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The pricing seems ridiculous, but it is unabashedly a companion device, and is almost certainly Samsung testing out form factors to see what demographics they work in. Being able to check and respond to messages and do basic operations without pulling out your smartphone may appeal to some people.

Recall when the Galaxy Note first came out it was almost universally mocked (including on here, it should be mentioned. I recall the pages of people declaring it DoA, etc). Turned into an incredible success.

And let's bring this full circle -- in selling larger and larger smartphone/tablet devices, it almost makes a market for a device like this.

At $300 this isn't going to go far, but I'm sure the $200, 800x600, quad-core successor is just around the corner, and then the $100 model, etc.
My reservation with the notion of a smartwatch is battery life. I care to charge my phone, but I really don't like the idea of also having to charge my watch for mildly more convenient features than my phone.
I was being sarcastic, the point is it's big, no, not even big, it's enormous and unwieldy.
This is a really insightful comment. I've struggled in the past with what the purpose of commenting is. I've written some programs where comments were the majority of the code, and it was actually more difficult to read than if I'd just left it unannotated. I've also written quick-and-dirty programs that gradually turned into behemoths, left them alone for six months, and then come back to them and felt like kicking myself for not putting comments in.

I just had a crazy idea for commenting, though - I'm imagining an IDE that is built for two monitors. The left monitor is your source code. The right monitor is your comments. You wouldn't put your comments in and around the code; you'd put them into this application that would be running on the right monitor. When you select a line of source code, the relevant comments pop up on the right side. They can be as complex as you want them to be. If your class needs five pages of comments, you can put five pages of comments and not have to worry that it's going to disrupt the source code. Then, when you select something else, that comment disappears and is replaced by the comments for that line. You could even have extra monitors (or sections of that comment monitor) showing multiple things - for example, you could have the function's comments along with the line-by-line comments.

Is this crazy, or more importantly, has this been done before? I think the first thing that someone will say is that it's too much effort, but it doesn't have to be used for everything. You don't need to make a five-page comment for your for-loop, but you might for your massive class that encapsulates ten objects and has forty-five functions that modify different things.
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Better is the enemy of best
Kids have no say in anything... hence why you're liable for them till 18. It's a parents obligation to embarrass them... just easier now with social media.
People keep saying facebook will disappear... but maybe it won't? Maybe it will become like email, less used but ever-present.
woah, a crypto software team lost a signing key.

that's no good.
I agree with both, but the discussion will probably be similar to the ones being had today. We're all upset, but "we" are the minority.

Even if smartwatches become a trend, they will still be worn by some limited percentage of the population. Out of that limited percentage, an even further limited percentage will understand the privacy issues. And a smaller yet percentage of those folk will actually care about the privacy issues enough to do something about it.
Yes, I'm watching them closely. Doing away with CSS and HTML on the underlying level is crucial: CSS and HTML should be a compatibility layer.
Which are still quite a bit rarer than smartphones. Plus it makes your password way less portable.
A picture paints a thousand words, so those 34 gigabytes consist of 100.5 pictures, each 346 MB in size :-)
You either didn't read past that subheading or are just trolling.

They clearly state that by "inclusive" they mean they more purely select for "science and math aptitude" and "strengths like leadership." Whereas previously they were also factoring in prior programming experience (at the high school level).

Prior experience is going to reflect gender discrimination and peer pressures that girls experience in their teens. They are more precisely selecting for high-aptitude candidates with strong potential.

A very rough analogy would be selecting candidates for a kid's golf school. If you include "prior golfing experience", you're going to bias towards the rich white kids while excluding a ton of very qualified kids with great athletic potential. By excluding prior experience, you're more purely selecting the best qualified candidates for a golf school.

You might have a point if the goal was to start coding (golfing) immediately on day one, like in a professional job. But it's a school. They should select for future potential.
I like the look of this. More industrial and interesting than I was expecting, will probably be big in Korea and Japan. For myself, I prefer mechanical watches though...
The graphing library is highcharts (http://www.highcharts.com/)
Do you have any other business related community sites?
Samsung unveils SmartWatch
I think the main benefit would be for people already running on EC2/AWS. I would imagine (but don't know) that you'd get better latency and throughput between an EC2 instance an elasticache instance than between an EC2 instance and a hosted redis provider.

Also worth pointing out: if you're running on AWS, you'd get integration with your existing tooling like CloudWatch, VPCs, etc.

And last but not least, Amazon is a mature company that you can be confident will be around another 5 years. I don't have that same level of confidence with the majority of Redis-as-a-service providers.
Can they create profiles for children under 13? Can I sue them if my 10 year old child has a ghost profile?
I sound ridiculous because people miscategorized the iPad mini into the same category as the Nexus 7?

Have you used both? Two very different experiences.

