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The simplest explanation is that Samsung has mostly shoddy engineers and designers.

The voice recognition thing is that they outsourced the voice recognition, so are just piping all conversation to them.

The gamepad thing is "oh we need a gamepad, the 360 is popular right"?

the benchmark thing is "our manager wants us to beat these specific benchmarks, let's just overclock for the benchmarks the manager mentioned"

I mean, it doesn't excuse them of course, but I imagine this is mainly a consequence of a lot of people whose job it is to meet their manager's checklist of features, and not caring about the products themselves.
Let the past be the past. The new MS is making some good moves. However, this is not MS's fault. When you operate in an OEM type environment, you will run into situations like this.

For example, if OSX was an OEM offering, companies would disable services and make unsavory modifications.

The reality, is like Lenovo, we have a bad vendor here and probably think twice before buying PCs from Samsung.
I graduated in Auckland 2 years ago and had assumed I would have to leave the country to find interesting work. Stumbled into the startup community and now I'm completely addicted, yet don't see myself needing to leave the country any time soon. And I'm not even working out of a main center.
Fascinating article. Though one expects better of The Guardian - from their misunderstanding of the proper use of the word protagonist, through to the bewildering closing comment:

"As the Tim Hunt affair showed, sexist attitudes are ingrained in science, as in the rest of our culture."

There seems to be an abundance of these kinds of stories about science that eschew scientific method in their own interpretation and conclusions.
You get enough bad ideas hiding under the aegis of "science." Some guys claim something and pretend to be more sure about it than they've right to be. Dress it up as a scientific theory and you're personally unassailable.

I happen to think the data did and still does support restricting total fat. Highly saturated fats are mostly benign, but many fatty foods also have substantial quantities of unsaturated fats that are clearly linked to health consequences. So in practice "take easy on the fatty foods" has always been not bad for blanket general advice. They are probably making a mistake with this revision.
Well the ultimate 'why' is obviously aiming for monetary gain since they are a company, I was referring to a shallower 'why'.
Couldn't agree more. I've thought about this a lot, how the current mindset is creating a bunch of people who see the end state as "a unicorn" and nothing else is good enough. Anything else is "failure".

Me, I'd be happy if I could find a little niche to fill, and if it could pay me a very comfortable wage that allowed me to retire in 5 or so years. I'm 38 now - half a million a year for a couple of years, then sell whatever it is for another couple of million, that'll do me very nicely thank you very much.

Does that sound like a lifestyle business? Damn right. That's exactly what I want. (I'm in Australia, BTW - the whole Silicon Valley, work 23 hours a day, all that crap - no thanks. I value my life and my friends at way more than a billion dollars.)
They're doing it for money.

They game benchmarks for sales.

They disable windows updates because they can't make USB 3 work with the drivers you get from windows update.
I read it as ".. Against Scrappy Austrians" and thought finally Krugman showed some guts to debate against Austrian school economists.
There are a lot of dead people who deserve Nobel Prizes.
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This hits home in so many ways than one. I came to this country at 17 to attend college, 2 degrees and 8 years later I was recently let go. Thankfully I'm an Engineer in SF so it shouldn't be too bad to find another employer and get back, but still I'm looking at a good 6-7 weeks out of the country in order to get a new visa for a new employer before I can transfer my status.
I hate cable too. I've installed Kodi boxes on each of our three TV's but still cannot get the wife to give up LMN (gack!).
> when submitters are expected to use the original

Except for all the cases that they are not expected to use the original [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Their new PR line is they've changed and they are sorry, but they have certainly NOT changed and they are NOT sorry:

http://techrights.org/2015/05/29/microsoft-vs-india/

Their recent "good moves" (open sourcing .NET, etc.) are simply an attempt to maintain relevance in the face of declining market share. If it results in regained market-share, they will likely bait and switch, and of course, they might as well get some good PR out of it.
Google provides paid email (which includes support) under the service of Google Apps for Work. You can call or email an actual Google tech support employee 24/7 for core services when you need help (number will be in the admin panel).

But when you're getting a product for free, especially email (Hotmail/Live Mail, Yahoo, AOL, Gmail, etc) you really can't expect any provider to provide comprehensive one-on-one support as it is rather pricey. So you're right to go to a paid plan somewhere.
Wait a sec.. Apple has like 8% market share for desktops while Windows has ~80%. And Linux has just a few percents.
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Strangely with Canada, I think it depends on where within the country you immigrate to. As a native Canadian from the prairies who moved to Montreal 10 years ago, I have met and worked with so many immigrants here that I now believe I know more of them in Montreal than I do native Canadians. It makes for an extremely interesting cultural mix.

