skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From memory, it goes something like this for technical positions:

Initial telephone call with a HR person, where you are asked to rank yourself on a scale of 0 to 10 in a number of technical areas. Some simple technical questions, where the HR person has the answer in front of them, with ample remarks from Google engineers to help them judge if you completely failed or had a clue.

3 telephone calls with Google engineers, where you're asked to solve technical problems and questions over the phone. Some of this may involve programming "live" in a Google Doc where the interviewer is connected to.

You're flow in to a Google location. (You don't get to choose which one) 5 Live interviews over 45 minutes each where you're asked to solve technical problems on a blackboard. Most of them aren't extremely difficult, but they cover a wide enough range of topics (and the interviewers go in depth on each one of them) so you should expect to struggle with some of them. During the break at noon you're shown all the perks of the relevant Google office.

You're flown home. You may or may not get an additional phone interviews. At the end, the HR person guiding the process subjects your file to a hiring committee. After a week or two they call you back and tell you if you made it or not.

Sounds about correct that the entire process takes 3 months. The time in between phone interviews takes a while, you need to find mutual scheduling for being flow in, etc.
Couldn't you just use Google Maps? You can mark certain areas of the map to be cached for offline usage.
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Have you tried Google maps offline mode map downloading? Might not allow downloading such a large area but worth a shot.
Wow! Thank you! I was very confused how to read the rest of the story, noted the date, and realized it HAD to be finished, and was about to google for each section..

Very helpful, thank you.
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I think Google are going to lose out though. This was a potentially huge launch. For example: The Guardian has absolutely nothing on this at the moment, but they were all over Surface and the iPad Mini. They'll catch up in a couple of days, but there will be no livestream on the Guardian front page etc.
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"Honestly, I don’t know why this simple attack is allowed to work..."

If this 'attack' didn't work then a large amount of what I do every day would become a lot more complicated.
Yea I did a similar thing, but once I got the new job with an awesome raise, it made me think - "should I have applied and interviewed at a lot more places if it was that easy?"
Well, it makes a little less sense on phones, since unless you switch the SIM card, you are still treated as the other person as far as the phone network is concerned. It would be a little odd to be logged in as one person, but the phone network treat you as the other. And since there are features like importing and exporting contacts from the SIM card, those would be more complicated in multi-user scenarios.

I think there's a certain sense that a phone is a much more "personal" device than a tablet. While it would probably be possible to add multi-user support, it would be more difficult, and be less useful, than on a tablet.
Programmers. You know, people who can make inferences.
> Obviously, the copy also needs to be good.

For varying values of 'good'. I think I remember Eben Pagan (aka "David DeAngelo") saying that he split-tested copy with some mistakes and sloppy writing vs copy that was more polished, and got more conversions from the sloppy version. Maybe it gave readers less of a 'slick marketing' vibe?
FYI, when I was there the company policy was that you had to spend 18 months in your initial allocation. Exceptions are... exceptions.
Other vendors have already failed, except on the low cost. Samsung rules the phone market, it is everyday closer to become synonym with Android and could be tempted to secede like Amazon.

That is not a good situation for either Android or Google - and except Google breaking the price, there is little else that can revive the market a little bit.
I'm on chrome 22.0.1229.94 (osx) and it's working fine for me.
The cheapest Windows 8 device that allows you to install desktop software is exactly as expensive as you want it to be. It's a normal PC. Buy a laptop, buy a desktop, build your own; it doesn't matter. It's a PC. You can buy/build one and install Windows 8 on it. You won't see desktops at Best Buy running Windows RT.

Your argument is completely fallacious.
I'd be interested to know if there's something like Papers or BibDesk for Android. Something where you can browse ArXiv, save PDFs for later, and then read and optionally mark up what you've saved. Integration with bibtex would be nice as well.
Personally, I think that this whole "oral exam" style of interview is completely wack. If you have a lot of experience with it, then you are likely to do great, and if you don't, then you are likely to suck at it.

When I was in high school, for instance, I was on the math team, and the first year, I got four questions right the entire year! By the time I was a senior, I got four answers right every meet, on average

Did I get smarter between being a sophomore and being a senior? Not at all! I just had a lot more practice of that style of thinking in that particular kind of situation.

This being said, the golf ball question is no more ridiculous than any of the other questions that Google might ask you. That sort of question is designed to see whether you can do a "back of the envelope calculation" that will get you within an order of magnitude of the right answer. Being able to do this sort of calculation is actually an important skill for any kind of engineer to be able to do. I don't think, however, it important skill to be able to do while in one of the most stressful situations you will ever face in life.

