"Hiring is broken", right up there with "Does your content marketing strategy need an API?", "Seniors in Norwich can..." , and "Throw out this one vegetable now!"
Everyone who says hiring is broken has a brilliant idea to break it even further.
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#392Assume for a moment I'm a bad-faith, nosy employer who reads HN on a Saturday morning. All it takes for me to match up my little stack of current employee's resumes is a person's city of residence, skills, and employment dates. If I'm that kind of employer, that's enough to raise my red flags. If prior employers are named outright, that's a 100% ID. If employment dates are paired with employment location, that's a 10…
> those comments don't get flagged out of future HN search results. Triplebyte is a YC company and HN is a YC site, so economic interests are aligned with nuking highly critical comments
When it comes to moderation of a YC startup on HN, "The first rule of HN moderation is to moderate less, not more" says dang on previous threads concerning YC startups and he has expressed the same sentiment here in this thread
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#393I'm not optimistic in Triplebyte's ability to execute here because I think they fundamentally think of developers as "content" and recruiters as the primary customer. Shameless plug: If anyone would like to create a developer profile that you have full control over and that doesn't expose you to recruiter spam, please check out what I'm building at https://fizbuz.com .
Requiring a third-party service to sign up is unfortunately not acceptable. Best of luck once you fix that.
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#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> Government identification may be required and we may ask you for more information in order to verify your identify Same issue as I'm currently having with Airbnb. Though I have never ever provided any ID before, nor did I ever book anything, they asked me for an ID to prove my identity upon requesting account removal. How exactly does my ID _prove_ anything in my case (apart from the fact that I have an ID copy of…
It's pretty common actually. They will delete all your data, but that requires strong authentication, which government ID is. That's how it works with gdpr in 90% of cases.
I've deleted a lot of accounts in the last few weeks, and Airbnb was the only one requiring an ID prove. I agree, it is indeed part of GDPR for them to ensure I have the right to delete my account. My only issue is that my ID does not prove anything in my case, because Airbnb doesn't know my identity which they could compare my ID with, because I did have to provide my ID after registering and I never booked anything on their site.
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#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
> those comments don't get flagged out of future HN search results. Triplebyte is a YC company and HN is a YC site, so economic interests are aligned with nuking highly critical comments
> economic interests are aligned with nuking highly critical comments This is theoretically true, but the fact that it's been on the home page for 12 hours and has accumulated hundreds of critical comments, none of which any mod has touched, seems to (a) eliminate that possibility and (b) demonstrate that the risk is theoretical, not actual. (Keep in mind that YC has thousands of investments, so whatever you think of…
In fact the only (public) mod action was to put it back on the homepage after it tripped the flamewar detector and fell off.
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#396I took one of their dev quizzes when they launched just for the hell of it and entered my name as "Die in a Fire" which gives me a giggle every time I get an update from them. This time around, it was even funnier. I have such a dislike for middleman industries like recruiting. I know they provide real value but once one of them gets hold, it's almost inevitable they'll use their market position to squeeze everybody involved.
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#397Thank you for posting this.
I read the first sentence, and falsely concluded that they were just pointlessly offering some oauth service. There's too much email that it's easy to get away with something like this without users realizing it.
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#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't this breaching GDPR regulations along with a host of others?
Pity to see this downvoted, yes it is!
There seems to be a strong urge on this forum to downvote anything that informs users of the things GDPR does to help them, most likely because a large portion of the people on this forum have a vested interest in being able to abuse users in ways that go against the GDPR.
Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
#399Thank you for posting this.
I had considered Triplebyte as a platform to use years ago but never got around to filling it all out. I _did_ see this email but didn't really think about it until I read this article.
No doubt, this move was made to incentivize more cash flow for Triplebyte. I've lost my trust in the company and will not be recommending them to anyone I speak to again.
Customers will use your service, if they trust you and you provide value. Pulling sneaky things like this to keep your shareholders happy are not the things I want to be apart of. If you can't make money, why not consider offering Triplebyte to be paid, instead of going behind our backs in a sneaky way trying to sell our personal data.
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#400Ammon's previous venture was Socialcam [1], of which Wikipedia says > Socialcam's popularity on Facebook suddenly increased in the spring of 2012, via unusually aggressive actions to induce contacts to join. It was criticized as "invasive" and a "bully" by many reviewers, for sharing what users were viewing without them realizing that that would happen. It was only after articles like "Why I Hate Socialcam Even If It…
Ammon and Guillaume came from Socialcam, so two-thirds of the Triplebyte founders. (Though only Ammon has showed up here, so it’s possible that Guillame doesn’t share the same opinions.)