Apparently Quebec makes it much easier for citizens from a select list of countries to obtain permanent residency, as opposed to what you'll find elsewhere in the country. It still takes a long time dealing with loads of bureaucracy (especially the requirement for basic French language skills which can be handled via courses while here), but I haven't yet met anyone who has had to leave before they manage to obtain their permanent residency.

Random aside: Moldova has proven to be the source of my favourite people. There are so many Moldovans here due to a simplified immigration process for their country. There's just something so refreshing about how they carry themselves: friendly, humble, utterly proud and self-confident, and without ego. It's nice to meet people who are pleasant without plastering a fake-ass smile on their face all day long. When you see them smile or hear a laugh, you know it's genuine!

tldr; I believe Quebec is conditionally easier (based on country of origin) to immigrate to than other Canadian provinces. And, um, Moldovans are genuine people - more of you need to move here so I can eventually find a lifelong mate. :p
Sounds nauseating. As an introvert, I can't comprehend how people have the energy for this. (At a significant disadvantage to my own startup, I admit.)
Uh, you can get smuggled into the US via the Mexican borders for like a couple thousand bucks. There's a whole industry around this. The people who do the smuggling are called 'coyotes". Any serious terrorist is already here, via that border.

Also, so what if anyone can come and go. You live in a town or city, right? So the adjacent towns, they let you just waltz in and out of them right? They "don't control who comes through." Is that so terrible? Do you think your town should have a big wall around it and strict security cause you're worried about a potential fugitive slipping in? No, that's stupid. It's just a really inefficient/cumbersome way to deal with the problem of criminals. Instead, you leave society open and free, and when a criminal pops up, you track him down, arrest him, stick him in jail or whatever. You don't wrap everything up with giant walls and security just cause sometimes there are criminals.

"I'm totally against an open borders policy." That's cause you're severely underinformed. Please see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
How can the pay gap fluctuate so wildly in the last twenty years? I imagine compensation packages tied to the stock market drives some of that, but some of it seems pretty huge (376 -> 188 -> 345 -> 195 -> 303x.)

My question, out of curiosity, would be, if lowering compensation for top execs would not lower productivity (as the article predicts), why isn't it done then?
having done all of those, it was without a credit score.
This is pretty similar to the Microsoft 'MVP' program. Perhaps people might start listing their Top Contributor status as a badge of honour online?
There are different kinds of jobs and different kinds of work environments. Grouping all of the situations together and trying to find just a single way of interviewing people flies in face of diversity in human nature. While this research is great and startups in this field are doing well, I see this huge gap that no one so far is trying to address.
I like the way OS X handles it. Unsigned software won't run by default, but the user can override the limitation.
Engineers accept it, every time someone accepts tiny equity at a small startup. I just don't see the outrage in our own industry.
Well this is a truly terrifying turn of events, though the most amazing part is that chat agent was any help at all, I was expecting a recommendation that he call the support line or an outright denial. so samsung can at least be commended for giving their staff at least a little training.
I get that. I'm not completely stupid. I'm saying that it is still a remainder. It can be a remainder and in the second bin at the same time.
Like I said, I'm not interested in taking loans, regardless of interest rate, as the risk associated with such aren't worth it for me. I've seen what debt does. Its like a drug. Look at all of the comments and they all sound like drug abusers. "Use it responsibly" or "I can handle it". You are welcome to borrow, I'm taking my ball and going home. I won't ever borrow again. If I can't pay cash, I can't afford it.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal for an example of why this is a bad idea in practice.
> The new MS is making some good moves.

The old New MSFT made some good moves too. Then they went back to being the Bad MSFT. I hope that the company has figured out how to break the cycle of abuse, but I'm not going to be holding my breath.
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Nice writeup, especially the part about internal recruitment incentives.

Thank you.
If you install Turkcell's 3G connection app (which comes with the dongle) you will see that it disables internet sharing forever.
The fact that anyone will still argue for austerity is mind-boggling.

It's been shown to have failed. You can't slash spending and increase taxes and expect the GDP to go anywhere but down. Greece is the poster child.

Most of the arguments made for austerity is for countries that modestly reduced some government spending in an otherwise positive economic state.

And let's face it, every 'developed' country's government spends a vast quantity of money, far more than most will admit. Here's a list of countries' government spending as a percentage of GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#As_a_perce...

