skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Loose leaf tobacco should be legal, pre-manufactured cigarettes absolutely should not be.
AP NewsBreak: Google clarifies location-tracking policy
Same here. The most comprehensive write-up I could find was the blog post linked below. It contains a list of references but they all seem to point to irrelevant content, or to shady-looking 'news sources'.

http://www.blotreport.com/australian-politics/are-the-though...
How overtly employed varies widely, but yes; generally I did and do see it as a tool of control. That the notion is so widespread gives it social proof, so however contrary to doctrine or scripture it might be, it drives our behavior at a far deeper level.

As for your second question, there's a significant subset of my sample population that's moderately geographically bound (Plains and Upper Midwest), but I have people of faith from all over, including internationally, in my social graph, and see some variation on the notion almost across it.

I agree that as people spread out, the phenomenon tends to diminish. Research has shown that a profoundly effective mechanism for combatting insular beliefs is exposure to people who don't share them. Not enough people do that to meaningfully combat the phenomenon, though; something over half of Americans have never left the country, and the median distance adult Americans live from their mother is, IIRC, under 20 miles.

As well, people who move out of places where Hell is more of a thing may lose the belief, some, but many of them are probably leaving because they don't share the belief, to whatever degree, and people who move to those places might already believe it themselves, or may face a group that's selected, positively or negatively (by people leaving) for holding it.
Without knowing more, it seems a logical deduction. If the "organic" pesticides were more effective than the "chemical" pesticides, farmers would always choose to use them. If the alternatives aren't as effective, then you need to spray more for the same result.
Fits perfectly with Dana Scott's suggestion "a trend towards the removal of explicit parameters."

https://github.com/hypotext/notation#mathematical-notation-p...
That does indeed work. Pretty neat. For anyone trying, here is basically all you need:

data:text/html,<script crossorigin="anonymous" integrity="..." src="...">

In total that should be a lot smaller than the linked codegolf answer.
How did you manage to get German and US? Doesn't Germany expect you to be exclusively German?
Is there any crowd sourced initiative to take on patent trolls and trademark disputes with prior art? In other words a group of people raising of money to pay lawyers and then a group work/artificial intelligence to find prior art on the patent?
> I suspect that most people use "culture fit" to mean people that share company values

Ah, but there's the dog-whistle-rub: What are the company values?

My guess is that they're sufficiently vague, like "works well with others", or "communicates effectively". Sometimes they're not even that opaque, like "work hard, play hard" (I've seen that one repeatedly).

Those values are then often used to discredit people based on, frankly, illegal factors like age/race/gender.

A friend once shared a story with me from a company they were at where every single woman they interviewed for an open developer position was rejected after the in-person interview because they were "too quiet and wouldn't be a good communicator". The company was otherwise fairly progressive all things considered (I was shocked to hear the name of the company, at least), but biases like these crop up in really unexpected and subtle ways.

That's an anecdote obviously and not data, and of course maybe they just got all the quiet people by random chance. But I hope you see how vague criteria like "culture fit" do end up actually being dog-whistles sometimes.
I have taken an education loan from a bank in another country. They literally only approved me for a maximum of $30,000 loan. Let me explain how that worked.

I had to pay first 15% from my account, they would pay the remaining 85%. Every semester, once I showed a receipt that I paid 15% to the university, that bank would wire the remaining 85% directly to that University.

What did this do to my decision making? I literally only chose universities for which I could afford the upfront 15% and the max of $30k. I chose this university even though I had admit from other universities which had higher tuition.

What impact does it have on universities? Universities with higher tuition start seeing a decline in enrollments. I got out with a max $30k debt, of which I paid 15% out of pocket already, per semester.

I could've dropped out of school and joined again a few years later but that loan would still be available to me for 7 years.
> We always tried to be creative about probing people and their résumés. Bethany once decided to analyze the résumés of our best data-science people for common features. She found that those people shared an avid interest in music. From then on she and her team looked for that quality. She recalls, “We’d get really excited and call out, ‘Hey, I found a guy who plays piano!’” She concluded that such people can easily toggle between their left and right brains—a great skill for data analysis.

Gee, it's like they aren't even trying. It's so unscientific I can't take the process seriously at all.
Why I’m sick of ETL tools and what I use instead
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> The types of things you mention seem perfectly legitimate.

I certainly assume OP's team is well-intentioned, but I'm skeptical that hiring for uniformity of "how do you attack problems" or "how do you learn and grow" is a good idea.

My hope is that the OP meant that they test that people can attack problems, and can learn... rather than aiming for the team to do those things homogenously.

