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HN can be an echo chamber for Ruby, Python and Golang. But outside of the Bay Area, a lot of people are very excited about Symfony2.

The summary is that we don't know enough about terahertz radiation to draw any solid conclusions yet, and there is at least one reputable source pondering, "How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA": http://www.technologyreview.com/view/416066/how-terahertz-wa...

Do you know how much power is emitted by the terahertz-wave scanner as two antennas are swept across your mid-section in close proximity?

Here are some responses to your other points about mm-wave:

Passive mm-wave scanners do not produce radiation

Passive mm-wave scanners are not used in airports and not relevant to this discussion.

You'll pick up far more radiation on the flight itself at a fairly low 5 mrem (50 µSv)

Also, irrelevant as the xray body scanners have largely been removed from US airports due to their safety concerns. The EU has also banned the use of those scanners. The study that you cite is for radiation applied to the entire body mass, while the xray body scanners applied all of the ionizing radiation only to the outer layer of the body (skin + some bones + male reproductive organs + brain).

The TSA says that there is no human in the loop and that they are no longer storing images. I don't know how much trust and credibility they have left these days (esp. after claiming xray scanners were perfectly safe to use).

The point of resumes is to see if the candidate actually has the requisite skills for the job. The point of interviews is to verify what is represented on the resume is likely to be true. And, as the op is suggesting, a small contract would verify that the candidate can complete projects for the company and to their satisfaction.

he may be farming it out to oDesk or Elance at a fraction of the price

This is just plain paranoia. No one would do this and expect to be employed at a company for very long. Also, if you've ever farmed work out to oDesk/Elance, you might not want that work to represent you in an interview process (even if you were able to have it completed in a reasonable amount of time).

This isn't exclusive to Google. It is the result of an inexperienced, untrained, interviewer. I like to refer to them as feral engineers.

Our clicks are providing positive reinforcement for Forbes' blogspam and I'm surprised that HN hasn't banned forbes.com yet.

Corn syrup has permeated just about anything that doesn't come off of a vine or out of the ground. HFCS is added to bread, fruit juices, hot dogs and even soy sauce. It is quite a chore to find bread without HFCS.

If this were NYC, I could understand stabbing someone in the back after they secure a couple of large customers. Though, in the Bay Area, it's like being stabbed in the back by a meth addict; sometimes it makes sense, most of the time it doesn't.

I think the idea is that some of the companies in the $1 billion fund will succeed and others will fail. But, funding a single company/public works project to the tune of $1 billion would give some pause.

The only large SV project I've heard about in recent time is Planetary Resources, the company that wants to mine asteroids. But, the returns for that expensive project would approach the 1000x that SV firms wish for.

It seems like the tabs idea is geared more towards individuals that don't manage their email subscriptions (does no one unsubscribe anymore?). All I really know is that I am not the target audience for the feature.

I'm with you on this suggestion. Though, I would really get excited if a device like this could somehow gather metrics from the blood stream without needing direct access. Pie in the sky, I know.

If pedometers get people to exercise more, I wonder how a real-time cholesterol monitor would change peoples' eating behavior?

I am sure that Kogan has been in business long enough to know not to take what a low-level sales person preaches as fact. Just like Kogan, the sales person also didn't seem to have a clue about affiliate marketing. And, why should he if he can sign new clients who will drop $40K out of the gate?

Kogan had some wild expectation that the majority of affiliate traffic would be first-time visitors to his site. When he uses google analytics to estimate that only 1.6% of referrals were new customers, he trashes affiliate marketing as a business.

Unfortunately, he spent no time thinking about how to optimize his campaign to reward affiliates for first-time customers, among other things.

What kind of super-humans are they looking for?

These companies are looking for what you may consider a needle in the haystack; someone with an extremely narrow tech focus. You may think that this person doesn't exist and the company is crazy, but they actually aren't. They will eventually find someone who matches the job description to a T, even if they have to pay for that individual's relocation.

Bay Area companies also do not generally value engineers with business skills, communication, or even social skills. I used to think code monkey was just a fun description of an engineer. But, I've found in the Bay Area, companies really want what I would consider to be a very 1-dimensional employee.

In my college years I was told by a CS professor that if I didn't have experience with many programming languages and operating systems, then I had no business calling myself a computer scientist. Yet, at a recent meetup in SF for a specific programming language, the speaker asked for a show of hands for those individuals with experience in another, relatively popular language. Only about 1% of the room raised their hands. I was pretty shocked and wondered where those people would be, career-wise, in a few years.

I found two issues when researching its feasibility: printing accuracy and temperature range of the plastic. My results were that the lower-cost 3D printers didn't have the required precision, and more importantly, the printed plastic would simply melt if it sat in a hot car during the summer.

My research is probably out of date now, so I wonder what kind of plastic is being used these days.

This paper focuses on Ford and Toyota.

I looked up companies that I once worked for on h1bwage and I know for a fact that my H1B co-workers were not enjoying large bonuses.

A visa application listing a bay area senior s/w engineer prevailing wage of 78K should be outright rejected. Yet, it was accepted.

..as opposed to not keeping up with industry trends at all? Sometimes, I feel like middle management in America is the problem.