skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Cultural fit" is code for "just like us". It's not code for "can do the job needed to a high standard". It's not code for "would work well with our current employees". If that's what is was, people wouldn't say "cultural fit". They wouldn't say they interviewed for "cultural fit". They'd be interviewing for professionalism and ability to do the job and ability to work well with other employees, and people who turned up to a job interview wouldn't get turned down because they wore a suit to the interview while the interviewer dressed like a slob in a retro-ironic t-shirt.

It's code for "just like us". "Cultural fit" is important for workplaces which contain a number of people already who couldn't work with someone different; at that point, you look out over your homogenous banks of identikit employees, and wonder how vulnerable you've become because you all think the same, and how many excellent applicants you've turned down because they weren't just like us.

If anything, you should hire for NOT cultural fit. You should hire for people who think differently, who will bring new ideas, new perspectives. Who will see the gaps in your current products because they're bringing a different perspective. Instead of hiring the same person over and over, duplicating existing ways of thinking and reinforcing the same mistakes, the same vulnerabilites, the same blind spots, hire people who can fill in those gaps and actually bring something new to the table and see those mistakes and those vulnerabilites.
From personal experience, I've tried scraping my own TD Ameritrade data and quickly got flagged by their system as a virus because my request pattern likely failed some heuristic check. They disabled my account "until I get that cleaned up" and I had to plead with multiple people over the phone just to get it re-enabled.

The overall experience was quite terrible, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the norm.
MSJR

I'm quite the minority. My thoughts were as follows:

1. Maid Marion did something she didn't want in order to rescue a lover, and deservedly went with someone in the end. Understandable particularly after being the victim of unappreciation and abuse.

2. The sheriff imprisoned them for reasons that are not explained by the story. Can't fault him here. He allows himself to be bribed with sex which could be seen as a mercy in a certain light. More importantly, he was good on his word to release Robin and Little John, as opposed to abusing his power even further. Basically, he could have done far worse than he did.

3. Little John had the least to lose in all this, and as far as I can tell, hasn't done anything necessarily correct either. It's very easy to start off fulfilling the white knight role, but then have nothing to follow it up with. Neutral on his behavior and he ranks lower than the sheriff only because he had an easier decision to make.

4. Robin is the real cunt in this story from my perspective. Ingratitude coupled with abuse, and lack of empathy as to Marion's motivations.

The claims:

> Such an emphatic rejection of ready-made values is probably partly camouflage. You hate to be thought weak or insecure. You value honesty, and abhor hypocrisy.

> Men: Women are very much part of you life, and you are - or perhaps would like to be - quite ruthless, both with women and life in general.

... interesting.

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Final edit:

I guess the underpinning difference between my perception of morality is that it's a bit relative based on the search space of decisions available. There are a ton of details omitted that would likely sway my decision a different way, however, so the solution set to this problem seems a bit unstable.
I would answer No to both.
Then shouldn't his companies become public where we get the profits instead of him?
Yes, I went through all of the settings, and it was weird because I set up backup all pictures from the very beginning. One thing, that is also happening on Android, after an upgrade the app loses some or all the settings.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9420455/android-applicati...

This sometimes can cause surprises (for example setting back to highlights from full backup, to your point).

In my case it was simply missing pictures. It was reported by multiple users as well, Google had a ticket about it.
Normal speed is up to 200-225kph in the UK. Commuter rail up to 160kph. Metro 60-100kph
I'm sure this is all pseudo science, but maybe some of it's worth a little introspection instead of outright dismissal because it's not what people want to hear.

I was actually very pleasantly surprised in that, unlike most "personality tests", there were negative insinuations about some of the orderings. Most of these tests pander to you and tell you what you want to hear, this one out and plainly said "you have some thinking to do..."
People easily tolerate 3h on a plane, and trains are much more comfortable than planes (more space, free to roam).

