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> Before interview, there will be an agreement needs to be signed by interviewee, recruiter, company involved, so that, after interview, recruiters can provide reasons for rejections and as long as the reason is with in the laws of the country or appears reasonable, then involved parties will not proceed legally.

You don't need to sign an agreement: this is the status quo. The meat of the problem is when the candidate and the company disagree about what happened. It's a rare company that actually furnishes candidates with illegal reasons for rejection, so it's up to candidates if they believe they were illegally rejected.
It's a better example of people rationalizing away humanity under the guise of "preventing liability" regarding things that, in practice, will never happen.

Bill S. Preston told you everything you need to know. People are not out to get you. Acting as if they are is toxic and inhumane.
>The question is, can liberalism be intolerant of intolerance?

lets ask the opposite question - can liberalism (or any normal person/society) be tolerant of the people/religion/groups/ideology/society which mass-kills people for cartoons (even if those depict a paedophilic Prophet like Muhammad enjoying zoophilia)?

I think one of the worst thing one can do is to think that there is any causality between the cartoons in the magazine and the massacre, like "they brought it upon themselves". Cartoons just can't be a cause for a killing. One either understands that or not. (Such causality does exists in the minds of the killers and many others, that is the issue, people who see full or partial validity in that.)
Can anyone here confirm if the X1 can run a Vagrant box without issue on Windows? I've had problems before on some ultrabooks that I cant get a proper VM running.
Trust me, if someone is starting a startup for himself the last thing he want is doing it to be like someone else. As for myself what inspired me is the desire to leave a mark in the world rather than being one of the billions who lives and dies and no one notices their existence except of their family.
Actually, if Monty chooses randomly and just happens to pick a door with a goat you should still switch, because it's still true that you will win if you switch iff you chose a goat but you'll win if you stay iff you chose the car already. The host's method of selection is not relevant given a priori the observation that the host selected a goat. The host's method is relevant if we forgo that observation and iterate the game repeatedly.
"The `paperclip computer` was introduced in 1967 in a book called How To Build a Working Digital Computer by Alcosser, Phillips, and Wolk. The book describes how you can build a simple computer with things around the house, like paperclips for switches, and a tin can for drum memory."

This sounds pretty cool, and possibly worthy of its own post.

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2013/paperclip/

Apparently not first, though.
The Go compiler in 2007 was written in C because it was an adaptation of the Plan 9 C compiler. That was done because it was the expedient choice at the time, especially while the language was still being designed and would change quite a lot. Nowadays the language is stable, and we have existing Go compilers, so we can reasonably bootstrap a Go compiler written in Go.
I think the author got it wrong. I also ask that same question "isn't X or Y already doing this?" to most startups that pitch me. I'm not trying to make the founder feel bad, or sound smart, or anything like that. I say this because I want to find out what they do different. I'm signaling that I'm already aware of those other companies, and I want to know:

(a) if they are already successful, how you'll beat them

or

(b) if they failed, why you think you won't fail
Horrified at that second video. You can't use a metal fork on a nonstick pan!
A similar application was to use aerogels, which are highly insulating but not reflective, as clothing insulation. I recall a number of companies have explored this in the past [1]. The issue with aeogels appears to be two-fold: firstly, they are relatively expensive to manufacture, but secondly, the resulting garments are often too warm!

[1] http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/clothing-apparel/H...
Even in just a few years as a grad student I saw noticeable increases in bureaucratic overhead. When I started you could go to a conference and claim your expenses pretty much on the honor system. As students, we knew our trips were being paid out of a finite fund and racking up unnecessary expenses would limit our trips in the future. We kept each other honest. By the end, our PI had been forced to hire a full time secretary to deal with the bureaucracy. Everything we expensed required a paper trail. $50 lobster dinner on credit? No problem getting reimbursed. $3 hotdog with no receipt? Brace yourself for hours of paperwork.

This idiotic policy pressured us to spend more in pricey restaurants and avoid cheaper street vendors (Try explaining to a thai street vendor that the receipt has to have your name on it). Similarly, it was easier to claim a $50 cab ride than a $5 subway fare. Add in the cost of paying people to scrutinize our every receipt and I'm sure the University tripled the cost of conference trips. Success? Absolutely, at least for the sleazy admin who tripled the staff reporting to him, likely by claiming students couldn't be trusted to keep costs down.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, but it illustrates my point: Treating people as dishonest by default carries a heavy price, payable in bureaucrat salaries.
Nginx + PHP-FPM isn't necessarily hard to setup, just different. It will be much faster than nginx in front of apache.
It was scaled back to TACK, a TLS extension that decentralizes certificate authority, which competed with HPKP, a similar but less ambitious standard; HPKP seems to have won. It's not optimal but it's progress.
With that amount of revenue, you could easily outsource it to an offshore dev and claim back a lot of your time, while still retaining ownership of the app and IP.
There are more details on CFR+ in the Science Magazine article [1] and the in paper [2]. These were posted by hn user 'benktbyte' in another story.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6218/145

[2] https://pdf.yt/d/qv-O9AwQuV1Kjb04
They're cost efficient, not "resource efficient".
Pseudo-time -- I think he's talking about something called Croquet. There's a trail here: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2021/
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It could, and you'll want to talk to labor lawyer for specifics about what is and isn't acceptable.

