skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't mean to cast aspersions on your interviewing abilities, but the common factor in all of the interviews you've conducted is you, and how you talk to a candidate abut prior projects can really matter. At one extreme you have "tell me about your last project" free-form. At the other you have highly-specific drilling down on a relevant technical issue (e.g. flow-control mechanisms in Ethernet networks) or behavioral characteristic (e.g. openness to collaboration). Which of these have you tried? Have you observed any difference in effectiveness between them? My own experience, from interviewing people who conduct interviews themselves, is that people who say "asking about projects doesn't work" just don't know how to do it right. Again, I'm not saying that applies to you personally, but what information can you provide to refute the observation?
So what's the good choice then?
Most candidates can speak well about interesting projects they'd worked on in the past, but a significant percentage of those can't pass a coding test.

Also, not being able to speak well about a past project is highly correlated with doing well on a coding test.

Sounds like one or the other should be thrown out. (Or maybe only the small percentage who do well on both will go on to do well on the job?)
I really think technical, or any other kind of hiring is broken. As you showed best indicators are questions (like your quizzes) or by showing "live" you can rather than a pretty CV, certificate or a fancy university name (I'm talking about tech not medicine, construction engineering or others that really require those).

I have been rejected many, many, many times because the first screening (CV check by non-technical recruiter). My last example was at a well know tech startup were I had to hack my way to get noticed in order to get the first interview. The funny thing is that I was the fasted candidate to get hired + I won a company-wide award for my work at the company just 4 months after joining.

I haven't finished a degree because I thought was boring and I was learning things I already taught myself before, but this fact makes my resume go down the list very fast. Because interviewers don't have time to lose and thousands of candidates to check I'm sure they will find very useful the use of technology on getting those good prospects in front of everyone else.

Something I've seen many times at my past jobs is having good technical applicants, some of them are even referred by one team member and are turned down later because culture. I don't know why but engineers and technical people are more likely to fail at those than others. The surprising thing is that they check culture as the last step because those who can run those type of interview are a few and can't become full-time culture keepers. This is an enormous waste of time and resources for the applicant, the interviewers and the company itself.
Whatever "what we have now" is, it is good, by assumption, because people are trying to get into it.

Therefore it's worth asking if that "whatever it is" will remain good in the face of any proposed changes.
That is actually a damn good question.

I didn't decide on the word by way or a rational chain of logic, but merely by having hindbrain pattern matching trigger on your behavior, based on what i've seen called that on other forums, and what i've seen you doing on here from time to time. If i had to put it in words, it would probably be something like "tell other people how to use HN without contributing significantly to the discussion at hand", since that is typically the job of actual mods, not of users.

In any case, it's not that i mind you doing it, but if it's done without any explanation it irks me for the aforementioned reasons.

(Note: My brain classifies even my response to your first post here as backseat modding.)
That's... it? This contract isn't that bad.
Yep, that's the first thing that came to mind for me too - not sure why they chose to keep it.
Netflix Instance Analysis Requirements
Does anyone know what kind of processing these images go through? Does Ceres receive enough light for the satellite to see it plain, or is this the result of X-ray vision or something similar? And the bright spots - I can understand those being the result of ice reflection, but they seem to absolutely glow in these images. I imagine that's the result of some filter or processing making them pop. Is that accurate?
Especially awesome here with the faux Clippy!! Or Clippy-NG?
Right. The playlists are the same, the activities are the same. Songza still doesn't have ads -- but this does.
As I understand it, this is what you’re talking about: an iteration on top of CouchDB: http://cloudwall.me
Can you please cite some studies that demonstrate that PUFAs are unhealthy? The typical rhetoric is that omega-6 fatty acids are pro-inflammatory, but the studies I've seen have not shown a correlation between linoleic acid intake and common inflammatory biomarkers.
Maybe it's about to turn into a star?
The features they include are nice, but it would be really helpful to have dependency support for languages Scala and Java like IntelliJ does.
I don't know much about networking, but if you're on AWS and are using VPC then don't you have full control of the entire (virtual) network?
12+ hours is excessive even if you don't have 15 years experience.
A lot of economists will be very surprised to hear that MPC has been "debunked." Last time I looked it's still considered a mainstream idea - mainstream enough to appear in introductory econ texts, anyway.

Steve Keen makes the - IMO interesting - point that there are different kinds of consumption, and lumping consumption under a single Benthamite label is a gross oversimplification.

But MPC is a simple measure of economic freedom. It's not what you spend your extra earnings on that matters, because - unless you're burning banknotes - it all goes towards increasing GDP anyway.

Where things get fuzzy is a lack of appreciation for the fact that spending measures current economic activity, but savings, credit, and investment all measure faith in future economic activity.