I trained around the eastern US a bit, and while north of DC the trains are heavily-used and a 'normal' experience, south of DC the trains were very laid back and comfortable. They're subsidised, so the tickets are dirt-cheap, few people use them, they're comfortable and spacious, have power for laptops, and even have an entire car dedicated to sitting in a lounge chair facing outward to watch the scenery roll by ("oh, more kudzu..."). The only downside is that the stations were only at major locations, so not many stopping points, which was fine for what I was doing.
I have an example from before the new version of the Photos app came out. This might have changed since then.

If I take a bunch of photos and then send some of them through Hangouts before I get home to my WiFi those photos doesn't get backed up. I'm guessing it's because Hangouts uses G+ albums for the photos, so technically the photos are on Google's servers, but they're not where I expect them to be (in Auto backup).
For the convenience of non-US commenters/readers: that's 13 C.
Then shouldn't the company be public and beholden to us?
Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate
Yep, thank god the government (state and federal) are actually investing in something positive. I am glad there are subsidies for clean energy (production and consumption) and the development of cost effective space transportation.

When one looks at the Gov't balance sheet, the opportunity cost of these investments is amazing. The outflow is such a drop in the bucket vs. the potential (and current) value that is is a fucking no-brainer.
http://www.talisman.org/cgi-bin/robin-hood-morality?all=true - I see hardly any with her in the top half that say or imply this?
Asus g501jw

If you buy anything less than that, you're a loser.
A short film about making ink in every PANTONE shade
> What if we turned this around?

Then you would be making just as an asinine and ignorant statement which is factually correct, but grossly misrepresents the truth - that there is a distinct difference between plants and animals, but not so much between human and non-human animals.

http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConscious...
Because liberatrians are self-centered, they just look for a moral narrative to justify it to others.
It's unfortunate that he conflates morality and honesty.
Yes. And also add to it - infested with malware injected by the one who added it.

You grab the software via thepiratebay - and your site or your computer becomes a zombie.
Lots of people know that and so that never been a threat to me.
And then - cracked version got outdated pretty soon as well.

On a final note - cracked copies actually worked as a free advertisement - in fact I contemplated to upload clean "cracked" version of my software to a few sites for that specific purpose.
This helps business, rare hurts.
Well we can't assume no preconceived notions. We have to assume that everybody is their story books self otherwise RH and LJ might be in prison for putting babies in burlap sack and beating them against rocks.

But then if we assume that RH behavior seems entirely out of character.
I have a W530 for work and it works very well with Linux Mint 17. There was a bit of trickiness with the dual graphics cards and getting it to work right on the dock to output to quad monitors, but if you're not using multiple monitors via a dock, I highly recommend the W530. Even with that little bit of work it's been an excellent performer.
It is beholden to "us" as much as the us gov't is beholden to us. That is, somewhat loosely in some situations the counterparty can extract some sort of its will on the enterprise.
Even before, the interface names could be whatever one set them to, so it seems hacky to assume a certain form.
"I believe it was developed as a research programming language, and apocryphally, they didn’t have a way to get code in and out of the system. They couldn’t figure out how to create a pure functional I/O system until they came up with the I/O monad."

Uhm. No. No one has ever written a program that doesn't have some I/O facility. How would you even know if it ran?

I can get saying something like this over a few beers. But if you are going to speak or publish, maybe just go ahead and Google it?

This is the fourth result from Googling the phrase: "Haskell before IO monad": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17002119/haskell-pre-mona...
> One of my standard statements is that the ability to do a job is not a guarantee to get the job - it is just the base requirement to even be considered.

That's fair, but I think the issue is that some people with the ability to do a job are being rejected out of hand, often due to assumptions and biases that folks might not even be aware they possess. For example, the community college candidate.

