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Your objection doesn't make sense. The fact that Albert can make the statement relies on the fact that he was given a month that rules out Bernard being given a unique date, such as the 19th, otherwise Albert would have to say, "I don't know when the birthday is but perhaps Bernard does" and the problem would be different.

Albert knows the month, and his statement, which translates directly to "given the month I know, it is not possible for Albert to independently determine the date" certainly does rule out the two months.
Absolutely, for a company that I want to work with. For companies that I'm not super excited about, I politely decline-for-now. Seems to me like that saves everyone tons of time. Do you really want to hire someone that doesn't want to be there enough to spend a couple of hours coding for you and doesn't have open source code to evaluate them on?
That made me sad. It seems to me that because there is no way to have a real impact on the world in most MMORPGs, there really is no point to visit those places.
As someone who is employed, I don't have the inclination to solve a open ended problem that somehow subjectively interests you or some individual arbitrarily in what little time I have in my life. I have other projects I could be working on, my family to give my life to. Not engage in something like this. The test problem should be small. Not a 'coding project'. It is unethical to ask for anything more.
"Thinkpads do not break, they accumulate"

Excellent quote. We have four in the house at the moment but I'll be donating two to my sister's favourite charity over the summer. I use ex-corporate recycled ones and the X60s are showing their age a bit.

UK: An ex-corporate X200 from one of the big re-furbishers comes in at around £90 delivered to your local Argos. Debian has no issues apart from the need to install non-free wifi firmware.
I'm always interested in conversation and in supporting people trying to have good conversation.

Some hopefully constructive thoughts: There's nothing about the landing page that makes me want to sign up. Could you show me an example of how it works, what it looks like?

Ideally I think you'd want to seed it with pre-existing conversations, so that new users don't feel like they're signing up for one more thing that doesn't have any obvious value.

Chicken-egg problem– Quora, Reddit, and I'm sure HN itself all started with a small group of people who were having interesting conversations.
Great post!
One thing to note with tetrahedral decomposition is that while you can always triangulate non-self-intersecting 2D boundaries into triangulations, using just the boundary verts, this doesn't extend to 3D boundaries and tetrahedral decompositions. You will sometimes need to add extra 'steiner' vertices.
Maybe not directly relevant to the context in the link, but it's something I found unintuitive, and a trap to watch out for.
See http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/untetra/, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nhardt_polyhedron for some concrete examples.
I recall preferring Gopher pages to early WWW pages, because they were much cleaner and more organized in the terminal-based browsers I was using. It was an important lesson in my own ability to predict the future!
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Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it. Perhaps a video demo might be a good idea for the homepage to explain the concept. The basic idea is that you create a conversation about anything (making it open to public discussion or anonymous comments) and then just start talking. Kind of like a low friction way to start talking with other people about something online. I decided to push it out early to get some feedback. There is a lot of work to be done. The next feature will be to add private conversations.
Nah, you want to minimize friction for the people you want to hire and maximize it for people you don't want to hire. Even without the evaluation signal coding exercises give you (one could argue that it's hard to make it representative of actual work), I think there is a correlation between someone who will spend a couple hours working on a coding problem to demonstrate their skill and the kind of person you want to hire.
Totally agree.

> There's nothing about the landing page that makes me want to > sign up. Could you show me an example of how it works, what > it looks like?

Stop using Unsplash images. Please, don't do it.

+1 like the idea.
That feels like the hardest problem initially. Like you said it's difficult to really explain the concept until there is more content and discussion happening.

Adding the ability to post "anonymous" comments was partly motivated by people who might not want to sign up. If a conversation is "open" then anyone can start commenting without having to sign up.
Hey, TypeScript dev here, what can we do to make your life easier? Y'know, apart from a million bucks.

What kinds of gaps of knowledge do you feel there are in using the two together?
I'm not so sure that a software engineer who doesn't have any time (because you know, family) or desire (because it's unpaid work) to spend on open source software would suddenly find it OK to spend more than short amounts of time on a company's test project -- especially if they have a job or clients or any type of regular work lined up.
Thanks. Haha I take your point about the images. I'll look into getting some higher quality and more relevant material on the homepage to explain the concept a bit more.
Maybe someone already mentioned this, but this problem is a simplified formulation of a famous number thoery riddle called 'The Sum and Product Riddle' which is even more baffling. Here it is http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2007/01/sum-and-prod...
To be fair to Calacanis - who is often both wrong and right and seems to draw a lot of ire for being brash and at least hes specific and keeps the archive up. Making predictions is a hard problem. Lots of people thought MySpace was going to be the social network at the time -- the postion FB occupies now.