Personally I'd disassociate those things out of any umbrella assessment of "fit" and just assess them as independent skills during the broader hiring process.
But you can only do that if the FDA has said the generic is a perfect substitute, which hasn’t happened on any previous substitutes. This device is the first one to get that label.
I kicked my habit by installing a host block script in my Tomato router. Just added reddit and HN to blacklisted hosts (I know I can undo it but it's too much work and it disables ad blocking too).

Now anytime I want to visit HN i have to switch to slow 4G and it makes me concious of my decision and slow internet also makes it less fun.

I haven't visited reddit in almost 6 months now (used to refresh it every hour). HN too is 10% compared to what it was before. As other users have commented the reason I still check it 3 4 times a day is because there is often news that relates directly to my business (launch of Google wavenet for example) and benefits me.
> An older parent might not "fit in" with a team of 22 year-old fresh grads, but still provide valuable experience and perspective in a way that an additional 22 year-old might not. You can probably extrapolate how this might also affect women and minorities.

And someone who doesn't do any work might not "fit in" with a team of people who are doing work, but I'm not going to hire them for the sake of !current_culture.

There's a reason it's a "culture fit" or "match" and not "culturally identical" or "culturally homogeneous." The phrase as it is is sufficient and can describe a healthy way of hiring people who are compatible with your current team. If we assume our current team has a healthy culture, finding people who are compatible with it, that can effectively perform their professional duties without disrupting the ability of other employees to do the same (and, ideally, improving the ability of others to do the same), is exactly what we're looking for when hiring someone (other than technical aptitude).

Sure, it can also be used to illegally or unethically discriminate, but so could any concept you could conceive of to describe "they won't perform well with our current team." Before "not a culture fit" was a popular it was "not a team player."
Improved US Military Tech (sensors, communications, precision) can translate into less collateral damage in operations. These ops have been conducted under every president and will continue happening under future presidents, unless we go full isolationist. The issue isn't black and white.
Anyone on the same itenerary as a person with TSA Precheck also gets Precheck
Is it U2F only or can it also do some of Yubikey stuff like storing GPG keys, etc?
"Culture fit" to me is more of a "am I going to go nuts working with this person" rather than "would I get a beer with them"
> But really, when things like opiates are involved patient input is rarely useful.

Since there is no method for determining the level of a patient's pain, and opiates are for pain management, how can you conclude that?
Another one to check out is the Pilot Kaküno. It's billed as a beginner fountain pen, but old hands like it, too. https://www.gouletpens.com/collections/pilot-kakuno-fountain...
> Not to mention that the US Visitor Visa will let you visit the US for up to 6 months at a time for the next 10 years for a reasonably modest fee of ~$200.

Except not everyone is lucky enough to get a 10 year visa. Applied for B1/B2 three times each time I got 1 year visa. It is a hassle to go the US embassy and beg for visa every couple of years. Also the lack of privacy in the consulate is appalling! A poor girl had to explain why she was arrested aloud everyone wating there could hear it!

Edit: typos
I disagree that voting has become meaningless. The issue is that young people think and feel that voting is meaningless. Thus politicians don't really have to pay attention to what young people think or want.

(You don't vote, you don't count.)

If you don't vote, your peers don't vote. You transfer your power to other people. Think of NRA. It is a small relatively movement. But if they say to their members go vote X, 100% of them are voting X. This conviction makes a difference. Even if they have 200 votes say, those 200 people are going to make sure everyone around them is going to vote appropriately. And the numbers stack. Also, as usual in the U.S. call your representatives, create a group and take legal action through courts, etc.

You have other tools in your belt too, which you mention. These are the "oh shit". But you wouldn't want 20 years from now, to have to use them, or go to jail for using them, because they were illegal.
Good thing you aren't entertained by your work, or you would certainly be a lost soul.
Bitcoin to secure $1.1 Trillion exposed CISA leaked code using zk-SNARK encrypt
GraphQL, REST, RPC, Who Cares? Keep a Single Redux Store with Iguazu
Which satisfies what, around 1% of need? Lots of room to grow
NOVA did a show about batteries, including a researcher at Tufts University who created lithium batteries that you could impale with a sharp object or cut with scissors that would not catch fire even while continuously providing power.

https://www.pbs.org/video/nova-battery-wont-explode/
I've been using Cloudron since late December 2017 and have been a very happy customer so far. The guys behind Cloudron are doing a great job with releases, apps, support and community. I really hope they will keep up the great service as they grow in size (it may be challenging to be so hands on, but there are always solutions).

My journey stared with a decision to move away from Google for most of their services. I've looked at various platforms, services, applications that would automate email (at least) hosting and make it as simple as possible (I'm not really interested in learning the details of e-mail management). I've almost settled on either of 2 well known mail specific apps when I stumbled across Cloudron. It does have build-in support for multi domain email hosting and, in addition, really simplifies running a lot of other systems and platforms. And did I say it's literally just clicking a button to get an app running? Email is a bit harder - I think I had to add few values and point my MX records (that was the hardest bit - imagine how dead simple Cloudron makes things).

