skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that bitcoins have that gold doesn't is as their value increases, it encourages the adoption of infrastructure to exchange bitcoins for commodities. This increase of real world value figures into the exchange price.
Of course not, the big government contracts did all that work, and they just sip it off from the top of healthcare.gov.

That said, they definitely did improve upon the government's front-end/implementation.
There are many examples from history that Bad money drives out the Good[1].

This is why people think a little moderate inflation is good for an economy, and deflation is bad. A currency needs to be spent to be of use, but if it is going to always increase in value, the sensible thing to do is to spend something else and keep the increasing currency as a nest egg. Unless you can mandate everyone only transact in Bitcoin, people will tend to spend other things and hoard bitcoin if it keeps increasing in value.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
or just interview at a place where the teams do the interviewing, like where I work ;)
Every story I Hear from Shopify seems good. Thanks Tobias and the rest of you guys. And thanks for open sourcing so much. Especially Liquid templates and Batman.js.
Mirror: http://vimeo.com/43038579

Took me a second to figure out what this actually was. At first it looked like some kind of startup parody video where they're not actually selling a product.

Very cool idea! An airbag makes a lot more sense than a hard incompressible piece of styrofoam. As long as they get the deployment timings right, I see this taking off.
A sure way to kill several hours coloring old family pics :)
I disagree. Good questions (and good interviews) don't require previous knowledge (and if it exists, this can be worked around, or will have little effect)

You know, it's not about a, b, c or d. It's the whole answer.

And I still don't know why interviewers insist on whiteboard coding. Get a computer, google stuff together, try some code, because that's how it works in the end!
I believe they were free, or maybe the box...thing was just broken. I remember being amazed seeing The Onion in a printed version when I was in Philadelphia for a bit (I live in Belgium), always just assumed it was but a site. Saw them outside the Superfresh on South and 10th, I believe.
Wasn't ACTA ratified by executive order without any Congress vote? If yes, what prevents this new agreement to also be ratified by executive order?
They dodged the hardest issues and politics by piggy-backing on the actual site to obtain the data. So you cannot really say that they did what the government contractors were unable to do.

But without a doubt they eliminated all of the cruft and whittled the site down to exactly what consumers want. I want the ACA to succeed and would love to see some variation of this "quick lookup" on the official site. The government would be wise to pay it some attention.
The Snowden Leaks and the Public
Because it's such a maddeningly blatant shill post which, out of context, would be considered the worst type of spam: a single link to a "Find hidden hot cruise deals" site.

And in the context of the post it's not much better. You know where I like to work? From the deck of a cruise ship! No shit, I'd love to be on a cruise ship too.

"You know where I like to code? From the beaches of Aruba!" Followed up by a link to an Aruba travel deals site. No.

Extended rant: my frustration equally applies to Tynan's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 - nothing personal per se, save for the obviousness of the article I ham-handedly parodied above.

These class of ex post facto blog posts authored solely for self promotion seem like the bread and butter of HN. He build a website to sell cruise ship deals and now he _really_ wants everyone to know how great it is to [insert relevant occupation] from the deck of a cruise ship.

I really need to start thinking of HN as "Hustler News" instead of "Hacker News" I think it'd alleviate the cognitive dissonance I got going on.
Seriously -- this tool is equivalent to a cardboard cut-out of computer. It is embarrassing this is getting attention. They're dumping a publicly available spreadsheet that contains example age-group pricing... i.e. unless you're 27 or 50, it's giving incorrect information.
When MongoHQ got compromised, I received emails for several SaaS providers (such as intercom.io) that I've used basically telling me that my data may have been compromised. Here's a clip from that email:

"We made a massive effort to ensure our system was secure. We worked with industry-leading security firms to audit our software. They graded us excellently. We’re frustrated and upset to have had our record damaged by a third party, and we’re extremely sorry that this may have impacted you."

If my data was isolated in a single tenant application, this would have been less likely.
Related by possibility off-topic: How about signing a NDA?

I am not advocating it (in fact, I probably would have significant reservations about any company that will pull that on me), but if you are that concerned about the questions leaking out, do something to legally oblige the candidate not to disclose the process.

Otherwise, put up with it. Or try a different way to vet out candidates.
> So the question is whether someone will develop a "killer app" that will push Bitcoin into the mainstream. If that happens, the value of Bitcoin could go even higher. If it doesn't, then sooner or later the currency's value will plummet.

This right here is the heart of the problem. What we need is a way to incentivise merchants to accept bitcoin, and make the payment process from the consumer end easier, safer, and cheaper than using a credit card.

What would need to happen for your locally owned restaurant to accept bitcoin?
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Consider:

If your interview process can be substantially weakened by having some of your questions leaked... then maybe it wasn't such an effective process in the first place.
Cry me a river AirBnb.