I'm not sure why he placed so much value on Engadget - thats just a big tech blog. I don't see how he didn't see the potential in YouTube which ultimately carried Googles attempt at social networking - though unlike MySpace, YouTube didn't have a clear second at the time - DailyMotion would be the only I could think of.
Why do you suspect the crypticness of the puzzle's language is the problem, rather than the fact that a large portion of people haven't studied basic logic and are thus unable to complete basic logic puzzles?
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That doesn't make any sense to me. Can you post exactly the sequence of statements if Bernard speaks first?

Simply reordering the questions does not make sense, so I can't see it happening any way other than what I posted, which shows that it wouldn't change anything.
I bet her birthday is July 16.
I find the problems with puzzles like these is not the rules, but the ridiculously contrived situations. Why do these entities that function like inert logic gates have to be human? It means that the question has to have silly rule placed on silly rule in order to keep the contrived situation afloat. It means I end up thinking of ways for the mute, inert people to free themselves from the island (who is feeding them? Are there trees to build a raft? etc), rather than 'play by the rules'.
I'm surprised that they have a hard limit of maximum of 10 boards and set their campaign funding threshold to be exactly that. This, together with the very high $100-no-real-reward-minimum-contribution definitely stops it to be a more than "an okay success" even if the funding goal is met.

Not that people are aren't allowed to do thing the way they want, just it's unusual. Makes me guess it can be a project where they already know mostly who the contributors will be. But then why go through crowdfunding and their cuts, instead of a simple site and a payment button?
To me, all those things are very readily inferred from the fact that the problem is being posed as a logic puzzle.
Allowing a dog sniff to be reasonable suspicion is what is strange. But unfortunately it is. If you are stopped, such that the police dog can sniff your car, then they can sniff your car. But the cops can't stop you just to let the dog sniff, without more suspicion. Since the car is stopped for a traffic stop, it gives a chance for the dog to go work. Put it another way, the cop is standing on the side of a road near a traffic light. If the car is stopped at the light, the dog can sniff away. But the cop can't stop you, or hold you longer than the light.
Yes, and 15 min makes sense. What the parent wrote ("spending a few hours solving an interesting problem") does not.
Why do you think that confusion over the English description is more to blame than the difficulties many people face with logic puzzles?
I use this[1] from the BBC where I often get in the middle stripe (0.2833). But on this page I get 310-330ms.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/reaction_...
My instant reaction to the name was that this had something to do with 'cussing' not 'discussing' because I put the emphasis (in my mind) on cusslr and read it as dis-cusslr. Others might have the same reaction.
Back when I used GitLab (version 3), a lot of the nice things you have now didn't really exist then. The biggest argument for Gogs instead of GitLab is that despite it lacking features compared to GitLab, the much smaller amount of moving parts make it simpler to deal with. That said, GitLab is an excellent product, Gogs is just simpler in a lot of ways, which when you're dealing with a team of 10 instead of 100 and I'm the person looking after it (and thus writing the documentation for how to manage it) makes it a better choice for that use-case :)
Actually, $ would sort-of make sense in C, if you have otherwise nested calls.
> You will go through 6-8 interviews!” I thought: “YOU will hire a bunch of unemployed people”.

Can someone explain why HR managers have such a severe prejudice against hiring unemployed people? Imho, its their job, to select those people from the unemployemnt pool that fits the company, and have the skills. A HR who only poaches employed people, is doing a bad job, and hiding his laziness under an evil prejudice.
Well done for making something and having the guts to share it with the world.

A bit of critical feedback:

1) the image of a girl on the beach doesn't seem to have much relevance or am I missing something?

