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Summary: Article about how everyone in a company should be recruiting.

Recruited/recruiting for some notable companies. Current managers are heavily engaged in recruiting and I'm quite lucky . Working with some other companies, managers were MIA(missing in action) for long periods of time. Example, present candidates, don't hear back from managers for over a month x_X.

For extremely large corporations the recruitment function is increasingly being outsourced, in fact a candidate might not even know they're talking to an outsourced company. Here's my post on this:

http://withdavidli.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-is-rpo-recruitm...

Use of agencies, RPOs, and high amounts of contracted recruiters gives a company more flexibility with their budget, as headcounts can change dramatically in any given year.
Much more at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
> All things are empty.

And living in a certain way fills them. Not necessarily intentionally or to our benefit.

Some music is beautiful to me, some acts are pleasurable, some pictures and stories resonate. Maybe they're empty when taken objectively, but I don't see how that constitutes an answer to the poverty of subjective beings.

We mostly seem to have things that, based on our histories and to some extent our biology, we've learned to draw pleasure or pain from. And that learning does not seem like it can easily be altered in a well designed manner. If it could, psychology would be a vastly simpler undertaking:

"I'm depressed and I can't afford to do much more than eat."

"Don't worry, switch over to the Nihilism 2.0 release and then patch it with Existentialism 3.1"

;)
I make extensive use of e-books and audio books. I especially like audio books because they make my commute bearable. But some books, which may be great stories in the dead-tree edition, are downright aggravating in the recycled-electrons edition. I'm currently listening to a story that keeps jumping back and forth between the present and the recent past, and whatever visual clues the author might have left for that, the reader is failing to convey.

eBooks have issues of their own. Most of these seem to be due to the interface, though, rather than to the format itself. 3M Cloud, for example, seems dedicated to making it as difficult as possible for me to be able to pick up my eBook and continue reading where I left off. My current book drops me at the beginning of Chapter 2 every time I open in. It has a "bookmark" capability, by which I mean I can create a bookmark--I just can't ever find it later, much less return to the spot in the book that it supposedly marks. Frustrating. But I can download and start reading a book in the middle of the night, far from home, and when my checkout period expires, the local copy automatically disappears without my having to return to the library or pay a fine for failure to return the book.
I'd guess they aren't well suited to fly at the coast because of the high wind speeds. I would imagine that it's quite hard to get the blimp down when it's caught in thermal updraft also.
Publisher Targets University Researchers for “Pirating” Their Own Articles
That's brilliant, and very professional of you. Thanks
Looks like the "thermal core" of the Mac Pro.

Or Darth Vader's breathing piece.

Or a sharp, fanged trapezoid with extremely menacing eyes.

Or a pair of underpants.

The old logo was decent, but yes, it did look too much like BlueCross' logo. This... I don't really have much to say. It's unremarkable. Uninteresting. Just... uncreative. I think a simple W would have sufficed.
Entire tone of comments is filled with hatred. Downvote as hell as you want. I think most comments are by shills or ignorant , narcissist US people who pretend to be intelligent and always believe what is in media rather than seeking the truth.
It changed my life.
Anyone that values their privacy should never trust a service like this. The idea of in-browser encryption and decryption is nothing new, and it always suffers from the fact that the server can replace the client side software at any time without warning. If you must use a browser, find a plugin that you trust that works with any webmail service. Better yet, use an actual mail client and encrypt/decrypt in that.
I don't use GPL libraries because of the tyrannical copy-left clause. If I want to GPL mine, then I'll make that choice. But I won't use a single library that'll force me to choose GPL—I'll just write/find a replacement. So go ahead, make your library GPL instead of LGPL/MIT/BSD/MPL/APL/ETC and it'll sit unused and ignored (for the most part).

I also really appreciate what morbius wrote in this same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7757677
>"And although I don't plan on working for an investment bank, I hate to see the career ridiculed by misconceptions."

Serious question; how old were you in 2008, or 1989?

