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Hungarian Copyright Treaty Author Insists That Those Who Don't Like Anti-Circumvention Clauses Are 'Hatred-Driven' Maoists - http://techdirt.com/article...
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And on another front « Adam Bosworth’s Weblog - http://adambosworth.net/2009...
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"It is always amazing to hear such organizations admit that the comfort and service to the customer is simply not a goal."
- Gary Burd
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Who needs the Internet when you can get all the freshest news delivered twice a week?
(1)Bebekvegebelik, "Bitkisel diyet", Dan Hsiao and 6 other people liked this
An ad in the charlotte airport
- Ben Darnell
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I'm not sure I'd be a fan of Sushi that's even a couple of days old, either.
- Mark Trapp
Oh, man. Talk about a brand emergency! RT @Mike_FTW Apparently HP stands for Honkie 'Puter http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Going to America: A Ponzi scheme that works | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/world...
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Going to America: A Ponzi scheme that works | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/world...
Shannon Jiménez, Gabe, Simon and Jinal Jhaveri liked this
This place looks much smaller than I'd remembered it. Positively quaint-sized in this McMansion era.
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Nerd courtship. This is really cute. - http://bash.org/?904301
Chris Prince, Daniel Dulitz, Simon and 5 other people liked this
Awesome!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
The only Xmas cards I get are from accountants, lawyers, and mortgage brokers. Either I'm a loser or my generation is lost. (I send none).
Simon, Louis Gray, Gary Burd and Paul Buchheit liked this
"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." – African proverb.
Felicia Yue, L Stephen Cleary, Anne Bouey and 3 other people liked this
Is that a real proverb? I've only heard it on 30 Rock.
- Andrew C
Google's Broken Hiring Process - Google - Gawker - http://gawker.com/5392947...
scott willeke, Will Higgins™, Jordi Gerona and 40 other people liked this
What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do...
- Peter Norvig
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Nice shirt!
- Jim Norris
That is a nice shirt.
- τorƍue
You had at least three rounds of layoffs this year, Peter. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
- Ryan Tate
Further, while you hired a rare few people who got "1" scores on one their interviews, you rejected 99 percent of those people, and you have no idea how they would have performed. Those you did hire turned out to be top performers. Sounds broken to me. (I am the author of the Valleywag post in question.)
- Ryan Tate
Hi Ryan, thanks for commenting. First: we get over 1000 resumes a day. We can't hire all of them. I am painfully aware that a few of the people we don't hire would be as good or better than a few of the people we do. I feel bad for the people we have to reject who are equally qualified, but that is the nature of uncertain decision-making. Now what I said in the Seibel interview: we try...
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- Peter Norvig
It's a great shirt. Google is tops. No system is perfect -- so long as there's a weighting for intangibles and accounting for style differences between interviewer and interviewee, all should be fine.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Bump. Maybe Ryan didn't get a chance to see that you'd responded, Peter.
- Matt Cutts
Could you recommend any literature on data driven hiring practices? Google seems to use many analogical reasoning questions for screening applicants. It would be interesting if there was a relationship between analogical reasoning and productivity.
- Brandon Smietana
Peter, did you ever read Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink? Seems to me the other piece of the hiring process to analyze is the cost-benefit analysis - is it worth doing so many interviews and so much testing if people's first hunch is often the best indicator? (Which isn't exactly what Gladwell said, but partially).
- Laura Norvig
I'm very suspicious of relying on the first hunch. If you hired everyone based on your first hunches, you would discover that most of the time you are wrong. I've lost count of the number of times I've interviewed someone (either on-site or as a second phone interview), and learned that the previous interviewer did not ask them to write code, despite the position being one that required...
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- Piaw Na
Yeah! Always go with the _second_ hunch.
- Andrew C
Xitong Liu, Vedrana Janković, Ivan Zuzak and 13 other people liked this
next time I bake a sweet potato I will have this image in my head!
- Skye Miller
Scatter Plot. x-axis is the distance that cat litter travels from the litter box when cat exits.
Simon, ana, Henner Zeller and 3 other people liked this
Time for a gray floor mat. :)
- Matt Cutts
The view from our house this morning. This is Palo Alto, not Tahoe!
barce, rowlikeagirl, Rochelle and 36 other people liked this
WHOA! I am excited to be going to Sydney (in the airport now), but very sad I missed this whole snow-thing in the bay area! :(
- Adam Lasnik
holy cow!!!
