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By assigning homework, companies are also missing out on an opportunity to get to know how the candidate thinks and works on a problem.

It's as if you're scheduling a full-day interview but only being present for half of it.

And the thing is, especially if the opening is for a less senior position, observing the person while they are completing the assignment can help you get a much better measure of the person's skills, and can also prevent them having to toil for hours with no feedback about whether they're on the right track. If you're observing, the candidate might come up with a suboptimal solution, but with a few gentle nudges, they might correct course and prove themselves to be a very capable person. And you would have totally missed that if it were homework.
Would you welcome the scientific challenge, though? A couple new hypotheses to environment improvement?
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I have been successfully managing my weight for the last 8 years.
Good luck getting a good engineer
You need access to electricity, but there are alternatives such as solar panels or diesel generators. As for phone, more and more people are switching pure to cell phone, of which there are many different options.

By the same measure, depending upon what you are trying to do, it will not be an even playing field if you are removed from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, etc.
That isn't necessarily true. Even being accused of things can cause significant damage. Also, a huge grant organization had already pulled their funding.
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Gaza fired what 300,000 rockets and mortars at Israel in the past 10 years? Do you expect any Israeli government to give them anything? I’m surprised they are as constraint as they are Turkey killed what over 50,0000 Kurds in the past 30 years and displaced 3 million of them for much less and I don’t see any big campus rallies against them.

And last time I checked Israel is a democracy, a federated state with a constitution to guarantee that is the only way for the situation not to deroriate into an apartheid or genocide.
Highly relevant: https://blog.beeminder.com/bites/ (about tracking bites of food and committing to a max number per day)
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the second law of institutions you say? can we get a source
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11320127
I'd rather have a weekend homework assignment than a loop of coding interviews. Much more reasonable assessment of skills & potential, in my opinion. Happy to do whatever algorithm madness thrown my way in that case. It's a real tough gig to solve some ambiguous algorithm problem in 40 minutes on a whiteboard, analyse it, and then discuss optimality. Gets worse if the loop is serial algorithms interviews.
These ads weren’t about fantasy

Have you ever talked to a sex worker or former sex worker? I know a few. Fantasy and role play is part of the job, even if it's just pretending to be someone's girlfriend for a couple hours.

I don't see anything wrong with making money off of other people's fantasies (in virtual or real life), as long as everyone is a consenting adult. The indictment doesn't establish that backpage encouraged underage prostitution.
Minidisc, anyone?

I still do not really understand why this wasnt more successful (at least by the time CDs existed/were used)
> From a lawmaking perspective, it can be construed as "we looked at the issue, and found low-level employees to be worthy of protection, but nobody else."

I think a political perspective is probably more relevant/accurate which would likely be along the lines of "we looked at the issue, and protecting low-level employees is the most we could do and still get the bill passed"

Obviously large employers have vested interests in protecting non-competes and also have the lobbying budgets to successfully oppose the passage of stronger individual protection from non-competes
A thought about this: How are these even legally enforceable?

If the employment is contingent upon this agreement, how can you make this claim that there are penalties for you after you leave or you're forced to leave? This is completely a one-sided contract that is detrimental to the person with less resources. It seems like to me, this contract no longer puts you "at-will." You're punished for walking away.
Or as an alternative -- give them something legitimately beneficial to your company to work on, pay them standard consulting rates. This puts the impetus on the company to have fairly high certainty the candidate is qualified before the take-home, and the candidate gets compensated for their time even if a hire isn't made.
It's going to be more than that.. because you should probably get a lawyer to handle it for you.

ICANN has adopted the UDRP. WIPO handles the cases.

Godaddy isn't going to do anything unless they agree it violates their terms of service... and it sounds like they don't.

Legal options? I assume you don't even know where the squatter is.

About the only other thing you can do is put up a notice and advise your customers about phishing attempts.

(Edit: maybe you can try convincing Godaddy by pointing out specifically how it violates their ToS and why you would win the WIPO case. Also sending it to their lawyers address would get you more attention.)
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> Nor Google. Definitely not Facebook.

While I agree with you on Twitter, these two are less clear.

Google wields vast influence by being search provider, advertising provider, email provider and phone provider simultaneously. Google IS the panopticon for the average user.

