skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing the point entirely. It's not that first question that gives you the information. That question is just setting the stage for all of the questions that follow.

The main point, which is key to hiring, is that you need to ensure that people are answering questions based on actual experiences, not hypotheticals.

When you ask someone "how WOULD you handle xyz", they feel free to answer with ideal behavior. When you ask "how did you handle the situation you just told me about," they tell you what they actually did.

You should not be judging the significance of the person's achievement, in most cases -- you should be probing on WHY they think it was significant, what made it significant, how they worked with others to realize the achievement, where they stumbled, etc.
> Meanwhile, there has always been an unserved audience that does not like overcoming great challenges and preferes steady progression based on effort rather than mastery.

> They just want to show up, know exactly what routine needs to be performed and know that if they do it, they will progress.

That rather handily explains degree inflation, too.
Rather than taking the perspective of enterprise guy vs. consumer guy, Ballmer as well as most other Microsoft executives are operational guy. The notion of moving towards where the profit is, is indicative of that. They work on Wall Street agenda, lack of vision, short and mid term revenue chaser. Safe bet is not going to take Microsoft up against apple or google. But keep the boat floating, bring in profit until it's over is what these generation of Microsoft leaders are. It will not change. The demise of Microsoft is inevitable.
Equating Brazil, with Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia and Uruguay just because they are in the same continent, is a very common mistake analists from The Economist and other specialized media with the same ideological values does.. without really knowing what they are talking about..

I can understand the fact they cant understand it very well because of the lack of a cultural perspective to do it right.. (and the people they represent)
What i dont understand is people from inside, reverberating that sort of speech.. making clear you dont know very well what are you talking about.. or which class you are defending with this speech.. (and its probably not yourself, unless you are part of the top 1%)

But its very simple to measure how bad we are..
Take a look at your own economical condition, to see if you did not improve it with time..
This? This is the wisdom has has to convey after 36 years of experience? It is just the most obvious thing. I've been asking this question for as long as I've been interviewing, (adjusted as necessary, for kids just out of college, for example).
So 10,000 children grow up happier and learning proper risk taking behaviour... and one dies from strangulation when going down a slide with a rope in hand (happened last week in my city)... and one is quadriplegic for life after jumping into a murky lake (friend of my cousin)...

Do we really, really just want to accept those risks? I don't think that's easy to answer...
Some apps, of course, do this. Paper on iOS, for instance, is a free app that relies upon you buying each of the tools. Alternately you can buy the whole set of tools for a given price. There are official emulators (e.g. Atari) that let you buy individual games, or you can buy the set for a price.
Facebook Director of Design Kate Aronowitz announces departure
There should be paddles on the left and right sides of the screen to change the page. It's set up to work like a book, so pages turn instead of scrolling up and down.
I think they missed the opportunity for a pun with Self[1].

[1]: http://selflanguage.org/
Yahoo (Ads & Data) -- Front-End Engineers

Fulltime - Bay Area

Big things are happening here at Yahoo: EmberJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Underscore, Bower, Grunt, qUnit (yes, at Yahoo)

We want Front-end engineers who are excited about the bleeding edge of web application development.

We've started a big push to change our tech-stack and are making ambitious single page applications. We are just about to launch Yahoo's first EmberJS app Ad Manager Plus. It was announced [1] at Marissa' CES keynote. It's incredibly ambitious, highly visible, full of big data, and directly impacting the success of Yahoo.

You’re awesome because:

- Someone in your life is jealous because you love JavaScript maybe too much
- You want to build single page applications with Ember
- Imperfectly written code keeps you from sleeping at night
- Canary isn’t a bird to you; it’s a playground of wonderful new toys
- You could develop back-end stuff, but your keen understanding of user interaction is what sets you apart from the crowd
- You’re badass when working alone, but unstoppable when working with a team that’s firing on all cylinders
- You like working with a functional style because forget verbosity

We’re awesome because:

- We have other UI leaders just like yourself
- We have the camaraderie of a startup, with all the nice perks of a big company
- The projects you’ll work on are incredibly ambitious, highly visible, full of big data, and directly impacting the success of Yahoo.
- We have disowned Internet Explorer’s first 8 children

sdumas [at] yahoo-inc [dot] com

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[1]: http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/yahoo-reboot...
SwiftStack - http://swiftstack.com/jobs - San Francisco, CA (preferred)

We are making running private cloud storage awesome. Our core product - the SwiftStack Controller - makes it easy to configure, deploy, manage and monitor your own personal Swift[1] cluster. It's a Django app, with a background task and alerting/eventing engine, a 0mq based remote execution agent to control the fleet, and statsd feeding graphite for telemetry.

But our core deliverable is OpenStack Swift. OpenStack is the open-source alternative to AWS, and Swift is Object Storage (think S3). And our team is actively driving new capabilities[2] with the open source community.

