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Ask HN Googlers: Have a Google offer, looking for teams in MTV
So a few days ago Google made me an offer for a Software Dev position. We're now trying to match me with a team in MTV and hence I haven't accepted the offer yet.

I specified to the recruiter that I'm interested in building back-end services and not looking for front-end work. However, so far all the teams I spoke to were front-end web UIs (with a small service to surface out the data). I'm not sure if the recruiter is just trying to fill in gaps.

I've been out of college for 2 years, currently work for a big tech company building a high throughput and distributed service (Java). Ideally, I'd like to build services of a similar nature.

If you work for Google and know of a team that'll be a good match then please reach out to me! Even better if you work for Maps or Search! :)

PS Are there any teams at Google that work with Scala/Haskell/Clojure? I did a bit of Haskell in college and I've recently got the urge to pick up a functional language again. It'd be awesome to learn and work with a functional languages at work!

Thanks!
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That was a depressing read but familiar story. It was the 1930's "social media bubble of Guardian".
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I'd disagree, I think is an excellent example of people who think they don't need to worry about security because they aren't on the Internet very much. It was all pretty mundane I agree, right up until they had her power of attorney and social security number.

This should be a wake up call to the have-nots: You aren't safe just because you don't post on Facebook and you don't use the computer. Just because you don't drive doesn't mean you can't be hit by a car.
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Yes, its fine. The key issue is making sure you are not setting your expectations unrealistically. You have to recognize every company is dysfunctional at some level, and that doesn't necessarily make it bad. The grass is really not always greener on the other side, it just feels that way sometimes.

A note on compensation, you must negotiate that up front and not expect it to change during the first year at least. It isn't that you won't get raises but get what you feel is fair up front so 6 months in you aren't feeling neglected. Also, be cautious about giving up salary for bonuses unless you can truly control the factors for the bonus. I have seen many companies claim that while they are paying you less in salary you'll make more in their bonus program. But then they tie that bonus program to increased sales when you are an engineer. That isn't a fair or valid bonus program unless you can directly impact sales, otherwise it is like saying, if Bob & Sally do their job you can see a bonus. It doesn't matter if they hit it 10 times prior, don't fall for that crap. BTW -- this is more typical to see in a SMB that is non-tech focused but it can happen anywhere.
Chicken is sort of a stereotype of China where I come from (Poland) - probably because most of the "chinese" restaurants serve primarily all possible permutations of chicken. What surprised me though is that sea food seems also extremely popular here - you can buy all kinds of crayfish, snails, lobsters, etc.
I run benchmark regularly concerning privacy exposure, and I ran one this summer to find out all 3rd parties for a sample of high traffic web sites.

I collected and sorted the results by [3rd party, 1st party] pairs: this allows to see at a glance the most ubiquitous 3rd parties out there, i.e. those which have the ability to build a profile of your browsing habits.[1]

Facebook (through `facebook.net`) was definitely at the top in the benchmark, when using EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe's.[2]

I personally doubt a majority of users care that there is a Facebook like widget on any page, except maybe for a handful of sites for those with a Facebook account. So disabling Facebook globally with exceptions where needed is a top advice to reduce privacy exposure.[3]

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode#easy-mo...

[2] Followed by `googletagservices.com`, `twitter.com`.

[3] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-to...
I think what you are showing is that generally accepted accounting practices may not be as revealing about the business as we would like. Operations that make the numbers look better may in fact harm your business.

I don't think this is news, but it seems to often be ignored.
Some of the very best workplaces are IT contractors. Generally there are limits to hourly invoicing, so the pay ranges are quite limited compared to product companies. Thus, in order to attract top talent the companies simply have to be nice places to work at. Also, hourly invoicing means sane working hours.

Then again, some of the contracting agencies are probably among the worst places, too, employing people with limited choices. Just need to identify the good ones.
Using headphones plugged into phone as antenna for radio waves in new attack
There is tool to prepare a guix package from PyPi but because of the naming issues it can't use PyPi directly.

Yes once package is built, it's cached.

edit: the command name is `guix import pypi` http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Invoking-g...
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This isn't anecdotal - even an anecdote would have a single data point. This is just a completely untested model.
No need to spread FUD, just tell the truth. It's facebook that has to distort the truth and hide their intentions to get people to use their shit.
So many people here are dismissing this as unsophisticated.

Burglars have always targeted items that are valuable to them. Easy to sell, gets a good price, etc.

Now we have digital assets in the home, and burglars are going to focus on those things too. For most of the population, and probably many of "us", physical access to those digital assets isn't particularly secure. And to have those assets "taken" today is much more far reaching than to have lost a stereo or checkbook.

