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Re:hiring

I've been through various pieces of Google's hiring apparatus a few times and have come away pretty unimpressed that they have it any more figured out than anybody else. In fact I'd wager that tossing all the resumes they receive down the stairs and picking whoever ends up at the top of the stairs for any given position would probably work as well as the broken process they have in place. Google's process is so bad from the applicant standpoint that I've had to short circuit and kill the whole process, twice, from my end it had gone so off the rails on Google's side.

This isn't a particular criticism of Google's process in particular, hiring in general is pretty broken for every company, but it comes across as a bit of hubris that Google is going to bring something new to the table other than dysfunctions that are unique to Google.

Here's an interesting anecdote, I've applied to Google directly, for specific positions I would be qualified for, about a half dozen times and gotten crickets each time. Then out of the blue, months later, I'll get contacted via Linkedin by a recruiter who ends up funneling me into filling a position I couldn't possibly fulfill -- and I'm very open about that up front. I've even sent open job reqs back to the recruiter that I thought I'd be better for, but some kind of internal momentum has dictated that I'm now in the queue for some job I don't want and wouldn't qualify for anyways.

I'm sure I'm just a number to make sure the hiring manager passes some internal threshold so that they can hire the person they want anyways, but given the number and length of phone and in person interviews Google demands of candidates, it's a big time waste for everybody.

These days I just tell the recruiters what I'm looking for and if they aren't hiring for that job in that location I'll pass.
I'm actually quite optimistic about this. Finding good, high-quality advice on hiring best-practices is difficult. We're currently looking to re-tool our hiring process at the place I work as we look to expand, and this could not have come out at a more opportune time.
As long as you don't need PV...
>The Many-Worlds interpretation is local

I'm not sure it is even though Wikipedia currently says that it is local. The recent experiment http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/science/quantum-theory-exp...

seems to show clear non local effects. I don't think that contradicts Many-Worlds.

Much of the question comes down to an aspect that Everett, the inventor of Many-Worlds kind of hand waved over and didn't really explain. He said roughly lets assume all outcomes happen and assign a probability P to each one without really explaining where the Ps came from. In the NYT described experiment the probabilities seem to be such as to show non local effects but Everett and his theory don't really say much as to how they got that way.
That's a troll comment if I've ever seen one with even less information than what was in the linked article. Your comment actually has no information: a mere dismissal.

On opposite end, my link was at least clear on attributes of a good language. These were specifically mentioned: predictable, consistent, concise, reliable, debuggable. The author gave specific examples showing PHP lacks these traits. An analysis of Python or Ruby show them to embody these traits much more while also possessing the supposed advantages PHP fans tell me including easy learning, many libraries, huge community, tools, etc. So, the evidence indicates PHP is a poorly designed language (or not designed at all) while some competitors are well-designed languages with most of same benefits.

Other authors say about the same about both philosophy and specific details showing why PHP is a pain to work with if you want robust software along with building skills a good developer should have.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-PHP-hated-by-so-many-developers

http://phpsadness.com/

https://blog.codinghorror.com/php-sucks-but-it-doesnt-matter...

Truth be told, though, the burden of proof is on you PHP supporters to show why PHP is a good language and people should use it. I claim it was a mere pre-processor that had all kinds of programming language features bolted onto it over time to let it handle certain situations. That's not design at all. Python and Ruby are designed languages with consistency, core functionality for many situations, extensions/libraries, and optionally the ability to pre-process web pages. World of difference in both language attributes and quality of what people produce with them. So, not only have you presented no evidence of PHP's alleged good design, I've presented evidence against it and for two competitors have better designs.

Feel free to back up your claims with some actual data rather than dismiss whatever data anyone else brings up. I mean, you want to dismiss the guys ranting feel free. Can even edit all that crap out to leave just the data and arguments. Same for other links. Resulting text still supports our claims against PHP. So, status quo among professionals should be "PHP Is Garbage" that leads to buggy, hard to maintain, insecure, slow software. It will remain until PHP's community proves otherwise and demonstrates their counter-claim in practice with apps possessing the opposite of those negative traits.
Nice, the developers of Mountain Duck won the Swiss Open Source Award for their Cyberduck just yesterday!

http://www.ossawards.ch/
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I liked Mail and Maps once, but feel like after endless redesigns they got less useful, less responsive, less straightforward to use, etc.
And of course - for those who need Homestuck explained - that's a great throwback to the SimCity games, specifically here where the loading screens would often include nonsensical things like the famouse "reticulating splines". (IIRC, a lot of the Maxis games of Yore would play off that joke.)

