skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe really true this time.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/quora.com
Just as they announced new universities and courses!
Using Firefox in Windows 7, it takes 4-5 seconds to fail. The other address I gave fails so fast sometimes the favicon doesn't even blink.
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Reading the summary you've linked to, isn't the implication for this thread that certain puzzle type questions, if they do a reasonable job of measuring general intelligence, are useful predictors of job performance? (With the big caveat that in the US they are potentially illegal.)

The popular response here of "I'm never going to solve these puzzles in my day to day" seems to wholly miss the point.
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Why do we always feel the need to upvote posts like these as if we don't discuss them every 2 weeks?

Next up in the topic cycle: Discrimination in tech. Why working more than 40 hours a week is killing your productivity.
I specifically came to the comments section to post that same comment. Glad you did it for me :-)

Corollary, IPv6 is always only 5 years away from replacing IPv4
Seems its down, throws a server error page
The Carmen Ortiz interview begins at around 20 mins in. Nothing much to hear though, she refuses to talk about anything of importance other than claiming "mental illness" in the Aaron Swartz case.
Looks great, when do you expect to be live?
Artist splices his genes into a flower
As someone who had to shutter an app due to legal threats from ATOC, this doesn't surprise me one iota.
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Hi Exodust,

OK, I have heard quite a lot that I used too much USM (unsharp mask). Fine, I will tone it down on the next iteration. Without any USM, the image just looked a bit foggy, washed out, and not very nice at all. I went a bit overboard on it, I agree with you. It is very difficult to get a balance with an image of this resolution, because when you're zoomed all the way in, I think the amount of USM is ok (I like the stark contrast with a lot of blacks and a lot of whites) but when you zoom out, it looks a bit yucky. With a lower resolution image there isn't as much difference in tonal contrast between the most zoomed in and zoomed out tones.

There is no HDR effect at all - it is only the USM artifacts that I speak of above.

Mouse - see my other comment below - we are using the "original" QTVR (and video games) style scrolling which is more "Virtual Reality" than the "click and drag" that has now become standard. Again, I agree, we will start using the "new standard".
How important is location for you as a startup?
The computer that can't get stuck in an infinite loop.

I don't think that is necessarily the same as one that can't crash.
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My team has 4 job openings. The only two candidates who could pass our phone screen are not U.S. citizens.
One is from Russia, who didn't get the visa for on-site interview.

America seems to be very harsh to legal immigrants, but pretty nice to illegal immigrants.

I think it's good for a country to import some competition. After all, h1b has a 60000 cap each year, that's not too many people.
I think the skills you need to throw together a nice RoR app are different from other positions.

I wouldn't want on critical infrastructure code alongside someone who can't reason through the performance implications of their code on the fly. You can waste a hell of a lot of time diagnosing and fixing performance problems because someone built an entire module around an inappropriate data structure.
About a year ago I travelled to the south west (of UK) for a job - A full day of interviews, product ideas, I nailed the whole lot. Apart from the obligatory coding test. I have 15 years in this game and I have coded OSS or commercial code every day or week in Python, the language of the test, since 96.

It was a codility.com test - I had not actually been expecting it but, kerpow. I rewrote my own abs() because I forgot such a thing existed, the problem itself is still blanked from my brain - and every passing minute it got worse.

After an hour and a half, the interviewer took pity on me and drove me to the station.

I actually sat on the train took the codility demo test. 100%, 3 minutes. Signed up, took more. I could do them. Just impossible to know what went wrong but it went badly wrong.

Ultimately it worked out well. I would have had to live weekdays down there and my marriage probably would not have survived it. Now I work 15 minutes walk away and give my kids breakfast each day after we sit on the sofa and watch Mister Maker.

For me that test was a wake up call.

Firstly, I run my own business - being at the mercy of one boss is rubbish.

Secondly, these tests are rubbish for deciding who to hire - but they are OK for programmers as a form of continuing education.

Thirdly, the exercises at the end of each chapter of SICP are much much better form of education.

Forthly, I was once asked how a large corporate IT shop should handle a reduction in workforce. I said march everyone into a room and those who cant code FizzBuzz get a pink slip

Even given my experiences above - I still think that is the best option. Sometimes a guy just dies on that day. Its unlucky. But sometimes it works out for the best.

edit: clarity
Don't expose it directly to the Internet, such as by assigning it a publicly routable IP address or forwarding the ports it uses (typically 515 and 9000-9003/TCP) from hosts on the Internet.