Our customers are managing distributed storage systems growing at dozens or hundreds of terabytes a month - we're literally taking on big problems - wanna help? We're primarily a python shop, actively recruiting Sr. Engineers and opinionated UX designers who have experience working with a Django team - but we've got lots of room for experience at all levels, if you're interested check us out:

https://swiftstack.com/jobs/

[1] Swift: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift
[2] Storage Policies in Swift: https://swiftstack.com/blog/2014/01/27/openstack-swift-stora...
Alas, Apple can't really evolve Objective-C in the direction of simplicity at this point due to backwards compatibility concerns, and the complexity of (a) 2 language syntaxes and (b) the history of some unfortunate decisions leaves little room in the syntax for some of the more interesting enhancements.

I did not take this step lightly, being an old Objective-C hacker myself (did my own implementation on an Amiga with Aztec C in 1987...)
Boston - HubSpot - http://dev.hubspot.com - INTERN

HubSpot is hiring frontend (Javascript/Coffeescript/Backbone) and backend (Java) engineers to build software to change how businesses market and sell their products. We are engineers, and understand that the best work is done when the creators have the freedom to build the right product in the right way. We also believe in engineers owning their part of the product or infrastructure completely. Finally, we take a lot of pride in having a supportive and fun culture full of entrepreneurs. If you're in Boston, I'd love to give you a tour of our office and give more details, get in touch: zbloom@hubspot.com
Running on the Objective-C runtime as a peer (methods indistinguishable), thus Objective-Smalltalk. :-)
Say you buy a bitcoin for $ 1000 one day and the next week is at $ 600. Would you prefer bitcoins or dollars?
A lot of success in life requires being able to tell a story. Not lie, but telling others your accomplishments in an interesting way.

You can say, my greatest accomplishment this year was maintaining a large rails app, or you can say, I lead a team of 3 developers to architect and deliver a custom commerce app that helped a startup quadruple their revenues over the next quarter.

Both are the same story, one of them is far more interesting. I would expect your hypothetical character to explain why going to college was his most significant achievement in an interesting way (not "I went to college" but "I overcame all $these_obstacles to achieve my dream of a college degree"), and then I don't see why a company wouldn't be excited by his accomplishment.
I'm also learning embers and use it in a interesting open source project. I like rails and use it in my several projects. We can work together.
SwiftStack - http://swiftstack.com/jobs - San Francisco, CA (preferred)

We are making running private cloud storage awesome. Our core product - the SwiftStack Controller - makes it easy to configure, deploy, manage and monitor your own personal Swift[1] cluster. It's a Django app, with a background task and alerting/eventing engine, a 0mq based remote execution agent to control the fleet, and statsd feeding graphite for telemetry.

But our core deliverable is OpenStack Swift. OpenStack is the open-source alternative to AWS, and Swift is Object Storage (think S3). And our team is actively driving new capabilities[2] with the open source community.

Our customers are managing distributed storage systems growing at dozens or hundreds of terabytes a month - we're literally taking on big problems - wanna help? We're primarily a python shop, actively recruiting Sr. Engineers and opinionated UX designers who have experience working with a Django team - but we've got lots of room for experience at all levels, if you're interested check us out:

https://swiftstack.com/jobs/

[1] Swift: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift

[2] Storage Policies in Swift: https://swiftstack.com/blog/2014/01/27/openstack-swift-stora...
There are very few people with ops in there and one of them is well known on HN (http://swombat.com/). Now that I think of it I've never seen any other op speak.
If the English Civil War, the New Model Army and the struggles between the monarchy and Parliament are of interest to anyone, Mike Duncan (of "The History of Rome" fame) has recently wrapped up the first segment of his new "Revolutions" podcast[1] on the English civil wars of the 17th Century.

[1] http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/
Am I the only one that does not see anything special about those kids?

We played with sticks and stones, football, skate, bmx biking, hiking all the time in Spain.

You got hurt all the time too, but mostly scratches, you understood risk and knew the limits.

There were also bullies, but the best thing you can do against bullies is fight them back. There are some places with rules like "no fighting" that ironically makes bullies rule.
Philadelphia (Whitpain) - Wingspan Technology

Full Time - Senior Operations Engineer and QA Test Analyst

Wingspan's operations team manages infrastructure for a cloud-based pharmaceutical application, a challenging and growing space - our quality assurance team is growing as well.

If interested in either position, contact mmckeown@wingspan.com (want to talk to someone technical? you can also contact me as well - gsieling@wingspan.com)

Some of the things that we’re really into are:

* 99.999% uptime in our validated environments (don't know what validated means? check this - http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/deviceregulationandguidanc...)

