skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been approached a few times to interview for "Director, Site Reliability Engineering", which as far as I could tell was leading up the SRE team in Europe.

I had a few conversations but did not take it further. My reasoning was not going further was not the nature of the interview process, although I found it a little strange that they expected a director level position to know how many bits were in a mac address or nature of google as a business but the description of what the engineering team did for the majority of the time. Rather than building 'stuff' the team seemed to be involved in very low level debugging on the Google infra and apps.

I know somebody has to do that stuff but it's not something I was very sold on when it was described to me.

Incidentally the role is still being advertised so maybe finding engineering directors that know how many bits in a mac address or what the default signal sent with a kill command :)

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/10632280
Math Problem Valued At 1 Million $
There are plenty of scientifically well-documented cognitive differences between men and women, though the OP doesn't sound informed on them, and yes it is considered impolite to know about them if you're not working in a psychological research lab.
Completely agree. And it appears that the wife felt completely entitled to behave in this way. Just extraordinary.
Given how long it's been since this was last updated, I wonder if they're still having any success. It seems Google are probably getting better at fraud handling quicker than they can innovate their fraud - and close to 10 years seems like Google would have a huge advantage by now.
This sounds exactly like Lebanon - Materialism like I have never seen on top of a careless attitude towards drugs. It's frightening.
For every impression/click payout that the clandestine "GTTP" network garners, Google the company will also have earned some profits off advertisers which'll be transferred to Google's bank account or used to build more infrastructure.

However, suppose GTTP compromise a significant or even 100% of GOOG's total ad payout; there are three possible scenarios:

a) if Adwords is operating at a loss (a la PS3, unlikely), the shares of GTTP will decrease massively, thereby depressing the shares of GOOG. However if GOOG wants to facilitate the transfer of the company of GTTP, it'd continue to operate at extreme loss by transferring more money to GTTP via Adwords loss until the shares goes down minimally $0.001 on OTC market (a la LEH). Then GTTP can acquire a worthless asset.

b) Adwords is generating a net profit more than the payout to GTTP. Net profit not in terms of net income but in the sense that the profit/intangible valuation of Google's use of revenue from GTTP's generated ads to build out infrastructure and human resources. GTTP's activity will then boost the shares of GOOG, given that GTTP generate a fixed amount of money for GOOG; using discount cashflow model, that means whatever GTTP's income cannot outpace the GTTP-GOOG Adwords unit's constantly rising valuation. (Think of this using a shareholder's dividend to cannibalize the company; or using a child's allowance to buy his/her parent).

c) Adwords is generating a net profit but less than the payout to GTTP. Basically a company distributing the bulk of its net profit to shareholders as dividend than using it to reinvest in R&D/infrastructure. In practice, GTTP's internal shareholders would likely revolt given GOOG's business model of growth (vs. say sleepier industries such as utility). But let's suppose say for the sake of the argument, that GTTP shareholders are agreement to cannibalize GOOG, they can do it! Given that the accumulated annual income generated by GTTP outpaces the market valuation of GOOG. (Think of WhatsApp founders cash out of 16B of FB stock or Mark Cuban with Broadcast.com at the height of YHOO's valuation, and the valuation of GOOG or FB decrease enough and/or they kept siphoning income to buy the company at a later time.)
> I'm sorry you find his story inconvenient to your Monsanto cheerleading

It's hardly "inconvenient." Not only was he guilty of A) acknowledging Monsanto's value-addition by isolating the seeds and B) using but not paying for that value-addition, but he then went on a media tour to cash in on the Monsanto hate by lying repeatedly about the case to cast himself in a positive light. And then he used the media attention as a springboard for his political career. He's a scumbag, which is hardly "inconvenient" for people who don't hate Monsanto.

> I (and I feel many others) don't think this should have violated any law.

How do you propose to allow those who engineered the value-addition to capture a share of the societal benefit they created?

> The idea that a patent can exist on a lifeform is utter nonsense

They didn't patent the lifeform, they patented value-adding modifications to the life-form. If you spent the time and effort to remove Monsanto's additions, the life-form would no longer be patent-encumbered. The idea that they were patenting a lifeform is utter nonsense.
Down go all the major browsers at Pwn2Own
I think the results are clear: assuming everyone is high-DPI and designing accordingly is not only a safe bet — it’s a requirement.

I'm not sure it's a requirement just yet. Just because people have a high-DPI display doesn't mean they will reject any site that does not take advantage of it.

Don't get me wrong, you absolutely should. But it's not in the "do or die" territory just yet - us tech types skew these results massively, especially on desktop.
This is an absolutely brilliant idea. I applaud you for this. I often find it very hard to recall everything I've been doing today, and even more often I will be bombarded with things to do 'soon' and will either open a text file to write it down or just try to remember. This way I don't have to leave the terminal. Class.