How well informed are you about BCCI, GS, Lehman, BofA, Wachovia... LIBOR etc...

There is MUCH to ridicule, condemn and convict.
I can't help but remember a certain Art Bell episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvnxeX2SQso

Art Bell was awesome..
Why do you think those particular companies deserve a larger share of good employees.

Boeing hasn't been innovative in a while now. They make most of their money off of sales of their older models and defense contracts.

GM isn't doing so well these days and has moved most of their manufacturing overseas. Not exactly a win for the American economy. Consumer automobiles isn't exactly a growth industry right now.

Tesla and SpaceX are promising, but still small. I don't think they have that much trouble hiring. Due to their reputation and high compensation levels, they can easily compete with Wall Street for the best and brightest engineering minds.

So the question remains, why these particular companies? Are you really just talking about old-school heavy industry companies in general? Why not other sectors, like electronics, medicine, and IT?
If you're interested in how libraries are using technology, check out code4lib[0], a community of technologists who work in libraries. Hang out with us on IRC, subscribe to our mailing list (which includes numerous job postings, many of which pay reasonably well[1]), read our peer-reviewed journal, and consider attending our conference. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

I also recommend checking out LibTechWomen[2] and Information Technology and Libraries[3].

[0] http://code4lib.org/
[1] http://jobs.code4lib.org/
[2] http://libtechwomen.tumblr.com/
[3] http://www.ala.org/lita/ital/
Most of my direct reports are indeed in sales; exceptional communication skills are an essential requirement for everyone on the team, including the receptionist, as there is a very high volume of people coming into our office on a daily basis. I do find the last paragraph in your comment quite valid!
They pay roughly the same as Google or Facebook, except they put everything into the salary and leave it up to the employee to decide what to do with it. If you want stock options, you can just trade some cash for them (at a reduced rate). So their salaries are higher, but the total compensation is roughly the same.
The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it
no, I am not. In fact I am not even Indian but hatred you are showing is quite obvious. I think you had relation to party that lost election or you can't digest the election results.
> A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines, including laptops, desktops, and even servers. This image started with a repartition / reformat set of tasks.

Wow. That is very unfortunate, to say the least...
It was - I added a 'dash' ;)
Pippin Barr: The Game Designer is Present
and what word would you use?

well, its a tad bit longer than the NeXTSTEP menu near the window and OS X doesn't allow tear-offs. I find it irritating and stupid compared to what NeXT had. There are quite a few things they dropped in the conversion from NeXTSTEP / OpenStep to OS X that I miss.
Speaking of cameras, doesn't BART have cameras pretty much everywhere on trains and platforms? Surely that would be useful evidence in her defence.
Both my opponent and I confused the King and Queen.
It is perfectly possible. One hotel I have been in had machine that produced freshly squeezed orange juice. Breakfast were available for few hours and anyone could take as much as he wanted. It never run out.
Safety? It doesn't. Reliability? because it would prevent another node from acquiring a held lock if a server is available and release a lock if a server goes down.

There would never be a dirty read possible.
As a thank you to everybody who supported us on our journey, we've made both the app and the language packs free to download for a limited time

Anyone who doesn't have Word Lens yet should certainly download it now as this is an awesome deal that rarely happens with other startups once they're acquired!
> Are you assuming that he is making this observation in comparison to college women?

I don't really care. Whether he thinks that college women are misogynist, or misandrist, or whatever is supposed to be the comparison; 'most college men are misogynistic' is a pretty stones-in-glasshouses thing to utter after having complained about other peoples broad generalizations being a result of selection bias. It's fine if it is backed up, but without substantiating it, why would I readily assume that this kind of judgement comes from kind of reasoned perspective, instead of just hanging out with the "wrong" people (which was what Michael originally claimed the author was doing)?

> I think the observation has to do with who holds the preponderance of power. In the artificial age-segregated school environments we've created, young, inexperienced people dealing with the full flush of their hormones and newly matured bodies create their own "Lord of the Flies" society, largely free of the influence of older, wiser people. Natural human instincts create concentrations of power in a minority of popular individuals, and this power corrupts.

