skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The items would have been lost (probably forever) when the LEM was crashed back onto the moon, so where's the harm? Other people did know that Armstrong had the items - as the article states, he reported the bag to Collins, who in turn told NASA about it, so he wasn't exactly being sneaky about it. I suppose you could argue that it wasn't really "trash" but NASA obviously considered the articles "disposable" once they'd served their purpose.

Armstrong stuck the bag in a closet for 40 years. At least he didn't try to sell them. NASA turned a blind eye to Mercury and Gemini astronauts taking personal items (and things like stamps, paper money and coins) into space, because they gave them to family and friends. Only when these "space flown" items started being sold for considerable sums of money did NASA try to put a halt to the practice. I'm sure Armstrong's "mementos" could have been sold - either above or below board - for large amounts, but I doubt that's something Armstrong would have ever considered.
It's worse than that.

The CHAOS study, among others, shows that 80%+ of all software projects are viewed as failures by the people who pay for them.

Meanwhile you come onto boards like HN or reddit and instead of talking about how to establish and keep trust with the folks writing the checks, everybody's talking frameworks and tools.

So picture a subdivision where 80% of the houses are broken down, priced too high, incomplete, or put together haphazardly. Now stop at one of the houses where the building crew is still there and watch them spend all day talking about the nail-o-matic 200psi nailgun or the robot auto-roofer that the carpenters in the next town are using.

The situation is sad from every angle.
I think it is common for agencies to have Non Compete clauses such that if your favorite recruiter goes someplace else, they aren't allowed to represent you for a certain period.
How come everything is so dramatic this days? "	The Best Business Book I’ve Ever Read". What happened to: "Recommended reading book! you should add it to your reading list"
Here's a pic of the chip in question
(so you can cover it up)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9Ut_QwIQAACrp_.jpg
I can't remember a title and link to it, but not long ago there was an article about people demanding lossless encoding and how it doesn't make sense because it's almost impossible to tell the difference.

Same here, I guess. There are rich people who believe they have a very special taste and can afford it :)
Are interview questions this irrelevant? Because there are relevant questions you could ask a carpenter in an interview, like if they've worked with I-joists, whether they know what a nailing schedule is, whether they're familiar with a "California corner", their health and safety knowledge, etc.
Or maybe they are too in the bussiness of russian fiancees. I'm pretty sure there is some affinity with selling 7000$ ethernet cable.
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In practice recursion probably covers most of the cases where it matters. Corecursion could (if awkwardly) be converted into ordinary recursion.
I can go 55-60 hours/week at a pretty good clip, but the fall-off after that is drastic, and I can only keep it up for a few months before everything starts to get sad and depressy.

50 hours/week is probably a sweet spot for me.
The Stuka had a slightly less sophisticated version of this in 1935:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_87#Diving_procedure
> So picture a subdivision where 80% of the houses are broken down, priced too high, incomplete, or put together haphazardly.

Well, in a typical subdivision, this is actually the case. Construction quality for housing in the US and Canada is woeful, though a lot of it isn't the carpenters' fault (but some of it is).
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From The Devouring Fungus, Karla Jennings, 1990, chapter 10, The Monster Turns… and Falls to its Knees, p. 211:

Another legendary debacle triggered by light hit at a highly publicized affair thrown by IBM, ironic considering that IBM is the master of the seamless image. D. E. Rosenheim, who helped develop the IBM 701, the first mass-produced modern commercial computer, recalled the famous faux pas, which occurred when the company held a dedication ceremony for the 701’s installation at its New York headquarters. Top-level executives, the engineering team, and a gang of reporters crowded the ceremony room

“Things went pretty well at the dedication,” said Rosenheim, “until the photographers started taking pictures of the hardware. As soon as the flash bulbs went off, the whole system came down. Following a few tense moments on the part of the engineering crew, we realized with some consternation that the light from the flash bulbs was erasing the information in the CRT memory. Suffice it to say that shortly thereafter the doors to the CRT storage frame were made opaque to the offending wavelengths.”

Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.
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> The best part about that cable is that someone took the time to determine which direction it sounds best

Nope, they just marked an arrow on it and said they took the time to determine which direction is best.
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It is obviously an exaggeration, but Java/Javascript confusion is a real thing.
As you can tell, this article was not written by somebody who knows carpentry. It's also supposed to be funny.

But yes and no, interview questions can be this irrelevant. This is a litmus test. It tells you that you should treat this company as a client, not as an employer, play the expert card, and charge 3x your normal rate. Because they don't know what they're doing, and will likely gladly pay somebody who does know and can explain it to "the suits".
Yes, but unsurprisingly so.