2) how is the data stored and backed up? (Details on encryption, backup regularity etc...)
That's interesting. I never would have thought of that. I just started with the word "discussion" and tried to find an available .com. It's so difficult to find domains for new products.
Wow, eye opening, and actually quite logic given that warm air travels to the top.
I don't understand why they dont lede with here's the $$ and here's the problem. I don't want to work on bullshit no matter how many massages and drycleaning you give me. I don't want to work for $40k plus lottery tickets on earth shattering problems. Why do we have to play this time-consuming game before you tell me the info I need to hear? This doesn't scale. I'll stick to the devil I know.
If a company approaches me there are probably some reasons for that. Because asking random people to prove how much they want to work for this particular company does not seem to be a very productive approach to me. You can post a job ad and get all the people who are supper excited to self select and then you can have your time making them to jump through whatever hoops you want. With somebody who expressed enough interest to answer the recruiter (in broad sense) you are not guaranteed to have a super excited candidate. Making him or her jump through the hoops will most likely terminate this and any future contacts.
Abstract means non-concrete. I wasn't using it in a special software-engineering sense. In patent terms, it also means non-concrete, it doesn't mean impractical.
I was going to ask, why didn't he convert it to an org and still maintain the tippy-top reins, but none of the day to day? Was it an ill-thought out rage-quit?
Your idea is basically a smaller version of a Kibbutz (excluding the shared finances). Interesting to see that kind of approach pop up in the US.
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Hi. Thanks for the feedback. Being honest this is a really early stage idea and basically I just wanted to get some nice photography on the home page.

Data is currently stored in RDS on Amazon. When moving to doing private discussions (the next major feature) then I'll really focus in on security and possibly encryption on the messages. Privacy is an interesting topic actually. Making sure private conversations are "unreadable" is something I'm very interested in.
steep penalties if you die in the wrong place.

Ah, the early days of EQ, when I couldn't figure out how people would drag their corpse to safety.
It's easy to forget that things change, and change tends to be exponential. What YouTube did was remove the hassle and fiction in posting videos online. It used to take a lot of effort, and many people who didn't know enough didn't realize the complexities involved.

The author here calls youtube an ftp site, and in doing so ignores what set youtube apart. Youtube automatically transcoded videos, it played videos in your browser inline with other content, and it was free. All you had to do was make your video small enough to upload and YouTube did the rest. You didn't have to worry about codecs, or hosting, or bandwidth Nichols, or domain registration, or any of that. Previously if you wanted to host a video online you had to optimize the encoding, pay for bandwidth, and worry about compatibility depending on encoding. Then your video would be viewed by a browser plugin, usually as a bare video.

Plus there was a catch-22, if your video got too popular it would cost a ton of money to host. Youtube got rid of all that hassle, and in so doing naturally started to acquire content and users. Once the critical mass network effect kicked in then youtube became the default place to view and post any and all video content. From there it should have been obvious to anyone paying sufficient attention that the quality would only go up, the costs of bandwidth and servers would only go down and with a sufficient number of viewers that some monetization strategy or another was likely to be effective.

People made similar mistakes about tons of new technologies, the commonality is often assuming that the launch state is the end state, and not square one of a massive acceleration in sophistication, features, etc.
To be sure, the ruling only destroyed one patent. It did however create a precedent that can be used to defend from (or more ideally, will prevent) litigation over abstract subject matter.
Is it an absolute necessity for you to do this in the SF Bay Area? I'm sure you'd have a much easier time with city-councils, permits and ordinances if you were more open to the idea of doing this idea of yours in other parts of the country.
I went to get my connection in Dubai to Melbourne and was confused by the correct flight number but Auckland destination! I thought there must be a reason for the routing - interesting.
I was a bit hesitant to release it this early to be honest but thought it was better just to "get it out there" and start getting feedback even if it is rough around the edges.
Engadget was one of the blogs for Weblogs, which he founded
How does your bot determine the ratio, or more precisely the price it uses to determine the ratio?
All of the complexity of bitcoin (including having and paying miners) comes from the requirement to be completely distributed, with no authority that could refuse to include "bad" transactions.

But if you're not signing any black- or grey-hat documents or transactions, then you can just pick a trustworthy central party to receive the hashes and publish the chain.

The startup GuardTime has been doing document timestamping and integrity checks with a blockchain for a bit while longer than bitcoin.

* You hash documents that you want to timestamp, and send the hash to them.

* They hash all received hashes and the previous head of the blockchain together, and publish the head hash in the paper copy of Financial Times: https://guardtime.com/photos/ft14-2.png

* The exact contents and "created before than" timestamp of the documents can now be fully verified, unless someone can manage to gather and destroy all paper copies of Financial Times published after it was sent to them.

