skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you also like for it to ensure that all check boxes in your template are checked prior to submitting? Ask the user to please submit to a lie detector test? I think this is a completely reasonable solution to the problem and will cover the 99% case.
They actually transform the GIF and serve a loop of the mp4 video.
I honestly feel like take home tests are "busy work" and just as volatile as any other sort of technical interview for showing actual skills versus a real world environment.

2-4 hours is a lot of time to ask of somebody, regardless of their circumstances. Would you pay a contractor's salary rate for that work? Are these take home tests results worth $100/hour? $40? Every take home test I've encountered I've wished someone would pay me for that time, based on the opportunity costs of what I could have been doing, but maybe I'm cynical and pessimistic.
A friend of mine at Apple reported multiple Black Vehicles (Lincoln Town Cars and Escalades) with at least one having MD License Plates at the Apple Executive Briefing Center this morning between 11AM and Noon. Occupants had ear pieces and sun glasses and were accompanied by a CHP (California Highway Patrol) cruiser and three motorcycle escorts. I suppose it's possible this was a quick (less than 1 hour) VIP stop but given Tim's message last night, as well as the reaction of folks on campus who were bandying about comments like "I don't want to work on this or because I don't want to be deposed" the impression certainly was it was not a friendly visit. Given Tim's very public push-back I'd think delivery of an NSL with accompanying intimidation is at least possible. I submitted this HN and updated in real-time. There's a bit more discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11120365
Then she should quit. There are certainly other people out there willing to do this type of simple work for a low wage. Instacart is basically passing it to the consumers so that the economics of the business work.
colinodell posted that before the blog announcement when we only knew about issue_template.md. It was to point out that you can do this with pull requests as well, not that it was case insensitive.
Its not that easy. You have to physical go to a office that deal with cash. Its not permitted to be done through the phone, and only a small subset of bank offices deal with cash.

You also don't get the cash immediately, but have to wait a minimum of several bank days. Also, as regulation against money laundry require, you must tell the bank as to the purpose of the withdraw and they are permitted to deny it.

Its much more than just "stop someone who steals your bank card".
Even if you go into the bank, they most likely can’t give you the cash because the office doesn’t have any. And I bet you they can’t alter the limits in the ATMs either.
I feel that this is needlessly dangerous, personally.

How are the salts managed? This detail is important. SHA256(scrypt(password, constant_value_instead_of_salt)) is going to produce collisions in the stored hash.
It's 2016. Why isn't there free wifi on flights?? I mean, we don't have real hoverboards and we don't have flying cars. Can't we just have this one small, actually possible thing. ffs!
GitHub is always going to use the issue template that's on master, not the template from whichever version you happen to have checked out on your machine.
Based on open sources, NSA has a fleet of about 100 vehicles at most in CONUS, so they would be more likely to fly vehicles cross-country if DIRNSA needed to use a fleet vehicle. Having said that, NSA doesn't just arbitrarily get involved in domestic law enforcement cases, even ones involving crypto, so let's wait to see if there's more evidence than a random HN post to support this allegation.
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Why do people need to see it? It is automatically used when you create a new issue. That's the point.
It's the thing about startups - everybody talks like they actually succeed. It should be "if", not "when".

The actual measure of success is both size and revenue. Without the former it's a small company, without the latter it's going to get bankrupt unless it changes - with implosion proportional to size.

"An instant" is a huge hyperbole, let's start with verification, legislation, distribution, certification and all other kinds of legal nightmare to get a treatment on the market. Not to mention politics if it's (not) affordable.
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Amen. E*Trade (I completely forgot they are "ee asterisk trade," not "eetrade") sued them over the lovely asterisk, so now we're stuck with this thing that looks like the "action!" movie clapboard device.

The big blobby square indicating how many profiles match under the dots is distracting. Maybe my eyes will stop flickering to that once I adjust, but it's not an improvement over the asterisk, in my mind.

I get the idea, but it just seems to messy, especially by incorporating a UI element indicating where the cursor is into your design.

tldr; trademark suits are the worst.
The Clover is phenomenal, but if you're stuck using Starbucks beans on them it's still not gonna taste great...
Main memory is rarely encrypted, unless you have special security features in your CPU to do so. Only the disk is encrypted; main memory is vulnerable while running. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

So you don't want any hardware to have access to main memory if it doesn't need to. For instance, you can use an IOMMU to ensure that devices can only access the specific areas the OS wants to allow them to DMA to/from, not all of memory.
Because I was interested and no one else chirped in, the answer is "Yes, but require some additional effort to obtain due to post-mortem stiffening."

