skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that the profits from the referral link goes to Gates foundation for charity.
If you submit things from aggregators, please try to find the actual source and submit that instead.

Submitted: https://netzpolitik.org/2015/samsung-warnt-bitte-achten-sie-... which links to
http://martingiesler.tumblr.com/post/110325577280/samsung-wa... which links to
http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/110300533107/... which links to
http://boingboing.net/2015/02/06/samsung-watch-what-you-say-... which links to
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2uuvdz/samsung_s... which references
https://www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy-SmartTV.html

On the other hand, the HN rules suggest doing things like this if you want to cherry pick a certain aspect of a page...
Apparently the U16 IC is completely missing its casing
A. You know? What we really should do is get that new Blast-O-Matic bulldozer I have parked outside and tear all this crap down and start over! I saw a video on YouTube last night that said if we built houses using silly putty that they were impermeable to weather!

B. That's a great idea. Does it work with the Nail-o-Matic?

A. I don't see why not. They are both made of atoms.

C. Hang on guys. That's not going to work. What am I thinking?

A. What do you mean?

C. Dude. We have to draw pictures of the house first! I mean without pictures? We're just throwing stuff together. Our problem all along is that we haven't drawn enough pictures.

B. So if we draw enough pictures, then can we use the Blast-O-Matic, the Nail-O-Matic, and the silly putty?

C. Sure! I don't see why not. If we spend enough time drawing diagrams, dang near anything should be possible. At least on the diagram. Let me just pull out this circuit diagram for the Pentium CPU and we'll see how it relates to the average density of silly putty over time...

(B runs out and begins bulldozing house while A and C huddle over a blueprint with their slide rules)

B. Hey guys! You're doing a great job! Let me know when you're ready. I'll just go ahead and get started with the bulldozing.
That's because completely free means different things to different people. Does it include the firmware/bios? Are you only concerned with what runs on the CPU?
UKIP won't win in London because London is full of migrants. These migrants are unlikely to vote for their own christmas, so to speak.

UKIP won't win in Scotland, Wales, or NI because these areas already have alternative parties (SNP, Plaid Cymru, DUP).

Anti-EU sentiment has actually been decreasing as UKIP support increases[1]. In 2013 and before, most people wanted to leave the EU, but now it's more of a wash.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_referendum_on_United_...
Programmers have been writing code that automates their own work ever since the first assembler.
Not yet. Closed source binary blobs are necessary for booting and for accelerated video. In fact, it's the GPU that bootstraps the rest of the board when you first power it up.

There is work being done to write an open source driver for the GPU, with the blessing of the RPi Foundation and BSD-licensed code provided by Broadcom[1]. But I don't know if that will include the bootstrapping code, or how far along it is. Given that it is BSD licensed, it may not meet everyone's definition of "Free", but at least there is a good chance of having fully documented, source-available drivers in the future.

[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/a-birthday-present-from-broadcom/
I was interviewing for a webdev position and they had me solve some kind of a crossword puzzle interview question. Clearly if I just practiced messing around with double indexed arrays I would have passed it. But seriously, webdev is mostly about making controllers and interfacing the database. NOTHING to do with how fast I can implement some algorithm.
Isn't there a fairness doctrine for broadcast TV? Reddit give no voice to nonatheists.

The homos downvote any Christians.

Oh, well, dumb fucks.
Or on mousepads! Especially the same moment when you're working behind the PC.

http://www.luyt.org/pictures/cats/mousepadcat.jpg
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There's also the issue of people being familiar with houses and their limitations, and not asking for a 5 storey house in a 10m x 10m terrain, or that the house automatically lets them in without using keys, or that they want a mansion for 10x less the needed budget
I do business in both countries and visit Germany and Greece regularly.
If you did ask about I-joists, there'd be a series of articles on Carpentry News complaining about how you ask overly academic interview questions. Carpenters with "fifteen years of experience" would talk about how they haven't made a single I-joist since they were an apprentice. If they ever needed to make a "California Corner", they'd just look it up on YouTube and it's pointless to expect them to know it off the top of their head.

They'd then explain that what you really should be asking in the interview is a series of questions about the specific wavelengths of light reflected by different brands of brown paint, because painting things brown is 95% of what a carpenter does and the rest is just wood-gluing together prefab parts from the factory.
> You may disable Voice Recognition data collection at any time by visiting the “settings” menu. However, this may prevent you from using all of the Voice Recognition features.

from here: https://www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy-SmartTV.html

So, disable it. I don't understand everybody's fascination with voice recognition. I don't find it more convenient at all. I'd much rather just push a button. It's really not that complicated.
- Greece and Germany hardly compete with each other.

- EU Agricultural subsidies are premarily a gift to France which benefits most from them.
WHen in power Germany's chancellor Schroeder tried to remove the current EU agricultural, only
to be blocked by France.