- Jenna Bilotta
Maybe a little too alto
- j1m
F####ing beautiful.
- Павел Романовский
I moved to Michigan one month too early... and it hasn't even snowed here yet!
- Karl Rosaen
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Just moved to Brisbane from Mountain View, and cleaning ice from the windshield this morning I though was it the right move? Now I see there is not too much difference half an hour south from here. At least we don't have snow outside. :)
- earlyadopter
OMG. your house... uhm.. speechless. (more photos pls :)
- Jenna Bilotta
Take that, times about 10" and that's what I'm looking out of my window today (blech!)
- Jesse Stay
+1 Jenna: I want a view like that from *my* back window.
- Joel Webber
Joel, you should move to Utah :-)
- Jesse Stay
@Jesse: I hear it's beautiful out there too. I love Boulder (my grandmother lives there), and the mountains of western CO, which I imagine has something in common with it. But I'd have to drag 8-ish family members out there with me :(
- Joel Webber
The great thing about Salt Lake City is all the ski resorts and mountain areas are all part of the city, or within 15 minutes from the city. Or, just 30 minutes East you have Park City, which is beautiful in and of itself. Cost of living in SLC is typically very low compared to Palo Alto or Boulder, too - very compatible for tech startups.
- Jesse Stay
Nice view !!!
- Sachin Shekhar
Nice house. Hope you bring girls back there on the regular or you're wasting your mortgage payments. I'm just saying ... shit taking chicks back to a view like that would be guaranteed action if it were me. Look, I had to say it, OK? Stay warm
- LANjackal
Internet blackout in Xinjiang, China now entering its 5th month - http://www.farwestchina.com/2009...
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"It seems to me that the government has basically cut the cord to content that is hosted outside the province, but anything within the province is accessible ... Individual IP’s, according to this officer, could be opened up with the appropriate permission. This permission, however, had to be granted at three different levels: city, province, and national. And all of them had to be applied for in person. Apparently this is what companies have to do who require online activity for business."
- Richard Chen
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Filmautobahn: The Most Dangerous Road in Germany | Car Lust - http://www.carlustblog.com/2009...
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bob, Private Sanjeev, Ruchira S. Datta and Simon liked this
"The Filmautobahn is cleverly designed to allow it to convincingly portray any Autobahn nearly anywhere in Germany without becoming too familiar. It's planted with trees on one side, and in the other direction there is a low earth berm and a vista across nondescript open fields. By simply pointing the camera one way or another, the filmmakers can make it look like the road passes through either a forest or open country."
- Richard Chen
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Amazon.com: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition) (9780136042594): Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig: Books - http://www.amazon.com/Artific...
Space Cowboy, JoeCamel, Melita and 14 other people liked this
We sent the final pdfs of the new edition of this book off to the publisher. The market reacted by gaining 2% on the day.
- Peter Norvig
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Nassim Taleb would be proud. =)
- Darren
Bet you are pleased to have that behind you; great to see Alan Turing -http://tinyurl.com/no85d4 - on the front cover. Seb.
- Seb Schmoller
What is new in the third edition?
- Brandon Smietana
Brandon: I think if you value your time at about $5/hr or more, you should buy the third edition. What's new: http://aima.eecs.berkeley.edu/3rd-ed...
- Peter Norvig
That is a bargain; I end up paying about 25 $/hour in tuition to sit in lectures. Thank you, for writing such wonderful books!
- Brandon Smietana
Tony Ruscoe: Going Google - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
DeWitt Clinton, Can Demirezen, Mark Trapp and 7 other people liked this
Congratulations :)
- Simon
Congratulations, welcome on board!
- Can Demirezen
Google - E. C. Segar's Birthday... - http://www.google.com/webhp...
Victor Ryden, Gaurav Chandalia, plooptionary and 8 other people liked this
LOVE! (Huge Popeye fan here)
- Jesse Stay
Spinach is to Popeye as ______ is to Google...
- Cliff Gerrish
I hate this alert box like I hate AV software. How do I make it go away forever?
