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HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
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Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
#342Hackerrank filed a DMCA notice against my blog because of a graph search example I had a written and I had 24 hours to full delete it or my blog would be deleted.
As an individual this is so frustrating and if you mission is to support developers Vivek, I'm one developer that had quite the opposite experience.
I frankly am very frustrated by your company and you hiring folks to shakedown developers writing poen blogs or docs. If any company tries to get me to do a hackerrank interview to join I'm going to decline.
Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
#343Hello again, Vivek, founder/CEO here. In the interest of moving swiftly, here are the actions we are going to take: (1) We have withdrawn the DMCA notice for sympy; Sent a note to senior leadership in Github to act on this quickly. (2) We have stopped the whole DMCA process for now and working on internal guidelines of what constitutes a real violation so that these kind of incidents don't happen. We are going to do…
You are not really sorry and will do this again. I won't be using HackerRank for my recruitment purposes.
Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who (last week) ok'ed a guy with 35 years experience to skip the first round of interviews, only to then watch him struggle to write syntactically-correct code in a language he's (allegedly) been using for longer than I've been alive, I disagree. HR isn't a be-all-end-all metric, and it certainly has its faults, but it's very useful as a first-round filter.
If you're just using HackerRank as a first round filter to see if they can write syntactically-correct code in a language... you don't need hackerRank. Or to restate this, if your interview process can't filter out such a candidate without using hackerRank, your interview process itself is flawed.
I never said HR is the solution for first-round filtering, I'm saying it's a solution that works, regardless of its intended purpose.
Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except, there's a difference when you're in a room with somebody who can tell when the shitty site or the vague nature of a question makes it difficult to complete the request. They can also better gauge someone's understanding of subject matter, merely by talking through the question, approach, etc. The availability of these sites makes it seem like it's a standard, which adds to the problem. Some small company migh…
I agree with many parts of your comment. I have been in interviews where the interviewers themselves clearly had no fundamental understanding of the problem or solution. To be clear, I didn't either, but asking clarifying questions got me nowhere. > Now, you don't want to fall behind by not making use of a widely-accepted "standard" practice. Absolutely. I can understand Google asking you to write a k-way distributed…
Even so, there is either someone available for some clarification, in my experience. Obviously, this varies across companies and at various levels of helpfulness. Your point is valid, though.
The other part there is that it puts the onus on the third-party site(s), exacerbating the problem; whereas, if the interviewers do not understand the question, they are more likely to focus on one of those items to correct going forward.
Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi Vivek, why was the DMCA filed in the first place?
Reading elsewhere in the thread it looks like they have been relying on firms in Pakistan and elsewhere to scour the internet for strings that appear in Hacker Rank and submit DMCA takedowns when they find these strings elsewhere. This becomes awkward when it is in fact Hacker Rank that copied the strings from the source they are DMCAing. They should probably never send a DMCA again. It's political suicide in this in…
That is how business is run in the US, but not exclusively. They don't want to have dirty hands and hired some company with specific profile to do this job for them. They took a time to find company like this. This is not an unexpected accident. And when things become hot, they blow some money to shut other mouths.
Shady practice for the bad people who got caught several times. Taking responsibility for them will be ceasing whole business. Just stop doing bad things.
Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
#347Hello again, Vivek, founder/CEO here. In the interest of moving swiftly, here are the actions we are going to take: (1) We have withdrawn the DMCA notice for sympy; Sent a note to senior leadership in Github to act on this quickly. (2) We have stopped the whole DMCA process for now and working on internal guidelines of what constitutes a real violation so that these kind of incidents don't happen. We are going to do…
Dmca as process should be stopped, you buffoon
It is better to stop doing business. I guess!
Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup, and a couple of the stock photos of "Our team" are duplicates. Crazy. How does an outfit like this get hired?
Because there are lazy companies like Hacker Rank on the market to hire them.
Stop pulling responsibility from Hacker Rank. They hired this firm because they do business like this.