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I've been on a few hiring panels and designed a few interviews in my day. I've never met anyone who likes being told their interview is broken. Especially not from a candidate (who failed / is refusing to do it.)
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I am excited about Space and self driving cars but I think this could have much greater positive effects on humanity. Freedom of the internet could be the thing that saves this planet when it comes to thinking on a thousand year term.
> They have the job, you want it.

By definition, if they have a job, they want to fill it with a qualified person. Jobs aren't (usually) charities to the person working.
> shopping for furniture, tvs or other big goods

Those things can be delivered. Often for free, almost always for less than it would cost to park a car in a city for a single month.

> move houses

You can't do that in a normal sized car. Are you suggesting that every person should own their own truck? Unless you are moving every month it makes more sense just to rent one.
In addition to my other projects, I've also added the code of all HackerRank problems I've solved to a repository on Github. I link that profile whenever I look for a job. This way the recruiters have an abundant source of code samples they can look at when making their decisions.
His reply was gracious and well thought out. I didn't get a vibe of arrogance or sour grapes myself.
The job hunt is a mutual process...employers are looking at candidates and candidates are looking at employers. If an employer doesn't have a process that fits a candidate's personality and values then it's better for both sides to simply move on. I think this response does an admirable job of beginning that conversation.
I use them frequently. Having to write something like `(car (car (cdr foo)))` is common (`caadr`).
I addressed most of your issues, like not using urlparse in the latest release.

With libraries like these, it's all about getting the API right first, them optimizing for perfection second. :)
When an email comes up as compromised in this dump, it would be great if that notification came with the filename(s) in that list where the email was found.
I agree that the arrogance is misplaced, and will be lost on the HR peon whose job it is to send out HackerRank tests to warm leads.

On the other hand, it's rare for coders to be so desperate that they'll jump at absolutely any and every job opportunity. The balancne of power has long tipped in our favor.
I find the SpaceX subreddit to be full of good information. Its a bit heavy handed with moderation and over zealous leaving little room for discussion, you're either on team Musk or told to leave.
Depends on the terrestrial service. When I used to have FIOS, many places on the web were sub-10ms. HFC ISPs however are typically in the range Starlink will be in though (25-35ms) which is already better than many cellular data networks by a factor of ~2.
It doesn’t seem arrogant to me. It reads as someone who is confident in their abilities and is unwilling to spend two hours in an artificial environment when they have a wealth of experience on offer already. OP even says they’d like to do their thing in addition to HackerRank if that is an absolute requirement.

Helpful hint: there are no absolute requirements in hiring, just various levels of filters than can be overridden at will.
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Typically, you'd title this "show HN" and more people would see it.

Also I too use cryptocompare!

https://projectpiglet.com
No, I mean the self-flying electric vertical takeoff drones people are building that I'm pretty sure the GP was talking about, eg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4444874/Uber-...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16961688/airbus-vahana-evt...

http://www.ibtimes.com/google-founder-larry-page-funding-fly...

Etc

I don't know how seriously to take all these projects, but they are clearly quite different to helicopters.
That’s your takeaway from the story (s)he shared?
Yeah fully agree. Going down the M4 from London to Bristol i will constantly drop between 2g 3g and 4g. Really disappointing situation for one of the richest areas of the world
Not just that, but doing a completely custom interview just for this one candidate is a lot of upfront investment to make in someone you may not even bring onsite for the full interview.

All the caveats this candidate mentioned about standard coding screens are true, but they can all also be taken into consideration by qualified interviewers.

There are flaws in this candidate's proposal too. In particular, their proposal does not satisfy their implicit criteria that the interview should mirror real-world conditions, because they chose their own projects with which they are already intimately familiar but the job most likely consists of working on a pre-existing codebase that they know nothing about.
It's a platform to facilitate the inclusion of value added services. Say you want to offer users the privilege of receiving quick answers to their GitHub issues (or fix a bug with priority). The platform helps you set your prices, allow users to pay/subscribe for your support and give you widgets to embed in your project's README. It also makes it easier for companies to sign-up to sponsor your project and display their logo, keep track of contributions, etc.
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Just to add on top of that the OPM breach was and still is pretty serious. A lot of personal information for a lot of people was leaked and is easily in the hands of malicious state and individual actors. The sheer scale of the breach and the amount of information out there can be leveraged by a lot of people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/10/inside-cyberattack-shocked-us-...

[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/0...
This goes not just for hackers, but also for Troy.

