skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It totally depends on the position.

For developers, we extract some production application code, remove some features, and give people relatively open ended "implement a feature to solve X problem" instructions. The criteria for those range from "idiomatic code" to "good enough to ship right now" to "good UX", depending on what specific type of dev we're after.

For support, we pull actual tickets and ask for responses + documentation. Criteria for those are things like "technically accurate" and "doesn't overpromise".

Others could be writing samples (we have a new feature, write a how-to) or even a marketing plan.

After the sample project, we do a "work day" in place of a series of interviews. These are typically continuations of what the sample project was, and involve a whole day on Slack / video / whatever with people they'd be working with.
Less than $150 from whom? UPS and FedEx quoted me $275-300.

I don't know many lower-middle class people who'd buy what will likely end up being just shy of a thousand dollar present for their friends.
The process to amend the Constitution requires 3/4 of the states to agree on the amendment. It is not a majority vote situation, for the very good reason that the Constitution protects the basic freedoms of US citizens, including free speech (and yes, that means hate or unpopular speech as well) and right to bear arms.
The founders anticipated future generations that would attempt to take away rights, and thus made it extremely difficult for any such process to be done.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35240012
My first thought after seeing this was, "what if they published the complete design online? I wonder how the major world powers would react."
1) I didn't imply that at all. Secrecy by obscurity maybe but it's not part of the security model.

2) who cares except Bitcoin owners? Bitcoin isn't the be all of blockchains and it isn't suitable for all problems. You say security by credentials like it's flawed too which is just you grasping for something to say.
The hardest part to manufacture for a rifle is the barrel. All other parts could be easily machined in a High school shop class.
With AWS, you're paying for so much more than just the bare cost of the resources. Like it or not, things like CodeDeploy, Auto-scaling triggers, OpsWorks, Elastic Beanstalk and all the other services that are "included" ("pay only for the resources you use") are likely factored into the EC2 costs.
Most of that $2700 goes to provide treatment for the others in the ER who never pay or are paid for only partially (due to artificially-low reimbursements from agencies like MediCare or the V.A.).
That's a good point.

I don't know. Maybe if we can get top programmers paid more to stop bullshitting we can do something about that.
I would go even further and say that skill crash is the real and unavoidable problem rather than poverty. Poverty can be curbed by giving out food and shelter which is getting cheaper. But skill migration is not so painless.
> Yet during that same period, per-capita gun murders have been cut almost in half.

So has all violent crime [1]. I don't want to see a chart of per-capita gun murders, but per-capita gun violence as a fraction of all violent crime. Even if crime is decreasing, if those who do commit violent crimes increasingly turn to guns in places where there is more access to guns, then this is evidence in favor of gun control. The hypothesis here (which would need further study) is that the decrease in violent crime would be sharper with gun control laws than without them.

[1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/violent-crime-cit...
A regular 'atomic' bomb is a fission reaction. A hydrogen bomb uses a fission bomb to cause a nuclear fusion reaction. H-bomb = much more powerful.
Not hugely.

Same for a lot of Bitcoin fans. Making up a definition to exclude private chains doesn't make them less useful though it's just mental masturbation.
The HTTP/2 specification which is now supported by every major browser, has built in support for Client-Side Load Balancing via the ALTSVC handle. It can also be used for transparent failover, and can do all this without touching DNS.

There are heaps of other advantages by moving to HTTP/2, including an average performance boost of 15%. It also transparently downgrades to HTTP/1 for unsupported clients.
Snappy is the shark that Fonzie is jumping over.

Happy days started to suck long before that point, but it was definitely the best time to jump ship if you hadn't already.
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Can you share some specifics of what you did as inspiration to the rest of us would-be romantics? :-)
Any chance of sharing an old test for a dev position?
Well ... yes. We work really hard on the process precisely so we can find find people who are capable, easy to work with, and self directed.

Part of doing this is being consistent with people. The people who work here welcome a new hire _knowing_ that they've already proven what they can do, and having witnessed it in action. They don't have to rely on weak signals or someone else's gut feeling.
You can find designs for nuclear bombs by Googling. The hard part is manufacturing the nuclear material.
"A few hundred at most"? What?

UPS rate calculator for overnight cross country shipping of a 7lb package is $285, not "about $100".