Why not just give the candidate a programming problem, a real computer (maybe no internet, but all tools and documentation installed), and an hour or two to solve the problem?

You can monitor their computer screen remotely, record it even for later review, and also sit in the room to watch them at work and offer guidance if necessary.

If the candidate passes these real world challenges, then you can do the soft social stuff and see if they will fit into the team.
What is that supposed to mean? Did you even look at the site?
"43 Things That Are Colossally Stupid But That We've Gussied Up With Click-Bait Headlines To Trick You Into Viewing Them"
Why has no one issued a competing currency?
Instead of asking "What's the process like?", I'd try to avoid a buzzword-ed answer by asking instead "How long is an iteration? How are your teams structured (flat vs hierarchical)? Does each team have its own tester, or is there a separate QA division in the company?"
Playing the world's saddest song on the world's smallest violin.
Stability testing for open source operating systems?
PickToRead's New Version, Just give it a try
I am starting to see services like this
http://www.freesafeip.com/bitcoin

which is a more generic version of another similar service
http://pizzaforcoins.com/

It may be a matter of time before any site can accept bitcoins indirectly if people started using these services.
Off-topic: The person's thumbnail photo is a few megapixels in size and almost 50 kb :(
Any particular cost? I've read mixed reviews before (possibly here).
>And I still don't know why interviewers insist on whiteboard coding.

Worse. They require syntax correct whiteboard coding. I got to imagine that pseudo-code should suffice in almost every case.
If your interview process relies on simple riddle questions, you might want to reassess the way you interview. The most constructive interviews I've been in involve pair programming and architectural discussion. Focus less on questions and more on seeing if this candidate can do the things you want them to.
Not really, I never heard of docco and am yet to see a RFP for a node.js project from my employer's enterprise customers.
OTOH, someone who seeks out interview coding problems and solves them might be a good fit for your team. If they're just memorizing answers someone else came up with I agree that's misleading, but I would also imagine they would not be able to talk about it intelligently/insightfully in the interview.
> expect admins not to implement such invasive features.

Some site admins may not, but ad-exchanges certainly have.
I like class.
I'd disagree with the "end" keyword. You could add more whitespace, which our brains naturally deal with very well, or you add more "cruft" which we have to actively think about. In typography white space is what makes good layout work. And here we're going back to replacing white space with a word. So from those perspectives I think the "end" keyword is a regression.

Having said that, it's the first language that I prefer from a typographical perspective to python. So very well done on everything else.
Iphone 4. My new phone will be treated a little better!
I didn't realise github didn't show private activity until after bragging to a friend about my thirty day streak, only to realise he only saw a four day streak.
You aren't weird. To me, black and white version = "an illustration", colored version = "holy shit, these things actually existed!".
Codio: A Browser-Based IDE
For lawyers these cloud solutions are scary revelations
Guy Has Xbox One Already With Day One Patch, Game Sizes Revealed [Updated]
GOOG, FB makes you sign an NDA when you interview, but this can't and doesn't stop you from posting on glassdoor.com anonymously.

Also, I might add, some people like to post their interview questions to see what other people may think or get feedback on their answer. Because one thing that you don't get when you intw, especially if you don't get the job, is any feedback on your interview performance (for myriad of legal reasons).
totally agree. actual problem solving is more informative than questioning.

but even for questions regarding prior experience - most of the "standard" job interview questions are widely known. the question being widely known doesn't make them less effective - it is up to the skill of the interviewer to ask relevant follow ups based on what the candidate says.

often, I don't even ask standard" questions. i just look at the most audacious claim on the resume and grill on that topic to figure out what they actually did.

Then i jump around from claim to claim, out of sequence, so they can't fall into the rote story of "how I got here."

I think this is a reasonably effective, harder-to-hack way to interview, unless you're dealing with a pathological liar. (so far, I haven't personally hit one.)
Folks -- the value in this article is not in the admonition about leaking questions (the HN title does not help). The value is that the author is spot-on about how we (I include myself) should approach the task of conducting the technical interview. Read the article again; leave out the last section if it bothers you that much.
Considering how stacked the interview is against the candidate, I really have no empathy for the interviewers in situations like this.

Throwing puzzlers at a candidate indicates you are hiring for normal engineering talent (i.e. this person doesn't have a previous reputation that makes them special) and so vetting the person is going to be highly imperfect whether or not they can solve your puzzle.
Everyone seems concerned with teenagers fleeing facebook, but I've found that I have also been "fleeing" facebook. My time spent on the site has been diminishing—partly due to the fact that in my late 20s, so many of my friends are posting picture after picture of their children—and as my time spent on the site diminishes, I notice that stories I'd probably care have been squeezed out of the news feed, making the site less interesting and feeding into my distance.

