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Comment by dikaiosune | Hacker News Reader

I could have sworn I already read this, turns out the date on the article isn't correct, I think this was written in June '15:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9766816

Which makes sense given that I tried out their online quiz this summer after reading this exact post.

EDIT: Here's a link to when it was posted to LinkedIn, June 23rd, 2015:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-hundred-programming-int...

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We moved the blog to medium about a month ago. Since writing this, we've tested a bunch of new things, and now have about 20% better precision on the quiz (20% increase in the percentage that we predict will pass and go on to pass). There are some other interesting results (one is that easy programming problems are about as effective at screening as hard programming problems). I'll be writing more about this, with the new data/results in the next few months.

My bad! I did an HN search for the link before submitting it, I find that gets around cases where people change the title. But I could have done a title search as well.

Well it's clearly not that much of a problem, HN has such an appetite for what they're doing/writing about that it's back on the front page. Also for what it's worth even though I'd previously read the article I made it about halfway through before it clicked for me that I'd already seen it.

Yeah, that seems to be correct. I wonder why the date changed and it was reposted?

Yeah, I'm not sure. It looks like maybe they changed their blogging backend from whatever in-house thing they used to Medium? Their blog (https://data.triplebyte.com/) is now showing Medium stories with publish dates from last month. Maybe Medium doesn't let you set arbitrary dates when migrating?

This is certainly true. All migrated stories get their publication dates set to "now." In my case, I added a footer on each migrated post stating its original post date.

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