For the most part, if it's on your "internal" network and isn't accessible from hosts on the Internet, you're safe (except from "insiders").
good question actually, isn't really clear to me either. I assume it's just the rock though, for a couple of reasons: looks like it in most pictures, the amount and strength of concrete needed to hold the weight of what's above is beyond imagination, last but not least: from the rock's point of view this tunnel isn't all that massive but rather a small hole through it's body that doesn't weaken it at all.
I think shutup.css is more effective at making the Internet suck less http://stevenf.com/shutup-css/
This is false. The status of permanent resident can be obtained much sooner if your employer or spouse is willing to sponsor you. The problem is that a lot of companies can manipulate you by treating you poorly, and justify it by threatening permanent residence status.
These are nice suggestions. I have been considering how to make some of my works Creative Commons in order to get them disseminated more (and also to hopefully make even more money from them)

BT does not hold the copyright. However they do "own" the image for at least a while - they are the client, and we want to keep them happy of course :-)

Cheers!
How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” Ruled The Internet
"My husband has an engineering degree with over ten years of experience," the Fort Worth resident told the president during a web chat hosted by the social network Google+. "Why does the government continue to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job?"

There's engineers and then there's engineers. If he could code (or was interested in coding) fluently in modern web environments, I suspect he'd have no problem finding a job at all...
What's the concern? It's pretty easy to see all entries point to 127.0.0.1.
Treat it like a job; get all of your homework done 9-5, Monday thru Thursday. Forget about school entirely outside of these hours.

Source: I'm taking double the normal courseload while building a startup. You don't need to choose school vs. work, if you manage your time correctly.
> How do you plan to reconcile the web of trust with the potential harm that can come to people who leak data?

So, the web of trust doesn't apply to individuals, just nodes in the network. Thus, each node can handle incoming leaks however they want to, or not at all. In fact, if this is designed properly then there might be some sort of plausible deniability in terms of who got a leak first.

> I think the real issue is verifying the legitimacy of a leak. If you can verify something, you don't have to trust the person who posted it and they can remain safe and anonymous.

Verifying the legitimacy of leaks is more of a social than a technical issue; the web of trust is there primarily to prevent propagation of damage, not to ensure propagation of the truth.

> Also, are you familiar with http://globaleaks.org/ ?

Yeah, it's a nice project, but the lack of a federated protocol makes it vulnerable to the same thing as Wikileaks and friends.
Or run your own caching recursive DNS server, and have it cache entries for as long as possible.

Google DNS, Level 3 DNS can't shake a stick at my local cache, which is off course to be expected.
Whoa ;-)
I've known a few programmers who really just were not interested in the business side of things. And I've known a few who were really interested in it. On balance, I think this stereotype exist for a reason, but - as with all stereotypes - it is flawed when treated as a general truth.

Engineers tune out when they don't have any power or control. It's a survival mechanism. If you can't do anything about it, don't waste cycles on it.

Yeah, I've definitely seen this. But, on the flip side, I've seen manager types who want the technical people to get move involved in understanding the business issues and develop more of an ability to contribute at that boundary (to the extent that such a thing actually exists) between the "business world" and the "IT world".

If you folks will indulge me a bit of (related) self-promotion, I've written two recent blog posts[1][2], touching on a specific technique and methodology that I see gaining some steam, which deals with operating at that "chasm" between the worlds. In the first part, I argue that, in the future to come, developers are going to need to learn more about the business world AND that managers are going to have to learn more about technology.

[1]: http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2013/02/so-what-is-capability-ca...

[2]: http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2013/01/why-capability-cases-are...
I don't know if this is a Silicon Valley thing or what, but the idea that someone would basically do a day's unpaid work on projects they know nothing about with three different people is just about the most foreign thing I can think of.

That being said, I've never done any pairing so maybe it would work better in that type of environment.
Google Glass Could Be a Real Winner
If every entry routes to 127.0.0.1, what's the worst that could happen?
Coming up with good questions to ask in an interview is an effort that the hiring team needs to invest in. This involves a top down reflection of the job along with a vision for the job. It requires to ask him/her self before hand "What sort of tasks is this hire going to be doing" , " What language skills does he need" , " Does he need to reinvent a sorting algorithm to get this job " .

Well this rarely happens , to start of folks (generally) tasked with the hiring process are not the right "vision" folks. They are highly task oriented individuals aka MS Project specialists.

A real test would have to encompass among many things.
- Do they are ask the right questions ?
- Are they capable of picking up new languages, ideas , technologies while defending or questioning changes in an articulate yet respectable demeanor.
- how they handle things when they get to a wall.
I guess that settles it. Everybody should just forget about distributed social networks and get on with their lives. In all seriousness, he did sum up some of the challenges distributed social networks face, but they are just that, challenges.

