skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From anecdotal but first-hand experience (went through a couple of interview rounds), Google interviewers indeed don't ask the questions on that list. But the questions they do ask are hard and often academic - as in, you have likely never run into them in a real-world scenario before and you likely never will.

At first I was like 'wow, Google must be populated with demi-gods'. Then I spoke to some Googlers off the record and it turns out that those interview questions have little to do with the reality within Google.

Not that Google isn't a company lousy with smart people. They are.

And it's not that Google doesn't work on hard problems. They do.

It's just that the interviews are an extremely efficient dud filter, probing you about stuff that even at Google's you won't be working on 5% of the time (if at all).
Not sure what you mean by "gradient borders"
On the substance of the article, it's not "repurposing" RSS to use it in ways beyond traditional feed readers. RSS has always been an open syndication format, and still has plenty of uses.

On to less productive comments...

RSS may not be dead, but punctuation apparently is. I thought there was a typo in the post on HN, but it turns out that this little run-on headline is in the actual post. The rest of the post is even worse grammatically.

Hey guys, if you're going to write on your company's blog, invest in a bit of proofreading. Bad posts reflect negatively on not only you, but your startup also.
Kindle Lending Club: Borrow and Lend Kindle Books
All modern relational databases implement exactly what you've described... transactions are written to a transaction log, which is flushed to disk every few seconds (or whenever you want to guarantee that a txn is durable). Changes to the actual data need not be persisted in a timely manner, because in the event of a crash the data is recovered from the transaction log.
Better deals are harder to get more dollars into. It's not a choice, just a consequence.
If you were forced to choose between eating 100g of a random "chemical" molecule, or 100g of a random "natural" molecule, you would be much better off with the latter.

That is a distinctly ignorant and biased statement. Go eat 100g of sand, of seawater, tree bark, crude oil, or algae. Notice how I stacked the deck in that list, as these are just naturally occurring things not merely chemicals. Try eating 100g of caffeine, botulinum toxin, vitamin E, nicotine, DNA, warfarin, morphine, or ricin.

Nature is far from harmless, it's merely familiar so that we are more prone to accept whatever degree of harm it holds as, well, "natural". Man-made novel chemical compounds are not all harmless either, but imagining that there is a firm barrier between "natural" and "man-made" and that one category is far and away safer than the other is superstitious thinking.
You can also find them here: http://nixty.com/courses/directory?category=0&school=1&#...
One comment said their son did well at piano, causing their daughter to give up, causing the son to stop in sympathy.

I don't have kids, but I thought maybe if they tied each child's reward to how well their siblings did. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of incentive structure?
If you assumed that the label "RSS", included RSS of various flavors, Atom and PubSubHubHub, how would you describe a good alternative to that?

My assumption is debatable for sure, but I'd like to hear what folks think is lacking.
Unless...

"Sleep Dealer tells the story of a young campensino named Memo whose DIY radio draws unwanted attention from a U.S. military contractor. Fleeing to Tijuana, Memo has implants placed in his body in order to become a 'node worker' -- a Mexican laborer who, from south of the border, taps into a vast network that operates robots located in the United States."
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/news/2008/01/sl...
my Tort tutor (admittedly not a contract tutor, but...) boasted to the class about signing up for a blockbuster video rental card, handing in a signed T&Cs slip instore with the late fees clause blacked out. The acceptance of the slip (putting it in a drawer) made that the contract; then commencement of trade between the parties evidenced it. How he laughed, he says, when they pulled out his file to wave it at him, trying to get him to pay a fine.
Most non-compete contracts are about as valid as the paper they're written on. I've signed a lot in my time and have only been brought into court once. The judge laughed at the company and asked them if they were going to pay my salary for the next 12 months I would be out of work if they wanted to enforce the non-compete contract. Needless to say, The company dropped their case and I still got a hefty severance check.

Companies can't keep you from being gainfully employed, even if it's with a competitor in your same industry. This means most employment/non-compete contracts are essentially non-binding agreements. I've never heard of someone getting sued and losing trying to break an employment contract, it just doesn't happen.
So...you disagree with me, and the example you'd use to illustrate the social reasons behind your point is actually not a good one.

Um, thanks for mentioning it?
Yes, some kind of "art objects" I can see selling (speaking as an electronica artist), but t-shirts and typical rock memorabilia seem too gimmicky, like something a hair metal band would do.

I would also consider artistic/theatrical type shows, like The Residents use to do --things that are not tied to the typical "come to hear a band playing their same ole songs live".
Erjang is looking good, they have almost implemented the full functionality in the standard BEAM implementation. You can quite happily run distributed Erjang together with distributed Erlang BEAM, it is very impressive. As LFE (Lisp Flavoured Erlang) runs without problems on Erjang (it would be surprising otherwise) this means that there is now another Lisp on the JVM.
Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Internet so you can focus
Considering their TOS for the graph data - summary don't use the data to target ads, its just a matter of time before they launch this.
You make a good point, though I wish you hadn't called mine retarded.

we have had better ways of judging danger since the dark ages.