For those curious, here's a Northwestern scan of an article in The Journal of Criminal Law from the 70s (thanks, internet!):
http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent...
AirBnB might benefit the customer, but can negatively impact others in the area. For example, if someone is renting out an apartment in a secure building, just giving the keys to an arbitrary someone you're decreasing everybody else's security. Similarly for a house, if a house is being regularly rented by different people, it impacts the rest of the neighbourhood.

In my building, renting out with something like AirBnB is against their occupancy agreement. While I don't know everybody in my building, I certainly know everybody on my floor. I used to know everybody in the building, but a number of people have moved out and I haven't learnt all the new people yet. I'd be really pissed if I found out that someone was offering an AirBnB rental right next to me.
> Having them do code tests is pretty much the only way that doesn't involve talking to every single one.

I get where you're coming from. But to me that's still a very, very selfish way of approaching this. You are asking for a blind burn of four hours of their time just to consider talking to them. Four hours is a lot of time. It's half a workday. You're asking for a hell of a lot just to not-a-culture-fit them out afterwards. And from a practical perspective, somebody who's good and employed is unlikely to expend the effort unless you're a very special company, too, which complicates the search.

> I've gone through hiring processes in the past as a candidate that started with a 30-45 minute conversation with the hiring manager, and proceeded to the onsite interview stage. This inevitably ended up being the classic 6-hour beatdown, with both sides muddling through without truly understanding what either is doing.

See...this I don't get. I know within an hour or so of talking to somebody if I want to work with them, and past that literally everything else, aside from compensation, is belaboring the point. And I mean "an hour"; if I'm not enjoying the process at that point, I'll usually suggest we end the interview. But on the flip side, because I am a good community member and I network heavily, I might in those situations go "hey, I think this isn't a good fit, but I want to introduce you to my friend who I think might be a better fit." I've done this before, and I can't do that (and wouldn't be inclined to do it) after you've burned half a workday on a monkey-work project.

I think there are reasonable ways to get a demonstration of work, but they involve investment and give-a-shit that I think most companies are way too happy to be bad cultural citizens to consider. Like, here's a coding test I'd be happy to do: "add this feature to this open-source project you probably use every day", well, that'd be different. I'd be getting something for my time, too, both in terms of feature and in terms of public recognition for open-source contribution. But one-way, dance-monkey-dance, throw-it-away-after stuff? That's very selfish, and I think we should be better than that.
There's one thing to do it quietly and another to stir up public debates. Now it's a 'talking point', something the media talks about, so it can't be hushed.

The value of this letter is not that Apple may be forced to do something, but for the discussion it triggers: device security, state access and the reach of surveillance.
I know that you know but i read this so often i might as well state it: You mean Macbook Pro, Mac Pro is a different product.
mmmm yes, those unobtrusive opt-in enterprise features.
Alternate Headline & TL;DR Summary:

Airline plans to use existing contract language to opt out of current service provider in order to use alternate service provider.

Considering the source is TechDirt though, I'm not particularly surprised.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure she is going to, I know she and the other people that do it hate it. Shouldn't they be guaranteed minimum wage? I mean, if they don't make minimum wage they can sue, or report them to the Department of Labor, right?
Presumably you (the employer) have less time to do on-site interviews than to assign take-home projects, so landing a real interview is a much better indicator that my (the job-seeker) time will be well-spent. (Hiring is a two way street.)
I've said elsewhere on this thread, but my absolute favorite technical interview method is to set up a contract to pay the candidate to create a feature or fix a bug on your codebase, and have it merge and work as expected.

It lets the candidate feel (literally) valued by your company, and you get to learn how they do the job you are hiring them to do.
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I experienced this too many times with UK/US providers (e.g. Hostgator and Fasthosts).
They often ask for server root password or email/password combo for the client portal, even after you verify account ownership.

Seems that they don't have any other way to grant the technicians access to the server/my account, which is absolutely ridiculous.
"I should plan to use the RPi as a second computer. Only thing to do is find an used LCD screen"

'7″ Touchscreen Monitor' designed fro Rpi ~ https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-touch-disp...
Technical interviews are a form of hazing. Engineers often suffer from imposter syndrome, especially during an interview. Those who have already been hazed and accepted to the club will turn around and put potential candidates through the same humiliating process. And what's worse is that demonstrating you have superior capabilities in one area or another can be seen as a threat to the interviewer and they may give you a thumbs down based purely on their own insecurities. What ends up happening is that, just like in college fraternities, is that everyone ends up being similar, both culturally and in terms of abilities.