- Russia sanctions are primarily driven by the US. Germany does brisk
business with Russia and tried for a while to avoid sanctions. More
imporantly Russia, via the Russian armed Ukrainian rebels is
invading Ukraine, leading, among other things, to shooting down
Malaysian airplanes. You are saying we should ignore this, and let
Russia simply have its way?

- Sanctions against Russia are fairly recent, the structural problems
of the Greek economy are much older.

Re 1) Substantially more Germans died in the last century in wars than Greeks

Re 2) The allies bombed German cities. As far as I'm aware Greece was
part of the Allies.

Re 3) You mean like the "scortched earth policy" of the Greek army
when they were forced out of Turkey?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_%281919%E2%8...
As to infrastructure, Germany's was way more destroyed. They rebuilt
it in a decade or so. Infrastructure needs continually to be
modernised anyway, as infrastructure is subject to wear and tear.
Note also that that other countries (e.g. Korea, Singapore, China)
have risen from extreme poverty to world leadership in a few decades.

Re 4 and 5) The war reparation have been covered by various treaties
over the decades (which were designed by the allies), and long been
settled. Speaking of war reparations, when will pay Greece reparations
for example to Turkey for the Greco-Turkish war that Greece started in
1919?

Re 6) German economic recovery, what you term "German recovery
miracle", happened in the 1950s primarily. Guest workers started
arriving in the 1960s. Note that guest workers came voluntarily. A
more interesting question is: why do so many Greeks leave the
motherland and go to the US, the UK, Germany, Austrlia?

Re 7) I'm not sure what you are referring to here. Greece and Germany
hardly compete with each other. The weakening of the Euro benefits
German and Greek exporters. But not that Germany has been trying to
avoid this weakening.

Re 8) I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. What does
Transparency International http://www.transparency.org say about
corruption in Greece?
Your because is misplaced. Reddit bans doxing because of how often it is something they wouldn't want to be associated with. They do it to protect their image, not to protect some particular group of users.

(I agree that the ban happens to protect those users, I find it highly unlikely that this is a motivation for it)
Here's a recent video from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center discussing the Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology and the DROID UAV platform specifically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWx6-aK8Ick
That some of the quotes on that blog seem to indicate that different cables can actually change rhythm and timing is really eye-opening to just how outlandish some claims can get.
How about a debugger? Would it be possible to even hide it? the inconsistencies would give it away (address discontinuitites/size issues)?
I'm feeling the desire to build a cat scratcher with multimeter right now... maybe with some nice bulb leds aligned forming the meow! word.

muahahah... is alive!!!
"financing available". wow. some people have no shame.
Your logic makes sense, but it seems like every high school I've ever been in or heard about that had just recently been built leaked rain like a sieve.
I'd love to see you try to prosecute Neil Armstrong in an American court for stealing a bag that belonged to NASA from a spaceship that was about to be deorbited into the moon, which he just left at the height of the Cold War.
OK, that is a more cogent explanation. However, it does not take into account (1) the exchange rates that the Euro countries used when they entered the Euro. I'd argue that Germany's DM <-> Euro exchange rate was quite uncompetitive in 1 January 1999, making German products too expensive. (2) It does not take into account the symmetry of the situation: the Euro also made it impossible for Germany to use devaluation of its currency as a competitive advantage. (3) industries that need devaluation have a serious health problem anyway. (4) Germany and Greece have almost no competing industries, so the ability to do competitive devaluation does not play a role in the competition between Germany and Greece. (5) It does not take into account the distribution of power in the ECB where Germany has the same number of votes as Greece or Malta. The first two ECB presidents were French and Italian, consequently the ECB makes policies mostly in the interest of the southern members. The fact that several German ECB members and one head of state have already resigned over crazy ECB decisions speaks volumes.
My image clearly shows several differing elements which subtly distinguish an ad from a traditional submission. I have trained my ad-blindness to skip the HN ads, usually without even consciously reading the company name, but it took training, just like it takes training to find the tiny "sponsored content" disclaimer elsewhere. That's the point of "native ads" -- to slip in seamlessly with the rest of the content. If HN wanted to advertise openly, it would use a different background color for the ads, and/or clearly label them as such.
Release of the next version of Mike Bostock's D3.js v3.5.4. Zero dependencies
I've always gone for the ones who really knew one language inside and out. The reason is actually very simple, they have demonstrated exceptional skill to dive deep into one language, so they should be able to do the same in another language.

The jack-of-all-trades people usually are much riskier hires as they don't always understand how deep they can go in any particular language, thus are unable to fully assess what they don't know, and require much more guidance as a result.
If they want SAS that is their choice.