Also, I have to take issue with the claim that Google doesn't ask you brain teasers. I interviewed there about three years ago, and I was definitely asked a brain teaser. It was couched as an algorithms question, but it wasn't the sort that you'd see in a typical algorithms class. It was the sort of question where you only come to the answer by having a leap of insight and a light bulb goes on over your head. I.e., this is how all "brain teasers" work. And most "Mathlete" questions, for that matter.

The problem with this sort of question is that if the light bulb doesn't go off in your allotted 20 minutes, then you look like an idiot. And if it does go off, you look like a genius. What if it goes off after 25 minutes when you're in the elevator? Too bad!

You might argue that you can talk it through, but this doesn't usually work for me. To solve this sort of problem, I usually just have to stare at the wall in silence until it comes to me. During the interview, I drew geometric shapes on a piece of paper. The interviewer must of thought that I was stupid. Or as stupid as you can be while wearing a Brass Rat. Until I came up with the right answer at minute 19.5, and then he must have wrote down, "Very smart indeed!" Or at least that's what I imagine, since they did ask me back for another round.
The "iPad mini vs. other 7" tablet" battle has been going on for a week, but if nothing else I hope these new Nexus tablets force Apple to move away from $100 jumps for memory and $130 jumps for radio.

The ~$450 I paid for a 32GB iPad mini would net me two base Nexus 7s. Alternatively, for $100 less I can get an equivalent Nexus 7...with cell radio. Those jumps add up!
Apple's had a less fancier implementation for quite a while now — thumbnail scrubbing in iPhoto and FCP on the desktop. I don't have any iOS devices to see if they have touch versions of their scrubber but I do remember seeing one on an iPad demo video some time back.
The Galaxy S II has a proper RGB matrix. Galaxy S and Galaxy S3 are pentile though.
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It was in 4.1 all along. Cyanogen just put their own version of the finishing touches on it.

Having different users log in using different pattern unlocks is huge.
Depending on tone, I would treat a candidate who does this as either "really awesome" or "really an asshole." YMMV.
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After careful consideration and reading the page again, I retract everything I said and claim the opposite.

The use of ligatures for icons is ingenious!
A famous writer was asked to give a speech at a conference for people who were trying to get published. He agreed. On the appointed day he walked to the front of the auditorium, stood at the podium, and asked "Why aren't all of you home writing?" and sat down.
>the attitude that it doesn't matter if they weed out tons of great candidates as long as they weed out the bozos too.

What would you do if you got over 2 million applications a year for a few thousand positions?
Decent music production apps. My understanding is that Apple is ahead there due to better sound SDK and hardware standards, lower latency.
// layoffs never target exactly the right set of dead weight// This is exactly what happened today. This layoff is not based on performance (as communicated by the internal email from the director). Several top performers are asked to leave, while under performers are still there.
There's a bunch of stuff here: http://ycuniverse.com/
There's lots of illegal settlements and wells being concreted, though.
How it is native, yet instantly shows any changes you make to all of your users?
Can you really tell the difference between 42mbps and 72?
Those were (are?) the designations for certain types of jobs over there. You might think that if you're hired into the company, your possibilities are wide open, but they aren't. System administrator flavored SREs (site reliability engineers) could only get other SA-flavored jobs, of which there are relatively few. Meanwhile, software engineer (SWE) type SREs could go into any other SWE job, of which there are many.

If you were hired on as a SA-SRE as I was, then you have to do an internal interview to get to be a SWE-SRE. If you can't make it through that, you're stuck. I made it, and a friend did too, but I know people who didn't. I'm sure that makes them feel great, especially if they're already doing SWE type work in their daily jobs.

I was told repeatedly there was no difference between the types, but found out the hard way when it was time to transfer from a toxic situation and there were few alternatives. It took over a year to finally get it all sorted out.
Checking transactions manually, one by one.
Thanks for the blog post. My answer for this question on the w13 application is almost entirely unrelated to tech - now I think this is okay.
Why is it we have amazing 16:10 2560-by-1600 in a 10" tablet but commonplace laptops (13-15") rarely surpass 1680x1050 or even worse 1366x768? Sometimes, on high-end models, you can pay an extra $200 to "upgrade" to 1920x1080 (I'll leave my rant about 16:10 vs. 16:9 for another time).

Technology is so ridiculous at times.
The landing page IMO is missing a few important pieces of information:

- this will not be free post-beta but there's no mention of pricing at all

- the text says 'native' but not which OSes and if the apps can be deployed through the various App Stores

- the rationale for limiting the on-page demo is fine but shouldn't prevent you from linking to a full-feature demo on a secondary page.

Good luck!
The syllabus is typically defined politically, which is anything but homegeneous.

