skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except they did "bother to go for" me, to the point where they didn't stop until I threatened them with a harassment lawsuit.

Google does not have a lot of prestige, they have a long record of questionable at best ethics.

However, people who are just out of college are much less likely to be aware of this, and thus more likely to apply.

Which means google does reach out to higher skilled, higher experience people like me.

They pursued me more aggressively than any company has ever in my career.

By the way, if you feel you need to prove worthy and eager to work for a company, then your esteem of the company is out of place. You are likely going to end up taking a worse job or taking worse compensation because you aren't valuing yourself highly enough.
Same here. The recruiter was super nice and it all went very quickly. I got to a second interview, but then didn't make the cut. I understand why; I screwed up those interviews pretty badly. It was my first technical interview ever. But, the experience was great and I'm much better at tech interviews now.
A lot of posts. The overwhelming reason is simple neglect. We've been working on this problem for a while. If you're curious about what we're doing, see the links at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9333611 and in my reply. They're a bit out of date now, but the intentions remain the same.
> I'm not sure what you mean by bleaching

I don't know how I did it, but I tried to answer this comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9333499
Yes, these have been some of the arguments against the creation of all the new TLDs all along.

It's important to note that ICANN does not set the pricing for each TLD. The pricing is set by the registrar who wins the right to control that TLD.

ICANN does get revenue from each TLD registrar, but I think it's the same for each TLD. I don't think ICANN gets a direct cut of each GoDaddy sale, for example, but GoDaddy pays ICANN a fee to be able to sell domains.
Leaving it is good by me. Like I said, it's a reasonable comment, just seemed out of place since it sounded like disagreement but said the same thing. Now that everyone knows what's up, it fits fine.
This is the real world. Perceptions matter.

Do you imagine that these people will openly disclose that they are discriminating?

Good luck proving that a manager has an (un)conscious bias against women/minorities because they are afraid of lawsuits.
. . . but while obtaining a PhD in a top program, I highly doubt tuition is reimbursed

I'm with the GP here, your experience sounds very weird to me. Tuition remission is a pretty standard benefit, often handled by the department at the beginning, and then eventually by your advisor (but often by that point you're not taking much in the way of classes anyway.)
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My experience with Google hiring has been scheduling a technical phone interview and then promptly never hearing back from my recruiter ever again. I tried reaching out when I had an offer from Microsoft only to find out he's no longer at the company.
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By my last year at Matasano we were literally discarding the results of phone screens. We did them largely as a pro-forma exercise, and because they made team members more comfortable with the process as a whole.

We virtually never selected out candidates based on phone screens. We had a work sample process that kicked in after phone screens, and that cost us almost nothing to run. So we never had an incentive to prevent a candidate from going through that process.

Unlike phone screens, the work sample results were strongly predictive. You could bomb phone screens, ace work samples, and end up coming in for in-person interview.

(We did "nudge" candidates we felt wouldn't do well on the work sample tests, solely out of concern for not wasting their time, but anyone who wanted to proceed was able to).

Phone screens are a waste of time.

Spolsky did a really good job of documented the best practices within the framework of unstructured interviews as they were practiced 10 years ago. The problem isn't Spolsky's tactical suggestions; it's that the strategy they're a part of is being discredited.
So, is there a compound in say, peanuts, that "rips apart cells"? I can see the logic as applied to bee venom (though bee stings might in themselves be enough of an incentive to leave the area) but not so much the many other seemingly harmless allergens.
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> and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

And why is he not rubberstamping such when the prison situation in US is cruel, sadly not unusual and definitely unjust.
1) Maybe it's different for internships, which is the only time I ever applied to Google.

2) I agree that algorithms are important, to the extent that you know the importance of "use a hash table." I don't think being able to implement quicksort on a white board is important.
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Too many monsters too little sleep :(
> I find these Bleach Salt is deadly chemicals kind of hard to take

Yap, I also think that, mine was a comment not done in the right post

I was answering this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9333499

Now I understand the downvotes, I suppose people thought I was saying that salt was bleached and has added "deadly" chemicals
> When it comes right down to what really matters, when you see through all the fancy "perks", what remains is a business culture that is not just immature, but downright conservative to the point of being reactionary.

Honest question, do you really believe this?
happy to see that someone else saw that! I mostly wrote that post / code as a tutorial on how to write checkers in a symbolic infrastructure, I think it was a little successful. I've been working on making checkers like that better, but that work is depressing because people like the author of AFL spend a lot of time telling me (indirectly) that it will never work, never scale, and never matter.
I'm of the opinion their firmware is real swiss-cheese'd, and they're not allowed to disclose the firmware and source modifications under EO12333 or other nonsense.

