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This is a lopsided view. You don't indicate how long your "newly hired grad" was working there, whether the "SDK" was an in-house SDK or a third-party one, what the candidate's resume skills were in comparison to the kind of programming around the SDK your test was designed for, etc.

These are all relevant details, because except for the most trivial of SDKs and their appropriate domains, a thoughtful, skilled developer might spend an entire hour simply reading through the SDK and/or its documentation to get a handle on its capabilities.

So I don't get that your story is an anecdote in support of the potential usefulness of code challenges. Instead, what I gather from your story is that your company prefers candidates who practice cowboy, shoot-from-the-hip programming instead of thoughtfully approaching a new, unfamiliar SDK and pondering how it might be used to solve problems related to the domain it was built for, then applying this thoughtful process to provide a solution to a problem. In fact, if I'm given a non-trivial SDK and told "write a program that does X using this SDK; you have one hour", my response might be something very similar to the above, directed at the person giving the "assignment" out, followed by a polite but firm indication that the company doesn't meet my requirements.
They would certainly prohibit them "replacing" Chrome with FireFox, but the suggestion that they would stop an OEM shipping an alternative browser on a phone is such a ridiculous piece of FUD it's laughable.
I like the originality in using light/absence of light as being part of the game mechanics.

What have you found challenging during the whole process?
The number of requests is irrelevant from a privacy perspective, but it does mean one thing - reduced battery life. Making 30,000 requests when the phone is idle over just 45 minutes is a good way to kill the battery.
I enjoy the site a lot, but it's challenging if you don't want to listen to dubstep 24/7.
That's definitely the way to go.

Most of the VC-funded startups in SF that we're working with are more than happy to pay for a Southwest flight and a hotel room upfront, rather than doing the reimbursement thing.

As a general rule, the "submit receipts & wait for reimbursement" methodology is a bad idea. If a company truly wants you, they should be rolling out the red carpet, which includes not inconveniencing you.

On the flip side of the coin, we've had 2 separate occasions where the start-ups paid for airfare, only to have the engineers not show up to interview. So it definitely goes both ways...
This reminded me of this pic, trying to sql-inject a license plate system: http://landofthefreeish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sql-i...
1. you are wrong about tc bc some actually do. (however, legitimate sign ups - you're probably right but how many are legitimate sign ups from tc in the first place. next how many of those legitimate sign ups become return, loyal users? very low %). ask the guys at fab.com what % of their 150,000 launch users came from tc. < 2%.

2. i'm a lifestyle site. why do i care about going to techcrunch or any other tech site to debut my site? it's irrelevant. we also had a landing page up for 2 months while working on the site to grab email addresses where we mixed giveaways and share options to get users. how many of these are "legitimate?" 7,000 are technically speaking; out of the much greater number that just input their email addresses and has yet to verify. time well tell if they're "legitimate" - but shooting for more than 10% at max is probably out of the question. nevertheless, don't question my numbers.

why can you not help by answering my question? isn't that what hn is for? if you downvote a guy who had 1 fake account set up to get things moving (which in fact i technically didn't. just had one of my friends sign up and comment so the aforementioned comment is not valid).

if you cry foul play than you should never vote on reddit since the entire site launched with fake comments to begin with.

you should also go on and comment on dropbox acquisition of mailbox bc mailbox's counter. yeup that was fake.

you should then monitor techcrunch every time a tinder article gets published and comment there since the entire supply side was created with fake hot girls to begin with.

oh yeah btw. techcocktail. their monthly stupid competition that is the core part of their business? it's all fake. mechanical turk wins the race on the last day of voting after 11am. true story.
>someone should make an index of how many Bitcoin threads hit the front page of HN per day

Something like that: http://influxdb.org/blog/visualizing_bitcoin_post_frequency_... ?
I'd much prefer the Ruby team to use their resources for the current versions of Ruby. If the Ubuntu team (or you) are concerned about 1.8 - patch it yourself.
You're right, sorry
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Would someone be willing to provide the background, interpretation and ramifications of this document for someone not very familiar with this case?
Yup - I read it as something akin to "my husband, who has become interested in focusing on things other than his family, has separated from me... but his children are incredibly smart, and we'll do fine without him".
Bicycle. Problem solved.
Hint: Complying with tax laws is much more difficult than just ignoring them and concealing your activities from anyone beholden to the authorities without bitcoin too.

That's not unique to bitcoin, I'm surprised you were surprised. Ask any small business owner around tax time whether filing your taxes is more 'difficult' than simply... not filing your taxes.

