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Not being allowed to ask technical questions sounds like a big problem.

Asking everyone exactly the questions at least seems like an attempt to ensure a level playing field for all candidates and eliminate bias that interviewers might not even realize is occurring.

Before starting my development career, I studied quite a bit of HR as part of my business degree. There was a fair amount of emphasis on a uniform, structured interview process largely to help eliminate interviewer bias.

The tech industry, and software companies in particular, are often accused of discriminating on the basis of age and gender. And I think that it does happen more than people want to admit, but I don't think it happens intentionally. People are terrible at recognizing their own biases. It's often not even conscious.

If we, as an industry, want to do something about it, we might consider listening more to what good HR professionals have to say. Yes, there are some HR people who are narrow minded and care more about rigidly adhering to process than about getting the best results. There are plenty of developers who meet that description, too.

I've heard so many developers dismiss all HR people as "HR drones" which is ridiculously unfair. If we actually care about eliminating bias from the hiring process, there's a lot we can learn by talking to good HR professionals. And yes, there are plenty of good ones. Some of them care just as much about a technically (and ethically) sound hiring process just as we care about good development process.

This article, though it is short and only scratches the surface, gives some idea of what I'm talking about: https://www.recruiter.com/i/4-types-of-interviewer-bias-and-...

Technical questions are fine, and I'd argue that asking all candidates the same questions is one way to help eliminate bias. In combination with this, we could ask interviewers to rate the candidate based on their answers to the technical questions. If we wanted to go further, we could also ask people who didn't meet the candidate personally to rate the candidate based on their technical answers, without revealing any of the candidate's personal information (age, gender, ethnicity, etc.) and then compare these ratings. The comparison might help us see if our interview process is as fair as we think it is.

None of us want to believe we're biased interviewers, but from what I've seen of many technical interview processes, there are many tech companies who strongly believe their interview process is unbiased, but don't have much (or any) data upon which to base that belief.
I think the point there is that if you're thinking of a database as a collection of fields and tables, then there's a chance you might be failing to understand why we use relational databases in the first place, rather than just... tables of data which are indexed as fields.

Anyway, in my experience, when someone is insisting on some specific terminology, they tend to have a good reason to do so (at least to the end of highlighting the specific confusions that lead to avoiding yours), and the mental hoops you have to jump through to figure out why their terminology is better are the kinds of things one needs to do to learn.

> I'm not sure I would enjoy asking him for advice.

I'm not sure you should be optimizing for your own enjoyment when it comes to asking people for advice.
Samsung Galaxy 7.. Grenade?
AdWords has demographic targeting and in-market segments, you can be slightly more targeted than broke people looking for Maserati's.

Agree with your general sentiment though, it's not necessarily a platform problem, the real problem may be expertise or a meh offer.
I've always enjoyed his endings myself, and didn't even really notice anything unusual about them until I saw other people ragging on them, which made me notice what they were complaining about more but didn't really change my opinion.
If you've never sold its kind of hard to understand but doormats are people who have nothing to offer and who's time isn't valuable. Part of selling things to people is selling yourself. People with high value are allowed to be arrogant and rude , in moderation.
The one disadvatage of textual communication is that the person on the other end is incapable of listening to Reason. It's why the internet is so devoid of Reason.
The majority of Americans do NOT support broad NSA spying activities. [1]

More than three-quarters of likely voters the poll interviewed opposed related aspects of current surveillance authorities and operations. Eighty-two percent are “concerned” about government collection and retention of their personal data. Eighty-three percent are concerned about government access to data stored by businesses without judicial orders, and 84% want the same judicial protections on their virtual data as exist for physical records on their property. The same percentage is concerned about government use of that data for non-counter-terrorism purposes.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/18/us-voters-br...
Ask HN: Examples of advanced Django API implementations?
Even after years of building APIs with Django & Django Rest Framework, I still keep finding new features that save time or add power to my toolbox of abstractions.

Any suggestions for examples of advanced and/or beautifully-crafted API implementations with open source?
The PlayStation VR includes a demo disc loaded with games
This is great, and I hope they keep the (or a) JavaScript-free interface, because that's the #1 advantage over things like Google Groups which defy any browser convention and you have to fight for usability. If I'm reading an archive of posts, I don't want a web application that tries to override the browser's controls and fails to deliver.
Canadian Gov. Awarded $93m for Deep Learning Research at University of Montreal
20-odd years ago I lived a few miles from Menwith and drove past it on the way to work. A few years before that I had worked on hardware for massively parallel systems, much of which ended up in black projects. As I drove by, I would muse as to how much of my gear was whirring away in that place..

fwiw everyone in the local tech industry knew the real mission for the base in 1993 so I'm also not sure how much of the article is "new news".