Hence, if you had a ubiquity contract, and demanded GPL compliance, you could sue for quite a bit of money for selling you pirated software (GPL license is revoked when source is not provided), and they would settle, rather than violate national security.
I don't object to advertising per se. There are many good reasons for advertising. Without advertising, how would I know what to purchase?

I have two gripes:

One is tracking. Most ads are served by a central server, Google AdSense for example. If I didn't block AdSense, then the AdSense server would know about all the websites I visit.

If all those exact same ads were served by the same servers that served the websites they appeared on, AND if my visits to those sites weren't reported back to Google, I'd be completely cool with it.

More recently my gripe is obtrusive ads. I'm cool with a banner on tops or bottom or on the side, but quite commonly I'll try to read an article, but then before I can do so I get a popup that either solicits a facebook like, or my email for their newsletter.

If I haven't even read the article yet, how can I know I like it? I might be cool to give you email, I might even enjoy your newsletter but to make a rational decision I need to read your article FIRST.

Finally, the last few years I have been experiencing brain seizures. It's not epilepsy but my own experience of them is somewhat like epilepsy. I don't really know but speculate that the world wide web is causing my seizures.

It is for the specific reason that I want to eliminate my seizures that I installed noscript recently.
I came here to say just that. I can't believe someone who is supposed to represent justice can dehumanize someone to this point.

It's a very sad thing to read.
Yes, except that users just don't do it. It's a tragedy of the commons: sifting through the story stream to find the interesting ones is not, itself, interesting enough. The reason people come to HN (to read interesting things) is a reason not to do that.

Our current idea for the solution is twofold: create a new review mechanism for stories (not to replace /newest but to live alongside it), and reward users with karma for participating. But we're a fair way away from having anything worth rolling out.
John also spoke at the March Code Genius. You can check out his full talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4sSldXv_S4
If you're robbing a place and your punishment for being caught is effectively life in prison, what reason do you have not to murder all the potential witnesses to improve your odds of getting away with the crime? All you have is morality, and I don't want to rely on the morality of criminals.

In Heat, Al Pacino's character summarizes this attitude in a quick line (paraphrase): "Once it escalated to a murder-one for all of them, why not pop guard number two because ... what difference does it make?"

The scene is an armored truck holdup and a loose-cannon member of the robbers' crew shoots one of the two guards (By accident? Or is he a psychopath?). After this, the second guard needs to die, as a living witness, because the entire crew is already exposed to first-degree murder charges. Simple risk management.
What have you moved in to from webdev?
It's very, very rare that PhD students pay tuition in any reasonable science or engineering program.
Found it! "Cyanide and Happiness".

http://explosm.net/comics/3557/
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The website is also using Google Analytics without disclosing this in their privacy policy, which violates Google Analytics' TOS[0] and is a pet peeve of mine. Hard to take the site too seriously but I like that privacy is a campaign issue, so it isn't all bad news.

"You must post a Privacy Policy and that Privacy Policy must provide notice of Your use of cookies that are used to collect data. You must disclose the use of Google Analytics, and how it collects and processes data."

[0]http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html
Let us know this'd be very helpful! tom@genius.com
What browsers are considered in this percentage?

If 27 (lots of obscure) browsers support it, but 3 major ones (e.g. chrome, firefox, ie) don't, is it considered 90%?
> Because companies realized they could purify and sell non-edible salt. Then people got sick so they readded iodine.

Any source for that?
This is the real world. If I worked at a firm that I learned was doing this (for instance, because I was on the hiring committee, saw the resume feed, and noticed women weren't getting interviews), I'd blow the whistle. If we got evidence that a company was actively pursuing a strategy like this, they'd be a pariah overnight. Team members would quit. Every job ad they posted would be accompanied by comments and catcalls. Candidates would be embarrassed to consider jobs there. A huge fraction of the best-qualified candidates would select themselves out of consideration.

You'd have to be a comprehensively incompetent manager to allow this to happen at your company.
Seconded, if you are going to annotate source code please go for this format.
For your WM you probably want to use a precompiled binary form your distro. What you're trying is equivalent of trying to get the whole gcc stack and deps to build a c-based WM. Haskell isn't a dynamic language and doesn't require anything Haskell-specific to be installed on the target system to run a binary.

If you really do want to compile your window manager from source, newer versions of cabal, the Haskell package manager, have something called sandboxes which basically remedy the problems you're talking about. I don't recommend compiling from source unless you know what you're doing though and if you're not using sandboxes, you probably don't.
Send him a tweet: https://twitter.com/hickforco
Regulators quite often take an interest in these things. That doesn't mean the regulatory agency always makes the first move. If you search for 'consumer price fixing litigation' you'll find plenty of examples,; top of my list was Apple being slapped with a $450 million fine for price-fixing of ebooks.

