skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, asking people to write some code in (or for) an interview is the best way to go with technical interviews. I haven't found any other approach that's better given the time constraints for an interview (and I've been interviewing ppl for 20+ years).

The hard part is coming up with what programming problem to ask a candidate that's fair to the candidate yet provides insight into their capability. For us, I created a simple data structure problem that hits a smattering of things that are taught in a typical undergrad CS curriculum (trees, recursion, etc). The candidate has about 30min to write the code for this in their preferred language using a plain text editor. I care less about perfect syntax when working with libraries, etc. and more about whether the candidate can take a problem statement and turn it into working code.

For an on-site interview, I send the candidate a description (along with screenshots) of a small web app project that hits some UI, some DB, some business layer. I encourage them to innovate around my description and surprise me. They get a couple of days to implement, then show up with their laptop and demo it. I want to see working software, then a deep dive into their code.

Typically by the end of the on-site interview, we have a really good idea whether this person knows their trade or not. It's helped me sniff out the pretenders pretty well over the years. The ones I hire are the ones who obviously take pride in their craft, know why they picked various implementation approaches, and can explain the technology they used.
I think it's just a symtpom of an evolving industry. Studied solutions are better than viable solutions, and we may just be studying it without acknowledging that fact. Someone should put some actual researchers on this problem though.
I have two net connections, and both are generally reliable, but I've noticed that the DSL connection (over Windstream) is very slow for certain sites like imgur and tumblr and AWS, so I've set those to use the cable modem (Time Warner) connection, where they work great.

Since I have 2 connections I definitely have competition in my area. (Wireless is another option.) So I don't get why if a connection has issues, it's always the DSL one, and always with certain other sites.
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Looks great!

Your new maps need to have an on-map credit to OpenStreetMap, as that's where the map data comes from, and OSM's licence requires attribution. osm.org/copyright explains how.
If this can scan for carbs/sugars, this could be a real winner within the Diabetic community. I would love to be able to eat out and be able to scan my meal and know for sure how much insulin I should take.

Maybe this could even be used in conjunction with an insulin pump and some sort of sensor to determine the amount of food consumed and, BAM, artificial pancreas. (It's that easy! LOL)
If you are using DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons, I strongly suggest you use https://startpage.com/ instead.

DuckDuckGo isn't much better than Google; both of them hijack your links. This gives an opportunity to track what you click on. If you watch carefully your links go to "r.duckduckgo.com" -- this page also doesn't use SSL. For example:

http://r.duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikip...

StartPage doesn't hijack links, it (optionally) uses POST and you never send a referer header so traffic looks organic.
I think it looks better than the original, though. That giant red bar at the top, with a yellow box underneath always reminded me of the original ask jeeves search page, with its giant blue bar up top http://i.imgur.com/7LYUXre.jpg
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So: feedback.

The contrast is too low. It is hard to read on my (relatively bad) laptop screen.

Popins only when your mouse is over something are frustrating. My mouse is not tied to my eyes! In particular, if you're scrolling with your mouse in the center of the screen, the pop-in happens a moment after you stop scrolling, which is distracting. Also, I don't like hiding information by default in general.

Additionally: there is no way to view the full URL for long URLs - they expand, but only to a point.

The top header staying put is bad from a screen real estate POV. I've got a widescreen screen, and as such I'm cramped for vertical space but horizontal space is ample.

Finally: having the right arrow to the left of the domain to search the domain, and the popin on the right saying "more from <x>" seems redundant.
Quantum Energy Generator (QEG), 10kw out for 1kw in
Mystery Of How The Egyptians Moved Pyramid Stones Solved
Are you using a framework? Like ZF, etc?
Being french and living in the US, I have a question: Do you feel like the french system (hard to hire/fire, etc) helped in that failure ?
And do you feel like if you had started outside of Europe, you could have raised 10x what you did and maybe found a what to become sustainable ? (even if you say that you don't need money)
Thank you, my goal is indeed to become an expert. I prefer backend though. I will start building.
That's some serious effort in duplicating the effect. All I can do is to chime in on trying to mimic the effect. I however ended up with looking at it and trying to come up with what it did so it's probably not a completely true representation http://www.plane9.com/scenes/eagi15iz/electro. Then I tried to extend on the original effect. Mainly by simply adding blending and glow. The result can be seen in http://www.plane9.com/scenes/vrwwq5sg/wild-color
Thank you, I will do that. This will have the other advantage to develop my online profile.
Just curious, but how do you get in the loop on the ancient manuscript trade? It's not even an area of work I have ever thought about before.
This seems like it might work well for wheelchairs, where performance is not a large issue. For bicycles though, it's turning a component that was once static into one that's rotating. This means the rider will have to overcome a whole new set of forces just to get the wheel moving. There's a reason people pay such a huge premium for very light rims and tires, and go through the trouble of not having inner tubes.
> "It seems like it would be great if they could figure out a mutually beneficial situation, but I guess I fail to see the moral hazard."

This article in particular is making the argument that at the level that L3, Comcast, AT&T, Netflix and others are operating, it's almost always mutually beneficial to peer. The article also makes the point that the capital expenditure is negligible compared to the benefit to both sides.

The moral hazard here is that Comcast is (shrewdly) taking the bet that their customers won't blame them for what appears to be Netflix's reduced performance. If there was actual competition in the local ISP space, customers would catch on that the performance is only worse on Comcast's network, but that's not the world we live in.

> Barring, of course, the monopoly argument, I see no moral hazard here.

You can't just ignore the monopoly argument. There's nothing inherently unfair about a monopoly, but if you use it to extort money from people then its no surprise that people call you out on it. In the Good Old Days, you'd see monopolies try to squash their competitors. This is more nuanced than that. Monopolistic-extortion-action-at-a-distance, if you will.
Chrome 34 on Windows 7.
Can't read this bubble when it's on the first result: https://i.imgur.com/SrplpW4.png
It uses the bing / yahoo APIs, and it doesn't use search context / user profiling to attempt to fuzzy guess your intended results.
No one ever says that the different python implementations are fighting a losing battle. People generally seem to say that having multiple implementations is good for the language.
I was going from memory on the 20:1 thing and I was wrong, but 5:1 is still not even close to symmetric.

I also used a bit of hyperbole in the "why do transit providers even exist" part; transit providers do still need to exist to provide access for the long tail. But Level3 and the like do see their market shrinking as the big fish who currently pay them for transit either directly or indirectly move more bandwidth to direct connections with the big ISPs. It is definitely starting to squeeze them.

As far as the benefit to each network goes, that's hogwash. It's not how the contracts are written because you can't quantify "benefit". You can quantify packets sent/received. Netflix needs to make money just as badly as Comcast does, so the fact that their service is crappy is much more their problem than it is Comcast's. Netflix can always purchase transit through another company that's not Comcast.
Nicely done, a few minor comments

1) do you need to have the 'fonts' label at the top of the menu? Seems unnecessary.

2) I find the 'weight' markers a bit confusing. Is the outline of the circle the weight? Or the inner? I think a straight line may be easier to get the point across without thinking about it.

Nicely done though.
Google Analytics, track event on page unload
Thank you. I will look more into that. I already know some of that, but this will help me to be more rounded.
Presumably there is not the same likelihood of them going out of true as with spokes.
Wouldn't some other feedback actually be better? If your JavaScript can calculate the Luhn checksum, and then give a checkmark or something, you've actually done better than just checking the card number's first few digits.
If you figure it out, let me know.
I think you're just trying to be argumentative/pedantic for no reason that I can think of or immediately see. Besides, you took one interpretation of "should", and I took another; nothing wrong with both. So you can either choose to be pedantic and continue nitpicking, or you can admit you were wrong in accusing me of a logical fallacy, or bask in the glory that you just watched me make an actual fallacy (before my edit).
The only way that is going to happen is if HHVM was integrated into PHP core (similar to ZendOpcache).
Both videos are lame. Lots of shots of people riding around being all inspiring, and almost nothing about how the wheel actually works to absorb shock.
Its weasel words for they want a noob, recent grad, or a contractor.

They don't want "You were doing exactly the same thing over there, now you'll be doing exactly the same thing over here", because they don't have the money in the budget for a real applicant.
reminds me of the git monoculture article from a few days ago. Work best on Mac(tm)!
But they are cutting out the middleman with respect to large traffic sources. Netflix won't be the only one to pay for an interconnect; AWS, Google and Facebook will likely follow suit shortly. Take that business away from the transit providers and it hurts.
No multivariate testing and have to use 2 different pages now. Really miss GWO, very easy multi-variate testing, simple, FREE. Not real time was the only downside.
That assumes they blame Comcast. Maybe they blame Netflix for not working.

If you get to set the narrative such that one side or the other as the only ones who gain from the interconnection, this becomes trivial, but the hard facts are that both sides want the interconnection, but to try as hard to pretend that the other side is the more desperate one in the deal.
PHP is possibly the best language for the server-side aspect of getting projects from an idea to something tangible. Just my 2 cents.
Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) was/is a big Ruby user.
Add now. Buy Now. (using Digital Currency) That would be interesting to me.
Might be true that the supported route are favourable, Gothenburg however do operate streetcars/trams together with regular buses as public transportation. These tracks will be hard to avoid in the city.
Unfortunately not, if you use Incognito by default (other than being able to see who's tracking you and toggle the settings manually). We could add a feature to optionally save data in Privacy Badger between incognito sessions (or use data from the non-incognito sessions to determine which sites to block in incognito sessions).

In Firefox, PBadger Alpha doesn't have permission to operate in Incognito mode yet, so it will just be off.
You can often extract lots of extra information from the URL, most importantly the date of publishing (y/m/d).
I have only been to one Canadian target and none in the US, here it seemed exactly like Zellers, which they replaced. Why are the american ones so great?
I can't code shit in the evening after work. Some times I take vacation days, intending on doing nothing other than working on personal projects during daylight hours.
What's the deal with articles putting an animated GIF after every other paragraph? It makes the article 10x harder to read.
Cecily McMillan's guilty verdict reveals our mass acceptance of police violence
I really like the simplicity of this version of DuckDuckGo. The only thing I'd change, is the color used for domains. I personally look at the domain (among other things) when I decide to click on a result, and having a more noticeable domain name would be extremely helpful allowing me to quickly make a decision about which results are worthy.

Just my personal thoughts.
The difference is that in lisp you cannot chose to not "follow the approach" because the approach is fundamental. So you will never look at anyone else's lisp code and see that they chose not to use parentheses uniformly.

Well, technically it's possible if someone used macros to embed a DSL that is paren free, but it just doesn't happen in the vast majority of cases. Whereas if you try to follow the approach of using parens everywhere in Haskell, the vast majority of other code you attempt to read will still be awkward for you.
I'd say that contra to what a lot of propaganda will tell you, being experienced matters.

In interviewing a diversity of experience is especially crucial. Further, being experienced at interviewing is super important, and that sort of experience is even harder to gain than other software experience.
> it's almost always mutually beneficial to peer.

But Netflix might be the exception here right?

> You can't just ignore the monopoly argument.

You're right, I'm just trying to disambiguate it from the net neutrality argument, which doesn't seem to actually be relevant here (as Comcast is treating all traffic through those links poorly, not just Netflix traffic). If it is truly about the monopoly, regulators have different (and thankfully more powerful) tools to change Comcast's behavior, whereas using net neutrality seems like a losing (and misleading) fight.
FYI, upgrading to 0.1.1 (released Friday) fixes the bug I mentioned. Subdomains of whitelisted sites are also whitelisted now. https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/pull/63/files
I think the fact that at it sounds like you weren't getting the accounts (at least cash flow and bank balances) so that you could see the lack of runway coming is quite alarming and the top lesson I would want to learn from your experience would be to demand such information.
I might be mistaken, but doesn't changing /dev nodes require super user rights?
If an attacker has those, he could simply overwrite your libressl binary. Or patch the kernel. Or....
Maybe we'll do just that.
And yet the courts have already affirmatively confirmed that the police are not required to "pretend not to see" something in public view, or that they saw in plain sight in the course of a legal search.

By the way, knowing what is normal for a neighborhood is very much in the definition of "good old fashioned police work" that I've seen trotted out around here before.
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Based in US, the line "The search engine that doesn't track you" means nothing.
I recently flew in for a 4-hour on-site interview halfway across the continent, which included a live test of programmer skill which required knowledge of javascript, bash shell commands, and Google searching, along with exposure to the company's internal tools. Also featured was an abstract problem solving interview, and a short sales pitch for myself in front of the whole team.

After I left, I also did not get so much as a phone call or e-mail. Neither thank you nor followup. When I attempted to re-establish contact, it was like shouting into a black hole.

The feedback I received on site from the interviewers was neutral to positive, with one interviewer claiming that I was the only applicant to come up with the correct response to their abstract brainteaser.

If I take two whole days off from my existing job to come to you and indulge you in your cute little skill tests intended to prove my bona fides, you ought to have the decency to follow up.

So you're not the only person to be on the receiving end of this unacceptable behavior from interviewing companies.
2010: $10k

2011: $25k

2012: $80k

2013: $200k

Easy :)
Honestly, this is great for Twitter. I can't see them blocking this. I can either advertise my product on Facebook which necessitates leaving the site in order to buy my product, or I can use Twitter Ads with #AmazonCart and see usage on a case-by-case basis all while staying within the confines of Twitter's app.
One of the problem I see is that it appears that this version is that there is too much emphasis on keyword rich domain names. On one search query that I did just now, 14 of the top 20 search results for that had the keyword in the domain name.

A similar search (different city + keyword search), different city but same keywords as above, reveals 15 with the keyword out of 20 search results.
You've hit the nail on the head--infringing on an individual's right to remember something is nuts, but requiring that group entities (governments, corporations, etc.) have certain forms of acute amnesia is quite reasonable.

One of the reasons for this is that most of those entities are not able to be reasoned with or to show empathy in any meaningful capacity--they'll bear stances which appear to be petty grudges for years, sometimes decades, because that's the sort of timescale they can operate on.

Intuitions for individuals do not and can not apply to organizations.
Clicking the grid icon in the top right corner gives you more results, but a dedicated image-only search result page would indeed be very appreciated.
Doesn't that seem a little insane when you can just use an ssh tunnel via any of the desktop apps? I can maybe understand this in the context of a phone or tablet, but the thought of doing any DBA on a mobile device is a little horrifying.
Haha! we named our software Marica for "Management des risques et des contrats d'assurance" (we're a French company).

We have since translated the software in several languages. It appears that marica in spanish means something like queer in English when used against homosexuals, only _more_ derogatory amongst these macho people :-(
not sure what are you talking about. Google results for me are as follow:

1. medium.com/collections

2. medium.com/top100/may-2013 (what I would be looking for except it's from last year)

3. an article with the title "Top Medium Collections everybody should follow"

4. images (why here?) of... purses and drawer handles?(wtf? why is this here?)

5. List of Medium collections | Niccolò Brogi

At the side some advertising for something that looks like bird cages or outdoor lamp protectors from Google Shops and "Tops at Macy's‎"

DDG's:

1.Medium Top 100 for March 2014 (much more recent than googles and at 1st position)
It seems like people have vastly varying ideas about what constitutes a 'technical interview'.

For my money, I'd expect that most interviews in any field are technical to some degree. If you're hiring an HR person at any level of seniority at all, presumably you'll be asking questions that bear on employment/tax law, dispute resolution and so forth - in short, questions that bear on a body of specialised knowledge: technical questions. The problem is execution.

Having never been asked to do code on a whiteboard, I can't comment on whether that's any use. (I think I'd be OK provided it was acceptable to drop into pseudocode: surely we're not testing for encyclopaedic knowledge of every method in X language's standard library.) 'Homework' challenges have the advantage, if they're executed right, that whoever you're hiring won't be going in completely cold to whatever tech you're using - may as well get some of that newbie-googling done in advance. (Just did one for a job using Mongo/Mongoid - what I knew about that beforehand would have fit on the back of a cigarette packet.)
If you use quotes around the search term, it does find 2 results:
https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=%22phpng%22
Great, that looks better, thanks.
No you wouldn't need to jailbreak your phone to run it. You have the source code and you can compile that and xcode can install it.
what a clean look. love the fact that you have incorporated search features such as the carousel and video previews. I really like duck duck go as a search engine. I think one of the main reasons I have not fully adopted it is email/gmail and other Google offerings.

all in all the fact that privacy is on the side of the user is so key for me. I hate having a copy of everything I Google get stored somewhere, even in private mode.
In a sibling reply, teraflop got it: it's "tranquility." The original site's down, and I haven't tried the old binaries yet. Here's a video: http://youtu.be/EbLhw_zJiFo
Yes it does? The search engine won't track you, but that doesn't stop your ISP or anyone else along the chain.