> This is quite unfortunate, as young people in school are still forming their models of the world.

I was talking about men in college. People in university (Masters or lower) are in the age range 19-26, at least in my experience. Even if they are immature, which I won't comment on, there really isn't much of a breeding ground for this kind of environment where I go to school; everyone is responsible for handing in some compulsory assignments and showing up for the exams. How they go about doing this, is up to them. Unlike in high school, people aren't confined to hanging out at the same place from 8000-1500 (again; just my experience), and if some person is disagreeing to you, it is relatively simple to avoid them.

Michael seemed to talk about how these men view women is due to who they hang out with. And certainly, at a decent sized university, you're not strictly confined to whoever happens to take the same classes that you do.

EDIT: I see that the two O'Church fans have been able to get their jollies by now.
The problem, I think, with the GPL community is that they refuse to accept that almost all software developers make a living by working for a company, and feel that it is unjust to refuse their libraries to others who do the same.

And, because their software is open source, someone will inevitably create a better competing library based on the ideas behind the GPL one. That new library? Apache license.
Nick Bostrom's -The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
The problem with this list is that I can't tell if the starred company ALWAYS does the relevant action, or HAS done the relevant action at times. Does Google always tell users about govt requests for data? Or does Google sometimes tell users about govt requests for data? Because recent revelations indicated the government could retrieve their data without Google even being involved in each transaction, and they were legally barred from revealing fine-grained details about requests. But they did publicly oppose that policy after the fact and fought (or at least appeared to) the policy after it was revealed. So they get a star in that category now?

It's a bit like charting a flip-flopping political candidate's stances on issues. Does candidate X support issue Y? Yes! Does candidate X oppose issue Y? ... yes!
David Karp on Net Neutrality
Only for US citizens, and this is on a per-bank basis - if you're a US citizen (or pay taxes in the US) you might be rejected in some of the banks.
Human programation
U RGENTE - LEAN COMO TRABAJA EL G2 CUBANO - D.I.M. - CHINOS - ESPAÑOLES.
GOOG LE SABE QUE
AGENCIAS DE INTELIGENCIAS SOCIAS UTILIZAN SERVICIOS DE PROGRAMACIÓN
HU MANA PARA QUE SE PUBLIQUEN ALGUNOS MATERIALES INTELECTUALES. GOOGLE
CASUALMEN TE ES AGENCIAS CORPORACIONES INTERNACIONALES Y EJÉRCITOS -
TODAS ELLAS FINANCIAN SU GRUPO DE SERVICIOS SECRETOS.

- COPIELA Y PEGUELA.
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http://humanprogramation.blog.com
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fh31Yvhk1RQWTBQBcF0Sz5PcrLFK-1Zd1_-j86tyosw/edit?usp=sharing
Is "Based in Switzerland" relevant in this case? I know their government is historically neutral in major wars. Are they also a good place to base security-minded companies?
I knew this is the first thing I would read. We are becoming pretty predictable.

I tire of hearing this repetitively, every time somebody attempts to take this path, but I recognize you are doing it for anybody that is new and didn't hear the other warnings.

Isn't the perfect the enemy of the good?

Can we recognize that this is a good first step, and definitely constitutes a huge improvement over gmail/yahoo type webmail solutions?

You can still quickly add a disclaimer that you hope they quickly begin the large task of development of native windows/mac/linux/ios/android apps that will remove the javascript concern.

If you spit on everything that is not perfect, you may be steering people away from taking any action to protect their privacy.
HUMAN NEURONAL SOFTWARE.
U RGENTE - LEAN COMO TRABAJA EL G2 CUBANO - D.I.M. - CHINOS - ESPAÑOLES.
GOOG LE SABE QUE
AGENCIAS DE INTELIGENCIAS SOCIAS UTILIZAN SERVICIOS DE PROGRAMACIÓN
HU MANA PARA QUE SE PUBLIQUEN ALGUNOS MATERIALES INTELECTUALES. GOOGLE
CASUALMEN TE ES AGENCIAS CORPORACIONES INTERNACIONALES Y EJÉRCITOS -
TODAS ELLAS FINANCIAN SU GRUPO DE SERVICIOS SECRETOS.