So I'm saying the two categories are insufficient. The iPad mini is a compact iPad. It's a third category. 7" tablets are more like large smartphones.
Even now then web site seems to be down…

So what other alternatives do we have? www.clavid.com seems to have a lot of options, but using your own domain name — the way you could do it with myOpenID — isn't one of them.
This is pretty cool. I hate how we have a tough crowd here that's not very encouraging. Keep hacking and having fun doing so!
4-pounds is about 1.8kg, the weight of most notebooks. I think you have your weights all mixed up. In comparison, the Samsung S4 weighs 130 grams, iPhone 5 is 112 grams.

I wouldn't expect this to weigh more than 100 grams. In comparison, a Rolex Sea Dweller weighs 220 grams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Sea_Dweller).

For me this would be useful when going to the gym, I could listen to music, see urgent emails and if it had GPS then track bike rides and runs. If it had a heart rate monitor then perfect. I don't like the fact it has to connect to your phone, standalone would be preferred.
Most luxury watches are bigger, and much heavier....
Qualcomm SmartWatch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_discrimination
Yes, from a T/A perspective, basically everything everyone uses leaks like a sieve.

A great paper about T/A: http://cryptome.org/2013/07/nsa-traffic-analysis.pdf
thanks so much for sharing phabricator. that is really sweet.
1. The kid's face is going to change over time

2. Facebook might not be around by the time she is a teen
The HSR is a boondoggle in its current state because of politics and land value in this state. Hyperloop will run into similar problems w/ NIMBYs, local governments, etc. Whereas Hyperloop can transport only 7.4 million people a year, HSR has the potential to transport 117 million. The Hyperloop is a neat concept and it's great that there's greater discussion on transportation issues but it won't solve the major outstanding issues with bringing quality mass-transit to California, and the US in general, which is people and political will.
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Thanks for the insight! In retrospect, it certainly has the feel of a project that was too expensive to fix, so we'll patch/deal with it if it comes up. It certainly happens - high quality is time consuming and expensive, and it's easy to forget how risks allow us to do more for less (with a chance of occasional death-ray).

That said, what is the likelihood the form will be held to pay out in some way for this (say, either in replacing the glass wall or installing retractable shade awnings across the neighborhood)?

Tone edit: I certainly don't mean the project looks poorly done. Just that a fix would have required such a substantial redesign as to be prohibitively expensive compared to just hoping for the best.
I started working at a BigCo a couple of years ago, and came in very enthusiastic, and eager to work hard and get lots of things done. Gradually that enthusiasm has waned, and it's now to the point where I just go through the motions, without caring too much (why should I when there's people asking you "why are you so passionate about so and so"). I guess my philosophy has changed over the years, and I see my work as a means to an end.

To answer your questions:
- What did you do to get your products shipped on-time?
Answer: I need a boss to put pressure on me so i can actually put my head down, and get it down. That, and the desire to not want to work on weekends.

- How did you win over people?
Answer: I don't. I try not to make enemies, mind my own business and talk when it's absolutely necessary.

- Did you aggressively network with others in the company?
Answer: See above. I try not to make enemies nor friends :)

- How was/is your relationship with manager different?
Answer: I try to maintain a very formal relationship where I do exactly as he/she demands of me.

- How did you get noticed by higher-ups/execs?
Answer: I try not to be noticed too much. High visibility often equates to more work, and not more salary.

- If you were/are a team lead, how did you manage a team with a lot of engineers or designers or PMs?
Answer: I'm not a team lead.
Hmm. So, these things are frequently run as subsidized housing projects. Good to know. Thanks for the link.
CMU has always been harsher and more unforgiving than MIT.

For the cohort entering 2006, MIT's 6-year graduation rate was 92% for men, 93% for women. CMU's was 85% for men and 90% for women. CMU's entering class of 2011 first-year attrition rate was 5%. MIT's was 3%. MIT's 4-year graduation rate is 85% versus 71% for CMU.
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+1 for Mongodb on a EC2 instance instead of Dynamodb

We're transitioning off Dynamo as soon as possible as the billing structure makes it either a real headache or very expensive.

For example: if you want to make a backup of a large table or move data around, it'll either take days or cost you an arm and a leg. This is just one of many annoyances. Ever since making the decision to go with Dynamo over Mongo, I've been getting dirty looks from my team.
Are you from the U.K. or Europe? I'm curious because you used "spoilt" in lieu of "spoiled".
> You would assume the versions of anything the NSA uses is significantly modified or different than the versions in public.

That's not something that I assume.

When I think about things like the Debian PRNG bug (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...) I wonder if i) it was somehow planted by the NSA or ii) They knew about it, and fixed it in any internal uses, but didn't tell the world.

> You can assume that anything you have in your hands is either completely insecure or only trivially secure in comparison to anything the NSA has.