Facebook is someone I can't avoid in quite a lot of situations. When government starts using Facebook to coordinate and contact (and it has), Facebook has become more than a mere company.
I feel like this amounts to "Tracking calories wasn't working, but tracking calories divided by 100, that's the ticket!" While a mechanical clicker is certainly cleaner than an app, you hit the same snags of not really knowing the calorie content unless your diet is incredibly regular. While I'm happy the author found a gimmick that helps them stick to their calorie targets, I don't think this needed a write-up, much less a dedicated website.
It's interesting that this article is about 18th century printmakers reusing content and the article itself is just a reprint of an article that appeared originally in the William Clements Library blog. Times have not changed all that much!

https://theclementslibrary.blogspot.com/2018/08/copycats-clo...
The barriers to entry are certainly different, and maybe bigger, but I think there's a lot of misconception about what it takes to get a biopharma company started (i say biopharma rather than biotech bc biopharma is where the vast vast majority of VC money in healthcare goes). You usually need:

* a team made up of a few molecular / cell biologists (analog to needing engineers for a SaaS)

* solid early-stage science (could be nothing more than a few experiments to validate / build on a publication)

* a well thought out experimental plan -- details of the initial work you'd do to validate your core hypotheses, why you chose those experiments and not others, and feedback from other smart scientists and investors to validate your design (this would be the analog of early product development, culminating in product-market fit over 12-24 months)

* funding for your initial experiments: a few hundred thousand up to a few million

The main difference is that 1) iteration cycles are much longer and more expensive in biopharma and 2) value inflection is more binary. So you need to be really thoughtful about every detail of your initial work.

In recent years, biotech startups have actually been able to grow really big faster than tech startups. Kite and Juno were acquired for $12B and $9B less than 5 years after Series A -- getting to decacorn status faster than pretty much any software co I think including dropbox, snap, etc

A lot of the initial work is done as a "virtual" company with no lab. There is a massive network of outsourced research groups that can do pretty much any experiment you want at high quality and reasonable cost
> Can you at least recognize at least a little irony that group that typically advocates the loudest for swinging Uncle Sam's dick around whenever possible seem to be looking the other way when a foreign adversary is undermining our country and in the process diminishing our influence?

You do have a point there; it looks like something from a surreal political satire.
The Model 3 is still roughly in its first year of production and I would expect it to have more defects that need rework than a car that has been made for 10.

They don’t state in the article that the quoted facts about other automakers are for cars in their first model year.
That's entirely not true. The link specifically discusses promises made regarding areas outside of Germany. Directly from the link:

>The documents show that multiple national leaders were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991, that discussions of NATO in the context of German unification negotiations in 1990 were not at all narrowly limited to the status of East German territory.

And that's like the second paragraph in the link. So apparently you didn't read the link (?).

edit:

You make one good point. The promises were made to Gorbachev in his capacity as leader of the USSR. And just few years later USSR blinked out of existence, so whatever promises were made to Gorbachev were non-binding in relation to Russia, technically a new state. The problem here, is that just 2 years later Yeltsin was made similar promises. Throughout the 1993-1996 period American officials went to great lengths to convince Yeltsin that direct NATO expansion was not on the table [1]:

>[In] a conversation that took place in Moscow in October 1993. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher had traveled to Moscow to explain in advance of the January 1994 NATO summit that the United States would not support new members joining the alliance, but would rather develop a Partnership for Peace that would include all states of the former Warsaw Pact. Yeltsin’s relief was palpable. He thought he had dodged the NATO enlargement bullet at a time at which he was in a raging political battle against hardliners at home. A year later, when he discovered that enlargement was not only on the table but would in fact be proceeding, Yeltsin was apoplectic.

We can go back and forth with how non-binding and ambiguous these conversations were, but we can agree that Russians feel mislead. Furthermore, they now attribute active malice on the part of the West. Ultimately, this conflict didn't come to be in 2014 (or 2008), as some momentary caprice of Putin's. It was brewing since the late 1980s.

[1] https://warontherocks.com/2016/07/promises-made-promises-bro...
Jobs and affordable real estate are in a teasingly inverse relationship. There is plenty of cheap real estate if you don't mind less than ideal areas with few jobs. That can work out for retirees but they wind up being ghost towns.
Booming cities are at times like a monkey's paw wish - you can get great pay, prestigious work, plenty of variety in services and there are many jobs but everything is inflated.
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We still have reality television right?
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I had a problem focusing on reading until I started just listening to books on Audible while doing chores or taking walks. The physical activity occupies my mind enough to allow me to focus on the content.
I've got the same setup with subkeys per Yubikey (though I had to rotate due to Infineon).

