skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Why do you feel this way? We rely on "take-home" (they're set up in advance of the f2f interview) work-sample tests pretty extensively, and I feel like they're probably more humane; for instance, you can look things up on the Internet, do them in a comfortable setting, &c.
I think it's a pure joy to read the ruby source. Allthough ruby is not fast, it's got some of the simplest most elegant frameworks out there. Sinatra is not much more than a router config file with some logic. Sequel is the simplest database orm and migration tool around. And slim makes very readable templates. All frameworks perfect for the first minimum viable product. If this site takes off, I would perhaps pay someone to rewrite some bottlenecks of it in java.
In other words, Yahoo! will eventually end up buying it.
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You'd think he'd have learned his lesson about god-awful site design.
"Tucker, the Man and His Dream" perhaps? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096316/
Consider the Google engineer who implemented the OneBox feature that answers "how many cars are sold in a year?"

How did he do it?

Consider the Wolfram Alpha engieer who implemented the same feature.

How did she do it?

(It becomes an interesting question, eh?)
The purpose is to see how you break down the problem. It's all about applying MECE (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) methodology.

Usually for this type of questions you don't really even need to say the numbers, just clearly outline your though process.
Yes, precisely. Local running malware = owned, period.
UK newspapers have been issued a D-Notice. It's official 'advice' to stop reporting. That's why few news outlets in the UK are following up on the Guardian stories.

http://order-order.com/2013/06/08/d-notice-june-7-2013/
I guess I'm just asking why today's story, about NSA spying on Obama, which is viscerally more interesting than the Risen story but less impactful to national security, would be "frozen out" of the mainstream media where Risen's story clearly wasn't.
I think you need to update yourself on the details/arguments surrounding this particular debate before commenting.
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Abit harsh on Google. I mean what are they to do?
No? What you just said doesn't follow logically from anything else we've discussed on the thread. If the question is invalid, shoot down the question.

I'm not complaining that you've somehow hurt my feelings by pursuing your own notion of what's in my head. You're an anonymous commenter; I don't care what you think about me. I'm complaining that we're unable to address simple questions without personalizing them. Like I said: this is an actual instance of the ad-hominem fallacy. My question doesn't get more or less valid based on my ideology.
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Still don't see the point. You're not going to find anything like phone transcripts or what tags might be applied to your person. I'm guessing 99% of the requests will be sent back with "we don't have a folder specifically for you". Because there isn't one...specifically. We're probably all in their database as some random character string, only actually linked to our identity if needed. Unless they have an actual investigation on anyone requesting information, I doubt anyone's going to get anything more that a boilerplate response.

Also, the site sending out mail that will just be thrown out because it's not correctly filled out is a complete waste. I just don't see what the goal of this is. Just to spam snail mail? If the goal is to just clog up their office and be a general nuisance as a protest of some sort...at least the forms would not be sent if they don't have all mailing information. Otherwise it looks like really childish trolling. To me that is. You providing a phone number does nothing.
Work on it was discontinued when my boss quit her job at the university of maryland. The 1 year patenting period has expired, I have no love for patents anyways, so I'm going to generate several analogs and register them as something called "US Statutory Invention Registration" which prevents them from being patented. I have her blessing (not that I would need it from a legal POV) to continue work on this project.

Since then I've been accruing a lot of synthetic biology experience (I'm currently probably the most experienced person in the world at a new technique called "gibson assembly" - I've done upwards of 100 successful gibson assemblies on a wide range of molecular biology targets), which should help the process go even more smoothly.

Details are at: http://indysci.org,

currently we're waiting for the IRS to approve our application for 501(c)3 status before launching our fundraising. Our target launch date is January 2014
I'm using Firefox.

I do have some ambient light. Maybe if I replaced the curtains in my window with true blackout curtains this would look ok.
This article makes me think about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Especially the attempt to use the same law to charge defendants with a Felony for violating a website terms of service/use, in one instance creating fake social network profiles. Yet, simultaneously the very same DoJ has a known policy of creating fake web profiles to locate and interact with suspects. Luckily in the case I am aware of the Judge ruled such an application of the law was overly broad.
Same here, amazingly happy with LastPass and it even makes logging in on mobile a breeze :)
If the price is the primary sticking point in this, I don't see why it's an issue. Clearly there are several more factors involved in this project, otherwise I could step in and quote $1m less than IBM and be considered equally viable.
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How is Prisoner's Dilemma a brainteaser?
Would a judge approve the warrant though? Just because this person communicated with Assange?
Inequality is...
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The prisoner's dilemma is a basic game theory concept (with a lot of interesting math inside it). It isn't a brainteaser and there isn't even an "answer"
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Eagerly awaiting further erudite explanation...
McDonald's do exploit and undermine local laws and use their bottomless pockets to grind down opposition. This isn't the same as what you are talking about I know, but its on the spectrum. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=...
Full stack hacker for YC S13 predictive analytics startup
We’re a YC-backed startup looking to disrupt the way products are made. We’re building a platform that (1) introduces massive amounts of data to a production process currently relying heavily on guesswork and (2) enables our users to get access to products before they hit the market at a discounted price.