Tyson Key, Renchin(Reina), Free will and 44 other people liked this
I just disable the whole thing. Go to the "Security Center" control panel and click "Change the way Security Center notifies me" on the left. Or disable the "Security Center" service (wscsvc).
- Gabe
Don't use Windows? ;)
- Deepak Singh
Install Linux or Mac OS.
- Kenton
You are using Windows?
- τorƍue
Open Regedit >> Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced >> Create a REG_DWORD named EnableBalloonTips >> Set the value data to 0 >> Close Regedit >> Reboot
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
other than not using windows which is the best thing to do, you can disable the messages by clicking on something like "change the way windows notifies me"
- w43l
In the 'Windows Security Center' window click on the link that says 'Change the way the Security Center alerts me'. Select the way that you prefer to be alerted about security issues.
- Erdëm [virtus] GULTEKIN
You could get a Mac, but you might have to sell everything else you own to afford one. Instead try changing your Firewall settings. That way you can keep using a machine people still create programs for.
- Ciaoenrico
Thanks. It's so hard to find and kill all of these annoying settings. This is for my windows vm :)
- Paul Buchheit
Buy a MAC
- johnpiercy
Install Linux
- Jesse Stay
I agree, that's annoying though
- Jesse Stay
What's with all the douchebags spamming the comments with "Don't use Windows"? Do they think they're being funny? Do they really think you don't already have a Mac and/or Linux? Do they not see the VMWare icon sitting RIGHT NEXT to the damn arrow?
- Gabe
Paul, you have a talent for asking all the questions I've always wanted to ask but forgot to.
- Gabor Cselle
Gabe, yes I think I'm being funny - welcome to Friendfeed :-)
- Jesse Stay
Easiest way to make it go away. Turn on Windows Firewall, and install Microsoft Security Essentials.
- Wizetux
How many kids do you have Paul ? : )))
- mehmet
Click the balloon to fix the problem...
- Vincenzo RR
I am using windows and I don't use Linux or MAC or anything, and I am not ashamed about it.
- Dallas Cao
this question , from you paul, very much surprizes me.
- james
install OSX
- Logan Lindquist
OSX is also good target for viral stuff nowadays - viral distribution needs head-less (stupid) material for propagation... use Linux, chances to catch anything next to zero, And Ubuntu will give you (almost) same environment you had in Windows (and better system under hood)
- A.T.
I installed Ubuntu. I haven't seen this pop-up since then.
- Matt Cutts
Matt, that consistently works like a charm.
- Kamath (नमः)
@Paul - I installed Microsoft Security Essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/Securit...) on my wife's laptop. So far it has been a big improvement (i.e., seems to work and doesn't trash or slow down the machine) over the several other antivirus products, both commercial and free, we tried before. I'd run it even in a VM'ed instance of Windows, as just booting into a network with other Windows boxes or hitting a few websites can put the VM image at risk (and be a risk to the rest of the network).
- DeWitt Clinton
Nod
- ★ Soner Gönül
Google "Disable Balloon Notifications" and you can turn off those stupid balloons altogether...
- LarchOye
Try "net stop wscsvc" then "sc config wscsvc start= disabled" in cmd.
- Gluek
I turned off my computer. I haven't seen this pop-up since then.
- Gabe
s/Windows/Linux/
- Thaths
Install another OS
- Tuyishime Aimable
GET A MAC HURP HURPPP, because that's a fix. derp.
- Will Higgins™
Format c: install Ubuntu!
- keiser
Dewitt. I am definately installing Microsoft Security Essentials once my Nortons subscription is up. People: PAUL IS RUNNING A VIRTUAL MACHINE. End of public service announcent.
- Roberto Bonini
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First comment is the right one. Have a nice journey with a Virtualized XP (and disable themes! :) )
- Assimo
Chalk up another for the MS Security Essentials - http://microsoft.com/securit...
- Chris Heath
it's somehow relieving to see that even pro's sometimes struggle with easy things like that :)
- Johannan Edelman
start>run>services.msc then disable windows security center service. it will go to the cyber space.
- Ali Sözkesen
Ali, BlackViper says that you have to do more than just disable the service: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP... - "If you do not want the Security Center to monitor these functions for you, disabling this service is not enough. After rebooting the system, this service will again be placed into Automatic and started. While the service is in the started state, go...