Just because the attacker had to get off his couch and go somewhere shouldn't minimize this threat. "Physical access means's you're pwned" is a true statement.

One thing I do at home, for example, is to use full disk encryption on my laptop, and hibernate it when I leave. So that if someone steals it, it's just a plastic brick. For exactly the scenario described in the article.
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Whats lacking in todays corporate IT strategy
IT systems were supposed to reduce cost overheads for business. But how far have they been successful? Why are software expensive to maintain? Time consuming to upgrade?
From the history of pig farming in the Near East, it seems they enjoyed the current status of pidgeons, rats and insects in the psychological food hierarchy.
Britain doesn't surrender. It just wallows in indifference ignoring laws and then promptly loses its shit when something is inconvenient.
"Hacking" is in everyday parlance not too far from "gaining unauthorised access to a technical system."

Social engineering is often a very efficient alternative to rainbow tables, wiretapping, buffer overruns and other technical exploits.
> MapFactor also makes the popular NavigatorFREE GPS navigation software for PC, Pocket PC and WinCE

Finally, I can upgrade from my iPaq Windows Mobile phone!
A lot. In the U.S. debit is over 40% of transactions and growing.

http://www.nilsonreport.com/upload/Nilson_Purch_Vol_2013.May...
The opposite can also be true. Secluded neighborhoods with lots of small mom-and-pop shops instead of commercial giants may be a location driver. My nearest chain is only a mile away but my community is built around a strip of independent shops.
Elaborating: both better software and better support can be competitive advantages.

Better cleaning, not so much - it's just a cost/requirement of doing business .

Some companies don't consider their software or developers to be sources of competitive advantage, and you should try to avoid those if your goal is to work on cool stuff and have better chances of making more money. Some people do like the challenge of maximizing operational efficiency and might get a good job that way, but it's harder and fraught with politics.
Working crazy hours across three jobs to make ends meet is definitely a thing, and not at all rare.
tldr: We really have no idea.
Well... You have just been tricked into reducing the guessing space by 1/10000 !
You need to explain the type of business you are in, if it is in the high risk or prohibited list then you can't necessarily blame Stripe. Also, if you have had lots of charge backs or complaints in only a month that could quickly lead to any merchant service to shutting you off.

What are your charges basically for? Have you had any chargebacks or complaints? Even 1-2 in 30 days if your account is new could get you shutdown at a lot of merchants.
I don't think those are random density factors. I don't believe that darts were thrown at a wall with words written on them and they landed on "Coffee Shops" and "Fried Chicken". I think the analysis started with the assumption that Coffee shops would be found in nicer areas and Fried Chicken would be found in rougher areas. Then the analysis was started to evaluate that hypothesis. It's OK that areas of with different economic conditions may have different types of businesses. Buying a house next to a check cashing shop or a pay day lender will nearly 100% guarantee you aren't living in the best neighborhood.
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I can factor a 2^14 bit prime in my head.
Most of this is beyond the level I'm at with biology, but I wanted to acknowledge your point about "salt". Just checked a carton of my normal, Wal-Mart Great Value non-iodized salt, and in indeed includes calcium silicate Ca2-SiO4, which is an anti-caking agent that's thought to be generally safe, and looking at it I suspect that's true. But certainly not for everyone.

On the other hand, my "salt is salt" comment was more about how NaCl is NaCl, wherever it comes from, table salt, McDonalds, etc., and will have the same effects regardless the source. Additives might indeed cause harm, but that won't be directly linked to NaCl once it all hits the mixmaster of your stomach.

A bit more to follow in email.
>It was all pretty mundane I agree, right up until they had her power of attorney and social security number.

They only got these after she let them into her house and gave them physical access to her computer. Of course it's only common sense that anyone that is allowed into your home and onto your computer can "pwn" you and worse - hacker or not. That's why 99.9% of people, including this woman, wouldn't allow strangers into their home and give them unfettered physical access to their computer.

The article title implies that they were able to "pwn" her through "hacking". The only mildly interesting they did in this regard was the spear-phishing attack based on her Facebook likes.
I'm looking forward for this type of thing making its way into C++ reflection and serialization libraries.
Re: the hosting of topics/subreddits in the DHT, I've done quite a lot of research [1] into a very innovative yet not well known P2P publish-subscribe network design [2] from some Norweigan computer scientists that removes the role of hosting for nodes not interested in a topic, even designing a decentralised microblogging platform on top of it [3].