We’re tackling a $10b problem in the retail/manufacturing industry, and we’re working with brands that have a keen focus on design (clothing, home products, furniture, electronics, etc.). In doing this, we’re also developing a unique method of ‘subjective’ profiling based on the design interests of users over time. If Facebook is a source of one’s objective qualities (age, gender, etc.), we want to become the source of one’s subjective qualities (sense of aesthetic, lifestyle, taste in clothing, etc.).

We build fast and are obsessed with design.

Some of the things we’re working on:

1. An analytics page that can segment thousands of votes by various parameters in the most efficient way possible. Each unit of data we work with has a large number of columns that need to be manipulated on the fly.

2. Early implementation of a machine learning algorithm to detect and understand the preferential patterns of users and apply it to the core product (delivering these insights within the analytics page, serving more specific content to users).

3. Building out a well-designed content interface for designers and brands to share their stories and enhance the core product.

4. Cross-domain tool for brands to use our technology on their properties (see Stripe or Gumroad) – especially in context of e-commerce tools such as Shopify, Magento, and BigCommerce

We’re looking for someone who:

1. Has a deep interest in predictive analytics and subjective profiling

2. Cares about solving a widespread problem in a somewhat archaic industry (retail)

3. Cares deeply about well-designed products (not only our application but also the brands we choose to work with)

4. Is fluent in HTML/CSS/JavaScript, JQuery, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Heroku, and AWS products

5. Has an interest in machine learning

6. Learns fast by building and deploying – we pick up languages/frameworks within a few days and ship a few days later

We haven’t launched yet, so we don’t want to reveal too much. If you’re interested, please send us an email (jobs@crowdery.com) with the subject “Crowdery HN Job Post”, and please include a resume, link to your GitHub, and your favorite snack in the email body.
Yes, along with picking your nose and tying your shoes -- but that should only matter to a coward.
One thing I've been meaning to test. Does Chrome's form-autofill (the thing where it fills in as much of a form as it can when you specify an email address) populate hidden fields if they match? If-so, it seems like potential for mischief to create some form inputs of type "hidden" or just some visually-hidden form inputs using style sheets to capture more information than a user is aware is being populated and submitted.
You're confusing copyright and trademark. If he didn't challenge the trademark registration in the required period he will have a nearly impossible time challenging it now.
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great response. the bug's existence alone made me question the project intent and viability. even though i probably won't read your code, just making the source available mitigated my biggest concerns.
Ask HN: Something like Codecademy fellowship but for non college students?
Ran into this and it looks awesome but I am not in college any more..
http://www.codecademy.com/fellowship/2013

Is there any thing similar for folks no longer in school?
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Ah prison rape. Yes, I hadn't considered that, but that would make sense. I'm not sure that prison statistics are really relevant to the original topic though, as far as defining what typical interactions are like, but does seem like interesting trivia.
Maybe engineer a service that is harder to wiretap? It is not easy, but they have some of the best computer scientists on this planet working for them. If I were them, I would start somewhere around here:

http://crypto.stanford.edu/adnostic/adnostic.pdf
They keep the deleted e-mails too? So even if you want to escape that 180 days law that says after 180 days it's free for all for authorities to get your e-mails, then deleting them before that time passes won't do you much good.