If I had it my way I would do away with the interview process altogether and do something more akin to an internship. Potential employees could start their engagement with a company by working (for pay, mind you) on a very limited basis to solve actual problems that need solving (i.e. "write an algorithm that's 10% more efficient", "create a tooltip that's aware of the viewport in React", etc). Based on their output their engagement could be ramped up until they are brought on as a full time employee. That way it ends up being completely merit based. You can either solve these problems or you can't. And whether or not they ultimately end up becoming an employee doesn't end up mattering because both parties are compensated along the way.

This would obviously put the burden on the company to boil its problems down into smaller, isolated efforts but that's something all companies should be trying to do anyways. In the end, they just want some code written that will end up solving some problem for their customer.
I think he's going for SHA256(scrypt(password, salt, work_factor)) and saying the bare SHA256 is sufficient. As opposed to SHA256(salt+scrypt(password, salt, work_factor)).

I think it's dangerous because of the dependence on the client, and useless because scrypt(password,salt,work_factor) on the server is plenty hard to attack.
It was worse than what you describe. It was literally a wholesale copy/paste of a related but not-quite-right solution. The code test involved designing a data model for chess, but the candidate took an implementation from elsewhere that didn't give us the opportunity to evaluate their modeling skills (i.e. "I will create these classes with these fields and connect them like so").
A ChromeOS tablet probably would've been a better end-product as far as a productivity tablet goes. The problem is that ChromeOS's app selection is pitiful for entertainment apps, and I suppose Google figured that no one would pay $500 for a "premium" productivity tablet when a cheap clamshell Chromebook would work nearly as well.
I'm similarly shocked, but it's just how things are now. I'm not sure how I could set the bars any lower.
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I'm not sure how I feel about it either. That's why I decided to ask for feedback. As for responding to sarciszewski's comment, there will still be a salt on the client side. We obviously don't want to use a fixed salt for all users.
Norway is certainly one of these. In 2011, only 6% payments were with cash. Norwegians younger than 40-50 often even don't have a wallet with space for cash, but rely on their debit card for everything. It would be quite realistic to make Norway cashless. This is not the case for Europe in general though. In many European countries, cash is still the most dominant way of payment.
Option B is explicitly prohibited in your employment agreement for most salary workers. I would never consider working for a company that required me to violate a contract just for a chance to work there.
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Bookmarked to come back to when I'm done working for the day.
> Why isn't there free wifi on flights?

Currently, in-flight Wi-Fi hums along at 3 to 10 Mbps. For the whole cabin. Pricing it at zero would slow it to a crawl. This is true for any rival good.
PRISM covered monitoring and tracking of your device and the data it sends/receives. This order is to unlock the device itself. A pic taken on the iphone but never uploaded anywhere wouldn't have been caught with PRISM.
Considering how many massive, gaping security flaws have been found in Open Source software in the last year or so alone that have been in place for years or decades, I think we can say that open source software cannot be trusted either.
In that case, they could just bring the phone down to the morgue and unlock it with touch id.
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> I expect a programmer to be able to pick up a new language or database within a couple of weeks (tops) in most cases.

They may be able to hack around, write a for loop, track down a bug....but you're not going to get the same caliber of work from someone who first saw python two weeks ago compared to someone whose been using the language for 5 years on real projects.
At least an onsite interview typically includes expense reporting lunch, if not dinner, and maybe an opportunity to visit a city or a part of city you are less familiar with and possibly even sight-see a bit.

I don't think a phone screen is productive beyond a half-hour to an hour and anyone asking technical implementations over the phone is likely a worse interview than trying to whiteboard things (and that's still far and removed from actual programming).
Agreed that this is a great approach, but the major downside is that you are limiting yourself to candidates who either:

a) have the time to do real work outside of their day job and aren't on a restrictive contract preventing them from moonlighting, or...

b) are currently unemployed
The bloomberg coverage gives a bit of background on the analyst. Even though there is supposed to be a "Chinese wall" between analysts and the investment banking side there always has been, and continues to be, politics involved in what an analyst can say.

This is illustrated from this quote from the linked article:

> Despite those concerns, the agency said, he maintained his “buy” rating and told colleagues on an internal call that “we just had them in town, so it’s not kosher to downgrade on the heels of something like that.”

The tension has always been how to allow analysts to say what then mean about companies while at the same time keeping the company happy so that they can earn investment banking fees from the same company for things like debt raises or new issues.

Its very hard to convince a company to use your services while ignoring an negative rating by an analyst.

Unfortunately this leads to getting a lot of double speak form analysts where they might say one thing public ally but another thing privately to the buy side, after all its usually the end game of a good analyst is usually to get a job on the buy side. And you do that by creating a track record of being able to pick alpha long and shorts.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-17/ex-deutsch...