All this rounding down is the difference between "a few hundred" and likely "just shy of a thousand dollars". A few hundred in shipping, a couple of hundred for a meal that's not "cornershop Chinese", the time for the service. Etc.
This link seems to work: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-06/north-kore...

Here's a New York Times report:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/world/asia/north-korean-tr...

No real detail, though. Artificial earthquake detected. North Korea apparently claims a successful hydrogen bomb test.
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"The NFA proved very effective at reducing (eliminating, actually) murders committed with automatic weapons on the registry"

That might be a bit too optimistic about the NFA. The NFA likely did reduce the possession and use of machine guns, but one reason for that is that people could just buy semi-automatics instead without dealing with the NFA-related headache, which suited most people just fine. Also, a lot of the crimes committed with NFA-regulated weapons prior to passage of the NFA were related to Prohibition, weren't they?
Well, on the bright side, they've probably killed more of their own people through allocating resources to such a thing instead of food and whatnot than they'll ever manage to take out with the weapon.
The part you're missing is that it doesn't matter if you understand or even if there is innovation. Why not use git? Because it's not designed for these use cases and it doesn't handle a few of the required features. Seriously the fact that you are asking this says a lot about either your knowledge or honesty of your argument.
$100 per hour, or $800 per day or $160k/year at 200 working days after holidays and weekends. That's arguably close to what the wealthy people who this is currently targeted at should pay a great assistant anyway.

So I challenge the amount of money Magic needs to pay the very best assistants, not the price to the customers. And while the automation will increase the amount of time spent on the job by each assistant delivering outcomes, it's a very exhausting day for them to deliver this sort of level of service non stop.

Over time the automation will increase the margins, but for now the best assistants will be setting themselves up to be poached by the best clients.
It doesn't have to. Look for a distributed company, tolerant of people in different timezones (likely also tolerant of those with different sleep patterns). 1pm where you are is 8am somewhere.

Or look for a place that needs people willing to do nighttime deployments, finish up things that have a next-day deadline, infrastructure, etc. A lot of people are happy not to have to do that, so having people that prefer it anyway is valuable to them.
Then I, as someone who manages a remote development shop and pays Comcast in the several thousands a month for Internet access, would be pissed that -I- don't get such access.

Why on earth should Magic have a "preferred relationship" so they can make money letting their customers skip the line I'm waiting in?
The physics of life
They are a small startup. I think that credit cards personal assistants would have better contacts.
Rimworld looks like a sci-fi Dwarf Fortress with Prison Architect interface.
Cool, I'm switching to coding with punchcards.
Isn't that lack of knowledge caused in part by the CDC funding ban [1]?

Studying gun control in the US also requires some care: because of the population configuration, you need to take into account the fact that people can bring guns from one jurisdiction to the next, especially in some Eastern cities, like Washington, DC (right next to Virginia) or Baltimore (~50 miles from Virginia).

Violent crime and homicides have been going down all over the richer countries, but the US rate is still much higher than that of say, Canada or the UK.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2015/01/14/...
You may enjoy this: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Library/Teller.html
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It's astonishing how a former CTO of Mozilla could get so many things wrong in his analysis. The number of errors he made is rather embarrassing.
> PureScript is, for better or worse, no simpler than Haskell as a language, with all of the power of Haskell but its complexity as well

Is it really no simpler? A few common complexity complaints i hear about Haskell that don't apply to purescript in order of frequency:

- Haskell is lazy by default

- has too many language extensions

- records pollute global namespace

- has fmap and map

- $ is confusing
How is the North Korean regime starving its own citizens possibly a "bright side"?!
1000 cores of what ? Vcore is marketing BS. Even if it was not marketing BS it's 28 2U 3 node boxes (if using older cpus) or 14 2U 3 node boxes (if using more recent ones) unless they have extremely spiky workload using AWS is pointless. Bandwidth bound scientific apps ==> use infiniband cluster.
Congratulations to NK for their first successful test!
yes, unfortunately that is one interpretation of events, even so I feel more comfortable knowing that people like Martin Bryant can't get guns. I guess we'll just have to wait for more data points
>It's no more true for Japan than it is for anywhere.

That's obviously false. There are places that share far more culturally and in the way of life with one another. Canada or Australia, for an obvious example, will be much more relatable to the average white American that most of Africa or Asia. Belgium will mostly familiar to a French or Dutch. Austria will be far closer to a German than China, etc.