* Replacing our Python, Bash and Cron system automation with Puppet

* Continuous integration using Atlassian products

* Proactive monitoring and alerting with Zabbix, Splunk and Pingdom

* Load/performance testing and tuning PostgreSQL and Tomcat

* Backup and recovery – and testing those bad boys!

The ideal candidate would also have at least five years of experience with:

* Network administration

* Linux administration (we’re a CentOS shop)

Listings-
http://www.wingspan.com/career_open_positions/
what if they haven't done their "big thing" yet?

What constitutes a "significant accomplishment" anyway?

* building an awesome web site ?
* raising a child ?
* graduating college ?
* overcoming cancer ?
* learning to play the piano?

I do agree you will get to know somebody very quickly if you ask these kinds of question. I am 30 and I will review them in my time.
Instituto Superior Técnico com Formação em Construção Sustentável
'Significant accomplishment' is extremely personal and subjective. Judging whether something is actually a 'significant accomplishment' when compared to random thing you've done or heard about is missing the point. That a person would choose to pick a particular event as 'significant' leads into a slew of other questions that the candidate should be able to answer in depth (see the article for examples).
Remote / Tel Aviv - Fun or die ltd

We are building a new way to interact with tv, we are well funded and have successfully launched our first project.

The team consist of two swedes and two israelis.

* UX/UI designer, someone that is passionate about tv and in the long run transforming tv.
Its also an object in Python , Pharo and most likely Ruby too.
So? Who cares if the average 15-25 year old does something? The average 15-25 y/o may not visit a museum, attend an orchestra, or have a tenured professorship, but all those things still exist. Plus, 20 years from now, those kids will be adults who might want to play the games of their youth.
"That is partly the truth, which is the same as a lie by omission." - Jean Luc Picard
On the iOS family you can install Cydia which lets you install 3rd party non-apple-sanctioned apps. This in turn let's you download things like Installous which lets you download every single popular App for free, pirated.

There is a HUGE amount of people who pirate iOS apps.
.. except is can be made viable by changing the charge structure; that's the whole point of IAP.

It defies simplistic supply-and-demand analysis because there is no longer just one price, but many; the customer has to make a constant series of decisions about the value of instant gratification. Some people hate this.
1. What about all the kids whose lives are ruined by bullying, some of which commit suicide?

2. Why not ban skiing (etc) because lots of people get paralyzed or die doing it?

3. Why not just ban everything even slightly fun, because fun things usually entail some risk?
you need to stop watching movies!
Citymapper (London, UK) - Help build the world's best transport app!

(Python, iOS/Android, JavaScript, etc)

We're looking for great people first and foremost, but here are some of the things we make:

* Client experiences that people love. We have iOS, Android, and web apps.

* An omnivorous transport data processor. We fuse together loads of data sources (of wildly varying quality) to give people the information they need in a growing number of cities around the world. We use a lot of Python.

* A fast, scalable stable of servers. We have a large user base which relies on us to give them snappy answers every day. We use Saltstack.

* A psychic city brain. We're digging up patterns in urban data to tell people the answers they need to know about their commute before they know the questions.

If you want to help us with these things and other yet-to-be revealed madcap schemes, we want to hear from you!

http://citymapper.com/jobs - or drop me a line at nicholas@citymapper.com if you just want to talk :)
What child has $500? "Whales" are adults. (Usually, specifically, they are people in high-stress/high-reward jobs, like finance, who want to release their stress by throwing out their rewards. Same as casinos.)
That doesn't solve anything, it only shifts the violation somewhere else? Of course you can't keep the virtual particles, that's a net creation of mass-energy.

"which can also carry arbitrarily large momenta ℏω,"

With proportionally large energy. That's the concern here, not photon count.

(For anyone confused, it's ℏω/c in conventional units. Some unit systems define c=1 for convenience)
Exactly what part of Australia do you live in? F-ing is a very common phrase here.
Silly answers to the question. The answers basically apologize for the choice to show a time estimate.
What makes you assume that those risks would be eliminated by more oversight, more rules or more control?
...the execs are pushing it as the type of propaganda that you either shut up and get behind, or 'perhaps this is no longer the right company for you.'

Perhaps they are right. As an entirely serious suggestion, if you've got a solid development team who know how to make good games and it's the leadership that is letting you down, maybe some of you should move to another company.

Maybe there is an existing competitor that would benefit from hiring a ready-made team with a good track record, and you could collectively negotiate a mutually beneficial deal.

Alternatively, in true HN style, maybe you could start your own company. Either learn the management skills you need personally, if that's achievable with your group, or hire in management staff whose views are more compatible with how you want that company to behave.

You'll have to get a lawyer to look over your existing contracts for anything that might interfere with these ideas, and of course it can be a scary move to break away from an established job. On the other hand, if you're seeing the writing on the wall already, it might be a good idea to start thinking about your options.
Knuth is not a blackbelt asm programmer. I had almost no theoretical computer science courses but 5 assembly language based courses.