TL/DR Don't trust written reports by analysts. Trust slightly more what they tell you over the phone. Trust completely what they tell you in a job interview.
Yes, now it's correct.
Without any kind of actual valuation (tied to revenue) you cannot gauge risk. This is why startups in "pre-revenue" stage are essentially infinite risk.

Reward is also very guessed or estimated or both.
So essentially the profile is made out of whole cloth as are valuations.
That's pretty much my setup but with Windows 10 and uBlock and matches what I saw.
if done correctly, the purchase of a house should have zero effect on the buyer's net worth.

What is the hedge here against falling home prices? In other words, if you purchase a home a reasonable price of $500k, but changes outside of your control cause the market for that house to fall such that you could only sell it for $400k, how is your net worth not affected?
Pedantically true, but in practice with interest rates what they are there's only a few thousand difference between in the long term a 4% 30-year that is paid off in 15 years, and an actual 15-year at 3%. (Source; I'm doing this with mine, and ran the numbers)
This is a completely fair comment and my source certainly isn't fully aware of the situation...they just relayed what they saw out the window and some discussion among staff. I wanted to make sure this information was recorded for posterity at the time it happened in the (unlikely) event Tim Cook was taken away in hand-cuffs or something similarly dramatic were to happen. I'm hoping someone from Apple feels brave enough to confirm the events here on HN. Ideally with a few pictures showing the motorcade. I doubt Apple PR will comment.
I think Germany would have a lot of interesting things to say about government overreach into private affairs
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You could try http://www.hnreplies.com/ - it uses the API to check.
I would argue that handling security problems in general has not been Apple's strength historically.

I agree that failing to fix a problem like this in a timely fashion is bad, but sins of omission are generally judged differently than sins of commission, for better or worse. Apple failing to apply proper prioritization to security holes isn't the same as Apple collecting data to be sold to the highest bidder.

So, again, Apple should not be treated as equivalent to Google and Facebook. Feel free to judge them harshly, but don't paint them with the same brush.
The real interest rate is positive. If interest was low and the prices of commodities and their processed product increased there would be a motive for a rebellion.

A $100 bill, with interest, buys alot of stuff these days compared with 10 years ago.
"Most"? Anecdotally and all that, but I never signed a contract that stated that, across ~5 jobs. One tried and I got it redlined out before I started.
They did have a throw away line: http://www.subzin.com/quotes/M163327400a/The+Imitation+Game/....

I think it's hard to fit team storytelling into the constrains of cinema. It would be interesting to see something like the Imitation Game re-imagined as a TV miniseries developing multiple character arcs.
Exactly. For some cases it's an amazing service. It just wasn't enough to sustain a company that had to spend $5 billion up front to get things started. Once that got discharged in bankruptcy, it managed to do OK.
Do you think the specific e-mail providers were willing to agree on binding service-level agreements?
Low interest rates are great for the rich. Wealthy people in general know how to effectively utilize capital to make more money and if that capital is cheaper then all the better for them. I mean cost of capital is one of the chief components of calculating the net present value of a prospective project so the lower the interest rate the more profitable various projects are.
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say"
There's a much better analysis, to your point, here:

http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2016/02/16/45332/

Apparently gogo has a faster, better offering, so American could also just be suing to get themselves a better position in line to get upgraded, or preferred pricing on the faster service.

Or just to be able to switch, as you point out.
Ever thought about releasing this study guide that you've made? I would love to take a look at it/ send it to some friends!
Thank you! But I can't take the credit. These other people I found organically online gave us the push we needed:

http://www.thenomadtrip.com/

http://fattygoodlander.com/

http://www.sailingtotem.com/

I love technology. I love the work I do. But I will only live so long. Work to live, don't live to work. Make enough to live well enough to spend time living well.

You won't lay on your death bed wishing you crammed a few more hours in at the computer. You will regret the extra hours you could've spent with those you care about.
On this note: My team and I at Analytical Flavor Systems[1] wrote a blog post on how we go about hiring data science interns[2]. It's heavier on the technical details, and suffers from less... romanticism....

[1] www.gastrograph.com

[2] https://gastrograph.com/blogs/gastronexus/interviewing-data-...
Please tell me with which bank you can override this limit, as I know several people and one company that would love to know. Current solution is to go to the ATM and take out the maximum amount each week, time that the company could find much better use for.
Thanks, Sarciszewski for raising this. Apologies for deleting the comment - that was a fat finger. We're using RGN for non-security related operations. If you want to learn more about the issue and join the full discussion, the thread is here https://github.com/stormpath/stormpath-sdk-php/issues/132

If you want to chat directly, feel free to reach out us at support@stormpath.com. Happy to talk!
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