This guy is being hit with a $20,000 fine as part of a plea deal, which presumably means he's giving the state evidence on his co-conspirators. Perhaps they will get hit with fines in the $50-100,000 range; at a guess this vendor is having to disgorge his illicit profits but escaping any statutory penalties by cooperating.
Yeah at first the separation of Messenger was something I was irritated and confused by, but I soon realised it was actually a very smart idea, as it moves to replace WhatsApp, SMS, and any other messaging service in a way that was never possible with Messenger just built into the Facebook app.
Maybe they have. That's exactly why my comment was that it's too bad Google has developed this reputation.
Do you perhaps have an update to that patch against git HEAD or 6.1?
Well that sucks. I regularly use a VPN for legitimate purposes because my internet provider refuses to buy enough bandwidth to Netflix servers. There are many times where I'll have a shitty stream, then I turn on a VPN and suddenly I'm getting crystal clear HD video, because my VPN provider has more spare bandwidth capacity between their servers and Netflix servers than my ISP. I don't know why Verizon FIOS lets their connection to Netflix become clogged up but for me sometimes using a VPN is the only reliable way I have around the congestion.

I'd hate to be caught up in a ban for using a VPN legitimately without violating regional restrictions.
>So, is your argument that, because tptacek has 200k+ karma that its comments and submissions are upvoted more?

Not necessarily, but I would argue that the karma score is there to suggest that his comments should be treated more seriously in general, since karma is meant to be a signifier of 'quality.' It's an easy (and deceptive) metric to determine who in any argument should be listened to and who shouldn't. Although his having that much karma might mean his upvotes and downvotes count more which to me would be a bigger problem for the fairness of the forum in general.

I would be happy if Hacker News got rid of karma entirely, but that seems unlikely. The next best thing at least would be to just not have the numbers there at all.
Really smart people can be quite dense about money. If you want to make people happy and pay them less money here is what you do:

Give them the highest salary you think is reasonable and no benefits. No 401K match, no health insurance, no company presents like ipads or what have you.

Here is why:

We pay pretty well but it is spread out over all of the above. You might have a base salary of $150K but then we pay for 100% of your $35K/year health insurance with a top rated PPO (that's for a family of 4, we cover everyone 100%), we throw another $33K into your 401K, and we bonus you another $45K.

Total comp: $266K. What the engineer will think he makes: $150K.

If I wanted to maximize profits, rather than look out for the best interests of my people, I could pay that engineer $200K (with no benefits) and he would think he makes more. Most people seem to be like that, the year end stuff doesn't count when they think about how much they make.
so you're saying the current oligarchy of Bilderberg and Legatus attendees is somehow superior and less tyrrannical, and therefore different than Mussolini's vision, because there are more of them?
I don't understand... What makes a Lenovo laptop better than a Macbook Pro for running Windows?
If you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8572800, that looks cool and you should repost it. Randomness more than suffices to explain why it didn't get upvoted.

I recommend providing more detail about how it works, to gratify readers' curiosity.
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He should have ran for the Canadian border the day he was released by mistake. (Probably wouldn't have helped since we extradict.)

In Canada, you can kill someone and get only six years.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/killer-of-thai-welder...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/glowatski-sentenced-to-six-yea...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/northern-sask-man...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/kenny-gr...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/ryan-hickey-sent...
This was not retail.
I cannot upvote this enough times.
That sounds strange. Pretty much all the top STEM PhD programs (MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc.) offer a liveable stipend and full tuition reimbursement with medical insurance. e.g. MIT gives like $30k/yr, which is reasonable to live on in Boston, and we never pay a cent of tuition.
Every single PhD Mathematics program I've ever heard of covers full tuition and provides a stipend for the full period of study for the vast majority of its students -- it isn't particularly generous, but it's livable if you're willing to be frugal and focus on your work. The problem is the opportunity cost of someone with mathematical capacity at a doctorate level barely breaking even for 4-6 years before they even begin their career.
You're right. I apologize. Thanks for calling me out.
IMHO, if I were a large company, and someone tried to use my mark in such a way, I would simply sue them for trademark infringement. The registrar in this case... it's worked in suits against google in terms of advertising, and I'm pretty sure it would hold up here.

In this case, I'm pretty sure a corporation protecting its' mark would win, and that it'd likely cost more than $2500. But for a corporation with a dedicated team of lawyers on-staff not a big deal.
Brought to you by the guy who:

- Used to claim the Civil Rights Act went too far before he started thinking maybe he wanted to be president.