(And thanks - now the Sburb loading theme is stuck in my head again!)
I find it odd that there still hasn't been any comment on this from YC partners. Or if there has, can someone link?
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I haven't done a thorough review of either. They just both have good traits from a design and security perspective. So, I bring them up both as examples of better path and something for further review/development/improvement.
Ha, just spent some time figuring out how to do this myself -- going to take a look and compare. Sounds really neat!
On iOS Safari you're limited to 2 parallel HTTP connections at a time so not a huge advantage to the multiple connections. Don't disagree with splitting it up though
If a vendor performs part of the service to the government for this micro purchase bid and does not end up meeting the full criteria, are they able to sue for partial recoupment of costs of delivery of the software and/or entitled to it? I can imagine this has already been sorted for commodity delivery but I'm not sure what happens when that sort of thing is applied to services. Firm Fixed Price contracts aren't usually an all-or-nothing deal, but I guess in this case the case could be made for all the risk being on the vendor side given the scale and intent.
Vert.x indeed looks pretty cool. But I found it a little bit weird that they used the term "reactive" in the title, but I'm not sure what the "reactive" is referring to: maybe Reactive Extensions, or at least RxJava? which should be perfect with vert.x to solve the callback hell problem. Or they just use it as a generic term for async technology used in vert.x/node.js/tornado etc?
Time for governments to just make up their minds?
So many people here with really outdated ideas about what causes over population and how to control it. Wish they would read this article by Melinda Gates on some myths around this subject: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/Resources-and-Medi...
> What is the standard to determine the right population

only someone who's never been to china would ask about the 'standard' for determining overpopulation. it's abundantly clear as soon as you step off the airplane and take a look around. it's just too damn crowded.

what is the standard for determining that water is wet?
According to "Barbarians led by Bill Gates" this was an intentional choice justified by studies of number of clicks required to perform some tasks.

Great book, btw.
The Turkish change affected me over the weekend. The local mobile carriers didn't update their settings and thus my phone automatically updated to EEST. Fortunately my flight was much later in the day and it was rectified by that point.
So we're storing non-compressed 300dpi color scans of every page, as well as the original shrinkwrapped books out in a saltmine somewhere -- we're not losing any data.

There's a whole separate problem of turning those scans into a high-quality data set. The first pass will be decent-but-not-perfect OCR of the full text (with page-location data, like Google Books), plus human-checked metadata for stuff like case name, judge, and date. Since we have the original scans as well, there's lots of room to iteratively improve the data conversion from there via ReCAPTCHA and the like.
Not available in the UK either.

sigh
I missed that section. Seems like they've thought it through. Well, more power to them!
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I appreciate that point of view.

I would state that the behavior occurring was already unconstitutional, as we are all created equal and we all have equal rights. This was a founding principle.

The question is, do you have equal rights on my private property? The law says yes. It's disappointing we need a
law to get us that far. We had to give up individual liberty, by allowing laws to move into our personal lives, in order to give equal rights to others?

I don't respect people of other nationalities because there is a law to do so. What new impact did the law have on people's hearts? What impact does the Bible have on a persons heart when it says to "love thy neighbor like thyself".

Even with the Civil Rights acts, we have a heightened sense of urgency in the united states, where the media reports violence between white and black people frequently. A new law won't stop this, but a change of heart just might.
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"YouTube Red is not currently available in Germany."

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Not at all. Most govt. contracts work like this: Govt. opens a Request For Proposal on FedBizOps [0], vendors review the proposal, ask questions, govt. tries to answer all questions from all vendors and releases all answers again on [0]. Then vendors submit their proposals with written explanation of how they'll do the work, also, they are required to submit how much it will cost the govt. When the proposal date closes, the govt. sets up a review board that goes through all the proposals by vendors and reviews them based on competency and price. This review panel picks one vendor to win the proposal.

[0] - https://www.fbo.gov/
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I appreciate all the do-it-yourself fervor on this thread but baking seems like a decent application of the principle of economic specialization. I, for one, enjoy visiting my local bakery every few days, and they do a better job than I will ever do even if I quit my job and practice baking full-time, which I'm not planning to do.
Servo inherited that policy too: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue...
Full PDF of the study: http://depts.washington.edu/sibl/Publications/Cheryan,%20Pla...
I would just let teenage children get free RISUG / hormonal implants and let them remove them or keep renewing them for free.

That alone will prevent many unplanned and unwanted babies in a population without any force, political, eugenics or racist overtones.