I know I'll probably keep the account for reconnecting with old friends every few months or so, but I get the feeling that the way I use and think about facebook needs to shift for me to get any sort of value beyond occasionally checking in on people or requesting phone #'s when I happen to be in the same town.
This is pretty silly. I make contributions to my dotfiles repository almost every day, but I don't think that's a good thing. It just means I still haven't gotten my setup right.

I am far more proud of commits that solve blocking issues for other people than I am of the plethora of minor changes and additions to personal projects.
I have signed NDAs in which I have agreed not to disclose interview questions I was asked, and I think NDAs are a fair solution to this problem. The only potential problem for an organization like Airbnb is that it can require a lot of infrastructure and legal horsepower, which perhaps only larger companies have the luxury of.
Don't trust Just-eat's review system, just read a 4.5 star "restaurants" reviews
Total compensation is what's important, so long as the interval between payments isn't too long.

If you have to sweat the difference between being paid twice a month and every two weeks, you need to start saving yourself more of a cushion.
Closures are simpler than that. All that a closure does is capture an enclosing environment, and then be able to refer to variables from it later.

All of the confusion in JavaScript comes from the fact that the enclosing environment is generally bound to the nearest function call. This is not what people expect, and it is not what happens in other languages with closures.

If versioning JavaScript features was not such a mess, it wouldn't happen in JavaScript either. Everyone would learn to declare variables with let instead of var, and closures would just work sanely. Unfortunately you need to use JavaScript 1.7 to get that feature, and browsers assume that you're using JavaScript 1.5 unless you jump through hoops to get there.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_... for more.
You would think we'd have editors by now that could, say, hide all the tests to declutter the code while you're reading it.
Thanks for sharing. This was an awesome read. I'm surprised the router allowed external connections to access the internal configuration. However, some older routers are pretty poorly designed from a security standpoint.
That's correct. There is a preferred indentation (enforced by the emacs mode and our online editor built on CodeMirror), but whitespace is only needed to separate things - the actual amount of whitespace never matters.

So, for example, you can move chunks of code from one place to another and select it all and re-indent - something that you can't do (in general) in Python. It also makes it easier to programatically generate code.
is it possible to have your own domain though? I tried to sign, it says "select name .....webbify.in"

also is it possible to incorporate ghost blog in it, maybe in the future? That would be nice. Simple website, simple blog, works perfectly for mobile and regular use.
I assume it didn't have that meaning in whatever database it's using. Writing implements is a valid interpretation at least. It does seem to do disambiguation if you search for the classic 'pitch'.

It's just a fun way of walking from one concept to another, like browsing Wikipedia and ending up miles from where you started.
Yes, final is only 'shallow immutability' and only ensures that the reference itself is immutable. This is the only part that applies to closures though: the reference that is accessible from the closure.

Full immutability is left up to the programmer / api designer as with javascript - as it should be, imo. Trying to optimize fully immutable data-structures when performance becomes an issue in an inner loop down the line is a nightmare I would not recommend.
Interesting.

Do you do this with all hires, or just junior candidates e.g. recent graduates, those having taken bootcamp classes, or migrated over from another discipline e.g. "I used to be in Marketing but now I'm a growth hacker" ?

What if you have a candidate with a proven track record, perhaps lots of open source code, perhaps well known in the technology community? Isn't there a risk that grilling them on a topic might just antagonize them to the point of not wanting to join the company?
When you publicly post a question that you were asked after interviewing, you are undoing weeks of work for your fellow engineers. In it's place, you a creating weeks of new work as we develop, test, and calibrate on new questions.

There's something very broken about a process which takes weeks to prepare a question, and something even more broken when programmers conduct interviews up to 6 times a week (how do they have time for any real work?). That's more than 1 interview a day...

Questions shouldn't be secret puzzles which take ages to fabricate, but ways for the candidate to demonstrate what they know and what they can do. Otherwise you're leaving wide open the possibility that you'll hire someone good at gaming the system, not someone good at the job.
If you don't mind can you elaborate on 'you need to pivot' ?
But only by the Senate, not the House, as pointed out by the link the other poster had. (not that I agree with the extreme right-wing views of the linked site)
Watch out for ad hominem attacks here, they don't fit with the HN vibe. That being said, I get your point. Reading the article I thought it ridiculous to say tweens are leaving for Instagram, which is owned by Facebook (how do you leave a company but not leave a company?), and Tumblr, which is a Yahoo service.