What do you mean by "device keys"? Something like forward secrecy keys for initial session setup as used by e.g. Signal? This could be done with some effort... actually Rust OpenPGP library Sequoia developers already work on making this use case easier.

Another set of patches circulating on the ML adds support for TPM bound keys, that are non extractable.
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Something that takes an evening (whether code, writing, etc.) seems generally reasonable assuming that it serves as a reasonably effective screener. After all, some homework for an interview such as researching the company and their market space is typical. Something that takes 40 hours? Not so much.
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It had been 'done' by IRC 20 years ago, Google had already been heavily in the space with their linking to Gmail and Hangouts and previous attempts with things like Wave.

Yet somehow Slack has come in and taken a massive share of the market in a matter of 5 years.
> Elm handles those things the way Standard ML does, not the way Haskell does.

That's the thing, though: it doesn't. Sure, Elm is expressive enough to allow use of dictionary passing as a substitute for typeclasses, and as you noted, this approach has some resemblance to how ML modules work – albeit with less sugar. However, Elm's standard library does not seem to think this is the best approach, since it instead uses the aforementioned special-cased typeclasses.
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Then pay them. Make an honest calculation of what it's worth to you, and if you can give them something below that number that makes the candidate happy then everyone wins. If it saves you time (money) then share the wealth.
But the article isn't hiding the fact that the numbers are estimates. People are curious how the new cards will stack up, and this article provides the best evaluation of that given the information they have available.
Facebook is finally learning from the playbook of insurance companies, using your hangouts, friends, job, acquaintances, activities and behavior to assign you a risk score.

It's designed to reduce THEIR risk, which means by default that it will be stacked against YOU, and they won't care about those getting ground up in the wheels of the machine.
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I'm merely pointing out that I'm not from the US so that people know that I don't have a dog in the race. Just so you know I would vote for neither of the two big teams in the US.

What I am trying to do is to say that from a neutral perspective the politicking here is reaching a toxic level. It distracts from the real issues of giant monopolistic tech companies and other such real social ills. You think it's amusing, I think it's downright depressing that I should have to wave a white flag.
WW2 wasn't an action of "the global community" against "human rights violations". There was imperial/economic competition, escalating through trade restrictions to military actions and invasions, becoming all-out war.

Many of the most egregious human rights violations weren't understood until after the war, and reached their worst practices under wartime pressures.

And against this, you're hoping for "action like they did in WW2, which could honestly be one of the better outcomes of all this"?!?

No, WW3 would be bad.
The title is a little click-baitey, because it suggests full on assault on homework. The actual post is more measured in its criticisms, but basically the idea is: don't use homework as a cop-out for not having a good interview process, and thereby likely wasting everyones time.

Personally I like homework, because it allows me to show my strengths (actually writing code that is solid) without being "under the gun" in terms of interview pressures. I love being able to discuss the code I wrote and talk about areas it can be expanded and improved, and why certain decisions were made. In my mind, that process is closer to the job I'm often interviewing for than questions like "explain why Bellman-Ford uses v-1 relaxations"
I agree with GP. I do not want to use a language that does not at least have a plugin in IntelliJ. I remember the amount of dumb errors running the code has decreased tremendously after started using a serious IDE. Not going back as I'm dependent on it and feel scared of coding without its checks and utilities.
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Please point out to me the #s that you find damning.
You missed the mark ManoMarks.
It is! Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17726090
They made a big deal about their push and how they made the number of cars they said they would (finally).

Now we find out that there was an asterisk to that. The cars weren’t ready for sale without lots of manual rework.

It makes their statement/accomplishment look much worse than they tried to play it.

“85% of cars need manual fixes” is not a good look for any automaker. But it’s especially bad for one that there are lots of questions about who tried to use that goal as proof they were last their issues.
That’s the dealers dealer prep. The dealer prep the op refers to is an area where they fix all the stuff done wrong in the production line.
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What are you recruiting for?
Looking through the communities around these 'cheaper coins', these people are not the dumb.
The dumb people are busy with either no investment (paycheck to paycheck) or inactive investments (401k in index funds), not building their vision of the future on risky alts.
It might work too, mostly it's software engineers.
Most crucial part is adjusting a total number of points each "sprint". This way you start with each click = 100kcal, but eventually, it will be something else based on how your brain estimates the caloric content of the food you eat.
My company, a fully remote consulting firm, uses test projects for some candidates whose skills we cannot fully evaluate using the code samples they have submitted. We only use test projects under conditions designed to skirt the clear pitfalls mentioned in this article.

