skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not all human communication is verbal.

Good god this. Until these guys can explain why we must suddenly ignore a million years of hardwired non-verbal communication, their argument is completely moot.
No. Tech companies generally do not sell your data. They use your data internally to figure out what ad categories to show you. Advertisers can specify that they want their ads shown to people with certain interests. At no point does data about what you do on Facebook leave Facebook's control.
He used a :) to indicate sarcasm. I'm sure he knows bees don't violate physics.
The two issues (unfairness and inefficiency) are somewhat orthogonal. So let me just guess that you're referring to the "inefficiency" side of the problem.

The problem is that companies looking to fill full-time slots are looking to fill full-time slots, not to engage a succession of contractors.

By requiring candidates to perform in a contractor role prior to signing on full-time, companies are effectively disqualifying most candidates that are currently employed. That's because very few people sniffing around for a better job than the one they have now can afford to drop out of the market for months or even weeks delivering work as a contractor. That's not how most people switch jobs; instead, most people search for their new job from the comfort and security of their current job, knowing that if (say) interviews don't work out, they can take their time looking for the next lead, knowing that they can continue to execute on their current job.

This is a problem for employers because virtually everybody you'd want to hire in this market is already employed.
"How would you estimate the number of cars sold in a year?"

This boggles my mind. Where? For what purpose? Is the expectation that the candidate googles that question?

I would google lots of different things until I found some answers (car manufacturers sales reports from car magazines, news articles that may have the answer, literally for the phrase "number of cars sold in a year" etc, etc).

If you want me to talk through it, it's just mind numbing making asinine assumptions. Market sizing? Obvious assumptions? What?

I can't understand how anyone can say with a straight face that that question is straight forward and not ambiguous.

The ambiguity is what makes these google interview questions brain teasers, to me at least.

But that's probably the last item in a list of reasons why Google wouldn't hire me :)
Where did you read that there were no dead bees in previous years?
I got asked the cars sold in a year in California question. I answered by saying I would look for a car that was new two years ago, and one that was new this year, and then difference the license plate numbers and divide by 2.

Took the interviewer a while but they finally figured it out.
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I personally think that "estimation" questions (sometimes called "Fermi problems" since Enrico Fermi was famous for asking them) are a great way of gauging an individuals thought process.

They aren't about getting the right answer, but rather about seeing how one breaks down a seemingly difficult question into simpler pieces and determines what can be reasonably estimated. They really don't fall into the category of "brain teasers" which involve some sort of trick.

However, the statement that software developers are not asked these types of question is not universally true, nor should it be. In and SDE interview, I was asked an estimation question that was both interesting and relevant to the position (although I signed an NDA, so I'm not going to give specifics).

In my case, there were several pieces of required information that I realized I couldn't reasonably estimate on the spot, so I gave a description of how I could ballpark them from quick measurements.
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The point I was trying to make is that publicity itself is often the reason projects get put up on Kickstarter.

I suspect the author did the Kickstarter project knowing he could effectively publish for free but wanted to generate the buzz that currently comes with having a Kickstarter project. And maybe even to gauge interest. If he wouldn't have been able to raise $2K then it may have been worth dropping the idea altogether.

The negative publicity is the stroke of pure luck. Now he'll make even more because of the free publicity the book is getting now.
I don't know. I'm sure, or at least I hope someone is looking into it. It's not an easy discussion to have. It requires most people to reconsider a lot of things that they take for granted (things we'd all like to take for granted). The alternatives aren't pretty. Maybe some journalists are fearful.

For what reason(s) should/would the NSA spy on so many politicians?

There are a couple of weak justifications that could be made, but you pretty quickly wind up in conspiracy territory. Not that this is unprecedented, but most people quickly dismiss anything from anyone who sounds like they are advancing a gov't conspiracy theory. You don't want to put things like that out without a firm footing.
Many insecticides do not kill bees (as I commented below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5919399), so that reasoning doesn't get us far.
The Last of Us is an emotional, moving and beautiful journey
Having just finished the single player campaign of The Last of Us, I found myself sat speechless for 30 minutes contemplating what I had just been through. I talk about myself going through the experience because thats exactly how it felt. If emotional attachments were on the agenda. Naughty dog executed the game perfectly.
The view that law is code is a common fallacy. In the law there is seldom a right answer, merely answers that can be argued to be more right than others in the given context.
On Confirmed Assumptions or, Not Trusting Google is a Good Idea
Ask HN: How to monitor a compromised server in real time?
These days there is a lot of discussion on how to secure servers and communications. What I see missing from the advice is how to log unauthorized (and authorized) activity in real time to another uncompromised machine?