I've watched folks with non-conventional backgrounds struggle to even get that first phone call, even for jobs it's clear they are fully capable of doing. Once that's established, sure, culture fit and other things have to come into play (can they function in your kind of company? do they have a passion for the space? and whatever else you hire for).
Couple of points.
* It’s not trigonometry. The inverse of a proper ellipsoidal Mercator has no closed-form solution.
* Data generally are in geographic coordinates, not map coordinates. If your data are in map coordinates, then definitely do not use Web Mercator unless your map coordinates are also Web Mercator. The same is true for any projection: You need to know what coordinates your source data are in (Geographic? Than what datum? Or map? Then what projection?). If there is a mismatch between your data coordinates and the projection you’re using, you have to convert between them. Web Mercator adds nothing new to that problem.
* There is nothing “inconsistent” about Web Mercator formulas.
Lenovo Thinkpad.

Switched to Thinkpad X250 recently from old HP netbook and so far very much happy. Running Ubuntu 15.04 with Gnome.

Everything works out of the box, no problems with hardware so far, no need to patch or edit any obscure config files or download weird drivers.

Solid hardware. Internal battery that allows you to switch drained battery to a full one (if you have it) at any moment without the need to turn notebook off.

Besides that, I really like how Thinkpads look. Sturdy build that feels great in your hands.

Good keyboard. Some people don't like that type of keyboards (chicklet), but I feel comfortable working on it.
My company has just launched an anonymous interview process for 3 open positions - https://careers.bytemark.co.uk/ . We only take a mobile# and an alias, and just talk to candidates over IM for 2/3 interviews. I blogged about the rationale - https://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2015/05/20/bytemark-is-hiring-by...

re: the post on gapjumpers, I'm not sure about asking someone to do (what appears to be) a 1-2 day programming exercise on their own time to prove themselves for a job. That favours people with the most time to put aside - and it's a heck of a lot of wasted effort for the candidate who gets rejected. I don't think that's as fair as it should be.

We're using anonymous interviews for all our positions (not just development), and it's great to get a sense of personality without thinking about gender, age, race or anything else irrelevant. When we turn people down, we don't even know who they were. I _think_ that's a good thing for both sides.

I'm not going to pre-judge what's happening with our process, but so far we've got through a load of interviews without stress, and got very strong impressions from these 30 minute initial chats. Second interviews will start happening the week after next & I'll write about it once we've got this batch of recruits through the door.
The test tells you to abandon all preconceived notions, if you act as if RH is the great thief robbing the rich and giving to the poor, you're doing it wrong.
Exactly. On the one hand they condem the government for spending and on the other salivate at the business 'genius' of Musk.
This sounds like exactly what http://stackoverflow.com was designed for.
Swapping those positions is morally equivalent because there's not enough information to judge between them decisively.
I'm going to plug a personal finance application; I have no connection to it other than using it and wanting it to survive. I hope that's not inappropriately hijacking this thread, but downvote me if so.

MoneyDance
http://moneydance.com/

It's a mature application with a good GUI, with double-entry and sophisticated functionality, cross-platform (Linux too), has an open API and is scriptable in Python, [1] and IIRC data is in XML. Last I needed them (years ago), support was responsive and forums were technical and helpful.

[1] http://infinitekind.com/developer
For those interested, Wesabe open sourced a lot of their code: https://github.com/wesabe

There's even a method for running the service in a virtual machine: https://github.com/wesabe/mesabe/wiki

They also have some OFX tools.

The wisdom contained in those repos might be a good place for a community effort to start.
Also, no mention in the article of the literary inspiration for AD&D's "gamey" magic: Jack Vance. I'm reading his Dying Earth's stories, and even though I'm no fan of AD&D, I find his magic system charming. Spells are something you collect and "equip" by reading and memorizing them, and a great wizard can memorize more spells than a regular person.