The incentive for them is an usual freemium payment model.
PvP makes things interesting, for sure. I suck a PvP, but I'd never play on a non-PvP server because it adds that spice of the unexpected. If you want to farm mobs, you have to stay viable in PvP, just in case.
I have wondered whether you could go crazy vertical and try to get rising heat to create a cooling system, as with termite mounds. In winter, pull cloth mezzanines across to create buffer layers.
The other key thing with YouTube was that in the early days it delivered the video fast. There was no waiting or delay while it buffered. That wasn't the case with other video sites of the era.
>> Will there be more boards beyond the ten offered currently?

> Depending on how much money is raised we will increase the number of boards manufactured which will be offered either as perks here or will be available for sale later.
The patent appears to be about selecting a network carrier using a bidding process. The device can choose a network based on price and quality of service. What prior art is there for this?
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IPNS is a layer on top of IPFS that is essentially a map from public key to something signed by the corresponding private key. So you can store an IPFS hash in IPNS under your public key. Then whenever you create new content, just update the hash in your IPNS entry. People only need to remember your public key to find your latest content.
Not a native speaker, but just the fact that the first half of the sentence is written in the present tense made my brain stumble.

Which is probably intended, as otherwise I would have thought he meant to say "before Cheryl had told me, I didn't know".
Isn't the official story that YouTube still isn't profitable?

If that's true, then Calacanis kinda had a point.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-fo...
All too often, they still are. I long for a modern Gopher targeted toward mobile devices and quick, lightweight navigation.
Everything in the article is fairly obvious. The difficulty is not in improving upon the current email system but in getting enough people to agree on a new system. Any new system will need to have mind blowin advantages and/or a seamless upgrade path. You cannot expect everyone to switch overnight. Look at IPv6.
"My brother just disabled his and learned to use the nipple."

FYI, it's called a Trackpoint.
I have to assume he wasn't aware of the feature or simply acted hastily.
I added a discussion for product feedback and improvements that should be open without any need to sign up. https://discusslr.com/discussions/8
I wouldn't mind being asked to create a small piece of open source software that would continue to look good on my portfolio even if the company never talked to me again. Hell, if the company wrote the project boilerplate and the tests and let me fill the code in and put it up with a GPL license, I'd be thrilled :)

Won't hold my breath.

I'm sick to the back teeth of most of these mini coding projects, though. They're too often sent by companies who aren't even sure they want to hire at all or wouldn't hire you anyway for some unrelated reason (age, race, etc.). The projects are always boring and almost never suitable for a portfolio.

It's also too easy to hit the 'send email' button and too easy to ignore the responses. Unless there is some cost for the company sending you the mini-project, a lot are going to waste your time.

For this reason, I actually prefer interviews. They're going to at least do a cursory examination and reject you outright before wasting an hour of their own time.
Apple has one about selecting a network carrier using a bidding process.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
I do not make a comparison to 'difficulties many people face with logic problems' and did not make an assertion that many people face difficulties with logic puzzles.

Getting back to the article: the problem is worded so badly it should be sent back to the author to more coherently express what they think. Specifications, etc...
It is pretty indisputable that YouTube got where it is now by exploiting large-scale piratism. While I'm not fan of piratism overall, at least when it sort of communal effort it somewhat palatable. But for-profit piratism really crosses the line and imho is fairly disgusting as a business.
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The site is broken for me. I don't see any text. It's just white and blue boxes with a background image of a girl.
Yeah, it is rather transparent he is trying to reap the rewards of others peoples effort to jack up his reputation.
It's called validation, or social proof, and it shows up in all sorts of ways, incl. dating.
"YouTube stars in Google's latest earnings call"
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Yep. This is great. Well done.
> Engagement was measured by on-task behaviors such as answering a question, raising a hand or participating in active discussion and off-task behaviors like talking out of turn.

Funny, these are pretty much the tasks I prefer to do while standing. I love to get my inbox to zero in the morning while dancing from one leg to the other.

When I need THINK, however, I'll lower my desk and sit down in my comfy chair, put on heavy headphones (even when I'm alone), and disconnect from the world.
I'd love to see whether these children would do better at 4-hour exams with a standing-biased desk, as well.
I'm not sure about prices where you live, but here x140e costs 1/3 of Macbook Pro Retina 13. Sure you get more quality for three times to money.

Sadly, the ones that are comparable on price, like x250, still ship horrible HD displays that are a big step down for someone used to retina.