skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Problem the 1st: how do you verify the example project is actually the candidate's own work?

Get them to talk about it in the interview

> Problem the 2nd: building and maintaining a non-trivial open source project is a huge investment of time...

Not really - in one weekend you probably can create something interesting and good enough for showing off to an employer. Also it will probably draw you in and you spend more time (for the fun of it) making it better. But you don't have to.

For those people who prefer FizzBuzz tests to implementing interesting stuff, I suggest companies provide the option to do a test for those who don't want to submit their project code.

> Good luck with that co-ordination problem.

A first stage could be that we say "no tests until at least an interview has occurred and the candidate has progressed to the next stage". That is in any candidates own interests regardless of other's actions - so wouldn't require coordination, just communication of the idea. It is in his own interests because the time spent on the speculative work could be better yielded doing something else, such as attending a meetup and generating more opportunities. Looking at it from a sales perspective of how to spend your time - lead qualification, lead generation etc. Why spend a lot of effort on an unqualified lead?
Leanr a bit of logic. This is nowhere near a proof that a use of a certain language is a direct or indirect cause of a genocide and not just a symptom, and that censoring this language would have stopped the genocide.

Not to mention that now it seems to be a priviledge of the self-righteous SJWs to proclaim which words should be counted as offensive this week. It never comes from the minorities in question.
You are echoing a notion that I see and hear regularly from a number of my more artistic, spiritually inclined friends. That technology is isolating us from one another, preventing people from connecting as we did in times past.

Honestly? I think it's not true. In days of yore, people read newspapers or books to isolate themselves. Or whittled. Or knit. Or just looked busy. If anything has changed, it's that it is now possible to connect deeply to a person many thousands of miles away. Most of the connections in life are superficial, yes. That's true today and has been for centuries.

My artistic and spiritual friends are, sad to say, mostly pining for a golden age that never existed.
Los Angeles union wants to be exempt from $15 minimum wage it fought for
This summarizes a big problem with the congestion argument. Our economy is not big enough to cause "serious" delivery congestion when confined to 2-d road vehicles, yet its assumed if you open up to smaller 3-d capable vehicles massive congestion will result. Why?

Where I live it is not an issue, but it is theoretically possible that there might be a location on the planet right now where Fedex trucks crash into UPS trucks, and Dominos pizza cars are running Chinese delivery cars off the road, on a daily basis. However that weird situation existing would still be a workable system for perhaps 99.9% of the worlds surface.

There are also practical scaling issues. The local pizza delivery joint cannot produce fast enough to saturate a 2-D delivery system during the superbowl, just can't pump out pies fast enough. Naturally going to 3-D delivery with maybe 100x the delivery capacity because of 3-D isn't going to alter their delivery rate, the skies will be pretty empty. Even if you drive there to pick up, there will be a 2-hr wait for pizza. Drones and trucks are expensive and the finance guys would prefer the absolute minimum be owned and deliveries be made 24x7. That would imply we're not going to get drone congestion until we have deliveries at 3am. I'm just not seeing people order enough raw "stuff" to keep delivery services busy enough.
I already have a free platform for hatefulness, it's called America.
If it is confirmed is part of MH370, could be a news for investigations (good or bad depend on many factors). But, please, don't think this will stop conspiracy theory. Why? This is my answer as a conspiracy theorist.

"But I landed the plane on island X, How much it would take me disassemble a piece from the aircraft, hammer it a little bit to simulate an impact, and drop it in the ocean in a place where will be probably washed ashore?"

That's one of the possible answer. Than it could be: "It isn't damaged enough to be in the water for 1 year, they just soaked it and placed on the shore to be found".

I don't believe in the conspiracy theory, but please, don't think this news will debunk them (actually, it is highly improbable an object traveled so many miles, it has been set up :-) )
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> this blog post made me feel like "those guys are doing black magic".

Two remarks. First, these guys probably don't know very well why what they are doing works so well ;) It requires a lot of trial and error, and a lot of patience and a lot of compute power (the latter being the reason why we are seeing breakthroughs only now).

Second, training a neural net requires different computing power from deploying the net. The neural network that is installed on your phone has been trained using a lot of time and/or a very large cluster. Your phone is merely "running" the network, and this requires much less compute power.
He had me until the bit comparing illegal movie downloads to terrorism and drugs, and how MegaUpload and Google are 'enablers' by allowing users to upload/search for copyright-infringing content. It's quite clear that he doesn't understand the nature of computers. Cory Doctorow has a great rebuttal of that argument in his talk on the coming war on general computationhttp://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html-

"The important tests of whether or not a regulation is fit for a purpose are first whether it will work, and second whether or not it will, in the course of doing its work, have effects on everything else. If I wanted Congress, Parliament, or the E.U. to regulate a wheel, it's unlikely I'd succeed. If I turned up, pointed out that bank robbers always make their escape on wheeled vehicles, and asked, “Can't we do something about this?", the answer would be “No". This is because we don't know how to make a wheel that is still generally useful for legitimate wheel applications, but useless to bad guys. We can all see that the general benefits of wheels are so profound that we'd be foolish to risk changing them in a foolish errand to stop bank robberies. Even if there were an epidemic of bank robberies—even if society were on the verge of collapse thanks to bank robberies—no-one would think that wheels were the right place to start solving our problems."