What services and open source projects exist to determine when a machine has been compromised and to collect evidence of the compromise in a real time way to be able to figure out what the attacker has done in a way that makes it much harder for them to cover their tracks?

For example, what can/could Sharyl Attkisson and the administrators at CBS and other journalism outfits do to discover they've been hacked and collect information on the hacking that would be a smoking gun to point to who was responsible and what they did while snooping around?
Yes, see my comment elsewhere on this page. I've done it more than once, and it always worked like a charm. Desperate people will try to get on top of you if you are floating; they'll drop you if you are dragging them under. I've always been larger than the people panicking, so I can't be sure a small person could drag a larger person under, but if your head is already under, trying to go deeper is your only viable option. If you try to come up, you'll have to lift them, and they'll stay on top of you.
No big deal. It's Silicon Valley who's to blame.
Everything you can do, we can do it better, and cheaper. It's only a matter of time, and we will see it soon.
- I am "the company guy" / "idiot"

- Forms were generated via script, so no "fucking up filling out forms" (by me, anyway)

- A few people entered incomplete addresses, but I sent them anyway because I thought the address was sufficient to reach them (for example, missing city but valid ZIP)

- 95% of the forms I sent had full, valid addresses

- The NSA wasn't provided with my Web site, so in order to get the e-mail, they had to stalk that down first
Using a swimming technique to push off the air the bug could either gain momentum by using the bottle's sloped bottom as a kind of half-pipe, or start moving in a circular path until sufficient speed were built up that the bug would begin moving up the bottle's side.

Alternatively, the bug could fly out if it's that kind of bug. Or it could knock the bottle over by rocking it.

Clearly I'm Google material because of my "bug in frictionless jar" degree.
> It seems that the NSA does not quite get that this is a protest

I don't get it. What's it achieving?

> Imagine the NSA ending up with a desk full of a million records requests, and what a statement that would make, even if they refuse to process every one of them.

Well, they've got at least 500 so far. Only nine hundred and ninety nine thousand to go.

I wonder how many of those 500 have any records with NSA?
I think I captured the essence of my geocities/tripod/etc experience... http://ramige.neocities.org

I really like this and I'll probably use it for something real.
The general recommendation is to be both following a hybrid approach. Read for example "Business Models That Last:
Balancing Products and Services in
Software and Other Industries (2003)"
http://ebusiness.mit.edu/research/papers/197_Cusumano_ProdSr...

It can be a little bit outdated but the main points remain the same.

I experienced it first hand: We realized that the "energy" to spend in selling USD 100K/yr on a specific product is one or two orders of magnitude of selling a service using/embedding that product. And there are cases where there is a dilemma and products can eat your service profits.
"Fix".

Oh yeah, because there's something to "fix" about a free product. Is this seriously what we're coming to? Being so cheap that we can't accept that our quick hack/technology showcase/dev site/small personal website takes more about 30 seconds to spin up when it's there for FREE?

Well, thanks anyway for this nice article: now that I know this, I'm gonna remove NewRelic from my free dev app and I'll put it back when I'm ready to go into production and pay for it.

DotCloud used to be "free" too but I they reduced the free possibilities offered by their app, because of costs I guess. I hope Heroku doesn't follow because of users who think of nice "fixes".
Why did you choose Ruby as the language?
That you didn't ace the teaser!

Or that there are other parts to a Google interview besides the teaser that can determine your employability at Google.
Also, people who submitted obviously invalid addresses were contacted by e-mail and allowed to re-submit. Pretty stupid, right? ;)
It's okay that it's ambiguous. You can ask questions, like whether or not they're including motorcycles and buses.

The point is not to get the right answer. It's to deduce a reasonable answer that's in the right ballpark.
Unfortunately the UK is actually worse: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-...

The only thing companies like Google and Facebook can do to improve matters is to stop collecting and storing giant troves of personal data.
Rumor: Google may help you get rid of your junk with its new service
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"We offer a free, monthly renewable plan! This plan lets you wake up 5 URLs every 30 minutes. At the end of the month, we send you a mail with a link to renew your free plan. As easy as could be!" now all I need is a free service to check my email and click the renew link once a month :)
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Now we're getting somewhere in this conversation. What you're advocating is that we should universally change established cultural norms to protect the very small minority who might be actually harmed by a misread signal. Most people wouldn't agree. Most people can accept the fact that miscommunications happen and brush it off as a fact of navigating a complex social world. It's unfortunate for those that can't do this due to past trauma or whatever psychological quirks they have, but that is not the problem of the entirety of society.
Contrary to the other comment, moonlighting is just as easy for someone FT employed to try as someone who is no employed. The FT employed can make 20-30hrs available a week to try out a company on a set amount of work and get a feel for it. The alternative is to go through a set interviews (that if you read the google article, are useless) and then change your job (effectively putting a bullet on your last job) only to find out that you hate your new job and now you are stuck there.
Try outs are safer and available for all.
The post will deliver with a wrong city & state if you have a valid zip code. :)
> I wonder how many of those 500 have any records with NSA?