The US is at 42%, Germany at 45%, Sweden at 51%, and France at 56%, and Denmark at 57%. Most of the countries at the lower percentages are '3rd world' or failed states... The idea that a 'smaller' government will lead to economic prosperity has no basis in historical reality.
That makes no sense. Every single time the rule is applied, somebody is posthumously denied this greatest of scientific distinctions. The existence of the rule guarantees that every year, someone will be denied their due credit in the history books, while the lucky-living take the prize.
If these companies are profitable, they will still be profitable.

Until it becomes politically untenable to provide contracts to these companies or make laws that fuel the industry.

A moral stockholder can help drive the company in a moral direction.

Why would you hold stock in something if the morals you wish to champion will make it less profitable or non-existent? Better to drop that cash in something like renewables which are going to see growth for decades to come and give you warm fuzzies at the same time.

There's also the press angle:

Press: You invest in private prisons

University: But we do so with good intentions, we wish to improve the...

Public: Ugh, too many words. These guys are clearly jerks.
Fallacy, fallacy, fallacy, fallacy. Oh, I lost count.

Private property != public property. There are things called roads, parks, forests that are public - these spaces are designed for common use. Separately, there is private property. Like your house or your real estate. That's yours. Just for you.

Open borders is about removing borders between our public spaces. Allowing one to drive from e.g. a US road to a Mexican road without a passport. Open borders isn't about letting someone stay in your house. It's about letting someone rent or buy a house in America and inhabit what would then be their private property. It's about letting them take a job in a foreign country or hire a foreigner to work in their business.

See my other two comments for more details:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769769
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
Wrong. The green card on EB2 takes 6-8 years for Indian and Chinese born immigrants. On EB3, it can take over 10 years. The green card process involves a per-country quota. Folks from countries other than India, China, and a couple of others get it "finalized" in 2-3 years.
I hoped this would be an article about how Q bridges the gap between traditionally high-value employees and less glamorous roles.

Disappointing that the TL;DR is "They've got W2s! It's great, trust us!"

Reads more like an advertisement than any kind of blueprint for cultural improvement.
Likely to avoid overloading their servers on launch date by spreading out the downloads over the preceding two weeks or so.
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Yup. I had an LC520 (25 MHz 030--not that far back from your 6116) that ran 7.5.x.
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Not addressed: that artificially low interest rates have a ruinous effect on savings, and therefore affect old people disproportionately.
Alright, here's something tangible: https://bridge.simplefin.org/info/security It's not complete, but it's a start. We'll gladly take feedback.
I was disappointed, although I've read many of those debates (to some I could answer easily myself heh) but this nice street-fighter-like gifs and the short text without any sort of arguments/data is kinda ridiculous.
What you call useless other people call brilliant. I was at RECon this past weekend and one of the coolest talks was about compiling malware using only MOV. Good luck reversing that.

https://recon.cx/2015/schedule/events/55.html
Yeah, but these are systematic problems. None of the super-rich CEOs deserve their pay, period. But the problem is a comparison. A CEO who feels like they are underpaid relative to other companies may feel undervalued merely by that comparison, regardless of being super wealthy.

The rise in CEO pay actually correlates partly with transparency. People thought reporting the pay would shame the waste, but it resulted in CEOs paid more reasonably feeling undervalued, and that drove their pay up.

There needs to be systematic rejection of this nonsense, like all companies agreeing together to pay more reasonably and otherwise pay employees reasonably.

The real best answer is probably a more progressive income tax (ideally with a Universal Basic Income funded by a negative income tax). Then CEOs can brag about how much more taxes they pay than others given how much higher their salary is, but we don't have to have so much waste and inequity.
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My understanding is that it is an A5 processor that is tuned for battery life, at the cost of performance. It all depends on the performance of the emulator, because OS 7 is not compiled for ARM.
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Well said. Those 12% can move abroad, with the manufacturing jobs, for example. But no, that would be out of the question.
Thanks man. Sorry I jumped the gun and posted way earlier :)
While you may feel good about it, you ended up loosing the opportunity to learn something.
Is this even true? Windows updates only drop critical updates and can't think of a case where updated Windows drivers were automatically installed over existing drivers without explicit request or prompting to do so (except perhaps for critical flaws where the driver itself compromises security). Just yesterday I had to manually find and select an optional driver update for Intel HD graphics which one would expect to be in category of "autoupdate" if this were true...