Computers have no notion of what is 'good' content and what is 'bad' content, and we aren't yet able to teach them accurately the difference (even humans aren't able to tell 100% of the time).
There are 12 buildings in seattle taller than 500 Feet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_S...

Food for thought
Here's the Email Zuckerberg Sent to Cut His Cofounder Out of Facebook (2012)
"Problem the 1st: how do you verify the example project is actually the candidate's own work?"

Have them discuss the code in depth. Architectural and design decisions, coding conventions, alternate approaches they rejected, etc. Pretty hard to fake this if they didn't write the code.

"Problem the 3rd: evaluating a large, unfamiliar codebase is actually really hard."

Good chance to assess the candidate's ability to document. :)

More seriously, though, this is again an opportunity for the candidate to walk you through the code.
Thanks for that comment. I felt I was the only one thinking that these drones in the sky constitute a major pollution and visual agression. In my case, it triggers the exact same revulsion I have when I discover a big spider walking on my ceiling. Yuck.

At least with trains, roads and airports, we can move away from the source of pollution. With drones, great, nowhere to hide. Pollution comes to you. Not to mention that I am sure soon we will have ads displayed on the side of the said drones. Did I hear "Blade Runner"?
Give Kira Inc. a look: https://kirasystems.com/
Based in Toronto, Kira systems builds machine learning contract analysis & review that helps professionals (including those in the finance/capital markets industry) complete contract review and analysis faster and more accurately.

Here's also an intro to machine learning, just in case:
http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/?...

Good luck with your search!
there is a difference between doomsday declaration on every technological advancement and just reasonable basic safety measures.

Specifically for drones - having millions of them in the sky would naturally lead to 2 things - automated traffic control with ground and airborne AESA radar systems that even military would envy (after all an Aegis destroyer have to track only several hundreds objects simultaneously where is drone traffic control over Bay Area would have to track a million) and the second thing - "license plate transponders" similar to car. Any drone without registered transponder will be taken off the sky by a police drone similar like an unregistered car from highway today.

So, yes, somebody would use the drones for crimes like today they can use planes or cars. So what? The drone flight will be recorded in radar and various visual systems. And like in any other case investigation will trace the stuff back to perpetrators. And sometimes not successfully.

And yes, machine guns plus cars did produce the Dillinger gang and the like for some short time. And it resulted in FBI. The way of progress...
There's pretty good internet access in most despotic countries, few of which have the advantages of social stability and breadth of surveillance apparatus as North Korea

Of course the likes of Lukashenko and Mugabe have seldom tried to claim that they're keeping their country perfect, and there's a risk that North Korea's propaganda is so unsophisticated it could end up looking utterly laughable even to pretty well-indoctrinated North Koreans[1], but its pretty hard to organise an effective resistance movement even when everyone in the country hasn't been educated in the values of the current regime since birth and the leadership hesitates to send entire families to gulags at the slightest provocation. It's worth pointing out that those who might be best to depose the Dear Leader, or at least undermine the hardliners in his inner circle, have had always had the privilege of access to communications with the outside world.

[1]but probably not as laughable as we think. If people with access to the same education and media as us find ISIS' rather crass blend of simplistic theology and beheading videos to be sufficiently appealing to trade their comfortable developed-world lives to don burkhas and marry ISIS fighters, then people occasionally watching broadcasts appearing to challenge those approved by the propaganda police can quite happily continue believing in the probably less-absurd cult of the unique virtues of the Dear Leader and the nation of the cleanest people enough to not die in a protest.
Not really. And it's not a translation error. Here's the original:

"Velocissimum omnium animalium, non solum marinorum, est delphinus, ocior volucre, acrior telo, ac nisi multum infra rostrum os illi foret medio paene in ventre, nullus piscium celeritatem eius evaderet."

Looking at pictures of dolphins, I guess he's referring to the fact that they have a very long beak ("rostrum") and therefore the mouth cavity ("os") is tucked in a lot more than other fish-like creatures. So much, indeed, that it might look like its mouth orifice is almost close to its belly.