I don't know the long term effects of these implants so it's a tentative idea.
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I can't help it but disagree with the author.

His example shouldn't make someone think "god, I wish I didn't have to specify the type here", but rather "wait, there's a problem here. There's way too many concepts in a single line of code, I should probably refactor that to make it clearer". Having to specify the type is what should help the developer come to the realization that something needs to be more modular, so the people reading the code in the future (including him/herself in a week from now) will have a easier time understanding what's going on.

Overall, I feel like there's a common thinking these days that most of software cost is in the time spent to write it and thus we should use any means necessary to reduce that time. type inference everywhere makes it so that just reading a source code prevents you from knowing the type of anything without learning first the whole API by heart. And it's reaching the top when you define a function using "fn" in rust (there might be another explanation than saving keystrokes, but I can 't think of any), or "go fmt" instead of "go format".

IMO, the truth is that while a code has been written exactly once in its current form, it's being read hundreds or thousands of times. For learning, debugging, fixing, improving or adding performances. It doesn't matter. And when you have to read the code to understand the concepts behind it, you're just wasting brain cycles.

Yes, typing types everywhere is a complete pain in the neck. But reading and modifying code without anything has always felt 100 times worse to me
Can't argue with the synchronous Java lib part, but for the callback hell, I believe RxJava is the answer.
Because LILO is the Linux Loader. You're free to use grub if you enjoy bloated sucky software; that's the beauty of free software. It doesn't mean the kernel contributors have to support you, though.
The earth could probably support 100+ billion people at reasonable comfort levels with slightly better technology as long as we give up the idea of life outside of zoo's.

That said, past experience has demonstrated the Human population can easily grow at 5% per year. At that rate it's doubling every 15 years. Trying to double the universes food supply every 15 years is just not possible indefinitely.

PS: 2^n is crazy. It takes less time than you might think before the mass of humanity is growing faster than a sphere expanding at the speed of light could support.
Does anyone know how is the interaction with the Chromecast Youtube app queue?

When I have friends over we use the youtube app to queue videos for the Chromecast, if one of us has the Red subscription I would expect no adds, so what will happen if a friend with no subscription queues a video? will it display ads?
Nice! Way more powerful and fun than using something as boring as websensor.com or silly dashes.
Maybe I should'a had kids. F--k!
Before commenting on this, there are two things you need to read.

"China - total fertility rate (graph)"[1]

"List of famines in China."[2]

"China - Population 1950 - 2015" [3]

In 1970, the fertility rate (babies born per woman) was 6. That's huge but not untypical for an undeveloped country, where a lot of people die young. Once some basic modern medicine was deployed, the number of people surviving went way up, and the population doubled in 50 years, even with the one-child policy. It would have been much, much worse without it. Something had to be done. China has a history of famines, and the last big one was in 1962, and 20 million to 40 million people starved to death. Keeping that from happening again is a major goal of policy in China.

The one-child policy worked. The population is leveling off. The fertility rate is now around 1.55, which is about typical for a developed country. Once a country develops, the fertility rate drops off without coercion. China has reached that point, and no longer needs a mandatory one-child policy.

India's population grew by a factor of 3.4 during that period, but India has more arable land. China is a big country, but most of it is desert, tundra, or mountains. The US has six times the arable land per capita as China. China has nothing like the Midwestern US.

Actually, the one-child policy was relaxed years ago. Only some provinces require it.

[1] http://www.china-profile.com/data/fig_WPP2010_TFR_1.htm
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines_in_China
[3] http://www.china-profile.com/data/fig_Pop_WPP2006.htm
I was able to play MP3s on my Pentium 75 using "amp" on FreeBSD, but they would stutter if I fired up Netscape at the same time and started scrolling the window around.

I remember it took some time before I could play MP3s--for about a year I was stuck playing MP2s instead.
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"We're all the same person in every way and everyone is as talented and special as everyone else."

That pretty much sounds like "hire whomever walks through the door."
Especially since its been proven that surge pricing doesn't incentivize more supply.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/17/ho...
It's true, step 1 of a Blue Apron recipe can take 20 minutes. Green Chef does a lot of the prep and is only slightly more expensive.
Google also mentions this study in one of their re:Work guides - https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/unbiasing-evaluate-subt...
This decision sets important precedents. Personally, it clarifies how CC images can be handled.

1) "Creative Commoms [sic], CC-BY-SA-2.0″ is sufficient without any URI required. Personally, I will still add it though.

2) Adding the title under the photo but the image attribution on another page is sufficient.

