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If it's like other Google Android devices, you're free to install a custom bootloader and other (Linux) OSes. None seem to have as good touch UI support as Android or perhaps Ubuntu Touch, though.
Netflix has amazing stuff for kids as well: Bill Nye, Magic Schoolbus, to name a few.
I agree you and your manager should talk and agree on what number of days is reasonable. That's why you should have a number and not "unlimited".
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I have the same gut reaction, but as counterpoint, I know some people that grew up with parents that really restricted viewing- not 'no tv at all', but close enough.

Later, the parents conceded that the media blackout backfired, as their kid couldn't relate to a lot of the things their peers were talking about- even if it is 'pointless bullshit'. They weren't like a social pariah or anything, but to this day, they feel uncomfortable in those conversations where you recall tv/movies growing up.

Not really defending tv, but there's probably a good middle ground that lets the kid still participate in their culture.
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Could the issue be caused by bad peering between your ISPs?
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I did not know that new users could upvote on HN. Interesting!
For what it's worth, that doesn't look like it's true. There's this[0] link on the front page to Kotaku.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10697939
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Exactly. EXACTLY!

I'm not going to lay on my death bed and wish I had another couple lines of code committed.
I don't understand why folks think this is out-of-place on HN. It seems on target to me.

It is evidence of an emergent media phenomenon (albeit a slow one) - that a single character on an iconic platform changed its dynamic enough to cause its identity to come into question.

Because Sesame Street leveraged novelty and maturity, the emergence of a cutesy, immature, "it's all about MEEE!" type of character represents a sort of test case, and in this case, the evidence is that the show changed as the result.
We had it much narrower earlier, but it seemed to waste a lot of horizontal space. We'll try a narrow margin and see, thanks!
That's fine but when all they show on Sesame Street is Elmo skits your two year old at age six is still relating to a two year old.
How do you do a work-hire test for someone who already has a job, and is not allowed to work on another company's stuff?
This is a Tablet so it is vs Tablets not Surfaces (Which I personally consider a Surface a convertible) A tablet can't just mean has no keyboard to me.
I just hope that Twitter is not working on a similar app …
I read jenshoop to mean: when recruiting, describe in some technical depth, the difficult, unique problems your company is solving to build its product(s).
Well, couldn't this go horribly wrong? Because let's face it, as much as some stuff (read, IS propoganda) is obviously hate, the definition is theoretically vague enough to cover anything that some group or another doesn't like. How would you stop a government abusing this to remove criticism of their policies and leaders?

Or various groups wanting it to classify whatever they don't like/feel threatened by as 'hate'?
I don't know about Silicon Valley, but in Colorado it's almost never that bad for software jobs.

In 12 years I don't recall any jobs with fewer than 15 days. My current job is "unlimited", and I took nearly 25 days one year.
Dutch government to donate 500k to encryption projects (translation in comments)
Non-robot translation:

The Dutch House of Representatives accepted a proposal by the party D66 to donate 500 000 euros to open source projects related to encryption. The proposal should help strengthen government's encryption instead of weakening it.

The House of Representatives agreed Tuesday on a broader proposal[1] than D66 originally[2] put forth in October. Back then the proposal was to donate half a million to the OpenSSL project. Now it's undetermined to which project the money will go. "The ministry of Economic Affairs has to, in consultation with experts in the field, select projects that are crucial for the international Internet infrastructure", writes the accepted amendment.

The proposal does name examples like OpenSSL, LibreSSL and PolarSSL. These kinds of projects typically depend on volunteers, but millions of people worldwide benefit from it. The text explicitly goes into the attempts of some governments to undermine encryption, for example with back doors. Critics point out that not just intelligence agencies but also criminals could use these.

The House of Representatives wants to counter these developments with the donation and support strengthening encryption. The money will come from the IT policy budget from the ministry of Economic Affairs.

Original: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/106723/open-encryptieprojecten-kr...

Links in the article:

[1] The proposal (Dutch, from the House of Representatives' own website): http://www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/document?id=f8a573f0-285...

[2] A news message about the original proposal (Dutch): http://tweakers.net/nieuws/105739/d66-wil-half-miljoen-euro-...

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Any comments regarding submitting it this way? Or any remarks on my English? Let me know! @lucb1e on Twitter, or respond here if it's on topic.
If it's possible to abuse it then it's not really unlimited. Why not just decide what is appropriate and put it in the contract, so everyone agrees how much vacation they can take?