For example, when you talk about the candidate "seeming intelligent" that could suggest that appearances may have played a role in the evaluation, especially if you can't narrow down more specific reasons.

It's best to stick to objective factors such as the candidate's lack of experience in <some key area>.
> The majority of the people on this site are probably concentrated in Bay Area

Please, we're everywhere.
Wow, this is a really great presentation that resonates a lot with me.
I got back into fencing. Thanks :) I still stink at it, and am likely to keep stinking at it, but it's a good workout in a competitive environment.
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The idea would be that its optional, and the company would still treat candidates choosing either optional equally during the hiring process - it would not be a condition of applying.

So, you aren't signing away your legal rights in exchange for a chance at the job, you get that either way. You are agreeing not to exercise some legal rights in exchange for feedback, not in exchange for your application to be considered.
Alan Kaye seems to enjoy making asinine statements. "Teachers are taught science as a religion" "Romans had the best cement ever made" "We live in the century where the great art forms are the merging of science and engineering"

There's also a kind of arrogance when he shits on intel and djikstra that I find off-putting.
Fellow aficionado checking in! Thanks for the link, let me also throw in a super recent one from 2014 of Ralf Souquet running 178.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPFqNhRk70Q

I also enjoy watching competitive 9 ball, where if you aren't running the table, you're putting your opponent into a ridiculous safety, and then there's usually an amazing shot to escape, etc. until one side gives the other an opportunity and they likely run the table, which is also impressive. But then again, I'm just getting into straight pool, and I really enjoyed watching the above video. So straight pool's growing on me too.

For watching any kind of pool, I think it helps to play a bit to get a perspective for just how difficult some of the shots are, but also to be able to picture the thought process the player is going through. There are shots a player might be able to make 75% of the time, but if they miss that shot it's over, so they'll play safe, or choose a lower percentage shot that has a built in safety, and you can usually pick up what they're trying to do next. Or they come out of nowhere with a shot neither you nor the commentators saw coming and nail it, to which the commentators will say something like "well, I guess that's why Shane is the #1 ranked player in the world and we're not!"
…then secondary click, .bars { display:none; } kill all the fun!
The Other Woman (Wields an umbrella like you've never seen before)
We just launched the first version of SunOpps a week ago. I would love to hear your feedback. Thanks, Hussein!
How scientists created a dialogue using reddit is more like it. That site sure gets a lot of credit just for being a forum-of-the-moment.
What would be a polite way to say "I didn't hire you because you have no idea how to program?" I mean I've interviewed people who we didn't hire for that reason... You can't say that though because its mean... Instead you get "your skills didn't align with our needs."
In my case, I did two things:

1. Add memcached
2. Serve static files via nginx

It allowed me to handle 2.9 million requests

I documented it here: http://idiallo.com/blog/handling-1-million-web-request
Ken Thompson wrote it. He's pretty good at C.
The idea of having to worry about offending people at all costs is silly.

If there was a group that murdered people for using the color purple, I'm sure tons of people and companies would proudly display people. Why should it be any different here? Why cower because someone might be offended over some arbitrary rule?
My late 2013 rMBP with the 1TB option sees sustained read and write speeds of around 900MB/s, indeed. Useful when dealing with uncompressed video.
Neven Mrgan on Why Skeuomorphism Is Like a Classic Car [video]
No, I meant that the young people donate for the old, and that once they turn old there will (hopefully) be more young people to donate blood, again to receive blood from other young people when they turn old. Kind of like a pension scheme (at least the one we have in Germany works that way).
> Does anyone know why the specific decisions and guidelines used here may have been made?

Presumably the guidelines were designed in such a way as to disqualify all previous definitions of "the first personal computer", allowing the author to select one even older and more obscure.
It would appear that this is some of the team at Alberta that "solved" checkers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_(draughts_player)

The book http://www.amazon.com/One-Jump-Ahead-Jonathan-Schaeffer-eboo... One Jump Ahead details the checkers effort.

I highly recommend this book.