It's like asking a carpenter to built a cupboard and he answers: "I'd rather build a shelf, it will hold your dishes just as well."
Yeah exactly, was once given pencil and paper and asked to write some code. That was early on in my career, so even though i knew it was ridiculous, i didnt have enough confidence to tell them they're being idiots. At this point in my career however, i'm far more jaded about stupid interview techniques like that and will refuse to do them unless provided with a computer.
I think that programmer knowledge has a short half-life, but not so much programmer skill. I agree that programming well in language X and programming well in language Y are very similar (unless perhaps X and Y use radically different paradigms), because programming well is a skill. But there is language specific knowledge you need to pick up; it's just relatively fast to learn and you can bridge the gap with references.
In fact I think remember hearing (in When We Left Earth) one of the Mercury astronauts say they made a military pilot's salary (which while not bad, probably wasn't in line with what they were doing) so they sold those space mementos to put their kids through college. They weren't trying to get rich, just trying to do what any reasonable parent would do.
A New 11 Part Series on How to Monetize Your App
A 100Gbps metal twisted pair ethernet cable? that explains the price, it came from the future where such standards may have been defined.

I asked them a question on their website to see if that's true.
> I really enjoyed the post. I reminded me a lot of this Youtube video(http://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg).

Jesus, that's painfully real.
When someone compromises your system, you can't know everything that has been done. The only truly safe thing to do is reinstall everything from scratch, backing up configs of course.
>> They write code for hours or days at a time without validating what they are writing.

In emacs we use flycheck to see errors and style warnings as we write in real time. For javascript there is js2-mode.

If you're a lisp programmer you take it a step further. Not only checking syntax in real time, but running the code in real time. Like a small talk developer! It's the tightest feedback loop you can get. Makes test driven development more enjoyable too. (skewer-mode allows this for javascript)

Don't judge text editor users based on your experience with a few people. Writing code for hours without style checks or execution is not a common workflow for an emacs user. I've met quite a few inept Eclipse and Visual Studio users but I know better than to correlate IDE's with traits.
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I think Amazon's Echo device is doing this the proper way, which "uses on-device keyword spotting to detect the wake word. When Echo detects the wake word, it lights up and streams audio to the cloud". It seems like a technical or design failure on Samsung's part to not feature similar functionality.
Looking up "yaan" - Hindi for vehicle.
I had heard that too but am skeptical and 0-2 trying to recreate.
A KTH virus doesn't have to be ubiquitous to do huge damage. All you need to do is land a malicious compiler on a machine used to produce widely distributed binaries.
I think the hurdles or disincentives to hire more people are more structural or inherent than they are legal.

In a lot of types of work, it's wildly more efficient to have fewer people do the work. Imagine if your development team of 5, each working 40-ish hours a week became a development team of 20, each working 10-ish hours a week. Progress would grind to a halt because most of the time would be spent on coordination. Every minute of coordination (standups, etc) is now 4x as expensive, and you probably need 4x as many minutes at a minimum. Everyone has to come up the learning curve, so your organization learns at 1/4 the speed (on an hourly basis), etc.

I can readily see how production-type work could be reasonably efficient with fewer hours and more workers, but even there, I'd still prefer to employ fewer workers, paying them more, and selecting from the top quartile of the workforce, who may be willing to trade more hours per week in exchange for a shorter working career in years.
So do I understand correctly that in this metaphor the poor quality of software is mostly because the practitioners are morons? I need to revisit the creeping complexity in my own projects and try to understand where I used the wrong nailgun, because this seems like a super productive analogy.
You need to kill widows and orphans. In your book, that is
he finishes his assigned tasks

A team leader that uses people like this - cogs that munch through assigned tasks - is not operating at high efficiency. It's top-down directed, and is missing effective feedback from people who know most about the code, its architecture, what it can and can't do. People are treated as manual laborers rather than self-directed professionals. You're only using 40% - if that - of their capabilities.

There are times when a team needs to operate like that - e.g. impending business-related deadlines - but they should be exceptional. The top-down model creates work politics, where the team members need to lobby and scheme to influence the team leader to make particular choices, and it leads to atrophy of initiative, and destroys most of the creativity that ought to be latent in a team.

I'm extrapolating a lot from a single statement of yours, so it may not actually apply to your organization, but it definitely does apply to a lot of dysfunctional workplaces.

the code he merged in on Thursday night wasn't as good as he thought, it has tons of bugs and actually breaks the build which stalls everyone else, who should take care of that

The person merging code should be the person reviewing the code, not the author of the code. If code breaks the build, the person reviewing it is at fault for merging it. And code isn't finished until it's reviewed and merged. Reviewing, at a minimum, means making sure it builds, the tests pass, and the tests have enough coverage, using code coverage tools if necessary.