And by the way, I have no idea what TaskPaper is nor do I care. All I care about is that I can jot down some memos while I'm in my little linux terminal.
The Tyranny of Tyranny (2005)
"demand equality of outcome"

Interesting way to phrase things since ultimately that's what the employers that SJWs work for expect as well. Except that the equality of outcome expected by their employers is the quality of the work product produced, and that that is secondary to the outcome they expect from their workplaces. Unless explicitly part of the creation mythology of the organization, pretty much all profit-seeking enterprise came into being to solve a problem that produces profit, not solve the problem of social justice. Anyone joining such organizations, expecting that equality of outcome with respect to their social cause of choice is the goal is quite frankly delusional. I would imagine that they are often blind to areas in which their demand for equality of outcome for their social cause might be at odds with the expectation of equality of outcome with respect to work product that increases the value of the enterprise.

If you want to be part of a profit-seeking enterprise that balances equality of outcome of social justice and work product that adds value, then you probably need to create just an enterprise yourself instead of joining existing enterprises that don't explicitly share your goals and complaining years after discovering that they don't.

(PS. "regardless" not "irregardless")
To save anyone from coming here to complain: yes, the title makes literally zero sense. Apparently this is a new trend with Marco.

The article is about what proportion of visitors to Marco's site have HiDPI displays.
"Marijuana Job Fair in Denver... back to you, Mitch-bitch."
Hilarious Freudian-slip caught on camera as a news-reporter goes to Denver for Marijuana Job Fair. Brought the lolz.
Wow, who would have expected that there is slow decay when microbes that decay things are killed or slowed by radiation...

What a waste of time.
> basically vocational training

I'm not sure were you went to school, but at most schools the complaint is that CS doesn't have enough vocational training, i.e., there's too much math/theory not enough programming/engineering.

> a little more liberal arts

A 4 year CS degree in the US requires about 2 years of general education, we get plenty of liberal arts in that time.

>Would you say that people with that degree that went on to work at X big startup were doing it because they had no other options?

Yes, I would. I don't think an adventure game degree would make you very marketable. Just like a Russian lit degree doesn't make you very marketable. It doesn't mean there's something wrong with a Russian lit degree, just that for the average person, a bachelor's degree in Russian Literature isn't going to land you a job. That doesn't mean you won't find a job, but it won't be because of the degree.

I'll point out that I had 90 hours of a history degree before I switched to CS (I originally planned to go to law school).
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What's the difference between "looking" and "ogling"? Whether or not a feminist is standing nearby
Certainly a nicer format that simply trashing the whole thing right out.
> The recently published RAND Wellness Programs Study, which included almost 600,000 employees at seven employers, showed that wellness programs are having little if any immediate effects on the amount employers spend on health care. This has been further confirmed by our new analysis of 10 years of data from a Fortune 100 employer.

They're looking at seven enormous employers. Can their findings really be applied to all employers? There's a lot of variance between employers (average salary, average age of employees, region where employees are based). I'm not sure that you could reasonably compare employees at, say, WalMart, with employees at Goldman Sachs or Google. There's also presumably a lot of variance between these different programs. Is it possible that some programs are just badly executed?
GitHub cannot defend itself in public. It is a multimillion dollar company with a very disgruntled ex-employee charging them of sexual discrimination.

You can bet their lawyers are saying in tones that cannot be ignored to not say anything until and unless it goes to trial.
Perhaps the truth is somewhere in the middle? As I understand it, he was sued after purposefully isolating cross-poniated plants (presumably by using roundup) and using them to regrow his crop the following season.
It is OK to get things wrong, too. I mean, ideally, you'll look for romantic partners outside the workplace, but if you must look at work, it can still be OK. If you flirt, you think the other person is flirting back, you ask them out, and they reject you, that is neither sexual harassment nor a grave offense.

Example approach (in our scenario, this is toward the end of a workday, which is when you would want to do anything like this): "Hey, I've been having a lot of fun working with you, would you want to get dinner together sometime?" "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm [not looking for a relationship right now|seeing someone else|not interested in you that way|...]." "Oh, shoot. Well, I'll see you tomorrow then." (Go home.)

It may be a little awkward, but if you do things respectfully, then it will probably not ruin the working relationship. And more importantly, you'll have flattered the person you're working with, not creeped them out or made their workplace environment hostile, not cemented yourself in their mind as a total asshole, and not put yourself at risk for getting fired for harassment.

Of course, you will never do this to one of your reports or their transitive reports unless you would like to lose your job. Only peers or members of another org.
This post is almost as good as your previous hits "Or", "Not, and "Xor"
This is the reason why, if we are to keep allowing patents on genes, we have to be extremely careful on what we allow, and what we don't.

