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InterviewStreet ( http://interviewstreet.com ) - Mountain View and Bangalore Programmers for frontend, backend, and project management roles. Our hacker team is 5 strong, so you'll…

That was how we originally built it, but we found it less fun to rate in testing compared to this version. Hopefully the increased votes-per-person outweigh the loss of fidelity.

Mountain View (Remote OK for first couple of months) InterviewStreet (YC '11) is solving technical hiring through interesting, practical problems (like Stripe's recent CTF). You'd …

The biology revolution is coming, both sooner and later than you think. As one indicator, the price per base pair of DNA synthesis is following a Moore's Law, ( http://singularity.…

The topic that patio11 mentioned is covered pretty well in chapter 2 of Freakonomics. The actual text doesn't seem to be part of the official sample excerpt, but somebody posted th…

Scientific American had a great article on this in my Pinboard: "The Secret of Raising Smart Kids: Don't Tell Them They Are" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-se…

It looks like your privacy settings / a plugin you have installed doesn't allow for even obsfucated email sharing. Normally, what we get for Facebook logins is app+ @proxymail.face…

Wow, we did not expect to see this level of criticism from the comments. A lot of the focus is on the 48 hour period, in that it's basically way too long to expect you guys to part…

Companies choose candidates on a per-question weighting system. Thus, if you spend only a couple of hours, but on a problem that is valued highly by a specific company, then there'…

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Just to clarify a quote: “Everything will be based on performance — how fast they code, how many they get right.” This is a slight misrepresentation of the original intent. What we…

Which university is it? We'll manually add it in, and if we get a lot more comments about universities not being city-specific, we'll make the change.

For CodeSprint 2, we decided to introduce Real World Problems: programming problems that our CodeSprint companies face in real life. Real World Problems are messy, complicated, and…