Because faith is based on an irrational thing called "sentiment", you have a huge chunk of the economy based on hope, fear, and desire - which is maybe not the most practical and useful way to make the economy work for everyone.
This is a little bit like coming into a thread about sailing and asking people to prove to you the earth is round by showing citations.

Why don't you start by showing your citations that say otherwise?
That's not really the reason TPP upsets me (I brought the comic for his illustrations for the lack of democratic process).

No one argues that TPP contains SOPA like censorship proposals (those were already leaked). And despite claims that agreements like TPP can't change laws, there is concrete evidence to the contrary. That's how garbage like DMCA-1201 was introduced.
I'm kind of in a similar boat. I've done them for companies that I like in the past, however I flat out refuse to do them for recruiting / job placement companies.

ammon / uptown, I've put off doing my screen-sharing section of your interview process (I got pushed past the phone screen?) due to a lack of time. Maybe adding a way to 'schedule' it would be helpful for those of us that live by our g.calendars....and you all as well.
VERY thorough and juicy, thanks.
I'm doing a lot of things at once. I'm fixing a buggy register allocator, and I'm not that smart, so I can do real work for about 15 minutes before my brain overheats. I bounce to the HN front page: there's a story about regexes, and a recent trend of stories about how there are alternatives to standard regex libraries. I think, maybe this will be one of those stories. Click. Nope, it isn't. I wonder, did anyone write the comment where they point out that rather than tediously optimizing regexes, it's sometimes more profitable just to hand-code a quick lexer? Nope, but, look at this: a creepy comment about "young girls" and regexes. Nope. Flag. Downvote. The comment isn't grey! Someone voted this creepy thing up! Write a quick comment. Back to debugging the world's worst compiler IR.

That's how you end up with an imperfect complaint comment. Oh well! Thanks for motivating me to improve it.

See, the same thing just happened, just now; I vented a little more brain steam, and now can hopefully spend another solid 15 minutes trying to fix this bug. :)
And in the other direction, technology is getting to the point where the required adaptation is a lot smaller.

The idea of conservation used to be combined with the idea of sacrifice. Save the planet by living in the dark, bundling up in sweaters, and exhausting yourself on a bicycle to get anywhere.

Today I light my house with LEDs that are nearly 10x more efficient than incandescents and should last just about forever. High efficiency HVAC and good insulation mean that the energy I expend on climate control is very small. I drive an electric car which is a fantastic way to get around. Some of these (like the electric car) are not good economic choices yet. Others are. But the ones that aren't are becoming so pretty quickly. That is the face of conservation now: great stuff that just happens to be efficient.
Chesterson's fence.

There is something about the US that makes it desirable for people to move to the US. When proposing changes to the US, you need to wonder about that that thing is, so you can figure out if/how it will be changed by your new policy.
Sounds like a case of responsibility without authority. You signed on for the job of "running the development team" but they've demonstrated they're not going to give you any authority to actually do that.

And your CEO has no respect for you if he can't find more than 5 minutes (total or at a time) to bring you on board.

I'd leave ASAP, this is going to be nothing but pain, and very high stress; almost certainly not worth the money.
I did this once. After a take home quiz that took about an hour, I had a 6-7 hour "homework" problem. I did it, and sent it in. It took the company a month to get back to me, though I did stay in contact with the recruiter. The final answer, delivered by the recruiter, was "we've decided not to more forward at this time." No other feedback. I have no idea if anyone even looked at it - I never did speak to a dev at the company.

This experience left me embarrassed, honestly. I don't think it reflects well on me that I put up with it even once.

At this point, I will participate in tech interviews, but I won't do any more take-home assignments. I suppose this could change under different circumstances.

Gayle Laakmann McDowell, who wrote "Cracking the Coding Interview", wrote an insightful post her blog about this. It's titled "Companies who give candidates homework assignments: knock it off!"

http://www.gayle.com/blog/2013/09/18/companies-who-give-cand...

She mentions something I see as a problem as well - these tests allow the company to burn a lot of a candidate's time, but not the other way around. I may have burned 6+ hours interviewing unsuccessfully at google, but they parted with 6+ hours of developer time as well (though I did spend a lot of additional hours reviewing algorithms and doing sample problems). This creates a natural set of checks and balances that don't exist with homework assignments.

She does have some good suggestions about how to use a take home if a company is determined to do it. To me, a particularly insightful one was to have a high (she says 90%+) passage rate.

I agree. If you're going to ask a candidate to spend a day on a homework assignment, you should be very close to an offer. If you're using it as an early filter, you are wasting a tremendous amount of developer time.
Isn't it? By definition wouldn't an increase in supply of talent for a given job decrease market wage for that talent unless it was already in a shortage (which we never really know until it's over)?
>No, the Maryland case is for the 1 murder-for-hire claim - of SR employee CCG (Green) which is based on Force's testimony.