If some small site gets hacked there is a much smaller chance that it finds its way to Troy.
This is awesome. I was watching it waiting for a guard to scream at me in unintelligible 8-bit German.
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Some of us do/did pay for gmail. Also you could stop using Google all together as I have for this exact reason. (Specifically no way to disable AMP). I’ve been using bing/duckduckgo for search and icloud for email for a few years now. The only reason Google gets away with any of this crap is how many people refuse to switch to another service so yes voting with your wallet/wall clock will get results.
Qualified is something they've defined as "passes this interview process" so I don't think trying to get out of it will be a "yes" too often.
Boom. Hired.

If any of the candidates I've interviewed and hired had this sort of independent and outside-the-box thinking, I'd have doubled their salaries when I hired them.
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Never ghost anyone. It's so rude.
Thanks, I couldn't be bothered to go down the list but was wondering where I was breached. This is probably it.
Yep. But I thought it better to say it.
I would be interested in hearing about some examples. I'm one of those who are not yet taking advantage of these potential drastic improvements you are referring to.
> They have the job, you want it.
Are you sure? If they have shitty processes and use shitty tools to evaluate the quality of an applicant - I am not sure, that they have the job someone wants.

This isn't a one way street. As an employer I want the best possible candidate. I want someone who can think on their feet and is able to say no to unreasonable demands. I want someone that brings his own perspective to the table.

If I want a code monkey - I would advertise for one.

And as an employee I want an employer who values my brain and my problem solving ability in complex and ever changing environments more then arbitrarily idiotic coding tests (or in my case analytics problems removed from anything resembling real world situations).

I am glad to be working at a place that enables me to have both (as a colleague sitting in talks with applicants and being an employee).
PDF of article in Lancet:

http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(...
I'm trying to start simple on my journey towards thinking more like a statistician and have long suspected this would be the case at many companies. Besides Bayesian models, do any other common methods seem to be ignored as often? Any suggestions resources that a newbie on the scene might use to educate themselves?
But hiring and the work force AREN'T fair. My performance review, salary increases, and bonus aren't based on some normalized criteria, we're rewarded for going above and beyond.

Even on the surface "fairness" isn't really the objective, because there are going to be different hiring managers and interviewers throughout the whole process. The salary negotiation isn't going to be "fair" in this way.

I'd rather have someone who had a rich github history and a record of real accomplishment than someone who had none but could produce a good hacker rank score. Hiring is the most important thing that we do as managers, I'd be selling myself short if I didn't take it all into consideration.
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Well, that's what the article is about. Even if it's "pretty rare" it's not rare enough.

It also specifically states that many times people were jailed without even being aware that there was a suit against them. This implies that many jurisdictions do not require a formal serve process, since that process is designed explicitly to prevent this situation.

But the broader issue is that even if it is "their own fault" for missing court, a tiny amount of debt combined with a failure (intentional or accidental) to adequately navigate the legal system can land you in jail.

I think the ACLU's contention is that that is, a priori, wrong. And I think anyone with an ounce of empathy would agree with them.
> like packages not being backwards compatible with old versions of conda

When new capabilities are added to conda, like the ability to support noarch python packages, you're going to need to be working with an up-to-date version of conda to use those packages. Just `conda update conda`.

> conda going crazy and reinstalling itself

Conda will pretty aggressively auto-update itself. Going crazy and reinstalling is a new one though. File an issue with details at https://github.com/conda/conda

> the way the conda-forge repo has far more packages than the official conda repo

Conda-forge is community driven and more "upstream" than the Anaconda, Inc.-provided 'defaults' repositories. Think of conda-forge like Fedora, and 'defaults' like CentOS/RHEL.
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1) Starlink will be in LEO around 800mi up unlike most communications satellites (like HughesNet) which are in geostationary orbit at ~22,200mi. Expect 25-35ms latency as compared to 600+.

2) due to having a lot more birds in the air at lower altitude with newer tech, they should be competitive with 5G networks speed wise as compared to existing satellite internet.

Edit: fixed distance typo for HughesNet
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This is not going to work because it is unfair to other candidates, who did the tests. And it is impossible to avoid any coding question later either.
Regarding the need to compare “apples to apples”:

(Manager, rummaging through an apple barrel)

“... apple ...” (toss)

“... apple ...” (toss)

“... apple ...” (toss)

“... fist-sized lump of uncut diamond ...” (pause... toss)

“... apple ...” (toss)

(Days later)

“Yeah, I found 2-3 decent looking apples... most are pretty bruised, though...”
I would hire them. They show me, that they think beyond their current task and are able to see the bigger picture.