>People who get all their information from the western press and then actually go to Japan come away shocked at how normal everything is.

If by "how normal" this means that people in Japan are also eat, work, sleep, etc, well, this is obvious. People are people. That doesn't mean that other aspects of Japanese society will be equally easy to relate to or accept.

From the mere fact that you can go back and find your laptop you left for a couple of hours in a public square, to attitudes towards work, marriage, parents, individualism, size of the average house, etc., there are lots of things that go beyond the surface commonalities.

>There are 127 million people in Japan. If the population shrinks by 35 million or so they'll have about the same number of people they had at the start of WW II.

That's not how it works. It's not a simple act of deducting people. The demographic changes that would have be in work for decades to make the population shrink by 35 million would also mean that the remaining 90 million million will be much older (in average) than back in the past when they were 90 million again, and this also has effects in society, economy, pension systems, etc.
> and reflects on the (entitled) attitude of the candidate.

It isn't about being entitled. It is about valuing the candidates time.

Almost every company I have worked at has been incredibly picky about work samples. Candidates who did a pretty good job were frequently passed over.

This shows that the company doesn't value the 4-8 hours the candidate has invested. It is the company who is acting entitled.

So now when I get asked to participate in a take home project, I simply move on to the next job. If I participate then I am giving up on 4-5 other jobs for a likely rejection.

Do you publish your acceptance rates? I.e. how many people who complete the requested work end up getting and accepting offers?

If you had a high acceptance rate (say over 70%) I would happily complete a work sample. Most places I've worked at are closer to 10% acceptance rates.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10835645
The FTC went after POM Wonderful for overstating the health benefits of their pomegranate juice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POM_Wonderful
Definitely sounds like a lose-lose
The 5.1 earthquake for this bomb would suggest a smaller explosion than the bombs at the tail end of WW2, however that depends on a lot of things. Looking at this list it would suggest about a ~600 ton explosion http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/richter_magnitude_scale

If I had to guess the seconds stage of their bomb significantly underperformed / didn't fire if it was a true h-bomb
This one's current, I don't know why but I'm vaguely weirded out about posting it here. It's already public on GH though so I guess I'll power through. :)

https://github.com/compose/app-ws
The merits of ColdFusion are irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that their software has continuously been breached.
Well I for one have no beef with starving North Korean peasant farmers. So there is no bright side as far as I am concerned.

It's also little to no consolation that the Kims regularly purge the military ruling classes as well, while the people starve.
Initial seismic reports are pretty underwhelming for a fusion weapon, so maintaining some skepticism on whether this is a significant new capability is probably merited until we get some radiation data.
It is going to take me more than a few minutes to parse this. However, I am relatively certain there is a lot of sarcasm in this snippet and I like it.
Better, nuke the post and reward those who wait to post until a credible, informative story exists.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10829872
How is that the bright side? Those people are innocent! It's not as though you can blame them for being born in North Korea! (And those who starve are guaranteed to not be those who are in power.)

Plus, I'm not sure to what degree actual starvation is currently a problem in North Korea. It's probably more about e.g. health care not being modern?
You're not actually so silly as to believe this is the case, are you?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-06/north-kore...
There's a decent amount of innovation that can make the assistants more efficient, so you can improve profitability without driving down wages. But there's also something else:

Since a high percentage of services will likely end in a transaction, there's a huge opportunity to become the Amazon-scale retailer of services. I find I don't even google products I want to buy anymore, I just immediately search Amazon. Amazon is my retail UI. If Magic can do the same thing in this space—become the service UI—I'd imagine it won't be long before more revenue comes form partnerships than directly from consumers.
Well we all have our struggles I suppose. I hear what you're saying though. I think money has lost a lot of its value.
Not the first time they poorly handled a security issue: https://blog.linode.com/2014/01/19/an-old-system-and-a-swat-...
Really - a $300 birthday gift to your friend? According to this website[1], the median American family has a combined income of 81k and spends about 1k of that on gifts. That's for the whole household, so more like $500/year for your friends. You're probably not going to blow half of that on one friend's birthday dinner.

Of course there are plenty of people for who this is reasonable, but please don't be so ignorant of what "middle class" means.

[1] http://visual.ly/how-average-american-family-spends-money
Which is why, if you believe guns reduce violence, we should saturate such areas with guns.