If the code is no good and accidentally got merged, the merge commit should be reverted. If the code is absolutely necessary (e.g. for Monday), that's a crunch, the guy shouldn't have left on Friday, and he's let the team down. You can't do that too often without needing to leave. But not for productivity reasons, for team reasons.
...and architects sometimes have to go to great lengths before they are allowed to work on your castle:

http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/698061/hiorne-tower-nr-arun...

...and for sci fi fans who think the Tower looks familiar:

http://www.doctorwholocations.net/locations/arundelparktower
This is so true. I see a lot of job ads that seem to require very specific experience, but where anyone in that field could do the job.

If you just make up eg 4 different types of technology, and put a few things in each bracket:

[SVN, Git, Mercurial, CVS]
[MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL]
[AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, RabbitMQ]
[Java, C#, C++, ObjC]

Now if someone came along and said they'd solved a domain problem (eg trading systems) with one of each of those, I would more or less believe they could do it with any of the others, with a bit of time to get used to things (particularly c++).

But if you don't believe that, ie if you decide the person must have a specific combination, then you've just shattered the potential pool of applicants into 256 little pieces.

The other thing that annoys me is the pettiness of the interview questions. So many things that you could easily google can be used to stump anyone. What's the default implementation of GetHash() in c#? I actually got asked this once.

Then there's the other way to do things, which is to do an online coding assessment. I guess this gets rid of the FizzBuzz failures, but it tends to be a problem that's too small to see if you're about to dig a hole.
So my reasoning is that if you know some Java you can pick up C# easily, if you know some JavaScript you can pick up Python easily etc. If you've stuck to a single language, it's going to take you much longer as you're having to learn new concepts and it's also rare I work on projects where only a single language is being used. Everyone should aim to learn enough languages that they have at least some experience of OOP, functional programming, dynamic types, strong types and SQL in my opinion.
Could anybody get me some awesome CV templates?
Any CV format you liked most, wants to share.
Seems like this is the original: http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/Default.aspx?blog=entry.7c334037...
And when those situations don't align? What then?
The joke is that nowhere in this picture is the actual guy who is receiving value from the work, the guy who keeps saying in survey after survey that our work sucks -- the guy paying for the house. We distract ourselves by everything under the sun from the continuous conversation and relationship management with the value receiver necessary to make sure we're doing something that the guy writing the check likes.

Sometimes we're distracted in an angry way "Guys! We need to straighten up and do X!" Sometimes we distract ourselves just because of bright and shiny objects "Wow! Take a look at that!" Sometimes we quibble over seemingly insignificant items. Sometimes we take things that should be important and elevate them to the highest level possible.

But the overall pattern is clear. We want to do anything and everything -- except be joined at the hip into the value stream, which is exactly what our job is.

This was the hard lesson that startups taught me: lots of stuff can be neat, valuable, or worth consideration. But a true professional knows that whatever he is doing, he is doing for another human being - and so he seeks to befriend that person, have a trustworthy relationship, and look out after that person's best interests.

That's not nearly as much fun as flipping bits, and it deals with a lot of messy social and human things.
My favorite example of this is drug dealer's cars. In Gang Leader for a Day, the author recounts how lieutenants in a Chicago drug gang who made only 30-40k/year had to spend almost all of it on their cars, and often had to live with their mothers as a result.
Cost effective, sure. But where have you read that they are more reliable?
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It does not really matter that much. San Francisco State University has a fine computer science department for your purposes even (http://cs.sfsu.edu/grad/graduate.html). Or any state school will do really. I know someone who went through their program and down the same path you are looking into. H1B etc.

If your goal is really just US employment and not academia just get over here and then make as many connections as you can and try to get sponsored etc. And try not to spend 100k... that is so much money! Good luck!
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I'm not familiar with the photoelectric effect - would this be susceptible to a laser (and if so, how weak a laser? A laser pointer?)?
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>The whole idea of being a protectorate is that you're weak and are depending on your allies to survive, which is exactly what I'm saying.

Fair enough.

>It's not an insult. Mordor only lost because they depended on the power of the ring to unite their armies. Only when it was destroyed their armies fell into chaos. If it were up to the military power of Mordor Middle-Earth would surely have fallen.

There's also the fact that Mordor was evil.
I can think of at least a couple of situations where it could be useful. I've seen some people have an awful time using a remote in a darkened room. Also, free text search is useful when you are trying to search.
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There is also the GameDuino 1 and 2:

http://excamera.com/sphinx/gameduino/
No, it's more like asking a carpenter to build a cupboard, but when he brings a hammer to the worksite you ask him to use a rubber mallet instead. Sure, one could drive nails with a rubber mallet—but who'd want to?

Likewise, who would want to use an inferior language or library when superior ones exist?
Samsung SmartTV Privacy Policy
ouch! As someone who's been on an 8-month long job hunt, this hits too close to home.
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Decimal place error?