skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i joined google three years ago, arguably after it had already morphed into a "big company", and it's still a wonderful place to work. the main point about that article that resonated with me is that when things break, the company culture is still "we have smart, motivated people - we'll fix this" rather than "who can we hold accountable"
The problem is this is supposed to be a tight labor market. A company cannot afford a process like this in such a market.

Of course, if the market is tight because everyone is picky...
So something that always holds me up with new languages: workflow.

What's a Rust development workflow look like at the moment, from editor, to reference materials, to debugging? I tend to be an IDE person (which obviously doesn't and won't exist for some time) so I'm pretty eager to hear how other people have been doing it.
Anyone got similar article for windows?
My big problem is the price. It's just outrageous for software that I just want to hack on something every once in a while.
I was in the exact same boat. I was "shit" at math, but my love for tech pushed me to CS. I barely passed the req maths such as the calcs and descreet math, but I did exceedingly well at the cs classes. I even did okay in the algo classes just because I was driven. The longer I'm in the industry though, the easier math becomes. I've been teaching myself algebra and calc on the side and things come a lot easier. Maybe it's just my wrestle with it attitude I've picked up over time or maybe my brain is rewired. Who knows.
> Eh, if I were unemployed and didn't have anything better I was working on...

Your time doesn't become any less valuable because you're unemployed. Engaging in an employer's insane and inefficient three-ring circus seems like an awfully bad use of one's time. That time should be invested in pursuing opportunities that don't ask candidates to indulge a company's dysfunction.
My statement was totally fair. I'd rather you reply to the core point then 6 replies about how FICA is paid.

I don't want to argue the mechanics of taxation on W-2 vs 1099! I was totally happy to accept 'danans' much more conservative numbers because we still end up with a maximum of $35,000 net benefit from $115,300 of compensation!

This is, with danans math, which is adjusted from mine by not even counting;

Employer portion of health care cost
Employer share of FICA
Excluding direct employment costs
Excluding indirect opportunity cost
Use average disability payment, instead of max
Exclude SSI payments
Exclude rent control
Exclude property tax circuit breakers (21 states, not CA)
Exclude EITC

If my point still stands after all those are ignored, I think we can stop arguing the mechanics of FICA and realize there's a huge fucking social service+taxation problem in this country, so big that at many points of the curve from $0 - $150k, almost across that entire curve, earning more, earns you less.

Like I said, the only way to properly calculate all this is to code it all up and chart it. But the laws are insanely complex (we've proven that just now, right?) I don't think anyone has ever tried.
>Where did the mothers get the phthalates from?

Liquid soaps such as shampoo, food packaging, perfume, hairspray, other plastics, especially the plastics used in car interiors.
You don't do processor microcode or memory controller code, why should you care about that? People who work in managed languages don't care about pointers. I don't remember which register stores the result of a division either. Why should I care about it?
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I disagree, which is why I picked other companies as my examples: companies for which you _are_ the customer.
Dang, that's a shame. I've generally had a good experience, and been impressed with the speed at which changes are reviewed and merged, but it only takes several instances to tarnish everything. If you can link to a specific issue/PR, I can pass it on. The team has been generally very good at fixing governance issues when they arise.
Study reveals how many times you should be checking email daily to reduce stress
And it's worth mentioning that both approaches make sense for the application being considered.

When you are sending a suite of purpose-built instruments and a one-of-a-kind rover to Mars, taking advantage of a narrow launch window, to accomplish a very well-defined scientific mission, you require the spacecraft to be safe.

If you are sending a bunch of less-expensive spacecraft to perform a less intensive investigation of a bunch of asteroids, you might be more risk-tolerant. But as the cost of the instrument suite goes up, you'd have to be more risk averse.

Additionally, if you expect to be in a difficult radiation environment, things change. LEO is not a difficult environment, but deep space is.

It's a systems engineering problem, and there is no single correct approach. It's an engineering question, with the usual set of tradeoffs, expertise, and modeling. NASA and private industry have been studying this for decades now. (I spent a couple of years working on a software-implemented fault tolerance scheme for science algorithms in spacecraft.)
Just in case you have no idea (like myself) what Phthalates are:

http://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/phthalates_factsheet.html

Phthalates are a group of chemicals used to make plastics more flexible and harder to break. They are often called plasticizers. Some phthalates are used as solvents (dissolving agents) for other materials. They are used in hundreds of products, such as vinyl flooring, adhesives, detergents, lubricating oils, automotive plastics, plastic clothes (raincoats), and personal-care products (soaps, shampoos, hair sprays, and nail polishes).