Probably all of them, since the NSA collects phone records on every American.
It's much more power efficient at low Reynolds numbers. At higher Reynolds, a fixed wing is more efficient.

We see this optimization with birds. Larger birds like albatrosses flap much less than hummingbirds.
Slightly off topic:

Why does Chrome, when the registration page includes both email and username fields, only remember the email but then insert it into the username field when you attempt to log in? I know some sites let you use the two interchangeably to login, but doesn't this seem like a silly assumption on Chrome's part? Why not remember both, and insert the username OR the email depending on what the field is called?
Well at least someone at the NSA doesn't need http://lmgtfy.com/ lol
I think it was worth that much just to put Minsky and Papert under the same roof.
Samsung needs to take a tactic from Apple's playbook and design products and product releases in a way that promotes constant upgrading. When Apple releases a new phone model almost who has the previous model covets the new model and many of those people covet the new model and end up upgrading. Samsung needs to do the same.
GCHQ taps fiber cables for secret access to world's communications.
took me 30 seconds...

If I have your name, which is: Jonathan Corbett.

I google searched "Jonathan Corbett NSA"

The first link is your twitter account: https://twitter.com/tsaoutourpants

Which mentions: http://www.mynsarecords.com/

I do a whois on the site: (public information)

Corbett, Jonathan jcorbett@fourtentech.com
FourTen Technologies, Inc.
407 Lincoln Road
11th Floor
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
United States
8774100410

I am assuming he emailed you either there or got your email from your website which has it in the contact section...

Not very difficult really.
This is adorable!!!!
500.

The NSA is capturing all internet and telephone traffic for every individual on this planet with a phone or email account.

But perhaps they don't index it by person name, and so 500 becomes 0 because of that.
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Sounds like she's still perpetuating the problem:

Software Engineering interviews will focus on your standard coding, algorithm, and system design questions...

Why are algorithm questions still being asked in a high-pressure environment? Very few people actually work on algorithms once hired and never in my experience has it actually been a good indicator of actual development competency. As DHH states: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3071-why-we-dont-hire-program..., unless you're hiring someone to code algorithms it's not useful.

As a Director at AppNexus I've done my best to reverse this trend by asking what I consider competency questions. Such as "On a scale of 1-10, 1 being novice, 10 being creator of said technology, how would you rate yourself?" Then based on this answer I'll ask a question at that level. I find that most people screened don't actually know the basic fundamentals of the technologies they list.

After you've gotten the basics down you can then get into system-design, or thinking questions. In the case code analysis is necessary I think it's much better to present a sub-optimal pre-written function and ask the candidate what the function does, and whether and how it can be improved. In this way I know whether they understand code, and whether they're competent enough to improve.

The faster we move away from these algorithmic questions the better.
I wish Bruce was right, but the interception of so much internet traffic is hugely valuable to the US (not just security but commercial spying too). Therefore it will use all the leverage it can with its trade treaties etc to lean on sufficient countries that it will maintain if not escalate its control of the main internet routing systems.
Yup. There would be no problem raising _reasonable_ costs to relocate them.
Well doing nothing is one way to be sure that it won't travel up to the higher ups.
Yes and no. The focus on tangible questions with definitive answers is certainly intentional, however they've missed the mark on some of their original goals. Here's a description of those goals: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/09/stack-overflow-none...

They've achieved a lot, but if you look at that diagram of what stackoverflow is supposed to be you'll see it's still not that. It's very much not wiki-like, and it's very much not blog-like. And part of the reason to support those aspects was to provide precisely the experiences that I've found lacking, such as being able to use the site as a general education resource (like wikipedia).
I also am running a Tor relay on EC2, and I was under the assumption that I wouldn't have to worry about charges with a stock install. Can you provide more detail about what I should do to my instance to prevent charges?
The most interesting part to me was that they said the NSA did internal audits of analyst queries. I hope someone leaks the results of those.

The rest of it seemed in line with the initial PRISM release, and also (kinda) what they've been saying all along: they nab everything, but only read it if they "reasonably" think you're foreign, and if they're wrong, they keep any "interesting" bits anyway.
A better comparison would be the 2014 Audi R8 4.2 Coupe (Tiptronic), which does 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds [1], although that's still slower than the Model S which does 0-60 in 4.2 seconds [2]. Of course, the R8 costs significantly more than the Model S in spite of the inferior performance.