I'm not sure this makes much sense. You can probably trust the math, as far as we do trust the math. And that is "We don't yet know of any feasible attacks on this." Implementations of that math into algorithms and then code and then software on machines with real world users - well, yes, there are a whole slew of things that can go wrong and I guess NSA / GCHQ are aware of many of these and enjoy spotting the flaws in the wild.

Having said all that, if a person is worried about well funded government agencies coming after them then some crypto isn't much of a barrier. Even if the crypto is secure 'they' will find some way to get the information.

> these guys [allegedly] have the best cryptographers, mathematicians and programmers in the world on their payroll.

An anecdote to finish: Rivest Shamir and Adleman 'invented RSA' in 1977. It had been independently invented several years earlier, by Clifford Cocks. But he (although influenced by other people) did so alone. In his head. And had to remember it overnight. He wasn't in the office (GCHQ) at the time, and so wasn't allowed to write it down. (http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/about-gchq/history/asymmetric-...) (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/crypto_pr.html) (http://www.zdnet.com/gchq-pioneers-on-birth-of-public-key-cr...) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-1147510...)

The Wired article says

> But then Ellis came across a paper buried in the GCHQ's mountain of secret material. Written by an anonymous author, it described a project conceived by Bell Telephone toward the end of World War II. The scheme, labeled Project C43, was an ingenious method of analog voice scrambling that worked by the use of distortion.

To give some context to this, GCHQ have only just released some work by Turing, nearly 60 years after his death. Normal secrets are kept for 30 years. Thus, GCHQ's mountain of secret material is likely to contain some delicious nuggets.
Thanks for the tips. Watched the videos and found them helpful.
I know someone who hired a planner who helped them get in. I'm not sure how. To be sure, they were somewhat qualified already, but noticeably below the bar.

I've read the wedding announcements on and off since about 1991, but much less these days, because I only get the online edition now.
Clearly demonstrates, Samsung can not build beautiful hardware design at its own.

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They were exceptionally large words.

(Actually, I think that was just completely wrong... I have no idea how someone could have come up with that number)
It's a small subsidiary of a big insurance company, with 120 employees in the local branch (20 of which are now in software) and 45 million dollars in premiums (that's sales, not profits).

They hired a new CTO, who hired a new team specifically to write the new software, and are NOT using any of the old developers' knowledge (me and 2 others are stuck maintaining the old software).

The new team blew the deadline for the first small module (a small subpart of claims management) by 6 months (the old team had estimated 2 weeks for delivery of that module if we had done it ourselves).

They vastly underestimate the effort and have no idea of what they got themselves into (and they're paid employees, it's not like they can be sued for not delivering).

It doesn't make sense for a company that small to divert that much effort into a non-core competency.

Now, if the parent company (10.000 million in premiums) decided to build their own insurance software, I believe they could do it right :) .
The point may also be to make sure that someone else doesn't make that decision for their child. That is to say, to make sure that some kid in their class doesn't decide to grab the name so that they can set up a fake profile for their daughter...
yeah the guesses on ethnicity based on common last names? "chang chen wong" ... rigorous indeed.
Good point. I was admitted to the University of Michigan in engineering, where I majored in chemical engineering, despite having never done any chemical engineering in my life. That applies to most engineering. How many students in mechanical, aerospace, etc. had done any of it in high school?

Why would CS be different? (Now, of course, I program extensively. I picked that up on my own.)
Always use braces. So many stupid bugs. Just use them. It's easier for everyone else. Including yourself later when you go back and add to it.
As I said, I was joking. Maybe its really light, but that doesn't take away the fact that it' s a giant piece of hardware that shouldn't even exist. It's a smartphone that couldn't be shrunken enough to actually achieve some sort of purpose, it's like a monument to the limits of current technology.
Sure it is. 60,000 weddings * 0.02% is an expected number of 12 positive examples, which really isn't much. Assuming a binomial process, n=60000 and p=0.0002 gives a 95% confidence interval of 5.2 to 18.6, which is a really wide range when you want to show trends. I don't know if the percentages are by year, but if they are the issue is even worse.

The post just does a good job of hiding it by smoothing the plots. Compare an unsmoothed plot: http://www.weddingcrunchers.com/?q=Democrat%20%2B%20Democrat... with the smoothed plot in the article: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/HhvuocYI3raAnYpWPE4HaeCh9a...

While the % of republicans does appear to fall, the % of democrats in the last year is lower than in the first year, the opposite of the conclusion they want you to draw!
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You'd have to compare this to the graduating percentage of all the freshman entering in 2000 for this major, to see if the female portion was outperformed. The female percentage alone doesn't support your conclusion.
Yes, it is an accessory. Compatible only with Samsung products, and not all of them apparently [1].

