skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an idea. Why not pay candidates for their time? e.g.

"We are serious about who we hire, so we're careful about who we do hire. However, we realise you're interviewing us as much as we are you, so we're equally as serious about showing respect for your time. We really appreciate it, so we'll pay you $m/hour while you complete this tests. We think these three tests should take a competent engineer around n hours to complete, so we'll pay you a max of $m*n for completing the process.

Good luck!"

As the OP highlighted hiring is an expensive process (expensive engineers interviewing candidates, double whammy of them not working on product while interviewing), it could be a lot cheaper to just automate some of the process, but make it more humane by compensating the interviewee.

There is a definite balance to strike between the humanity and scalability aspects, but I think it's an interesting idea.
We (Heap) would use Manchuria if you were to open source it. We currently have a multi-tab spreadsheet. My previous employer had an awful Salesforce system which was about as fun as eating sand.

You might even get a PR or two. :)
Ask HN: What are your favorite time management tools? 
I, like most college students, suffer from a minute inability to keep track of where all my time goes in a day. Even when I do sit down and have a 4 hour chunk of time in front of me to study, I'll mess around for a while and end up effectively wasting half that time.

I'm sure I'm not alone. What tools/hacks have you guys used to make yourself more efficient in your daily life?
> If you're that poor, drink tap water and don't buy beer and soda. You'll save way more that way than you could possibly make recycling.

Uh, they have to dig through the trash and go out and collect bottles because they're not their bottles...
I agree completely.

We should continue to employ hobos for less than minimum wage to move bottles out of recycling bins into other recycling bins via stolen shopping carts at 3am.

Also fuck yuppies (and bicycles).
Safari on my iPhone is capable of accessing it with no warning. Anyone else seeing this?
Which begs the question: "Better to enable OSCP and leak info or run the risk of a bad cert and disable OSCP?"
> True for the population, irrelevant for the individual.

Not necessarily, because people are notoriously bad at evaluating themselves, and often tend to assume that statistics (especially troubling ones) don't apply to them for whatever reason. For the divorce statistic (which I understand is not necessarily accurate, but let's pretend it really is 50%), how many of the divorced couples previously thought the statistic was irrelevant for them, because they're "truly in love" or some other reason?
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I think it is especially this. There's a reason for the thought that the best person to ask for help or a favor is a busy person, as they are more likely to reliably do it if they say yes (and often they do, just as much as less busy people).

I've experienced this quite often myself. I remember a period when I was particularly productive and creative, but also very busy two bachelors and three side-jobs.
> the question is, why do human express themselves through music in first place, or through smiling? Why not express themselves through cartwheeling instead?

Humans do express themselves through cartwheeling, they aren't mutually exclusive.
Do that automatically, and you'll wind up with a lot of broken URLs. Routinely, when fixing broken links on my own site, I punch something in the IA, click on the latest version - and get redirected to the root of some site or other. Not very useful. (The redirect also makes it hard to get back to the URL search results because the IA redirects you so fast that if you simply hit the 'back button', you won't go anywhere.)
In other news, unicorns considered a better investment than puppies, ponies.

Seriously though, I wouldn't want to live much longer if two major sources of pain and fatigue are still haunting us in our later years.
Except delayed aging will increase the occurrences of cancer.

Everyone gets cancer if they live long enough.
I live 2 blocks away from this recycling center and visit Safeway almost everyday for either food or getting off the Muni.

It's terrible.

Just a few of my headaches:

• Smells absolutely terrible

• When walking down Castro with my girlfriend we use the other side after many overly aggressively slurs from the slew of bums that hang out by this heap.

• It draws numerous crews of drifters that recycle cans then binge on the spoils on the steps of safeway. Fights break out weekly.

• It creates a "hobo highway" in which my female friends now avoid because it is filled with bums. This looks like rape alley at night.

• Bums bring their dogs to wait in line and they shit all over the sidewalk. That was awesome to wipe off in the morning.

• The really crazy bums like to ride their carts down market street flying through red lights, which I was almost hit by last month.

It might be cool to support the ongoing of recycling centers so less fortunate people have a way to make money but try living next to the place before writing an article about how you think its so unhippie of San Francisco.
I wondered why Safari (running on an older OS X 10.6 system) didn't report the certificate as revoked, although Firefox on the same system did.

The answer appears to be as described here:
http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/protect-safari-from-...

After setting the proper options in Keychain Access, Safari reported the revocation correctly.
Sure; I wrote the post in a bit of haste, just meant to share a related anecdote. The alarming thing about the case is that it seems to have come as a surprise to most observers that the police actually does have such powers in the first place.
They pretty much do: http://archive-it.org/
> The judge is correct in stating that if Levison doesn't trust the government, then why should the government trust Levison

The judge is incorrect. The U.S. Government was designed to not completely trust itself. That's why there are checks and balances. Giving the FBI the private key lets them have unchecked access to data encrypted with it. It is wrong to asked to not be checked.