In those days I would frequent a village pub close to the base that run a quiz one night every week. The pub had a public bar and a smaller back dining room / saloon bar. I quickly learned that only certain people were allowed to frequent the back room on quiz night (I never saw them); that they were very very good at quizzes; and by custom the pub banned any questions specific to the USA in the quiz.
Similar story for me. I think I didn't read it until I was 14 and by that point I had experienced quite a few of the "virtual worlds" including Active Worlds, the good old text BBS games, and research-grade virtual reality caves. Despite all of those experiences the book had a profound effect on my expectations of the future.

To me I saw multi-player FPSs as virtual worlds. Second Life was intriguing when it came along but I couldn't figure out how it deserved the title of Metaverse any more than Ultima Online, or others, did.

The author is right about shared virtual reality. When I dropped the DK1 over my eyes for the first time, something clicked that hadn't happened to me since 1996. The true sensory deprivation of the outside world will make virtual reality meaningful. You will know the other person is there and paying attention, at least until Facebook begins streaming live animated alert notifications.
I like the put up or shut up attitude they've taken. But wouldn't more terrestrial testing be better before they go to the expense of launching it in space?
Bandwidth was a LOT harder to come by back then. You'd download a preview build if it had a feature if you were interested in. "Associated bugfixes" was typically not exciting enough to download an ISO file over a phone line.
...huh. FBM appears to be a centralized two-way textual communcation system with a strong identity system: It's essentially the anti-IRC. What do you use for multi-way textual communication, or textual communication with weak identity (these often go hand-in-hand)? Or do you just not use either?
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Legit answer. Source: personal experience
Congratulations!I will give it a try.
From what I understand, it got in the WTO only recently because it took so long to enact the needed reforms to meet WTO standards. As far as NATO goes, I find my links on that topic more persuasive.

Guard-of-terra, let me ask you some questions. First, what do you think Putin's long term goals are, and how long do you think he has had them? Does he want to take Eastern Europe back, and has wanted this since it was lost back in 1989, or has he come to this goal only in the last few years, or would he be happy if it remained aligned with the West?

Also, what do you think the West's goals are? Do you think that ever since 1991 it has wanted to conquer Russia, or at least make it poor, weak, and subservient? Or do you think that starting in 1991 it wanted to Russia to be democratic, independent, and prosperous, and only later became hostile toward it as a response to Putin's rhetoric and actions? Or perhaps you have some third view.
Great way to reward someone by not using their best skills and making them essentially ineffective?
He said he became essentially a reviewer placed too late in the development process to matter.

Peter principle concerns efficacy, not necessarily active damage.

"PR guy" (direct marketing) is actually a role many founders do well.
How North Korea Turned the Built Environment into a Tool for Control
Thanks so much! Gmane is such a great resource for the world.

And thanks again to Lars for his years of service.
The playground favors very short code for experimentation, given the limited screen real estate for the split view.

Quill could do better in the accessibility front though and autofill titles and aria attributes for you. However at the moment you would have to create an HTML element with the aria attributes and pass that into the toolbar[1]. Please feel free to open a feature request for tracking.

You can also use Quill without either of its themes or any of its UI by just using quill.core.js and quill.core.css[2]. The Cloning Medium with Parchment guide[3] in fact starts with this and builds custom UI on top of quill.core.js/quill.core.css.

[1] http://quilljs.com/docs/modules/toolbar/#container
[2] http://quilljs.com/docs/download/
[3] http://quilljs.com/guides/cloning-medium-with-parchment/
Why has Yelp fallen off like that?

It was and still is the leader in reviews but it seems like they are doing nothing to keep it or innovate. They are actively trying to lose it (like trump) but are in the lead because people have no alternative. Do they need new leadership?
Which is, of course, the reason the dishes at Menwith are in radomes in the first place. (So other intelligence agencies can't tell which satellites the NSA is snooping on) Kinda funny the article didn't bring it up.
Who sponsors Drupal development?
Well, that's always nice to know. Although I don't know how many people know what it means, and I don't think it encompasses all of what makes Stephenson Stephenson, anymore than "satirical fantasy" comes close to encompassing Pratchett's Discworld's writing style.
I wonder if this is in response to out-of-control GitHub employees enforcing arbitrary "Codes of Conduct" on their users, including flagging repositories for using language that's not inclusive enough, or might offend someone?