[1]-https://twitter.com/androidpolice/status/375317526755827712
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what do you want to store? who's gonna use it? why not use a wiki?

if it's about collaborative working on a long text: perhaps plain text-files and a version control system like git is the way to go?

if you want to discuss about a medium-length text, you could use a etherpad.

http://etherpad.org/ - example: http://piratenpad.de/p/hackernews
That's a big 'Maybe' given the timeframe
They seem to be separate statistics. One is how many words we read every day, another is how many GB of information.
How about Caltech's approach? They didn't change their admission standards. Instead, they concentrated heavily on getting more qualified women to apply, and on getting those that applied and were accepted to come.

Essentially, they recruited women into the application process the way schools with effective sports teams recruited star high school athletes (except there were no special scholarships or thinly disguised bribes). Once the application hit the admission committee, though, it was treated like all the others.
I do not believe they're normal for the top schools. Absolutely not for MIT, and as one of the top 4 (with no real second places) CS schools I'd hope CMU's CS department is the same.

But we do need more information. E.g. if you think you want to major in EECS at MIT you'll likely take your first course before you declare your major at the end of your freshman year, and if it's really not for you you have a good chance to realize it. Prior to the new post-dot com crash panic curriculum this has been complicated by the department's opinion that you can't separate EE and CS and what that entails, but still, no one will think twice of your transferring in your sophomore year.

But at CMU you apply to the department for that major, for one of 135 seats, so we'd be astounded if there wasn't this sort of attrition, and to judge this experiment we'd need to know if it changed significantly. Still, my general point remains, the author is totally failing to realize, let alone think about the attrition rate.
this guy is talking about "hobby projects" and posting on HN.

my response was directed at him, not your hypothetical single mother with a special needs child.
If the NSA is your adversary then you have bigger problems. If the NSA isn't, then Tor is probably "good enough".
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen taps Etzioni for new Artificial Intel. Inst.
Discussion from the comments:

"So how does dialing on this work like? You dial on your watch with phone in your hand and then talk on your phone or you talk directly by raising your wrist upto your mouth. How does it work?"

Reply: "I saw an early demo a while back. You just say "go go gadget phone" and then talk into your pinkie."

That would be awesome
I really like this is not an ebook per se, but an interactive tutorial. The checkbox to save your progress are really great :) Congratulations!
Come on! Isn't that watch "fugly"? Or is it just me?? And why should I check my wrist before my phone when I could just check the latter?
And, I must say it, with the Note 3 Samsung reinforced its throne as the undisputed bloatware king.
I'm so happy I moved to Nexus devices a while ago. Pure Android is just better. [I swear it's not a fanboy comment, although it looks like one]
Actually the crowd has been pretty encouraging and supportive. I'm really surprised and didn't expect the response to be this positive.
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I like this (pessimistic) logic: "Certainly the fact that the NSA is pushing elliptic-curve cryptography is some indication that it can break them more easily."
You left out Metawatch, Sony, etc.
IT exhibits behaviors that are hostile to (approximately, or at least) 51% of potential employees. Talk about excluding talent and insight.
If I were the daughter I would do this. My identity is what I want it to be. My parents have their own view of me, the government has another, etc.

Really, if I were her, I would gladly accept the domain names and accounts she squatted and point them to her own accounts. Really, not everyone (and I would actually major most don't) want github.com/<fullname>.
Potentially, I can construct an independent statement to adequately convey my innervation to your statement of factual basis, that while being grammatically correct, purposefully adds needless complexity to the original statement of intent I am adequately attempting to convey.

Should I?
Disclaimer: I am working on a project in this space with the goal to give parents more control on how to share pictures of their baby (www.getbabydigest.com)

While the author of this article seems to take things to a certain extreme, I think this is a legitimate concern for parents today. Being a new parent, I consider my wife and I to be the average facebook "parent" users. We have a need to share pictures of our kid with close friends and family and since facebook most easily meets that need, my wife and I do post pictures of our kid there. We try to limit it to things we think would not be too embarrassing for him when he looks back them years from now.

It's hard however to know how he is going to react to them 10-20 years from now, let alone any impact it may have on his identity as he gets older. For now, sharing on Facebook, seems like the best alternative to email since its so easy to post and get feedback. I've looked at other alternatives (23snaps, kidfolio) but they all require re-creating my network from scratch which has been a non-starter for me. I think we're lacking a more private, secure alternative to Facebook that still makes sharing & commenting as easy as Facebook. And more importantly does not sell your data.
In a BigCo, your number one job is to make your boss look good. I don't mean vanity, rather execute well and deliver along the planned objectives. Build trust, deliver reliably (not necessarily quickly), and in a few years you will be well sought for counsel. Just like a startup, this years hot project may be the next dog. Regardless, deliver and complete. You can push on projects but only if it comes with support from management. It is a slower life cycle.