Here is a paragraph from a short story ("Turjan of Miir"), with the protagonist choosing some amusingly named general purpose spells:

"Turjan closed the book, forcing the spell back into oblivion. He robed himself with a short cape, tucked a blade into his belt, fitted the amulet holding Laccodel's Rune to his wrist. Then he sat down and from a journal chose the spells he would take with him. What dangers he might meet he could not know, so he selected three spells of general application: the Excellent Prismatic Spray, Phandaal's Mantle of Stealth, and the Spell of the Slow Hour."
Yes I think Lightroom started to offer online services a while back. I also use DSLR and the bandwidth is not there yet to upload it from a mobile. At the same time, an average user (99%) wants to take a picture with a mobile phone and upload it most of the time, that scenario is perfectly fine with Google.
How I feel about Waterfall Development
Things that have their origins in defense:

GPS

Siri

The Internet

Tor

Not saying pork isn't a huge problem but saying no awesome technology comes out of defense spending is untrue.
Well, I've no great love for FlexLM, but even less for changes to userspace that willfully break things in pursuit of this year's dubious concept of 'better'.
> The US environment overall is doing extraordinarily well in fact.

Record draughts in California. Mild drought on East Coast.

Sea Level Rising.

World Temp Rising.

11 inches of Rain in Texas in one day.

inb4 these are not conclusive. Sure they aren't. The environment is an unpriced externality, and it is very difficult to measure the effects that humans have on it. Let's keep running uncontrolled experiments here until we have a problem.

Luckily the Mars colonial transporter will be built by the time we do real damage.

/Somewhat snide and sarcastic. Somewhat.
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I find it the following interesting:

From this perspective, J did nothing wrong, and helped solve M's problems. M had good intentions, but hurt R, but had little choice. S forced himself on someone against their will as a form of ransom. R lost both his friend and lover as a result of his actions.

The ranking of S and R comes down to whether you think that S forcing himself on M was intended to hurt R, and if he knew what R would do to M as a result.

I wonder if this had been changed from imprisonment to death for R (and possibly J, possibly not) if R's reaction would have changed, or if not, if it would change the S/R ranking.
Caddy looks like a good choice.

https://caddyserver.com/
A concerted community effort could develop counter-heuristics.
Just wanted to drop in and say Nirsoft are wizards and i've been using their tools for a decade now without any problems.
That's just, like, your opinion, man; tell it to the retrocomputing folks.

IMHO, the reluctance to "finish" a project and the stigma against something being "in maintenance mode" is responsible for most of the bloat and messes in modern software. Perhaps it's related to "CADT": http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

It's also, ironically, the cause of numerous security flaws. Maybe we wouldn't have to worry so much about security flaws in our libraries if we weren't constantly tearing them down and remaking them.

Regardless, in the case of libc, I genuinely cannot think of a reason to break binary compatibility, backwards or forward. The POSIX standard is set in stone, the interfaces are stable, the data types are opaque, etc. Of course you can create new implementations of memcpy etc that take advantage of new instruction sets, but I don't see why you need to break binary compatibility to do so.
Swapping MM who sacrificed her night to save her lover and confessed honestly to him after with the abuser is the same in your book??

I just don't understand
The particular analyses of the results here are dubious and in some instances pretty ruthless, but the test itself is really quite interesting. My sociology teacher used to present a morality test with a similar story, but with two more characters. We spent a lot of time arguing about it in class, and it led to some serious disagreements. I know I thought less of some people after that day.
Yeah - http://www.almahdi.cc/programming/zencrypt-php-encoder
Well, modern MacBooks are much less well supported, but I see your point.

I think we need some company that cherrypicks components for Linux. Dell could do it. They already have a gazillion models, why not a Linux specific one? I still applaud their XPS model though. It looks pretty amazing.
I've been running Arch on a Thinkpad t430s for about three years now, it's a very solid laptop.
Since I see it nowhere, I assume the OpenGL plotting library still has the limited range problem.
When a good idea (e.g., equitable treatment of people) gets branded with a label (e.g., feminism), it opens the door for fools to start identifying with the label. By their mass, they change its meaning over time, then vilify anyone who doesn’t self-identify with the label—even those who believe in the original idea.