For instance, let's take Soybeans. There have been lawsuits out there claiming that someone's Soybean field had been 100% contaminated by Monsanto seeds, so that the fact that all the plants survived Roundup plantings was completely accidental. Given how difficult it is to even cross soybeans on purpose, having an entire field of plants with perfect flowers that get contaminated through pollination is just silly.

On something like corn, however, you just can't avoid cross contamination. So if a field has corn that has genes that came straight from a GMO, it's not as if one can prove wrongdoing: It's impossible to prevent that kind of contamination.

Ultimately though, we just have to figure out if we believe that patenting GMOs is something that is good for society or not. If I make a computer program and sell it, it's not really all that difficult for me to make money out of it, if people actually want it. If I tried to sell carefully engineered soybean seeds, I would not make much money, because from a few soybeans you can make millions. In two seasons, anyone that bought the seed could just compete with me without any for the R&D cost. So if a world without some kind of protection, major seed research just have to be left to public projects that don't expect any profit. You can't even protect your seed by being the only user, because very often, the seed itself is the output. Good luck selling soybeans without giving away the DNA to make more.

And it's not like we could instead change the protections to be all about the insertion of new DNA into a plant: The entire corn catalogue of Roundup ready seeds is probably comes from less than two dozen actual insertions of foreign DNA into regular plants. The tough work is to figure out which ones are actually effective, and to cross them with high yielding regular plants. So I could just take the gene that Monsanto put on a seed and add it to my own strain by using conventional breeding techniques in about 5 years, tops.

So yeah, our options are to just stop all research, move it all to non-profits, or allow some kind of patents on seeds. You could make a case for either of the three, but we have to understand that they all have their shortcomings.
The court determined that he sprayed the crop with Roundup, and also determined that Monsanto's patent applied regardless of whether Roundup was used, mooting one argument in the trial. If you have a record of Monsanto suing someone who didn't productively use the Roundup system, I'd like to see it.
Custom builder for three.js lib
1) Gang of Four (Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides).

2) A good algorithms book, besides being useful in its own right, might help you learn how to isolate units of functionality that can be reused. Maybe CLRS (Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein) if you like theory, Sedgewick if you're more into a hands-on approach.
The original title of this submission was "Europe comes with the fastest electric car" which sparked a (frankly uninteresting) debate about OP's choice of title.
Weekend project. Feedback greatly appreciated here.
Well, why was someone willing to quit over changes you made? And why was the manager willing to side with him over you?

Those are pretty big flags that you screwed up.
Ask HN: Best introduction to finance?
Guy, what do you recommend as a good introduction to quantitative and qualitative finance?

Can be videos, online course, books, etc.
It doesn't have a similar error handling system to lisp or scheme no, but it does have an interactive debugger, and the code does get compiled when you're in ghci (including whatever modules you have loaded).
He addresses the source of the title in a footnote [1]. It comes directly from one of the HN comments on his last post.

[1]: http://www.marco.org/2014/03/16/and#fn:pnIY0sNQi1
Feinstein pilloried for NSA stance and praised for CIA oversight
Anybody who modifies crops at the genetic level just so it can withstand the effects of their own plant and pest killer is evil.

The correct thing would be to do is create a chemical that kills all unwanted stuff and leaves the wanted stuff unharmed, not modify nature because it does not fit your world order.

Plus, GM foods for any purpose are evil. Correct procedure for getting enhanced plants is to use normal breeding processes.
The problem is that high-DPI doesn't mean high bandwidth, and sometimes serving those 3g mobiles with an eye-candy resolution image causes the site to load very slow for them. You will probably want to load low resolution pictures anyway and then if the screen has sufficient DPI load the full resolution afterwards.
Don't forget to pair it with British PHP: http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/

Now you have a royal web development stack.
'And' here it is. marco loving your sense of humor ;) and by the way a good read too.
> it makes it worthwhile for companies to invest the hundreds of millions of dollars it costs to drive crop yields ever higher.

I'd figure higher crop yields are incentive enough to invest in higher yield seeds. As in, smart farmers would invest profits into developing better seeds to give them more reliable or higher yields. It doesn't require an artificial profit motive attached to the development of seeds themselves if they are a net gain.

That is the same argument I have against big pharma - drugs are useful because they abate symptoms or cure disease. That right there is a motivator to develop drugs - attaching artificial profit motives to their development don't change the fundamentals.
Performance Profiling for JavaScript on any Platform
Don't they? But I'm talking more about gaps between the facts as they are being related to us and the conclusions we are being told to draw from them.
A lookup table is a pattern now?
http://search.cpan.org/~gsar/perl5.005/pod/perlfaq7.pod#How_...
This is bloody stupid; it should be able to save compiled CSS file and not compile it at every request. AND WHERE IS THE GRUNT PLUGIN FOR THIS?!1
Warning: page plays audio.
If you read the footnotes, he's purposely trolling HN with the title, based on yesterday's discussion.
He didn't judge her or Github with respect to the "incidents" in question because we have no facts on those incidents. What we do have facts on is how such the here-say is being publicized by one individual. In that respect, it's fair to judge those specific actions while reserving judgement of the actions involving the actual incident being discussed until a later date when more facts have been made public.
Congratulations, his new post is titled And: http://www.marco.org/2014/03/16/and
So when a woman has a problem at work, it is "sexism"?
You mean like: http://www.masswerk.at/flyer/ ?