That's true. And if you trust scientists and the FDA to do their jobs, you're all set. But what if you don't? Let's say that I'm at the supermarket in a small, poor country with a corrupt FDA, and I want to buy some juice. Well, I'm going to favor those brands with natural ingredients (and hope that the ingredient list is correct). Maybe that's a stupid move, but it has served me well so far.
Game Based Marketing
After hearing enough mentions of Quora I went to look at it and found nothing but a sign-up page. The "about" page reads like someone tried to translate their schema into English; it tells me what the thing does but gives me no hint as to why I should care. Is there some other entrance that lets you see actual content?

Why are people using this site? How do they find out that there's something worth using inside? I only guess that they are doing so because enough people are talking about it, but I suppose that could just mean that Quora is spending a lot on PR.
What Happened to Net Neutrality?
I know this attitude won't win very many friends, but I wouldn't accept a position where I wasn't asked to write code during the interview.

I'm going to be writing code for money and they don't want me to prove that I can before hand? That's like hiring a "farmer" from the inner-city.
Ask HN: ADrive offers 50GB of free storage. Why had I never heard of it?
http://www.adrive.com/
Just wondering if anybody had heard anything about this company or used the product. Supposedly they offer 50GB free and operate sort of like DropBox. Today is the first I'd heard of it so I thought I'd ask HN if you had any experience with it.
Google's online application asks for your SAT scores. That always struck me as odd.
>People will indeed give up gain in order to punish anti-social behaviour. You don't have to think very long to see why we have evolved that way.

Whither free will? Some people will not give up personal gain to punish someone’s "anti-social behaviour", have they not also evolved? I think they just make a decision based on their point analysis.
Yeah, the Business Insider questions were certainly not real. I actually got several questions from family members and friends about it after that article ran. The reality is at once much more pedestrian and more interesting (if you consider algorithm or system design questions more interesting than brain teasers like I do).
MyDLP (open source anti-WikiLeaks software)
WikiLeaks has continued to release diplomatic cables of U.S. government into the public domain. WikiLeaks claims that they have 15,652 secret and 101,748 confidential cables with a grand total of 251,287, including the unclassified cables. The sheer size and potential impact of the leaked material easily makes this incident not only the biggest data leakage incident but also the most serious security breach of any kind yet known.

Bradley Manning, a U.S. soldier, allegedly smuggled confidential data out of a U.S. army base in Iraq, using rewritable CDs and memory sticks. As an intelligence analyst, Manning had access to secret government network and he was using it as a part of his routine work. Apart from his daily work, Manning analyzed and collected classified cables day to day and then he delivered them to WikiLeaks. In chat logs published in Wired magazine, Manning identifies the key weaknesses that allow him to smuggle the data. According Manning, bringing CDs were common at the base and watching for any suspicious activity coming out of local networks was not a priority.

Currently, U.S. and other effected governments try to resolve the outcome of this incident. Access to WikiLeaks is banned in several countries and some mirrors of WikiLeaks pulled the plug due to pressure. Manning was arrested before publication of cables and an international arrest warrant was issued for WikiLeaks founder Assenge. However this efforts are futile and the damage has been already done.

Incidents like these reveal importance of information security again and again. In fact, if MyDLP was deployed at U.S. base in Iraq or at headquartes in U.S., events would have been developed very differently. Dense and frequently repeated access to sensitive documents would be detected and logged, also authorities would be informed about the incident. Beyond this, MyDLP would automatically percieve these documents as confidential files, notice data leakage possibility and block copying these files to removable media. MyDLP probably would have prevented this huge data leakage.
Jay Adelson's Photos - Misc Stuff
Please be careful, I intentionally made there to be no easy way (it can actually be reversed in one command but not in the interface) to re-enable internet access before the timeout. Hope you like it!

Github: https://github.com/benofsky/Focus.app
I think this comes up because natural substances tend to have a longer history of usage. I'd take a natural additive that has been generally proven safe by 500 years of human history over a synthetic chemical that was (supposedly) shown to be reasonably safe through 5 years of lab testing.
Apple License Restriction Said To Be Under Restricted License
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2053594
Sure, if something is useful, and superior to free alternatives, I'll shell out money for it. If it's free and I really love it, I'll donate, too. I'm more likely to pay if I have to, though!
Forgive my ignorance, but when is this useful?

Don't most self-respecting DNS providers allow you to do this?
Dev Meet-ups in Boston (January)
(IANAL) The only essential property of a contract is that it is agreed upon by both (all) parties. The purpose of paper, much less well-formated paper, is to provide documentary evidence should a dispute arise.

