skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that he IS pursuing that strategy and that cbc.ca is a positive google for his name.
Hilarious review of an Aston Martin Vantage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi0yXeuqBjU
> I emailed them back asking if they had any feedback from
> my interviews, but I’ve failed to receive a response.

I've been bothered by this as well, because we want to improve ourselves, and the best way to do so is through feedback. At the same time, you have to understand that not everybody is like us, and enough people that where given that feedback in the past have used that opportunity to "argue" that they really should have been hired or argue that the feedback was wrong. Between helping a stranger improve and avoiding a potential headache for themselves, as much as I would like to have had feedback on some interviews, I can't blame anyone for avoiding the issue altogether.

> Almost all interview questions I take a long time with. I
> probably have a 85–95% rate of solving puzzles—using almost
> all of the allotted time—on my own, and the rest I’ve needed
> a very small hint to get me in the right direction to begin
> with. I can’t think of an instance where I’ve been given the
> answer because of being unable to solve the problem.

Well, that's one problem right there. The kind of companies that ask you the kind of questions that you say are beyond Fizz-Buzz, are usually just starters, to get the ball rolling, give you confidence and keep iterating after the first solution is reached if it isn't perfect, or by adding new constraints to make it so you have to keep thinking.

The interviewer most likely has allotted time for 2-5 of these questions in his interview, if you are taking all this time on the first one, then most likely you are not going to be highly regarded, as the interviewer hasn't got enough information to say wether the one question you answered is representative of your skills.

> Is a total of eight cumulative hours of interviewing with
> around seven different people not enough to get a good
> signal? What does this say about the interviewing process?

It says that they want to make sure they hire somebody who's "a good fit" and the hiring pool is high enough that they can get away with false negatives.

> Don’t sell me your product, sell me your challenges

The fact that they talk about the business instead of the tech, at least gives you some confidence the company will not go belly up because they are selling cuecats. Of course it's not the best way to entice a developer, but it's not as much of a red flag to me as you make it out to be.
Bravo, seriously. Bravo!
Companies that sell their surveillance technology to authoritarian regimes
That is so true and I already got -2 points for trying to same the same thing in another comment.
You have that with any topic. If you want to be credible, investigate which percentage of people have problems. That is an interesting statistic.

Compare to this: You want to buy a new laptop. You'll see various complaints. Maybe even the same amount of complaints for company X and company Y. This doesn't at all indicate a problem. However, if company X has 0.1% laptop market share and company Y has 40% market share, I'd go for company Y (same amount of complaints vs bigger usage).

Or in other words: Suggesting "there is a problem" as well as "there is not a problem" is both useless. Loads of distributions use PulseAudio by default btw. :P
That's fascinating, thanks for the information.
A surprisingly good holiday detector (Christmas, valentine's day, mother's day etc.)

Other major events also clearly stand out (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes etc.)
Also, vapid according to dictionary: Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging. Guess you're right. It was challenging to read the whole thing till the end.
this would be world changing if this tech can be expanded, refined, and perfected. really excited to see how this progresses in the next decade.
Square Engineering's Seven Days of Open Source
They get funding as a startup, right? What's their business model?
Yes, but when we get to things like Gnome and KDE, the ability to choose to run far far away from them is a very very good thing.
OkHttp, Square’s new HTTP client for Android and Java
Read the title of the article. GNOME relies on PulseAudio. If thinks break when you break a desktop environments expectations, it should not be surprising.
Or even one held by someone already popular.

"Students, meet your new teacher LeBron James."

Googling "lebron james teacher" shows a few basketball instructional videos, so that's a start. And there are Vancouver articles about LBJ too, so that covers "lebron james vancouver"...
Antibiotics could cure 40% of chronic back pain patients
Whats the complaining about for fucks sake! Our company had 7000 euro frozen for 6 months while those skullheads were deciding whether to give us our money and not telling us why they are doing this
Then they proceeded to close my personal account simply because I was the company director

Thats for a 6-7 year old or so hosting company that has always been in profit

Maybe more Indians like the above guy start using bitcoin, the world would be a fucking better place without Paypal
Add to this:

* 1M/yr in business with slim margins means this can apply to folks not even making enough to get by. Given the long tail of e-commerce, this will have significant impact on many small internet vendors

* The software provider catch-all means big wins for companies like Amazon to sell add-on tax calculations. Translate: more big walled gardens, less mom-and-pop businesses

* I'm still not sure who categorizes goods and services to determine taxation. The same good or service can be taxed differently by any one of those 23,000 taxing authorities (per your example of shipping and handling), but how is categorization information supposed to make it to the software provider (or merchant)?