It's called PolderCast, and the way it works is that it models subscribers of a topic as a ring, and then uses 3 different overlay networking modules to efficiently constructing the network (a basic gossip one, one that finds nodes with intersecting interests, and then a final one which constructs the neighbours for a node in the topic ring). Thus, only subscribers of a topic are responsible for hosting, in contrast to a DHT where every node would be (even for questionable content that they may not agree with).

[1] http://liamz.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Computer-Science-...

[2] http://acropolis.cs.vu.nl/~spyros/www/papers/PolderCast.pdf

[3] BitWeav http://liamz.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/whitepaper.pdf
Thanks for your time. I'm going to write some web apps, contribute to the company's github and see where that takes me.
Aight, I pushed it, but how is air density ? and direction, I'm sure routes are designed to avoid blending traffics (incoming) as much as possible.
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Netflix can't collect its money because everyone has new credit cards
AFAICT tox the python testing/virtualenv tool predates Tox the chat tool.
Not a bad idea, but you'd have to adjust for age. There are tons of joggers around every college campus, for example, but those tend not to be great places for anyone else to live. Measuring at different times of day might be interesting too. As a runner (not jogger) myself, I do notice that there are very different kinds of people running at different times. The older folks tend to go out in the morning, while the late-afternoon crowds are distinctly young looking. Lunch-break and off-hour crowds are both in between. Which of these says what about home values or general desirability? I don't know, but it would be interesting to see the results.
I would include Apollo as having military connections too: a key member of the Saturn V design team was Wernher von Braun, so its design process will have taken much directly from his experience creating the V2 rockets in WWII. The whole space race was essentially a proxy for war: the two "sides" working as hard as they could to develop (and show off) technical dominance over each other.
I like the pointless poll at the end of the article. What?
According to most sources, the rebels didn't have the trained personnel to use such an advanced weapon - this is no MANPAD. So, actually, it was almost for sure one of Putin's soldiers to pull the trigger.
It would be interesting to see the numbers. At least here in western NYS, I see many lower income people needing to take public transportation due to the lack of a vehicle. Thus, increasing their travel time considerably.
Many of my friends are East London types who can no longer afford to live north of the river, and I have heard Peckham described as "the new Dalston" more than once. Perhaps it's got the right balance of edginess, location and affordability (I don't know Peckham at all).
Oddly enough, Facebook was founded at almost exactly the same time as a fast-growing social networking site backed by a famous company with global reach. That was Google's Orkut.
There is a lot of truth in this essay but readers should know how to interpret it. When PG assumes stable revenue growth for "the last several months", even just revenue at all, for a startup that's been operating for not even a year, that already narrows down the set of startups for which his advice is applicable quite a bit.

What we're essentially talking about then is a specific breed of startup (a popular breed, but still a specific breed):

- Pure software / probably SaaS or a website.
- Margin close to 100%.
- Essentially no R&D component, i.e. just wiring together existing technologies.
- Perfect product distribution infrastructure, i.e. internet or mobile app company.

What readers should know however is that outside of this subset of startups there is a wide variety of flowers in the startup ecosystem that can all bloom in different ways and at different times.

And that early growth isn't the only metric that makes a startup attractive. Growth a powerful one that eventually will be more important than everything else, but there are other things -- such as strong core IP or having early product in a small but growing market -- that make startups interesting.

Then there's startups that require literally tens of millions of dollars of up-front investment and years of R&D before there even is a product. Are those all doomed? I guess not. Given the right execution and strategy and patient investors these companies can also be extraordinarily valuable. They are just a different kind though.
This headline is not pointing to super unusual language in these filings - look at Twitter's S-1, for example: "Our growth strategy also depends on our ability to expand and retain our organization with highly skilled personnel. Identifying, recruiting, training and integrating qualified individuals will require significant time, expense and attention. In addition to hiring new employees, we must continue to focus on retaining our best employees. Many of our employees may be able to receive significant proceeds from sales of our equity in the public markets after this offering, which may reduce their motivation to continue to work for us." http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/0001193125133...

And Alibaba's F-1: "In addition, we have a number of employees, including many members of management, whose equity ownership in our company could give them a substantial amount of personal wealth following our initial public offering. As a result, it may be difficult for us to continue to retain and motivate these employees, and this wealth could affect their decisions about whether or not they continue to remain with us. If we are unable to motivate or retain these employees, our business may be severely disrupted and our prospects could suffer." https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577552/000119312514...

Etc.
Not the gp, but here is additional info:

- China: Intelsat 708
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708

- Russia: 1980 (not 1960s) Vostok Accident:
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/28/world/1980-soviet-rocket-a...
Apparently some Cisco products might even be using 768-bit DH as default for IPsec!