The "solved" aspect of resembles enumerating all possible outcomes.
A person does not need 'very strong' reasons for legal challenges. They can be spurious, with the plaintiff hoping the company will find it cheaper to settle than defend themselves.

A system where the loser pays the winner the amount the loser paid their own lawyers will stop most of this nonsense.
We need a class-action lawsuit that results in a cryptographic hash manifest of all hardware components being delivered with every purchase, or made available for lookup online by unit serial number. Alternately: labelling regulation, or voluntary disclosure.

Amazon could design a "showrooming" mobile app to augment the reality of Apple retail stores, with photos of the supply chain casino options on which the buyer is gambling, while they promote Amazon items which have guaranteed transparency on components.
CISPA, controversial cybersecurity info sharing bill is back from the dead
How OpenSSL's bignum squaring vulnerability was found
Or... you're not a potential drinking buddy. ;)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/12/03/employers-...
> If what voters thinks matters, why is so much money spent on campaigns?

Hmmm... The obvious answer is: To persuade voters to think your way. But I suspect I misunderstand the question.

> Who is more powerful? Someone with $10M to spend on a campaign, or someone with the best political thinking who has no money to spend on a campaign?

Clearly the former. With $10M, you can persuade many voters to agree with you. But since that fits with my above post, I think I'm missing your point.

In the end, however they are formed, it's still voters' opinions (and actions) that matter.
Honestly, (and definitely n=1 sample size... possibly n=2 with some corroboration with my other friend). I suffered from some pretty bad depression issues back in highschool. The standard is to just throw anti-depressents at you until one sticks. I also hated taking them and would stop abruptly (definitely not a good idea). I'm very certain it caused some lasting issues (my brain just feels slower/less snappy to get things than it did before the treatments). My other friend got it way worse (lots of ED problems in his early 20s).

So honestly, I wouldn't be too hard on your own conclusions.
Yup, Nathan Allen and the /r/science community (largely the moderators - most of whom are scientists by trade or graduate students) built a reputable community through actively engaging the community and heavily moderating the comments. Oh god the comments.
In addition to incorrect instinct, heuristics, and prejudice, there are also cases where a hiring manager's instinct correctly identifies problems with a candidate but where they then lie about the rationale because being direct would seem too insulting (e.g. "You strike me as a dishonest/unfriendly/lazy/[insert insult] person").
I guess we're supposed to intuit this somehow, but what's the rate of remission for the control side?
So attackers that explicitly call out "offensive" materials as the reason for their attacks are simply unaware of their own motives? The calls for Rushdie to be killed was due to global conflicts, not his writings?
See Keith Weslowski's recent split.

I suspect a similar calculus may have inspired Joey Hess's retreat to a farm.

I can think of others: jwz, Bret Glass, Cringely.
> What would be a polite way to say "I didn't hire you because you have no idea how to program?"

"This position requires knowledge of programming, particularly in (C, Python, insert details here)."

Dancing around that point is not a "politeness".
I love to see this kind of medical breakthroughs in the front page... It amazes me to see how far/fast we are advancing in Life Sciences. Stem cells w/o any doubt hold the key to powerful life enhancing treatments, probably we belong to the last generation who'll rarely surpass the 100 years mark...
Jonathan Haidt's formulation makes it simple, really. Liberalism prioritizes the moral themes of care and fairness. Other moral themes--loyalty, authority, purity-- must always defer to the first two (in a liberal society). But this is precisely what moral conservatives can not do. Harming or treating others less fairly is morally right for conservatives if it is done so based on loyalty (patriotism, religion, group identity), authority (religion, tradition), and/or purity (religion, sexual mores).
The same narcissism that makes you believe that you are right?

Not all people value the same things. That we can't give up freedom for security is still just an idea. How much of western culture is really better than something else and just not because we're prosperous.
Can you elaborate on what you consider cultural fit and why it is so important?
We changed "created" to "hosted" to try to be more neutral.
The entire history of the iPhone is one instance of this phenomenon after another. "Nobody wants big screens." "You don't need cut and paste on a smartphone." "You don't really want multitasking, you only think you do." "Web apps are all you're going to get, and you'll like it."
Mobile hackathon learning: The challenge to make the IoT work is not software
Sorry, my mistake.

This is a good place to repeat that if anyone would enjoy figuring out a programmatic solution to this problem, we'd be interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831616
I think the news broke around Thanksgiving weekend when the tech press was all about Black Friday deals. You're right, I can't remember any news coverage following the initial announcement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637365
A fitness habit is unnatural. We are not designed to be motivated by exercise, but by goals, fun, necessity. So, to keep up a "workout" routine is something that takes serious discipline. It is the hard way.