I highly doubt you'd be in favor of such a policy.
North Korea announces successful hydrogen bomb test
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Yeah. After you've paid your "minimum block of 10 hours" for $1000 and then you're using your 'service credit'. Or your $3000/mo subscription...
> Plus, I'm not sure to what degree actual starvation is currently a problem in North Korea. It's probably more about e.g. health care not being modern?

No, it's not about just about health care. They literally have massive food shortages, particularly outside Pyongyang.
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We all wish you good luck then! ;-)
Analysis of X86 Application and System Programs via Machine-Code Verification [pdf]
Becoming an unattractive place to come for ambitious people. Becoming an unattractive place for ambitious/wealthy people to stay. Causing inequality to take subtler forms, like power, political influence, personal connections. Civil unrest, as the social contract between people and between government and the people to be radically altered. There are a lot of potentially very severe problems, and it's dangerously naive to think that true equality between all people is something actually achievable unless humanity and human nature undergoes some fundamental changes.

We should be trying to fix poverty, and giving more people an opportunity to be ambitious and take risks without risking ruin, we shouldn't be making it unattractive to be ambitious.
I've flagged this post and upvoted the BBC & NYT versions.
so you're saying you wrote the code that was responsible for the breach(es)? It also sounds like you knew about these issues before you left Linode but didn't point them out while you were there?
What a timing. South Korea's Left and Right haven't been polarized in years since South Korea and Japan settled on Comfort Women tragedy. In less than a month, Koreans are now faced with this news that will surely erupt new discussions on how to deal with North Korea.
I just wish DO hardware has a bit faster (or not so over-subscribed?). All of our tests show Linode beat DO hands down for at similar price points.
Most of those things would probably cost you a whole lot less if, unlike 80% of the examples, they weren't "extreme/extravagant request, NOW NOW NOW!".
This isn't the case. (speaking from knowledge)
Here is another http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/05/asia/north-korea-seismic-event...
Someone who feels injustice, but hasn't had the time or resources to codify it into a calm rational treatise is said to be speaking from emotion. Someone who merely experiences base greed, but is able to justify it to themselves as righteous and deliberate and socially beneficial with a bunch of babble, is considered rational.

And so, the idea that the rigid set of discursive boundaries that LessWrongians impose upon themselves may favor a political outcome (the status quo) seems ridiculous to you, because you use "rational" as a compliment and "emotional" as an insult.
Sounds like that's a problem that Magic+ can solve for 100/hr.
Yeah, I think we need very extensive federally-funded retraining programs. Just being kept alive by welfare isn't going to give people a sense of purpose - people need to feel useful.

But I think a social safety net is very helpful in helping people feel comfortable taking risks - I probably would not have started a company if the cost of failure was homelessness, rather than just swallowing my pride and moving into my parents' basement.
It is credible. If you read the CNN story there is seismic readings which support the claim at least partially. Plus Japan, South Korea, and the US aren't calling them liars and are being very measured in what they're saying which hints to me that they think something took place.
Not so much. You need to either buy a block of 10 hours for $1,000, or sign up to a $3K/mo subscription, as your minimum entry point.
There are also a number of reviews on Glassdoor where supposed Linode employees say they were asked by management to lie to customers about security breaches.
Their Atomic Bombs had notably low yields [1], suggesting that the designs were poor. I'd be really surprised if they managed to successfully construct a Hydrogen Bomb.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_North_Korean_nuclear_test
It looks like the URL changed: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-06/north-kore...

Deleting the post because of the URL and title change.
I don't think this is so much about the cubicle as it is about someone who has made themselves comfortable in an enterprise setting. A place where you have to come into the office 9-5 or you're taking PTO, a place where have to put in plenty of face-time so the boss knows you're working hard, and a place where once you leave you have no problem forgetting about the work.
Are you serious? Can you name a single aspect of Japanese culture that can be considered indigenously Japanese, without Chinese/Korean influence?
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The only country that could do something about NK is China. The won't. Takes eyes off of the South China Sea. I wish they would just annex the country.
I don't think this changes anything re: South Korea and Japan.

North Korea has a fission bomb for at least 10 years. They don't have small enough warheads or good enough missiles to do anything with them.

The only card the DPRK has in a conventional war with ROK is that they have the ability to destroy Seoul with fairly "dumb" weapons before they are wiped out. Nukes don't change that equation.
The interview for the Magicians ensures they don't stutter - or does it?
Here's an example of the concept just today:

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