He could have explained that a bit better, I guess, but something might be lost in the different nuances of meanings we give to "muzzle" and "mouth".
Let's cut him some slack, though. The guy was able to identify a singular dolphin thanks to the cuts made (by sailors, I guess) on its dorsal fin. That's a technique researchers are basically still using today in the photo-identification of sea mammals.
I'll take a years subscription :-)
Agreed on the consulting shop idea - am doing that for my little shop in rural NSW, using a similar structure to accountancies/law firms.
Are you sure about that? What happens when you get to a million cohort that you want to analyze?
I'm guessing this is a criticism? Well, it's a faulty one: much like scientists deepened the field of biology by looking both under a microscope and at the macro-scale (population studies, etc.), we can improve society for all people involved by both looking at micro-interactions (individual traffic stops) and macro-interactions (social forces and policies).
It really comes down to this. One of my psychology textbooks characterized the basic distinction between extrovert and introvert as the following:

Extroverts become uncomfortable with a lack of external stimuli and thus prefer to surround themselves with stimuli.

Introverts become uncomfortable with too much external stimulus and thus prefer to isolate themselves from excessive stimulus.

To me that basically directly quantifies why some people thrive in an open office and other suffer. I'm not sure what the solution is to requiring essentially two different environments depending on a person's makeup.
If you're interviewing with 20 companies, you're probably already spending 4+ hours with each of them in person.

That's a lot of companies to entertain! When I was interviewing, I could barely maintain the composure to interview with 3 companies! (Only one of which had a take-home assignment.)
Let's assume you're right. Why can't you choose characters to compare randomly, until you've compared them all?
Fares are much cheaper outside of the bay area. I was introduced to Lyft in SLC and was mildly stunned when I went to San Diego by how much higher the rates were.
> He told me I could make upwards of $300 a night...

Interesting how that compares to the $90k/yr figure widely quoted last year (granted, for NYC not ATL). Working full-time (5 days a week, 52 weeks a year), that's $78k. (And still seems high, according to the author.)
The author at several points seems to dither between an insightful consideration of the technological present, and what I can only quantify as an underlying fear indicative of the very sleepiness against which we're being warned. For example:

> My deeper question comes from my position as a professor here for the last 12 years, where I have watched the lure of Silicon Valley grow stronger. If the best and the brightest of you are drawn to building addictive apps rather than making great journalism, important films, or literature that survives the test of time, will we as a society be ultimately impoverished?

Might not have Rip said, on the day of his return to waking life, "if the best and the brightest of you are drawn to building democracy rather than making great works in the name of the monarchy, an institution that is sure to survive the test of time, will we as a society be ultimately impoverished for lack of grace?"

One cannot claim that the future is being misunderstood because it does not look like one's past. Yes, the increasing ubiquity of processing machines has altered society. These are still early days and the changes are so new, it's a bit like bumbling around in the dark. It seems short-sighted to assume that the current state is in any way permanent or indicative of future states.

> I was lucky enough to be involved with some artists like Bob Dylan, The Band, George Harrison, and Martin Scorsese, whose work will surely stand the test of time. I’m not sure I know what the implications are of the role-model shift from rebel filmmaker to software coder.

Neither are we. Something, however, is quite certain: whatever the implications, the future is coming and calling it wrong because it is incongruous with the past is to miss it.
Exceptions in destructors and Visual Studio 2015
I have a few examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDDpJnnplA (challenge: what exactly is the vocal arranger's name here?)

I like that particular rendition of the song, however note the sheer amount of other renditions of it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hibikase

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQKGUgOfD8U

The same, there's an astounding amount of variations: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=echo+vocaloid

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For the last one i have two different variations i prefer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn15unrb7qw (try figuring out how you'd tag that one in the first place)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUGHBR-lxrU (my favourite version with a vocaloid)

And all the variations: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rockbell

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Then there's also the question of names. On of my favourite arrangers goes by うたたP, or is it utataP? He actually uses both.
Same could be said of a take home test. You can outsource it for $100. I doubt it would get you anywhere at a company worth it's salt.
like airplanes? Might be a bit large.
what's that mean? as in women&mean meet/date their drivers?
After reading many articles, posts, communication channels, etc. on the Internet about IUT Theory of Shinichi Mochizuki, I think I am starting to understand why some people believe that the theory doesn't prove the ABC conjecture. It can be summed up by a phrase I found on some blog: "I believe in a proof if I understand it.". I have done some research, and came upon the source of that idea:

Pierre Deligne was first to express: "I don't believe in a proof done by a computer ... I believe in a proof if I understand it."

[George G. Szpiro, Kepler's Conjecture, John Wiley, 2003. p.21]
You probably already purchase insurance on your house...
I Tried the “Warby Parker of Mattresses.” It’s Spongy but Worth It
>"Why should I program for free at home, my resume clearly shows I am already a skilled programmer. All this will do is cater to young people without families, or those fresh out of school".