- We pay all candidates for the test project, whether they pass or fail. The original article did not mention paying for homework, which we concluded was the only fair way to treat the excess time candidates spend helping us make a decision.

- Passing the test project means you move on in the process; we don't knowingly pit two candidates against each other.

- The project and a corresponding scoring rubric are predefined by position.
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I recently interviewed with a well known tech startup in New York. I had an initial technical interview followed by two behavioral/technical rounds which went well IMO. My last interview was with the co-CEO of the company. He had not yet shown up and I decided to go to the restroom. On my way there I passed the CEO(interviewer) in the lobby who was on a phone call. He seemed miffed that I had taken the liberty to go to the restroom. When I got back to the interview room the recruiter said that the CEO is busy on a call and they were ending the interview. After that the company just ghosted on me. I was pretty annoyed at this display of narcissism. Its fine if I screwed the interviews but was I wrong to use the restroom between interviews while waiting for him to come in?
This is terrible advice for companies and interviewees. We've successfully used "homework" project when a candidate had potential, but didn't do well in-person for various reasons (nervousness, time pressure). In many cases we've hired them when they can produce something and talk over it afterwards.

Without this, they wouldn't have received an offer.

While I get they said "which are not sufficiently interested in them." but it's still an interview process to see if we should/should not hire.
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This is really not that hard to do right in my opinion. This is what we did for a "homework assignment" after a 30 minute phone and 30 minute team screen were already done:

1. Supervisor had candidate sign mutual-NDA, work for hire at $X/hr rate & IP assignment agreement on docusign.

2. Potential future supervisor gave the candidate access to a repo and assigned a production task that should take less than 10 hours to complete.

3. Candidate does the assignment, communicates with supervisor via email/repo where necessary and a check gets cut for the hours worked.

4. Hire/No Hire decision made

Should take less than a week in total.
The price of 1080's where $600-$650 for the founders edition cards when they first came out. I know cause I preordered at those prices. I think the price of the 2080 FE cards are fair given that they are not only faster at raster graphics, but they also have the Raytracing/AI capabilities.
> For example, in Python Standard (old standard), it's extremely confusing to work out which gcloud libraries are bundled, and which need to be vendored

I agree. I spent a lot of time trying to figure this out myself with various APIs, and in some instances, I gave up and looked for an alternative after I failed to figure out how to correctly vendor some Google Cloud libs (even following what documentation I did find, which made it look so simple).
Poor Chopin. A genius with impeccable musical taste, capable of the greatest finesse and beautifully singing melodies on the piano, Chopin lived his life battling against Tuberculosis. It's wild to think that with modern medicine, he would have lived a fuller and much more productive life. What if he died at 70 instead of 39, and produced double the number of pieces he did? His works are already lauded as the the top echelon of piano music, which is easy to hear in Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce8p0VcTbuA

If Beethoven's or Bach's late periods are any indication, brilliant composers can continue innovating and moving forward well into their 50's and beyond. Such a shame that Chopin and Schubert died such premature deaths, though one could argue it's lucky they did indeed live long enough to give us compositions.
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Perhaps ironically, it's pablum like this Slate article killing my ability to read. The onslaught of digital publishers cranking out vapid nonsense and pushing it far and wide means I only skim. This article is 2k words and I've got shit to do today.

The only thing I can read cover-to-cover is fiction. Often documentation and emails if I'm convinced they're useful. Anything else my brain gets stuck in skimming mode and I have to concentrate harder on reading every word than the content itself.
> make attempting discussion pointless.

I have noticed this as well, here and elsewhere. The level of discourse on the internet, even among genuinely intelligent people, is becoming absolutely shameful imho. I used to thrash out like everyone else but am trying to learn a smarter approach: ask very specific questions, and as soon as an answerer shifts the conversation into a large, complicated narrative encompassing many additional ideas that are not part of the original question, calmly and respectfully call them on it and restate the original question.

My guess on why this particular question gets only downvotes and never answers is that it is just this type of question: simple and precise. And on top of it, I suspect no one actually knows the answer - the story has been repeated ad naseum in the media for long enough that it doesn't even occur to people to ask any questions.

Well surprise surprise: You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.

Meanwhile, numerous other accounts have no such restriction. This error message seems incorrect.
Finland is not a NATO member. For that very reason and due to old agreement with USSR.