I think the most important point is that social problems are harder then technical ones. You will never get traction if the adoption barrier is higher then on other social networks(be them centralized or distributed). Unfortunately, in most cases, people take decisions based on their immediate interest and comfort without quantifying the whole chain of indirect impact it might have. One easy example would be the decision to buy a particular product, based solely on the price and characteristics of that product, without taking into account where it has been produced and the implications that come with that.

So, making your product easy to use and attractive goes a long way.
You've just illustrated his point because not all entries do point to loopback.
It's widely discredited amongst the same economists who didn't see the crisis coming and whose predictive models don't work for shit.
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The world changes in a very significant way. Three things become true:

1) Oil no longer has to be dug out of the ground, various long chain hydrocarbons can be created with the CO2 in the air and water.

2) Fresh water no longer becomes an issue because arbitrary amounts of sea water can be converted into fresh water.

3) Generally food becomes easier to produce as both more land is available for it (irrigate with desalinated water) and 'food products' like corn aren't used in energy products.

The other two fusion science experiments go under the monikers of 'polywell fusion' and 'focus fusion'. That stays away from the various "low energy nuclear" type devices which are currently considered hoax material (and popular on the e-cat site) by most scientists.

The discovery of a practical fusion system is one of the 'good' things that could happen in the next 50 years which would change the world in mostly 'good' ways (mostly because economies that depend on oil exports would lose pricing authority on oil and slowly collapse, leaving behind angry and often dysfunctional nation-states)
It's even easier than that -- you can even do it with `telnet`, `nc`, etc.
Plasma physicist Pekka Janhunen points out in the comments that the losses in a traditional magnetic trap are high, this is what the Tokamak was invented for in the first place.

(That's also what the Polywell tries to solve).

Haven't watched the video.
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> You didn't mention anything about anonymization of the nodes/peers. I am guessing you're thinking of putting this behind Tor?

You'll be able to do so, but I imagine that most people will run this outside of Tor. 1) It makes it easier for people to access, and 2) In theory, there will be so many nodes that the risk to any one operator will be low.
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I'm curious if you wouldn't mind sharing a few more details of your experience pairing a candidate in the office with your senior engineers.

- Are the candidates able to help make meaningful contributions to whatever the senior engineers are working on without having the background and domain knowledge?

- Do the employees have to spend a significant amount of the 2-3 hours with the candidate bringing them up to speed on what they are working on, just so that the candidate isn't totally in the dark? If yes, does this totally sideline the employees day/flow?

- What do you do if the employees don't have several hours of non-stop coding lined up for the day?

I don't doubt this method works well - but I'm curious how you work through some of the stickier issues of pairing a total outsider with a fully-up-to-speed engineer and then evaluating the outsider based on what was produced in those 2-3 hours.
I have a script setup in my router (TomatoUSB) that downloads a known hosts list and maps all the domains to 0.0.0.0 to block ads and other bad content for all the devices on my network.

Generally, I enjoy not seeing all the ads, but some sites (Slickdeals, I'm looking at you) make such extensive use of affiliate and ads sites that it makes the site barely useable. For slickdeals I ended up making a Chrome extensions that finds URL encoded URLs within a query parameter and redirects to that site directly instead of the affiliate link.
I think where LaTeX still wins over GUI tools such as Word is once you figure out how to make it do what you want, the method you used is now documented right in the LaTeX source. With a GUI tool, it's hard to go back and remember exactly where you clicked and what setting you changed, especially when you pick up a document months later and ask yourself, "how did I make it look like that?"
Anyone got a version that is only blocking malicious sites? I don't want to block ads and stuff.
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> they don't owe random developers anything

IMHO ATOC, like everyone else, owe random developers one thing: to deal with them fairly; and not say one thing but do another. To not say that they're open when they're just giving it lip service.
Not true, you'll get to a point where however much you pay you'll be interviewing people who can't do the job, as opposed to paying more and finding somebody who is capable.
For linux, you can use vim.
I did not intend to suggest that other parts of the defense apparatus might not also be doing bad things; I was talking only about this particular incident.

I do, however, think that if we just stripped away all of the parts of DHS that were a reaction to 9/11, that would solve at least some of our problems.
The Shodan search engine is a great resource as well:

http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=hp+laserjet
Here's a try for some discussion. It seems like there actually is a great potential to try totally novel ways of approaching physically distributed networking and then developing services on such a network that use protocols for adding social applications that are not centralized.