I don't think that this could be recreated in CSS only, you need to do at least some calculations and conditional execution for this. This is probably the max you can get with CSS only. Congrats.
"individuals who never mentally developed out of high school"

Luckily that isn't a crime... (not saying that I agree with that assessment either, just saying).
If you want something simpler:

now() {
echo $(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") - "$@" >> $HOME/.now
}

Usage:

now "Working on Project A"
now pause
now continue
now done

You won't get a nice report and you'll have to calculate hours yourself, but it supports every edge case you can think of. Need to back-date an entry? Just open the file and change the timestamp. Want to nest tasks? Just do `now $ working on sub task` and you can easily see the indentation.
> monopolies should generally be distrusted and prevented whenever possible.

You shouldn't just disband monopolies too, you should analyze the environment that let them form in the first place. In a functioning market the only time a monopoly becomes an issue is if they can exploit their position to keep prices above optimal competitive levels, and that means that there are barriers to market entry that need to be considered in policy that prevent price competition against the major player. And usually they are legal in nature, be it patent / copyright, or biased tax law, or blatant exclusive contracts like ISPs.
Google's SRE team will continue to get people coming straight out of college, but for people with startup industry experience I don't see how it's an awesome opportunity. Most of the interesting SRE work and innovation that I see today is happening at startups.

If Larry or Sergei call up personally and give you a blank check to start your own team/project, (and let you open-source your work...) maybe that'd be a different story.

But otherwise, seems like working elsewhere will be the better option if you care about experience/skills over climbing the corporate ladder and having an easy paycheck.
Marco his site is full of pretentious link-baiting populist trash. I am surprised to see some people even take him as an authority other than as a notorious Apple-shill.

This three-character fluff title to bait even more clicks to his blog full of void is the final nail to the coffin. In two seconds I can think of a dozen better titles ("Use Analytics to track high-DPI-screens", "Custom variable for high-DPI-screens in Google Analytics", "Look at me I was on the frontpage of Hacker News", "I am so edgy, I will just give my article a nothing-saying three-character title").

The worst part is that due all the attention he gets from this, he and other people will somehow be under the impression that this was a successful endeavor. Bad publicity is publicity too, something like that. Please.
If it is so easy why there aren't still millions of people doing it? Why there are still robbers on the streets?
Interesting that these are essentially what the 12-step movements have come up with as organizational principles, starting with AA in the '50s. (With a few twists, such as random election when no candidate gets 2/3 majority after 4 or 5 ballots, with elimination of low-vote candidates after rounds 2, 3, and possibly 4).
I've had this exact same experience 3 times in the past year. I echo your thoughts entirely. I've told them multiple times what kind of position at google would ACTUALLY interest me and yet I still get matched to nothing even close. Each time I've turned them down I get the same feeling of "Ok! So -- wait you said no? What? Are you sure? ... but we're google!?"

I'm also an experienced engineer, happy in my current job.

Glad to see someone else with the same thoughts!
I know some people have a rather low opinion about SFU academics, but maybe calling it a college is a little harsh ;)

U of T did you one better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robarts_Library.JPG
The point many of you are probably missing here is that this is not a proof of concept but a work of net/digital art, exhibited many times in the past (even at transmediale 2008) but fixed in a defined moment in time (~2006).

I've been a student of one of the authors (Alessandro Ludovico) in 2008, at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara (Italy).
This seems to be asserting some sort of bizarre serf-like hierarchy where men aren't even supposed to look at their superiors
I am in no way a Monsanto cheerleader, I would very much like them to disappear completely so I could get on with my career. As it is, they are so thoroughly hated that every plant biologist is tarnished if they so much as attend a conference where Monsanto have a stall. I have to be extremely careful not to interact with Monsanto, and it's really quite annoying. If they could just handle their own PR properly I could spend more time doing my job and less time correcting poor genetics education on the internet.

> He never agreed with anybody to not do this, or signed contracts to control what he does with what ends up on his property.

That's not how the law works. I never agreed with anyone not to commit murder or (more relevant) not to pirate music. But I can still be prosecuted for it. And if I have a problem with that, it's the law that I have a problem with, not the people who made the music.
A public-traded company is not the same as a public company. Larry Page and Sergey Brin can still hold all of their stocks and stay at the control of Google.