So basically the authorities will have access to your e-mails anyway. It's just that they won't get them in the first 180 days. And of course this just applies to police/FBI, as NSA can get them from the day you sent them.
Chrome OSX stores in OSX keychain out of the box.
Gee, it sure would be nice to know what happens at a FISC hearing...
Chrome OSX stores in OSX keychain, out of the box. Which is a fairly secure way to store passwords.
I guess I'm old fashioned, and the solution proposed in the article is just attempting to resolve a recent problem in a new way, rather than returning to what works in a tried and true fashion.
I did this on a Mac and got a modal dialog saying "Do you allow Chrome access to keychain item blah.com?" Click anything, get another modal dialog for bleh.com. I realized it was going to go through each and every password I've ever saved in Chrome. With modal dialogs. kill -9.
Wire tapping is completely irrelevant to the question.
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I think you're underestimating the lucrative "disoriented time-traveler" market.
So yes, US journalism's objectivity is often horrible, but the owners of The Guardian are overseeing an enterprise with revenues of £254.4 million a year, according to Wikipedia. That still seems like a corporate enterprise the owners of whom would want to protect. I believe it is still be possible to be a muckraker (or employ those who are like Greenwald) and have a sizable "corporate"-ness.
If there are still substantial disparities between what Snowden alleges and what major tech firms admit to, would you bet against news outlets getting "D-notices" they are not allowed to discuss?
Can the FISC grant Article III warrants?
Market estimation questions are primarily asked in non-engineering interviews at Google like PM, PMM etc. I think market estimation question is a very good way to test how a person thinks. There are no right or wrong answers, mostly the candidates are being tested on their thinking abilities in ambiguous situations, which happens in your real job all the time. For example, you are trying to launch a product in a new market and you have to estimate sales/marketing dollars/headcount the 1st year - how do you go about it? Are you asking the right questions?
the post i'm responding to seems contrary in tone, yet simply articulates an implied supporting point.

it's like saying "i get the analogy [but it doesn't sound accurate to me]". fair sentiment but not constructive.
Im always impressed by folks who can keep on the road like this.

I myself prefer to stay in an area long term and marinate the local culture and language. I studied abroad in Beijing for one year in undergrad, and taught english in Japan for 2 year. You discover many subtle things by staying somewhere for an extended period of time, and learn a new way of living. Definitely want to do it again.

But before I die, I'd like to try this method too.
> How can you not consider that to be personally insulting?

Because I don't expect people to be insulted when I express disagreement with them about politics.

Being able to disagree about politics is absolutely crucial for a functioning democracy.
Guilty until proven innocent. Sounds reasonable.
I know this is google, and people there are smart, but there is a chance that you're overestimating the interviewer's ability to know quickly if you have these skills. If they're very unfamiliar with the problem space, they may lack confidence in their ability to interview you. On the other hand, if they know the answers in advance (or at least understand the problem very well), they'll be better able to gauge your performance. So they go with red-black trees.

Not your skill or ability, as you pointed out, just your performance on some narrowly chosen questions from an area that the interviewer understands well in advance.

I've thought about false negatives a lot, but you've raised a good point about the high risk of false positives in this sort of interview culture as well. I will grant that it isn't easy to study for and pass a data structures grilling that can last all day (or longer), even if you have studied for a month. Anyone who can do this is at least capable of writing and understanding fairly complicated code.

But you are absolutely right that this may lead to "false positives" as well... they may simply be hiring people who are great at studying for and passing algorithms quizzes. This certainly doesn't mean they'll be successful. In fact... well, you've essentially pointed this out, but what does it say about a motivated and creative person that he or she will drop everything in order to study for something with only passing relevance to the number of projects he or she would like to be pursuing?

Well, desperate, I suppose, could be one of the motivating factors. But how many top programmers are desperate? Many would be interested in working for google, but aren't desperate enough to put aside the interesting things they'd like to be working on in order to spend a month preparing for an exam on red-black trees.

Maybe this article suggests google may be coming around to realizing that they are doing some harm to their hiring efforts with this approach to technical interviews?
The ends justify the means then.
The world is stupider thanks to Decoded's promise of learning in a single day.
Responsible security disclosure would say you've got a responsibility to make the bug known. Making it public should only happen after you've made the creator aware.

I can understand why the developer viewed you as 'trashing' his work, you claimed it as a phishing expedition. That'd make the best of us upset. I see you've sorted it out between you which is great, and I hope others look at this exchange and get some good takeaway from it.
Well, if she's lucky, and if the NSA is competent (at being scumbags) this lady never gets anywhere near anything interesting.
That might be the case. But you'd know about it. And why.
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Yeah, if anyone at GAO should happen to ask, I'd pick Amazon over IBM for a cloud solution on technical merits too.
If I lose all my data due to a hard drive crash, can I submit a FOIA request to obtain a backup? :-)
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Their moral compass may not be in line with the rest of the country. Some people when afforded the power to eavesdrop on anyone can and will focus on what they percieve to be existential threats. Existential is the key word. When Hoover focused on Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, he viewed them as existential threats to the United States. We today viewed that as extremely misguided, but at the time he and many others in power agreed that we should monitor and debase those "existential threads". The industrial food lobby considers animal rights activists existential threats. The administration views journalists as existential threats to their ability to defend against existential threats. Defense spending proponents think people that are anti-defense spending to be existential threats. The fact that the NSA is heavily Mormon, means that many people in the NSA may hold the same opinions about existential threats as the Mormon church. Many fundamentalist churchgoing folk consider gay marriage to be an existential threat. It is precisely because every individual has different views on what are and are not existential threats to the United States that we created a Bill of Rights that protect against the prosecution of existential threats that are merely the opinion of one individual and not the collectively opinion of the citizens of the United States.