Verbal and even implicit contracts technically have the same legal weight as anything a lawyer writes up and prints out. It's just harder to prove that the agreement took place and what the precise terms were.
I agree. I never worked overtime in my internship but was extended an offer. My review doesn't say how much I worked but what I accomplished and delivered.
Sometimes nature is out to cooperate with you or merely take advantage of you, for example: fruit.

I don't think the intent is to kill with poisons as much as to serve the ultimate goal of most organisms, self preservation.
Ok, possibly interesting. What's it for? The about page says it's for sending small bits of JSON around. Why would I want to do that?
IANAL, but from what I see, in this case there is a contract, if the two of you started doing business. It might, or might not, be the one you handed that wasn't throw back in your face. if they filed it, still have it, refer to it in deciding how much to pay you, what work you need to be doing for them, etc - those are all very good signs that's the one. or it might be oral, implied, etc. The court would probably recognise all the terms that weren't in dispute (i.e. the ones you didn't black out). These things vary with the court, the judge, the jurisdiction...

what is certain (which you said) is that you can't be sued for the term you blacked out; there's little conceivable way you can be held to have agreed to that.

what is said above about arbitration clauses seems to me to be wonderful advice. Because the above just isn't the case in front of an arbitrator. They might well decide that the fair decision is that even though you blacked out the line, you are still in the wrong - for misleading the company, breaching a very similar implied term, or else. Cut it out.
For a first round phone interview for an engineering internship at Google, I was asked to solve a reasonably challenging question (I don't want to give it away, but it was algorithmic in nature and involved no code). When I got it right, the interviewer asked me to write an inductive proof of my solution and email it to him.

I like doing stuff like that so I wasn't upset in the least, but I can understand why many people would find that scary and I certainly think Google's interview process is more extreme than others'. I've interviewed successfully with Goldman Sachs, Amazon, and Microsoft (among others) so that's to whom I'm comparing them.
Interview with Shacked founder and iPad developer Chad Podoski
Today we have an interview with Chad Podoski iPad developer and founder of Shacked. Their first app is called Flickpad, a very nice Flickr app. Enjoy the interview.
The Case of the Fallacious Textbook, Part II
even if you didn't read it, in the UK at least (L'estrange v Graucob, IIRC).

Mind you, EU law (and hence, UK law) might strike out some terms as unfair. And public policy is also grounds for certain (extreme) contracts to be outlawed - for slavery, for example.
Yes. This works on the DNS level, so it doesn't matter what technology your site uses.

But as others pointed out, decent DNS registrars will let you do this in your DNS administration account. Which is much safer.
I hate to pull a [Citation Needed] especially when I won't provide my own, but I find it really hard to believe that DMB was the most consistently popular musician of any generation. He's never been Elvis big, Beatles big, or even Jay Z or Bon Jovi big. (Bon Jovi only being referenced in the original article because they took the number one slot, not because the author was a huge fan.)

He's very popular, has a pretty good niche, don't get me wrong. (Must... Resist... urge... to... crack... on... lacrosse... players...) But I think plenty of people would be surprised that he was in that top ten list, not just old timers.
Immutability being possible is not the same as mutability being impossible (or the rare exception that is dealt with in a special manner).

His point is that since in Scala mutability is possible (and indeed is idiomatic) you run into concurrency concerns.
Here is some very good discussion of (failed) attempts to replicate the study, and at least one possible methodological flaw that could invalidate some of the results:

http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2010/11/brief-note-dar...

"The real lesson? This is the level of methodological scrutiny every paper should receive, and not just the ones you think are crazy: the ones you like and rely on for your own work should get a good working over like this too (especially these ones; and I'm as guilty on this as everyone else)."
The lack of textural variety is the main thing that puts me off frozen foods as well. Choosing a frozen meal over a restaurant meal is like choosing to eat at an old folks home instead of accepting a friend's home-cooked dinner invite.

Also, people deep fry steak? Mind blown. I didn't know people did that.
That whole “Google cares about GPA even for people
years out of college” thing? I supposed I can’t
speak for every hiring committee, but I never
remember my hiring committee discussing the GPA
of a professional candidate. For that matter,
we were never even given a candidate’s GPA unless
he/she elected to put it on their resume.

This doesn't jive with what I know of the process. Tom Galloway's response in the comments, however, does:

GPA/SAT/GRE: Perhaps not in Engineering so much, but
a *lot* of non-Eng HR and HCs did do cuts based on what
school someone attended and/or their GPA and test scores.
And I know for a fact that even Eng applicants who had
been out of school for over a decade were asked for such
on a regular basis. There were a number of us, mostly
older types, who semi-actively campaigned against Google
asking for such from folk who’d been out of school for a
while as we felt it 1) was useless relative to their
actual job performance and 2) it was embarrassing *to*
Google for us to ask for such irrelevant info and gave
up a bad impression/rep.
While it's true that physical infrastructure is never free, there is communications infrastructure available that is truly independent and distributed. For example, Ham Radio has the ability to send digital signals around the world. Equipment is required, of course, and our overlords have ruled that encryption on these bands is illegal, and that it cannot be used for business purposes, and so on.