Phthalates are used widely in polyvinyl chloride plastics, which are used to make products such as plastic packaging film and sheets, garden hoses, inflatable toys, blood-storage containers, medical tubing, and some children's toys.
Everyone (literally 100%) has phthalates in their blood because they're everywhere.. plastic product packaging, dryer sheets, shampoo, cosmetics, carpeting, lotions, body washes, adhesives, insecticides, plastic wrap, wallpaper, ... even if it's just in the packaging, it can leach into the food -- drinks that are in plastic bottles for example.
Inside the Collapse of the New Republic
I think I'm exactly the audience that TNR wants. I'm well-educated, make a good living, largely agree with them politically, enjoy long-form journalism, and am familiar with the brand and its history. Yet I don't think I would ever subscribe to TNR. I just see a magazine as something that's going to pile up in my house. I can read more than enough great content online for free. If I was going to subscribe to a magazine, I think that The New Yorker is a lot more interesting than The New Republic. If I was going to subscribe to two magazines, I might pick the Atlantic or another competitor over TNR.

The media has largely portrayed this as Hughes carelessly destroying a renowned and vital institution. Hughes has certainly made some mistakes, but I wonder whether Foer and Wiesetlier were just letting the magazine gradually slide into irrelevance and inevitable death anyway. This is a magazine whose readership has dropped by half since 2000.

If Hughes doesn't want to subsidize a money-losing institution with a declining and aging readership, then isn't it his prerogative as an owner to shake things up? He may have gone about it the wrong way, but ultimately wouldn't the public be better off with a TNR that has an ability to support itself and thrive in the future?
I believe the person you're responding to was referring to how Google inherently wants to track users due to their business model, although I think you bring up a valid point.
If lifting artificial limitations doesn't count as "becoming less limited", then does creating artificial limitations count as "becoming more limited"? Because they seem like obvious cognates.
Another good source for convex hull code (I was using this recently):
http://marknelson.us/2007/08/22/convex/
Research: First Render Times of Popular JavaScript MVC Frameworks
Before the advent of modern light, it was indeed common to have a brief period of being awake in the night.

It's also interesting to note that, during winter, it was not unheard of to basically hibernate, sleeping far more during the winter than the summer to preserve energy and food.

Sauce: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/opinion/25robb.html
> Please don't say Terminal.

Okay, I'll say the second best option: Dired.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dir...
A personal story about flight predicitions
It's also being used to aid paleontology research: http://fusion.net/story/30751/paleo-deep-dive-machine-learni...
Because companies strive for the best possible candidates, and 50% of those are women, regardless of what they happened to major in. The gender-imbalance in computer science is an artificial barrier, exactly the kind that should be statistically eliminated by a thorough equal-opportunity application process (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_opportunity)
> What do you think the second amendment to the U.S. constitution is for?

Ensuring that states would have the ability to defend themselves in the against insurrection and invasion before the federal government -- which was, after all, not expected to have large standing forces -- could mobilize a response.
We are already mucking, nay, fucking, with the entire atmosphere, in far more extensive ways. It's too late to avoid that. This would be an attempt to reduce the consequent damage.
that image is wonderful! And its spot on. People just want the content, none of the extra bullshit that they classicly tack on. And denying someone who just bought a dvd the ability to skip over all that nonsense is downright sinister; and they wonder why people want to pirate.

There was a long ad on hulu for some drug that had nothing to do with me. At first I said "swap ad" but then that option magically disappeared the next time I saw it, so I said "no" to the "is this ad relevant to you?" question... about 5 times. Still kept appearing during every. single. commercial. Downright infuriating. But clearly there's some logic behind the scenes where no matter if they swap it, or say its not relevant, or even pay for hulu plus; that ad should play because the company paid a lot of money for it to be played; and it doesn't matter how many times a user has had to sit through it.

And that's the thing. They don't give a shit about you. They don't even try. We're just a product for them.
Django Under the Hood (YouTube Channel)
This is a huge ergonomic issue that the team is very aware of. There are plans to fix it post 1.0.
? All the times I've done that, Amazon sends me a disc in the mail and then gives me an immediate 48 hour rental. I don't wait for the disc. Unless you're talking about the "UltraViolet" or "Digital Copy" thing, but that's not Aamzon. That's the studio. You get the same thing in a store.

Amazon even has a whole page that explains the difference. http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Copy-DVD/b?ie=UTF8&node=721726...
This is oddly pleasing.
To people trained in the scientific process, maybe, but most people will hear an implied causality.
Their loss. It's illogical to fault entrepreneurs or the businesses they are a part of simply because one of an entrepreneur's core strengths and motivators is bringing projects off the ground.

Likewise, it is illogical for faulting a developer for possessing that same drive when it comes to improving emerging technologies.

Squandering one's skills to appease some anti-progress group is silly.
Your core point is entirely dependent on the relation of additional income to additional costs; if that relation is calculated incorrectly, then the core point is not supported.
So why, then, has this interview process become so typical? Why has it become almost a rite of passage that you then subject your future coworkers to during their hiring processes?