Please look up the definition of homogeneous - being defined politically has nothing to do with it. All calc 1 classes are the same, and some politician demanding that pi=3 doesn't change this.
There is a better alternative: surveying students. Standardized tests attempt to assign one number to teacher performance by quantifying student performance on one three-hour test. The survey examines dozens of metrics while allowing students to capture their over 100 hours of experience in the classroom watching their teacher.

We're discarding some of our most valuable data. In most schools, student evaluations of teachers aren't even administered, let alone analyzed and weighted in teacher assessment. Skeptical? See the research below. Properly-constructed surveys yield very accurate results; students are surprisingly honest in their responses, and students truly value a hard, fair teacher who actually teaches his students over an "easy A" teacher.

Take a look at Ronald Ferguson's work and the MET Project [1]. I can't find the original article, but this New York Times article [2] is a decent summary.

[1] http://www.metproject.org/downloads/met-framing-paper.pdf
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/education/11education.html
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Well done! I signed up for your beta.

I am on the verge of paying $99 for Appsify.me. They have a web based builder tool and claim to generate code for XCode to compile while allowing apps to be extended in ObjC a needed.

Any thoughts on Appsify.me? Are you taking a similar approach?
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Every single thing you do that involves network access of any amount does it faster. Do you enjoy waiting for pages to load and apps to pull in data? LTE isn't about more data per se, it's about faster data. It's entirely possible to use it without downloading any more data and still benefit from it.
> Why is it we have amazing 16:10 2560-by-1600 in a 10" tablet but commonplace laptops (13-15") rarely surpass 1680x1050 or even worse 1366x768?

Because Windows and Windows apps don't support resolution-independent UI scaling.

> Sometimes, on high-end models, you can pay an extra $200 to "upgrade" to 1920x1080

Because they know they can rip you off, and because it's a lot more expensive to produce high resolution displays (or rather, displays of any resolution) when they're being produced in small quantities.
I often wish the minimum brightness on the SGS2 screen were lower. Most of the time I run at the lowest setting, and if I use the phone in a dimly-lit room I further darken it with Screen Filter (to about 35%) to avoid overloading my eyes... Very rarely do I need to use the maximum brightness, except outside in bright sunlight.
Wasn't there a Kickstarter project doing the exact same thing a few month ago?
I had a buddy from high school who was a guard for the Tomb of the Unknown Solider. A very high honor, although I can imagine it would become pretty monotonous. Semper fi.
You can't imagine that Samsung will be thrilled about the Nexus 4. The Galaxy S3 suddenly looks poor value, and that's their flagship device. It was selling in big numbers, and although it's cheaper than the iPhone 5, presumably it's still a very profitable device.

If Google are determined to sell high quality devices at cost to gain market share, and can make the general public aware of this (non-trivial), Apple may find itself as the sole company making big profits from actually selling phone hardware.

That said, only Samsung with their Galaxy brand have come anywhere near the marketing impact of the iPhone, so if Google really want to make an impression, they're going to need market these devices at a level that they've never managed before.
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Very neat! Congrats on launching!

One thing you might try: in the demo, dragging items is missing a bit of "pop"; this is slightly intangible, but it doesn't quite feel like you are picking up something and putting it down.

Not sure if it's this way in the actual app, but you might check out the way that Trello slightly tilts cards when you pick them up, and drops a bit more shadow.

Obviously that's minor: the product as a whole seems solid.
Tenure and Academic freedom are applicable to University professors, not to teachers.
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"Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet."

Yeah, but I'd like to window shop and know what the neighbours are paying, perhaps ask someone over there to buy me one.

I really dislike this automatic geolocation enforcement that Google spreads liberally over all its stuff. At least Apple lets you look at, or even get things from, other country stores with minimal fuss.

(I know, proxies, bleargh.)

P.S. http://www.google.com/nexus/ now has info and pictures viewable anywhere. (Link found in melvinram's comment, thank you.)
Because of the leading desktop operating systems, only Apple has started to divorce screen resolution from UI element sizes, and even that support is half-assed.
Definitely not my experience. I'm sitting miles away from Walnut Creek, a town i the East Bay, and I have LTE on AT&T. I certainly have it anywhere closer to civilization, like SF itself or NYC. I wouldn't call AT&T coverage limited at all.
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"Sometimes its not just about figures."

Neither is it about your anecdotes. This isn't an anti-Apple submission so much as the news of Amazon's first real direct marketing attack on Apple.
The "Metro" version of IE10 doesn't even support Silverlight... I had to switch to the desktop UI on my Windows 8 device.
How is windows app store different from Ubuntu app store

Especially considering that anything not from an app store is much easier to install on Windows (double click on GUI installer) than on Ubuntu (mess around with dependencies, and compiling stuff). Everything on Ubuntu comes from the Ubuntu store, or the Aptitude store. Not an easy task to download something like an exe off the web and install it
True, but hardly relevant to the discussion.
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@merrit - Because it has not been a focus of laptop manufacturers. Instead the focus has been faster CPU's or bigger hard drives. Going premium on the display, means you have to cut on something else to deliver the laptop at the same, and I don't think Intel is going to cut on their CPU prices anytime soon. In some laptops, Intel's chips take up to 40% of the BOM price. That leaves little wiggle room for experimenting with high quality displays.

The good news is that the popularity of high resolution tablets will also force laptop makers into a trend with higher resolutions, too. Asus for example is one of the leaders of this trend, and has even 11.6" laptops with 1920x1080 resolution.
It was probably a deal breaker for a lot of the carriers Google talked to as well. T-mobile is on board for pushing the phone, but the others really prefer any new device to support LTE. It doesn't make sense for them to push devices that don't use the huge amounts of money they are putting into supporting and building out LTE.
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I feel a little odd drinking this while I drink a glass of milk >_>
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Very cool stuff. CloudFlare just keeps getting more and more awesome.
To me it looks like an Imperial Star Destroyer.
I definitely know what you mean, Trello has a really nice effect. Right now we're using vanilla HTML5 drag-and-drop, so that experience is basically controlled by the browser, but we're working on customizing it.
He's got a very impressive portfolio of work: http://hakim.se/
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My wife was a full time teacher (she's now working on her Ph.D in educational technologies), and she's said the same thing over, over, and over again.

Her first year out of her probationary year was a Kindergarden teacher. She had a girl in her class who had telltale signs of EBD (Emotional/Behavioral Disorders), and spent the year trying to convince the girl's mother to seek the appropriate (free) care from the educational system. The mother refused to attend any meeting; my wife eventually drove to her house to find the girl living in a "crack den" (her words). The girl's mother refused to allow her to be tested for EBD, and the girl barely finished the year with passing marks.

Over the summer, the district noticed that my wife wanted to help kids...so, instead of putting her back in Kindergarden the next year, she was reassigned to a juvenile detention center/lockdown facility, where the kids didn't want to be helped. There were instances where they'd pull the kids out of her class, one by one, until it was just her and another student, before they come in to arrest the student for a crime, or, have a disgruntled student show up on my doorstep at midnight with a handgun in his waistband.

Teachers get shit on by society, coworkers, and parents. The good ones are worth their weight in gold. The poor ones need to be replaced with better ones -- the problem is that there's no true way to rank teachers and how they teach that isn't subject to tampering or isn't completely subjective based on inter-school politics.

There's not a good solution to the teaching problem...which is why I'm excited to look at what the technology/startup community comes out with over the next few years. Open Source SIS'es/Course Management/Educational Networking is something that can make the teacher's life easier, and provide pointes and guidance for parents who want to learn more, or students who want to self-learn/pace themselves faster or slower.
From what I know of applications to things like YC, this looks like great advice.

Re: Putnam, this thread was awesome. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35076

"Did you win the Putnam? If not, don't be bolder than this guy."
"Yes, I did."
I'm not quite sure whether there was ever an original source for this claim other than a bunch of tech blogs parroting each other, but iSuppli shows that this was false, at least as of July 11th:

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/pages/Low-End-Google-N...

Sure, if you add in the $25 Google play credit, and leave room for some margin for Asus (since Google is just a reseller), you might get close to breaking even, but as far as I can find, the Nexus 7 was never sold at a loss.
Just being available in the market at those prices will not force Apple to lower theirs. Only if you vote with your wallet and stop buying Apple products for those prices, they'll start to listen.
@mtgx Thanks. Maybe also you could explain why we have to reply to one another in this fashion. HN is the 1366x768 of discussion platforms.
Because your responsibility is to your kids and not to some idealistic vision of what you could be doing to improve the school system as a whole.
Hi HN, so that's my site, and well, I'm feeling pretty dumb right now. I really didn't think that post through--honestly I put more thought into carving pumpkins yesterday. So, here's my retraction that I added to the top of the post:

So, sometimes I am wrong. This attack does work, but it’s irrelevant, and here’s why: if someone has control of the DOM the game is already over, there’s nothing the browser can do for you in that case. It doesn’t really matter that the hover-status can be spoofed at that point. I’ll leave the post up so you can marvel in my stupid, but to summarize–nothing to see here. (At least I’m not throwing banner ads at you.)