I'm not entirely sure the author's sample size is large enough, either.
I skipped many of my undergrad classes to do more important stuff, and I'd go back and do it again. I showed up for the important stuff, and attended lectures that actually taught me things, but quickly figured out that just because a professor tells you you have to show up doesn't mean that it's not your judgement call any more. Most successful and highly motivated students figure out this sort of a scheme for skipping busywork and pedantry.
I think the concern is over the manual component of it, especially if that set of n is big by human standards. (Say, doublechecking a few hundred entries of some column entry by calculator.)
You could say you're using a special pre-processor to parse any incorrect syntax before compilation. Might get a laugh and some brownie points!
"Do you use presentational CSS classes in markup, or do you fully utilize LESS/SASS?"

I think the answer here will explain everything. (Does this employer know/care? Am I about to dive into legacy practices? What does the bottom floor of the codebase look like?)

It draws a line.
And in English the most common last name is "Smith". Both of deal with metals is that a coincidence?
You know at this point, a candidate who had prepped on known questions would be a huge plus in my book. Unbelievable how many candidates I interview that don't even know a single thing about the product, and who are unable to code the completely predictable problems you know will be thrown at you in a dev interview. Did they just wake up from a drunken stupor in the lobby with a note pinned to their chest I wonder? It boggles the mind.
I'm not sure what the author is implying here. Is it that figuring stuff out on your own and learning it from others are mutually exclusive? Surely it's better to do both.
I get your point. Are we allowed to judge based on how someone uses their windfall? I absolutely hate to bring up Elon Musk here, because of the fanboism (also, I admit, I'm a huge Elon fan. I've put my entire net worth behind Tesla and Solar City.), but the guy gets shit done. He's on par with Larry Ellison, Larry and Sergey, etc. Ellison buys Hawaiin islands and owns a sailing team, Larry and Sergey try to some extent (self-driving cars, calico, glass), but Elon? He's fucking ruthless at getting shit done, even at the cost of his marriage and personal relationships (i.e. Martin Eberhard).

I wish I started sooner, and was on the wealth climb Warren Buffet had been on. Unlike him though, I wouldn't donate to the Gates Foundation though. I'd call Elon and ask, "How much faster can we get to Mars?"

</rant>
Didn't hit initial voting numbers to reach "escape velocity" from New->Hot.

Also consider it game theoretically -- that you're competing vs lots of articles... perhaps other articles at the time were more interesting/compelling.
Here are a few other submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3977212

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4382338

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4392310

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6271073

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6442570

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6691432

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6700690

Oddly, none has any discussion of significance.
I think we're talking cross-purpose; I think you're talking about inequality between countries while I'm talking about within countries.
I (too-quickly) read this headline as "underwear drone" and I was like alllll-riiiiight.
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The government contractors should of just built healthcare.gov as a data service and asked people like these guys to build an intuitive front-end for it. Then if people don't like the interface, they can do something about it :) This may also help to dissipate the traffic load and present the same data in more relevant ways to different types people. The idea of building apps as single, monolithic system is out-dated.

Even though I'm a Brit, some governments are making moves to modernise and open up their data for others to play with, over here we've got a great government-funded team working on exactly that (called the GDS). (http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/)

Frankly I think this is a massively expensive and missed opportunity for the US Government's digital service team.
Free trade is a misleading euphemism, it's a set of new rules for trade.
I haven't read Wolfram's A New Kind of Science, but something tells me that this is a one page summary of it?
To filter for those managers who will never be happy with anyone's work ask:
"Who is your favorite employee? Why? How do you motivate them?"
I'm not in the United States. I am in the Visualization group at the Institute of Computer Science (Institutt for informatikk) in Bergen, Norway. It is one of the handful of research groups cooperating on data visualization in Europe, and is a very international research group. I think me and one of our PhD students are the only native Norwegians at the moment. We have a Turk, two Swiss, an Italian, a Russian, and a couple of other nationalities. Prominently, Vienna has another good visualization group and I am pretty sure that UC Berkley has one. (Ben Shniderman's, maybe?). I am currently the only Masters student in this group, we get almost no applicants.

Would warmly recommend it. Visualization is a very large field, so you'll have to carve out some niche. I am in information visualization, which is the branch most generally applicable if you want to do data mining-related things. But there are many other variants: Visualization of scientific/simulation data, e.g. flow rendering, combustion processes, climate simulation, as well as medical fields: CT/MRI volume rendering, real-time 3D ultrasound and quite a few others. Central themes at the moment are using GPUs to implement more advanced 3D volume rendering techniques, or even using GPUs to draw data which is not 3D but where there are performance issues when using CPU alone. For instance, drawing dynamic (25FPS, interactive) scatterplots of large (>1 million records) datasets.

I guess the definition of a "large" dataset varies by context, in visualization you hit this limit earlier than in statistics and non-visual data mining if you use "discrete" methods where every item is drawn on screen.