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@drharris:

That's what I'm doing at the moment. One of the biggest pivot in my Internet habits is that I've changed from being a lurker (just looking and not doing things) to being more active in the community, discussion or post. Even on HN. I've been here for ages but never contributed anything of value.

That will change now as I have to be able to harness the comments and engagements of people who are more knowledgable than me in this respect.

Thanks again for your advice.
Given WebCite's financial woes, it wouldn't be a good idea to put too much emphasis on them.
How to build for the future
What do you learn in an 8 hour process that you couldn't learn in a 4 hour process?
That does stick out like a sore thumb.

You shouldn't be hiring people because they have experience that matches your tech stack solely because they'll kick ass on the first week.

You should be hiring people that will kick ass 3 weeks in, and a year from now, and 5 years from now -- regardless of whether or not they currently have competence in the nitty gritty details of whatever libwidget you use at this exact moment.
Yes. I'm also assuming people have correct implementations of AES.
Not true. You might not want to make money yourself but you also might not want other people to rip your work off and profit from it.

People that open source things do so as a gift to the community at large, and sometimes people just don't want to give away their property (intellectual in this case), even if they don't intent to turn a profit. Plus, leading an open source project can be quite stressful and there's also the time cost of actually supporting a community of people, if they gather around a project.

There are tons of downsides to open sourcing something but occasionally there's a significant benefit (or other motive) that drives the decision to open source and outweighs the negatives.
Also the .key file only seems to include the first 7 slides, so it's a bit hard to follow the talk. Very interesting presentation though, thanks!
PaaS's are basically hosted specialized frameworks, and as such usually require framework-specific code. App Engine is Google's PaaS offering, and most of your issues seem to be "I don't want a PaaS, but prefer an IaaS or VPS".

As Google has an IaaS offering (Compute Engine), it seems odd that, given those complaints, you'd compare their PaaS offering against other provider's IaaS offerings.
I agree with your strategy. The internet is an unprecedented communication mechanism, for the first time in history we have the tools for mass self representation in an organized way. A new kind of society.
How does the war on drugs have anything to do with DPR hiring a hit on the hacker who broke into his website and threatened to dump his user database, an act that would presumably shake customer confidence and lose him business?
Lavabit has revealed something incredibly important.

The US Government has no problem with seizing your private keys. It claims the right to impersonate you without your permission.

It no longer matters which system you use, Sovereign Keys, PGP web-of-trust, traditional PKI, they're all the same. Services based in the US can be MITM'd without leaving any traces.

If this is allowed to continue uncontested there will no be no way to stay secure online. The only solution is a partial solution, to create decentralized services. This, at least, will require the government to seize the private keys of each individual they want to track.
Prior to PHP 5.3 this could work as well:

array_reduce(array(1,2,3,4,5), create_function('$v, $e', 'return $v | $e;'), 0);
'What happens when the nerd who realizes the absurd amount of money that they can make approaches it like a drug empire? Or rather, what happens when an engineer starts trying to engineer themselves an anonymous drug empire? Not a political experiment, but a true-blue drug cartel?'

Breaking Bad?
The site I have mocked-up does not exist. I want to work on it, but it does not pay, and I need to eat. :-) I am working on a side-project (yes, a start-up) that will provide the income I need to work full-time on the World Politics idea.

The closest idea is probably: https://canada.yrpri.org/

It has a number of issues, though.
No one cares if they collect litter. People don't want hobos rummaging through their garbage. Stealing all of the bottles out of recycling bins is also not accomplishing anything.
honestly, i thought HN crowd was above continued "omg reader shut down google can pull the plug on anything".

(a) App Engine specifically (and Google Cloud Platform in general) is being sold to enterprise as well, with SLA and deprecation policies.

(b) App Engine has been around since 2008 and is growing VERY strongly.

(c) Even if worst case happens, fine, move your app to somewhere else. Deprecation is officially a year, plenty of time to move. Any company can deprecate any products. GAE has huge usage (over 3 million applications), and we have two (and counting) compatibility partners (CapeDwarf and AppScale) that you can move.

(d) GAE does not lock you in. Won't rehash arguments here, see: https://plus.sandbox.google.com/u/0/110401818717224273095/po...

cheers,

P.
There is also https://github.com/AppScale/appscale
Reminds me of http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
Unfortunately, I've done a 5-7 hour "project", only to not hear back from the company for a month - and then it was from a recruiter, not a developer, who just told me that they had decided "not to pursue further".

I decided at the time that I would never do this again, and that's still more or less the case. I might be willing to make a deal - if someone from the company is willing to put a workday into one of my open source projects, even just trying it out and writing up the experience, I might be willing to spend a workday on their programming assignment.