At least unless-until you get caught and prosecuted, then you might re-evaluate which path involved more 'difficulty', depending on how difficult you find fines, hearings, trials, jail, etc.
Android is quite poor desktop OS :)
I think the author is perhaps just worried that the perception will be that there's something wrong with iD.
If only modern companies had a similar view toward their employees. The fact is, whatever your particular situation, most companies don't return the exuberant loyalty you have for them. Although some have managers who are skilled enough salesmen to make you believe otherwise.
"It sounds like Solicitor General Verrilli made a lie of omission in the court. Is that considered a lie under oath?
"

Actually, AFAIK, this is incorrect.
I'm trying to find a later article i read a few days ago, but apparently Verrilli was not aware of any of this when he made statements at oral argument, and once he became aware, he fought a large internal fight to make sure his statements about giving defendants evidence stayed accurate.

Ah, here we go. At least for the first part of what I said, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/us/politics/us-legal-shift...

"The move comes after an internal Justice Department debate in which Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. argued that there was no legal basis for a previous practice of not disclosing links to such surveillance, several Obama administration officials familiar with the deliberations said."

(and about the oral argument prep failure here)
"As a result, Mr. Verrilli sought an explanation from national security lawyers about why they had not flagged the issue when vetting his Supreme Court briefs and helping him practice for the arguments, according to officials."

So

A. It seems he wasn't aware

B. Once he was aware, he put a stop to the practice.

Now, this doesn't excuse any of what has happened here, but as far as anyone knows, he didn't intentionally mislead anyone.

Note that unlike a lot of folks involved in all of this, Donald Verrilli is the least likely to be involved in anything hinky or lie to a court. He's a true believer in the system.
What about having some sort of UV LED light that would shine above or below your plates so as to obscure any cameras?
As an Aggie and former Bryan / College Station resident (of 15 years), it's fantastic to see them taking a lead on this.

BCS has always been pretty good for high speed internet (I had 2Mbps cable in 1999), but the price disparity between residential and business is insane, and speed increases have stalled somewhat in recent years. Suddenlink is pretty good, but that area has been the target of rather frequent cable company acquisitions and mergers (TCA -> Cox -> Suddenlink just while I was there), so it's not a foregone conclusion that things will stay "ok".

I love living in SF, but I have to admit I kind of like the idea that my "little Texas town" will probably get gigabit and a sensible fiber infrastructure long before SF or most parts of Silicon Valley will.
I'm pretty sure they'd PAY him to talk at Quakecon. Although it's not a big money event, so they'd probably just ask really nicely. :)
Exactly. I'd like to see that in Greece, but we never actually became a modern democracy with clear separation of powers.
Right, but in this case, the "flipped" part doesn't refer to the mirror. He isn't teaching his students this material live. He is recording lectures for them to watch before "class" starts. Then, instead of lecturing for an hour, he is there to answer questions, help with homework, etc...

The reason why the fact that he is writing in reverse isn't a problem is because his students never see him writing in person - it's all done via video.
If you use a coding challenge as part of your hiring process, please take the time to give feedback to candidates.

I recently completed a code challenge, and I was told by the recruiter that there were "problems with it," but he didn't get into any specifics because he was just passing on the message, and no one else has called either. I look at it as a dodged bullet, since it's a sign that they don't respect my time. I expect that had I gotten the job, they wouldn't have respected my free time or created a good work/life balance. Regardless, it has left a bad taste in my mouth. After I've spent about 12 hours of my free time (in addition to my 40 hr/week job), the least they could do is give me 15 minutes of their time to call or write out some comments about it.
If you hold BTC for any amount of time between when you get paid by the customer and when you pay the supplier you're taking a huge risk.
I contest that elections are fought over a "tiny number of headline issues." NSA spying is, for most people, the headline issue. The stuff that elections get fought over: Medicare, Social Security, taxes, etc, the big-ticket items of policy.

Look at it this way: how much do you think the average person would pay to get rid of the NSA program?[1] You think it's anywhere near how much money is on the line from Medicare/Social Security/tax policy choices? Or heck, even so-called "wedge issues" like gay rights or abortion rights?

[1] This is, of course, one easy way of valuing the negative utility of any given thing, by asking how much people would pay to avoid it.
I've been saying this for a long time, but pre-Snowden I was always met with heavy deference of trust for the checks and balances system. I claim that there has been a backroom debate in the higher level Military Industrial Intelligence Complex (Top tier NSA, CIA, DoD, Pentagon, NSC) in which it was concluded that technology has created a potential for a single non-state entity to cause massive damage, and that "Total Information Awareness" is the only way to prevent it.