So, it's been about 9 months running Cloudron. I've got 2 domains, with emails configured for each, few apps (WordPress, NextCloud, etc.). This really allowed me to move away from Google for email, contacts, calendars, cloud, etc. I am definitely a very satisfied customer and am wishing the best of luck to the founders.
The Nintendo Famicom is an abbreviation of Family Computer. You could get a keyboard and BASIC as an accessory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC
In Russia, Scant Traces and Negative Memories of a Century-Old U.S. Intervention
Brazilian here, with a US visa. The appointment in the consulate took several hours, mostly waiting in line. You really have to set aside an entire day.

Also, they keep your passport for a few days, then send it through the mail.

I'm still lucky to live a couple hours drive from the nearest consulate. Brazil is a big country, and for many the consulate visit is a travel event in itself.
Sounds unnecessarily complicated. Allowing extensions to lower select requests of their own to "standard browsing context" would be sufficient. You're not trying to control extensions, just third party content they render.
> Also unlike other countries you don't need to document a plan to visit the US

Is it even feasable to enter on B2 without a return ticket?

I have no intention of overstaying my visa or even staying longer than a month, but I would love the flexibility of traveling in the US without a deadline or plans.
I think the future-self theory is an attempt to explain the pain-avoidance.
So then we need to allow spam links, in order to not be "censoring"?
German citizenship can be passed jus sanguinis, which doesn't conflict with US requirements based on jus soli.

Thus, a child born in the US to German parents is eligible for citizenship in both countries. This bypasses both countries' requirements on exclusive citizenship because you are not applying for citizenship, but rather exercising your claim to existing citizenship. This is a semantically meaningful differentiation from a legal standpoint.

Note that exercising this claim yourself will permanently disqualify you from government clearances at all levels.

Source: I went through this process.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
Good luck trying to squeeze "how to hire" into 5 small sections like in the article. It's like "how to get rich in 5 sections" or "how to find your life partner in 5 sections".

Anybody who's hired for a decade or longer knows how much more nuanced the dance is.
I talked with a Pharmacist a few months ago about the cost of epinepherine, and a 10 dose bottle was $6.
For the record, I'm not criticizing Nietzsche. I'm saying Simone de Beauvoir criticized Nietzsche in a manner I found interesting enough to remark upon.

"This Simone person" pretty much invented second wave feminism with her book "The Second Sex", and is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. Her work changed the course of history. So yes, she's definitely up to something.
Since you lived there, you should know there are plenty of independent grocery stores that stock all those items and are cheaper than WF. And I gave you the example of Trader Joes, on top of everything, which is definitely cheaper than WF.

What exactly are you arguing? That the poor and middle class of NY shop for their food at WholeFoods? Are you bonkers?
This is a bit of an annoying title since almost none of the article is about hiring for culture fit; the better title is the current H1 title from the article: "How To Hire".
Which country are you from?

Most visitors are eligible for a 10 year visa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_the_United_Stat... (see section "Validity period").

Unfortunately, the treatment might not be the best. In that case, you can probably apply for a Canadian/UK/Schengen visa and get 80% of the effect without much of the hassle.

As for the girl, I'm not sure why she would think she would be let back in after being arrested in the US.
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> There's a reason it's a "culture fit" or "match" and not "culturally identical" or "culturally homogeneous."

The problem, of course, being that they often end up being synonymous.

Similarly "family values" is a dog-whistle for "christian values" in US politics, despite them being different phrases.

> If we assume our current team has a healthy culture, finding people who are compatible with it, that can effectively perform their professional duties without disrupting the ability of other employees to do the same (and, ideally, improving the ability of others to do the same), is exactly what we're looking for when hiring someone (other than technical aptitude).

One can imagine myriad ways that this would be used to reject someone in a really awful manner.

To go back to the parent example: Parents often get up early (because their kids get up early) and need to be home at a reasonable hour to meet their kids. A group of fresh grads has no such requirement and might reasonably work from 11-7 every day, whereas the parent might need to work more 8-4.

The disruption of course being that they only overlap for 5 hours a day and this could certainly be used as an example of how the parent isn't a good fit for the team.

> Sure, it can also be used to illegally or unethically discriminate, but so could any concept you could conceive of to describe "they won't perform well with our current team." Before "not a culture fit" was a popular it was "not a team player."

Yes, and we should strive to eliminate them as much as possible.