It is much easier to think that the project was a failure because tool choice instead of the actual reasons projects fail; of people who are not good enough to complete the project (junior carpenters put in charge of a skyscraper), management who wants people to build some impossible project on a tiny deadline (carpenter contracted to build stairway to heaven by October), or one of the other reasons software projects fail.

All of those problems require people and process work, not just technology, but as one of the biggest problems of tech is that we often see it as a panacea, we just think the new framework will somehow gloss over these major deficiencies.
The racism accusation is a little strong and isn't helpful to the debate. I do agree that the post you are referring to seems to be woefully devoid of any insight into the way the benefits that have accrued to the 'northern' economies and Germany in particular, from sharing a currency with Spain, Greece etc.
It's easier to blame a heap of software than yourself.

I've worked with really horrible frameworks in the past and most devs were like "well I wrote a wrapper to get the ugly stuff out of the way and then build it the right way", most of the time they didn't even bother to learn how things work.
This was a spoof of the original CowClicker [1] used to promote a Radio 4 play called "The Last Hurrah" starring the last British comedy legend Rik Mayall. It is a fork of my original highlandcowclicker [2]. Tech is basic:

- Github pages
- jQuery
- SoundManager2
- A sprinkle of responsiveness

Despite spending most of my time nuts-deep in SPAs and the like, this was something I did quickly and found it to be loads of fun. It's completely pointless, very rude, and certainly not perfect. I hope someone likes it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker
[2] http://www.heresyerfuckingcowclicker.com
Don't think he told that he actually put a bug in the c compiler. He was just explaining how he could have done it. A very interesting read though.
It depends on how varied your stuff is.

I can easily log 30 hours of paid coding a week, tack on 10-ish hours of email, add some 5+ hours of marketing, and add 10 hours of working out with 10 hours of learning new stuff. I call all of this productive hours and will gladly say an average week contains 70 to 80 productive hours.

But you'll notice that I never spend more than 30 hours a week on any one type of productivity. And that only some 30 odd hours a week are directly billable.
Yeah I remember reading an article a few years back about hdmi cables. They tested a load of different ones and found they found no difference between the expensive 'gold' ones vs the cheapest of the cheap hdmi cables.

Its just a hangover from the old days - the big electronics stores still get to sell mom & dad a £20-30 cable when in reality could pick up one, just as good, for £2 on amazon!
Well, I guess if your life is your work you have to choice but do it 24 hours a day. I got to experience that at grad time, it's not even stressful. In fact, it may be quite funny.

The bad side is that if your work fails for some reason (as work often does), your entire life failed.
I like 10-7.
I read it and reviewed it here :

http://davids-book-reviews.blogspot.it/2014/12/business-adve...

I concur to some degree: I did find it an enjoyable read, but "best business book ever"? I thought the stories were interesting, but ... no, I too failed to find it brilliant, which also makes me kind of uncomfortable.
I am young enough that I am confident that I can learn anything, right now I don't have any kind of pressure, so, why not learn new skills ?
What about this:

1. Believes in equality of outcome

2. Believes in total war for the cause.

So basically, every phenomenon (like language, culture, everyday behaviour) should be judged by whether it brings us closer to equality of outcome. If it leads the wrong direction it should be banned, if it leads in the right direction it should be mandated. People who refuse to comply should be punished harshly.
I'll pay $100,000 for masters. Can you recommend me a university?
I'm a CS major from EU with 3.0/4.0 GPA who wants to work in US as SWE. I'll pay for CS masters because it's the most guaranteed way to be employed in US.

So I think Bay Area would be the best location to go to.

Since my GPA is low, I'm having hard time finding universities that would accept me. Can you recommend me some universities?
This actually will happen if you speak with an HR rep for insurance predictive modelling:

-So do you have experience with SAS?

-Yes, but mostly I model in R. They are sister languages.

-So how much SAS, how much R?

-Mostly R as it is widely held to be a superior language

-But SAS you can do more with!

-Ahh, if Big-Famous-Tech-Company-X wanted to do stat
modelling they use R, not SAS. Again, anyone who does statistical modelling knows this.

-But we pay for SAS

-Yeah, sorry about that...
> Ask them how they feel about retirement. I

And then ask them how their retirement will be financed. In the case of most people, a large (but shrinking over time) portion of their retirement will be funded by their fellow citizens, who pay for their retirement involuntarily.
I would say that passing interviews is a separate skill, different than doing actual work. They are not completely different, of course, but different. This implies that the irrelevance is pretty high, otherwise you would not need to prepare specifically for interviews.
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This is fairly old news, no? The Pirate Bay went online about a week ago.
Bill wanted to talk about his charity work. Comparing it to the commercial enterprises of his company's (largest?) competitor was probably not how he wanted the interview to go. Why should the two things be compared at all?
I really enjoyed the post. I reminded me a lot of this Youtube video(http://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg).