Or at least I would consider hiring them if the rest does fit (culture and other such squishy interpersonal things).
You probably might as well have written 'no' for all the difference it will make, but I have to commend you on the carefully worded and actionable bits in your reply.

If I were the prospective employer I'd probably write you back that before we will invest into looking at your production we kindly ask you once again to jump over the low bar that was set for all applicants. Then again, if I were your prospective employer I'd never have used hackerrank in the first place because I feel that to expose a potential recruit to a third party service would be a breach of confidentiality and besides I feel that such services are - as you correctly identify - ill suited to picking the people I'd want to work with.

It's akin to a luxury fizz-buzz test.
Yeah, but if you're a professional it's just part of your job to patch the kernel when you have to. In any case, the kernel isn't as scary as most people think. Nor is almost any other "arcane" software in your stack.
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Sounds like arrogance... on the part of the interviewer.
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Just fyi the government became aware of this issue in about ~2010 and changed the policy on how redactions were done, changing from blackout to whitebox with black edges that were overlayed on the text with small size variations to prevent the attack. Old documents though that have already been released are likely to be ripe for this kind of analysis.
This very much feels like a promotionpiece for silkui.

"Regarding the UI, the choice is yours. Et voilà! You have a working chat app!" Or you could use our silkui tool.

I am not against promotionpieces on hackernews, I realize that companies need to earn money somehow. But I certainly expect more than a datamodel, "lets use firebase for realtime communication", and "draw the rest of the owl/UI"
You guys should really read this related piece :
http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/why-poverty-is-like-...
Because that sameness is irrelevant, and building something on it decreases clarity. Just because you can show something in mathematical terms doesn't make it useful.
Beyond that, there is entirely no substance here - unless he wants to release details, this is non-news, just more business fluff - "Ours will be even better. It'll be huge. The best. Others, so sad"

"And if its hacked, we'll just patch the firmware. So easy."
Evaluating side projects is a perfectly valid way to document a software engineer's potential value to a company, but that's not really the point of HackerRank. The purpose of HackerRank is to be a coding screen - that is, a test of basic ability to code simple algorithmic problems under moderate time pressure.

I have taken a number of HackerRank screens myself, and I have never seen one that either (a) tests beyond the coding level that would be expected of a fresh CS graduate or (b) is not vastly exceeded in scope and complexity by the coding challenges given during the onsite, which do allow considerably more flexibility and relax some of the artificial constraints.

Why attempt to circumvent a test that is meant as a slightly less trivial FizzBuzz?
> I'm just bitter because I believed in him, but his promises fell flat.

Which promises are those, because I have seen him deliver most of his goals? Albeit, they are practically always late but everyone who has followed him should know by now that he always underestimates timelines. The running joke is to multiple his estimated timelines by 1.8 (mars year / earth year).
Hi, I'm andrestaltz who Elon answered on Twitter. Like others have mentioned here, it seems like Elon is referring to the link layer between the satellites. "Peer-to-peer" probably meant "without a network switch".

I wish I had originally tweeted "... peer-to-peer connections within Starlink-only customers" because I was actually interested in knowing if Starlink could be like ZeroTier. https://zerotier.com/
Have you actually made an offer to that person?

Do you have the power to double salaries of people in your org?
One really cool trick I recently learned is defining $CDPATH. This way, when you do `cd some-directory`, you can navigate to it even if you are not on the same level.

So, if you add ~/projects to your CDPATH, you can do cd project1 from any directory on your computer and it will navigate to to the right place.

Cool project though, I like the idea.
The most prolific (non-embedded) operating system on the planet is MINIX, a micro kernel based OS. On the embedded, medical, automotive, and aviation side there are plenty of micro kernel OS’s that give Linux a run for its money. Just FYI.
For a homogenous culture of a large corporation, where each dev is a cog in the system, yes, i would agree that this person will not fit.

If i had a start-up, i would definitely give this person a good old try, because i can tell that he/she is capable enough to churn out rather advanced projects with complexity higher than just CRUD. Programmers of this type is what i'd call 10x, and one should never dismiss a 10x!
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As someone responsible for hiring developers, these quizzes seem like an absolute waste of time. As an applicant it's almost insulting.

I've been a part of two great alternatives: a pair programming session with the lead dev and adding some features/refactoring a sample project.