Or, of course, if my family was starving and I was unemployed, I'd do it.

One huge difference here - they do say they'll give detailed feedback. If I had gotten detailed feedback on my programming assignment instead of crickets chirping for a month and then a recruiter call with a one-sentence brush off, that would have taken quite a bit of the edge off. I do give them credit for this.

But still, they are mainly looking for a way to use a candidate's time to their own at an 8:1 ratio. For me, this is a "no apply" condition.
Blueprint by LW
You buy puts to hedge longs. Put selling puts on BTC would be pretty insane. As a whole there are no insurance sellers. Insurance will be too expensive. But perhaps there some kind of crazy solutions to offset volatility to the network or something similar.
Yes, Google does provide enterprise support.
Everyone dies if they live long enough.

Since practical immortality is pretty much out of the question, for now, I'll quite happily accept deferred aging, which would seem to imply generally good health longer and later in life, followed by one or more catastrophic illnesses in the terminal phase...

...which hopefully will be brief.

As to pain, why do you think we have painkillers and euthanasia? (Well, we "don't" have the latter, in Canada, really, but we will by the time I need it.)

I would much rather live longer and be generally healthy then die horribly and suddenly that live generally healthily for a shorter time then waste away for years and years and years....
Sheep was set up back in like May (the exact dates aren't clear because no one was paying attention), so if it's a honeypot, it was a very far-sighted one. Personally, I strongly doubt it's a honeypot because the Czechs who run it are less competent than LE would be.
We have an off-line coding test that probably takes about a day on average. This is after a three-question quiz that takes a couple of hours. I'm pretty surprised that so many people are willing to go through all of that.
See the latest post in the update tab of the http://rally.org/lavabit

He continues by saying “defending the constitution is expensive – even more so if my fight is to have a chance of reaching the Supreme Court – my legal claims I will need to raise at least $250,000.”
Dearest Great God C'thulhu,

Please eat the people who keep giving Jeff Bezos more money inciting him to become an even bigger jerk last.

Thank you. I remain, as always,

Your humble Cultist,
Mike
Instead of trying to criminalize this, it should be seen as a first rung to get people reintegrated into society. The people that pull a night shift are demonstrating amazing work ethic.
Correct, heavily used internally. In fact I'll be talking about that at Cloud Connect in Chicago soon.
The same day that everyone agreed "Roadside Safety Checks" (police looking for drunk drivers under the auspices of checking children's carseats at 1AM) was the lesser of two evils (Drunk drivers killing innocent people is a greater evil than everyone's 4th amendment rights being violated).

To a lesser extent, anytime that politicians frame an issue with the two phrases "it's for the good of the public" and "it's not a problem if you aren't guilty", they're generally trouncing a constitutional right, or greasing the tracks for it to inevitably happen.
But really, you still do have a "boss" in the traditional sense, and don't get to "call your own shots" because you have investors and creditors. The whole startup scene is predicated on a narrative that is quite frankly bullshit
If. But there was no reason for the withdrawal addresses' keys to still be on file. SR needed to keep the deposit addresses on file, to deal with buyers sending deposits to old deposit addresses, but that doesn't apply to withdrawals through the tumbler.
Why not 2 days, then? Maybe he should complete an entire project for free - why not, for a "several year investment?"

Personally, I think it's great when companies not only advertise these kind of practices with pride, but then send staff out onto the net to defend them against a veritable tide of criticism. It will certainly help you narrow your pool of applicants, and that is clearly what you are after - it says so in your "how to hire a human" flowchart! Haha.
I'm really glad that 5.3 got proper anonymous functions. Specifying function bodies as strings to be eval'd makes me twitch.
Exactly. If the team just couldn't see me fitting in to their group. Fine. No problem at all. But please tell me so I don't lose sleep thinking I may have bombed the technical interview.
Sawzall (programming language). Rob Pike et al.
> I bet every single one of the arrested guys really fucked up (assuming they are guilty).

You would be wrong. The Devon guy, the vendor Plutopete, ran a legit business. He didn't fuck up because he wasn't selling anything illegal.
I know companies and HR have been trained to not answer these types of things based on potential legal ramifications.

I've had luck emailing after an unsuccessful interview and saying "Thank you for the opportunity. Informally, is there anything I can work on so that I could be a successful candidate in the future?"
Why aren't you shredding anything you put in the trash?
Defactoring
That's assuming the homeowner has decent internet connectivity wherever they are on vacation.
This is a powerful example of how (some) VC-backed companies fall into the trap of optimizing for hiring velocity rather than product-market fit.
I don't give a shit anymore. This place is a goddam joke most of the time. Bunch of white-bread kids thinking they know shit from shinola.
They're trying, but as far as this pair of Swedes goes, it's apparently just an ordinary SR bust (much like NOD): http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1nz4uo/two_swedes_...