Seems like without management, an employee with an agenda--especially on that's not related to technology--could go off unchecked for a long time.
It's a matter of opinion. Whether you'll complain about it can be gauged by how much you liked Pirate Radio, and your reaction to the end of Porco Rosso.
Growing up digital
I believe Quill relies on contenteditable in order to support certain operations, such as pasting. Quill has its own document model, and supports things like deltas/operational transforms, which are practically impossible if you use the DOM as the truth like TinyCKE et al do.
a master class on start-ups--really fine writing.
But the first Tron was a better music video. Maybe not for Daft Punk. Maybe TMBG? Or Radiohead? REM, perhaps?
Paul Krugman would likely suggest that we practice Quantitative Fuck Easing and print more Fucks.
Likewise, it never ceases to amaze me that EDM/dubstep/trance/house/techno continues to find ever larger audiences. This genre(s) has little in the way of songwriters, (mostly, just famous DJs), virtuoso players, charts, or named bands. Yet, I see festivals like TomorrowLand and Electric Daisy Carnival draw crowds challenging Woodstock attendance.
This is complete and total bullshit.

I'd love to see any demonstration of a model of an intelligent organism with no sense of reality at all but that still functions properly. Barring any evidence, the whole article is simply "if you assume the impossible, then magical unicorn rainbows". (or else it's just extrapolating claims about the intelligence of amoebas way too literally)

And remember: They laughed at Bozo the Clown too.
But you miss out on this award if you don't use cat :p
http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html
In the corporate world, I've worked in both accounting and software development, and what you wrote describes good manager in both fields.

Although I don't have much evidence (yet, but I'm doing some research), I suspect that the qualities that make up good managers (and bad ones) is fairly similar from one field to the next.
This is a misrepresentation of the facts.

I clearly indicated that most Americans are fine with spying it's more classical forms, i.e. directed at Putin and terrorists, and of course are weary of domestic kinds of surveillance.

Your tactic is similar to those trying to confuse 'immigration' and 'illegal immigration' - and those trying to conflate Snowden revelations related to 'domestic surveillance' to those that having nothing to do with domestic surveillance at all - which potentially constitute an actual crime.

To wit, why don't you consider what they response would be to the question: "Do you support NSA spying on Putin and known terrorists" - and consider what the answer would be?
How many of those come from the app store?
Direct link: http://tubeheartbeat.com/london/
What does this reference?
Seems unlikely that an organization of GitHub's size would overhaul the entire management structure to deal with problems brought about by a single employee (or even a few).
It is an example because hierarchy is not required and does not necessarily have to be linear.

What you saw is specifically moving a good developer and architect into a managerial (and quite irrelevant) role. It is almost a textbook example.
iPHONE VS MOLTEN ALUMINUM [ iPhone 7 Special ]
So after I let my 3 year lease expire, I subletted this small but amazing place in Gramercy for one month - 16th floor, doorman, balcony, laundry in basement - for $1,900 all-in (they're paying $2,125/person + utilities, 1BR converted into 2BR, but still a living room area). Didn't want to leave, but had no choice due to the tenant returning. (if you want to see clips of it, I have a Youtube channel in my profile where I post stupid videos)

Now I'm subletting a modern condo (built in 2008) in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for $60/night that looks like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmxqof9kfivrpq2/2016-09-02%2009.16... . 2 bedroom 2 bathroom, just under 1,000 square feet. It's by far the most beautiful apartment I've ever stayed at, but unfortunately my bedroom doesn't have a usable desk - which I've now come to realize is absolutely mandatory. Thus I'm now searching for another sublet under $70/night with a nice desk in the bedroom - and if it's in deep Brooklyn, it better be in a modern renovated apartment. This is actually not as easy to find as I thought.

The main reason I'm subletting is because I want to try out this digital nomad thing, and thus want the flexibility of not being tied down to a lease.
It's on case by case basis but I would imagine a lot of people would disagree on bank fraud :)
> In many US jurisdictions, not generally the case. The ones with a strong "castle doctrine" are notable because this is not the norm.

Unless I'm misunderstanding your statement, it's actually the other way around. Most US states have a castle doctrine law of varying strength. Even the "gun-unfriendly" states like NJ, NY, and CA.

If you weren't the initial aggressor, and you are in your home with a licensed/legal firearm, you may shoot an intruder. Duty to retreat doesn't apply to your house...which makes perfect sense.
(It's actually "broadcasting" to the proxy (WPAD) server.)

I just skimmed the article but the idea sounded really familiar (so forgive me if I'm wrong) but this is what I think is going on...

You set up a "rogue" host providing DHCP and proxy services. In the DHCP response to the client, the server can tell the client what proxy server to use (see "WPAD"). When the client contacts it, the "rogue" proxy server then basically sends back an "Authorization Required" to the client (workstation), noting that NTLM authentication is just fine, thank you. That client will then happily respond and send along its (NTLM) credentials to the "rogue" server.

If I was on a computer I'd do a quick Google. I'm almost certain that I've read of pretty much this same exact attack before.