Also there's no reason everyone has to receive the same amount. Indeed that would be very unusual.
I accepted an offer at IBM a few months ago and had to take an IQ tests of sorts. It was mostly focused around pattern recognition with some algebra problems thrown in. At best it seemed only tangentially related to programming ability.. I'm not sure that attempting to measure whether a candidate is "smart" or not is a good hiring strategy.

A good analogy for this type of interviewing is like trying to judge how good someone is at basketball by measuring how tall they are. Is it related? Sure. But it certainly doesn't give you the whole picture and might not be a useful information at all. Watching them play a few games would be a better strategy.

Fortunately there a quite a few startups working on this problem. Lytmus is one in particular that I think looks very promising.
Most users seems to add all links from their tweets. Maybe that will change!
Cloudflare lets you announce your own IP space through their serivce on non-personal plans don't they?
This affects 2008 and newer, older versions did not support DNAME[1] records. It isn't clear whether an existing DNAME record needs to exist in order for this to be exploitable. Skimming the Sonar FDNS[2] dataset, only 5,581 DNAME records were identified[3]. A diff has been posted by Greg Linares[4], showing the addition of a memset(0) to the DNAME merge function.

1. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6672
2. https://scans.io/study/sonar.fdns
3. https://hdm.io/data/20151121_dname.txt.gz
4. https://twitter.com/Laughing_Mantis/status/67430845437942579...
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That is a really bad keyboard layout. I really don't like the vertical return key or how they cut off the end keys.
It's pretty third world out there.
>The reason the author doesn't like Elmo is because he acts like a two year old.

I think the author's reasons for not liking Elmo are actually the ones he stated and took an entire essay to carefully explain.

And I find the author's detailed reasons compelling. I think there's something to be said in modeling behavior that you'd want a younger child to aspire to rather than just presenting them a mirror as they are today. I'm with him in feeling that it just isn't as challenging or valuable. I absolutely think the old show did a much better job of that.
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Yes, the outage detail page mentions auth issues in its current summary: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/appengine/15025
I'm not particularly moved by this assessment.

Two year olds are incredibly diverse. Elmo exhibits only certain, particular behaviors of a two-year-old: he is self-centered, demands everyone else's attention, and is mostly oblivious to the fact that he's part of a larger social dynamic.

In the early days of Snuffy and Big Bird, they acted more like two-year-olds also, but they leaned on other qualities that are often evident in people who are learning language and movement: they were thoughtful, unafraid to say things that didn't make sense at first blush, and descriptive about their imaginations.
> no strong noes

This is the problem. It allows one interviewer with a pet peeve to torpedo an otherwise excellent hire. Where I work, whoever ends up on the wrong side of the majority needs to make a case good enough to convince the majority to switch. Being strongly in the minority is not good enough.

The culture of accepting high false negative rates leads to the "no weaknesses" hiring the GP was complaining about.
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I'm just old enough to have watched Sesame Street when Grover was a big deal and Elmo had yet to become huge (late '80s), and he was the main character I glommmed onto then. I still don't get Elmo's appeal.
I've been telling you that you're making the wrong assumptions about blockchain applications because you're assuming it has to be based on bitcoin designs. Again, a closed blockchain doesn't require it to be open to the public for miners.

If you're getting frustrated and think that is deflecting then it's possible you have a cognitive bias.
This video is AMAZING and well worth watching. Skip ahead a minute or so if you have a very short attention span.

I most enjoyed watching Obama with Bush's facial expressions -- Bush is so expressive that it just looks incredibly wrong on Obama's face -- I wish they would run an Obama speech on Bush's face as well.
Right right, just like the Hollywood blacklist didn't violate anyone's First Amendment rights. (You could have at least read to the end of my comment, lol)
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I don't know where the parent lives in Brazil, but the supermarket chain comment definitely has not been my experience in upper-middle class Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods.

People use Whatsapp instead of SMS because it simply is a better user experience, specially for sending media and group chat, not for showing off, or keeping in touch with relatives abroad. Phone companies began offering "free whatsapp" even in pre-paid plans because it because it became very popular, as a way to attract costumers, not the other way around.
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> was notable for [random source addresses]

I thought that was a common thing to do if it's not reflected. Flooding the pipe is older rather than newer.