I understand this is a comical post but as the son of a carpenter and understanding the profession decently well I would say these are none of the questions that would be asked of a carpenter.

There are however many important questions a person would need to answer to be hired as a carpenter or more likely be able to join a union. There they would be able to get experience and training. Then the company the union carpenter work for already knows the skills and abilities they have and there is really no need for any interview. Any GC or sub asks for guys to do a job. The local sends them the qualified guys. Pretty simple actually.
I find it a bit less shiny every time I see it.
Don't forget the Open Pandora: http://openpandora.org/

Dingoo was after Wiz, which was after GP2X, which was after the GP32 .. But it seems there are two splits now, one the 'high end' and one the middle ground .. can't wait for Pyra!
Have any of the languages on this list been around for decades? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_programming_langu...
"Well, I’m a carpenter, so I’ve worked with all kinds of wood, you know, and there are some differences, but I think if you’re a good carpenter …"

In my experience, a good programmer in one language is very likely a good programmer in another language as well. There are a lot more commonalities than some people realize. That's the reason why I'm sceptical of claims such as "the programmer knowledge half-life is X years".

More in "Programmer Knowledge" http://henrikwarne.com/2014/12/15/programmer-knowledge/
> For best results have the arrow pointing in the direction of the flow of music.

Ideally one should have a separate cable flowing the other way, too, so that ACKs aren't unduly delayed.
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Yeah you are right. I was assuming that the chips would block visible light but I forgot about UV.
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Have you looked into using MessagesKit.framework? (In /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks)

If it's written in Obj-C, you can extract fully usable headers from it. If C++/C/etc., it will be difficult (but not impossible) to understand it.

After extracting the headers from that, you may well be able to use it instead of AppleScript.
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GEE GOLLY GOSH I FIGURED THAT OUT FROM ALL THE OTHER POSTS.

Seriously, what was the point of your posting that YET AGAIN? Could you not infer that I already knew that from the contents of my post? You're moving beyond tedious into making me wonder if there isn't actually something a bit wrong with you people who can't stop talking about this when it's not even on topic.
Question to HN: Does also the Raspberry Pi 1 B or B+ have this problem or is the Xenon flash problem specific to the Raspberry Pi 2 B? Is somebody willing to do this experiment/has done it?
I remember laughing at Kodak Digital Film. But I knew a few photographers whom preferred to use it. http://www.cnet.com/products/kodak-digital-film-flash-memory...
I'd rather hire a programmer that knew many languages than one who only knew one language really well though. Once you've learned a few frameworks and languages, you get much better at picking up new ones quickly because you've seen the same concepts somewhere else already.
> The strength of the web is a huge factor in machine precision (and repeatability, just as important)

Precision is repeatability.
The idea about KTH binaries being virtually everywhere is fascinating and frightening. But I highly doubt that this is the case.

Sure, in theory, a perfect KTH scheme would be undetectable, since it suborns every means of detection. But in practice it often wouldn't. A KTH virus would have to anticipate all tools which may be written to detect it, and given the modern open and closed source software world the complexity would explode.
Yes, that's true, I also thought of the ECB hindering many national governments from doing this. But if Greece decided that it was time for war, they'd probably pull out of the euro project.

My point was that the economic model presented was too simplistic, that my model is also too simplistic doesn't distract from that point too much in my opinion.
I find that in this age of no one reading past the inferred end of the article, it's best to put attribution at the top so as to avoid this very confusion. Just my two pennies.
You really rocked it there.
Accurate, but missed the part where the carpenter is asked to build a cabinet by drawing it on the whiteboard.
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Kind of surprising that Bill Gates would go through the trouble of setting up an amazon referal link for his article.
Poor quality or really long connections can cause jitter, especially since in most consumer stuff the clock is sent with the signal. That jitter can cause differences in the signal out from the d/a. That said, the difference is less than minuscule, and time and time again people post double blind tests that prove even people who consider themselves trained audiophiles can't tell the difference. Same goes for analog - in practice the cable doesn't make an audible difference, no matter what you use (see below)

Short answer: cables don't matter

The famous audioholics coat hanger test: http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/speakers-when-i...

Also a great watch:
http://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml
>So you agree the creditors have a big part of the responsibility then?