* This complexity means that it's not a matter of merchants optionally using a software provider to compute taxes. For all intents and purposes, this legislation will require the use of a software provider to compute taxes

* Not only will the extra paperwork hurt small businesses, the added few percentage points will hurt poor consumers -- the people who can least afford it.
Here is what I think it it. The Tumblr theme that Frambase uses assumes that there will be a header navigation. The theme designer assumes that people would be better off with the navigation always there handy (designers, not always). Now that framebase didn't setup the menu or decides to remove it - the theme script kicks in showing the whole header floating around.

I'm assuming there should be a setting to turn that off.
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It's a good read about how not to treat your user base when focusing on growth.

If you toss away big chunks of user edited content, you don't stand a chance of retaining those users. Since the users making content are your key users (the 20% so to say), you are actively destroying your small world by estranging them.

A nice balance is in HBR on how TED [1] reacted to the scandals concerning TEDx. They empowered their network while also increasing quality.

[1] http://hbr.org/2013/04/when-ted-lost-control-of-its-crowd/
I use this one for MSSQL through ODBC: https://github.com/LukeMauldin/lodbc
I don't understand the line of thinking that strong opposing opinion = jealousy. Why are you trying to project your own thinking patterns onto me? I have nothing to be jealous about. Not everything in life is about getting a billion of $.
My strong feelings are sparked by the fact that the article and some individual place so much importance in selling a company for $1bn, for the very small reason (at least!) that 99% of you won't even get a chance to do it.
Entreprenurial spirit is a reward in itself! And Instagram lacks it through the very fact that it was established without so much as a vision of creating any cash-flow. Which in turn just makes its glorification a target for scoffing.
>> only has 717.5kB page size

Nearly a meg for a paragraph-long event invite!
RoboHydra HTTP client test tool: Mock your server
The real problem is that we're all thrown on the same heap by outsiders and that they tend to underestimate the added value of having a team with these diverse backgrounds.

(Bias: IxD student - in a master programme where everyone has a different bachelor)
I find it quite disturbing that this is seen as such a terrible situation. You do know that there are several porn sites dedicated to ruining the lives of ex-girlfriends? When the victim is male, suddenly this justifies news articles and a heated discussion.

I feel terrible for the guy, but this is gender-biased hypocrisy. The comments on the article considering "if it was the other way around he'd be in jail" are so out of touch with reality that it hurts my brain.
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is it me, or it looks like it is going down?
Linux is not about choice. Choice just introduces additional complexities, makes it more difficult to test and additional layers is additional bugs.

You seem to suggest that introducing choice would make things less buggy. Care to explain how that would be?
Anyone can refer any matter to local or federal authorities, so that cannot be appealed, but the monetary judgement may be subject to appeal. A large portion of the basis for the findings of fact and punishments seems to pertain to conduct that simply isn't illegal. Statements like the following undermine the judge's impartiality:

"So now, copyright laws originally designed to compensate starving artists allow, starving attorneys in this electronic-media era to plunder the citizenry. "

It is quite obvious that this is the conduct that the judge intends to punish through this order, but that conduct is entirely legal under current law. So are many of the other things the judge complains about, including the use of boilerplate language in the lawsuits, which is routinely done.