- Says he will sell off a bunch of our national parks to the highest bidder.

- Invented his own bogus Ophthalmologist certificate and certified himself.

Come on HN, you're better than this.
He's not really talking about a bubble but the aftermath of a burst bubble, which he really doesn't get to until the last section. And yes, there are lots of upsides to a bursting bubble. A lot of the unnecessary noise fades, advertising rates drop, valuations return to normal, and you weed out a lot of the people who are involved just for the money.
Vim's folding doesn't do this out-of-the-box, but you can set it up to do so. Clickable links aren't doable, though copying and opening in a browser tab is something like seven keystrokes on my current setup.
In most western countries (basically all, except the US), maternity/parental leave is paid for, and not by the company. You're required to hold the person's job (except in extreme cases, like if you're restructuring and the job no longer exists, in which case you're required to try to provide a similar position).

> Why is a couple's (or a mothers) choice to have children more important than what I choose to do in life?

The reason why parental leave is important is that the first few years are extremely formative, and having an opportunity for mother and child to bond (or father and child, whatever the case) strongly affects development. Being able to focus on the care of your child is extremely important to their development[1], and because those children tend to become more well-adjusted, it's beneficial to society as a whole. That's why most countries provide parental leave for one or both parents.

So the answer is, women should be able to have children and not feel punished for it or discriminated against because of it because that discourages a society where people care about each other and feel like they're part of something.

[1] http://now.uiowa.edu/2012/10/parental-bondinghappy-stable-ch...
Fair. Looks like he's not alone, too. I'll keep that in mind!
It's not freeloading. It's a voluntary trade for value.

In any event, your logic is flawed. A person can easily be a net contributor over a lifetime without having children. And someone who has children, can easily be a net drain even after attributing some of the costs/contributions of the children (which may well also be negative).
Wasn't the idea out in the open before that? A social network?
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"I mean, what kind of 21st century Western company that employs highly educated middle class people doesn't facilitate parenthood?"

Ones that are in do-or-die mode. You know, facebook, amazon, google, etc? All these companies could be irrelevant 10 years from now and they know it.

It's war out there for these folks. Facilitating parenthood is the government's job, not the employer's. The employer who's out to create wants young and ambitious, managed by older and wiser.

Think of the NFL - the land of concussions and wrecked super-athletes. Who facilitates the strongest and most athletic to mindlessly hurt themselves in exchange for some drunk fans' entertainment? The culture we're living in :)

Sacrificing the young and the brave in the name of pretty shallow returns is quite common. All we're seeing is the mental athletes getting their social-life concussed. They oftentimes don't know what they're missing to be honest, they're not terribly social to begin with.

Besides, they can retire to a sane company anytime and build up their life outside of work - you can't say the same for somebody who almost made it to the NFL, screwed up his knee and is now working god knows where.
Indeed he does not.
In this specific instance, it's really excluding all but the elite. I remember learning what crew was for the first time while visiting colleges, and I grew up in middle-class suburbs.
No, unfortunately, I can't give you a useful answer here. It seems that, in the first rounds of interviewing, you might not be interviewing for a specific position initially, rather, a function/role (for example, product management or software engineering).

In my case, I was clear that I was unable to relocate, which left only a specific position available as a possibility which was nearby. The reason I thought that specific position had technical responsibilities was by the description of said responsibilities in the job description as posted. Also, I was told that I was contacted by Google in large part because of my technical background, but during the interview, that background was not discussed or explored.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help!
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Notice how there's nothing about family in this article about Reddit's hiring practices. It's pretty much the same at all start-ups, they just want fresh meat to push into the grinder.

> Reddit CEO Ellen Pao "has passed on hiring candidates who don’t embrace her priority of building a gender-balanced and multiracial team"[1]

[1] https://archive.today/y6PJD#selection-1567.0-1570.0
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I don't know that you can directly compare the two judicial systems. Especially when China executes roughly 61 times as many prisoners - often for petty crimes from repeat offenders.

That being said the US puts far too many people in jail, often for far too long of sentences.
This looks like an ad for Genius, though, so that'd be why.
I noticed this a couple of weeks ago when visiting my (local) bank's website (I'm in Chrome beta, v42 at that point) - the landing page had a red slash through the https. The e-banking site is operated by a third party on a different domain, with certificates which Chrome accepts.

I checked the site through https://www.ssllabs.com/, and was confused when it gave the site an A rating. Eventually I googled the text from the certificate info panel, and that search led me to the blog where Google outlined their deprecation plan.

I contacted the bank and their web host had it updated later that day.

I do wish that Google would give a clearer message to the user when displaying the red slash. It was far from clear to me what the problem was, even after I clicked to check out the purported certificate error.