Of course, I disagree that the purpose of TIA is security, and I also disagree that it is even successful, but the real issue at hand is beyond that, and is about how the debate was had and who was involved. There was no public debate, and any that did leak was tightly brought under control (with NSL's etc). This is an affront to the democratic process imho, but even if one were to argue that our representatives were involved, I would say there has been a stratification of the congresspeople, so that only a select few people on a select few committees even get to participate, and even then the ones who do are unable to grasp the subject matter fully. Of course no staffers get to see it either.

With the knowledge of how intel agencies work, and more specifically, the contact sport of politics in the beltway, I would also venture to say that even if a fairly principled rep did make it on a relevant committee, though would quickly be brought back under control via the standard methods.

I won't get off too far into this rabbit hole, lest I am accused of conspiracy theory, but I truly think the system of checks and balances is not only crumbling, it is in ruins. Even worse, a facade is being put up to cover it up.
And another one of Ivo's set of dog paw questions randomly become popular! The guy has a knack for asking good questions and getting good answers.
Technically, as long as we have multiple languages with different people knowing different languages then this is a problem for everyone. There might be Russians out there wondering about the interesting things they are missing out on because they don't know English.

I for one want to watch TV programming from around the world just to experience the differences in culture and what they find humorous, sad, exciting, and so on. Sub-titles just don't always translate emotions very well.
How about buying gold with BTC?

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Depends on your definition of committed. If being committed to you means taking the better part of a day, weekend, etc. to exhaustively go through a "code challenge" for one job opportunity, that's one thing. For the average job seeker, if you've got ten recruiters that you're in contact with and one of those ten want you to dedicate that much time to their position and the other nine want to put you on the phone with an engineer and bring you on-site, how attractive is that one job? For someone already working more than full-time, probably not very.

I think the long and short of it is that being committed to a job has nothing to do with whether you'll tolerate a code challenge. Being "committed enough" to finishing a task to unlock the gate to actually speaking with a company's engineering team is completely orthogonal to how much you care about what you're paid to do when you have a job.
Even in 10,000 BTC chunks you're looking at dents in the market price of ~30% at most exchanges. How long would you plan on selling off these coins if you chose to do so?
ffmpeg can flip a video stream in realtime.
And he uses a black background on the Powerpoint slides so that they are superimposed properly and look like they are in the same space as the board. Plus, he can then still use the fluorescent markers to "draw" on his slides from the glass-board.
Agree.

In actual practice this is a form of grandstanding.

If you've ever tried to enlist the help of a legislator they will do all sorts of things that on the surface appear to have teeth.

In the end if they can't get a majority to agree with them nothing happens.

They will write the bill but if they can't get the votes your petty little issue dies.

But they always put on a good show. The question is whether they are willing to go to the mat for you and/or make a trade (of something someone else thinks is important) to get the votes.

Also whether the press runs with it and thinks it is important which depends on not only whether the press thinks it's important but whether they can see that others who are important also agree.
Given the transfer of ownership could just as well have occurred by transferring the private key of the address, these requirements are going to get pretty hard to enforce.
I've been using AeroFS for over a year now and its fantastic.

I switched from Dropbox to Aero for all my home computers (of which I have Windows and Linux desktops and Mac laptops) and the unlimited storage (as much as your home computers can hold) is great. Plus the files are only synced within your own computers so security/privacy is much better than uploading all your files to a public service like Dropbox.

The only negative as compared to Dropbox is that their client is not as efficient (it's Java based and takes a bit more resources than Dropbox).
* To me, they just look dark. A 60W-equiv rated CFL is never as bright as a 60W incandescent, more like 40W when new.

* There are notable gaps in the spectrum causing color distortions. CFL light mostly features a greenish or violet shade and looks "hollow". Tungsten and halogen are way better, even after 20 years of CFL development.

* Most, even the more expensive ones are not really instant-on. They reach their max brightness after some time

* As I regularly switch off lights in rooms that are empty, they tend to fail rather fast.
This is a classic example of Design Integrity versus Best New Features versus Backwards Compatibility. For better or worse, Microsoft and IBM seem to worry most about backwards compatibility, which is why they were more popular in the enterprise for so long.
I don't see this move being popular. They are basically demoting the users from both consumers and curators to just consumers of the music. What made turnable.fm awesome was that it was people like yourself deciding on what everyone wanted to listen; if people didn't like the choices, someone else could be selected. Now that control is out of the equation. The artists are selecting what everyone wants to hear, they are choosing based on what they want you to hear. Don't like the music? All you can do about it now is leave the room. Only time will tell if this is what brings turnable.fm into the spotlight, or sink it down into the depths.
> Am I the only one who found this incredibly uninformative and sensationalist

That's Channel 4 is all about.
Well, you can't just never use a wallet with millions of dollars again.