Thanks for clarifying though!
>Besides, there is also a cultural element here: privacy is a lot more valued in anglo-saxon cultures than in Latino cultures. Brazilians, Italians and others are a lot less concerned about things such as personal space ...

Speaking specifically about Brazilians, privacy works differently but so does "trust". Brazilians prefer to use intermediaries to establish trust much more so than North Americans:

- You cannot rent an apartment in Brazil without going through a broker (unless you know the owner personally). Brazilians will pay a middleman for some reason. In Canada and the USA, it's the opposite -- almost nobody uses a broker; the renter and the owner deal with each other.

- Professional jobs like software development go through recruitment firms almost exclusively. Whereas a big company would hire directly in the USA, in Brazil they'll use one of the Brazilian recruiting firms and pay a large fee. And professionals (such as programmers) will browse the recruiting firm's site and won't think to apply directly to the company.

- Brazilians are unlikely to invite a stranger they met (over the Internet, by phone, or even in person) into their home. Even if the person is a professional business contact. In Canada/USA, people are much more open to inviting a business contact into their home. But if the Brazilian has an introduction to the person by a mutual friend, then the person is no longer a stranger; he is immediately welcome.

Both privacy and trust work differently in Brazil.
I suspect Hulu+, Netflix, Amazon' and similar will help. With some configuration it should be possible to control what your kids have access to, while still giving them broad access to media their generation is interested in. Compared to the option from 10+ years ago, which was pretty much all TV or no TV and maybe access to a video rental store and theaters for movies.
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I LOVED Sesame Street, but have always hated Elmo - for exactly the reasons detailed in this article - and I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Fortunately, I'm old enough to have watched Sesame Street before Elmo took over.

As an aside, I wish someone would revive The Electric Company.
IQ tests are not only politically incorrect they are illegal in the US. It is illegal discrimination to make hiring decisions based on IQ scores. You can only use a test that shows those with higher scores perform better at the job. A general IQ test can not be shown to do that. Basically you can not ask questions that test skills that would not be used in the job the candidate is applying for.

You must be able to defend the metric you use for hiring and that it is not discriminatory. If you give an IQ test that is unrelated to the job and say no one below 100 IQ will be hired you must prove that someone with 101 IQ can do the job but someone with 99 IQ can not properly do the job
I don't think Tumblr: The Show is something you should want to be influencing your kids.
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True, but also consider that you're the product in this case, and the salesman (in many cases) doesn't care who he makes the sale to. It may be better to first research and shortlist companies that you want to target, and then find a recruiter who has them as a client? Never done that myself, so don't know how practical it might be.
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For anyone here looking for a really good, free,self-hosted, hackable, open source alternative to Google Analytics that's been around for a long time, please consider Piwik.org.

I've been using it for prob 8-10 years and it has never missed a beat. I use it on all my personal / business sites as well as some client websites that are super high traffic.
Interesting idea, but it seems like diffraction will be a serious problem for this. Any time you have tiny little holes (apertures) you are going to get a lot of diffraction that will result in very blurry images.
Many successful people who've built and exited massive start-ups have suggested that it's worthwhile on the start-up side to spend 25% of your time on hiring when you're actually hiring as so you can easily get above 10 hrs a week given a full time role on this and have that be a good result. Optimizing to minimize the cost of hiring an early engineer is definitely solving the wrong problem, given the early engineers are almost as crucial to success as founders. Unfortunately, hit rate is also often the wrong variable from the company end: if you interview an academic programmer to confirm their product programming skills you generally get someone better with a larger skill set than if you focus in the category you want for the skills you want (early-stage you generally want breadth over depth for many roles). It clearly sucks for people on the receiving end of the low hit rate interview, but I'd caution start-ups against optimizing their process for the wrong things.
Yes it is. In most companies it's common to start with 10 days and then increase by 5 days with every few years of experience. Some do more; starting with 15 days is generous.