Nope. It's 100% the debtor's responsibility that a debt is repaid.
In the Eric Raymond-era Jargon File http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/back-door.html there's a claim that the hacked version was distributed, and used at least once.
A: "Dude, have you seen this Nail-o-Matic 2000 nailgun?"

B: "No. It looks totally awesome, it's so shiny and chrome..."

A: "Yeah, it's the latest thing, I picked it up last night. Let's see how it does on this roof..."

A puts a shingle down and shoots a nail in. The nail rips through the shingle, blasts a 2-inch diameter hole in the roof and embeds itself firmly into the floor of the second story.

B: "Whoa, that's AWESOME! Can I try?"

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

A: "Dude, this ROCKS! Hey, boss!"

C: "Yeah?"

A: "Good news, we're going to finish this job in record time!"

C: "Whoa! Where'd you score a Nail-o-Matic 2000!?! That's awesome! I've heard all sorts of great things about how powerful it is!"

Nail-o-Matic 2000: Because More Power Is Always Better. Always.
There might not actually be anyone who buys these cables. The point might be to use their existence (or claimed existence) to make the $200 Ethernet cable seem like a good "middle" choice.
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Yet another thing to consider when doing A/B testing. Looks like you'll need active controls as well as controls!
Very piercing commentary.
Amanda Marcotte is a bad person and bad for feminism. If anyone's an SJW she is.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/01/untitled/

If you want some further reading on these toxic people I recommend this Julia Serano interview.
http://www.ravishly.com/2015/02/05/how-make-queer-and-femini...

If you want some perspective on why people hate SJWs this post is also good.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-word...

Money quote

>I feel like every single term in social justice terminology has a totally unobjectionable and obviously important meaning – and then is actually used a completely different way.
The closest analogy I can think of is those religious people who say “God is just another word for the order and beauty in the Universe” – and then later pray to God to smite their enemies. And if you criticize them for doing the latter, they say “But God just means there is order and beauty in the universe, surely you’re not objecting to that?”

>The result is that people can accuse people of “privilege” or “mansplaining” no matter what they do, and then when people criticize the concept of “privilege” they retreat back to “but ‘privilege’ just means you’re interrupting women in a women-only safe space. Surely no one can object to criticizing people who do that?”

>…even though I get accused of “privilege” for writing things on my blog, even though there’s no possible way that could be “interrupting” or “in a women only safe space”.

>When you bring this up, people just deny they’re doing it and call you paranoid.

>When you record examples of yourself and others getting accused of privilege or mansplaining, and show people the list, and point out that exactly zero percent of them are anything remotely related to “interrupting women in a women-only safe space” and one hundred percent are “making a correct argument that somebody wants to shut down”, then your interlocutor can just say “You’re deliberately only engaging with straw-man feminists who don’t represent the strongest part of the movement, you can’t hold me responsible for what they do” and continue to insist that anyone who is upset by the uses of the word “privilege” just doesn’t understand that it’s wrong to interrupt women in safe spaces.

>I have yet to find a good way around this tactic.
There's a reverb plugin I use that has 70s 80s and "now" modes, which drastically affect things like internal sampling rates (bandwidth) and noise. It also completely changes the color of the large GUI from deep red/brown to cool blue to bright white.

I find that I have to shut my eyes or look away from the screen when toggling the modes to avoid biasing my perception of how the audio is changing. It's particularly bad because the visual changes are designed to evoke the effect it has on the sound.
At this point it's just a matter of time before exposure.co gets acquired. I thought photo sharing and the like services were out of fashion but they are still being bought up in bushes. There's really a monopoly battle going on for the final answer to the question "Where will I store my photos, online?".
Has been in the news before. Voice recognition is done on a server farm meaning it needs to get sent there & possible get intercepted.

Not ideal but doesn't strike me as a big risk
A clear difference between a carpenter and a programmer is the liability inherent in the work. A carpenter can't just produce a minimum viable product that just happens to break down as soon as a bird land on it, or leaks water as if it was constructed like a sieve. Hiring a carpenter is a comparable safe thing to do, as the worst thing a lawful carpenter can do is overcharge his clients/employer.

A programmer on other hand is not liable for anything. If it breaks or leaks information at the easiest provocation, then its not the programmer who might loose money. All risk is put on the employer or customer, and as such, it becomes their responsibility to identify and test a programmer before spending money. As a result, you get questions which are mostly irrelevant to the task at hand, but which might sorts out high risk vs low risk.

If I hired a carpenter under those conditions, I would ask what brand of paint they buy. If its an expensive one, it might hint towards a professional.