There are a few possible remedies here. One is to vehemently deny that these people are feminists, and recapture the label. Another is to not identify as anything, and just follow the ideas—but it’s hard for most people to be that egoless.
I somehow doubt the military was buying up all the .22 bullets ...

If I want to protect myself, I'm going to want a bullet with quite a bit more punch, thanks.
Does the sync between mobile and desktop take place over wifi or cloud?
It's not that expensive. About $500 NZD for a basic test. Yes, expensive if you don't have $500 but there's many ways to go about it: ask for invoice, get legal aid to pay, do it through lawyer (who adds to their bill), hope you still have family who loves you or friends.

Alternatively, you can make the court do it to rule out any problems. Most of the time the labs come up with the same result but the courts are more than happy to make sure it's about water tight.
as a side note: both hledger and ledger (its inspiration) can also handle time tracking/keeping [0].

[0] http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Time-Keeping
Stay and take your paid family leave. Its paid, you earned it, its your first and your wife will appreciate it (and you will too, but later). You do not need to dig into personal savings until after that, and it may help if you need to expense something you had not thought off. Anything left over put in an educational savings fund - why give it to your employer?

Take care of yourself (& family) first. The employer will do just fine.
you can encode quite a bit of logic into Haskell's type system

You are right, it has limits, but we can push those limits quite a bit. A nice trick is to avoid Bool and look for richer types instead. For instance, avoid <= :: a -> a -> Bool. Use compare :: a -> a -> Ordering.

We want precision right? Not to brute force try solutions until one seems to work that blows up later?

Not sure. I like precision. I like to study it, I like to be able to use, I hate when other people don't use it, but I have come a long way building the discipline to use it consistently. Some days I still choose nasty hacks.
"Ubuntu Desktop certified hardware ( Dell / HP / Lenovo / Asus )"

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/models/?query=&c...

// I am a happy Lenovo Thinkpad user :)
This leaves a lot of room for interpretation.

We're supposed to leave all our preconceived notions behind, which means that Robin Hood & crew could be random people subject to the whims of an arbitrary and despotic sheriff. If thats the case, it's a much more difficult situation to judge.

For the record I chose the same as you.
No more so than the traditional developer refusal to wear suits and ties, surely?
Uber reveals plans for a giant glass headquarters in San Francisco
Along with lots of other people here. I recommend getting a ThinkPad that is Ubuntu certified. Even if you don't use Ubuntu, it will mean that there is good linux support for all of the hardware.

I use a T440s and it is fantastic. No issues whatsoever in Mint 17.1 Mate 64-bit.
My answer would be different depending on whether the Sheriff was planning to keep them for a day anyway, or for life, or even kill them the next day. I feel this is an important part of the story, which is not clarified. Also not clarified is whether MM could talk to Robin first and ask him what he wanted.
Eh, it seems to me the sheriff horribly abused his position of power. Either LJ and RH were imprisoned rightfully, in which case perhaps they shouldn't be just be released, or else the sheriff wrongly imprisoned them. Either way, he exploited his power as sheriff and blackmailed MM for sex.

RH's actions, on the other hand, while certainly misguided, are at least understandable, if he lives in a typical culture of masculinity, monogamy, and Victorian-era purity, where it's embarrassing to be rescued by a woman and shameful for women to have sex. He was probably feeling emasculated after being rescued by in such a fashion, and took out his anger on MM. (Which is bad, of course, but I don't think it's worse than what the sheriff did).

Finally, RH's "abuse" is left ambiguous, as opposed to the sheriff's which is very much explicit.
I think targeting a smaller community is always easier and works better but all the investors would like to see is plan for world domination, aka "make something great for everyone".
It seems to me that the sex trade was the Sheriff's idea.
Whatever the long-term outcome of the Zappos experiment, I'm glad somebody is doing it.
apocryphal: (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true
Perhaps he or she doesn't know about cryonics and that people are seriously working towards it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics