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I agree. I had an interview ask this, and it was essentially solving a problem that one of their clients had presented to them. And they needed it within a week.

It felt very much like they were just exploiting applicants for crowd-sourced ideas.
There a lot of things "broken" in this country: healthcare system, elementary/middle school education, guns out of control, racial issues, etc. Still probably the best place in the world.
Worst advice ever. A credit score is not just for getting a mortgage or a car loan. When I lived in New York, I had to have an acceptable credit score to get an apartment in most places.

Not to mention, when I signed up for a Verizon account under an LLC that I have with my dad, we were forced to put down an $800 per phone deposit because the company had no credit history. Same with utilities.

When I was starting a company, the bank wanted to check my credit score to decide whether I was going to get a checking account or not. This has happened twice, once with my previous company and a merchant account for credit cards.

I haven't ever personally, but I've also talked to people who check credit scores as part of employment evaluation.

Also, having a higher credit score gets you a better interest rate if you do need a loan, which can be worth a whole lot of money.

You have every right to make the choice to live without credit, but I would have a hard time arguing that it's the smart play.
For people without impressive CVs networking is key. Go to conferences, hackathons, and meetups to meet people. This will get your CV past HR almost always.
You can start, and grow, a startup anywhere
Culturally the US is protestant leaning. Latam is culturally catholic. Latams see Spain as a cultural beacon, whereas the the U.S. now a beacon in its own right, used to have Britain and France as their cultural beacons --yes France was nominally catholic, but they culturally leaned protestant in many ways. They are more northern European than Mediterranean.

Also, while in the U.S. the so called 'old boys net' helps to get things done, in Latam there's something akin to Chinese guanxi (關係) in getting things done. Relationships are paramount and make corruption endemic and inextricable. It's quite diff from U.S. and euro culture.)))
I mean't to auto-block spammers
Nope. There are many different types of Schengen visa [1] and it generally does not allow you to work. For this you need a national visa from a specific member state [2]. So, no, if you get a work permit in France, you are not free to live and work in Switzerland. In fact, EU citizens generally need a residency and work permit if they wish to live and work there.

[1] http://www.schengenvisainfo.com/schengen-visa-types/
[2] http://www.schengenvisainfo.com/frequently-asked-questions-s...
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This is a noble project but I'm concerned that it may not be a methodologically valid blind study.

Specifically, in order to be a blind study of the relationship between the screening exam and technical interview performance, the technical interviewers should not know the results of the screening exam before they make their decision. While they do not state this clearly, it seems possible that since the same 2 people were conducting all steps themselves, that they were not properly blinded.

Thus we cannot rule out confirmation bias in the interviewers themselves, i.e. that they were impressed by good performance on the programming quiz, not that it was an independent predictor of good performance in the technical interview.

Now, maybe one person did the screening and the other did the technical interview with no information sharing in every case, but this would need to be clarified.
"Work" connotes a class distinction. Class is part of this.

Subjugation of workers and caste are the origin of the current system.

Who owns the machines? Who owns the land?

Does a human being have a natural right to live? To own his own small plot of land?

Are humans just like common animals, to be yoked or corralled?

Fundamentally the intellectual framework is driven by patronage of the highest caste which cannot help but maintain elitist, regressive, Darwnian, Malthusian worldviews to rationalize the inequality.

The life-giving moneyflow is primitive and its volume arbitrary and should be replaced by something more sophisticated, but there is no actual reason it could not be returned to its previous high rate if we make the right psychological adjustments.

Sustainability doesn't require halting development, it just needs smarter systems, like putting real science into economics or better adoption of common operational data exchange.
Heh. MUMPS has a significantly higher order operating system/semantic language than a lot of other languages from the same 1960's era.
Imgur is "bigger" than Reddit - at least, it has several tens of millions more uniques per month.
Giving an option is an awesome idea! It says a lot about the flexibility and open-mindedness of your company. Too many companies have a "take it or leave it" interview processes.

IMO it depends on the position. I did a test-project with a follow up code review for my first job and it was a fantastic. If I had not gotten the job, I still would have been happy with the experience and code to show future employers.

If you are interviewing for a more junior or senior position, many candidates are probably switching jobs and are already swamped with work. Also, they probably already have some pet projects they can share. Requiring a test project may seem amateurish.
" [...] which means that the market has largely priced them in." ... In theory yah.
"OK, Google" is perhaps the strangest thing to be so commonplace. It will sometimes interpret the shorttalk mumbling I have become accustom to when speaking to my siblings and will go on to loudly interject that it had no idea what I was trying to tell it.

The answer is nothing, google.
Gmail officially adds 'Undo Send'
Do you have a law degree?

Do Fortune 500 companies trust you to represent them?

The job will just remain unfilled when the author leaves the US...
"But humanity has a remarkable capacity to invent new outlets to fill our waking hours as we redeploy resources used to make stuff to make other stuff or sell stuff."

Mere coincidence combined with survivorship bias. Ask the Easter Islanders or Mayans about how people always find new employment. By definition a developed economy is a country that was historically lucky, therefore its members hold very strange beliefs about cause and effect, like the collapse of employment in one industry magically results in employment in another industry because if it hadn't coincidentally happened, our ancestors economy would have collapsed and we'd be dead or owned by some other economy.

Bad car analogy is I've crossed many a street on foot, and I've never been hit, therefore there is a magic dead hand of social science that pushes cars out of my way, and I'll never get hit and nobody ever gets hit and its going to be eternally safe into the future. After all, if someone had run over my g-g-g-g-grandfather with an ox cart in the street, I wouldn't be here, therefore fatal car-pedestrian accidents don't happen.
Australia is the same. Got permanent residency without being in Australia.
had same experience, no useful feedback after 6 hrs of work. it had to meet the provided written spec (js/logic) and visual (css/html) requirements and had to pass an internal test suite which i was not given access to.

the response from the recruiter was just "thanks, but the dev team said 'no', that's all the info i have for you"
I often see complaints on HN about the silliness of whiteboarding in programming interviews, would you whiteboarding to a take-home assignment? Are there constraints you would prefer on one or the other? What amount of time spent qualifying for a single job is too much?

I personally pushed to make our interview process more centered around a take-home style assignment, as I feel it's a much better approximation of programming skills than an in-person, high stress whiteboarding session, or a quiz on some programming trivia. We try to keep the assignment tightly constrained ("Here's a broken app with x requirements. Fix it.") in order to keep it to a few hours max.

This I feel has been tremendously helpful for us, as I've never seen someone pass the take-home assignment and subsequently do poorly in the technical portion of our interview. Previously we had many people scrub out of our (admittedly pretty easy) technical interviews. Obviously asking for the take-home has resulted in a few false negatives, but I'd much rather an overly strong pre-interview filter to wasting hours of my entire team's time on a crappy interview.
Read Veale's The Creativity Myth. What you call "creativity" can be automated much like anything else. Emphasizing creativity would work for an extra couple of decades at most, so there's no sense in building, say, brand new educational institutions around it. Check out the N.Y. Times article announcing the creation of the Camp Fire Girls (co-invented by Gulick, a co-inventor of basketball) - there was a panic then about automation and the problem was not solved, it has just been continually deferred as the pace of change increasingly wreaks havoc on our ability to prepare children for adulthood. When the buzzwords of today's companies are "innovation" and "disruption", you may translate them to "unpredictability", "chaos", and "social insecurity". No one even tries to design to rightfully earn a place in a human being's short life cycle - Silicon Valley designers often enough end up making dopamine squirrels for poor toddlers on touch screens. The designers then heed warnings against giving their own children screens, ban TV's in the home, and send the kids to an unplugged school. Fewer are able to escape the swathe of the indefatigueable machine. Have we made some thing more clever than ourselves? Yes and no, but the no shrinks.
Perhaps instead some could follow Kant's idea of treating humans solely as ends, never as means, a sort of human-centered chauvinism or "humanism". Or one can conclude that if machines lack human flaws, and out perform homo sapiens at their supposed virtues, they deserve the future.
New genders, new sexualities, new body images, these might get some attention economy for a few, but they must be rewarded by a mass of bored, a creativity economy is the fame and long tail economy we already have. The assimilation of new distinctiveness will approach instantaneousness. And computers can be reformatted much more easily because they have no "self" to worry about or reinforce.
It seems you're contradicting yourself. You say "I think it's fair to complain that this option doesn't exist, I'd like it to exist." But then you go on to disparage the author for doing just that.

You can't simultaneously say that it's fair to complain and argue that people are "just complaining". Or is it only fair for people not affected by these laws, who have no incentive to complain, to do so?
Proportionate buy-in to the interview process is one of my screening criteria. If the hiring company is not willing to spend a similar fraction of their own resources on the interview process as I am willing to spend on it, I am much less likely to invest anything more than a token amount of effort on them.

Any company that does not realize that your time has value before hiring you will probably continue to waste it after hiring you.
App Sec: How do you monitor your application logs?
Whether you run nginx, apache, something else:

1) what webserver do you use?
2) Do you monitor your logs?
3) How helpful do you find monitoring of your logs to detect intrusion attempts?

4) Anything else you want to tell me?

Thanks for your responses.
I believe there is a third party service that provides this type of verification. I don't know much about it by I've seen it many times (comes with applying for mortgages and other types of loans). I have gotten questions like "which of these streets have you lived on?" and "which of these banks issued you a credit card?" as well as "Which of these people do you know?" So I don't think it's necessarily Credit Karma's fault for asking you weird questions.
> Where else could this sort of pride come from?

You're still focused on a person only being able to gain value to society by working.

You're also conflating working to survive (our day jobs) with doing tasks or that you would can choose to do (the student attending a class, the retiree building sawhorses, the 20 something contributing to OSS, the full time homemaker). Not being required to do the first doesn't mean you're suddenly not doing the second as well.
This is amusing to me, since a good number of people believe it was definitely slaves, and 'definitely' the Jewish slaves mentioned in the bible.

I would have been overjoyed to learn that the pyramids were a stimulus program when I was a child.
This is what I recall as well.

Personally, I don't buy too deep into v4 causing Digg's death. It certainly helped, but stuff like seeing "mrbabyman" and a dozen other power users controlling all the content became tiresome well before v4. Reddit was a little refreshing as I could post in a subreddit and have my content get a fair shake at being seen. That's still true today. My blog and my old webcomic have both been at the top of /r/comics and /r/android. The traffic and exposure was very nice and I think the upvote process is mostly fair. With sites like Digg or Slashdot there's zero chance my stuff would have gotten any exposure.
On-Off Keying (ASK) with SDR
Yeah, I came here to say the same thing. A properly designed and vectorized in-memory database implementation on a modern CPU should essentially limited by the aggregate memory bandwidth across the two sockets, and I would assume the in-memory representation has been compressed. Based on my experience, the performance numbers suggest that the CPU implementation here is suboptimal.
The smartphone with 10,000 mAh battery
Unemployment clearly leads to degradation, both of cities (Youngstown) and of individuals.

The question I think we're debating is whether the flow of causality goes unemployment->poverty->social degradation (this is your case, I think) or whether unemployment leads to social degradation more directly, even among people who don't currently need money (so, removing the variable of poverty) because it's a terrible blow to esteem, purpose, and community. I think there is a lot of evidence for this claim; see the section Paradox of Leisure.
Heh, they had "pico" in their list of editors. If one is really hellbent on using that for Hack/Obj-C in 2015, I'm not sure whether any argument is convincing enough ;)

Generally I wasn't really that impressed by the demo. Sure, the integration is nice, but I don't see how that's different from most other IDEs. But what struck me as a bit odd was the presenter stating a preference for vim, and then starting to edit Objective-C like all you've got is your cursor keys plus tab.

So, yes, another IDE, yay. And if you work at FB, sure, mindshare alone is probably worth it. But why would one give up normal mode/macros/elisp/abbrevs etc. for that?

Now don't get me wrong, I totally understand different preferences, and if your current editor is e.g. TextMate/Sublime or an IDE like PhpStorm/Eclipse/Xcode, I can see it. But if you start with the premise that vim is the One True Editor, why would this be the switch reason, whereas IDEs before didn't get you there?

No problem with another flower in the garden of editing, I just thought the sales pitch was a bit weird.
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It appears to me that someone with two law degrees, and sufficiently accomplished to teach law school and to be invited to conferences, could practice law. Not necessarily at a big firm with big pay, but paid enough that adjunct work would be a nice supplement to his income, not the bulk of it. The writer might have excellent reasons for doing what he does, but it's not as if he has a Ph.D. in Hittite.
FICO has different models depending on what industry you're in, and then even then, they have different versions of the model. Here's some info if you want to google: FICO Classic 04, FICO Classic 08, FICO Auto 04, etc.

The crazy thing is that the scales are all different, so your Classic 04 Score could be completely different from your Classic 08 Score.
it may be way in the future or it may not ... but combination of advance robotic, AI, nano-Tech and BioTech can easily eliminate the need of 99.9% of the workforce. But, the journey and social unrest may be so bumpy that could push the human race backward ... or it may reach to 99.9% point in which there is really nothing for billions of people to do. In that case either a small number of people will rule the world and the rest will be in poverty and misery and pain; or it will be a golden age and all will focus more on science and spirituality - not religion but true spirituality to expand human consciousness ... for sure until then the road will be very bumpy.
Strictly an off-topic aside, but "mincome" is absolutely awful. The concept might catch on but hot damn is that a bad name.
Can the author expound upon his encounters with universal basic income and his decisions on how to include it in the piece? I see that it's mentioned in the piece as something that can assuage the financial loss of work, but not the loss of civic cohesion or meaning in people's lives. However I feel that this idea was not an alternative the author seriously investigated, if you're still commenting can you confirm?

Did you encounter any deep exploration of what even a basic $1000/mo. guaranteed income might mean for people lacking work? What guided your thinking in how to approach this aspect of dealing with a post-work future, did it just feel too different, or another topic entirely?

Thanks for commenting here and thanks for the great piece!
Spark SQL, with their new Catalyst optimization, is real time compiling their queries into code (assembling Scala quasiquoted fragments into an AST, compiling that). No ridiculously awesome GPU backend here, but some of the same general kinds of tech- compiled queries.
https://databricks.com/blog/2015/04/13/deep-dive-into-spark-... http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2015/sigmod_spark_s...
People theorize that all of life is busy work. No one should care that they thus theorize.
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They are using GPUs with large amounts of GDDR5 to store the most important data, so the increased memory bandwidth is a major part of the performance upgrade over CPU using DDR3.

edit: The maximum bandwidth for DDR3 looks to be ~50GB/s and they are saying over 500GB/s in the GPU system

I say DDR3 because they have been doing this since before DDR4 became available. Even DDR4 is something like ~70GB/s
we do this at my current company.
I think it is a great alternative to whiteboard tests as long as it is reasonably short.
For mobile devs, we ask them to write a simple app solving a problem they should be familiar with and that we have had to deal with in the past.
The point is that they pay you the $100k for the time you give them as an employee. They don't pay you a cent for the interview project, so you shouldn't give them a single second in return.
Yeah, I can see that. I did not mean to be disrespectful. I actually generally like take-home coding exercises (and used them at my previous company). I'm just arguing testing a bunch of approaches.
Sounds like a typical out of wallet type service. For Developers there's BlockScore, but the most used one is probably Experian's.
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Great post- thanks for the writeup!

I would love to see a post detailing some best practices, or even comprehensive setup guides, for instrumenting a full Node.js service. So far most of the information I've seen is very limited in scope and specific to just one aspect of the bigger picture.
I am not a sociologist or psychologist, but I do not belive humans can handle significant idle time in a socially productive way. Look at the disaster zones that are most public housing projects.

Humans evolved needing to work to survive. It's in our nature to become restless and sociopathic if we have nothing to do.
Comparative advantage.
"Someday, perhaps in a year, maybe more, maybe less, I’ll have moved from CEO to NtE (Nate the Engineer)."

Love the job title.
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Jumping to conclusions here but:
- André has been involved with audiotool, as joa did quite a while ago
- They are (former?) colleagues
- André has quite a background in terms of applied signal processing, harmonics etc (I believe I first learnt about Karplus-Strong by a talk he gave in Cologne a few years back)
This is very neat indeed, and I'd love to try it out, but the launchpad links are broken. Anyone know where I can get the package for Ubuntu armhf? Or the source?
This is all for your internal network though, which you should be able to control, right?
I think there is a lot of evidence for this claim; see the section Paradox of Leisure.

I totally disagree.

The problem is that society, as it's structured today, does little to support the unemployed to provide the kind of social contact and meaningful activity that would offset depression and isolation.

In addition, there is a social expectation foisted upon the unemployed that they must become employed, and that expectation creates pressure, depression, and further isolation.

The fundamental issue is that we, as a society, have decided that unless you're working you're idle, and if you're idle you're useless.

Consider, there are many many retirees who manage just fine. Why? Because there's a social network put in place to support retirees... activity centers, social groups, travel clubs, etc. And a social expectation that retirees will specifically be idle!

Similar support mechanisms do not exist for the unemployed today because the unemployed are viewed as failures. Unemployment is not a valid life choice, and therefore society does nothing to support them.

This fundamentally comes down to the western idolization of work. Address that and I believe you'll address many of the psychological harms supposedly caused by a lack of employment.
Indeed. I am one of the people that freezes up in interviews. Yet I thrive in stressful work situations, such as customer emergencies (system is down), critical bugs, etc and I resolve the issues quickly precisely because of the right amount of stress.

The best way I can describe the difference in stress is with an analogy. When I visited the Grand Canyon and hiked around the mountain, my body literally froze. I couldn't move a muscle even though my mind knew I could do this and hike around. I knew it was irrational, but I was powerless. This is what interviewing feels like - a fear of heights. And with every rejection letter, the fear is reinforced.

Stress in the office is like playing competitive sports - it's a challenge rather than percieved harm to oneself.
My biggest expense of a night at the pub is the cab ride to and from the pub since if I am going to drink I can't drive myself there. We don't have public transport.
While this is a very interesting and insightful article, it might be useful to add a broader historical/anthropological perspective. I'm not qualified to do that. But it's my understanding that development of agriculture and animal husbandry, and much later industrialization, drove huge increases in human population.

In part, of course, that was driven by the abundance of food and so on. But there was also the need for workers. So as machines displace workers, one might expect human population to gradually decrease, perhaps back to neolithic levels.

The challenge, then, would be to have that occur as humanely as possible.