The entire system of checks and balances was created because of this distrust of the "moral compass" of any single individual or signle in-group. When an individual or in-group can unilaterally monitor the communications of other individuals or in-groups with out due process, it all starts to fall apart.

There should be no secret court. There should be due process. There should be court appointed warrants not rubber stamps. This is all more important than what any one individual thinks is necessary for them to do what they think is their job. Their job isn't to catch terrorists. Their job is to catch terrorists without violating that principles of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If they are doing the former at the cost of the latter they are failing at their job.
Show HN: My first SaaS venture. Feedback welcome
My friend and I left our jobs a month ago to get our side project, Cloud Cannon, ready for launch. Cloud Cannon makes it easy to get a simple website with a CMS online and launched. It does this by:

1. Syncing with Dropbox. You drag your files into Dropbox, Cloud Cannon then syncs them to our server and makes them live on the internet under the domain you've provided.

2. Integrated CMS. Have your clients update their own website using our simple CMS. Add a class of "editable" to any div you want your clients to edit. All changes your client's make will be pushed live and saved back to your Dropbox.

3. Website Optimization. Cloud Cannon periodically optimizes websites. It minifies Javascript and CSS and pushes all website assets to a fast CDN.

This is our first business venture so any feedback is more than welcome. I hope you find Cloud Cannon useful.

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So "reasonable expectation of privacy" is an objective standard. The question isn't, do you, (betterunix personally), expect information to be private, but do people in general reasonably expect information information they throw out onto the intertubes to be private (in other words, you can't create zones of privacy by having a subjective expectation of privacy).

I don't think that's the kind of clear-cut argument you'd like it to be. To me, for example, if I'm letting AT&T or Verizon see the encrypted bits (as well as any intermediate carriers and backbone operators), I don't really have a privacy expectation on the encrypted bits themselves. I might be persuaded that I have a privacy expectation on the decrypted bits, however.
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> (Not that this site necessarily does, but "revolution" is in the URL, and many who point out things like an imperfect justice system do, and civilization smash-and-grab tends to be the M.O. of certain political parties that point to things like this in an attempt to tear down other portions of civilization)

I like your counterpoints to what you see as the sentiment of this article, but I just wanted to note that the other word in the URL is "marginal" - it's wordplay with an economic term about generally small changes that deliberately contrasts with the generally harsh word "revolution" - or in other words, perhaps something closer to advocating fixing things as we find them than throwing out the cradle.
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> "The problem comes down to this: My annual earnings equal about 1,000 times the U.S. median wage, but I don’t consume 1,000 times more pillows than the average American. Even the richest among us only need one or two to rest their heads at night."

I still can't believe the number of times I've seen this "argument" used, given how silly it is.

Why is it silly? Because, it's saying "I'm willfully ignoring the wealthy person who invests in creating a new 800-room hotel, where each room will get 2-4 pillows, each. Now, I'm a person who earns 1,000 times, and will consume anywhere from 1,000-16,000 more pillows than the average American per year, assuming the average American uses their pillow for 5 years vs. the hotel which will have to replace them annually (or sooner)."

If you look at the spending of a wealthy person by examining their personal, individual spending, alone, you're missing the macro effect of wealth. Look at what they spend their money on as a whole, and you'll see that there is an inequality in value created vs. wealth - having 100x more wealth does not mean being able to create 100x more value - it's not linear - with more wealth, you can create disproportionally more value, and that's why the wealthy are happy to continue to subsidize the poor's existence because overall, there's a bigger benefit.
Ask HN: HN Jobs board for Canadian startups equivalent?
Most government employees with top secret clearance (DV in the UK) like I was are scared of the consequences of breaking the rules.

When someone puts their life on the line and opens their mouth, there is enough attention on the matter for other people to come forward safely.

If the attention is not there, people disappear (without trial in some cases) and end up rotting in jail somewhere.
"Google is, however, allowed to tell me what account is involved, and I can do whatever I want with the information Google gave me"

So Google was allowed, not required. Looks like they did the right thing by at least telling OP what they were forced to do. Shouldn't the title be "Not trusting your Government"?