rhetoric in view of your employer's antics. Don't remember? Read on!

> You think that's morally equivalent to Motorola?

Oh, you want to bring up Motorola? Well, aren't you in for a treat! Read on!

> This is about as intellectually honest as...

Oh, you want to talk intellectual honesty, do you? Well, why don't you read on to see what your employer has been up to!

> Yes, Google is pursuing what is in their self interest, but there is nothing immoral about releasing stuff as source for free or competing in the marketplace.

And there is nothing immoral about protecting your legally given IP rights. Unless, of course, you assume your definition of morality. Which oddly enough, happens to align with Google's whenever it's convenient.

> It is not evil, despite the fact that Jobs tried to say it was.

(This is an aside and actually detracts from my point, but I'm genuinely curious; did Jobs actually say that?)

>* What is immoral is gumming up the courts and using the force of the government to beat your competitors because you can't stop consumers from choosing other products.*

No, what is immoral is trampling on other people's Intellectual Property rights, ripping off their creative work without proper compensation, avoiding the extreme risks and expenses in creating a new market that they undertook, and then competing unfairly by undercutting them by dumping a product for free funded by search monopoly profits.

See? I can spin things to fit a narrative too!

And customers' choice?? Hah! Customers will choose whatever is cheaper, which is exactly why antitrust law has provisions against predatory pricing.

Wait, what's that? Google has not been sued under antitrust laws? Well, guess what, Microsoft and Apple have not been sued (successfully, at least) for abusing patents either, yet you and others here sling that accusation around here pretty freely.

But wait! Did someone say "sued for abusing patents"? (And here's the pay-off) Guess who has been sued and slapped by a federal jury with millions in damages for abusing patents!
Sidenote, but I love how the author used Twitter as a way to prove they had this information in the past.

Is this a common strategy now for proving timestamps?
Some of those questions are fine. Some of those questions I hope have some surrounding context. And some of them are pretty ridiculous.

I went in expecting (hoping) to see some above grade level questions that simply let the really good students excel. I left disappointed.

That said, thank you for the link to the actual test.
I am. Like digging through analytics. Some people pay me for it (not a hint, just a fact).

I feel something is missing in this story...

Google has very few sites linking to yours (~35 pages, mostly garbage pages), reports a huge number of indexed pages, but actually shows very few. Why? Hummingbird update or something else?

A search for Twicsy links in twitter finds hardly anything, except the site name in combination with a link to http://po.st.

You have 30k followers on Twitter, quite a few but not humongous, so your top trend tweets won't generate major traffic. 24k on FB, but most status updates get little or no comments, likes or shares.

I see a bunch of twicsy-'hosted' images on pinterest and tumblr. Most PG-18 search terms on your site are blocked, but when I do a google image search or twitter search, quite a few, I'd say 1 in 20 are of an adult nature (which perhaps doesn't help in terms of getting advertisers).

Is the real reason for your success & traffic really... pr0n?

Edit: One of the reasons I ask this is the source of your traffic. Would visits to your site allow Indonesians to bypass their 1MM site pr0n filters?
Some probably do have surrounding context and in the case of #3 the kids were probably provided with manipulatives so they could literally use cubes to solve the problem. The test is still terrible.
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> Google makes far more money on mobile ads on iOS than Android.

That’s small potatoes. What I’m talking about is the data Google collects while you’re online and logged in with a Google account or using an ‘Android with Google’ device. From your geolocation to your contacts, to the websites you visit, to the searches you perform, to the documents you create in Apps, etc etc.

That is data Google can use to display targeted ads on any device that is tied to you, not only on its Google search engine, but on the majority of websites on the Internet (Google owns DoubleClick.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleclick
The problem is that "show this E-mail in text only" relies on the fact that whatever they use send out the E-mail also sends plain text as well as HTML as a multipart. I find most of places do that, but there are some services/implementations that simply sends out HTML, pretty much leaving it up to the mailer to interpret that E-mail.

Either you will be sending in HTML or plain text, I feel there shouldn't be any excuse of not attaching plain text version of it.
That's a great idea, but with two kids in grade school, the local private schools would cost me about $30k per year. I would rather invest 15 minutes a day with augmenting what they are doing in the classroom. If you have the resources to go private, more power to you.
I built v0 at the TV of Tomorrow Hackathon (http://hack.tvot.tv) in June, v0.1.1 at Disrupt SF Hackathon 2013 in September, and cleaned it up over the last 48 hours instead of sleeping.
I was caught out by "number sentence" at first, I'm used to hearing the word "expression".

Is this a re-emergence of the new maths?
I loathe the term too, but am steeling myself to concede it, since it's rapidly becoming an industry standard.
That's not how consulting works.
Ugh, just realized... this was supposed to be a reply to pg's top-rated comment but I ended up posting it as a separate thread. As such, the second half appears completely out of context.
I think that is literally true; that is, I think that a security person at a large company would be in serious trouble if they paid someone for reporting a security vulnerability out of their own pockets. There are legal implications to opening up a bug bounty.
CS grad here, I've obtained multiple TN's and it's no different. You just have to avoid telling the agent that your job involves "programming". It's just a technicality really, the language was drafted at a time when terminology was different.