As someone going through interviews in a tech city for a buzzword job, I am definitely going through this, and my family and friends are aghast at how many days worth of effort I end up putting in for each rejection letter... Or, worse, to finally get to the in-person interview only to find out that it's a brogrammer culture and I don't want to work there in the first place.
Phthalates are used to plasticize many consumer products. Regulators have been banning them piecemeal, industry responds by changing the molecule slightly and carrying on. Probably regulators are going to eventually just ban phthalates as a class, or someone will figure out some way to make them safe (the current trend is to make them bigger/longer, which may be working or not).
Walkable communities and so on are nice and I support them, but they wouldn't come close to actually preventing the worst effects of climate change.
This app is amazing. If you have Pythonista[0] (a somewhat similar app, but with Python scripting) you are in for a pleasant surprise. It's integrated through the URL scheme.

Get both, even if they seem similar. It's like the combination of shell scripting and Automator for Mac, except better than Automator and easier than shell scripting.

This is also featured as an Editor's Choice, which means it doesn't look like it's going away.

[0]: http://omz-software.com/pythonista/
Congratulations to both of you!
Do you have similar resources or references for Python that you could share, please?
In terms of content production I think the only economics that have changed significantly have been production technology (CGI, cameras, which has gotten more expensive) and distribution (which is now near free).

That said I don't buy the claim that "they have more money than they know what to do with". Content Production is expensive. Netflix spent $100M in total on House of Cards, and it looks like they are spending $4-5M per episode on their original shows. I'm unsure that without big budgets that small budget productions other than "Let's Plays" and talking heads will ever be successful.

And not only is it expensive, but it is hit driven, your hits have to be able to cover the cost of your other 5-6 failures. You have to have enough cash in bank to weather a lackluster season.

It's doubtful the Netflix model @ $20/mo will be able to cover the million dollar salaries that movie, tv, and voice actors are accustomed to. I'm also unsure they will be able to cover the CGI and production budgets of current big budget films. And currently the internet has yet prove you can support a small production team producing anything more than 3-5 minute content using the internet without a big sponsor. It's also unlikely that you will ever be able to vote with your wallet - bundling ensures that the successful films you watch also pay for the the 3 or 4 failures that came from that studio.

In short my point is its going to take a lot more than cutting a few executive paychecks.
You don't have to load the site (trivial, but not negligible), throwing a bang in front of an already written search is simpler than rewriting the search, and google doesn't build a profile around you as another entity is doing the search.
This reminds me of when LinkedIn started sending me emails to congratulate my friends on their 1/2-year anniversaries at "Unemployed".
The more insane variant is "not available in your country".

I'm in my country. You're serving me bits just now in order to tell me this. WTF?

It's like sitting down in restaurant, see a wonderful meal being served at the table right next to you, seeing the meal on the fucking menu, but when you order being told "no sir, not at your table".

In what industry do people come back after being treated like that?
> I would also like to add that your argumentation is quite unpleasant to me. I read it as you believe that diversity is this annoying thing that destroys the good ol' "all dude internet".

So you're saying that men (read: dudes) can't be offended by this, also? That insults me.

Seriously though: "real men" phrases are often used in a serious way to try to police men's behaviour (you probably know this already, but anyway). So I, as a man, often feel queasy about "real men" quips. But real men aren't supposed to feel uneasy about such things, so I don't know.. ;)

I don't personally feel uneasy about this: it feels like satire that plays on the old trope of "real men do <thing that is hard, often unnecessarily so>", and all over "trivial" things like text editors. I can see how some people might be offended by the phrase, though. I'm just talking for myself here.

(I hope no vi users were offended by this post.)
Obama Writes His First Line of Code
CSAIL PhD Students Do a Reddit AMA
The problem I find with "companies looking for ideal candidates" is that they seem to want great people to show up on their doorstep as if by magic. But great people aren't magically created from nothing: they're grown from a set of skills that shows they can think the right way, and applied to the company's specific technical choices.

Shameless plug: I'm a sysadmin trying to turn into a devops guy in Austin, and I'm looking for a devops job. Ruby, Chef, and Ansible, but a but weak in the coding area.
> As a result, the self-employment tax has a greater effective rate than the payroll tax, even though they have the same nominal rate.

To be clear, yes there is a different convention for quoting the "salary" based on W-2 vs 1099. I agree that saying "$100k of W-2 Salary" is like saying "$109,031 of 1099". In both cases you net $92,350 after payroll taxes.

To your point, the difference in total payroll expense is $1,381. I'm sure my overall point does not sway on $1,381. Yet this difference will be almost exactly offset by the $7650 deduction allowed against Federal income tax!

Bringing me back to, we are saying the same thing, in two different ways.

Sorry everyone for the rat hole, I wish I stated it more clearly at the on-set. I think there's a more important discussion to be had here.

