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I'm pretty sure that most the programmers, who we consider to be at the top of the professional ladder, won't be able to check off even 30% of those "achievements".

> Which they did in order to show the obvious problem in a safe and entertaining way

And the "obvious" problem is...? The car electronics was showing they had charge for 30 miles. Sat-nav was telling them their destination is 60 miles away. For me the conclusion is that for the math challenged, driving an electric car is an "obvious" problem.

The only thing a site like this can "streamline" is the weeding out of the truly incompetent people, pretending to be programmers. But I'd argue that it's not a very hard task anyway. So, while solving the challenges will be fun for the applicants, it doesn't seem like the service would be of much help to the companies.

That's $12-$24 per year, not month. And they can do it simply because of sheer volume. Everyone has to deal with passwords so their market is humongous. If you sell to teachers that's not the case.

Actually, you're right. For some reason, I was thinking that I have to pick a limit for the database field but, of course, the password is hashed so it doesn't matter how long it is.

It's obviously not copy-paste and why would it be so hard to believe that both Goldman and Salomon had the same practices of removing authors names from papers?

Can anyone explain why would you want a password longer than 16 characters? Even if it's unsalted, all lowercase letters and md5 hashed, it's impossible to bruteforce crack it. And people who use 16 character passwords are unlikely to have them all-lowercase-lettered so it's even worse for the crackers.

Sure, the 16 char limit may be arbitrary but even if you make it 50, tomorrow some outraged blogger will be complaining that he can't enter his 100-character password.

Yes, the mayhem at the beginning is expected but I'm curious if the trial/error process could actually bring some sound stable system at the end. I'm inclined to think that this won't happen because most of the people in the bitcoin "economy" have some serious dislike for central authorities. And it's hard to design a stable monetary system without some kind of regulation and more transparency.

I'd suggest concentrating on the quality of work you will (hopefully) be offering, not the min project price. If I'm a potential employer I'm not thinking "Oh, God, I'm so desperate to find someone that will charge me at least $2K!". Yet, the price is the first thing you throw at my face.

From https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/wiki/Teams :

"He will go around shaking his tin cup with potential sponsors, with right of first refusal going to our generous sponsor from past contests, Google"

I wish it was as easy as that. Real deadlines work because there is some external factor taking place. For example, you get fired by your boss if you don't put that important report on his desk by tomorrow. Or you'll be embarrassed if you don't keep the delivery deadline you've promised to a client.

When you're setting deadlines that only you know of, there is no possibility of getting "punished" so it's much easier to procrastinate. If it works for you, cool, but I know it doesn't work for me and most likely it doesn't work for the majority of people.

Well, that makes the anti-helmet case even stronger. If the most dangerous riders from the pool were in the 30% that stopped biking and if the helmets were actually helpful, wouldn't it make sense for the reduction in mortality rate to be bigger than 30% as opposed to the actual 17%?

I'm one of the cool-looking europeans :) I've started to bike recently and decided not to wear a helmet after reading few articles that suggested there is practically no evidence at all that bike helmets help you in any way. But most convincing was data from Australia - before they started forcing everyone to wear helmets, there were on average 7 deaths/year caused by incidents involving bikers. After the helmets were made mandatory, the mortality rate was reduced to 6/year, yet the number of regular bikers was reduced by 30%!! If anything, this suggests that helmets may worsen your chances to stay alive.

And if you think about it, if you're flying with 20-30km/h towards a tree, no helmet is going to save you. Even if the head is protected, your neck will break. With lower speeds I guess you still have time to try to fall in such a way so the head is somewhat protected. Btw, I'm not avoiding helmets so I can look cool. It's just one more gear to carry and worry about. And I may still get a helmet if start riding more cross-country. Right now I'm riding on road and unpredictable falls look more unlikely.