I'd be curious if anyone here is responsible for hiring devs and finds hackerrank type tests useful.
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...If "Tells me when I'm doing something in a way that could potentially be improved, in a polite, validated way" falls under your definition of "Difficult to work with", then perhaps he wouldn't want to work with you anyway.

However if you want to hire people to just complete tickets as fast as possible, maybe that's a valid reason to reject the candidate.
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I've pushed against tests like this before, especially "sample projects".

My experience doing so falls into exactly two categories:

+ Companies that get very upset (one even had the CEO email me cursing me out after I said I wasn't going to remake a twitter API client considering I had a github full of API clients including one for twitter already!)

+ Companies that go "Oh, actually yeah, that seems to make sense. Can you highlight a few repos you'd prefer to show us, or do you mind doing some whiteboarding with us?"

You never, ever, want to work for the first category. The first category of companies are the same people who usually expect you to work a lot of additional hours for free, have poor internal practices at least around work/life balance, and generally treat their engineers like code monkeys instead of people.

So, I usually push back against these tests because it's very revealing to do. Even if you end up caving, it's important to test the companies response to a bit of polite push back.
<base> tag is now implemented as well. Thanks for bringing that to my attention — I wasn't aware of it!
Can you provide an example how you envisage this to work ?
For example say I (mr lozzo) have an open source project on github. What would I do then ? Do I offer a 10$ to a developer who fixes a bug on my behalf through your service ?

very curious about your project but frankly there is not enough in your site to explain what's cooking

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On the other hand:

In an interview (maybe reproduced in Strong Opinions?), Nabokov explains his theory that the origins of dreams are the visual patterns produced by the eye in darkness and interpreted by the sleeping brain.
I doubt being pissy against the recruiter is a good strategy for actually getting hired. It might score you a few bro points on HN though.
Very interesting findings. The study seems to indicate that poverty is correlated with better economic decisions, unless the option to borrow is present, in which case, poverty correlates with poorer decisions.
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It's an interesting idea. Phrased politely I think it's fine to suggest. Still I can understand why people would refuse your approach. There's an obvious risk involved letting the applicant dictate the terms of the evaluation. The point of coding tests is that you can't prepare or easily Google an answer. The employer wants to gauge your unscripted in the moment programming knowledge. Also as someone else said, you need a way to compare apples to apples. Not everyone has an amazing Github to show off.

Still I wish employers would better understand the limitations of automated coding tests. Pair exercises where I can use my own environment and think out loud with an interviewer aren't so bad. Fully automated stuff like HackerRank often make simple things overly complicated because they expect answers to be written a certain way. I think those sorts of tests are only suitable for really low level screening - ensuring a sysadmin can use basic bash for example.
Honestly, HackerRank is a pretty standard and easy test. I really think it's a reasonable test, at least more reasonable than some. I've been given much harder take home tests:

https://austingwalters.com/you-are-given-a-deck-containing-n...

However, HackerRank is just a screen on:

1. Are you going to be difficult

2. Do you have basic coding skills

Typically, I'd interview at least 10 people before I'd give an offer. Once we added improved screening we got that number down to 5 people before an offer (note screening wasn't HackerRank).

I think it's reasonable to screen and HackerRank is just that, it's not about complexity.
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But is that because it's a microkernel or for other reasons? Crash stability can be achieved in monolithic and modular kernels too, it's not unique to microkernels.
I think there actually was and is a lot of outside interest in a open and web stack oriented phoneOS.

The firefox OS website tried to divide visitors into hardware vendors, consumers and app writers. Imagine the success of Linus's first announcement if he told people which lines they could stand in to appreciate Linux when he was done writing it..

Digging deeper than you appeared to be welcome would get you into setup tasks with AOSP.. There is no better way to lose help then to ask them to learn about a more complete competitor.
Yea, silly people are living in the misconception that companies are any way interested in their personality.

While it's really just about to obey, and follow command.

People have to understand that they have to fit the soulless masses and have to be tested accordingly...
You forget that local governments can heavily fine SpaceX or, at worst, destroy their satellites.
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Good luck but they may just want a robot who shuts up and conforms. Despite some people here saying the balance of power does not necessarily rest with the employer, in some cases it does if there are many desperate job seekers who are willing to jump through hoops. You may want to apply to specific smaller teams and/or do your own thing. That said, if you do bite, I have learned a lot from my stints at places who hire like this. The biggest lesson I learned after several years is doing my own thing is right for me.
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