In fact the rules and restrictions governing Ham transmissions are very interesting in light of the evil government/corporate overlord tone of the article.

The book Little Brother by Cory Doctorow proposed a free distributed network formed by peer-to-peer links on hacked game consoles with wifi. Certainly something like that could be done with various technologies we have today including hacked wireless routers.

However untenable the situation, we're (surely? hopefully?) in a better position to do it with today's technology than we were a few decades ago.
Errr. I don't really see how your point is relevant. I guess you thought I meant "I didn't want change", or that "there's no point in trying because it will never happen".

What I actually said, and perhaps I should have been clearer was: there is not a single thing any group of people (we), any size, no matter of what "civillian" importance you are can do to change a single thing about how your government operates, or how it regulates its money supply.

Least of all, an online community of any type, especially one thats campaigning for data. I know this is going to read like I'm a dick, but I'm not. I just know there is one thing I am certain of: the world if fu* corrupt. AWFULLY so.

If the government official in the video, who was hired by Obama to oversee the fed, doesn't have access to the data, and won't answer that/those questions - then who does? Nobody within the organisation we call "the government".

Moreso, if they do have the data and they just aren't sharing it, then its double bull because that in my book, is a bit hooky.

Edit: so I suppose my conclusion is, given that the government either doesn't have, or isn't sharing the data. How are you peaceful protestors going to get this data out of them? Assuming of course if the government doesn't have the data your battling a faceless, nameless, infinitely wealthy enemy. Or that if its the government, well, they have an army.

So now, you can see why I think a campaign for data is borderline ridiculous. But very commendable given I'm not doing a single thing to change things. That goes without saying.

Edit 2: It all comes down to incentives, and I would be surprised if anybody could fathom and incentive that would make them hand over all the money, all the power, all the land and all the fun in the world. Which is this campaigns ultimate aim, through uncovering bad behaviour in the data. Unless of course you have a jar of flying powder, or eternal life juice.
In my experience interviewing at Google, the article is accurate. Granted this was a handful of years ago and things may be different now, but I wasn't asked brain teasers and I was asked to code on the white board.

Where my experience does slightly differ than the article, was their use of your academic records. They didn't care about my GPA, mostly because I dropped out of college very quickly and I don't have a GPA to care about, but they did care I didn't have a college degree and used that to justify the offer I was given.
If it's pseudorandom, that means there's some form of pattern in the numbers it generates. It's impossible (or at least unreasonably hard) to know whether the person doing the test may subconciously guess or estimate the pattern. That invalidates the whole test.
Just to make sure no one gets the wrong idea, some contracts don't need to be written. Some do. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds for examples where a written contract is necessary.
The movie had an interview with a Jerry Springer style talk show host guy, and his take on it was that most of the people who took to the streets during the revolution left the country when they realised that in the new capitalism would be owned by the old ex-Securitate(sp?) types. The people who were left were the fearful keep-your-head-down types that watched everything on tv, the people from the countryside who wouldn't even have good enough roads to make it to a protest, and the people who weren't that dissatisfied with the way it was.

So basically, he said that the culture of protest got a train ticket and left.
New Site BigScreenTweets.com See Which Movie Stars, Cast and Crew Have Twitter
I've noticed these archetypes as well (in Texas), and its interesting to see that the US public schooling system, US college system, and even US pop culture / social norms aren't necessary for these to arise. they appear more universal in nature than I would have thought.
I sit them on "the step" (which is any step in a quiet place where they're supposed to think about their actions). Hence I get told "you've got to sit on the step" when they don't like one of my edicts for some reason.

I simply challenge their dislike, if I am wrong (illogical, false premise, unnecessarily tedious, or whatever) then I apologise and we continue. Generally they do not want to listen to [my] reason as it compels them to accede although I am [shock horror] proven wrong occassionally (at this stage it tends to be on matters of fact). I guess I could get in trouble when they argue for a democratic right or somesuch at which point they learn about parental autocracy ...
I'm not at all surprised that bloggers, then media, recycle garbage stories that get pageviews. "Bullshit laundering", as reddit recently coined it.
isn't the definition

/bin system binaries for all users
/sbin system binaries for root
/usr/bin distro binaries for all users
/usr/sbin distro binaries for root
/usr/local/bin binaries managed by repository, but not by distro for all users
/usr/local/sbin binaries managed by repository, but not by distro for all root
/opt/bin/ user compiled and installed binaries for all users
/opt/sbin/ root compiled and installed binaries for root purposes

more or less? I would expect GEMs to follow behaviour?