Yes, but you also referred to murder for hire charges as influencing the judge; why do you think it's specifically Force's testimony that influenced her, as opposed to all the other evidence?

>As i already explained (and you can google it yourself), that charge was used by prosecution to argue to suppress (and the suppression was granted) the 4th Amendment defense's motion.

Can you excerpt the part of that document 9in a more searchable form here https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/silkr...) that says that? I've read through much of it, and the charge isn't mentioned as part of any 4th Amendment claims; it's hard to see how that would even make sense legally.

>Judge denied bail because of that charge. How that can be said irrelevant?

It's irrelevant insofar as any claims that Force isn't reliable; the judge knew whatever was from Force (which you still haven't shown, but even if you did), and the judge knew Force was being charged, so they could take it into account.

>As they clearly state in the indictment that it was such an undercover agent, thus they must have heard the testimony by Force, and thus whether this testimony was necessary is really a moot point because they did heard it.

They Maryland Jury may have heard from Force, but that wasn't what his trial was based on. To support your claim above, you need to show that what he was actually sentenced on was based on Force's testimony/affidavit, and as there was plenty of evidence without Force and nothing obtained by Force was brought up in the trial, your claim seems very week.

>And by the way, the laptop was stolen illegally

Says who? They had a warrant. Did you even read that document you linked?
Log Alerting, Anomaly Detection and Scheduled Reports
I have friends from Europe who went to graduate school in the USA. They had to go back to Europe after a decade in school here because they didn't get jobs. They had another friend who was in a similar situation. They knew is was hard for international students to manage to get hired in my field but, like all of us, thought they would beat the odds. They didn't and now have had to rebuild their lives back in their home country.

Even when we know the odds are against us we want to think we will be special and make it even if we know it isn't realistic.
I agree with almost all of these, except that I like the new UI.
On-demand vs scheduled
I bet he probably meant "Overtone" the music programming language / environment based on Clojure.

Though octave was originally a music term too.
You accept the risk you could die every time you step outside -- not because you think you're too smart to get shot or hit by a bus or whatever, but because the risk is so low and you kinda have to go outside to get what you want. Same thing for bitcoin. Sometimes the risk of getting fucked by someone over the internet is lower than getting fucked in person (or by the government), and you just gotta use them bitcoins to get what you want.
It's fast enough here in Germany as well. (Any lag probably due to my limping computer.)
Computer glitch strands hundreds of fruit pickers at U.S.: Mexico border
Wait, how is this telling us anything? They don't seem to be predicting what determines the best candidate by looking at how he/she performed on the job. All this is doing is predicting how well they will do in a different part of the interview. Am I wrong?
"Computerization"

Did anyone here ever use that term? Is it appropriately grouped with railways, steel and software?
Don't most companies have probation periods? At my company, we have a really easy interview. It's really just a check to make sure you exist, don't have large red flags, and can show up on time. No technical tests, just some light conversation.

Then we have a 3 month probation period. This is the "real test". Can you write code? Can you communicate with the team? Do you fit in with the culture? Etc.

When we get a bad hire, they usually recognize that they don't fit or aren't working and end up leaving of their own volition. Rarely do we actually have to fire someone.
Theoretical Linguistics in the Generative tradition is entirely based on empirical data. If a theoretical linguist proposed a theory without any empirical data to support it, they would (and do) get laughed at.
The poverty of the stimulus argument (which can be traced back to Plato) has plenty of evidence supporting it. Yes there is negative evidence provided to children in some cultures. In North American elementary schools and often at home, children are told when they are saying something that is considered 'wrong'. There are many cultures, families and situations where this does not happen at all and children will learn their native language just by being exposed to people in their community using language. In that case the child is only exposed to positive evidence. What is crucial here is the fact that children CAN learn a language with only positive evidence. They just listen.
In addition, the similarities between the languages of the world far outweigh the differences. There is no way to account for this fact without positing some innate knowledge of language.

Also, read up on the distinction between competence and performance. I noticed you mentioned 'language use'. Yes, it is a mistake to base a theory on language use. We are talking about an ideal speaker-hearer situation. Language in a vacuum. Sound familiar?
Honduras tried (is trying?) a libertarian city in special development regions. The article I remember reading is actually from December 2011; I didn't think it was that long ago and I haven't read anything new. Here's the article that might be a good starting point for you though:

http://www.economist.com/node/21541391

And here's an article on seasteading (basically huge platforms/ships that sit in international waters) from around the same time:

http://www.economist.com/node/21540395
I didn't have problems signing up but according to them I have tax liens from before I was even born. I went to Experian directly and they don't exist (nor have I ever heard/seen such). Maybe they are trying to be cute with data and supplement it?
I think this project approach is excellent - this seems to map much better to real experience in a job.
Your question imples a large amout of technical effort and presents zero business value creation in return. After two weeks on the job, you're arguing with your customer over their prioritization of the backlog.