3) To be considered a derivative work, the photo actually has to modified. In this case, it was not.
Good point, since I forgot. It's a BSDv2 code. Credit goes to you:

https://github.com/wkoszek/mini_printf/commit/1fbf606cb23f2e...
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Well, I care, inasmuch as it's interesting announcement. QED.
This has probably been in the works for more than a year so they might not have had LTE coverage on the table. Also wifi is arguably more useful than LTE signals to people on the ground since more devices will be able to receive and use it beyond just cell phones and a small number of LTE equipped laptops.

It could have also been a requirement to get the telecoms to work with the project and get it approved.
First world problems are still problems; this is "What's the most convenient way to deliver a home-cooked meal without dispatching a chef to cook it for you?", which is a thing that well-off professionals historically buy. Systemize the human labor there and it makes it affordable to more of the middle class while allowing people to cook for themselves, which at least some people want to do.

Cooking is not hard like reading is not hard: if you grew up doing it, you might not remember having learned it at all. The historical expectation that at least half the population grew up cooking has fallen apart, particularly among some social classes. I would not suggest contempt of business models which only succeed by helping more people learn to cook.

(Cards on table: can cook, do so rarely, would be very open to doing more and very willing to trade money to decrease time investment required.)

As to the economics of it: doesn't strike me as having unit economics compatible with investor expectations but oh well capitalism happens -- if it does they make a bundle, if not they're sophisticated rich people who can afford to lose money while buying food for less-rich people at a loss. "Even the poorest Americans will have cooked food prepared by servants" was once science fiction, too. That business worked out pretty decently, modulo latter-day concerns that "Well maybe poor Americans shouldn't have their food cooked by servants."
How is he supposed to get there without a passport?
Thanks! Actually we have "Takeaway" app, which is actually "SaaS in a box". We just don't want to distribute it yet, because it is much more difficult task to support shrinkwrapped software.
Pushing the logic to it's limits
Jeff Heaton has written a slew nice AI related books

http://www.heatonresearch.com/book/index.html

"Introduction to the Math of Neural Networks" is a really great book to start with if your math skills are on college algebra level.
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Bags of frozen prechopped veggies in sizes appropriate for a family of four for one meal, plus containers of fresh soup to go in the deli, plus a selection of fresh ready-to-heat entrees. A nice meal for two with enough leftover for someone's lunch would come to around $16 at my local Save-On. (veg $5, entree $7, soup $4).
>The company says it currently has 1 million subscribers in California, so the round will help fund its national expansion.

Paying subscribers? Or people on their email list?
I don't believe that applies in the Chicago study because they just looked at data retrospectively. There were no observers when the events were taking place.
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Hopefully you realize that quote isn't from Google but from
n7c3c1 trying to be bitter or edgy or something. (He's probably a white guy that wishes that good jobs were only available to white guys like in the good old days.)
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Wow, that's 4x the price of Starbucks sandwiches where I live. Must be the same ones serving the $6 coffees (mine are $1.30).
Right. Time to dump Google Analytics, which is now heavily blocked, and start processing your server logs.
Only if you absolutely, positively, need to find the right answer 100% of the time. In a lot of cases, a heuristic that runs significantly faster, can be perfectly serviceable.
How is distributed VCS new? There's quite some prior art even before git. (one of them being Darcs)
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Also I recently discovered that pypy supports non-ASCII characters pretty well which at least doesn't work with my version of python 2.7.6
Neat idea. This is how I first learned to code HTML when I was 10 - copying and pasting my friend's HTML on angelfire, and later, copying matts script archive for perl code.

I wonder what long term strategy is for customer retention? Once you get some of the core skills at a basic level, there can be a desire to reverse engineer websites on your own. I also see opportunities down the road for more hand holding, some students where they can't quite get the self serve to work on their own.
> This bug might also be considered an argument for the view of ditching
of para-virtualized (PV) VMs, and switch to HVMs

It's not like Xen HVMs have a better security story than PVMs. The paravirtualization code should probably be more heavily audited than it is already.
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But GPS satellites have constant velocity so calculating this is pretty easy. For a future super probe that accelerates and decelerates and maybe passes through many different gravitational fields (giving a general relativity time dilation) and perhaps does so for many centuries, the possibility of error mounts up.

I'd vote for time being defined in terms of some universally observable phenomenon. Say the rate of cooling of the CMB. Anyone with a super spiffy radio telescope anywhere in the universe could then tell what time it is.
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It gives the current death rate for TB as 1.5 million per year. That could well now be higher than malaria, yes.
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