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There is absolutely zero reason why HR/recruiting people should have final say on a candidate. None. It should be inconceivable, at a technical company, to hand over that much hiring power to a non-technical person.

HR people are valuable in a company. But their role is to get resumes in front of the real decision makers, and to take care of all the stuff like W-2 forms and whatnot nobody wants to deal with, not make decisions about who to hire.

It seems weird to me that so many tech companies have adopted this particular Big Corp characteristic, because it's certainly not a universal phenomenon. A tech company is not Wal-Mart. Its hiring process should not be structured like Wal-Mart. People are the lifeblood of a technical company. Tech companies should not therefore look to Big Corps who just hire large amounts of unskilled labor. They should look, instead, at how hiring is done at a consulting company or an investment bank, companies that are also reliant on skilled people as their most important asset. At those places, from your screening interview forward, you are only evaluated by someone on the business side of things. It might be a junior analyst or a senior managing director,[1] but it's someone who does the work that makes the business money. HR's job is to get good candidates in front of those people.

At least in my experience, start-ups and very small tech companies do this right, out of necessity. Where I used to work, interviews would involve talking with a few line engineers, then the VP of Engineering, then briefly the CEO (who was a technical person). I think as companies get bigger, they feel like they need to adopt the Big Corp model. But this start-up model of hiring scales just fine to companies of 500-1,000 technical people if you're willing to create a culture where everyone, especially the top technical leadership, is personally invested in hiring and devotes a reasonable amount of time to evaluating people.

[1] Anecdote: I once had a screening interview conducted by the managing partner of the D.C. office of a major law firm. He flew out to Chicago for a day every year to talk to prospective entry-level candidates.
I agree with you, that's why I said that the beginning is the only very informative part (creation of money, the origins with gold) which was new to me as I'm not born in the US.
The $1 million a year software developer
Shopify POS - bridging the gap between offline and online retail
> I'm dating at the moment and find it difficult to succinctly describe my occupation in a way that does not kill the conversation dead

As a general rule, don't answer questions like that straight. They're bound to kill the conversation, you're not at a job interview.

Jewel thief ("casing the joint" if it fits), duck cleaner (watch dirty jobs), art forger ("-- Really?! Can you draw something for me? -- No, that would be original art.")... will all go over much better than whatever your real occupation is.

It's the same with age ("64, hanging in there! Just 8 more months to retirement. Great genes though, right?"), where you're from, what your hobbies are... The difference between lying and flirting is that the embellishment should be almost obvious.
Can someone enlighten me as to why google doesn't want to make an enterprise play? Many companies tout that they are offering data infrastructures similar to those used at google..why wouldn't google commercialize that technology themselves? It should be pretty obvious as to how that could be of huge financial benefit to the company.
WebRTC and HD support coming to Hangouts
There is the samsung Rugby. Hardened, waterproof, etc.
I got the 11" rather than the 13"- fits better on an airplane tray table and $100 is $100. I was paranoid Xcode wouldn't fit within its tiny screen but its non-retina screen is still very densely packed with pixels and my eyes still work wonderfully with it. Terminal windows similarly work great.

The 8GB is a no-brainer, but it also makes it a little harder to buy from just anywhere, and it's non-upgradable RAM so you have to make the commitment up front. I didn't see much point for going for a more powerful processor; if you push it, an MBA, even topped out, is never going to hold its own against bigger computers- that's not why people get MBA's.

The SSD, which you can get on any size of iron these days, may be a very pleasant adjustment as well.

You can also take $121 off your up-front price by buying mail-order from a company that does not charge sales tax in your state (note: Amazon is no longer in that category).
There was an article a few days ago entitled "Bullshit Jobs" regarding how we fill the economy with sinecures (albeit soul-crushing, depressing sinecures) perhaps in some futile attempt to give everyone a job to do (regardless of ability or attitude).

I think a real problem arises when people don't realise that their job is a bullshit job, or worse - they start drinking the kool-aid. I'm sure most homeopaths believe strongly in the methods they use and feel they are doing good. Maybe most of the time that's harmless and can be humoured. But on the odd occasion when they believe so strongly that they reject scientific treatments to the patient's detriment, it is actively harmful.

Here an HR rep who was given psychometric tests to play with forgot that he was just playing and fucked over a competent job applicant, as well as his own company.
Not sure if you know about IJulia [0]--they've been working a lot with the IPython folks. I haven't tried it, but it looks promising.

[0] https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl
I don't think this is that big a deal.

What I think is funny is when an ingredient can both be found in nature (e.g. in the shell of a beetle) or made in a lab, but the generally more expensive and lower quality natural version is chosen so the product can be "all natural."
Sorry for the late reply....

At the moment I've got the KickStarter board down to 4mA when idle (as it can sleep) - when executing code I think it's around 40mA. Hopefully by release time I'll have sorted out a few glitches and got it down to under 1mA idle (in the range zokier noted).

Note that with something like 'setInterval(doStuff, 1000)' the processor will be idle for 99% of the time.

Running off a li-ion battery from an old Nokia phone (700mAh) you could then expect Espruino to run for almost a month. Using the battery out of my Galaxy S3 (2100mAh) it'd run for almost 3 months.
Really, you're bringing in ethnics and politics in this?

You should be blaming the governments for allowing everybody to bypass the taxes with BS loopholes and everything.

It's not ethnics, it's pure business. Apple is a business, just like Dell, HP, etc, their primary function is to maximize the profits at any given costs. If there are loopholes in the tax laws that allows the companies to legally not pay taxes, it is their function to take advantage of it. The US government confirmed that Apple DID NOT BREAK any laws.

IIRC, the top 20 companies didn't pay 1.2 trillion of dollars that they would own to US government if there were no loopholes.

Every frigging tech company is pulling the same BS.

Now, turning their OS more into a cage? Proof? I haven't seen them do anything in the last 5 years to turn OS X into a cage.

Factories, really? Apple is just a small part of the big problem here, and Apple is actually the one of the FEW companies that mandated the factories to improve their stuff. I don't see anybody else on public saying they'll force the factories to do stuff.

In other words, buying or not buying a Mac, IT WILL NOT CHANGE ANYTHING.

He needs a good product, he can get a MBA if he wants. If he wants to fight the power, he can do it on a MBA that'll last 12+ hour for him.
Exactly, mac laptops are great windows and usually good linux machines too
Screw ideas - your idea sucks
Flipside: GCSB bill.
Well, i am from Eastern Europe too, and my business can be best described exactly as yours, and i don't see absolutely any stigma. Everyone is ready to accept that running a small business is way better than working 9-5 for a meager wage.

Maybe in U.K. or Germany it might sound as 'unemployed', but in Eastern Europe 'employed' almost always means 'poor loser' unless you work for a big name company (SAP/Gazprom) or at least a mid-tier manager. So, there is more stigma attached to employment than unemployment. In fact, many people just tell to girls 'i don't work' and that adds to their image rather than subtracts. Remember old Soviet curse "i wish you live on your salary alone!"

If you feel bad telling you don't work 9-5, buy a sports car. It helps.
I have two questions:

1. I want to engrave international symbols by myself. Will they have a backlight like original symbols?

2. Many people around the web are very pleased with their Cherry MX based keyboards. This is understandable when they are switching from cheap keyboards with same keystroke length. But what about people that have switched from laptop or Apple keyboards with shorter keystrokes? I found for myself that twice shorter keystroke is also twice comfortable (much less movements for fingers). Does it make a sense to try again a keyboard with long keystrokes, but with good mechanics like the CODE? Has anybody tried to use CherryMX keyboard after using laptop or any other keyboard with short keystrokes? Could you share your experience?
In my experience Agency recruiting (on behalf of another recruiting agency) is indeed usually done because the original recruiting agency couldn't fulfill the entire contract. So they find whoever will give them the highest markup from the smaller agencies and contract it out to them.

Kind of like picking the lowest possible bidder for a construction contract, it doesnt usually go well.
This was a feature actively being abused by certain users(google "Reply Girls", potentially NSFW) to piggyback off of popular videos and sometimes even enrage communities associated.
Company in question: Kaonix - http://www.kaonix.com/
Mozilla Privacy Roadmap: Tor and Advancing Anonymity
> Which isn't many, but it might have been critical to those 4.

http://xkcd.com/1172/
I just use http://forecast.io saved to my home screen.
I agree; the one to get is Ringke Fusion. I didn't take the original screen film off - free screen protector!
Anandtech has done an in-depth review on precisely this (the i5 vs i7 on the MBA), and it seems like battery life is not really affected (in a few case it is - but the difference is negligible).
I've been using the same Lenovo X200 for four years and have been extremely happy with it. I'm running Linux on it these days after getting tired of dealing with Windows for the first year.

The display resolution has become a drag though (same 1366x768 as the x220). I love the portability and durability of this machine, but I've notice I tend to hack when plugged into an external monitor more over the last year rather than just using the laptop alone.

I've started eye-balling the X230, mainly because you can cram 16GB of ram into it. I would also consider looking at some of the newish T430s/T431s. Better displays, still under 4 lbs.If you buy a Thinkpad new, get the cheapest configuration you can and upgrade the memory (I've used crucial.com) and drop in an ssd yourself - you'll save hundreds of dollars.
c25k isn't HIIT(high intensity interval training). It is just IT.

HIIT would be more like (sprint for 30 seconds, jog for 30 seconds) * 8
I do what I want, when I want. Right now I want a sandwich. (Insert long pause and do not speak again until she gets you a sandwich.)
The Triumph of Shutting Down of a Feature
I disdain idiotic psych "tests". The mentality of "here's a few questions and now I know how you think or what kind of person you are" is, frankly, insulting.
How to upgrade 50M+ user indexes to a new search engine without anybody noticing
Online, Asynchronous Schema Change in F1
> I don't even know where to start

But then the article is very short with very little substantial problems. The galaxy S series has been using a lock-screen like this for ages and they seem to be doing just fine.
Of all the things that could be said about iOS 7, I think the lockscreen is one of the least likely to cause problems. People unlock their phones dozens of times a day, my guess is that people will learn it after 2 times. The thousands of times after that it won't be a problem.
Ask HN: Would you store basic server information in your GitHub repository?
A few weeks ago, I mentioned offhandedly to our Operations team that for each website our developers work on, we create a README.md file geared towards allowing anyone to jump in and have a chance in hell of debugging a critical issue.

What that means in concrete terms is that the README.md file lists:

A) The hostnames of each Nginx server used for that site

B) The hostname(s) of the MySQL servers used

C) The memcached server hostname and port

D) The document root folder the website runs at

E) The path to the error and access logs for that site

Yesterday I received an e-mail from the head of Operations requested that I take that information out of GitHub and place it on our internal corporate wiki. The rationale was that "this information resides on a third-party system that details out information that could be easily used to penetrate our systems."

I replied back that I'd remove information about the database (passwords were never listed) completely, but as we dole out work to outside vendors, and our corporate wiki cannot be accessed externally without VPN, I wasn't willing to remove basic hostname or path information and add a step or two to basic understanding of the system without good reason. As we trust 100% of our intellectual property (code) to GitHub, getting a list of hostnames by accessing our repositories is to me the least of our concerns.

I am wrong to not comply with the request?
Is sending it off for 2 weeks the only official option for screen replacement?
Kellogg and Nabisco often stock the shelves themselves as well. And the Asian/International aisle is stocked by the vendor sometimes as well.
Author's problem seems to be "what I thought would make me happy doesn't"—so the issue isn't that "do whatever makes you happy" is a lie, it's that it's a learning process, not something who h involves one choice and never thinking again.
One interesting interpretation is the ratio of people with desk jobs consisting of 50% (or higher) fooling around vs sweaty manual labor jobs has led to the average American perhaps only working 20 hours a week right now.

Think of pointless meetings, smoke breaks, soda breaks, talking about sports, life, hobbies, debating/complaining, talking politics, talking about TV shows, online shopping, keeping up with twitter/FB/Linkedin, Hacker News, the average cubie dweller probably only puts in 10-20 hours a week of actual work right now.

"Everyone knows" the guy who's forced to put in 60 hours at the office who spends 50 of those hours on FB / Reddit / talking about football, etc.

There's a Russian proverb about we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.

If you define work as "hours spend on premises" then no one has worked as many hours as Americans do today since the early 1900s. If you define work as actually doing something productive, well, thats a whole nother ball game.
I understand it as 4 in a million are clicking on video responses. People creating video responses as self-gratification might care a lot about it..
our HR is concerned that squat rack can hurt someone
Pulse of the Alley – John Synder, CEO of Grapeshot
>Android OS drains the battery in 6 hours

My better life is around 20 hrs on average, with "medium" usage.
I Didn’t Sign Up For This
Interesting that Go lost so heavily to Ruby on amount of code (~ 3x more on average.)
you're right. But there is limitation on the title - 80 chars.
Compared to ?

It's not an apple to apple (huhu) comparison but here are models with similar performance range:

https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/galu1 with 120GB SSD and 8GB of ram is worth $1169.- Much bulkier. Has a CD slot.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/s-series/s431/ with 8GB of ram is worth $949.52.-
> 1) Retire a feature

> 2) Offer a half-arsed work-around

Oh man, so many times.

They recently did the same thing to /my_subscriptions, which was the only proper way to keep up with a lot of subscriptions. It was a grid view where watched videos would disappear. The only option now is a "feed" view where it's a long list and watched videos are just grayed out.

It has produced quite a lot of anger[0] and two kinds of solutions have emerged - one is userscripts that restyle the new "feed" view into a grid and another one is what I'm currently working on[1] - a proper replacement page that just uses the YouTube API, stores your history locally and lets you hide videos that you don't want to watch (this was why I wanted to build this, even before they removed the original grid view).

[0] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/uVzkG...
[1] http://daviddeutsch.github.io/yt-sanegrid/
Wow. The articles about completely idiotic hiring procedures never cease--because the reality of companies using idiotic hiring procedures never ceases--and each new submission is actively discussed here on Hacker News. How to hire good workers is already a solved problem, but most hiring managers don't do even minimal research to find out what best practice is.

I'm told that this Hacker News community disfavors repeated posting of FAQ posts as comments, but this is a Frequently Asked Question (what's really the best way to hire good workers) and over the last year or two here on Hacker News I've put together a post with a lot of references to the best research. A recent posting of that here on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923

could help companies cure their idiotic hiring procedures. Read the FAQ if you haven't read it before. (Please let me know what you think of it, as I have been doing more research so that I can refine the FAQ and post it on my personal website.) There is no good reason for companies to do anything less than the best when setting up hiring procedures. Protect yourself by knowing what effective hiring procedures look like and how to find companies that use them.
Yes, phusion was a viable contender for a brief timeframe. That was 5 years ago, in 2008, until unicorn came around in 2009.

I don't see how their standing in 2008 excuses them to use shady trojan horse sales tactics to push their rather mediocre product in 2013.
How to accept an array in a shortcode
Wouldn't the Hong Kong escalators count as moving side walks?
Obligatory manhood reference: http://manhood101.com/
None of those are machines. Those are likely all free-weights. I only say "likely" for the bench press, as it could be a machine, but is unlikely. People that do squats and deadlifts tend not to do their bench press on a machine.
Same here. I also feel like the Gnex had a better form factor, and I liked the screen colours better.

If you miss stuff, try using an app that repeats them at an interval, sorry, can't remember the name now.
I got the front & back xtremeguards for mine and have no problem with it slipping. They're not perfect and there may be a better manufacturer, but I didn't want to add bulk to the phone and they were running their 80% off special. http://www.xtremeguard.com/LG-Google-Nexus-4-Screen-Protecto...
I wouldn't call a barbell a machine.
Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders
This is pretty cool, great work!
How are you finding the products? Computer Vision?
Would NZ accept patents from USA (or other WTO countries), in legal processes?
When I was still at the university, our statistics class was used as a sample for a company creating such tests.

We had to fill out a test and hand a second form to someone who knew us well enough to judge our social behaviour.

The goal of this was to validate that the test.

When asked what would happen if the test was not valid, the company representative answered:

"There are 2 ways to handle such a proiblem: we can change the test or we can try again with another sample group. We prefer to change the sample group."
It's not so much that I spend a lot of time punching keys, it's just that I don't want to /think/ about punching keys. If a keyboard is off, it's always a slight distraction while you're trying to focus on other things.
I second this. There are plenty of free, accurate and beautiful weather apps available. I was kind of hoping there would be a page which shows what _unique_ features this app provides which would be worth paying for. The features listed are available in most mainstream weather apps.
That was very possibly a white lie. In this egalitarian, self-esteem is paramount
era, many will be more comfortable saying "it wouldn't be fair" as opposed to "you FAILED."

Another employee vouching for you isn't quite the same thing.
I used to work in a flavor company. "Natural" strawberry flavor also uses an ingredient extracted from rotten eggs. It has to have at least some of what it says it is (like strawberry extract) to be called what it is, but this can be like one drop in a barrel. Also, if you add even the smallest amount of natural flavor to an artificial flavor, you can call it "Natural and Artificial."

Basically, the artificial flavors are really cheap, so people try to avoid the natural stuff when customers don't care.

But on that note, there are some good ingredients, since some flavors are too hard to create unless you use the real stuff (like black tea -- you just overbrew it to make a concentrate).
Is the HR manager's name Catbert?

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-11-13/
Ack re: Firefox branding. However the FHS stuff was also part of it - see post from a Mozillian here: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=211
Why Windows 8 should have been for touchscreens only
Seems to be broken when pasting a Youtube URL? (showing an error, but its indexed aparently)

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofitTGfcz6k

Facebook only login :(
7 years of mistakes & the ultimate secret of business success
Is the repository public? In this case there may be security risks, and a cracker may end up guessing clues about your internal network and infrastructure architecture.
One thing I would like to point out is - that even after those 3 years - you'd get a pretty good price for the MBA if you sold it second hand (given that it still works)

They were surprised here at work that when they sold their perfectly working 3-y old "end of life" Macbook Pro's they still got about €1000 for them (originally costing +-€2300)
"Processed yeast and algae Vegemite and nori flakes aside, not so much. And I really don't see the cultured burger going very far."

Soy is a cheaper raw material. Not his fault. Given that, he turned out 100% correct.

"Undoubtedly, the world of A.D. 2014 will have agreed on the [lowering the birth rate]. Sadly, not."

images.google.com world birth rate graph, when he wrote this the world's total fertility rate is the average woman squirted out a hair under five kids, and its been a smooth line decline since then to a hair over two and a half kids now.

When you add some permanent long term economic decline to the mix, you could see total fertility rate dropping below the 2.1 or whatever it takes to maintain population in a stable culture. The current 2.5 might not be enough to maintain population in an unstable culture. Already numerous individual 1st world countries are below a 2 TFR aka their population is in permanent long term decline if not for 3rd world immigrants. Economists like to bake a population growth based increase in their estimates, makes them look better, so they hate that. Everyone else thinks its probably a good idea.