My advice: learn why the current methods are working for the current team in their pursuit of creating customer value and why the YAGNI of reality doesn't conform to Uncle Bob's best practices. Note that I am not saying this is your dream job. but it is a chance to gain experience beyond theory and more nuanced judgement such as only experience can provide.

Good luck.
Almost out of the uncanny valley
Better link http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/SkinStretch/
> Surely there will be some router, firewall, or switch that will drop those packets arbitrarily, resulting in very-hard-to-debug errors.

Presumably the packets will be encapsulated so that should not be an issue.
Yes. They make for nice replacement for "demanding" local workers.
A site that not only breaks completely, but has literally no content without JS?

Et tu, NASA?
> I'm sure we'll see more pitches trying to get attention than real questions to specific problems.

Hopefully the community will take care of this, by upvoting real questions and specific problems.
I work in data analysis and I decline any "test" requests for a job or project.

If you don't value my time before hiring, you definitely are not going to value my time after hiring. Also, if you are incapable of judging a fit based on resume, interviews, and just talking with me, you are not mature enough, experienced enough, smart enough and intelligent enough and have failed the test for being my potential coworker and boss.

Edit: The tests make perfect sense for entry level positions and entry level candidates but once someone requesting tests for experienced positions and candidates, it shows the immaturity of the company, group, team and people who are unable to assess suitability of candidate and place too much emphasis on technical skills and tests as a crutch. The best jobs in my career were those where coworkers and boss had good relationship dynamics. Technical excellence had nothing to do with how well we worked and delivered results.
Actually, to a long time before that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)
Because service discovery itself is ridiculous. I have to deploy three or more Consul/etcd nodes to run service discovery for my handful of EC2 instances and containers?
Consider this: Maybe one of the biggest challenges today for the USA to unleash its true potential, is the sense of entitlement that has been allowed to grow on top of the foundation that the US society builders laid down through hard work. Many of which were immigrants, ironically.
Question: why don't the immigrants just declare themselves Americans wherever in the world they are? Why do they need to cross the border?

If the person you are talking about is such a horrible person, and there are so many horrible people like him in America, why do you want more people to be subjected to them?
Other links relating to debugging memory related issues in NodeJS which I have bookmarked (in no particular order):

* http://www.willvillanueva.com/the-node-js-profiling-guide-th...

* https://github.com/felixge/node-memory-leak-tutorial

* https://strongloop.com/strongblog/node-js-performance-tip-of...

* https://github.com/bnoordhuis/node-heapdump

* http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/self-detect-memory-leak-n...
thanks for the readings
What does YouTube have to do with Google Play Music anyway?

You may not have noticed if you use an adblocker, but your Google Music subscription now removes ads on music videos on YouTube (as well as the ability to save videos offline on your Android device)
Very interesting methodology, but it would be very nice to correlate this data with long-term job performance. Interview decisions (of which of course you get more than long-term results, and they are clearer to quantify) are hopefully, but not necessarily an indicator of whether an employee works out for your company. Otherwise you run the risk of optimizing the quiz/screening process around metrics that influence your interview (i.e. test for how you personally weigh performance indicators, not for how these performance indicators actually affect performance)
link to the paper http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/SkinStretch/
The Anatomy of Hell: new books on the Nazi concentration camps
No, I get what this addresses... It is really just a wrapper around building a network bridge and having the host do routing / packet forwarding and encapsulation. Nothing a little iptables can't handle :)

I wasn't aware that AWS still doesn't have support for IPv6, that's just amazingly bad in 2015. I'll shift my blame onto them then for spawning all these crazy workarounds.
I had an enormous amount of trouble interviewing / whiteboarding initially but I got used to it pretty fast. However, I would still prefer a take home test as I feel its a far better qualifier than an in-person interview.
Here's a mirror of an old version of the source: https://github.com/wting/hackernews

It's tightly knit to pg's Lisp dialect called Arc which attracted much fanfare years ago, but has since went off the radar.
Well, that's hard. Standardizing evaluation (critical to reducing bias) requires that everyone (or a lot of people) see a similar problem. And when someone is working on their own time, I think it's important that there's not working code easily accessible online. Perhaps this can be overcome by asking candidates to talk through their code after they are done
How about the space required to generate a given amount of power? How big does a wind farm have to be to equal a typical nuclear plant?
Right why link to the TC article instead of the blog post? I don't understand it.