> And as a regular SR-user myself i noticed that SweExpress (the vendor in question) stopped sending packages almost exactly one week before SR went down.

Not much reason to go after them before, rather than synchronized.
If I read it correctly, Faceboom only allows 7 button label options (up from 2). In AdWords, of course, (and all other advertising) it's infinite.
I agree with what you say about self-governing. By mobilizing, I simply meant forming something more cohesive than clicktivist petitions which most often go nowhere. Your wiki addresses this perfectly. I think you should continue pursuing and refining. The concept is fantastic.
In Sydney and London it was common to hire a contractor for a short term, put them to work on your project, and if they are any good offer them a full time position.

As long as this is made clear in the interview, I see no problem with this process.
I believe the Android team members at least have always favored Intellij based on the comments I've seen praising it in the Twitter Feeds prior to Android Studio's announcement and also that it's always been supported along side Eclipse as a way to easily import the AOSP source into an IDE (though only if you look in the source itself) if you choose to do so.
I'm over 10 years out of college. Last time I implemented a linked list was probably in my second year of a CS degree.

I still remember and will probably never forget how to at least psuedo-code a linked list. But you are right, I have never implemented it after college.

However knowledge of pointers, lists and b-trees have been very helpful multiple times throughout my career.
3. Yes. If I get a 500 error from my web application with a stacktrace in the html, it's really hard to read it in the source in the Firefox inspector. Webkit dev tools will both show the source and render it.
I don't understand the point you are trying to make.

You're saying implementing linked lists are good only if you are trying to hire recent college graduates who will prepare for an interview?
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Grad students looking to do research for a living face a bleak existence. There are very few decent paying jobs with security available if they can't land one of the very few tenured professor positions. Fail to do that, and it's a nomadic life, moving from post-doc to post-doc until they give up and get out of academia for the sake of their family.

Acting is almost a pyramid scheme. A small number of actors at the apex make millions in Hollywood, but it's hand-to-mouth for the majority. Most actors can't even rely on their profession for a living!

You can pen a best-selling novel and still need a day-job. Few authors make a living by writing. Only a steady stream of best-seller after best-seller will let you start to rely on your writing. Forget about making a living off of magazine short-stories and articles!

You should get my point by now. There are many noble professions that add to the knowledge and culture of humanity that must be done out of love, because the money is piss poor. Most of these professions require tremendous investments in terms of time and money to get good at. The music industry was an odd beast. It never really invested money freely in artists, preferring to put them into debt so that they would have to be wildly successful before ever seeing a cent of return. It was sort of like supplying student-loans to grad students with the caveat that wages would be garnished until they leave academia. Without the record labels, musicians are largely in the same boat as actors, authors, etc.. Namely, they have to invest in themselves out of love for their art, or forget about it.

The notion that one has to suffer for art or science is not new. What bothers me is that we so blindly accept egregious rewards being handed out for the dubious virtue of "being close to the money". Bankers, traders, managers, etc.. People who are close to the money still make out like bandits despite the fact that their jobs are really about supporting the people who make and do. You can't fault them for being greedy and taking what they're able to. That's what anyone would do in their position. We should, however, be angry with ourselves for granting them that power.
There's always at least one idiot who responds to a perceived imbalance in a particular domain by going to the opposite extreme. This is not a good solution to the problems with current tech interviews.
Looks like they moved only the frontend from Rails to Node.js. Rails still existing in their SOA architecture and they still using Ruby/JRuby hardly.
Android 4.3 cm shows page with no problems. CRL not working?
You can only support forward secure cipher suits. This will result in rejected connections as you suggested.

Lavabit doesn't do this, they support non-forward secure ones. Worse, they don't offer a cipher-suit order preference and the cipher suits they offer are actually pretty shitty (no ECDH_ECDSA, 1024bit DHE).

The way they have it configured now means anyone using the default browser on windows(IE) or OSX(Safari) doesn't end up negotiating a forward secure session. Chrome and Firefox do end up being forward secure. See SSL Lab's test result here[0]

They support
TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA

[0]https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=https%3A%2F%2...
So even if I'm running Debian, NSA could at any point in time redirect my traffic to their servers, and instead of installing VIM, I will be getting VIM-NSA Edition :).
Great.
I help a little bit with OpenHatch, a meta-project that helps people find open source projects to contribute to: https://openhatch.org/ - you may find it interesting to explore.

You'll probably want to look for a project that says it welcomes newcomers, has some way to ask for help (such as an IRC channel or mailing list), and makes lists of bite-sized/easy bugs to fix. For example, OpenHatch's projects listed for JavaScript include EtherPad Lite (https://openhatch.org/projects/Etherpad%20Lite) and Libre Projects (https://openhatch.org/projects/Libre%20Projects).
Using gamification to get rid of non-converting free accounts