From http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_conn_ikevpn/...:

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Diffie-Hellman--A public-key cryptography protocol that allows two parties to establish a shared secret over an unsecure communications channel. Diffie-Hellman is used within IKE to establish session keys. It supports ==> 768-bit (the default) <==, 1024-bit, 1536-bit, 2048-bit, 3072-bit, and 4096-bit DH groups. It also supports a 2048-bit DH group with a 256-bit subgroup, and 256-bit and 384-bit elliptic curve DH (ECDH). Cisco recommends using 2048-bit or larger DH key exchange, or ECDH key exchange.
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Malice or incompetence? (or crappy hardware that needs help to not be slow?)

The recommendation is correct so...
Basically yes. In two ways, it taught me what to avoid in business, like having layers of management filtering facts that are needed to make informed decisions. Along those same lines it taught me that many times that stupid ass decision you can't understand why the Director or VP or C level made, came because s/he was given half truths or partial information and did the best with what they were told.

Second way is that I learned how to sell software and services to those larger organizations. It takes a totally different sales process and knowing that process is invaluable to getting larger sales. You learn through that process that enterprises are no where near as price sensitive as others are, so your pricing should reflect it as they will demand a lot from you.
Isn't the much simpler explanation that, for particular servers, they either have permission (e.g. companies have agreed to hand over the encryption keys or allow monitoring of the data after it is unencrypted on arrival) or some other means (man-in-the-middle attacks, server backdoors, hacking vulnerable software) to bypass the encryption entirely without you knowing? For instance, I find the idea that they would direct huge amounts of computing power to crack individual keys implausible given the previous example methods are so much easier.
No. The assumption that government should fix everything is selfish and lazy. It absolves us of personal responsibility, and gives us someone to blame when things go wrong. I'd feel sorry for the politicians, except they do more than anyone to perpetuate this.
>you put a coffee shop in places where there are few coffee shops

Not where I live. Coffee shops (and bakeries, for that matter) over here usually cluster together, and when one opens, you can expect another one or two to open nearby, sometimes even next doors (in areas like "artistic" neighborhoods or next to universities). In the end there's like four to five coffee shops/bakeries next to each other with no possible explanation of how they're all still in business.
I remember seeing a talk by Zuckerberg (or another early Facebook person) where they talked about clones of Facebook, and how they were racing to win over different colleges / universities before other social networks did.
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However, just based on my prejudices, I'd claim that those that do work crazy hours across three jobs typically do not need to go jogging, they get some exercise when moving from one job to another. They are also not necessarily the poorest in the income poverty sense, although their situation is quite clearly the most unfair.
If they have special-purpose hardware specially designed for cracking primes, maybe bigger isn't better, right?

What can end-users be doing about this?
What is your definition of learning to code?
If the tox.chat devs would just make some alpha release tarballs I would package toxcore for Guix.
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Just to clarify (because I was confused when I read your comment), the weak DH attack was made public by the same people who wrote this post and the academic paper attached to it. It looks like the post and the paper are part of the same "release".
Conflict of interest disclaimer: I was a grad student of Professor Halderman's several years ago.
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Guix (and Nix, which came with the whole concept) is a great leap forward in terms of software deployment and sysadmin. It makes it very easy to manage your OS in a very declarative way, with many functional guarantees. Bonus points for being written and hackable in Scheme.
XAML was definitely one of the inspirations for MarkupKit. It was also inspired in part by MXML (Apache Flex), FXML (JavaFX), and to some extent HTML. It's also conceptually similar to the markup language used to build Android applications, though I don't have much experience with that.
Part of helping underserved communities would be to move some of the business outside the Valley and major metro areas. Find the mid to small cities and spread the wealth.
How can you say that when there's an Armani shop right in there on the streetview!
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That is a false equivalence though. There is no phenomenon of hackers breaking into people's homes via garage doors openers in hopes to find passwords written on post-it notes. If I break into your home, I'm not looking for post-it notes. I'm looking for small yet valuable objects that are easily pawned.

If I have a vendata against you, I can break into your home and setup keyloggers, hidden video/audio recorders that "call home" or even allow me to "dial in" and listen in. I don't need your stinking post-it notes and I won't even have to be in a rush. (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CIXAF8O/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?...)

The only thing this pawnage verified for me is that there are a lot of people with malware running on their computers and these same people are susceptible to phishing scams.
pretty good presentation on that by djb: https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html...
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There's loads of that sort of thing in the Telegraph these days. All those retired Colonels must find it bewildering.