Disabling ALL of Windows Update for this questionable reason seems entirely out of line. If their own SW Update software is already present, why not instead track said drivers and simply alert the user that vendor specific drivers must be used, offering the ability to restore them?? Makes no sense...
> the main restriction ended up being the maximum salary we were allowed to offer (which had us have to give up on half a dozen candidates)

Ugh. I've been in a similar position, assisting with pouring over candidates. The worst part about salary being the limiting factor is you've quite literally wasted your time weeding through the poor candidates to find the honest-to-goodness best to hire - only to not be allowed to have the cream of the crop. It's ridiculous how much time some companies are willing to invest in finding the best talent, only to turn them down because of an extra $10-30k/year. If you're not willing to hire the talent, don't spend the time searching for them. Just post your job ads with your salary expectations, and accept the first people through the door if that's how you're going to operate.
I said _instead_ of minimum wage laws.

This article seems to be saying that a portion of CEO pay can't be attributed to free market competition for talent alone.
Would you willingly train/mentor somebody if you knew the outcome would be that she would compete for your job personally, or that your wage would go down 20%?

Frequently calls for equality are made by those who imagine their own situation could not possibly worsen; it's always some anonymous others who will pay.
went to Australia. PR took more than 4 years. I gave up hope and started applying for a tech job in US. Now I want to move back to Aus with wife but the partner visa is so broken. I have to move to Australia, my wife has to move back to her home country. She applies, the govt decides whether we will reunite again or not after 6-12 months. They charge $4500 application fee that is non-refundable.

Aus immigration is equally as broken.
I have no strong opinions on austerity (I think this tends to be a european topic that I hesitate to comment on because I don't have enough information), but I don't think it's that weird that people might disagree. Somehow Keynesian economics has become the dominant ideology, and while I think that rational people can certainly have differences with regard to his economic views, I think it's weird that his ideas have essentially become a religion, where arguing against them relegates one to the "fringe".

Of course, this article didn't help, because instead of advancing a thoughtful discussion, it tried to use animated gifs and "clever" web design to distract people from noticing that the content of the article was both vapid and internally incoherent.

I know people are probably thinking, "why do you care", and I don't particularly, but I think this article is basically an insult to all of us. This is bloomberg essentially stating: "this is what we think of you, if you're reading this, we think you're the sort of person that can be distracted by shiny stupidity". My previous feelings towards bloomberg were mildly positive, but I suspect moving forward any articles they write I will have a more critical view towards.

That said, hats off to the people that made the images. They are really good, and obviously the people behind them are very talented. I wish it had been attached to something worthwhile.
In this instance, people are angry about the fact that Google makes a ton of money from these services but feels no obligation to provide support for them.

More generally, welcome to the new normal. The money-spewing circleparty is fizzling out, thankfully. People increasingly feel safe and confident in challenging the morality and societal value of these corporations. Blasé compliance is no longer expected in tech and many of us (those of us that upvote these things) are working to keep it that way.

Google is big, scary, and the new Microsoft, whether or not that's fiscally or professionally convenient for you.
Currently the recommendation is that fat should not exceed 35% of total calorific intake. And the proposal seeks to do away with the cap.

Edit: added some clarifications
If you look at market share for consumers, Apple is doing much better.

HP, Lenovo and Dell still rule the enterprise, but Apple does very well with consumers. And more and more enterprises are moving to cloud based solutions, buying tablets and negating the 'need' for PCs, even if for the time being they're still buying cheap PCs.
Author here. I get why you parsed it the way you did. I guess what I was going for is that conventional wisdom dictates that those candidates are the good ones, and I was using that as kind of a hyperbolized thought experiment. I do NOT agree that pedigree is a good predictor of aptitude. I even did a bunch of research around this. Check out http://blog.alinelerner.com/lessons-from-a-years-worth-of-hi...
> According to one analysis, fully 43 percent of Chinese workers already consider themselves to be overeducated for their current positions.

The obvious conclusion is that there should be less education in China.
By "get to" do you mean "live in Australia more or less permanently" or become a citizen? Just clarifying, since the article was discussing the latter.
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The Corrections Corporation of America noted this as a risk factor in their 2011 10-K filing.

"The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by criminal laws."

Source: http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?f...
The gamepad is a complete non-issue. It is as similar to the xbox controller as the xbox controller is to the dreamcast controller, which in turn is similar to...

It is the rounded rectangle all over again.
Author here. What I meant was that right now there isn't much of a feedback loop when it comes to interviewing. If you get rejected, you often don't know why. And that sucks.
It wouldn't be doomed. Foreigners could have their cultural enclaves and Japanese theirs. Anyway, this is an extremely minor concern relative to the astronomic benefits of open borders. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
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In my experience, SO is only useful for trivial questions, or maybe questions that ask for a better explanation of some basic concept. If you have a question you can't find answer for by searching on the internet, it won't be answered on SO either. I still occasionally help people there, but it was never a useful resource to me personally.