(Note: I edited this about 15 times over 20 minutes since the first 'Submit'. Dragon's response came against an early draft! Sorry D.)
I disagree. Recursion is simply inductive reasoning, which people are able to grasp at a young age.
This happened to me recently. After the final round I had a verbal indication from the recruiter that all the feedback was positive and an offer would be forthcoming. I was pretty crushed when a day or two later an emailed arrived saying they'd decided to move forward with other candidates. A friend at the company told me it was because somebody calling the shots was insisting on the CS degree requirement. Such a stupid waste of time.
He doesn't even try to pass for unbiased...

> the so-called "renewables"

lol Apparently they aren't really renewable: that's just some tree-hugger propaganda...
You know, I am probably running a fever and generally feeling cranky at the moment, but I have been told that kind of thing for many years about some other problem space and my experience is that if you do what is within reach, that is small and not dramatic, and rinse and repeat, you can find yourself going down a path of accomplishing what the world deems to be "impossible." It's an approach I have used repeatedly, in various problem spaces and one I am very familiar with and I know it to be a powerful thing, though it tends to make me feel like Cassandra: Someone who is simply not listened to.

So while I probably cannot convince anyone here, I will remain equally unconvinced that I am wrong. Also, fwiw, I was an environmental studies major. My degree happens to be incomplete, but I have studied environmental issues formally, to some degree. So I don't think I am merely talking about my butt.

Anyway, have an upvote.
"how inept HR and recruiters are at giving you feedback about what you could have done better."

It's actually ept and clueful; it's just not on your side. The easiest way to prevent them from giving you a reason to sue them is to give you nothing at all. They are deliberately not giving you any feedback.
This is why I love the idea of a Chromebook-like device that essentially has a browser as an OS. You have the security features of the browser model without the additional "security" restrictions of "we won't let you install any app that [doesn't look the way we say it should look | competes with one of our apps | doesn't support our agenda | hasn't paid us to regulate it | etc.]".

I hope Google's rediscovered interest in Web apps (Service Workers, Polymer, etc.) will herald a major shift back toward ever more powerful Web apps that are as easily installed locally to home screen (and offline capable) as native apps. If that happens, there will be less use of app stores and more low-cost devices whose only app store is the open Internet, which is a lot harder to restrict.
You can yawn all you want. The link I posted says that 'overloading' (your word) the string 'debug' is fine. That's what it was meant for.

I mean.. Go ahead, flame not just Lennart et al, Linus might be wrong too!
Reading the mail I linked to leads to the following

- userspace can and should read the kernel command line, very explicitly including the word 'debug'

- userspace shouldn't crap out and cause a failure to boot. Surprise!

The latter was a bug. The former is what you're trying to stuff into this thread for no reason. You might not like the 'kernel debug command line affects systemd' behavior, but that seems to be a) something the systemd guys want to keep (Ready your pitch fork..) and b) Linus himself seems to consider okay - IF that doesn't cause regressions.

That whole mailing list thread is basically just about personal issues between Linus and Kay and a 'not my problem' attitude towards regressions.
The general idea of using the 'debug' kernel command line parameter to mean something specific for systemd? That's considered okay and correct.

So no, your whining is still unrelated to the (journalctl/less) topic at hand, you just felt that your pet peeve should be mentioned here as well. And .. it still makes no sense. There was a bug in systemd. It got fixed. Systemd reading/using kernel command lines without their own namespace? Fine. Correct. Good. Accepted.

"debug" can mean a lot of things and everyone's entitled to use "debug" to mean something system specific. No need to invent a systemd.debug here. Straight from the horse's mouth, we're done.

(For reference: You hijacked the thread with "(they) wouldn't namespace the kernel command line options so systemd's debug output isn't confused with the kernel's debug output" - and that's obviously wrong if you read the mail I linked to - and maybe a bit of the discussion around that)
Why are you dissing Discs of Tron? In the environmental cabinet, it was one of my favorite games of all time. The locations that still have one running are cherished to me and the other fans.
I tried to run K, but the link at http://kparc.com requires a password. Is it not generally available yet? Is there a mailing list or IRC channel somewhere?

https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona doesn't run edit.k successfully.
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/12/sleep-scientists-want-w...
It allows you to predictably squeeze more out of your system than you ever could in a higher level language without the worry of weird undefined behavior, buffer overflows, use-after-frees or segfaults. It also has an expressive static type system that draws a great deal from ML and Haskell.
For the same reason that you still find casting couches in Hollywood: the supply of candidates exceeds the number of positions.

The "talent shortage" term that is so frequently used is misleading. Companies like Google and Facebook, as well as high-profile startups, can see hundreds of applications for every open position. Most of the candidates might not be as talented as these employers would like, but that doesn't mean they don't have a lot of warm bodies willing to subject themselves to a recruiting process that resembles a meat grinder.