This judge disliked the plaintiffs from the outset and went combing through their conduct to find any way he could to nail them. Judges are not supposed to decide who they do or don't like in a case, then craft an outcome based upon those personal feelings. But that is exactly what happened here. Popular rulings aren't always legally sound.
I once had an interview in which I solved the entire esoteric question with relative ease, and then proceeded to entirely forget how Ruby's block syntax worked. Literally couldn't figure out how to use max_by. The dear in the headlights syndrome happens to a lot of us, and when it does, it really makes you feel stupid. Trust me, you're not the first person in those shoes. You WILL find a job, and over time your confidence will be renewed. In the mean time, why don't you take some contract work? There are always just-starting companies out there who barely even know what they're looking for. I can almost guarantee you'd be able to be of service to them.

Keep us posted my friend!
Try installing vim-gtk instead of vim-gnome.
2 things jump out at me:

1 - From the perpetrators' POV, this kind of white collar crime is orders of magnitude safer and more lucrative than a blue collar equivalent. This may amount to evisceration, but it's nothing compared to a judge getting angry at drug dealers turning that kind of a profit.

2 - From the victims' POV (or at least many of them), the lawyer-extortionist, defense lawyers, laws & judges are all really part of the same "system." It's the system that is abusing them. The judge has tried to make it clear that it's the perpetrators abusing the system, but I wonder if victims feel that distinction. It sounds like a cleaned up version of this scheme might still be legal and profitable: Get actual porn copyright owners on board, pay their taxes, maybe actually litigate a case or two.
> Smartphone owners tend to change theirs every year or so. Smartphones have become a commodity and are considered as disposable.

This doesn't make sense. A smartphone costs more than the average PC. Unless these people are buying Macbooks, how do they get away with buying a $500+ phone every year?
> Malaysia's sexual mores in 201* != America's 201* mores.

Can you elaborate? What does that have to with the article? Are you implying that in Malaysia is normal or acceptable for a woman to cyberstalk a guy like this?
I can't decide if you are being sarcastic or simply naive.
How I wish it would have been! :) Thanks for this.
> Well, that's one problem right there. [...]

Of course it depends. Getting the ball rolling is probably not best done by giving an NP-complete problem (subset sum) as a first exercise.

When presented with an interview question, I usually say "well, it can be solved by doing $NAIVE_SOLUTION, just to get that out there, and I know you're looking for a better one." By doing this, I've established that there is a naive solution and that I'm going to spend time thinking of a better way. Unfortunately, with these kinds of algorithmic puzzle problems, it's usually a waste of time to give the naive solution in full detail, because no incremental development will ever make it monumentally better unless some cheap trick, like memoization, can be done.

> The interviewer most likely has allotted time for 2-5 of these questions in
> his interview

This is usually the case when the problems are easier. For example, "compute the square root of a number" where the solution is, for the most part, cut-and-dry. (Though I would never blame someone for taking longer if they have to re-do the calculus by hand to rediscover the solution.) FizzBuzz is another. Simple binary tree exercises are another.

As said, it entirely depends on the questions. To some interviewers, asking "how do you traverse a binary tree" on-site probably would be a waste of time; that is expected by a first-year CS student.

> It says that they want to make sure they hire somebody who's "a good fit" and
> the hiring pool is high enough that they can get away with false negatives.

This is the easy way to explain it, but I don't think it's a very good answer. I don't think someone is a good fit if 7 people across 8 hours couldn't come to a consensus. If there's that much controversy, what is another coding question going to tell?

> The fact that they talk about the business [...]

This isn't an issue. In fact, it's good to talk about the business and mechanics thereof. But spending half an hour preaching to an interviewee about why the product is so good from a consumer standpoint isn't the best way to capitalize on either person's time. I think, aside from a brief introduction, that propaganda should be disseminated when the interviewee asks questions about the product.

In addition to the above, I think it's a problem when the scales tip way in favor of talking about the product instead of the engineering. If the product gets a 30 minute talk and engineering gets a 5-10 minute talk, I think it's indicative about the priorities of the company toward its employees.
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Why does PayPal have such enormous power? What's stopping other initiatives from getting enough traction?
> "Tweets represent a non-uniform subsampling of all utterances made by a non-representative subpopulation of all people. However, there are hundreds of millions of people presently using the website to express their activities and interests, and as such it is an important social signal."