The main way to get out of that wallet though is money laundering. Convert the BTC to some real asset, and slowly (and untraceably) funnel to a variety of places.
what "past occurrences" of the government fabricating evidence in a federal trial lend weight to the probability of their doing so in this case?

You've cited propaganda and the NSA lying to congress as as possible evidence, but I believe this to be specious, unless the premise is that the government merely lies about everything, and fabricates evidence just because it can. You might as well suggest that because soldiers kill people in Muslim countries, and postal employees are also Federal employees, that postal workers are probably killing Muslims on their routes. Just because you connect a bunch of dots doesn't mean you've actually found a pattern.
I see what you're saying, and I agree. Just to be sure:

The most complicated parts of programs are typically the operations. They're also the most likely to need additions, changes, or optimizations. Thinking about it now, I think most programs are far less likely to need new variants than operations, which is something I hadn't considered.

I still contend there's value in trying to make them both easy (for those relatively rare times when they're needed).
If license plates were meant to be as public as possible, it would be possible for the public to find out who the registered owner of each car was!

In my understanding, license plates were created for two reasons:

* To enforce registration requirements for cars and drivers in order to enforce training standards (for drivers) and safety standards (for the construction and inspection of cars)

* To allow the easier identification of the party responsible for an accident (and maybe for certain other infractions, like speeding, parking violations, or abandoning a vehicle)

That means that other uses to which license plates have been put are a kind of mission creep. Where they harm motorists' privacy, we can reasonably see them as a failure in the design and implementation of the license plate system.

If we had a license plate system that let people responsible for accidents and traffic infractions be identified and that ensured cars were safe without also making it easy to figure out individual people's travel patterns, I'd view that as a strict improvement over the status quo -- and more legitimate, because it wouldn't impose unrelated burdens on motorists.

Right now we're creating and deploying lots of other systems that assign unique identifiers to people and their possessions. Those systems are meant for specific purposes, which their users may see as legitimate, but designing them in the simplest, most obvious way will cause collateral damage to privacy by allowing often invisible kinds of tracking and profiling of people's activities, whereabouts, and relationships. If those uses are not the intended purpose, we should demand more careful designs that end up enabling them.
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You may find yourself switching to React if you do :) Also I wrote a blog about the frosted glass stuff: https://medium.com/p/87ce4a41019f
Yup, a whole lineage is either dead or in a prison camp for making a mockery of Juche networking.
It works! The lack of an agreement between Amazon and Google has yet to be a hindrance on my new Kindle Fire. All but one of the apps I wanted is in Amazon's store, and that one app was available as an .apk.
He is also merging images together, so he'd need to run the raw (unflipped) feed through a video processing program, and then back out (flipped) to his video switcher, and then capture that stream back. The switcher is how he adds video or powerpoint slides to the talk. It's really the video switcher that makes this whole thing a minimal post-production affair. So instead of adding another computer to the mix, he solves the problem with a $25 mirror that isn't very difficult to troubleshoot.
"the Senators may be inclined to start up some hearings with teeth."

Play out the whole process of those hearings with teeth and see how long it takes and the chance of anything happening as a result. Normally and typically results in just outrage that plays well with voters and makes them look like they are doing something. Laws are not passed in hearings. Not to say that something can't or won't become of it. But the stakes are high here and if ("if") there is something expect it to take time and energy and involve a big back and forth.
It looks like Mixify is doing something similar now as well [1], but focusing on booking clubs instead of a bunch of individuals like Turntable. Both seems like a pretty neat concept. I think this will be great for low population areas that artists wouldn't typically go to.

[1] http://www.mixify.com/clubcast
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out of curiosity, this information in clear in the wallet, could it be used to bring a person identity out in the open ?

e.g. if I ask you to pay in bitcoin and you do, can I put any link in your wallet, something like https://openid.somethng.com/id/92856293 ?
That certainly is kind of a dark prospect. Random people a mixture of varying degrees of foresight, money, and luck, suddenly becoming the richest people on the planet.

Gates built an empire. Yet the Winklevoss' will eclipse his wealth if BTC goes up just a few factors.

I don't begrudge people their gains, I'm just thinking about the seismic shift in power.
I never saw it like this, but you are right.
It's just another currency exchange.
Which was already submitted to HN, and has more points+comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6783617
Your logic is flawed.

If money is cheap and freely flowing, which it is, why would an entrepreneur pay a premium to an investor in the form of more equity for less cash, board seats, more restrictive founder vesting and/or significant liquidation preferences in exchange for supposed "value adds" like advice?

Entrepreneurs raising capital should take advantage of the extraordinary environment we are in to raise as much money as is practical on the most favorable terms possible. Period.
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