- COPIELA Y PEGUELA.
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http://humanprogramation.blog.com
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fh31Yvhk1RQWTBQBcF0Sz5PcrLFK-1Zd1_-j86tyosw/edit?usp=sharing
Germany: Companies that Cooperate with the NSA Excluded from Federal Contracts
An attacker would have to (1) Gain access to the server in Switzerland (without the admins noticing) or (2) Break the SSL and execute a MITM attack.

It seems ProtonMail actively scans the code on the backend for unauthorized changes. It's not 100% secure against a very determined attacker (NSA), but for the citizen that wants more privacy without the hassle of PGP, it's pretty good until we can replace SMTP.
It is great to see how many people are more interested in having a discussion than limiting themselves to emotional outbursts. My post was indeed meant to provoke a frank conversation about an important issue.
Reasons You Have To Quit Your Job in 2014
I'll keep that in mind next time.
That is encouraging though: this doesn't get NIH grants, so it hasn't been pursued academically. Thus a group that is able to pursue it, because they got funding from an alternate source (Kickstarter), would be more likely to achieve good results. Indeed, it sounds like they are already 1000x better. If they can get another 1000x, I would wager it'd be a lot more useful than glowing yogurt.
Do you mean the Mass eBook project described here: https://www.cambridgema.gov/cpl/eLibrary.aspx

Or is this something else the library does on its own?
Apple backs down and restores ability to sync contacts without iCloud
An even better [1] competition would be figure out how to herd them to an easy to clean up place, and then get them to take off :-)

[1] "... and they tend to empty their cloacas upon takeoff," -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/science/08qna.html
There are now BSD versions of the library. This was not true for several years, after the license was picked.
> tyrannical copy-left clause

Do you believe that proprietary software licenses are tyrannical as well?
Here's a list of Mac OSX alternatives to everything in the Creative Cloud: http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/graphics-roundups/the-best-...
There might not be many sensible uses of this technology, but sense doesn't dictate if there is a market. Give it a few years and there could well be plantations of glowing christmas trees causing chaos by utterly confusing the local wildlife.
Google Services Experiencing Issues – How are You Holding Up?
Can I view the source of the actual program? If not, it doesn't serve much purpose to say that all the cryptographic libraries you use are open-source. Let me see the source and then I'll see about trying your product.

As an aside, I see other people on this thread talking about the well-documented problems of in-browser encryption/decryption. Could someone point me to a list?
He wants them to care.
If you believe that an (American style) right to free speech overrides the right to individiual privacy, you are not a privacy campaigner.

If you believe that Google and Facebook deserve full marks on any measure of privacy, and that deserves to be one of your key press releases, you are not a privacy campaigner.

I empathise with these attitudes amongst proponents of free speech, yes, even though I don't agree. If Cory Doctorow supports this, I disagree with him but I am not outraged. However, I don't empathise here: not at all. Here, I am outraged. EFF put 'privacy' as one of their key areas of work and they are amongst the best known privacy campaign groups.

When the European principles of Data Protection are upheld correctly (which rarely happens), the EFF creates a campaign which is against that ruling and in favour of Google's right to ignore the principles. They are speaking out against a fundamental of privacy: a basic principle regarding processing personal data. IMHO that is extremely anti-privacy.

Both of these points significantly harm real privacy campaigning, from a group which places itself as one of the defenders of privacy.