I share this opinion, but only for certain ways of doing it. If it's done in a fully automated way, before even having a phone screen, then it's too easy to waste my time. As an alternative to the whiteboarding interview, however, it could be great.
I don't think these are normal CPUs. I'm not an expert on this by any means, but is a radiation-hardened CPU (as is needed in space) manufactured with a different process than chips designed to operate within the Earth's atmosphere?
The reviews on One Single Life suggest that reinstalling is possible, which could be the difference between those two cases.
True, though there's often worse to be found from the professional journalists on the various three letter news networks.
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No. Lyft Line involves multiple passengers who do not know each other before the ride. Like carpooling. cft's implying that those passengers are meeting each other during the ride and dating.
Honestly, I don't think he gets that smart phones as they are now are not going to replace the PC form factor. Until a smart phone can be plugged into a docking station with a keyboard, the smart phone will be a limited data consuming (not creating) device. For example, you won't be watching TV or first run movies on a phone's screen (seriously, who the hell would?). But you can tap out a message for twitter or facebook on a phone. Phones fit those situations and I honestly love mine for navigation. Beyond that, if I want to play a game or watch a tv show or write up a lengthy comment on HN then I'm going to use a PC or a laptop since those form factors are much easier to use for those purposes.
I love the concept of the game, and given the broader rules on the Google Play store, I can see this app making it there.

On the other hand, it's trivial to back up and re-install .apks, so the game would likely have to be modified to get around that loophole.
Live programming from Sean McDirmid
http://www.webdesignernews.com/

http://inbound.org/
"Won't this happen when the review happens?"

At that point, the candidate should not be hired.

If the candidate can't communicate while writing code, and can't communicate about code already written, at some point you have to be afraid the candidate just can't communicate.

If this is a person who can communicate in any situation except an interview situation, then it's a Catch 22 where their ability to communicate in a work environment just can't be verified.

(Unless you secretly record them communicating in some other work context? Probably not a scalable approach.)
As an early user of blockspring I was excited to login and add another one of my APIs (bitcoin related) that would be perfect for having in spreadsheets. Unfortunately I couldn't find any obvious way to add an API. Naturally I hacked it by going to one of my existing APIs (thanks google, I couldn't find a URL from the UI otherwise) and cloning it. Here's the UI of the create API page[1] for anyone who's interested.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/wQoyhT1.png

Edit: You can create new APIs on blockspring by going directly to a route[2] which still works. I saw Alexa had an API but it needed authentication credentials, and since I already had found Alexa's undocumented API[3] I added it to blockspring[4] just for fun.

[2] https://open.blockspring.com/blocks/new

[3] http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&url=news.ycombinator.com

[4] https://open.blockspring.com/montanaflynn/alexa-rank
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"don't want your stuff stolen."

I would like to see a startup for what amounts to background checked, bonded, doorman service. Someone in my neighborhood I could trust to take deliveries, stuff like that. Outsourcing trust, I guess.

I could see drone delivery company "tipping" some old retired guy to solve their "last tenth of a mile" problem as he walks down the block to my house.

Alternately make all uber (or insert other) driver watch some training videos and tell them to be at xyz address at abc time and they verify safety and walk the last 50 feet and hand deliver, for a modest tip of course.

Presumably if I watched the training videos and didn't have badminton nets and kids pool and ham radio antennae in my backyard the drone could deliver directly to me and save me the cost.
I've been giving applicants home assignments for years now, in 3 companies. I do it as a third step, only after a phone screening and at least one personal interview (that might include some very very light whiteboard coding, but will touch a lot of technical stuff), and only if I find the person to be right for the job.

So out of dozens of CVs, a handful will be invited to a personal interview, and maybe one or two people will actually get the home test. I get that it's time consuming so I try not to waste people's time if I'm not serious about them. On a couple of occasions when people said they're time limited, interviewing for a lot of places, etc - I've allowed them a one hour on site task that is of course simpler.

And it's very rare that people are rejected based solely on the code in the home test, it usually has more factors than that. But if you have two good candidates, it might help tip the balance in favor of one of them.

BTW I don't only review the code. I find that the quality of the documentation (not only comments - I ask for a short text describing the design choices, code structure, etc) is usually one of the best signals. Bad grammar and poor language, complicated descriptions of simple things, focusing on unimportant parts - are huge telltales of problems in a person's thinking. Clear, well versed, concise text usually indicates a smart and pragmatic person.
Ok I get your point, and you seem to be arguing the same as the article - the value of a register of sex offenders is not as great as it might seem.

it depends I suppose on whether the register has much of an effect. I mean if you reoffend even after going to jail, having your name on a list seems unlikely to help.
From LtU: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5182