Edit: Here's a very, very similar attack over three years ago: https://www.trustedsec.com/july-2013/wpad-man-in-the-middle-...
I meant what I read somewhere long time back:

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Sri Lankan here. We're not exactly celebrating because within the last 10 years, cases of dengue fever has risen from about 9000 to 32000:http://www.dengue.health.gov.lk/index.php/information-on-den...

Another interesting thing: when DDT was banned in the 1960's, Sri Lanka's malaria cases went from 17 to half a million: http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2005/02/17/ddt3/
I think the title has it backwards here. Reality wasn't bred out of us, it was just never bred in.
Ask HN: The next generation web framework?
It appears that Rails and Node's various projects (koa, express, hapi, etc.) are all dying -- or at least aren't popular within the past year on this site. There has been some mild uptick in django, which is surprising.

So what is the next generation web framework to take the engineering world by storm? Perhaps we are in a lull?
> Something about how anger makes a deeper mark in your memory than joy does.

Uh? I thought that for most people, bad memories fade away and only good ones remain. And that's what I observed around me as well (I noted it because I seemed to be the only one in the group to remember bad memories linked to a certain period, while other guys only remembered the good ones and looked at this time through rose-tainted glasses and had totally forgotten about the whole lot of hardships we went through).
sounds like you want a flat structure.
How could Xfce documentation be improved?
It really needs a "show me the code" section, not links to a thesis.
Quill does let you define Embed blots which essentially hand back complete control over the corresponding DOM node container. For example the formula module uses KaTeX to render formulas and it does not care what KaTeX does to descendant DOM nodes. You could attach listeners and add editing UIs within this if desired. I believe this approach should allow you to implement what you are describing.
Certainly not! And I hope I haven't given insult. If so, it was entirely unintentional on my part, and I apologize for my carelessness in so doing. I'll put more thought into my words next time.

Don't get me wrong - I don't mean to say that all of Stephenson can be encompassed in those two words. Were that the case, he wouldn't have had to spend time writing books. I mean only that, if you're looking for a handy way to convey a primacy of idea over character in what an author chooses to explore, "high concept" is an adjectival phrase commonly understood to carry that meaning. Might save you some time, is all. (And, on the Internet of 2016, a dictionary is never far away...)
> To-do lists get a lot of flack,
> but the simple act of planning
> has some psychological and
> productivity benefits all
> by itself.

My problem is that TODO lists are not necessarily a solid basis for planning. Specifically, they are often only good for easy plans.
Seems that Google had some indirect funding from gov. programs, but that in an of itself is not so surprising.

The key issue would be related to how they now relate to government surveillance, which does not seem to be addressed in the article.

Would be nice if someone did the same level of investigation on that.
Sounds like standard business practice to me.

If you can't understand basic instructions such as not leaking internal, confidential info, you deserve to be fired.
How about detecting the pages that don't have stateful elements, and then only serializing those?
It's not saying that intelligent organisms have no sense of reality, rather that they only see as much of reality as is advantageous to their reproduction and continued existence.
Yes that is exactly why lean agile development was invented. It should be standard practice in most development organizations by now, but yet people still want to believe that it's possible to reliably anticipate what customers want far in advance. Sometimes you can guess right but that's a risky proposition and seldom repeatable.
My general shilling would be for Elixir, but let's just stop for a second.

Why do we need another web framework? Are we truly so far past displaying data munged from a database and occasionally filling queries over JSON APIs that we need some new shiny? Have our projects, our jobs, our work really changed so much in character that any of the existing stuff can be improved on by yet another set of tools to learn?

I think that more churn is something all of us should look at as annoying at best, wasteful usually, and huge trouble at worst.
On a very important level: it doesn't matter. If you're depressed to the point of non-functional it doesn't matter if changing your situation would help because you're non-functional--you can't change your situation. Getting on antidepressants, or getting into counseling or therapy can (obviously no guarantees) get you out of the trough so you can make the changes you need.
All the really excellent PMs at Microsoft that I worked with seemed "flat" to me -- they did coordination, technical documentation and basically "glued together" disparate groups. They were technically deep and would have made fine engineers, except they were better at communication and negotiation than your average engineer. They didn't seem to give a damn what the management structure was like, except to steer around it.

The poorer PMs were the ones stuck in hierarchy, who managed schedules, tracked bug counts and (aside from bug triage maybe) did work that could have been largely automated. These folks tended to circulate through and were generally fungible, even at the nosebleed levels of their management tree.

I would happily have traded 20 or 30 of the "bug counter" PMs for a couple of technical PMs who could write specs that meant something. (I saw many "bug counter" PMs quit, or get fired).