I'm not suggesting that you should hire assholes who don't work, but that your hiring criteria should be much more explicit: "Were they abrasive during the interview?" instead of "do they fit in well at <x company>?" being a very contrived, simple example off the top of my head.
And even if it does, as an applicant I know to look up your "core values" and give examples of how I embody them. "Sure, I know how to work hard to hit goals, because this one time..."
Right. But the fact that you and your colleagues care that people can attack problems and can learn is what the culture is. You would be surprised, some cultures are built with a desire for 'follow the leader' mentality, and do not care if you can attack problems, as long as your willing to obey.
Totally agree, this bullshit makes me want to scream. People do the same thing with emails. Have a Hotmail account? People assume you're a Luddite even though, in 2018, Hotmail is basically office 365 Outlook, which is actually just as good, if not much better than Gmail.

A lot of 2004 attitudes persist long after they have any relevance or predictive power.
Ah so using the term hoops disqualified him.

I can't say I disagree with the decision.
The magic word is "Beibehaltungsgenehmigung" :-)
FlatBuffers efficient cross platform serialization library
In high school I wanted to make a Twitter bot that tweeted about the weather everyday. I had an easy time with Python's Libraries / Ecosystem.
Sorry, but no. You're not arguing for free speech. You're arguing for speech without consequences, which basically means that Damore would have gotten free speech, but no one else would be able to choose to not associate or otherwise rebuke him because of it.

And again, he was fired because he basically said that half of his coworkers do not deserve to be there. So those coworkers then used their free speech to say they no longer wish to work with him, and they would leave the company. Google decided that the contributions of those other people were worth more than the contributions of Damore, exercised their freedom of speech, and chose no longer to associate with him. At no point whatsoever was Damore silenced or censored. He simply had to live with the consequences of his actions.
Yeah, I didn't phrase that properly. Of course patients should communicate how much pain they are in, but they shouldn't communicate the type of painkillers that are to be prescribed.
Food stamps have a limited value.

If we provided people with unlimited special accounts only good to buy food (with money, not food stamps), this would definitely affect prices in groceries.
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"At high doses, it has been linked to cancer in animal studies. But the trace amounts found in coffee are not known to pose a threat."

They used the same process (high doses) to condemn coffee that they used for alar treated apples. The people defending coffee sound like the same addicted people who defended cigarettes. The science is settled. Put down the cancerous bean beverage.
"+ How do you attack problems"

This is objectively not 'culture fit'
NAND Oversupply Could Crater SSD Pricing to 8 Cents per Gigabyte Next Year
That itself begs definition. How do you define an asshole? Someone who is genuinely a true brute and awful person? Or someone who stands by their standards and does so firmly because they believe in their personal principles?

I ask that question that specifically because the latter I have been told point blank is definitely asshole behavior. To which I say "it depends". Standing up for your principles and not capitulating to someone arbitrarily projecting their expectations onto you? That's not asshole behavior. That's standing up for yourself. Some seem to think otherwise.

Letting your principles take place of basic tact, dignity and respect for others? Different story. Some still even in this regard...think otherwise.

So how are we defining "asshole" tendencies here? Seems to me just as abitrary as "culture fit"
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I have never been treated badly as German. In my view it's one of the best passports you can have for travel.
Be sure to thank past you whenever it's appropriate.
So we see forcing the use of clear backpacks as an invasion of privacy but don't see tech that scans a backpack as invasive?
Is it in your name?
"I've been successful in my career for various reasons, some of which I may have no control over. Here's an article I wrote as a way to bolster my reputation. Also, we like hiring people who are musicians, because it worked well with this one guy."
The US also gets a little upset when you claim dual nationality, or don’t mention your US citizenship.

A relative’s loophole was to enter the US with their US birth certificate as citizenship and their foreign passport to establish identity.
Unless you can quantify it, it doesn't really matter whether the criteria is "would enjoy drinking with" or some other subjective X-factor.

The big problem with "culture fit" in interviews is that it gives you an escape hatch to avoid the conclusions that concrete objective assessments provide.

Candidate did poorly technical qualification challenges, but man were they great to talk to at the interview! Fuck it let's hire! Candidate did great on the technical qualification but hrm they have a family and live out in the suburbs? Meh let's pass this time and maybe come back to them later.

You might as well not be hiring rigorously or objectively at all.

My experience running concrete work-sample-based resume hiring programs (we're hiring now!) is that every force in the institution you're working for is going to push you away from trusting your assessment results. And if you can't rely on those results and learn from them, you can't iterate and get better at hiring. And indeed, most organizations never do get better at hiring, and draw from the exact same pool of "conventionally hirable" candidates everyone else does, and it's a disaster.
Well, there is something you can do: don't use software that gives you plausible deniability.

BTW, someone posted this fascinating link in this thread: https://web.archive.org/web/20100820175505/http://iq.org:80/...