It is wrong.
Samsung just bought itself an airport terminal for two weeks
Or (0) Be an admin.
It means "learn picture" in Chinese. It's in the title. 識圖 even though the pinyin is not that pleasant to people who knows English, Baidu is a Chinese search engine and most of the users are Chinese speaking users. Furthermore, as a Chinese speaking person I can well make fun of it by saying "shxt" every time the engine spits out the right image!
Hangouts, Gmail and Play store are down for me in Chicago. On T-Mobile with a Nexus 5. Mobile data seems to work just fine, though.
Same on retina. I thought 2x was pretty much standard now, guess not.
Where the FSF falls down is in its inability to compromise

They're an ideological foundation. There are already plenty of others who compromise in the name of pragmatism, and there's nothing wrong with that.

FSF represents a viewpoint that is constantly under threat from some of the world's richest corporations such as Apple. If they became the "Free And Also Not-So-Free (As Long As It's Useful) Software Foundation", they can just as well close shop.

They're now incredibly out of touch with Silicon Valley

Certainly this is a positive thing in the long run? There's much more to technology than just the Valley players' interests.
Watching Cosmos last week had me thinking about how deep we'd drilled to date. I meant to go look it up but didn't. Thanks for posting.

It saddens me/blows me away we've only gone 7.5 miles (into the 22 mile crust). It also reminds me how fragile our biosphere is and how little we really understand it.
> “literature” carries the connotation of “scientific literature”

> there seems to be relatively little actual “literature” in the most commonly used sense.

Literature: books, articles, etc., about a particular subject

I don't think you should add words to what people have said to make a point unless you get some clarification from the author that the additions actually clarify what they said. There have been quite a few books and articles about TDD.
You're right, it is hard, at least for me it is. But I think how a manager reacts to errors made in the hiring process is important. I try to be introspective, and evaluate how we could have better identified that potential issue preemptively, and adapt our process for the future.

But I don't think that banning some incredibly broad demographic that includes 51% of the applicant pool is a sign that someone is really taking time to think about and fine tune the hiring process. I mean, I accidentally hire some people with drama issues, so my conclusion is don't ever hire women? That's the best process change I can think of? Not asking about conflict resolution experiences, or maybe a teamwork test, but just ban an entire gender? I just don't see how a good hiring process can come out of that kind of thinking. What if then you hire some men who don't communicate as well as they should -- then do we ban all men as well?

Basically, I think hiring is hard and so process based on simplistic rules of gender or skin color or whatever don't usually work well, and besides begin illegal in the US they're also usually a sign of a process that hasn't really been thought out.

By the way -- I re-read your comment, and if I understand it correctly it seems that your stance is because I've made hiring mistakes (even if they are subsequently and promptly corrected) that I should have no credibility to comment on this blogger's hiring process of banning women. I guess it's your prerogative to have that standard -- only those who haven't made any mistakes have credibility -- but, if we assume that anyone who's done a lot of hiring has made mistakes, the only people with credibility in your eyes are those who have done little to no hiring. Personally I wouldn't find that approach useful.
> They're going because they hate risk and are terrified about what to do next and Wall Street has figured out a way to calm their anxieties.

Isn't it a bit far-stretched. It's clear to me they're going because it's by far the most lucrative path. It's not surprising that 1/3 of ivy grads are looking to make as much money as they can.

> Being a young banker seems like an incredibly miserable existence.

When I graduated, many of my school mates went to work in the financial industry (not investment banking though) and they didn't look miserable to me. Retrospectively, it looks it was a good career choice.

This article sounds biased. It'd be interesting to have a more objective account about this type of jobs.
Yea, this is an old article.
I can get angry and hit a cyclist in the face if he tries to hit me. I can't do the same to a car driver.
Ask HN: What IM services do you use?
Which applications Hacker News readers use for communication with their friends/family? For chatting with co-workers/team members? Which is your favorite mobile IM app?
tptacek doesn't seem to be "spitting". He just pointed out that the crypto can be broken by the server so this doesn't count as end-to-end crypto.
On the contrary, it's obvious to me that solitary confinement is significantly more expensive per inmate than non-solitary high security imprisonment.
The App Store Is Proof We’re In Idiocracy