[1] http://www.zeroto60times.com/Audi-0-60-mph-Times.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Options
Applicative will be a super (type)class of Monad, and is added to the Prelude.
I Googled the address you list on your website. Your name comes up. Googling your name reveals your blog.

Your blog links to the mynsarecords website.

Took me 2 minutes.

Edit: I'm not as quick as pavs though, it only took him 30s:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5920564
How many golf balls can you fit in a bus?

How many plumbers in New York?
We include the phone number for them so they can look it up :)
Your credibility doesn't have anything to do with whether any major media outlet has run a story on this. It's a good question.

However your credibility will inevitably influence how people respond to the question and the answer. For example, if hypothetically somebody has shown a pattern of saying "there's no story here", using whatever rhetorical technique works best in a given situation to support your views, and then frequently being shown wrong when it turns out there genuinely is a story here even though some of the initial details were incorrect or had insufficent evidence ... well, in that case, others would very reasonably take past history into account when they see the same pattern coming up.

I have no idea whether there or not there will be major media coverage about the story. The lack of coverage so far implies to me that (a) there isn't yet sufficient supporting evidence or documentation for this and (b) there are enough real disclosures that people are being careful about airing insufficiently supported claims and (c) it hasn't gotten to "Obama birth certificate" levels of significant attention even though there's not sufficient supporting evidence.
You establish a random circuit through the Tor network when you first connect. Even if the NSA is analyzing every packet between every node, they're not going to be able to distinguish your packet from anyone else's. I think they would need to control some of the nodes to keep track of packet sources and destinations.
TL;DR Tucker Max doesn't hire people that can't do anything, is still an asshole with obnoxious writing style.
It just explains the part of the NSA's letter to you where you pretended like they lied or were being misleading.

Turns out, you were being misleading, not them.
There are long-term relationships where sex is one of the later steps, after there's already some form of long-term commitment. There are a lot of things that can happen well before the "seduction" step -- talking, mutual interests, shared experiences, and so on.
The insecticide was Safari (Dinotefuran) which is toxic to bees, and it has been confirmed that it killed them.

http://www.opb.org/news/blog/ecotrope/state-confirms-pestici...

This was also concluded a few days ago: http://www.opb.org/news/blog/ecotrope/xerces-society-wilsonv...
The Kickstarter Social Backlash
Where abouts? I am not seeing that.

I see Chief Justice Robert's appointed Judge Bates, effective July 1, 2013, Director of the Administrative Offices of the United States Court. However, that occurred June 11, 2013 and presumably he will continue to be the presiding Judge of FISC until that time.
They are not inhibited, they are positively and negatively incentivized. To say that the government and high-level government officials are a powerful influence is hardly contentious.

If you talk shit about your boss (even if it is true and done politely) it will probably negatively affect you. If you support your boss you will probably reap rewards. The result is a system where people are influenced not to criticise their boss not a system where no one ever does.
No. I think you're right and that there isn't enough to substantiate this story for a mainstream publication relying on two-source verification to risk publishing it. This is why I agreed off-the-bat that it might be disinformation.

That said, given that Tice has at least some credibility on this front, I also think these allegations should cast suspicion on claims you have made that there is reasonable judicial oversight of America's public security apparati, a belief you have used to cast suspicion on statements from whistleblowers like Snowden whom you have attacked in the past.

And it's entirely possible I'm reading too much into your comments (in which case I apologize). But if that's the case, an easy way to avoid it would be countering your public statements that are critical of whistleblowers with the occasional statement clarifying your personal belief in the legality or morality of the actions which they allege are taking place. A statement expressing your belief that surveillance should only occur after probable cause and with specific judicial oversight would put me, and I suspect the others upvoting my comments, much more at ease.
>If you don't, then there's obviously some communication that's meant to be going on.

Yes, nonverbal communication.

>The guide puts the onus for that on the woman. If she doesn't want it, then she has to MAKE you stop:

There are plenty of ways to do this. When a guy first opens the conversation, you can simply blow him off. If you seem receptive and he tries to flirt, again you can create space to nonverbally let him know you're not interested. Etc, etc.

All of these things are standard in social interactions. You guys are the ones that are twisting this into somehow being assault. This IS IN FACT the stuff that social interactions are made of. You can prefer that it weren't the case, but it is sad that you would block me for simply stating a fact.
I'm not so sure if 'yes' or 'no' with comment is needed.

Just have unrestricted comments for opinion, and only have a 'yes' vote for those interested. There isn't a reason for being interested in something, it's just something that you'd pay for, and enough of those justify the endeavour.