When I was younger and had more time, I had a body you could put a muscle chart on (I did grappling sports). Yet, I'm terrible about actually going to a gym, and I eat whatever I want. I simply did what I had fun doing, was motivated by competing with others, and that was also intellectually interesting to me.
If you "interview" people that are blatantly incompetent, that's on you not on them. Just sayin.
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean. I'm against special casing things and promoting the idea we have to respect lies. Homeopathy is just as bad (though not as popular).

I'm neither tolerant nor intolerant of what religion people have, just like I don't care how they go about brushing their teeth. You wanna say a turtle made the world and you must always wear a hat, and that this is an undeniable truth and law if the universe? Great. So long as the government and society doesn't give special preference to that idea vs, say, flat-Earthers or geocentrists, everything's fine.
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I totally agree with you. For me, this is what programming is all about - creative problem solving :).
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I was happy to see the comparison to an iPhone. At least it's from the 21st century.

For many years, everything was compared to "The Library of Congress". I got real tired of reading cliches like how some fiber link "can transfer the entire 2 million books of the library of congress in 10 seconds". Or how some new storage device can "store the entire library of congress". Comparisons like that never made any sense to me. Did they mean just the text characters? With or without compression? Surely images weren't included? Doesn't the library also have stuff like maps? Why weren't they included? Etc. :-)
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I actually wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. They already don't allow third-party app stores (like Amazon's app store or F-Droid) on the Play Store last I checked; in both cases, you have to enable app installation from "untrusted sources" and download/install the APKs manually.
This is pretty cool! The app store buttons aren't showing up correctly for me though.
"Damned if it didn’t work at the next light, bringing the car to a safe stop two car lengths behind the guy in front of us. “We didn’t know it would do that!” Lipinski said with some excitement." Uh, wait, what? Driving down a street in tonnes of steel and you're experimenting with a journalist behind the wheel?
Out of curiosity, what was the game you were working on in the article?
It is a concern. When we hire, all the "no"s are filtered through our in-house recruiters who have been through trainings on what they can and can't say to rejected applicants. The situation is very similar to giving former employees a reference when applying for a new job. You have to toe the line and be very sure that everything you say is verifiably factually correct or you can be held liable.
This is where I find 1) downloading the video and 2) playing it back using a local media player to be vastly superior to viewing online. I can squeeze the window down to a small size (400px presently), speed it up (150%), start and stop it at will, zoom to full screen, and _not_ have to figure out where in a stack of browser windows and tabs it is.

Pretty much the point I was making some time back where I got in a tiff with a documentary creator for D/L'ing his video from Vimeo (its browser player has pants UI/UX in terms of scanning back and forth -- the site switches videos rather than advances/retreats through the actual video you're watching).

And then as now I maintain: users control presentation, once you've released your work you're letting your baby fly. Insisting that people use it only how you see fit is infantile itself, and ultimately futile.

(Fitting with my Vanity theme above).
Neat. I don't notice anything/much for most of the cycle, but somewhere in the middle I can hear a brief "zwip" rising tone, for part of a second. I happen to have three "identical" monitors, and it's similar on each one, although I believe I can hear the tone for a somewhat longer range on one of them.
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I believe he or she is talking about Google.
cough OCaml cough

I jest, but, "ha ha only seriously". It's an interesting problem when writing languages in themselves, that you need to try not to make your language great for writing compilers and nothing else!
I see that this is very similar to Paper by 53 in several aspects... Is that what you are trying to compete with? In that case, I wonder the logic of an upfront price instead of Paper's strategy which is to give you something to try out... At $4.99 a pop, it is much harder for someone to take the plunge.
Also worth reading is the three-part article by Patrick Wyatt on the issues encountered whilst developing Starcraft[1], which were a huge factor in its delayed release. Of particular interest is the path-finding hack they used [2]

[1] http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-s...

[2] http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/the-starcraft-path-finding-h...
I've been wondering how many of our issues related to aging and cancer are simply due to our own body fighting itself as many generations of cells slowly diverge by transcription errors. I'd love to see, and maybe it will be a viable test in a few years, what we can achieve by simply having the body 'rebuild' itself with a supply of fresh, identical stem cells.
The thing is you can give the appearance of discrimination without discriminating. Consider this: You say someone [a minority] needs more experience in X so they didn't get the job. The person who did get the job [a white male] has the same amount of experience with X. But they have demonstrated other skills that just blow you away so you hired them anyways. Person 1 finds out and since they weren't in the interview process, they don't have any more context. Now it looks bad from an outside perspective.
Ask HN: Advice to a CS grad to become a developer and tech company founder?
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