But also remember it's business days. So 10 days = 2 weeks.
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Lack of software. Or at least lack of high-quality software for getting real work done. I had an Android tablet for a while. It was nicely portable, had good battery life, could do a lot of things well, but I just couldn't find any apps I liked for two things I do often: ssh and creating presentations. One ssh app could do tunnels, but got all confused if I tried to open multiple terminal sessions. Another handled multiple sessions OK, but couldn't do tunnels. Then the two would interfere with one another if I tried to run both simultaneously. For presentations, many couldn't do something as basic as keep track of where my cursor was, and would add text at the wrong place. Others at least worked, but couldn't do anything more complex than a bullet list. A real email app would have been nice, but I had to use both home and work webmail (which are very different) instead. From what I can tell, all of this has only gotten a tiny bit better in the last couple of years. It would be great if there were more Android developers coming from the desktop space instead of the phone space, producing more desktop-like apps, but that doesn't seem to be the case. As long as that continues to be the case, using Android on one's primary machine will continue to be frustrating.

ChromeOS, on the other hand, seems to be in better shape. I'm seriously debating with myself about whether to get a regular Pixel (not Pixel C) as my next main computer.
How does compensation play into these results? The 9 categories will have very different comp profiles
> The problem you're working on can be fake

I'm assuming if it was a fake problem, it wouldn't be something the other company could actually use.
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Why are we still using Credit Cards as payment processing? Why can't we have something with a "Push" mechanism, instead of the "Pull" with the CCs.
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Startups should realize that this is a thoroughly idiotic notion, and should abandon it ASAP. The one thing that large software companies do well is SHIP PRODUCTS. A good software engineer is someone who can ship a product, even if its ill-defined or not feature-complete. This is a virtue. Small companies, especially startups, have a horrible track record for shipping software that in any way resembles its product plan.

At my startup, candidates from large companies are immediately prioritized in the hiring queue. This strategy has always paid off; there is a high correlation between large company experience and good software engineering practices.
So, this is a device that could easily have been delivered with ChromeOS, but instead is running Android. In fact, I don't think the Pixel line has ever had an Android device, am I correct?

My gut is that rumors of ChromeOS's demise were not overblown, which is tough in my house -- all but one household computer runs on Chrome right now.

We'll see what the future brings, but I don't have faith that Android devices scaled up to desktop size are going to bring the same quality of experience my family gets right now with their Chromebooks.
Forgive me if this is ignorant, but does that basically mean the "employer match" (common at orgs I've worked for) is basically doing nothing as it's a similar percentage?
Yes, there is always a mix, and the mix is always mostly garbage. But if you have a TV in the house, the tendency is just to watch whatever crap is on because it is easy.

Any good current show will eventually become a good old show. And if it is good enough and matches my tastes well enough, I'll eventually hear enough about it that I choose to watch it. And I'm OK with that. I have enough going on in my life that I have no need to rush to watch things just because they are currently being released.

So I believe you when you say that there are great modern shows. And I do not see that as a reason to get a TV.

Disclaimer. I grew up without a TV back when that was really weird. As a grown-up I spent periods both with and without a TV. I have no TV by choice. I do have children, but youtube channels seem to fill the place in their lives that TV serves for most kids.
Enterprise programmer bias? Could be higher salary expectations?
They tried. The new Electric Company lasted 1.5 seasons or so. It was totally new and different... and not nearly as addictive, funny, or clever as the original one.
The cost of a real work test is much higher, both to the company, and to the applicant. Some companies take that approach (weebly for one), but it means that some of the best programmer will not apply, and it only makes worse the problem of having to aggressively pre-filter (based on credentials, or something else).

You are 100% correct that most research into interviewing has show it to be far less predictive than companies believe. However, I'll add that no one is doing the false negative studies that would really be required to show this. For example, Google has shown that among people who pass their interview GPA is not correlated with success. This does not at all mean that GPA is not correlated with programming ability. In fact, it almost certainly is. People with low GPA who pass google interviews have a lot of other things going for them. To really analyze this, you'd have to give a job to a random sample of applicants. No one has done this. My goal is for Triplebye to get large enough that I can.
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Yes. That is, for instance, how Kickstarter works.
Yes, but wasn't that change less than twenty years ago?
Yeah, the "two week trial period" (or one week, or week-of-evenings, or whatever) is a non-starter for the experienced programmer who doesn't really need a job. And these are the folks that you want to attract.

High bars can really turn out to be self-sabotage.
A lot of what I see large defense contractors get attacked for is just them simply giving the government what the government asks for. Now, that doesn't mean the big guys are or should be immune from criticism. But they're not going to ignore a big pile of money to do something, even if that something is dumb. The days of Kelly Johnson sending money back to the government because "we're building you a real dog" are (sadly) over.
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