If an app on people's phones could act as an always-on part of the distributed network that could be one component - another would be for small boxes to be attached to your home Internet router that are always on also acting as a part of the network. Individuals could have a personal filestore of message posts and photos that they perceive as just being available 'in the cloud' like facebook - but are actually stored in redundant chunks throughout an array of these mobile and stationary nodes that not only they own, but as well shared on their close friends and family's nodes.

For the static nodes connected to a router it could be a $35 raspberry pi + plan 9 operating system + tent.io protocol server - for mobile it's your iPhone/android running an app (perhaps plan 9/ inferno as a virtual machine( that uses local storage and acts as a client and server. Together with many of these nodes -- imagine at least one for everyone if the billion Facebook users --- and you'd have a new "meshwork" grid for decentralized (social) networking applications.
That is the point I was trying to make. I don't believe their is a true shortage of talented workers, but I do believe large companies state that there is as a means to drive down wages. H1-B Visa just happen to be the handy hammer they use to do it with.
Another is the MVPs hosts file. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Several commenters appear not to "get" the benefit of a comprehensive and recent hosts file.

With a good hosts file, many well-known trojans and viruses can't phone home.
I wonder if ITA Software is still able to use this recruiting approach now that they are a part of Google.
If that's the case, you should start a natural gas company, and set your prices to be profitable but still beat all those other companies.
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Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5237977
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I am an Indian here. I have heard horror tales from TCS employees on how they are given "on-site" experience. Mostly it is a portrayed as a favor done by the management to the employee. You have to earn the on-site opportunity which involves a great deal of kissing people's rears. It is mostly not about the talent you have. One of the guys who had gone on-site on one such occasion had told me how the organization billed him as an Expert Oracle consultant while he was told to study oracle while he was boarding the flight. It is true that they get paid a pittance when compared to US nationals. A developer with 5 years of experience makes about $2.5k a month. They usually subsist on Taco Bells, McD burgers and so on. On the other hand many indians prefer this, as it still works out better than if they had stuck to the indian job. In fact, in many family circles you are not considered a human if you are working in IT and do not have any "on-site experience". Most these folks are completely dependent on the organization that they work for and are willing to fight for it tooth and nail to defend it even if the organization is holding them under a sort of an indentured servitude. There are a few genuinely smart hackers but those are far and few in between. Most of these organizations are as dysfunctional as the companies that they consult for.
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Telecommunications has been headed in the other direction. State monopolies get privatised and lose their monopoly status.

I don't think your other examples are standardised in the way you suggest either. Control of electricity becomes less and less centralised.

I wouldn't want internet to be treated as one-size-fits-all. With competition, if one company tries to block certain features, you can change to another. Also, having a government carrier makes it easier to regulate. This makes it easier for the state to mould the network to its convenience, something the Australian government have tried to do repeatedly. The most effective opponents to this are a handful of small private internet service providers.
* The totally free market is an ideological myth.

* The US spends roughly double the % of GDP of other nations in Europe with single payer on healthcare and gets similar results. That's twice as expensive for the same result. Their "government spending" is 2x as efficient as the totally private US system.
I'd be interested in hearing more about what you're doing and how (I have similar dreams). Shoot me an e-mail if you get a free minute (xhr@io2g.com).
I use earplugs in movies, maybe they change the frequency spectrum (cut off more in high frequencies), but I not so much of a purist to mind.
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God damn. I don't think I've ever disagreed with William Gibson.

This documentary from 2003 (really a long-ish interview) was pretty interesting as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territories
All this teeth-gnashing regarding programming and logic puzzles are simply to cover up the simple fact that most people (even around here) are insecure about their programming skill, and more-so their intelligence. The fact is that these types of questions are indeed backed up by the very research you cite, namely that a work-sample test and general mental ability are the only reliable predictors of job performance. But this is exactly what programming puzzles are (and to a lesser extent logic puzzles). A programming puzzle is simply the intersection of a work-sample test and an IQ test. And of course, logic skills and programming skills go hand-in-hand. Instead of writing endless blog posts and internet comments about how useless these tests are (trying to convince a potential future hiring manager not to use them on you), just get better at them! You'll be better off for it.

Of course, not all programming jobs (most, in fact) need top 10% programmers with gifted IQs. It is important that jobs are honest with themselves regarding the level of talent they need for their next sexting iphone app. But this too is a part of the problem. Everyone believes their shitty app or website is going to change the world, and thus need world-class developers to help them realize their vision. Egos will be the death of us all.
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No, you're not that guy, tokenadult is :-)