God says...
fer_sure are_you_deaf whoop_there_it_is absetively_posilutely
thats_right freak programming yep I'll_ask_nicely Angel
I_had_a_crazy_dream do_you_have_a_problem in_a_galaxy_far_far_away
in_a_perfect_world hurts_my_head conservative hotel blessing
you_know_a_better_God lighten_up ice_cream once_upon_a_time
rip_off I_hate_when_that_happens Bam no_you_cant conservative
wazz_up_with_that crazy you_think_I'm_joking zoot sess_me
whiner I_made_it_that_way a_flag_on_that_play so_let_it_be_done
NOT enough_said white_trash vermin genius soap_opera you're_so_screwed
So you're storing a file on a public server that is beyond your control and you make your shell read it every time you launch it ?

What could possibly go wrong ?! ;-)
I would love to try a "signals hacking" capture-the-flag.
So, there's a step missing here.

What you need going into this interview is a solid understanding of your corporate culture -- what behaviors you value. Maybe you work for a bank, and the most important things for you are integrity and conservatism. Or, maybe you work for an early stage start-up, and calculated risk-taking and team spirit are most important.

In either case, as you walk through these questions, you ask about the how's and why's of the person's behavior. Doing so is the best way to figure out if the person is going to act in ways that you would want and expect them to. Again, the significance of the biggest thing itself is small, it's how and why they achieved it, gleaned through the 20-odd follow-up questions, that will get you to the answer.

You mention college hiring -- yes, that's a different beast. A lot of companies have success with paid internships the summer before graduation. You can also ask some of these behavioral questions, but unfortunately our educational system doesn't include enough collaborative, project-based work to get a good baseline. Nonetheless, a college student who has done significant summer project work, or who has worked on an extracurricular project, should have some data to extract.
Please don't take this the wrong way but pledging allegiance to a bit of cloth sounds as silly to us as the Queen seems to you.
yes those things Python can do too. Replace methods, recreate objects etc. And probably you can find tons of workaround for things it cant do out of the box. Its not bad, not bad at all :)

I really like Ruby :)
Skype ads in rotation have been compromised
smart, helpful- I get it and will run with it. Thanks!
Yes. That is, in fact, a very easy answer. You're either strongly underestimating the consequences of bullying or strongly overestimating the effectiveness of legislation or regulation.
Would you happen to have any info you could share on your internship program? I wasn't able to find any info on it on your site. (What type of internship positions are open, maybe a bit on what you're looking for in interns.)

Your company looks really interesting, and I'm somewhat interested in applying for an internship if you still have positions open.
Appreciate your point, but I don't think it's obvious that two-parties are better at creating long-term policy, just as I don't think it's obvious that a two party system is better on other axes generally.

For example, if neither party has a strong interest, certain government departments can act without proper accountability to the public.

Clearly the US has been a successful country, but there are several problems with using the US as an ideal model: the benefits of this success are not necessarily distributed in the best way. And, with the US's huge resources, it's not obvious that the choice of political system is the biggest factor in its success.
I dunno. I fail to see how the Marx Bros are any less entertaining today. Or the 60+ year old Nineteen Eighty Four, is that unbearable to read (well, yes, but that's beside the point). Old doesn't mean unwatchable, it means different. Hopefully future games and content won't entirely be rentals, as some things are worth keeping and replaying for free...
I have to say, this is one of my favourite programming books, even though I've never been paid to write any Erlang at all. Just the insights into how to go about building reliable systems are inspiring and profoundly affected my work in other languages.

That and it's written in a brilliantly approachable style.
I understand the distinction you're trying to draw, but a constitution that can be changed more readily than the U.S. Constitution is still a constitution.
Who pirates iPad and iPhone games? Approximately nobody.

Piracy claims are often inflated through the intended operations of the Android and iOS app stores -- with my single iOS purchase I can have it on my iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone. A single Google Play purchase might be on my two Nexus 7s, and then n variants of phone that I've bought over the years. I've heard complainants in such cases compare installs to purchases, using that as the foundation for their piracy claims, when I alone might have installed the app I legitimately purchased 20 times over new and varied devices, and not one of those installs was piracy.

Remember when Dead Trigger did the whole bullshit "piracy is so bad on Android we're going free to play". They then quietly did the same thing on iOS, hilariously justifying their change as some sort of reward for iOS users, instead of the reality that IAP is far more lucrative than upfront purchases.

However supposedly iOS piracy is overwhelming in China.
SEEKING FREELANCER - London, UK

Android developer is needed to create a small native app from scratch (Targeting Android 4.0+). Work to ideally commence on Monday February 10. On site developer is preferred but I will consider remote -- we're based 5 minutes from Oxford Circus tube station.