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- Chris Heath
"Sorry, but Microsoft Silverlight doesn’t work with this web browser."
John Wang, Oğulcan Orhan, rowlikeagirl and 29 other people liked this
Sigh. :)
- Matt Cutts
Which one? Works in Chrome Windows.
- Hayes Haugen
It does not work on Chrome OS X.
- Gary Burd
It definitely does not work with Chrome on Ubuntu.
- imabonehead
STOP USING THE BETA!
- Andy Bakun
Guess you don't get to check it out.
- Hayes Haugen
I'm using Chrome on Ubuntu.
- Matt Cutts
Be a man. Get IE8 :)
- dannysullivan
Danny, what would I run IE8 on? I don't have any Microsoft OS software any more. :)
- Matt Cutts
I find it informative to use my competitor's products.
- Hayes Haugen
I keep trying, Hayes, but when AdCenter rolled out, it wouldn't even work on Firefox.
- Matt Cutts
The Web wins again. :)
- Ray Cromwell
Does this mean you've broken your "stop using Microsoft OS/software" challenge? Or are Microsoft websites excluded?
- Tony Ruscoe
Google's bet on HTML5 and the web is the right one.
- Diego Barros
who gives a tard about Chrome :) Grow up Cutts!
- Jose Fajardo
Matt it works fine on Chrome on Windows. This is the only platform on which a non-beta version of Chrome is available at the moment. You should use only supported browsers like IE8 and Chrome on Windows, Firefox, Safari and Opera on Windows and Mac OS. If you are using a Linux-based distribution, you should get the latest Moonlight binaries and use a supported browser like Firefox or...
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- Lituus Limacon
Silverlight used to work with the Chrome Dev beta. Not sure what changed....
- Roberto Bonini
Tony: Microsoft websites are excluded from my challenge. :)
- Matt Cutts
Courtesy of my friend Ken... apparently, this sticker is on schoolkids' desks in Korea.
Arnaud Fischer, arunthampi, Isola Virtuale and 63 other people liked this
Damn. That'd be vandalized to hell in American schools. And protested.
- Itachi
Sustain of Competition
- Acharad Sami vanJoulee
Wow.
- Todd Hoff
Well M. -- the Anti-Clique it does imply your soul purpose in life is to become a production cog in a great machine. That's worth protesting don't you think?
- Todd Hoff
And what about, 'When you feel drowsy, a competitor may have drugged you.'
- Micah Wittman
That's gotta be a joke, no?
- Joel Webber
Why is it in English though?
- ronin
Or "When you feel drowsy Freddy is waiting in the dark"?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
The best part is that the Korean says "Sleepiness Prohibited".
- Darren
I actually meant that I was picturing American parents protesting that this was pitting students against each other. But yes, in the fight-the-man feeling, it does seem like a noble cause to protest about
- Itachi
yes , just shows that Teachers don't take crap from kids in Asian Countries !!.. and I might as well add their Governments too !!
- Peter Dawson
WOW, no pressure, right? Sobering message for young minds
- Susan Beebe
Given the national scores and drop out rates, I think American kids could use some pressure, something to remind them that they are in fact, competing in the global market, whether they like it or not.
- Ray Cromwell
I think I also need one of this to put on my desk
- Ozkan Altuner
i have a friend also named ken,does he a korean or japanese?
- urin
Fwd: Evolution - http://9gag.com/gag... (via http://friendfeed.com/funny-p...)
Victor Ryden, Christian (Simply X), ThatDBD and 13 other people liked this
Extrapolation suggest scary results for the future.
- Eivind
The Jobless Rate for People Like You - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
Jérôme Flipo, Emily Miller, Carl Haynes and 12 other people liked this
LOL
Benjamin Lee, Simon, kartik vaithyanathan and 2 other people liked this
Is that *actually* the icon that shows up for a "PC server"?
- Joel Webber
Yes, that's real. On 10.6.2.
- Peng-Toh
Just another Saturday in Berkeley. Whoa!
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Simon and Isola Virtuale liked this
Story behind the "Bonneville Boss" Rocket Truck here: http://www.autoblog.com/2009...
- Richard Chen
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