Not many of those people actively tweet themselves, though.
Is there a way to legally change your identity, similar to the witness protection program?
How you can possibly view this as "gender-biased hypocrisy" astounds me. There's a person being stalked, slandered, and having their career ruined by a vindictive and determined person of questionable mental and emotional stability. It would be the exact same story if the victim was female.

>You do know that there are several porn sites dedicated to ruining the lives of ex-girlfriends?

Like what, gfrevenge? There's a massive difference in scale and severity between posting nude photos and videos of an ex online without their permission, and accusing them of child molestation and attempting to ensure they can never find work in their field again. It's the difference between throwing a rock through someone's window, or doing the same with a molotov cocktail.
American homegrown terrorist groups are the chosen favorites of Pyongyang
There's more info about HTP5, including working mirrors of the files linked at the end of the linode document here: http://straylig.ht/zines/HTP5/
There's still plenty of new ground to be covered, have a look at conference proceedings to see what areas are currently hot.
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If there are multiple options, how would QA ensure that these options aren't buggy? I mean the QA in either something like GNOME, a small project, or a distribution.

Just combine the different amount of sound systems (seems to be popular in these comments). Now combine those different systems with different versions of the kernel and e.g. ALSA. Then sometimes things just don't work because of a combination of the sound system and the bug in the kernel (only exposed in one sound system).

Way easier to just standardize on one. E.g. rely on PulseAudio. Then you can still make a standard to have PulseAudio and JACK work together (something that it seems most people here overlooked), but for your project the QA is easier.
Because in many countries you pay the 500 dollars through your phone contract. So you do not "see" the cost directly.
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Come to Portugal. We like bad coders here. Seriously. 99% chance you won't have a technical interview.

I lead a team (and have lead others) that I would prefer just to fire everyone and do it myself (latest gem found today in the code: self.parent.parent.parent.parent.parent.parent, done by previous 'senior' developer).

So, if coming to Portugal not an option, interview in less tech related companies (forget SV and NY) and go for smaller ones with 1-2 developers supporting the business needs. If what you and others say about your work is right, you probably can be a good developer in those environments just not at big/hip tech ones.
Lots of people claiming the US does this as well, which is true to a certain extent.

There are major differences though. The Chinese government (sometimes via state-owned enterprises) steals information and technologies - military, industrial, and commercial - from military and civilian targets and leaks these to their military and industry. A large part of China's success in the last decade stems from these stolen technologies.

China as a whole is a massive IP stealing machine, and their work is nearly done. They've neither licensed nor innovated the vast majority of the technologies they use - they just steal. This is changing now as they've stolen nearly enough to catch up, and now innovation is finally coming from China.

All countries do this to some extent. Not all countries make a policy of the practice and use the resources of their military and government to carry it out. There are lots of other IP stealing tactics - from joint ventures, to technology "partnerships", to "trial order inspections".

You've got to give them credit: they've play the game very, very well, and taken full advantage of the west's naiveté.
Are you sure it is PulseAudio? In case of multiple outputs (headphones, speakers), PulseAudio can change volumes of them based on data from ALSA. Intention is that volume stays the same, except if the data from ALSA is wrong. Even with one output wrong info from ALSA will result in sudden volume changes.
Try to get them to open-source it. It's a long shot, but worth a go, it might just save what we love about fireworks and put it in the hands of people who use it:
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/adobe-com-release-adob...
Bad developers tend to be really bad. They have seldom heard of SICP, or contributed to an open source project etc. You sound like you are simply going through a run of bad luck.
Ask HN: How did you get a Solid understanding of the full web stack?
Im pretty sure a large portion of this community has a strong understanding of the web stack so I figured Id ask:
What is a good book to read to get a Solid understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, headers, asset loading / caching)?
or what resources would you use to understand the above concepts?
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You can simply go by another name in many countries, without having to tell any formal authority. In the UK, if you want a piece of paper to go with it (perhaps for applying for a new passport or the like), you can get a statutory declaration or a deed poll; I know someone who needed one to get his bank account details changed and he literally dropped in unannounced over a lunchtime at a local lawyer's office to bang one out.

Of course, if the perpetrator discovers this, they can just start again using the new name.
How the iPhone Conquered Japan